Price freeze for popular seafood, vegetables at FairPrice
Prices of 13 popular seafood and vegetable items sold at FairPrice outlets islandwide were frozen from yesterday till the Chinese New Year period to help consumers cope with rising costs.
Seafood items such as Chinese pomfret, red grouper and grey prawns, as well as selected vegetables such as nai bai and shiitake mushrooms, will have their prices locked, the FairPrice Group (FPG) said.
“Seafood and vegetables are among the categories that are most impacted by price increases during Chinese New Year,” noted Mr Andy Chang, director of fresh and frozen products at FPG.
EV chargers installed at 700 HDB carparks
Drivers now have more places to juice up their electric vehicles (EVs), as more than 2,400 charging points have been installed at about 700 Housing Board carparks across 26 HDB towns.
Drivers of taxis, private-hire cars and commercial fleet vehicles that run on electricity can also top up their batteries much faster, with the roll-out of the first public fast chargers in HDB commercial carparks.
With these fast chargers, drivers can get half of a full charge in 30 minutes, on average, said EV-Electric (EVe) Charging, a Land Transport Authority subsidiary overseeing the deployment of public EV chargers.
MBS to inject $1 billion for next phase of hotel transformation
Marina Bay Sands (MBS) will inject an additional US$750 million ($1 billion) for the second phase of a rejuvenation programme to improve its luxury offerings.
The refurbishment, encompassing the hotel’s Tower 3, the lobby, Sands SkyPark and other key features, will be carried out in phases till 2025, MBS said. It will bring the total investment for the programme to US$1.75 billion.
The announcement came on the back of strong earnings – net revenue grew 34.3 per cent to US$1 billion for July to September 2023, from US$756 million the year before.
More professionals seeking to change jobs despite cooling labour market
The labour market is cooling, and economic uncertainty abounds, but that has not dented the determination of many Singapore professionals to change careers for improved long-term prospects, higher pay and a better work-life balance.
Data from professional networking platform LinkedIn found that 86 per cent of over 1,000 professionals it polled here are considering a new job this year, up a striking 15 percentage points from last year.
The survey conducted in November and December 2023 polled respondents aged 18 to 77.
Mother who did not report son sexually assaulting daughter pleads guilty
A mother who witnessed her son sexually assaulting her then 12-year-old daughter in their flat did not report it to the police and merely reminded him that the girl was his younger sister.
When the girl later got pregnant, the mother, who feared that the baby was her son’s, took her to Malaysia to try and get an abortion.
On Tuesday, the woman, 45, pleaded guilty to three charges, including two under the Children and Young Persons Act. She is expected to be sentenced on Feb 22.
$167,000 lost to scams through fake social media ads since September 2023
At least five people have lost $167,000 since September 2023 through fraudulent advertisements on Facebook or Instagram, the police said.
In many cases involving such scams, victims click on ads on the social media sites promoting the sale of Chinese New Year goodies.
The police advised the public to take precautionary measures.
