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Seems like SPF and MSM is keeping very quiet about this incident. An area the size of a football field was cordoned off for six hours in Ang Mo Kio on Tuesday (Sept 26) after a flaming cylindrical object was tossed into a hawker centre, sparking panic. According to a report in Lianhe Wanbao on Wednesday, there were over 50 police officers at the scene. The incident took place at Block 226 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1, where Kebun Baru Food Centre is located. The Singapore Civil Defence Force was alerted to the incident at 4.40pm and it sent a fire engine to the scene. The fire was extinguished by two hawkers prior to its arrival. No one was injured in the case of mischief by fire, according to police. Investigations are ongoing. The Straits Times understands that no arrests have been made yet. The object was thrown from 50m outside the hawker centre by an unidentified person, reported Lianhe Wanbao. Stall vendors were preparing for the dinner crowd, when they head a loud sound. One of them said he saw a ball of light heading towards his stall, and he was frightened and worried that it was going to explode. According to Lianhe Wanbao, he then used a metal hook from the fruit stall to hit it away. It started burning after it landed under a table, and had to be extinguished by two hawkers with a fire extinguisher.

Wah KHAW!!! So who gave the family the idea to dump their mother at JB?? At JB, the social welfare group or whatever u call it, cannot do anything to the family but in S'pore, they have some laws on this, right?? http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...2-292240/2.html Old and alone in Johor Baru nursing home IN A nursing home in Johor Baru, a 90-year-old woman waits patiently for a visit from her family. Her memory isn't the sharpest. When asked if she has had visitors in the year since she moved into City Heart Care nursing home, she was silent. The assistant admin manager of the home, known only as Ms Abi, shook her head in response to this reporter's question. Madam Kong A W is one of 14 Singaporeans who live at the nursing home, said the owner of the home, Mr Jeremy Yeo. Most enjoy visits from their families who live across the Causeway. The nursing home is a 30-minute drive from the Woodlands Checkpoint. A typical nursing home in Singapore charges about $1,000 a month for each patient. A check with four JB nursing homes indicated monthly fees ranging between $610 and $800 for a month's stay. Mr Yeo, a Malaysian in his late fifties, claimed that Madam Kong's family stopped paying for her nursing home bills after her son died. Said Ms Abi: "She (Madam Kong) has not asked about her family, and we have not told her. To her, we (the nurses and caregivers) are her family." When The New Paper on Sunday visited the nursing home two weeks ago, Madam Kong was chattering incoherently to nurses in a mixture of Malay and Hokkien. Around her in the room, other patients watched TV from their beds. Outside the window in the yard, a visitor, a woman in her 60s, was feeding a patient. Madam Kong's face lit up when she was offered some traditional Chinese New Year peanut cookies from a roommate, a Chinese Malaysian in her sixties. "Kamsia, kamsia (thank you in Hokkien)," she said. Said Mr Yeo: "I cannot put her out on the streets, can I? It's not right to throw her out." While he said that her case is exceptional, he also revealed that he has "two or three" other similar cases involving patients whose relatives stop paying for them to be kept in the nursing home. These other patients are Malaysian, he added. Mr Yeo said Madam Kong was first admitted to the nursing home on June 29 last year. As she is bedridden and requires a higher level of care, her stay at the home should cost $800 a month. He said that Madam Kong's son and daughter-in-law paid $900 for her first month's stay there, and then only $400 the following month. But soon after, Madam Kong's daughter-in-law called the home to inform Mr Yeo that Madam Kong's son had died. He said: "The only time I saw her and her husband was when Madam Kong was first admitted. "She called some time later to say that her husband had died, and that she had no money to make any further payments." So Madam Kong has been staying at the home for free since August last year. This arrangement is set to continue until she dies, said Mr Yeo. He added: "We tried to contact her family many times, but were not successful. They also have not come to visit since admitting her. "So we just take care of her...As long as we can cover costs, I will take care of her." TNPS tried calling Madam Kong's daughter-in-law with the contact numbers Mr Yeo gave, but the calls went unanswered. Ms Abi said the home does not stint on the services Madam Kong receives, including food and diapers. "There is no difference in the way she is treated (as compared to the others in the home)," she said. City Heart Care is made up of nine bungalows situated within walking distance of each other. Five of the bungalows are owned by Mr Yeo, while the other four are rentals. The home employs a total of 40 staff, made up of nurses, cooks, and caregivers. A doctor and physiotherapist also makes house calls when necessary. Of the home's 125 residents, 14 are Singaporeans. Mr Yeo said that Singaporean residents began arriving at the home one year after it opened in 1993. The longest-staying Singaporean is a woman who has lived there since 1994. Her family pays $550 a month of nursing home bills, he said. Said Mr Yeo: "For the first few years after we opened, we had about two to three Singaporean residents check in each year. "Nowadays, we get at least five a year...We also receive enquiries over the phone frequently." The high demand for beds at the home has prompted Mr Yeo to buy and develop a tenth bungalow. "The renovations will be done in about three months and, by then, we will be able to accommodate a maximum of 140 residents," he said.

HI, Today lunch time around 12.05pm -12.10pm when i was in the carpark lot i saw a new white camry hit a red Nissan latio front bumber when she was doing a 3point turn... Ops! it should be 8 to 9 point turn for her... And after she hit the red latio she just don't bother and drove off... Hopefully the red latio owner can see this post and PM me... I'm more than willing to be the eye witness for you... In fact i did wrote a note of that hit & run camry and put it on your windscreen, you should be able to see the note unless the note have been remove by someone... Red nissan latio SGG3xx1U White camry SGY59xxE

Monday August 20, 2007 Robbed, taken on terror ride By NELSON BENJAMIN JOHOR BARU: It was a terror-filled morning for a retiree and his family. He was abducted and assaulted by several men. And then the culprits raided his home and tied up his wife and two children. The robbers grabbed some money and jewellery and attempted to flee in the family car. But one of them was caught in a high-speed chase that followed, with the police firing several warning shots at the Proton Perdana. Another getaway car sped in a different direction, carrying Goo Tiam Chye, 69, in it. Injured: Goo being wheeled into the Sultanah Aminah Hospital yesterday. He was later dumped at an undisclosed location. The drama unfolded when Goo left his house in Taman Skudai Baru at 6.15am yesterday to buy newspapers. Four men waylaid him and forced him into their car at knifepoint and demanded that he hand over the keys to his house. When he refused, they hit him. The victim, whose son Sin Kok is the Gelang Patah MCA public complaints bureau deputy chief, then surrendered the keys. The suspects drove him back to the house and while one of them held the victim in the car, three of them stormed into Goo