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"Dear All Singapore Stuff, I just got my Punggol BTO flat and not long after I moved in, I noticed that the wooden door started to grow tiny white specks. After a few days, I start to see white "shitake" mushrooms growing out of my door! What is this rubbish that HDB installed in my house? Do they not know that mushroom have spores that can cause asthma and other respiratory ailments? Why is the quality of BTO flats now so poor, pathetic to the extent where mushrooms or fungi can grow at home. For those who are getting their new BTO flats, please check all your wooden doors for such growth. It is unhealthy for you and you need to complaint to HDB for them to change a new door for you!" Source: http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/mushrooms-are-growing-out-my-new-punggol-bto-wooden-door

This is interesting. Maybe I should try doing this. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/photos/growing-grapes-along-singapore-hdb-corridor-slideshow/growing-grapes-along-singapore-hdb-corridor-photo-1430987399417.html Growing grapes along Singapore HDB corridor Yes, these 'Singaporean' grapes -- fruits that we associate with the verdant hills of France or Australia -- are real. And they can be grown in our tropical weather and concrete jungle. Alex Ng, a 42-year-old baker, has managed to cultivate grape vines that produce fruit "all-year-long" along the corridor outside his ninth-floor HDB flat in Yishun. The plant grows in a pot and creeps along bamboo poles 2m long and 2m tall. The corridor does not get direct sunlight except for the evening sun "a few months a year", Ng told Yahoo Singapore. His biggest harvest since he started growing the plant in 2011 is a collection of "17 bunches of various sizes", and he also keeps several seedlings, and a secondary plant which he grew using a stem cutting from the plant. "Some of my friends ask me why I post pictures of fake grapes on my Facebook page. I had to tell them that they are real grapes!" Ng said with a laugh. What's the secret to growing grapes in Singapore? "Lots of water. I water this plant two or three times a day." Next previous previousnext previousnext previousnext previousnext

Who were once CentrePoint Kids, or later groups?

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...502-419777.html hmm... how come he cry ? didnt he say that wages remained stagnant? That's despite those years of growth? http://www.tnp.sg/content/lim-boon-heng-gets-emotional

See! Keep blaming the 60.1%, it's time for 39.9% to repent! http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-q4-econ...-003453361.html SINGAPORE (AP)

take care guys if you stay around the area. ----- Jul 20, 2011 Dengue cluster at Upper Paya Lebar keeps growing By Salma Khalik The dengue threat continues to rise as the large Upper Paya Lebar cluster gets bigger, with 65 people living in the vicinity down with the disease - 11 more since last Wednesday. -- ST PHOTO: MAY LIN LE GOFF THE dengue threat continues to rise as the large Upper Paya Lebar cluster gets bigger, with 65 people living in the vicinity down with the disease - 11 more since last Wednesday. This is in spite of the National Environment Agency (NEA) sending search-and-destroy teams to visit every house in the area as well as public places where mosquitoes might breed. An NEA spokesman said 40 officers have been scouring the area daily, including weekends, and have found 29 breeding spots in the past three weeks. Further north, another large cluster of 11 victims has emerged in Woodlands. On a national level, 215 people were infected last week, the second week running that the numbers have been above 'epidemic levels'. In the first three days of this week, another 58 people have been diagnosed with dengue. More than 2,800 people have been infected so far this year, about 450 more than in the same period last year.

Singapore recorded 422 new HIV infections last year, the highest number in a single year since records started in 1985, the city-state of 4.5 million people said Tuesday. More than half of the new cases already had late-stage HIV infections when they were diagnosed, as happened in previous years, the Health Ministry said. It urged people who are at high risk of contracting the virus to go for tests. "There is thus an urgent need for persons who engage in high risk behavior such as unprotected casual sex, sex with prostitutes, and intravenous drug abuse to go for regular HIV testing," the ministry's Web site said in an update of the HIV/AIDS situation in the prosperous Southeast Asian country. Ninety-three percent of the new infections were among men and 95 percent were transmitted through sex, it said. Nearly two-thirds of the sexual transmissions occurred during heterosexual sex, the update said. It said the number of intravenous transmissions fell last year to seven, half of the number recorded in 2006. The new cases bring the total number of known HIV-infected Singaporeans to 3,482 as of the end of last year, the ministry said. More than 1,100 of them have died. The ministry also noted that Parliament last week passed an amendment to the law to tighten regulations on HIV transmissions. The existing law penalized anyone who knows he or she is infected with HIV but is found to have failed to tell a partner about it before sex. The amendment includes individuals "who have reason to believe" that they have been exposed to a significant risk of contracting HIV or AIDS. The amendment says those individuals must take "reasonable precautions" - such as using condoms or being tested - to protect their sexual partners. Otherwise, they must inform their partner of the risk of contracting HIV from them and leave it to them to accept the risk if they wish. If the partner accepts, no legal offense is committed. A person found guilty of not informing a partner or of failing to take such precautions faces a maximum penalty of a 50,000 Singapore dollar ($36,735) fine and 10 years' imprisonment.

Below are some news of the penetration of the Skoda brand into China, they are made by VW's China factory. So Skoda is becoming stronger in China. Also note that Skoda took over importing rights and duties and takes care of thier 70 over dealerships in China.

Help... Help... there's a musroom growing under my bonnet... Just installed my HKS-SRI... vrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooommmmmmmmmm