A corny old t-shirt reads ‘Singapore is a fine city’ and then lists the fines for chewing gum and other things the city state prohibits. Apparently, Singapore now also prohibits going there too often as one Baguio resident found out when he was detained at the airport for visiting his girlfriend one too many times.
“Christine,” a Filipina maid in Singapore inherits some US$4 million from her employer. She declines to give her real name “for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors.” Butthurt ‘nationalists’ are now duking it out on the [...]