You shouldn’t “steng” cigarette with your mates in Singapore as well.
🇸🇬 In Singapore this week
No More “hun jikki” – SG’s budget raises tax for cigarette.
More grant for first time homebuyers to buy HDB and if you earn more, you should save more! CPF contribution to be increased.
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BTO but divorce, then how?
TLDR: HDB take back, refund deposit. No possession gain, relationship lost.
A woman has won a court appeal to get her ex-husband to transfer his share of a Build-to-Order (BTO) flat to her. The couple married in 2015 and applied for the Tampines flat in 2017, but the man left the family home in 2019 and divorce proceedings were initiated in March of that year. The couple had not yet taken possession of the flat, nor made full payment for it, and the divorce court had ruled that it be returned to the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and refunded to both parties. The woman appealed this decision and offered to pay the ex-husband whatever he had paid towards the deposit, stamp, and conveyancing fees, with accrued interest, in exchange for the transfer of his interest in the flat to her. This offer addressed the judge’s concerns that the woman’s stance was unreasonable and that she would potentially gain a windfall if the flat was transferred to her. The appeal judge noted that there was no windfall to speak of and that the flat was not yet an asset that could be sold in the open market. Read more from the news here.
No Money, No Honey
TLDR: Man got rejected, sue the girl. Girl sue back.
A man has launched two lawsuits against a woman in Singapore, one for $22,000 in damages for breach of agreement to improve their relationship, and one for $3 million for emotional trauma. The first lawsuit was thrown out by the Magistrate’s Court and the deputy registrar called it an abuse of process. The pair first met in 2016 and became friends, but problems arose in 2020 when the woman asked for less interaction and the man felt their relationship was stepping back. The man went on to initiate legal action, making unreasonable demands and referencing a list of expected improvements that was later used as the basis for his $22,000 claim. Read more from the Read more from the news here
She strikes back!
A woman in Singapore is countersuing a man who is suing her for SGD 3 million ($2.2 million) after she rejected him. Nora Tan Shu Mei is seeking damages of SGD 1,480 ($1,082) for expenses incurred to protect herself from harassment and SGD 1,000 ($722) for expenses incurred while participating in “healing” sessions and counseling at the man’s request. Tan is also seeking damages for future counseling expenses. K Kawshigan, who is a director at drone company D1 Racing, launched two lawsuits against Tan after she told him that she saw him only as a friend. Read more from the news here
World News 🌏
Netflix no longer chill
Netflix may soon end password sharing by tying accounts to a single location. The new plan would require users to pick a “primary location” or be charged an “extra member” fee if a device connected to the account doesn’t access Netflix using the location’s Wi-Fi every 31 days. This move follows Netflix’s loss of subscribers for two consecutive quarters in 2022, and the company’s efforts to cut back on password sharing, including charging fees for extra users in Latin America and allowing users to kick off profiles from their own accounts, have already helped the company recover subscribers and add more than it expected in the last quarter of 2022. Read more from the news here