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The Govt Listens

Singapore’s facial verification system; Will we improve immigration clearance at the Marina Cruise Centre? Learn from Narita for airport fast clearance; Will the Govt improve the ICQ clearance procedures too when the RTS train commences service between JB and Woodlands?

Posted on July 22, 2022 by tankoktim

============= . How to be the top cruise centre Hub in Asia? Clearance by ICA on board vessel at cruise centres is very critical as passengers have only a few hours within 24 hours after vessel docking to sightsee and … Continue reading →

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The Govt has listened to feedback; The fine thing has worked once again; Not clearing your tray after eating at hawker centres, the fines wef 1st Sept 2021 can be up to S$2000 under the Law; Keeping Singapore clean. No two ways about it; Japanese foodcourts provide washable wiping cloth for the tables; Singapore is not ready for it yet;

Posted on May 14, 2021 by tankoktim

=========== . Yes. cleaner now. And fewer pigeons to eat the leftovers on the tables at hawker centres. Right decision by the Government to use the fine thing to end this social menace at last. It has taken strong political … Continue reading →

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URA seeking public feedback; The Govt listens to feedback yet again; Mean testing the way? The Govt has revised the eligibility criteria for the Covid-19 Support Grant scheme; What next? Does the Govt listen to public feedback in times of crisis, like now in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Posted on September 24, 2020 by tankoktim

============ . All about money on this rock of 713 sq km.Solutions?How to double the population?Construction for shops even offices has to go below ground and below water to create the space above ground for other uses.It must include building … Continue reading →

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Govt listens – allowing PG and MG senior citizens free entry to the Flower Dome

Posted on June 29, 2020 by tankoktim

I commend the Govt for listening to public feedback in allowing PGs and MGs free access to the Flower Dome on every second Tuesday of the month. I hope the Govt will allow the elderly to use the Senior Citizen … Continue reading →

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Food handlers will be required to wear masks – amid COVID-19 crisis; Enact laws…public hygiene in food centres; washing basins, soap dispensers; push taps; walk-in no main door at public toilets; clearing tables of tray and dirty cutlery after meals, and keep table clean for next diner; Have clean and hygienic cutleries at eateries;

Posted on April 22, 2020 by tankoktim

====== . I am grateful to ST Forum for publishing my letter. It has been heavily edited. The original text of my letter is below: Forum: Laws needed to improve public hygiene at food centresPUBLISHED7 HOURS AGO on 6th Oct … Continue reading →

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The Govt listens: new laws on CCTVs and food samples to improve food safety; Unlicensed home-based cooked food business;

Posted on March 5, 2020 by tankoktim

========= . Not licensed… It is driving them underground… The fines must be high to deter illegal operators. Those above ground, licensed, are they affected and disadvantaged? . ======== . The Sunday Times’ Editorial says Keeping an eye on home-cooked … Continue reading →

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Clean toilets in hawker centres, how? Have public toilets near to and not in the hawker centres or coffee shops; Coloured posters in hawker centres; Have TV monitor screens to send the cleanliness messages in hawker centres [in ST Forum on 8th Jan 2021]; Instead, NEA has placed coloured posters in hawker centres in March/April 2021; Take hygiene standards at food establishments a notch up [ST Forum 21Feb, 2020];

Posted on March 4, 2020 by tankoktim

.   ===============   . Forum: Efforts stepped up to improve and maintain cleanliness standards of hawker centre toilets   PUBLISHED8 HOURS AGO on 18th Jan 2021 in ST Forum   We agree with World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sim … Continue reading →

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Paya Lebar MRT Station. The Govt listened again. They have fixed the air blowers for commuters’ comfort.

Posted on February 6, 2020 by tankoktim

Re: At the Paya Lebar MRT Station –  new air blowers have been installed. [please see photos below.] I am grateful to LTA/SMRT for listening to public feedback to fix the air blowers above the escalators at the link that … Continue reading →

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Thomson-East Coast Line stations to have two lifts – installing priority signage at lifts; new stations should have independent emergency co-generation; two-way escalator; and lifts; The MRT station at the mid-point of the PIE; Circle Line final tunnelling completed on 12 Jan 2022;

Posted on January 23, 2020 by tankoktim

====== . Acquiring land, building bridges and viaducts… Will it cost more than drilling tunnels from both ends and from many sections of the line with super huge tunnel boring machines to build the tracks and complete the project earlier? … Continue reading →

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Singapore’s facial verification system; It is a super ICQ unmanned clearance high-tech system at Changi Airport; Will ICA improve immigration clearance at cruise centres? Learn from Narita for airport fast clearance; And we did at Changi after four years.

Posted on October 27, 2018 by tankoktim

==== . We came back via Changi T2 on 6Nov2022, and are impressed by the new walk-through unmanned electronic ICQ clearance system. We submitted the SGArrivalCard[SGAC], the electronic health declaration for Covid-19 with ICA within three days prior arrival. It … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life and palliative cover; Better late than never; Grateful for Govt’s compulsory medical health insurance for all; Level playing field at last, enhanced by Govt, two years of waiting after public feedback in 2018; Hospice palliative care is covered by MediShield Life wef 1st April, 2020; Next, CareShield Life? CPF Medisave? MediFund, will it be enhanced too?

Posted on September 5, 2018 by tankoktim

=========== . No worries… MediShield Life and MediFund… Who will bother to ask for MediFund 2022 statistics and account status in Parliament? ======= Forum: No one will be denied appropriate cancer care due to an inability to pay UPDATED 2 … Continue reading →

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COL – CDC vouchers and rising cost of living – Govt special Assurance Package S$800 payment to each adult in Dec 2023 with fewer criterion; The Govt has listened; S$500 in Dec 2022, and S$200 Assurance Package; CDC voucher of S$300 per family on 3Jan2023; how to keep hawkers’ costs down? Inflation – Singapore paid S$8 billion more for LNG import in 2022; Rising COL – we have PWM, WIS, MW and LQS; Reduce COL or reduce income gap with MW? MW will drive COL up, not down; WIS and PWM are far superior than MW; Factors that caused COL to rise – cost of state land accounting; public housing; COE; cost of utilities; basic food and daily necessities; transport, medical costs, etc;

Posted on August 14, 2018 by tankoktim

============== . Assurance Package: 2 million Singaporeans to receive Seniors’ Bonus and MediSave cash payouts in February 2024 The payments are part of the suite of Assurance Package measures previously announced in Singapore’s Budget 2022. Timothy Kang ·Finance Producer Updated … Continue reading →

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The Govt listened to feedback… MOH took action on false claims…dentists convicted & jailed; doctors and the learned ending up in court, some in jail;

Posted on August 11, 2018 by tankoktim

MOH took action. Face off in court.   2.5 years jail for this dentist.    A high-price to pay to be behind bars. I wrote in 2014 to MOH of possible loophole in the medical and dentistry  profession. [please see … Continue reading →

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Cashless; Paperless; The Govt has listened yet again; Four years of waiting; Grateful the Govt has upgraded the systems at the polyclinics – A paperless system – and pay electronically; Japan has the paperless system to cut waiting times at pharmacies; Now, ours too; What next?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by tankoktim

======== . Cashless and Paperless;  The cashless society.. a one card system. No card you cannot move around in society. You will become history. When? It is all about money. Cash only. Some retail shops accept only cash, and the … Continue reading →

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The Govt listened….A pile of rubbish was removed

Posted on April 18, 2017 by tankoktim

Seow Hui LOW (NEA) <LOW_Seow_Hui@nea.gov.sg> 17 Apr 2017 To tankoktim@yahoo.co.uk CC Chuey Chuan CHIA (NEA) Dear Mr Tan I refer to your feedback on the above mentioned subject. We have since removed the pile of rubbish on 14 Apr 17. … Continue reading →

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E-bikers…. risks on roads; Registration and number plate for e-bike…the Govt has listened once again; More cycling paths to treble by 2030; Bicycles; Road safety for all;

Posted on January 11, 2017 by tankoktim

====== . In some countries, they do not encourage females to ride bicycle.   We are different. Good. . ========== .   So many leisure cyclists. What will nudge more to cycle to work?   A new, bold National Cycling … Continue reading →

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National Day Rallies – what are our expectations?

Posted on August 20, 2016 by tankoktim

PM Lee Hsien Loong’s National Rally Speech tomorrow night at the ITE College Central at 8pm, 21st August 2016. Will the Govt listen again to the many feedback from the public? What are our expectations?   I have 20 in my article … Continue reading →

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Budget Store; NTUC budget FairPrice Shop for the lower-income group started operations in 2016; Do we Remember NTUC Welcome Supermarket in the 1970s?

Posted on July 16, 2016 by tankoktim

The Govt listens…NTUC and NTUC Fairprice listen too….to public feedback on the Budget Stores. The wait has not been in vain though NTUC FP took more than three years [2014-2016] and with a change of chairmanship at the helm last … Continue reading →

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No go – The SimplyGo Saga; LTA postponed the SimplyGo card system meant to commence wef 1st June 2024; LTA has listened to feedback..; but intransigence still exists;

Posted on March 14, 2016 by tankoktim

============ . Plans afoot to make SimplyGo universal card for motoring, public transport, retail: Chee Hong Tat LTA will add more card readers to MRT stations and bus interchanges to allow SimplyGo users to check their card balances if they … Continue reading →

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