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Encountering a cockroach may be terrifying to some, but to find a dead one in your meal can be quite the experience. Facebook user Kife Wee wrote a lengthy post discovering a dead cockroach in his wrongly delivered dish of pork ribs on Thursday (Aug 5), which has garnered over 140 shares. He made the order from Tong Garden Seafood Restaurant’s Bedok outlet – having ordered a couple of times within the past few months – via Deliveroo. In the post, Wee had contacted Deliveroo after realising the mistake, and had asked if the company could collect the wrongly delivered dish, as this was not what he ordered. However, he was told by Deliveroo that he could have the dish free of charge and decided to try the pork ribs. "I was in disbelief at first when I saw the cockroach. In my mind I saw it and I was rejecting the fact that it was a cockroach until I used my chopstick to flip it," he said, adding that the correct order of fish head curry arrived at the same time he discovered the cockroach. "At this point in time, we have already lost all our appetite," he said in the post, adding that Deliveroo is investigating. “Food safety is an absolute priority for us and we know our customers would expect nothing less,” a Deliveroo spokesperson told AsiaOne. The statement said that Deliveroo’s partners are required to maintain standards set in their hygiene policy and checks are conducted by Deliveroo as well. “We have spoken to the restaurant about this case and will be issuing a full refund to the customer," the spokesperson added.

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SINGAPORE - People who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 will have to wear visual identifiers when they are at construction worksites from Aug 16, as part of new measures to contain the coronavirus. The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) said on Thursday (Aug 5) that this requirement will also apply to those who have not completed their vaccination regime, as well as those whose vaccinations have not taken effect. These people will have to wear a "unique visual identifier" at all times when they are at the worksite, said BCA in a circular sent to industry associations. The advisory did not specify what kind of identifier this would be, but some examples used by visitors or roving sub-contractors to sites include coloured vests, armbands and stickers on helmets. Officers in charge of safety at construction sites will also have to ensure that they check the vaccination status of a person before he enters the worksite. They will also have to closely supervise unvaccinated individuals at all times when they are on-site, and ensure that they comply with safe management measures. These measures come amid new infections of Covid-19 among workers from construction firms, some of which have become clusters of the disease. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health announced a cluster linked to construction firm Kian Hiap Construction. "There have been new cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore involving workers from the construction sector," said BCA. "As the worksites were visited by workers diagnosed with Covid-19, BCA has ordered works at these worksites to stop, so that the worksites can be disinfected and relevant contractors can review and tighten their plans for safe management measures to be implemented at the worksites." The authority urged the industry to be on high alert and extra vigilant to minimise the potential risk of the virus spreading at construction sites. Currently, safe management officers are required to ensure that safe management measures are implemented at worksites, and that all people at these sites comply with them. These officers, along with safe distancing officers, must also closely supervise any visitors or roving sub-contractors, who already now have to wear unique visual identifiers throughout their visit and work only in designated zones, separate from workers. In addition to safe management measures, firms should also consider taking further steps to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission at their worksites, said BCA. It strongly encourages developers and contractors to pilot an antigen rapid test (ART) regime to complement the rostered routine testing regime that all workers currently follow. BCA said on its website that worksites will be provided with ART kits at no cost during the pilot period, and that supervisory training for ARTs is currently offered at a subsidised rate. On July 8, BCA said it had worked with the construction sector and piloted ARTs at more than 50 worksites since May 31. A total of about 7,000 such tests have been successfully administered at these sites. The authority on Thursday recommended that firms segregate workers residing in dormitories by the projects that they work on, and have deliveries loaded or unloaded by on-site workers and not delivery personnel where possible. BCA also advised firms to, where feasible, plan for workers or visitors who operate for short durations at worksites, and who may visit multiple sites, to carry out their site visits and tasks outside the work hours of the main workforce. It suggested that roving sub-contractors work in a segregated zone, at least 2m apart from other segregated teams of workers on-site.

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You eat little brown poo and string like thingy Me is bus

Yea, as long as not razer is enough

Tofu house

Hungry does not mean poverty

Prefer Logitech. Last longer My razer mouse spoil very fast

In October last year, gaming company Razer decided to give its Razer Pay e-wallet a physical companion with the launch of the Razer Card, a card that literally lit up when you paid with it. Photo: Razer The Razer Card began with a 1,337 (of course) strong beta, before opening up to a wider audience. I didn’t write about it on The Milelion at the time, but took a closer look in one of my SingSaver columns. Try as it might though, Razer Pay never gained any serious traction in a market already inundated with e-wallet solutions (even free masks couldn’t help). Razer Fintech also failed to land a digital banking license when the first crop of four was announced in December 2020. And now, less than a year later, Razer’s decided to throw in the towel on both Razer Pay and the Razer Card. What is was the Razer Card? The Razer Card was a prepaid Visa that allowed users to spend their RazerPay balance at any Visa-accepting merchant. It came in three flavors: Virtual: For online transactions only Standard: Physical card, for in-person transactions Premium: Physical card, for in-person transactions and illuminated goodness Of course, all the talk was about the premium card with an LED logo that lit up every time a transaction was made. These were only available to a select group of users who completed a minimum number of transactions, or met a minimum spend, or referred a certain number of people. On the rewards side, cardmembers earned 1% cashback on all purchases, and 10% cashback on RazerStore (hardware) and Razer Gold (in-game transactions) purchases. There wasn’t any cap on the maximum cashback you could earn, but 1% wasn’t all that impressive, considering how you could earn 1.5-1.6% cashback with other credit cards on the market. I suppose some might argue that as a prepaid solution with no minimum income requirement, it wasn’t fair to compare the Razer Card to credit cards. Students, for example, might have found it a good alternative to the CIMB AWSM which earned 1% cashback on limited categories, or the Maybank eVibes which earned 1% cashback on everything but with more exclusion categories (the Razer Card didn’t have any). What had the potential to be really intriguing was that (for a time at least), Razer Pay top-ups were coding as MCC 5712- Equipment, Furniture & Home Furnishing Stores. I never found out whether this triggered 10X points with the DBS Woman’s World Card or Citi Rewards, but we might have had an Imagine/pre-nerf GrabPay Mastercard situation on our hands. It’s a moot point now, I guess. What happens to existing Razer Pay balances? Photo: RazerPay Twitter The good news is that Razer Pay is having an orderly dissolution, so those with balances won’t be left in the lurch. The last day to top up your Razer Pay balance is 6 August 2021 (edit: apparently top ups have been shut off already), and the last day of use will be 31 August 2021. You can continue to use the in-app withdrawal function up till 30 September 2021, which is capped at two transactions (and S$5,000) per day. After this date, you’ll need to fill up a manual form to get your balance refunded, which requires a wait time of 30 business days. More FAQs can be found here. Conclusion I never used the Razer Card, but the reports I heard weren’t too positive. There were complaints about bugs, double charging and all manner of inconveniences that sent users right back into the arms of GrabPay or more established solutions. So I doubt there’ll be too many tears shed among all but the most hardcore of Razer fans. As it is, there’s way too many mobile payment solutions already, and I’ve yet to see anything that makes me want to abandon credit cards (except perhaps Amaze).

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SINGAPORE — A foreign worker tasked to bring tools to his co-workers to carry out dismantling works at the former Police National Service Department (PNSD) decided to illegally remove electrical cables to sell. Murugan Kothalam, 27, who was not a trained electrician, was instead electrocuted while in the process of cutting a live cable. He was conveyed to Changi General Hospital but was pronounced dead there at 2.45pm on 15 October last year. Kothalam’s death was pronounced to be a misadventure by Coroner Adam Nakhoda in findings made available on Friday (6 August). The Indian national possibly colluded with other co-workers to steal and sell electrical cables when the opportunity arose. Power supply was due to be cut off He was employed as a driver by ST Integrated Engineering. His co-worker Ezilarasan Nagarajan was an electrician in the same company, while two others who were also present at the scene, Balasubramaniyam Nivas and Radhakrishnan Elavarasan, were electrical technicians employed by Alltech Systems. Nivas and Elavarasan were tasked to dismantle and remove the hose reel, remove the dismantled distribution board and projector stands at the PNSD premises at 170 Still Road, which was vacant at the time. The premises were due to be handed over to the Singapore Land Authority and the power supply was to be cut off by Singapore Power on 16 October last year, to facilitate the dismantling of live electrical cables by the contractor. The live electrical cables work were meant to be carried out after the premises were handed over on 16 October. Kothalam had been tasked to drive the vehicle which would deliver tools to the other workers to help them dismantle the hose reel. None of the four were tasked to remove electrical wires. Whenever the contractors were deployed on site, they were required to report to security and PNSD would deploy escorts to ferry them around. Kothalam, his co-worker Nagarajan, Nivas, and Elavarasan, were cleared to enter the premises. However, no escort was provided to them on 15 October last year, when they arrived for the works. The electricity supply had not been cut off yet. Nivas and Elavarasan arrived at about 10.30am. Both claimed that they were not instructed to wait for an escort after changing their passes. Nivas had allegedly intended to steal and sell electrical cables from the PNSD premises. He allegedly shared his plan with Elavarasan, who assisted him in cutting and pulling loose cables above the ceiling space of the main building. When Kothalam and Nagarajan arrived, they passed tools to the other pair. Kothalam asked Nivas for a wire cutter. Kothalam, who also intended to steal and sell cables, headed to the Annex building. He intended to share the profits with the other three workers. At the building, Kothalam used a ladder to access the space above the false ceiling. Then, he used a wire cutter to cut the cables above. Nagarajan assisted Kothalam by pulling the loose cables from the ceiling. Kothalam was later left to his own devices. At about 1pm, while Nivas was in another room, he heard the sound of a ladder shaking. He went to investigate the noise and saw Kothalam standing on the ladder with his upper body was above ceiling panels. Kothalam’s right hand was holding on to the wire cutter, which was in contact with the wire trunking. Nivas saw that Kothalam was not moving even as the ladder continued to shake. Suspecting that Kothalam was being electrocuted, Nivas kicked the ladder, causing Kothalam to fall to the ground. Nivas called to the other two workers for help and they took turns to administer CPR on Kothalam. Elavarasan informed the security officer of the incident and asked him to call the ambulance. Family was well in India Singapore Civil Defence Force paramedics arrived and Kothalam was conveyed to the hospital. He was unconscious upon arrival with a 2cm puncture wound over his left index finger and burnt blisters over the base of his right index finger. No other injuries were noted. Resuscitation was performed, but aborted at 2.22pm due to a lack of response. He was pronounced dead at 2.45pm. His cause of death was certified to be due to electrocution. Kothalam’s brother-in-law told the case’s investigation officer that the family was doing well financially and had no financial issues in India.

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Never did like this guy and nv watch his video and forever will not

The primary Nas Daily Facebook page experiences a massive drop in followers amid the controversy between Nas Daily creator Nuseir Yassin, world-renowned traditional tattoo artist Whang Od, and chef and entrepreneur Louise Mabulo. From August 4 – the day that Whang Od’s grand niece Grace Palicas called the inclusion of a Whang Od course in Yassin’s online learning platform Nas Academy a “scam” – to August 6, as of publication time, about 306,900 users have unfollowed the page, according to Facebook analytics tool CrowdTangle. The bulk of unfollows came from August 5 at 275,200. The page drops from 20.96 million followers a week ago to 20.68 million. SCREENSHOT FROM CROWDTANGLE A 22-second video shown on a separate Nas Daily Tagalog page did little to appease netizens, with some saying that the company should have apologized to and discussed matters with Whang Od’s camp instead of pushing back against Palicas’ cries with the release of the video. Matters got worse for Yassin, with accusations coming from The Cacao Project founder Louise Mabulo, who said that the content creator only cared about clickable content, and insulted the farmers. “He said no one wants to hear about farmers or farms, it’s not clickable viewable content. He didn’t care about making change or shedding light on real issues— he only wanted content, a good, easy story to tell that would get him more Filipino views,” Mabulo said. The hot mess has since evolved to an even bigger hot mess. Yassin and Mabulo traded barbs, with the former saying that there was no cacao farm to talk about, and the latter saying that they and their farmers are doing well. In between, accusers of The Cacao Project not being a social enterprise; and accusers of the accusers of The Cacao Project being guilty of the same have since joined the online brawl. The mayor of San Fernando, Camarines Sur, Fermin Mabulo, has also come out to defend his daughter Louise, explaining that they made it clear to Yassin that the cacao trees were still in the flowering stage, and they had nothing to show much at that stage. “His intended content is inconsistent with the realities on the ground. We were very transparent about what we showed him but he was looking for something else,” said the mayor. Curiously, the Nas Daily Tagalog page has seen a spike in follower growth, increasing by about 28,000 in the same time period, bringing the total to about 850,000. – Rappler.com

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The latest volley in what may be a lengthy (and welcome) conversation about content creators and the cultures they use as subjects comes from social entrepreneur Louise Mabulo, who narrates her own experience with Nas Daily creator Nuseir Yassin two years ago. Mabulo has been awarded for her work with The Cacao Project, an initiative that provides farmers in Northern Luzon with alternative crops—particularly cacao—and training to help them make agriculture a more sustainable and dignified trade. According to her post, Nas Daily came to cover The Cacao Project via the vlog’s famous one-minute vids, but the reality was far from the pleasant, over-the-top experience that Nas Daily has become known for. Yassin was a terrible guest, Mabulo alleges: “I watched him imitate and mock the local accent and language, vocalising Tagalog-sounding syllabic phrases saying it sounded stupid. He repeatedly said that the people of my hometown [were] ‘poor’.” Worse, Mabulo says, Yassin was unhappy about her story being “not clickable viewable content”, and made several references to Pinoy-baiting for clicks: “He said no one wants to hear about farmers or farms, it’s not clickable viewable content. He didn’t care about making change or shedding light on real issues— he only wanted content, a good, easy story to tell that would get him more Filipino views. He even joked at the start of the day that all he needed was to put ‘Philippines’ in the title, and he’d rack in millions of views would and the comments would come flooding with brainless ‘Pinoy pride’ comments.” The Nas Daily team left without their story, says Mabulo (and a quick check of Nas Daily’s archive doesn’t turn up a video on The Cacao Project), who offers additional commentary on the controversy. “I should have known better, that this man was exploitative and fueling a neocolonialist narrative using our need for foreign validation,” she writes. “The fact that he refused to take down the course until Gracia took her post down is a clear sign of systematic silencing, and the hope that they want to continue their money-making from our culture…Filipinos should stand together on this— We are not content to be exploited. We are not culture to be capitalised. We are not people to be romanticized. Or poverty to set the scene for ‘Benevolent Saviors’. We are more than what the world thinks of us.” https://ph.news.yahoo.com/social-entrepreneur-speaks-nas-daily-093207631.html

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Along with United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11), or UOB, which released its 2Q2021 earnings on the same day, both lenders have reported significantly higher earnings amid a global economic recovery. New group CEO Helen Wong said that the lender saw growth in multiple areas, driven by the strength of OCBC’s diversified franchise. The broad-based growth saw the bank achieve a net profit of S$1.16 billion for the quarter due to higher fee income and reduced allowances. OCBC’s financial and operating numbers demonstrate the bank’s resilience and ability to continue growing even as the world slowly recovers from the ravages of the pandemic. Here are five things that investors should want to know about the bank’s latest earnings. 1. A surge in net profit Net interest income for 2Q2021 came in at S$1.46 billion, 2% lower than the S$1.48 billion recorded a year before. Non-interest income declined by 3% year on year to S$1.11 billion as a fall in trading income offset a surge in fees and commissions. As a result, total revenue inched down by 2% year on year to S$2.57 billion. Operating expenses increased by 3% year on year, resulting in a higher cost to income ratio of 44.3% compared to the 42.2% logged in the second quarter of 2020. OCBC reduced its allowances to S$232 million for the quarter from S$750 million a year ago, resulting in net profit soaring 59% year on year to S$1.16 billion. Of this net profit, OCBC’s insurance arm, under Great Eastern Holding Limited (SGX: G07), contributed S$192 million. 2. NIM has stabilised Net interest margin (NIM) has likely bottomed out, coming in at 1.58% for 2Q2021. The NIM is 0.02 percentage points higher than the first quarter’s 1.56% and just slightly lower than the 1.6% recorded in 2Q2020. The lender’s gross loan book has increased by 3% year on year to S$275 billion, helping to buffer some of the declines in NIM. The bulk of loans were from building and construction (27%) and housing (22%), a proportion similar to what was reported three months ago. 3. Steadily-increasing assets under management Non-interest income declined slightly from S$1.14 billion to S$1.11 billion in the current quarter. The drop was mainly due to a decline in trading income from S$325 million to S$212 million, offset by a 28% year on year jump in net fees and commission to S$563 million. That said, OCBC’s private banking arm, the Bank of Singapore, reported higher assets under management (AUM). AUM rose 10.6% year on year to end the quarter at US$125 billion. Total wealth management income for the first half of 2021 (1H2021) jumped by 25.2% year on year to S$2.1 billion, making up 39% of total group revenue, up from 33% the year before. 4. Lower overall allowances Similar to UOB, OCBC also reported sharply lower allowances as overall economic conditions improved. General allowance fell more than half from S$232 million to S$101 million for 2Q2021 while specific allowances plunged to just S$131 million from S$518 million a year ago. Total non-performing loans have been steadily declining over the quarters, clocking in at S$4.08 billion as of June 2021, down from S$4.35 billion in the same period last year. The non-performing loans ratio inched down slightly from 1.6% to 1.5%. OCBC also provided an update on the number of loans under relief. As of 30 June 2021, loans under moratorium had declined to S$4.5 billion from S$5.1 billion three months ago. 90% of these loans are secured by collateral. 5. Interim dividend raised OCBC has restored its interim dividend to S$0.25 and is in line with what was declared back in 2019 before the pandemic broke out. Singapore’s central bank had lifted dividend restrictions on the local banks just last week, paving the way for higher dividends compared to last year. Recall that banks were only allowed to pay out 60% of their 2019 dividends since last July as a prudent move to ensure banks remained well-capitalised in case of a prolonged crisis. With the restrictions lifted, there’s a high likelihood that the bank can match the total dividend paid out in 2019. Get Smart: Strong performance should continue This set of earnings affirms that the bank is indeed enjoying a sustained recovery. Not only has NIM stabilised, but loan growth remains healthy and fee income continues to climb as AUM hits new peaks. Barring a significant deterioration in the economic landscape, OCBC’s strong performance should continue. Investors will also await more clarity on the bank’s future direction as the new CEO has just come on board. Accelerate your retirement plans with these 5 SGX stocks. Their dividends are climbing, and are well-positioned to weather through storms in the future. We think at least one of them deserves a spot in your portfolio. To find out their names, grab a copy of your FREE special report:“Dividend Stocks That Can Pay You For Life” today. Click here to download now.