Good news for civil servants. The government has decided to pay a mid-year Annual Variable Component (AVC) of 0.5 month plus S$300 in July 2010.

A statement from the Public Service Division said the July payout comes against a backdrop of Singapore’s continuing economic growth.

PSD said Singapore’s economic recovery has been stronger than expected as it grew by 15.5% on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter of 2010, compared to 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The mid-year payout announcement was applauded by civil servants.

The government will decide on the year-end AVC when Singapore’s economic performance in the second half of 2010 is clearer.

This article appear to me because my cousin is one of the civil servants

There is no writer point of view.

i would like to ask the writer will it happen again?

If i would in charge of it i will do the same thing.

Orchard MRT station targeted by terrorists

A senior Indonesian police investigator revealed yesterday that Singapore was a potential target for extremist groups in Indonesia and they had singled out the orchard MRT station. They planned to enter Singapore through Malaysia said the official who has been involved in several high-profile counter-terrorism raids in Indonesia.


It is not the first time that a Singapore MRT station has turned up in a terrorism investigation. A 2001 crackdown on Singapore-based members of the regional Jemaah Islamiah terror network revealed they had filmed and photographed the yishun MRT station and its surroundings.


This article appeal to me because I will be heading to orchard every weekend for going to work.
There is no writer point of view.
I would like to ask the reporter what the police will do?
If I was in-charge I will get more police to petrol at orchard area.

9 dead in another china school attack

I found this newspaper article on 13 May 2010, the title is 9 dead in another china school attack. The killer was 48 years old Wu Huan Ming. He hacked seven children and two women to death at a kindergarten in north-west china yesterday. He returned home after the attack and committed suicide, the local officials said. The motive was not clear, although initial investigations showed that he had a property dispute with the kindergarten’s administrator, ms we Hongying.


Professor Yang Dongping, an expert on education at the Beijing Institute of Technology said that he personally feel that media reports about these attacks have helped to create a copycat effect. People who are mentally unstable or who nurse hatred towards society then feel that this is a way of exacting revenge, or of making their demands. And early report on yesterday’s attack were removed from Chinese website or moved from the home page to inside sections, an apparent attempt to play down the incident.


There is no writer point of view but there is a commentator said if security for the Beijing Olympics and shanghai expo can achieve a spotless record, why can’t school safety achieve a near spotless one? I was agreed with it. I personally felt that china schools are so unsafe because there is a lot of news about school being attack.


The articles appeal to me because of the title another china school attack.


I would like to ask the reporter what they will do to protect the school over there? And most of the case why do people attack the school?


If I was in-charge I will hire more security for every school. And everyone will only exit n enter the school by using one school gate. So if strangers come into the school the security will stop them.

Carried away by Circle Line

Ong Sor Fern recently took her first ride on the circle line. She and one of her friends had different enthusiasm as her. Her friend felt that there are too many shops that are so near to each other, example esplanade and promenade stops. As for her she felt that the closer the stations the better.


She had been looking forward to the opening of the circle line,especially because of the service has a stop at the singapore indoor stadium. She had a hard time to go home after a concert, she had more than once, walk home from the stadium simply because the buses were too packed and there were no taxis to be had after the crowds poured out of the indoor stadium. She felt that the most immediate improvement services is to shorten the waiting time and to provide service after midnight.


she have always thought that singapore being a much more compact cuty than these other larger conurbations, should be so much easier to navigate via train. but for the longest time, there are only been the skeletal tracks of two lines. The North-East nd circlr lines, as well as the upcoming downtown lines, are welcome addition.


The article attract me becuase i haven't take before the circle line yet.


I was agree to the writer point of view, it will be glad if they is more train close to each other.

If i was in-charge i will open afew more stations. And the opening hours is till midnight. Due to lost of teenagers will be at outside even it is midnight. And the worker still can go home by train after their midnight work.