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Stories you might’ve missed, July 27
S’porean mom appeals to HDB for 2 years to buy 3-room flat for son with dust mite allergy, only offered to purchase resale flat they can’t afford
Filed complaints to HDB since 2019 and no solution to dragging furniture noise upstairs
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Noise coming from other Housing and Development Board (HDB) residents can hinder their neighbour’s living conditions – an issue that has been highlighted by the public on multiple occasions.
A Fernvale resident named Mdm Foo reached out to The Independent Singapore to share that she has been filing complaints to HDB since 2019 regarding their upstairs neighbour dragging furniture across the floor.
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Xiaxue says Kim Lim’s Kandy Karnival birthday bash at Sentosa ‘blew her mind!’ but netizens say ‘We don’t need to know this’
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No doubt about it, but Kim Lim knows how to party. The heiress threw a big birthday bash for herself and her young son Kyden at Sentosa with the theme “Kandy Karnival” on Saturday (July 23).
Ms Lim, who got married earlier this year, turned 31, while little Kyden turned 5.
RYDE driver caught falling asleep 3 times while driving, almost hit another car, scares passenger
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“Omg im so scared,” wrote one woman after the ride she took proved to be more dangerous than she had bargained for.
A netizen named Hà Nhung posted on her personal Facebook page photos and a video of her driver from the rearview mirror of the vehicle, with the man looking like he was very sleepy indeed.
LGBT community speaks up against townhall held to uphold 377A; police say no action will be taken against organisers
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On July 23, organizers held an event at the Singapore Expo convention centre to urge the government “to maintain the current political package and not to repeal Section 377A,” the section of the Penal Code that criminalizes sex between men.
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Section 377A, a holdover from colonial times, does not appear to be not up for repeal, even though rights groups have called for it. The position of the government has been that it will not be enforced and people will not be persecuted, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam underlined in a BBC interview last month.
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