Stories you might’ve missed, May 13

Loud noise from HDB neighbour for about a dozen years, woman says authorities could not do anything

The problems of one Hougang woman concerning the noise her neighbour has made for about a dozen years have been documented on TikTok, shared on Facebook, and even made it to the news.

And yet, she says her problems are ongoing, with the latest clip of the noise from her neighbour’s unit uploaded on Wednesday (May 11).

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Tay Ping Hui tells fans he’s just an actor, stop the obsession, stalking & suicide threats, pay more attention to those around you, especially your parents

Actor Tay Ping Hui said that a male fan attempted to see him recently and is probably the same one who, in 2016, wrote a suicide note that had bloodstains on it. The male fan, pretending to be a graduate from the same school as the actor, reached out to Tay’s friends and tried to get a basketball game going.

“Basically he wanted to know when we would play and then appear at the same place,” Tay, 51, told Shin Min Daily News in an article published on May 10 (Tuesday). The actor, who is known to be direct and outspoken, made a direct appeal to the fan, calling his actions a “waste of time.”

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Pritam Singh promises to keep working on his ‘limited conversational Mandarin’

After receiving a boost from a longtime Eunos resident to whom he spoke in Mandarin, Workers’ Party chief and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh said he will “keep working” on learning the language.

Mr Singh has made speeches and appeals in Mandarin and has been caught on video singing in Hokkien. He is of Punjabi ancestry and shared in an Instagram post last year that Punjabi is his two young daughters’ mother tongue. But the 45-year-old WP leader isn’t done with learning yet, based on his Facebook post on Wednesday night (May 11).

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Woman left family for guy with criminal record, who’s back in jail, asks advice: ‘How to mend relationship with family without hearing “I told you so”?’

A woman wrote on the NUS Whispers Facebook page on Wednesday (May 11) that her family had been “super against” her relationship with a man with a criminal past, to the point of “kicking me out of the family because they wanted nothing to do with anyone with a criminal record.”

And despite her attempts to explain that he had changed and deserved a second chance, her father would say things like “it’s possible for people to change, but people rarely do” and “it takes a different kind of screw up to make a mistake to land you in jail.” The poster wrote that she made “a big stink” by calling her family names, and finally, left. However, she added that what her father said has come to pass, and the man is now back in jail.

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Ong Ye Kung: COVID-19 cases rising, public express concern if it will trigger changes to Safe Management Measures (SMMs)

Despite Covid-19 community cases in Singapore doubling in a week, from 1,638 cases on May 4 to 3,890 on May 11, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Thursday (May 12) that this is not a new wave.

“We have been seeing an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent days. Some members of the public have written to me expressing concerns, while others wonder if it will trigger changes to Safe Management Measures (SMMs),” he said in a Facebook post.

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