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Transcript of MP Gan’s remark that the public supposedly ‘misunderstood’ Minister Lui

[Transcript kindly provided by a TRE reader] MP Gan Thiam Poh Transcription of MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Gan Thiam Poh, on questions about public transport from Public House Editor-in-Chief Andrew Loh on 9/12/12. Andrew Loh: The second point is about the bus fares. Minister Lui Tuck Liew said that if we want, we need to...

SMRT abruptly ends trial on Mandarin station announcements

Finally, after receiving a lot of online flak for adding station name announcement in Mandarin, SMRT has decided to immediately halt announcing station names in Mandarin in addition to English. SMRT confirmed that it ended the trial last week. The issue has stirred much discussion online with many questioning SMRT's reasons...

PRC bus drivers are charged hefty fees by recruitment agents

Some PRC bus drivers have told the mainstream media of the hefty sums of money they have had to pay to secure a job here in Singapore. Singapore's public transport operators have been using labour supply agents in Singapore to source for PRC bus drivers. The Singapore labour suppliers in turn work with PRC agents to hire the...