Tag: void
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 11, 2020
HDB contractors to temporarily house migrant workers at unused car parks, void decks
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SINGAPORE: Healthy migrant workers employed by Housing Board contractors will be temporarily housed at unused void decks and multi-storey car parks of sites where projects are under construction, HDB said in a Facebook post on Saturday (Apr 11). “These are completed structures that are safe and liveable,” the agency said. “This will help to improve safe distancing
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
COVID-19: Man, 71, arrested after he insisted on eating at void deck, refused to leave
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SINGAPORE: The police arrested a 71-year-old man on Tuesday (Apr 7) for disorderly behaviour after he tried to eat at a void deck and refused to leave despite being told to do so. Police officers were on foot patrol at Block 28, Bendemeer Road at about 11.40am when they came across a group of elderly people
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 6, 2020
South Korea to void visas of Japanese visitors in virus retaliation
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SEOUL: Seoul suspended a visa-waiver programme for Japanese nationals on Friday (Mar 6) in retaliation for what it called an “irrational” plan by Tokyo to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, escalating a diplomatic row over their containment measures. The two countries have close economic ties and are both major US allies, democracies and market economies
