Plan B

Not really easy to find headlines to fill our weekly podcasts. Sometimes we resort to reacting to boring news. Here is a glimpse how we select the best content for our listeners.

Singapore users of the Grab super app and Grab Driver app continued to face problems on Wednesday, Nov. 17, the second day of service disruption on the platform. In Singapore, food delivery riders had to put up with the Grab Driver app's buggy interface, as some struggled to complete their delivery on the app, which kept looping, while others had to reboot and refresh the app to get it to work correctly. Read more: https://mothership.sg/2021/11/grab-down/

An African lion at the Singapore Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19 after showing signs of illness, the Animal and Veterinary Service (AVS) said on Wednesday (Nov 10). Read more: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/lion-singapore-zoo-covid-19-night-safari-infected-staff-2304381

Iris Koh, the woman behind Singapore's "Healing the Divide" group, intends to take the government to court for violating her human rights. In a Nov. 13 Facebook post, her lawyer, M Ravi, announced that he had been instructed by the prominent vaccine sceptic to "commence judicial review proceedings". Read more: https://mothership.sg/2021/11/healing-the-divide-legal-proceedings/

The Singapore Government will go back and review its climate change target after top level talks concluded late on Saturday (Nov 13) at COP26. The Glasgow Climate Pact was finally agreed to after negotiations stretched more than 24 hours past the deadline in Glasgow. Read more: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/cop26-singapore-climate-change-target-grace-fu-2312456

Three people were taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital after a bus crashed into a taxi bay near Yishun MRT station on Saturday afternoon (Nov 6), said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). It received a call for assistance on Yishun Avenue 2 at about 1pm. Read more: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/yishun-mrt-station-shelter-collapse-bus-hits-taxi-stand-2295446

We give some Covid updates and react to new measures in place.

The Court of Appeal on Monday (May 27) dismissed two appeals by a Malaysian man who has been on death row for nine years for importing drugs into Singapore. Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, 31, was convicted and sentenced to death in November 2010 for importing 42.72g of heroin a year before. Read more: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/apex-court-dismisses-appeals-malaysian-man-death-row-9-years-importing-drugs-881246

We sat down with Sun Xueling, Minister of State at Ministries of Social and Family Development and Education of Singapore, Dr Jared Ng, Senior Consultant, Dept of Emergency & Crisis Care, Institute of Mental Health and Rachel Chew from Mental Health Collective to speak about problems surrounding the mental health of students, teachers and parents during this endemic.

We sat down with Sun Xueling, Minister of State at Ministries of Social and Family Development and Education of Singapore, Dr Jared Ng, Senior Consultant, Dept of Emergency & Crisis Care, Institute of Mental Health and Rachel Chew from Mental Health Collective to speak about problems surrounding the mental health of students, teachers and parents during this endemic.