Singapore is known locally as fine city. There's a fine of $500 for smoking in public places such as cinemas, trains, lifts, air-conditioned restaurants and shopping malls, and one-off $50 fine for "jaywalking"- crossing a main road within 50m of a pedestrian crossing or bridge. Littering carries a $1000 fine, with offenders now issued Corrective work orders and forced to do litter-picking duty; eating and drinking in the MRT could cost you $500. Other fines include those for urinating in lifts(legend has it that some lifts are fitted with urine deteectors), not flushing a public toilet and chewing gum( which is outlawed in singapore).
Temperatures are uniformly high throughout the year, but it's the region's humidity levels that make the heat really unconfortable.
excerpts from "The Rough Guide to Singapore" written by Mark Lewis, October 2006
