Pang Kok Meng, 65, lives with his 91-year-old mother in a public housing flat in Geylang, a township in central Singapore. For more than a decade, he has been feuding with a neighbour living one floor below.
“Whenever there’s a little noise – if someone’s high heels make clacking sounds, or if I drop something on the floor – he retaliates by banging on his ceiling,” he told This Week in Asia. “He does it every day, from day to night, it scares my mother to tears.”
Pang is far from alone. Singapore saw an average of 2,500 reports related to noise per month in the first half of the year, according to a joint statement issued by the law and national development ministries on September 27.
