Thank you very much for your generous advices as always, Hansel. We, newbies, have so much to learn from you. 
As you rightly predicted, it is getting tougher to open a Maybank Singapore saving account, ranging from the need to furnish LHDN tax reference number, to the requirement of higher initial deposit of SGD 5000. Luckily, other posters and I heeded your wise advice, and quickly opened a Maybank Singapore saving account.
Well, I shall use it as an account to receive dividend from S-REIT. I just started learning the basic A to Z of S-REIT, before I will start to invest in it.
I also invested in Singapore Saving Bonds, and I agree with you that its dividend is too low, compared to S-REIT. But, I shall keep the bonds for diversification, and I will use additional money to invest in S-REIT.
What I have now:
1) POSB Saving Account
2) OCBC Singapore Saving Account
3) Maybank Singapore iSavvy Saving Account
4) Singapore Exchange CDP Account

One question: I have a Standard Chartered JustOne Personal Account (saving account cum current account) in Malaysia. With that, does it make it easier to open a Standard Chartered saving account, and trading account in Singapore?

Thanks again for your advice. 

Foreign currency account. Read this whole thread. Info is all in this thread.

All info are readily available in this thread. All he needs to do is just read from page 1.   
- If he is willing to read the whole thread, he will get the info he needed.
- If he not willing to read, well, he can't have his Singapore bank account.

Even if he doesn't want to read 50+ pages, I believe the last 20 should be more than enough.

Hi all bro and sis,

I just open an Maybank iSavvy account in Singapore. Now I want to transfer some money from my Malaysia Maybank account to iSavvy account in Singpore for investment purpose.

Questions:
1. Is there any daily transfer limit from my Maybank Malaysia to Maybank Singapore?
2. I realize that there're 2 way which I can transfer from Maybank Malaysia to Singapore: Foreign Telegraphic Transfer & Maybank Money Express. Is there any transfer limit for both and do they share the same transfer limit?
3. Anything would happen if I exceeded the daily limit?

Thanks!

I just hope it's ok ..... sometimes, the ppl at the branch are inexperienced and don't know how to do it. So far Maybank still ok, but I had a bad experience with CIMB.

with this iSavvy account opened in m'sia, we cannot deposit SGD cash right? But I assume we can deposit SGD cash in SG, right?

No it's not. For those in sabah, according to the list, one must be a priority customer. Normal branches won't do application. However, for people in peninsular malayaia, won't be a problem as according to the list, you don't need to be a priority customer.

Priority banking should be not a problem for most working malaysian. Easily put in 6 months promo FD with them. After 6 months, withdraw out the money and relinquish the priority status. Settle.

If priority banking in SG using RM might take a while for normal working malayaian...

From what I know, if you go through PWL/PWC area then no choice need to be priority customer.
For me, no money for priority so went though branch which accept normal people.

Of course la. Malaysian banks doesn't let you withdraw foreign currency notes.

wuish supervisor.       

Last week I went to Singapore to try to open a bank account there.

I am a Privilege Banking customer in UOB Bank Malaysia. Since I wanted to open a UOB bank account in Singapore, I requested for a reference letter from my UOB branch and they provided it to me, though they said that it's no guarantee that the UOB branch in Singapore will open an account for me as it's getting more strict in Singapore.

I went to the UOB branch in Orchard Road and the lady staff (for account opening) that initially attended to me asked me what is the purpose that I would like to open an account. I said that it's for investment purpose. She said that it's getting more strict in Singapore for foreigners to open a bank account. Then she said that she will refer me to another colleague who is in the investment department (at that point of time, a thought came to my mind that I shouldn't have said that the bank account is for investment purpose).

This other colleague of hers was also another lady. She tried to engage in some small talk and ask about my background. Then she tried to sell me on some kind of unit trust savings plan, that goes together with a savings account. The bad thing about this unit trust savings plan is that you have to put in a monthly sum for five years. You can only withdraw a partial sum before the end of the five years, so this means you will lose money if you withdraw before the end of the five years. And the minimum amount that the branch will apparently accept from a foreigner is S$1000 per month! Obviously I didn't agree with the unit trust savings plan and she wasted 40 minutes of my time. Before I left, I told her that I was disappointed.

Anyway, I haven't given up on opening a bank account in Singapore yet. I'll try again with two other UOB branches since I understand that not all branches are the same and some could possibly be more lenient than others.

As a note, please do not go and open an account with UOB branch in Orchard Road. Try other branches.