Lock up your doors and pray that Hades won't unleash the Titans— five planets of the Solar System will align diagonally in the cosmos and they'll be visible to the naked eye from tomorrow morning till the end of February.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are appearing together for the first time since 2005, and Jan 27 will be an even more special treat with the Moon aligning together with the planets.
One of the highlights of 'Everest,' Sookoon Ang's solo exhibition at Objectifs, is a mixed media installation that uses silk, tulle, plexiglass, metal and lights to convey the form of a mountain.
Ang uses the fragile nature of textile to represent the boldness and presentness of Mount Everest as a means of conveying the monumental in the mind and spirit and to surpass the limitations of the medium.
For this piece, Ang worked closely with British designer and Central Saint Martin’s graduate Sorcha O’Raghallaigh, whose creations have been worn by celebrities such as Kate Moss, Beyonce and Lady Gaga.
‘Everest’ is a multimedia show with a range of smaller works of various mediums, such as sculptures cast in wax and bronze, works on paper, as well as video art.
Two 25-year-olds — Jai Ganesh Tanapolan and Dinesh Kumar Ruvy — have been sentenced to five years' jail and 4 years' jail respectively, along with six strokes of the cane each for rioting and gang-related violence.
The two, along with four accomplices, had attacked two male victims last March as they were leaving the Checkmate Club at Rendezvous Hotel, Channel NewsAsia reports. The victims were kicked and punched, and Dinesh used a chopper to slash one of them on the forearm.
In a period of heightened anxieties about terrorism (Jakarta bombings, the 27 radicalised Bangladeshis) a 22-year-old man just had to make things worse by threatening carry out an attack here.
According to a police statement, the man has been arrested for posting a threat on social media to bomb City Hall. He was nabbed shortly after a report was made on Jan 14.
The suspect was believed to have posted the comments as a hoax — but clearly it's not a funny joke, especially when it comes to terrorism.
As if the phenomenally high cost of owning and driving a car in this country weren't annoying enough, drivers here have been found to be especially frustrated by dangerous and inconsiderate behaviour of their fellow motorists.
A study by AIG Singapore revealed that 77 percent of the 800 respondents are displeased about driving conditions in Singapore — to the point that 53 percent reported feeling stressed on the roads.
The rise in impatient and reckless driving was said to correspond with Traffic Police data, which displayed that the number of speeding violations increased by 6.5 percent from 2013 to 2014. Cases of fatal accidents involving speeding also increased by 39 in the same period.
Last Sunday afternoon, it was reported that an accident had transpired at the junction of Yishun Avenue 1, involving a bendy bus, a lorry and a van.
The aftermath of the accident was chaotic, Channel NewsAsia reports, due the length of the off-duty SMRT bus. The bus blocked three whole lanes, two of which are turning lanes to Sembawang.
How did the accident occur in the first place though? Dashcam footage uploaded on the Beh Chia Lor Facebook page showed how the bus lost control and simply ploughed through everything.
With a series of employment contracts being rejected due to low salaries lately, it seems to be that the mandatory monthly pay for Filipino maids here have increased.
The Straits Times reports that although no official announcement from the Philippines' side have been made, employment agents here believe so. Especially since the Indonesian Embassy informed them that the minimum salary for Indonesian maids must be $550 a month.
An agreement made by the Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) and the Philippine Embassy three years ago stipulated that the minimum salary for Filipino maids have to be set at S$500. The benchmark was made according to the minimum salary for maids set by the Philippine government — US$400.
On an dangerous cocktail being both high and horny, Arris Shariffuddin Azahar Yusri got fed up when a prostitute he hired didn't turned up.
The sexual munchies he had prompted him to do something stupid — he broke into a flat to look for her.
The New Paper reports that the 23-year-old will be serving 11 months in jail after being convicted for drug consumption and housebreaking.
The man had bought and consumed some meth from a friend on Sept 10 last year, and an hour later, decided to surf a website that was offering hookers. After arranging to meet one at a nearby block, he waited at the void deck but nobody arrived.
Bid farewell to a nostalgic memory of your school days — Singapore's beloved fish and chips purveyor Fish & Co. have announced the imminent closure of their iconic outlet at Dhoby Ghaut this year.
Come June 2016, Fish & Co. @ Glasshouse will be permanently closed after almost 14 long years due redevelopment works by Park Mall.
During its run, the restaurant has seen hundreds of regular diners pass in and out its doors — especially so for birthday celebrations when Fish & Co.'s tradition of making birthday boys/girls stand up on chairs while staff members yell their song at them. Always an awesome spectacle when your friends get sabo'ed at Fish & Co.
No super-high-speed internet connection for residents in the Sengkang vicinity today — fibre broadband connectivity has been down since early this morning, said network operators NetLink Trust.
According to them, the outage since a little after midnight this morning was due to a cut by a third party contractor performing draining and sewage works along CTE and Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 junction.
Sengkang residents should be able to use their fibre connections by now — NetLink Trust's restoration services was expected to be restored by 11am.
"NetLink Trust is working with all relevant parties to ensure that the service is restored at the affected areas as soon as possible," they wrote in a statement.
British banking giant has made good on their promise to cut over 30,000 jobs across their global workforce, and employees in Singapore experienced the burn when a mass exodus transpired yesterday.
The Straits Times reports that about 100 Barclays employees in Singapore were let go yesterday as part of the bank's ruthless cost-cutting exercise. The 100 included equities professionals, investment bankers and more — just a fraction of the 1,000 jobs in Asia that will be slashed.
A familiar tragedy struck the neighbourhood of Serangoon North on Wednesday afternoon when a young toddler fell out of a fourth-storey window while she was alone at home.
Fortunately, she was still alive when help arrived. Shin Min Daily News says that the three-year-old girl is receiving treatment in intensive care unit at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
The girl's grandmother had left the girl alone in the house at Block 542 along Serangoon North Avenue 4 to go to the shops. The grandmother was said to have fainted when she saw the girl lying motionless on the ground, while the child's mother wailed when she arrived at the scene, The New Paper reports.
When will this ever end? Just days after the last case of alleged cat killing took place in Yishun, another dead cat turns up in the neighbourhood.
The total tally now stands at 21 suspected cat abuse cases, with this one occurring near Block 732 along Yishun Avenue 5.
Laneway Festival Singapore have always outdone themselves each year, but this year they've literally gone bigger in every aspect — more acts (there's 28 now) and more stages (there's four now).
With so much good music flowing free and easy at The Meadow, it shouldn't come a surprise that there'll be a lot of clashes in set timings. It's always a daunting task to pick and choose which acts you'll have to sacrifice (Fauxe VS Thundercat? Intriguant VS Battles? Flume vs Purity Ring?) but it's gotta be done for the greater good. Have a gander at the set timings for the concert next week:
His irrational hatred for Indian nationals ran so deep, he had no qualms about going postal on them multiple times.
On various occassions, Institute of Technical Education (ITE) student Razmy Abdul Rahim would target foreign workers of Indian origin to inflict violence upon them, TODAY reports. His resentment against them also stemmed from his dislike of the way they apparently eyed his mother and his girlfriend.
The earliest attacks took place in 2013, during his teenage days. Together with his friend, they ambushed a Bangladeshi construction worker and an Indian construction worker at Hougang Avenue 3.
Singapore may be analyzed to be a bit more democratic now, but it's not much, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index.
Get your buzz on this June for the Singapore Coffee Festival, where you can consume so much caffeine that you probably won't be able to sleep for a month.
Claiming to be Singapore's first ever coffee-centric festival, the event at the F1 Pit Building promises to be a caffeine-fueled showcase of Singapore's speciality coffee, local kopi and coffee culture. Baristas, kopi connoisseurs, industry folks and regular (cuppa) joes everywhere are welcome to experience the country's rich heritage concerning the humble coffee bean.
Cafe hoppers will be especially interested — the festival is assembling all the hippest coffee joints under one roof, with the likes of Papa Palheta, Common Man Coffee Roasters, Killiney, Wheelys Cafe and more confirmed to be on board.
A major figure of opposition against the ruling Singapore government has passed away in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had been living in exile.
Francis Seow lived to the ripe old age of 88 until the time of his passing, which Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan said to Yahoo Singapore was due to pneumonia.
Seow had been appointed Solicitor-General in 1969, serving the role until 1971, before becoming the president of the Law Society in 1986.
River Valley Road was the scene of brief chaos yesterday night when a silver Mercedes Benz convertible smashed through a barrier and plunged into a canal leading to the Singapore River.
When rescuers dived down into the depths, the bodies of two women were extricated from the car.
The freak accident transpired just after 9pm yesterday, according to various media reports, at the Alexandra Canal, right next to Valley Point Shopping Centre. Witnesses at the scene told reporters that the car ran over some bushes and crossed a pedestrian path before crashing past the canal's barricade. When the car plunged into the 2m-deep water, it didn't float back up.
