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Cute Max: Meet the Night Safari's two new endangered Asian lion cubs
The Night Safari's resident endangered Asian lions Khapat and Amba have borne two cubs, their 11th and 12th. Born on Sep. 27, the tawny male and female pair was sexed, microchipped and given a round of...
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Arts and cultural appreciation in museums on a record high in Singapore: MCCY
Singaporean sentiments towards the arts looks to be increasingly positive, a fact evidenced by the latest report by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Their Singapore Cultural Statistics...
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World's largest 3D printing conference and expo to return to Singapore in...
Consumer 3D printing has certainly been one of the most highly-anticipated emerging technologies (now you can actually download a car!) in the past few years, and with technology advancing faster than...
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Coconuts Hot Spot: The Prawn Star
21 Duxton Hill. Know the address so the next time you feel like getting your hands dirty (with food!) in Tanjong Pagar, you'll know where to go. Once you're on the cobblestoned slope, you can't miss...
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Swallow This: Man who consumed memory card to destroy evidence of upskirt...
The voyeur who swallowed his phone’s memory card after being caught taking an upskirt video will now be gorging on prison food instead of data drives for the next three months — a district court has...
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Nearly half of Singapore’s employers now offer flexible work arrangements: MOM
Amid the tight labour market affecting Singapore, a survey conducted by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has revealed that the proportion of establishments which provided at least on formal flexible work...
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Crazy Taxi: Cab driver sent to jail after feud about firecrackers lead to...
A Comfort Delgo taxi driver has been sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment for attacking a fellow cab driver, and all due to quarrelling about the cost of firecrackers. According to Channel NewsAsia,...
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There are surely more fun ways to be vegetarian than Sufood
COCONUTS CRITIC'S TABLE—Before I start I should make it absolutely clear that I have nothing against vegetarianism or vegetarian dishes in general. The thought of plump porcini mushrooms frying in some...
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Man finds roach and eggs in herbal drink, but he already drank some
When 31-year-old bank executive Xu bought a bottle of herbal tea for $1.20 from a shop in Tampines, he didn't think much of it. At 4pm that day he opened the bottle and drank a few sips. Noticing that...
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EZ-Link giveaway campaign extended to March 2015 due to holiday season
If you haven’t exchanged your expiring ez-link cards for new ones, you’ve got till early next year to do so. EZ-Link Pte Ltd have announced in a press release that they’ll be extending their giveaway...
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Cool Beans: Changi Airport to get indoor rainforest, world's tallest indoor...
Last week, crews broke ground on the Jewel Changi Airport outside Terminal 1, a project that will turn what used to be an open-air parking lot into a sprawling, 134,000 sq. m. retail, travel and...
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Cool Beans: Always wanted to live on a farm? You might be able to when you...
International design studio SPARK has designed Home Farm, a conceptual proposal for retirement housing in Singapore that combines apartments with facilities for vertical urban vegetable farming. In the...
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Singapore's hoarding habits spill out into HDB corridors
More than two-thirds of all Singaporean homeowners admitted to their hoarding habits, and with such cramped HDB capacities, it’s no surprise that their treasured junk are spilling out into the...
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Cool Beans: 3D model of Singapore to be ready by 2017
Plans to create a three-dimensional (3D) city model of Singapore was unveiled by the National Research Foundation (NRF) on Dec. 1. Named Virtual Singapore, the collaborative data platform will enable...
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91 films from Singapore's Golden Cinema era recognised under UNESCO heritage...
Singapore’s archived treasure of classic Malay films from the ‘50s to ‘70s get the befitting recognition they deserve — 91 films produced by Cathay-Keris Studio (of Cathay Organisation) have been added...
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Best of 2014: Google's top selling books in Singapore
This week, Google Play announced the bestselling apps, games and books in Singapore. The lattermost top 20 list, ordered by sales volume: 1. A Singapore Love Story by Low Kay Hwa 2. The Fault in Our...
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Happening Tomorrow: Online mega shopping mall Lazada's 24-hour sale
Hitting the Christmas sales sounds a lot less daunting when you're doing it online and Lazada knows it. That's why Southeast Asia's biggest online shopping mall is holding the Online Revolution, a...
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Blogger retracts allegations of cheating Standard Chartered Marathon runners...
A blogger’s exasperated concerns over the legitimacy of contestants taking part in the recent Standard Chartered Marathon went unfounded when the event organisers Spectrum Worldwide declared all...
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Best of 2014: Singapore's top checked-in spots on Facebook
Universal Studios Singapore, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay, as well as the overall Sentosa area, saw the most check-ins on Facebook in 2014. In its annual year in review, the social media...
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Over 100 turned up half-naked in town for free Desigual threads
Who says Singaporeans are a bunch of prudes? Over 100 people turned up half-naked in town to line up for Desigual’s Seminaked sale campaign. The event took place in the morning at Desigual’s Orchard...
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