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First SG50 baby born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day
Singapore welcomed the very first SG50 baby yesterday when little Chloe Tham was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, Lian Wen Fang and her husband Tham Kuan How have officially become...
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Marukyu: plenty of functional quality, but no fireworks
Expectations are a funny thing, they just can’t help but run away from you. It would be lovely to go through life with none at all, being pleasantly surprised by everything, no matter how average it...
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MGS student awaiting news of family, who flew AirAsia QZ8501 to celebrate...
Photo: Chiara Natasha and her family in a photo she was holding when spoken to by Harian Metro after news of the missing flight broke out Chiara Natasha is awaiting news on her parents and two...
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CNB seizes biggest heroin haul of 2014 on New Year's Eve
A Malaysian drug-runner thought that he could take advantage of the New Year's celebratory mood to smuggle in heroin across the Singapore border — but soon found out that the officers of Immigration...
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Six drivers arrested, 91 summonses issued in island-wide NYE traffic operation
Six drivers arrested and 91 traffic summonses were issued against errant motorists on New Year's Eve (Dec. 31) and the early hours of New Year's Day, according to Channel NewsAsia. Out of the 91, 63...
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Man punches JJ Lin and wishes him "happy New Year!" at album signing in Taipei
Taiwan-based Singaporean singer-songwriter JJ Lin was punched by a man at a signing event in Taipei on Thursday, Jan. 1. Chinese media say the 33-year-old had been signing autographs for his new album...
View ArticleVideo: Flash mob marriage proposal at Changi Airport
It's a little hard to imagine that so much love and happiness had filled the Singapore Changi Airport mere weeks before news broke out that AirAsia flight QZ8501 had gone missing. On Dec. 11, John...
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SAF finds and destroys last war relic for 2014
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) found and disposed of its last war relic for 2014, exactly on Dec. 31. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team found the fused and fired 4.5-inch World War II...
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This boy bragged on Instagram about driving without licence — now police are...
A young man who posted a photo on Instagram of himself driving without a licence, is now being hunted down by the police. According to Stomp, he'd uploaded the photo on New Year's Eve, even writing...
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Equipment, luggage bag among debris of AirAsia QZ8501 picked up by...
Minister of Defence Dr. Ng Eng Hen revealed yesterday and today that Singapore's missile corvette RSS Valour has picked up some items believed to be from the ill-fated AirAsia flight QZ8501. The items...
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SMRT Ltd (Feedback) vs Xiaxue — a tl;dr timeline
As celebrations for the New Year came to pass, another sort of revelry unfolded online in the form of a highly anticipated showdown between two Singaporean social media giants — in one corner stands...
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Balloon Buffoonery: Singapore breaks world record for most people wearing...
If there's one thing Singapore is really good at, it's the ability to break records for the most goofiest things ever (re: most number of people knitting simultaneously, world's single longest table,...
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Ship collision causes oil spillage incident off Pedra Branca
Crude oil spilled into the waters off Singapore's coast in the morning today when two ships collided 11 nautical miles north-east of Pedra Branca. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reported...
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Ice likely caused engine damage to Air Asia 8501
Indonesian officers carry a coffin with the remains of a passenger of AirAsia flight QZ8501 before it is sent to Surabaya, in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia on January 3, 2015. Photo: Adek Berry / AFP...
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Hospital says anti-Singaporean nurse's Facebook account might've been hacked,...
'Edz Ello', the Facebook user whose anti-Singaporean comments went viral over the weekend, says his social media account was hacked and that he's reported it to the police, Tan Tock Seng Hospital...
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Future residents of Fernvale Lea unite against columbarium in neighbourhood
Artist impression of the Chinese temple at Fernvale Link; image via Lam Pin Min Facebook page Unsurprisingly, the future residents of the upcoming Fernvale Lea Build-To-Order (BTO) flat estate are not...
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Doomed AirAsia flight QZ850 wasn't even supposed to operate the...
Adding an even more unfortunate twist to the tragic case of missing flight QZ8501, it has been revealed that AirAsia Indonesia was not licensed to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route on Dec. 28....
View ArticleVideo: If you saw someone being bullied, would you stop it?
If someone was being bullied or harassed in front of you, would you intervene? Or would you MYOB? In a recent social experiment, YouTube channel Red Dot Pranks set up a scene with two men shoving and...
View ArticlePhotos & Video: Beyonce and Jay-Z in Singapore early this morning
Pop superstar Beyonce Knowles was in Singapore early this morning with her rapper and entertainment mogul husband Jay-Z. According to @rocbeyonce, the dynamic duo and their daughter Blue Ivy were in a...
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Singaporeans come out in droves to supply donations for flood-stricken...
The devastating floods affecting more than 60,000 Malaysians have brought out the samaritan spirit in Singaporeans, who have organised their own donation drives to help the disaster-stricken states....
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