Video: #SG50ShadesOfGrey made flesh
Inspired by the relentless onslaught of the SG50 celebratory campaigns and the hit film adaptation of 'mummy porn' novel Fifty Shades Of Grey, Singaporeans had a blast coming up with the viral trend of...
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Refurbished stretch of Rochor Canal to debut to public this Sunday
The stretch of Rochor Canal which has been undergoing heavy construction and refurbishment for the past few years will finally be revealed to the public this Sunday, in the official opening of the...
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License to hold festival rejected by MHA — FMFA 2015 down but not out
It was a major omen yesterday afternoon when Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Masagos Zulkifli delivered a speech in Parliament filled with anti-drug rhetoric, emphasising...
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Future Music Festival Asia 2015 officially cancelled, refunds to be made
Welp, at least they tried their hardest. Following a governmental dismissal two days ago, Livescape Singapore have officially cancelled Future Music Festival Asia 2015. (function(d, s, id) { var js,...
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Botanic Gardens as World Heritage Site? We'll know by July
The process that began in 2010 when the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts commissioned a feasibility study on the Singapore Botanic Gardens as a Unesco World Heritage Site will have...
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Colossal chemical factory fire in Jurong leaves three in hospital
Residents of Jurong East were winding down into the weekend last Friday night when a chemical factory in the industrial district of Tanjong Penjuru was spotted ablaze as far as two kilometres away....
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4 youths arrested for beating up 40-year-old man in Tampines
Four young men aged between 15 and 22 have been arrested for ganging up and assaulting a 40-year-old man in Tampines. Police had received a call for assistance in the vicinity of Tampines Street 21 at...
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Adrift by chef David Myers at MBS
COCONUTS HOT SPOT — Adrift, the latest celebrity chef restaurant to hit Marina Bay Sands, isn’t some swish spot to be reserved for blowout meals. The menu of Asian-inflected small plates come at...
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Text-message service Homework Gods delivers divine intervention for your...
Ask, and you shall receive some help for your school assignments, spake the Homework Gods in the scriptures of The Book of Text, 22:7. As a nation ranked third in the world for time spent on homework...
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Sungei Kadut vegetation fire the size of three football fields: SCDF
As the dry season scorches on, the conditions are ripe for fires to break out in the grasslands and lalang fields across the island. Last Saturday, Sungei Kadut Industrial Estate played host to a...
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New crime investigation unit launched by ACRES to enforce against animal...
Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) launched last Saturday a new unit devoted to investigating animal cruelty and engage in undercover operations to expose animal crime. At the 4th...
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Teen sentenced to reformative training after scamming man he met through Grindr
Not everyone gets lucky when they take their relationship-seeking to the online realm, especially for 30-year-old Indian national Kanthimathi Ramachandran Sreedhar who fell victim to a youth he met...
View ArticleInside Kampong Lorong Buangkok, the last surviving village in Singapore
Singapore only gained independence in 1965, but it is already the most expensive city in the world. As the city-state's wealth grew, its landscape also evolved rapidly — from trishaws and swamps to...
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Italian street photographer captures the seedy underside of Singapore in...
In a photo series featured by prestigious camera company Leica, Italian documentary photographer Luciano Checco took to the streets of Geylang and Little India to capture the squalid underbelly of the...
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425-strong kompang ensemble breaks Singapore record
A new Singaporean record has been set, after more than 400 Ang Mo Kio GRC and Sengkang West residents formed the largest kompang ensemble. According to Channel NewsAsia, the 425 residents made the...
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Singapore says caning isn't 'torture'
Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz leaving the court in November, 2014. Photo: AFP / Rahman Roslan Singapore on Monday defended a court order for two German men to be caned for spray-painting a metro...
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Indie travel magazine Afterglobe to launch anticipated second issue this...
Over a year since their first issue, local travel magazine Afterglobe return with their anticipated second issue, and everyone's invited for the launch this Thursday. Focusing on the travel...
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Manga master Yoshihiro Tatsumi, subject of Eric Khoo film, dead at 79
It's a sad day for fans of Japanese comics. Manga master artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi passed away on March 7. He was 79. Tatsumi is known for darker, non-traditional style of manga in the late 1950s, which...
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SuicideGirls' Blackheart Burlesque strips down to town in April
Men, calm yourselves down. In a (pleasantly) surprising announcement by event promoters Live! Empire, the acclaimed Blackheart Burlesque show featuring the tattooed pin-up girls of SuicideGirls will...
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EXCLUSIVE: Seedy Singapore snaps slammed by sex worker rights groups, removed...
The Other Singapore — Italian photographer Luciano Checco's photo series on the seedy underbelly of Geylang and Little India — has been removed from his Facebook page following the viral popularity it...
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