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Tigerair to commence flights to Xi'an on May 15, promo fares available
Photo: Bell tower of Xi'an; Wikimedia Commons Budget carrier Tigerair will begin a thrice weekly service between Singapore and the Chinese city of Xi'an on May 15. With a history that goes back over...
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10 Savour restaurant partners take part in 'special menu season' starting...
If you didn't get enough of gourmet festival Savour during its run in March, you've got one more chance to indulge. Savour: The Restaurants lets you partake in special menus at 10 of the event's...
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Channel 8 newscaster broke her water bag while on air and didn't even know it
Channel 8 newscaster Zhao Wen Bei was live on air for the 10pm news programme when she felt something unusual. Unbeknown to her, Zhao's water bag had broken. The unsuspecting first-time mother didn't...
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25-year-old worker jailed two weeks for involvement in dorm riot
A 25-year-old foreign worker has been jailed for two weeks following his involvement in the fight at a Kaki Bukit worker dormitory in March. Dharmaraj Ramesh was found guilty of using criminal force...
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Indonesia army chief apologises over naming of warship after bombers
Indonesian army chief General Moeldoko has apologised over the naming of its warship KRI Usman-Harun. The naming of the warship after two Indonesian marines who bombed Singapore's Macdonald House in...
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Singapore will get Asus ZenFone smartphone series starting May
Asus announced the launch of its ZenFone smartphone series in Southeast Asia at a press event in Jakarta yesterday. Having been launched earlier in China and Taiwan, the Intel-powered, Android-run,...
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Submissions for NMPs now open — find out what kind of persons will make the cut
A Special Select Committee of Parliament has invited the public to submit suitable candidates for the next batch of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs). According to a press release by the Office of...
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Anwar Ibrahim criticises Singapore's support of Malaysian government's MH370...
Photo: The opposition leader had in April, accused the Malaysian government of hiding facts related to MH370's disappearance; AFP Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has criticised Singapore for its support of...
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Singapore high-rise apartment named eighth most lavish in the world
Billionaire.com has named the Clermont Residence in Singapore as the eighth most lavish high-rise apartment building in the world. A report by Tara Loader Wilkinson in the luxury lifestyle magazine...
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Will the real Mr. Baey please stand up?
Minister of Parliament for the Tampines GRC Mr. Baey Yam Keng has been on a bit of a doppelganger-spotting rampage recently. It all started when "someone" sent Mr. Baey a picture comparing him to a...
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CNB seizes 1.1kg of Ice, syndicate leader and runner arrested
In an operation, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested the leader and runner of an Ice distributing syndicate. The two men, aged 38 and 40, were arrested at the ground lobby of a hotel in the...
View ArticleTokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market enters its final chapter
Words By Fraser Morton | Photography by Rob Bain After eight decades of business the world’s largest fish market will move to a new site. There’s still time to visit one of Japan’s greatest treasures...
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Two men related to MRT molest cases arrested
Two men have been arrested for two separate molest cases on the MRT. In the first case which happened on March 15, a 33-year-old suspect molested his victim as she was travelling up the escalator at...
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Singapore's first Sustainable Seafood Festival happening in June
Have you ever tucked into a serving of bluefin tuna sashimi or pan-seared Chilean sea bass and wondered if your dinner was hurting the ecosystem? Singapore's first Sustainable Seafood Festival is here...
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SilkAir to commence new service to Hangzhou on June 27
The natural beauty of Hangzhou, which has inspired countless works of art and poetry over the centuries, will soon be within easier reach of Singapore as SilkAir begins flying to the city four times a...
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Bibs, growth wall chart and sippy cup among items shortlisted for Jubilee...
About 6,500 possible items were suggested as the Jubilee Baby Gift, to be given to all babies born on the nation's 50th birthday next year. Among the 15 shortlisted to incorporate three elements —...
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TungLok Group ready to launch new Louisiana seafood concept this month
With 40 restaurants in five countries across more than a dozen different brands, it was only a matter of time before the TungLok Group debuted a new concept. It comes in the form of Dancing Crab, a...
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MOH calls for vigilance after first MERS death in Malaysia
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has called for vigilance after the first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) death was reported in Malaysia. The man contracted MERS-CoV — which causes...
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Singapore-based app Muslim Pro gets an average of almost three million active...
Singapore-based religious app Muslim Pro gets an average of almost three million active users monthly. Officially announced by its developer Bitsmedia, the app has also surpassed a whopping 10 million...
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AFP: Corrupt Senegalese 'super minister' allegedly kept $95 million in...
The flamboyant "super minister" son of former Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade is to be tried in June for corruption, a judicial source said Thursday, after accumulating a fortune valued at well over...
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