Freaky Feasts: Coconuts TV kills its own food
Presented by Most people avoid eating disgusting things, but we're intrepid eaters here at Coconuts. Freaky Feasts is a series where we eat the stuff that no one else dares to. Raw meat? Sure. Live...
View ArticleCoconuts Hot Spot: Canvas Singapore
Walking through the doors of Canvas Singapore, one gets the sense they're entering an underground club — it's dark and mysterious, yet so clean and minimalist it looks like it might not be there...
View ArticleCommonwealth Games: Champion Feng through to quarter-finals
Singapore's world number four Feng Tianwei reached the quarter-finals of the women's singles at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday but was pushed all the way by Australia's Zhenhua Dederko. The...
View ArticleSenegal ex-president's son on trial for corruption
Photo: Karim Wade waved as he was arrested in Dakar April last year; AFP The flamboyant "super minister" son of former Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade went on trial Thursday accused of accumulating a...
View ArticleFandi Ahmad's sons score lucrative sponsorship to excel in football
Two out of local football hero Fandi Ahmad's children have recently secured a lucrative sponsorship — described by Yahoo Singapore to be a handsome six-figure sum — from CIMB. According to Goal.com,...
View ArticleMan who abandoned deaf-mute son in Singapore might have to be tried here
The 45-year-old man from Hong Kong whose mentally-challenged son was found abandoned at the Marina Promenade on Jul. 21 may have to stand trial in Singapore. According to the South China Morning Post...
View ArticleAhoy Polloi! Coconuts TV crashes the Singapore Yacht Show
Presented by Singapore is Asia's new playground for the super rich. If you live in Singapore, it's a refrain that you've probably heard over and over to the point of irritation, and a fact that...
View ArticleVideo: The Sam Willows' folksy cover of Dick Lee and Kit Chan's...
Not much to say here, but lots to see. Rustle up, everybody, this new cover of "Home" by none other than the Sam Willows, is an angel sent from heaven. Or at least that's what it feels like in National...
View ArticleToll protest causes jam at Singapore-Malaysia border
Photo: A view of the Causeway connecting Singapore and Malaysia's Southern state of Johor Bahru; AFP / Roslan Rahman Massive traffic jams disrupted the morning rush-hour at the Malaysia-Singapore...
View ArticleVideo: OWL International join NDP anthem effort with 'Singapore, We are...
We were pretty disappointed we weren't getting a new song for the National Day Parade (NDP) this year, but we've since cheered up. You would too if your fellow countrymen stepped up to the plate and...
View ArticleIntroducing a new Coconuts TV series: Tortured Beauty
Presented by What would you do to look beautiful? Tortured Beauty is a new Coconuts TV series about the lengths some people will in the name of health and beauty. In the latest episode, Yvonne Liang...
View ArticleSomething's cooking at Leisure Park Kallang and it smells good
Fresh arrivals and change-ups are in store for the dining scene at Leisure Park Kallang, which is expected to complete its $23 million facelift by the third quarter of 2014. Current food tenants...
View ArticleSultans of Shave launches 'beauty box' for men
Sultans of Shave is introducing what's possibly Singapore's first 'men's grooming box'. Closely resembling what companies like Bellabox and Vanity Trove are offering, the Sultans of Shave Club means...
View ArticlePro-Singaporean hiring rules kick in after backlash
New hiring rules favouring Singaporeans kicked in Friday as part of measures aimed at addressing citizens' complaints about foreigners stealing jobs from them. Singapore-based companies needing...
View ArticleGangs in Singapore use social media to recruit new blood, maintain sense of...
Photo: File picture taken in 2010 of a 12-year-old logging on to Facebook in Jakarta; AFP / Romeo Gacad A new study by the National University of Singapore (NUS) proves social media has become an...
View ArticleFuel up at Singapore's newest food truck for charity
Fiji Water and local business Kerbside Gourmet are working together to bring Los Angeles food truck sensation The Lime Truck to Singapore. And of course Lime Truck owner and celebrity chef Daniel...
View ArticleSeven arrested for loanshark harassment involving milk, liquid paper, paint...
Seven men aged between 17 and 25 have been arrested following their suspected involvement in a series of loanshark harassments at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) located in Hougang, Marsiling,...
View ArticleSingapore GIC's warning on investment climate in next decade
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, which manages more than $100 billion of the city-state's foreign reserves, on Saturday warned of a tough investment outlook over the next decade as global central...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Hijacked Singaporean ship has been released near Nigeria
Photo: File pic of oil tanker; AFP / Ishara S. Kodikara A hijacked Singaporean oil tanker carrying 21 sailors was released on Sunday a week after being seized by pirates in waters off Ghana in west...
View ArticleCommonwealth Games: Aussie table tennis veteran slams Singapore for stacking...
Photo: Singapore contingent returning from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow; Team Singapore Facebook Australian veteran paddler William Henzell has attacked Singapore for sending a team largely...
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