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Fake tsunamis coming through this week to test disaster capacity
Photo: This picture taken in 2011 shows a general view of the whaling town of Ayukawa, Ishinomaki City after the nation's quake-tsunami disaster; AFP / Kazuhiro Nogi A decade after the strongest...
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Tussle over Singaporean widow's wealth sparks outrage
Photo: A Google Maps view of Gerald Crescent, where Madam Chung's $30m bungalow is located Allegations that a Chinese man has manipulated a 87-year-old Singaporean widow to give him control over her...
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ICA seizes $1.5 million worth of contraband cigarettes hidden among potato chips
A bumper crop of contraband cigarettes worth more than $1.5 million was uncovered from a Singapore-bound lorry on Sept. 5 at Woodlands Checkpoint. Officials from the Immigration & Checkpoints...
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Gillman Barracks celebrating second anniversary with outdoor festival
Gillman Barracks is celebrating two years of success with an outdoor festival on Sept. 26. Previously a military camp and subsequently a commercial area, the site along Lock Road was re-developed...
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Videos: This legendary busker's son has Tampines residents swooning
For as long as we can remember, there's only been one street singer at Tampines MRT: a Malay man believed to be visually impaired, with an impressive, all-inclusive song repertoire. In recent months...
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409 arrested in week-long anti-crime blitz
Photo caption: Pictures taken at various busts held during the week-long operation; SPF A total of 409 suspects – 78 males and 331 females – were arrested during several anti-crime operations held from...
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Ministry of Health assures low risk of Ebola outbreak in Singapore
Singapore’s Minister of State for Health recently assured in Parliament earlier today that the risk of the Ebola virus spreading here is small, Channel NewsAsia reports. The transmission of Ebola is...
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Tyler Brûlé back in Singapore next week for launch of second Monocle book
Famed Canadian journalist, entrepreneur and Monocle Editor-in-Chief Tyler Brûlé returns to Singapore on Sept. 16 to promote his latest publication - The Monocle Guide to Good Business. As a spiritual...
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Video: Local singer mysteriously loses voice for two years, launches arts...
Local singer-songwriter Crystal Goh was in the midst of building her career in 2011 when she lost her voice without warning. She was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition spasmodic dysphonia,...
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Top 5 Singaporean YouTube Channels, And Their One Common Feature
In the last few episodes of Vulcan Post's Videos Of The Week, they’ve been looking at videos that make us laugh, cry, and even feel confused. This week, check out Singapore’s Top 5 YouTube Channels,...
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Laneway Festival Singapore to return in January 2015
Singapore's biggest indie music extravaganza Laneway Festival is making its comeback to The Meadow, Gardens By The Bay on Jan. 24 next year. The Australian festival made its humble Singapore debut at...
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Toyota Crown taxis gone forever by end this month
The last operating Toyota Crown taxi will be scrapped by the end of this month, The Straits Times reports. The "roomy and reliable" model is being discontinued as it's unable to meet the current Euro...
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Kinokuniya's flagship Singapore store downsizing
Singapore’s largest bookstore Kinokuniya is moving to a new, and significantly smaller, location. The Business Times (BT) reported Saturday that the beloved bookstore has been asked to move to the...
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Two manta rays die in quarantine at RWS
Two newly-acquired manta rays died at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) earlier this year, The Straits Times (ST) reports. Speaking to ST, a Marine Life spokesperson yesterday said that the creatures...
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13 months imprisonment for man involved in bizarre molest incident
A man was sentenced to a jail term of 13 months and three strokes of the cane for trespassing into an unlocked HDB flat, peeping into the bathroom where a 16-year-old girl was showering, and then...
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Keepers' to launch longest (and most exciting) pop-up at Orchard Green...
Photo: Artist's impression of Keepers’ pop-up store at Orchard Green If you've spent some time in Orchard in the past week, you might've noticed something brewing at the corner diagonal to Mandarin...
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Singapore government looks to outlaw internet gambling
Bad news for fans of online poker and other games — a new bill was introduced in Parliament yesterday that seeks to ban and regulate the remote gambling industry. Channel NewsAsia reports that the...
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Korean actress Ha Ji Won coming to Singapore to promote 'Empress Ki'
Korean Hallyu star Ha Ji Won will be attending a meet-and-greet in Singapore on Sept. 27 to promote her latest drama Empress Ki. The 36-year-old, who plays the Empress in the 2013 show, will be taking...
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Two Malaysians arrested and charged for Pearls Centre murder
Two Malaysian men have been charged with murder in connection to the recent case of a dead man found at the Pearls Centre carpark on Sunday afternoon. Various media reports reveal that 27-year-old...
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Video: Persistent 'sawing sound' so alarming Tigerair passengers...
On Sept. 3, passengers of Tigerair’s TR2015 experienced an alarming “sawing sound” that lasted an entire half an hour of their flight from Bangkok to Singapore. According to Channel NewsAsia (CNA)...
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