A couple in Maharashtra, India, sold their one-month-old baby boy for 120,000 rupees (S$1,595). They used the money to treat themselves to a gold chain and mobile phones. According to NDTV, the mother had gone to the police on Sep. 20 to report her husband for beating her. During their investiga...
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A Singapore hair salon has put forth an explanation after it admitted to purchasing fake reviews. Picasso Hair Studio, which has outlets in Bugis and Novena, was one of the 45 businesses caught buying fake reviews, as detailed in an investigation by the Competition & Consumer Com...
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My first foray into stock investing was nearly derailed at the first hurdle. Hear me out. I had just passed probation at my first real job and was beginning to get some real money. As my parents had taught me, I started to put away some money for the future, but I had no real ide...
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FairPrice Group (FPG) will temporarily reduce the prices of selected chicken and egg products from now till Dec. 31. The discounts will see the products being offered at their lowest prices since 2021. This translates to S$4.95 for a tray of 30 eggs, and S$2.50 for 1kg of frozen ...
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The accolades were for CNA's podcasts on a range of topics, and an interactive and video on its visual journalist's journey to track down his father's killer....
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HPV9 will replace HPV2 for female students who have yet to start or complete their vaccination series under the Health Promotion Board's school-based programme....
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Get ready to shop. Changi City Point is holding its "Great Outlet Sale" from Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, the mall announced. And they're calling it their “biggest outlet shopping event yet”. Photo by Rafael See Toh/ Mothership 56 brands will be participating in the sale and shoppers can lo...
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A diner asked for S$5,000 in compensation from a restaurant in Serangoon after he allegedly found a cockroach in a plate of noodles. The incident was recounted by the diner in a post on Threads dated Sep. 17, in which he included a picture of what appeared to be a full cockroach ...
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Shannon Tan is three strokes behind the leader with one round left to play.
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The satellite, called CRIMSON-1, will be tested during a year-long mission.
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A Singaporean architecture student spent 1,737 hours hand-drawing a hyper-realistic recreation of Singapore's iconic skyline. Sim Heng Ee, 22, told Mothership that he did this over 21 months. Some days, he would even spend up to 15 hours drawing, though he clarified that this was...
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Investigations found that the drugs were transiting through Singapore and bound for another country.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has met U.S. President Donald Trump twice in 2026, with a possible two more lined up later in the year. When they met, Xi returned to a theme that he has visited consistently throughout the past decade, that of the Thucydides Trap: "China and the Unit...
