Former radio DJ Daniel Ong is closing his restaurant, Dan’s Steaks, at Serangoon Garden. And he is appealing for customers to show up for one last hurrah before it closes for good. In an Instagram post on Nov. 2, Ong thanked customers who had visited the restaurant after learning about its planne...
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The woman behind a fundraiser for the six-year-old son of a couple killed in a Tampines accident has addressed questions over whether the drive is legitimate. She said every donation was logged "to ensure complete transparency" and that the money would go only towards the boy’s e...
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Indonesian media outlet The Jakarta Post published a commentary piece on Nov. 3 urging Indonesia to not turn "shared problems into nationalist confrontations". The article title read: "Indonesia returns to old habit of blaming and bullying Singapore". The commentary comes after r...
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The government will not mandate personal guarantees for corporate residential tenancies, as "a blanket mandatory rule" would take away flexibility, restrict genuine arrangements and "impose unnecessary burdens on legitimate transactions", said Senior Minister of State for Law and...
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James Talarico has become the senator of Texas. The 37-year-old beat Republican Attorney-General Ken Paxton to become the first Democratic candidate to win a statewide election in Texas since 1994, reported US news outlet NBC . In response to the result, Talarico made a post on I...
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The Democratic Party is now all but certain to retake both bodies of Congress, the national legislature by flipping both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate after Nov. 3’s midterm elections in the United States. The governing Republican Party held a slim four-se...
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The Chinese Community Leadership Programme will be expanded to two runs in 2027.
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Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised. After getting his 19-year-old girlfriend pregnant, a cadet at the U.S. military academy West Point wanted her to get an abortion. The girlfriend, also a cadet, disagreed and wanted to kee...
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Maxim Tam Chiak Kopitiam at Block 666 Tampines Street 64 has closed down one year after it opened in October 2025. An online post about the 24-hour coffee shop's closure appeared on Nov. 1 in the I love Tampines Facebook page. Tam Chiak Kopitiam is a 24-hour coffee shop chain. It...
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SINGAPORE: In Parliament on Wednesday (Nov 4), it was announced that among the proposed amendments to Singapore’s Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014 is one that would raise fines for companies linked to the haze tenfold. At present, entities found to have caused or contribu...
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A 38-year-old German national allegedly assaulted a woman at a condominium in the Katong area in 2024, after which she was hospitalised for a fractured finger. The accused, Bonkatz Philipp, chose to claim trial and is contesting three charges. He appeared at the State Courts on N...
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Rena Lee's election as ICJ judge reaffirms Singapore’s support for the UN’s principal judicial organ.
safety
A woman, who was involved in the multi-vehicle crash along Tampines Avenue 12 on Oct. 29 that killed a couple, is seeking psychiatric treatment following the incident. Tampines Member of Parliament (MP) Baey Yam Keng wrote in a Facebook post on Nov. 3 that the 25-year-old woman, ...
