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A food delivery rider from China went the extra mile to satisfy his customer's cravings when he travelled to Singapore to pick up a curry puff order from Hong Lim Curry Puff. This took place at about 4:30pm on Aug. 31, at the fourth floor food court of PLQ Mall, Xiaohongshu user ...
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A 25-year-old British national, Arudchelvan Karnan, was sentenced to jail on Sep. 2 after he caused a ruckus while drunk at Changi Airport Terminal 1. Shouting loudly at boarding gate Karnan was previously arrested on Jul. 20, 2026, after shouting loudly and causing a nuisance to...
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Eight people have been arrested in Taiwan on suspicion of assaulting a 26-year-old man, who was then dumped in the bushes. The case happened in Dalin Township, Chiayi County, and the man, Wang, survived after being taken to hospital, according to ETtoday . Photo by ETtoday What p...
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SINGAPORE: It seems working from home has become something workers are increasingly reluctant to give up. Recently, a Singaporean took to Reddit to ask whether he should jump ship to a new role offering the same S$7,000 salary as his current job, but with better prospects for car...
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CapitaLand Investment has retrenched approximately 90 employees in Singapore this year as part of a restructuring exercise, a company spokesperson said. The company said on Sep. 3 that the retrenchments were part of organisational changes to “support its business and operating re...
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A 14-year-old boy allegedly approached a nine-year-old girl in Bukit Batok and displayed what her mother described as sexually inappropriate behaviour towards her. Boy allegedly asked the girl if she wanted to "do something fun" According to a post on the Instagram account @sgfol...
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SINGAPORE: In Singapore, it is believed that monogamous marriages and traditional family structures in relationships remain the norm. With this, a netizen curiously asked on Reddit if having an open relationship and/or marriage succeeds in the country, and it sparked a very inter...
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An employee at Cold Storage Suntec City was allegedly spotted assaulting another staff member in front of shoppers. A shopper, who gave her name as Gladys, said the incident happened on Aug. 31 at 3pm. The first man, who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s, allegedly walked past an ...
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Malaysian politician and minister Hannah Yeoh has announced her divorce from her husband, Ramachandran Muniandy, on Sep. 2. According to her website , the two were married in 2008, shortly before she began to run for public office. They have two children, born in 2011 and 2013. T...
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Advanced blockchain analysis and timely information sharing helped identify scam victims.
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Mr Toilet has turned his sights on a men's toilet at Farrer Park MRT station. Jack Sim, sanitation activist and founder of the World Toilet Organisation, questioned the design of the toilet in a Facebook post dated Sep. 2. Super cosy layout This is the toilet in question: Photo v...
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I don’t even remember when “Grab” went from a noun to a verb in my vocabulary. And a pretty well-used one at that. More often than I’d like to admit, I Grab to work; I Grab home; I Grab to social events. What’s for dinner? Don’t know, I’m just gonna Grab something. GrabEverything...
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SINGAPORE: A recent social media post about Singapore’s first and longest-serving Minister of Law has received some attention, as it underlined the fact that Edmund William Barker had been the first minister to have signed the Separation Agreement with Malaysia in 1965. Together ...
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A couple in Taiwan allegedly ran a love scam ring that used photos of attractive women and AI-generated female voices to lure male victims on dating apps into buying overpriced products. On Sep. 2, a total of 57 people were charged in Taiwan in connection with the sophisticated r...
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The blaze involved vegetation measuring about 30m by 20m.
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SINGAPORE: A local Reddit user made the case for how lucky Singaporeans are to live at “this point in human history,” adding that people seem to forget this at times. Among the reasons u/Fantastic-Spend-6156 outlined in their recent post on r/asksg are the following: safety, stab...
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On Sep. 2, the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier belonging to the United States, docked in the Thai resort town of Pattaya. There, it unleashed nearly 5,000 crewmen, almost all of whom had been cooped up on the ship for over 285 days without setting foot on ...
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SMRT is working with LTA to carry out renewal works for these doors, particularly on older MRT lines.
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Pianist Niu Niu, also known as Zhang Shengliang, has played numerous tours over his 23-year career. But his next performance will be among the most challenging ones yet, as he presents one movement from eight different concertos in a single VIVA Foundation concert on Oct. 27 at E...
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Turkey is proposing is to raise the share of electricity in global energy demand from 20% to 35% by 2035.
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A total of 5,125 educators were nominated for the President's Award for Teachers.
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The eight jets are the F-35As, which are scheduled to be delivered in 2029.
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The owners of Bai Nian Food Court at ESR BizPark @ Chai Chee revealed that the business has lost about S$250,000 over the past seven months as they struggle with poor weekday footfall and difficulties attracting stall owners. "Cannot let it continue like this" In an Instagram vid...
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SINGAPORE: By any measure, a quarter of a million dollars is a substantial amount of money, and anyone would think that a loss of this size may cause someone to throw in the towel. Apparently, this is not true for the owners of Bai Nian Food Court at Chai Chee, an eight-stall ind...
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“ KARANG GUNIIII !” the karang guni man would holler, occasionally pausing to honk his familiar squeaky horn. No matter where you lived, you could hear him as he made his rounds. My sister and I would look forward to his visits, and mimic his call ourselves, much to the consterna...
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Ji Saow Hua was fined $4,000 previously in 2024 after importing 107 sets of e-cigarette devices into Singapore.
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A father in Malaysia who was supposed to attend his 10-year-old son's martial arts competition suddenly passed away just days before the event. The son eventually performed at his father's funeral to bid him a final farewell. According to Sin Chew Daily , the boy performed earnes...
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He was also in Johor to attend a polo tournament at the invitation of Johor’s Regent.
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The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is working to collect DNA samples of the Singaporeans who remain missing in the Nepal floods. The police have reached out to their next of kin to get the samples, which may help in identifying the victims, they said in response to Mothership 's qu...
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During the trial from October to January, three different institutions will each have a robot deployed.
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Surgeons are given help under the initiative to integrate surgery and palliative care.
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She succeeds Desmond Chin, who will relinquish his public service appointments in April 2027.
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A 59-year-old man was arrested on Sep. 1 after being suspected of loanshark harassment. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it was alerted to the incident around 8:55pm on Aug. 31, at a residential unit along Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5. The man had scattered the resident's shoes on...
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It's meant to give fresh graduates an edge in their job hunt as growing AI capabilities raise the bar for new hires.
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The works are expected to be completed by the morning of Sept 4.
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MUIS will also review the zakat assistance framework to ensure aid is relevant and available long term.
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Sarawak residents have endured heavy haze for days as smoke from Indonesia's Kalimantan blankets the area.
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SINGAPORE: When Singaporeans saw a familiar spot on a popular New York-based social media account, there was a lot of joy in the comments. The account, @hotdudesreading, features photos of handsome men seen reading books (no Kindles allowed) in random places around the world, usu...
