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· Ryan General
Man’s Tangled iPhone Cable Causes Multiple Cars to Crash in Singapore
A driver’s iPhone charging cable got tangled with his car’s steering wheel on Friday, causing multiple cars to crash in Singapore. No injuries were reported in the accident that wrecked four cars which occurred at Pasir Ris Drive 1 towards Pasir Ris Drive 12, The Straits Times…
· Ryan General
Singaporean Man Fined $2,500 For Hateful Facebook Post Against the LGBT Community
A Singaporean man was fined SGD $3,500 ($2,530) on Friday for an online post asking for “permission to open fire” on the LGBT community back in June. Pleading guilty to “making a threatening, abusive or insulting communication under the Protection from Harassment Act” in court,…
· Ryan General
Singapore-Based Media Company Blasted For Using a Chinese Character in Blackface
Singapore-based media group Toggle recently drew massive flak for using a Chinese actor in blackface to portray an African-American character on one of its original productions. The distasteful bit was part of the sixth episode of the program titled “I want to be a Star”, a show…
· Ryan General
30 High School Students in Singapore Get Caned For Keeping Upskirt Photos of Their Teachers
Several male students from an unnamed all-boys high school in Singapore were discovered to be keeping upskirt photos of their female teachers on their smartphones. The infraction led to the expulsion of one student while the rest of the involved students were subjected to…
· Ryan General
White Chef Angers Southeast Asia For Ruining a Popular Singaporean Dish
A Canadian chef has joined the ranks of several foreign food “experts” who have earned the ire of Asians for meddling in and messing up ethnic specialties by imposing their authoritative take on the cuisines. Vice Network’s resident brash-talking chef Matty Matheson became…
· Carl Samson
75% of Singaporean Millennials Want to Be Their Own Boss
Three out of four Singaporean millennials want to be entrepreneurs in the next 10 years, according to research by GoDaddy. In its findings released on Wednesday, the web hosting company found that 74% of Singapore’s millennials plan to create their own business or be…
· Sarah Lesnar
The Hottest Airport Security Officer of All Time is in Singapore
Images of a boyish and charming police officer stationed at the Changi Airport in Singapore have recently been making the rounds in local social media. Tasked with providing security at the airport, Corporal Lee Minwei of the Auxiliary Police Force at Certis Cisco was…
· Editorial Staff
Singaporean Teen Absolutely Murders One of Christina Aguilera’s Most Difficult Songs
A teenager out in Australia has become quite the celebrity after appearing on “The X Factor: Australia”. Natalie Ong, 15, was originally born in Singapore and chose to perform Christina Aguilera’s “The Voice Within” during her audition. She sang in front of rapper Iggy Azalea…
· Carl Samson
Singaporean Passenger Outraged After KLM Airlines Gives Her Just $15 for Destroyed Luggage
A plane passenger took her anger to social media when she found that her luggage, crushed during flight, would be compensated for a measly amount. Xiang Ying’s luggage was crushed during a flight with KLM Singapore. In a Facebook post on October 5, she ranted about the airline’s…
· Ryan General
Singaporean Soldier Who Raped a 14-Year-Old Twice Gets Only 10 Months in Jail
A Singaporean soldier who was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor twice got a mere 10-month jail sentence following a decision handed by a local court on Monday. The defendant, a 44-year-old army warrant officer named Teo Chye Siong, was accused of engaging in sexual…
· Ryan General
Meet the Singaporean Student Who Opened the 2nd U.S. Presidential Debate
Before Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump began their verbal sparring in the testy second U.S. presidential debate on Sunday, Kenneth Sng, the Singaporean student union president at Washington University in St. Louis delivered a remarkable opening remark to represent the host…
· Ryan General
Singapore Website Shutdown After Selling Fake Calvin Klein Products from Taobao
A retail website in Singapore has been ordered by the local High Court to stop selling counterfeit Calvin Klein products after the fashion brand filed a suit for trademark infringement. Website SGbuy4u was found selling fake Calvin Klein goods after investigators successfully…
· Ryan General
Watch a Cat’s Dramatic Rescue From a Singapore High Rise
A curious cat almost fell to its certain death after it got itself stranded on the 12th floor ledge of a building in Singapore. Fortunately, the furry pet was saved by rescue officers after it was spotted by a concerned neighbor. The poor feline found itself on the ledge just…
· Ryan General
IT Worker Jailed in Singapore After Taking Upskirt Videos of 33 Women
A pervy Singaporean IT promoter was jailed for 15 weeks after being charged with 33 counts of “insulting the modesty of a woman” after taking upskirt videos of 33 women and then cataloging them according to their “beauty.” Ryan Er Wei Kiat, 28, rated each video between one to…
· Ryan General
Singaporeans Are Still the Richest in Asia, But They Also Have the Most Debt
Singaporean households have remained the richest among its Asian counterparts for three consecutive years now, a financial services company report recently revealed. The findings however, also indicated that they have the highest amount of debt. According the seventh edition of…
· Ryan General
A Singapore Billionaire’s Son Now Owns 49% of Rolling Stone
A start up from Singapore has just purchased a significant stake in the pop culture magazine Rolling Stone. Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, a collaborative music online platform, bought a 49% stake of the influential American print and online magazine
· Ryan General
World’s First Michelin-Starred Ramen is Coming to Singapore
A tiny nine-seater noodle shop in Tokyo, Japan made international headlines in December 2015 after earning a star from the highly respected Michelin Guide. Next month, Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta, the first and only Michelin-starred ramen eatery in the world, will open its first…
· Ryan General
Man Spends Weeks in Singapore Airport By Forging Passes to Use Its Lounges
Those who’ve seen Tom Hanks in ‘The Terminal’ would immediately be reminded of the film upon hearing the story of 32-year-old Raejali Buntut, a Malaysian man who had to spend 18 days in Singapore’s Changi Airport after missing his flight to Kuala Lumpur. His story however, was…
· Ryan General
Maid Abuse in Singapore is On the Rise and It’s Basically Slavery
The number of domestic helper abuse cases in Singapore has been growing at an alarming rate and the governments of both employer and employees should start taking notice. Only 14 maid abuse cases were filed in the State Courts in 2012 — that number has nearly doubled in 2014…
· Carl Samson
Nightclub in Singapore Slammed After Allegedly Hiring a Fake DJ
Zouk Singapore, recognized as one of the world’s best nightclubs, just went under fire for letting a “fake” DJ in. Guests took time to express their anger over social media. Apparently, they went through the night thinking that DJ Marshmello, the genius behind WaVeZ, was there…
Grab
Grab is the everyday super-app of Southeast Asia — rides, food, and payments in one wallet across eight countries, the way hundreds of millions actually move and eat.
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Grab is the everyday super-app of Southeast Asia — rides, food, and payments in one wallet across eight countries, the way hundreds of millions actually move and eat.
