Jason Perkins’ fine play provides some hope for the team in the Singapore tournament. The 6-foot-3 lefty forward has led the Philippine side with import-like averages of 24.7 points and 13.0 rebounds for the squad featuring the core of D-League side ... ( read original story ...)
Indian flies to Singapore to buy new iPhone as wedding gift for daughter
An Indian businessman flew all the way to Singapore and lined up for 13 hours overnight outside an Apple store to buy the latest iPhone as a wedding gift for his daughter. Amin Ahmed Dholiya, 43, was the first in the queue outside the Apple store on ... ( read original story ...)
IMC Envisages Singapore as Global Maritime Hub
The International Maritime Centre (IMC) 2030 Advisory Committee, established by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in August 2016, has submitted the IMC 2030 Strategic Review report to the Singapore Government. The Committee’s vision is ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Property agent fined, suspended for duping elderly couple
A property agent in Singapore has been fined S$6000 and suspended for misconduct as he failed to follow the Council for Estate Agencies' (CEA) Code of Ethics and Professional Client Care while he was helping an elderly couple sell their Housing and ... ( read original story ...)
ERA Realty to relist in Singapore
ERA Realty’s CEO Jack Chua. ERA Realty Network, the second biggest property agency here by agent numbers, plans to relist on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to take advantage of the anticipated recovery in the housing market, reported the Business Times. ( read original story ...)
Team-mate wars: Singapore GP
Given Lance Stroll’s starting position of 18th, to bring the car home and avoid heavy impact with the barriers in the first wet Singapore GP was pretty good in itself, but to come 8th in front of your vastly more experienced team-mate is a result verging ... ( read original story ...)
Duran Duran serves two times the fun at Singapore GP
There’s A ‘Netflix For Public Transport’ That Gives You Unlimited Rides, And It’s Coming To S’pore In 2018 Ikea Singapore to launch long-awaited online store in October (but you can try it now) Couple openly goes for sexy time at void deck of ... ( read original story ...)
Lessons on mobile payment from WeChat Pay in China
Even in Singapore, where trials were carried out extensively in the past. Yet, the hype is all about China’s mobile payment today. With either WeChat Pay or AliPay, from the country’s two big Internet companies, you can scan a bar code with your phone ... ( read original story ...)
It’s official: Singapore unicorn Sea files for IPO on NYSE
Singapore unicorn Sea, formerly Garena, announced on Friday that it has filed a registration statement for a proposed IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse will be the bookrunners for the IPO. The number of ... ( read original story ...)
Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur – Intercontinental Singapore (Bugis)
Contents (It’s LONG and probably will change). With the plane at the gate, I headed off it, and into the luxury that is Singapore Changi Airport. After a comfort break, I headed off to one of the SkyTrain to the Arrivals and Transfers area. I didn’t ... ( read original story ...)
China’s welcome for Singapore PM may signal a new approach to smaller states
The Chinese are well known for their elaborate protocols to welcome foreign heads of state on official visits: gun salutes, honour guards, children dancing and waving flowers, meetings and state banquets at the Great Hall of the People. What is less well ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore government to trial Apple Pay for public transport in 2018
A small number of commuters in Singapore will soon be able to use their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay for train and bus rides, as the country's Land Transit Authority plans to launch a pilot program involving Apple Pay in 2018. Announced by the LTA earlier ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s rebel bookseller seeks new narrative
SINGAPORE -- One evening in May 2015 in Singapore, a week before the public launch of a much anticipated manga-style novel, publisher Edmund Wee received a phone call summoning him to the National Arts Council. The book was "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock ... ( read original story ...)
Teen Posing as Singapore Airlines Pilot Scams 50 People, Molests 15-Year-Old Girl
A 19-year-old boy who pretended to be a Singapore Airlines pilot has been arrested for molesting a 15-year-old girl in Hong Kong. According to The Independent, the boy, surnamed Sit, met the victim at a cafe on September 10. Inside, he claimed that his ... ( read original story ...)
Miss Universe Singapore 2017: Sharmen Diana Frugtniet
Once a victim of bullying, Sharmen Diana Frugtniet, 19, took things in her stride and managed to change her life for the better. In primary and secondary school, she faced racist taunts from her schoolmates, which discouraged her. But Sharmen, whose father ... ( read original story ...)
Chef Jean-Georges on his love for Singapore and his best dishes from The Dempsey Cookhouse & Bar
Unless you've been living under a rock, you would surely have seen or heard about the buzz and adoration surrounding the casual fine-dining restaurant up on the hills of Dempsey — aptly situated right next to the spiffy Dover Street Market, The Dempsey ... ( read original story ...)