Daily Archives: January 17, 2021 (15 Articles Found)
Singapore Art Week (SAW) gets under way this week, even though the country has yet to relax quarantine requirements for most overseas visitors. Now in its ninth year, the annual festival was initially conceived as a way to…
Once we were invited to a friend’s housewarming party. The young couple was pleased to show us around. Suddenly, the wife lamented that they were upset about the agent who sold them the flat and the contractor who…
Two new community COVID-19 cases were reported on Sun, forming a new cluster linked to a SPF para-veterinarian. The two community cases were among Singapore’s 30 new COVID-19 infections reported as of noon on Sun, according to MOH.…
Chinese developer Kingsford Huray Development’s Normanton Park, the first new residential project launch of 2021, sold about 600 residential units by 9pm on Jan 16, the first day of its launch. That is equivalent to 32.6% or one-third…
We agree with WTO founder Jack Sim that cleanliness of toilets in hawker centres and coffee shops requires improvement. Public toilets that are well-designed, well-maintained and responsibly used are clean toilets which all users can enjoy. In Oct…
Mr Jack Sim correctly pointed out that various stakeholders from across society are represented in the PHC. They work with us to create a culture where everyone disposes of trash correctly and keeps public eating places and toilets…
I made a new friend last year. I call her “Flower Auntie”. She doesn’t call me anything, always going straight to the point: “Where are the ah muis (Cantonese for “little girls”)?” You see, my daughters, aged five…
Construction firm Woh Hup’s chairman Yong Nam Seng died on Sat aged 92. Mr Yong took over the reins of the Singapore-based company from his father Yong Yit Lin in the 1950s. The older Mr Yong, who was…
People who feed wild animals are being made to pay a pretty penny for their actions, as the authorities move to clamp down on behaviour that could escalate chances of human-wildlife conflict. Members of the nature community tell…
Where the food is, so the pigeons will be. This was a finding from a new study by NParks, which found that food availability could also have a knock-on effect on the reproductive cycles of these birds. Using…
In a special edition of the WEF annual report released on Dec 16, Singapore was listed as one of the digitally advanced countries well-placed to manage the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country was ranked sixth in…
A resort in Pasir Ris has been fined and ordered to suspend bookings after 19 people were found gathering, Singapore Tourism Board said on Sun. Cherryloft Resorts & Hotels, located at 159 Jalan Loyang Besar, was fined S$1,000…
Punggol residents have reported seeing larger numbers of long-tailed macaques, which some people believe is the result of both an increase in developments in the area and food left by humans. Residents TODAY spoke to on Fri said…
Heavy and constant rainfall over the past few weeks may have changed water conditions at a canal in Sentosa Cove, likely leading to an algae bloom that turned the waters there pink, the authorities said on Sun. NEA…
Canberra Plaza in Sembawang and Vision Exchange in Jurong were added to a list of public places that had been visited by Covid-19 cases during their infectious period. On Sat, MOH said that the infectious persons had visited…
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