Singapore-based social music start-up BandLab Technologies has acquired a 49 per cent stake in Rolling Stone, which publishes the eponymous magazine. The size of the deal was not disclosed, but this is the first time Rolling Stone is taking on an...
SINGAPORE - Onlookers stared as a piece of the building at Block 201E Tampines Street 21 looked like it was about to come crashing down today (Sept 25). The concrete sunshade on the top floor of the four-storey block had...
The annual Red Dot Award: Design Concept focuses on uncovering exceptional professional-level design concepts. It is open to both students and professional designers, and entries are judged not only on creativity, but marketability as well. Out of the 4,698 entries submitted...
E-mail enquiries from his potential customers read like an assassin's job listing. A head wound from a hammer? No problem, Mr Liew Boon Siong, or Kel Liew, as he is known by his friends, would reply. Want a body part removed?...
With a pair of white Calvin Klein underwear pulled over his trousers, lawyer Darren Tay delivered his speech at the World Championship of Public Speaking in Washington DC last month. The briefs were used to illustrate a funny anecdote from...
Facebook user Danny Morgan Lin Yu is passionate, greatly values his downtime with friends, loves travelling, lives in Britain, and speaks Italian and English, according to his Facebook page. He describes his strongest beliefs as "hope, faith and confidence". There...
When wheelchair-bound Ms Julie Chong dances on stage, she has a specific aim. Through her turns and swivels, the 41-year-old IT professional wants to make the wheelchair she's sitting on disappear. Ms Chong tells The New Paper on Sunday: "The wheelchair...
Up on the 18th floor of an HDB block in Marine Crescent is a unit which its owner has named The Bliss Loft. The living room is uncluttered, and if you look out of the window, you see the sea. A...
How do you motivate people to eat properly, exercise regularly, watch their weight and stay healthy? These are the questions that the Diabetes Prevention and Care Taskforce hopes to answer through a six-month crowdsourcing exercise that was launched yesterday. It is...
She has not only tackled the stigma and frustrations of having hearing impairment since young, but has also literally fought her way to the top. Meet Zhao Hui, who became Singapore's Number 1 fencer at the tender age of 15,...
