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Friday, March 29, 2024
  SINGAPORE: It might seem like an easy way to pick up some extra cash on the side. To the casual observer, mascot performers just need to walk around in a costume, waving at people and posing for photographs – or,...
  SINGAPORE: Professor Ho Peng Kee was an unlikely politician. He says he was not hard-nosed and had no prior links with the People’s Action Party (PAP) or grassroots bodies. He was “just a happy university professor", even if he...
  SINGAPORE: A soft, crackling, hissing noise fills the air. And then, through the speakers come the sound of rumba rhythms, followed by a sweet, female voice crooning: “Goreng pisaaang… Pisang goreeeng…” The catchy Malay love song about fried bananas was...
  SINGAPORE: A bigger and hungrier market, a new challenge and camaraderie over food – these are the main reasons why some restaurateurs in Singapore have recently sunk their teeth into the halal scene. Their speciality? Cuisines not traditionally prepared...
  Singapore This is slightly lower than the 137 licenses suspended the year before, but still more than twice the number in 2013. Kim San Leng Food Centre in Bishan, a popular coffee shop, was suspended for a day in January...
  SINGAPORE: A 54-year-old woman suffered burns after a fire broke out at the building opposite the IMM shopping centre in Jurong on Thursday morning (May 4). The woman, a tenant of the building at 30 Toh Guan Road, was taken...
  SINGAPORE: For the managers at local dimsum restaurant Yum Cha, looking for an extra pair of hands to cope with the weekend crowd or to stand in for a full-time employee who has called in sick used to be...