Singapore

Minister Lawrence Wong highlighted in June last year how minorities, like Indians in Singapore, continue to face unfair race-based discrimination by some landlords. In Singapore, some landlords prefer leaving their units empty to renting to certain ethnic groups. Owners of residential properties routinely exclude individuals from tenancy based on ethnicity, even explicitly stating in advertisements […]

People’s Power Party Chairman Chairman, Syafarin Sarif, took to Facebook to say he only got the physiotherapy support he needed 3 months after being discharged from hospital. Syafarin Sarif, the Chairman of People’s Power Party informed his friends and well-wishers in October last year that he was discharged from hospital after getting a stroke. Syafarin, […]

Melissa Chen, one time supporter of Amos Yee, said that she will ‘die on the hill’ of Joe Rogan drawing strong criticisms from several local internet personalities. Melissa Chen, a Singapore-born journalist who practices her craft in Boston, has drawn criticism from several local personalities for her strong support for Joe Rogan’s Covid-19 misinformation. On […]

On 5 February, TikTok user Nina Monzolevska said that NTUC FairPrice had mislabeled a piece of chicken breast she bought. The TikTok user, a 23-year-old Ukrainian model currently residing in Singapore, said that as result she was charged a higher price. The label stated that the chicken breast was 0.224kg, but when Nina re-weighed the […]

No kidding. There is a Singapore Olympian at the  Winter Games in Beijing. You may not recognise him so readily because he’s all bundled up. But there he was in the traditional torch relay that leads to the lighting up of the Olympic flame in China’s capital city. And yes, he is very much a […]

The man was seen cooking the pork trotters with a blow torch behind a row of well-known eateries at Blk 82 MacPherson Lane A TikTok video of a man cooking pork trotters with a kitchen blow torch behind a row of eateries at Block 82 MacPherson Lane has gone viral. It is unclear when the […]

Update: In a clarification to TISG on Feb 3, DSTNCT, the agency-of-record for the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) said: “Regarding the specific taboo on married daughters, this taboo has also been removed from the CNY Microsite after monitoring comments from our audiences on social media. We would also like to reassure our stance that […]