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Desaru Link Ferry Services, a subsidiary of Batam Fast Ferry (Batam Fast), has been appointed to offer passenger ferry services between Singapore`s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal and the newly completed Desaru Coast Ferry Terminal. Travel Weekly Asia which first reported this news said that with this new sea route, passengers will be able to embark […]

Dr Muhammad Faishal bin Ibrahim Khan Surattee said Madrasah students need to be able to adapt, be flexible and have the resilience to face the turmoil of the uncertain future world. Speaking at the Madrasah Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah (MAI) Award Presentation Ceremony, said mastery of academic and religious subjects as well as an understanding of socio-religious […]

Gurmit Singh’s household is a Christian one and is also very conservative and this, says his daughter, made it more difficult for them to come out that they are queer. Gurmit Singh’s daughter Gabrielle first made news in 2014 after her open letter to Forever 21 went viral. In the letter, they called out the […]

Netflix’s first South Korean dating show Single’s Inferno will feature a second season. The reality show which features drop dead gorgeous contestants on a deserted island has all the binge-worthy ingredients reality show fans can think of. Single’s Inferno creators Kim Jae-Won and Kim Na-Hyundai have been waiting for Netflix to give them the green […]

On 13 March, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing posted a series of pictures of his visit to Jurong Secondary School in Facebook. What’s unusual about the post though was that the guided tour of the school was conducted entirely by students of the school. Guided tour of schools for visiting Ministers are usually done by […]

Police arrest a sword wielding man who attacked passing cars and passersby in the vicinity of Buangkok Square, but some social media users are worried about what happened to the groceries of the people who stopped the attacker.   A man who was swinging a sword at several cars along Buangkok Crescent on Monday (March […]

Manila — Nearly six out of 10 Koreans are in favor of giving K-pop superstars BTS an exemption from the mandatory military service. The Kwangju Broadcasting Corp. and UPI News conducted a survey on Sept. 1 among 800 Korean respondents about military service. The survey was conducted after Minister Lee Jong-sup of Korea’s Ministry of […]

The driver of the Toyota Altis SKG5628P can be seen suddenly speeding up in close proximity to the cyclists and brake-checking in front of them in a fit of rage. A video which shows a car brake-checking in front of a group of cyclist in a case of road rage has gone viral in social […]

Former Foreign Minister shared, uncritically, debunked Russian claims about biolabs in Ukraine which is pushed by Tucker Carlson of Fox News.   Former Foreign Minister George Yeo’s post of Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News has drawn sharp criticism. Yeo captioned his post of Tucker’s show titled “Why are we funding this”, as “from an […]

New Delhi, Aug. 31 — NASA will make a second attempt to launch its Artemis 1 mission, within a 2-hour window on September 3, the US space agency announced on Tuesday (local time). The window will open at 2:17pm EDT (11:47pm IST) on the new launch date, it added. “We’re now targeting Saturday, Sept. 3 […]

Manila, Aug. 31 — BLACKPINK continued to dominate Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, for the second straight week. According to Billboard, BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom,” released on Aug. 19, grabbed first place on the Sept. 3-dated Hot Trending Songs chart. “The track became the first to debut at the summit a week earlier […]

India, Sept. 1 — Goldie Behl is happy with all the praise coming his way for his hit web series, Duranga. Starring Gulshan Devaiah and Drashti Dhami, the suspense thriller boasts of multiple twists and turns as it revolves around the life of a couple, a fugitive and a cop. It was an official Indian […]

Will TraceTogether become ‘TraceForever’?   In March 2020, the government introduced ‘TraceTogether’, a mobile phone app developed by the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) to enhance contract tracing efforts. It used what the government dubbed the ‘bluetrace protocol’ — technology leveraging the Bluetooth feature on mobile phones to track proximity between users and record extended face-to-face […]

Allegations that the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG) was set up by two Islamic religious teachers (asatizahs) under the direction/ encouragement of the ISD are baseless claims RRG.   RRG has claimed that several posts in the Facebook page (FB) Fikrah Siyasah have defamed some highly respected local religious scholars in Singapore who specifically provide religious […]

Linked-In user says patrons of hawker centres must not be fooled by the screen and the voice recording of the automated tray return system in hawker centres.   Linked-In user Yee Chin Teo shared two pictures in his social media page showing how the automated tray return system in hawker centres is working. The pictures […]