Singapore’s first casino, a key part of a drive to boost tourism revenue and please wealthy visitors, opened its doors on Sunday, Lunar New Year – the most auspicious day of the Chinese calendar. Foreigners and a few Singaporeans streamed to card and dice tables and slot machines Sunday at 12:18 p.m. — the lucky minute when tightly controlled Singapore opened its first casino. The ...

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Normally, we would expect kids to answer tales of fantasies when asked questions involving their future. Anyway, it’s a societal stereotype that kids are more interested in “the birds and the bees” than bites of reality. What’s surprising here is that a survey of children conducted by Adecco Singapore, a popular recruiter in Singapore, revealed a result that’s ...

With the recent $10 million gift from an undisclosed donor, we are one major step closer to Singapore's very own natural history museum!Currently, the public can only get a glimpse of less than 1% of the total collection of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, at its tiny but well loved public gallery. So it was great news to hear that we will soon get a new natural history museum. ...

Singapore's birth rate continued to decline in 2009. The Prime Minister blamed it on the economic crisis. But, the birth rate has been falling in good years as well. The various incentives introduced by the Government during the past two decades failed to work. My "common sense" observations and talking to ordinary people tell me that families are having less children due to the ...

Disaster relief - the S’pore way I REFER to last Saturday’s commentary, ‘Is Singapore doing too little for Haiti?’ by Ms Chua Mui Hoong. She criticised the Singapore Government for not making a bigger contribution to Haiti after the earthquake when we had contributed far more to disaster relief and humanitarian assistance efforts after the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan ...

A first in Singapore, Stamford American International School (SAIS) and the Singapore Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) are jointly installing a temporary, synthetic ice rink on the SAIS campus for the sports community and public to try out. The 'ice' consists of interlocking squares of white plastic, which has been sprayed with a mixture of silicone and water to allow normal ice skates to ...

A mate of mine recently arrived in Singapore on his first trip here. He will remain un-named for fear of other people (besides me) ridiculing him. Over a couple of beers, he asked for my recommendation on a few places to take the kids for fun while they were here. Along with the 'usual' tourist attractions, I mentioned that just a few weeks ago I took my son and wife to 'Snow City&# ...

You all ah, stop blaming the gahmen for their Haiti donation lah. They give 50k, already very kind liao. As this letter from the MFA points out, "the amount or type of humanitarian assistance given by the Singapore Government is not intended to match the scale of a disaster". A responsible gahmen, according to this letter, has to "consider the nature of our relations with ...

Singapore National Anthem 1 Singapore National Anthem 2 Running an event which involves the playing of Singapore’s National Anthem. Big Boss didn’t like the version that was played last year. What’s the difference between the 2 songs??? Maybe I’m just ignorant in the world of music… BLEAH In case you are too impatient to preview both versions – the second ...

Last November, while taking a “duck tour” around Singapore’s Marina Bay, the Filipino tour guide, Chris, pointed to three side-by-side structures still under construction. He explained that they were the hotels within the Marina Bay Sands Resort, the second integrated resort in Singapore, the first being the Resorts World in Sentosa. The soft launch of

"Eugene Kwok has performed in public since he was eight. Turning professional at a very early age he has performed before Princess Margaret at a State Banquet in honor of her royal visit to Singapore. He has also performed for the Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Nations. His recordings for Radio and TV Singapore (RTS) also included his arrangements for big bands, and for the Piano and ...

colorful & fun Loccitane Singapore website I been stalking Loccitane websites around the globe for a couple of months now, enough to know that Loccitane Malaysia's GWP system and discount/sales is boring compare to neighboring Singapore or Canada (who had a mega online sales with latest products being slashed until you scream like a girl). The latest promotion by Loccitane Singapore is ...

Two representatives from MARUAH attended a briefing session organised by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) last week. At the briefing, MCYS announced that it is currently seeking nominations for Singapore’s representatives to the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC). The Terms of Reference of the ACWC were ...

Infoline, an Indian domestic brokerage house, has announced it will invest in Singapore’s Orient Global’s India Infoline Investment Services (IIISL) and India Infoline Marketing Services (IIMSL) according to The Business Standard. The Singapore investment is worth $80 million and will give Infoline a 99.02 percent stake in IIISL and a 99.16 percent stake in IIMSL which are both ...