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2 months ago | 
asiaone.com | Ang Qing |Shintaro Tay
SINGAPORE — Several residents in a housing estate in the Lavender area experienced a disruption to their water supply after a nearby underground pipe burst on Feb 1.
One of them, part-time Grabfood delivery rider Ramdhan Sab’an, said he was heading to his home in Block 811 French Road at about 9pm when he found water gushing from the ground near his block.
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2 months ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing |Shintaro Tay
SINGAPORE - Several residents in a housing estate in the Lavender area experienced a disruption to their water supply after a nearby underground pipe burst on Feb 1. One of them, part-time Grabfood delivery rider Ramdhan Sab’an, said he was heading to his home in Block 811 French Road at about 9pm when he found water gushing from the ground near his block.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Michelle Ng |Ang Qing
GUANGXI -Ever since half his farmland was acquired by the Chinese government in 2022, the well has almost run dry for sugar-cane and rice farmer Zhou Yanxian, 51. Just like the other 900 households in Qishidong village in China’s southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, his family relies on hand-pumped groundwater to cook, clean and shower.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Sarah Koh |Ang Qing
SINGAPORE - Nearly 100 potholes were detected in the first 12 days of 2025 amid prolonged rainfall across Singapore, though overall annual figures have seen a significant dip in recent years. These included several along a stretch of Tanah Merah Coast Road in the past few days, which were captured on video by a cyclist on Jan 11. In the four-minute long clip shared on Facebook, more than 20 potholes can be seen across three lanes in Tanah Merah Coast Road.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing
SINGAPORE - The recent downpours amid a monsoon surge in Singapore hit a new peak for rainfall, with the heaviest showers to fall in January recorded on Pulau Tekong on Jan 10. Rainfall on the offshore island was more than double the average amount of rain that fell across Singapore on Jan 10 over the past 45 years, based on records that began in 1980.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing
SINGAPORE - Fans of a dewy-eyed cat donning a chicken bucket sold by fast food chain KFC have become the latest target of scalpers. The coveted cat keychain is part of a collaboration between KFC and Mofusand, a popular Japanese cat illustration series, which released limited stocks of the trinkets, as well as sticker packs and red packets to dine-in and takeaway customers at 11am on Jan 13 to promote KFC’s cereal chicken.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing |Walter Sim |Debarshi Dasgupta |Linda Yulisman
Australia is set to implement a ban on social media usage by under-16s, seeking to curb instances of cyber bullying, harmful content and pressure over body image, as well as deter online predators. The proposed ban – which would be a world first in aiming to prevent the use of social media by children – is likely to be studied by other countries that are also combating a rise in screen addiction among the youth.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Ang Qing
BEIJING: Weaving through a horde of Chinese tourists clutching delicate blown-sugar figurines, tea and selfie sticks, Portuguese Joao Esteves stands out as a rare foreigner in one of Beijing’s oldest alleyways. “I was just in Azerbaijan last week and seeing where I could go from there, and there was a good flight that was quite affordable.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Ang Qing
SINGAPORE: The ruse began with an SMS message and an e-mail impersonating the chief executive of an investment banking firm based in Singapore. This resulted in a staff member initiating transfers amounting to some US$6.66 million (S$8.7 million) to a scammer’s bank account in the United States. The Singapore police said on Oct 8 that its Anti-Scam Command and the US authorities have since intercepted more than US$5 million (S$6.5 million) lost during the business e-mail compromise scam.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Christie S. Chiu |Ang Qing
SINGAPORE: Residents and motorists squelched through ankle-deep floodwaters in Marine Parade on Friday (Oct 4) after workers accidentally struck an underground water pipe. Marine Parade Citizens’ Consultative Committee assistant secretary Yusof Abdul Lateef told The Straits Times that a contractor, Pal-Link Construction, had hit an underground pipe in the area while working on a lift shaft.
