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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing |Aqil Hamzah
SINGAPORE - Internet users who come across online accounts that appear to target different political parties need to be discerning in the kind of information they consume, said the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI)The authorities, on their part, will continue to keep an eye on the online space to ensure there is no meddling from foreigners.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ang Qing |Aqil Hamzah |Nadine Chua
Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE - The Republic can expect more three-cornered fights in the coming election as the WP has no interest in making way for other parties, said WP chief Pritam Singh. Asked about other opposition parties indicating interest in constituencies where the WP has been seen walking the ground, he said that the WP does not attend talks organised to avoid multi-corner battles.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Nadine Chua |Aqil Hamzah |Ang Qing
SINGAPORE - The WP introduced three more candidates it plans to field at the polls, including two lawyers and a digital strategist in the financial services and payment sector. The press briefing, the third in as many days, was held on April 19 at the opposition party’s headquarters in Geylang, ahead of the election, which will take place on May 3. The WP did not indicate which constituencies the candidates will be fielded in.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
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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Feb 1, 2025 | 
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.
