By Katrina Conaglen Published: 09:40 GMT, 27 January 2024 | Updated: 11:42 GMT, 27 January 2024 Tipping can be an etiquette minefield Tipping is a sign of decency, an indication you appreciate the effort your server, taxi driver, or porter has put into looking after you. It can, however, be an etiquette minefield while travelling abroad, … Read more
HAW Par Villa, a disturbing theme park in Singapore, is all about hell. The enormous attraction – where children as young as six flock on school trips – teaches visitors about sin and the many gory ways they can be punished after death. 13 Haw Par Villa, a bizarre theme park in Singapore that’s home … Read more
Singapore: An Indian national, who was in Singapore on a student pass, has been sentenced to four years in jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting a British woman at a nightclub in 2022, according to a media report. Erugula Eswara Reddy, 25, pleaded guilty to a molestation charge and was arrested shortly … Read more
Home Education India International Science Festival 2023 Starts On Wednesday, Here’s A Snapshot of Events The aim of this science festival is to celebrate the achievements of India in the frontier areas of science and technology. The central theme of IISF 2023 is “Science and Technology Public Outreach in Amrit Kaal”. IISF 2023: The India … Read more
Six countries have earned the title of the most powerful passports in 2024 — with all of them granting visa-free travel to 194 out of 227 destinations. Four EU member states now share crown with Singapore and Japan as the number one passport in the quarterly Henley Passport Index. They are: Spain, Germany, France and … Read more
I am lucky to have lived in four cities: Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzhen and Singapore. Whenever I mention this, almost everyone wants to know how they compare and which city I prefer, especially insecure Hongkongers who are obsessed with the Hong Kong-Singapore rivalry, which exists mostly in their heads. Each city has things that … Read more
Abishur Prakash is the founder of the Geopolitical Business, Inc. He is a global keynote speaker and the author of five books. His latest book is called “The World Is Vertical.” The Israel-Hamas war is an ominous message to the world: The guardrails that long stopped wars from breaking out are now effectively failing. Of … Read more
In Singapore, small versions of this goddess are birthed each week at Say Tian Hng, the city state’s only surviving Taoist idol workshop. Its family of artisans hand carve a variety of deities from blocks of camphor wood before embellishing them with paint. Ng Yeow Hua colouring the lips of a golden statue of Guanyin. … Read more
London to Sydney is a very long way – well over 10,000 miles. And a popular choice of airline for the epic 22-hour journey is Australia’s national carrier, Qantas. It deploys an aviation titan on this route – the A380 – and offers passengers a choice of four classes: economy, premium economy, business and first … Read more
“As backup, batteries housed in two 40-foot containers can store enough power to last two days in the event that the solar panels cannot produce electricity because of issues such as cloud cover or rain.” Solar panels are raised on stilts in the shape of a tortoise in the lagoon in front of the Da … Read more
