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05/10/2025

Do you prefer your fruits seedless? If so... it's a disaster waiting to happen.

04/10/2025

RIP Jane Goodall

01/10/2025

As Singapore celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, South Korea celebrates its Chuseok – a 3-day holiday when they pay respects to ancestors and visit the family. While we gift people with mooncakes here, people in Korea go ga-ga over expensive gift packs of… SPAM!

As Singapore celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival this month, South Korea celebrates its Chuseok – a 3-day holiday when they pay respects to ancestors and visit the family. While we gift people with mooncakes here in Singapore – the more outrageous the...

29/09/2025

Recent weeks have seen parts of Asia battered by violent typhoons and freak storms. Watching from Singapore, it is only natural to wonder: will Singapore ever face a typhoon?

Recent weeks have seen Asia battered by violent typhoons and freak storms. The Philippines, Taiwan, southern China, and parts of Vietnam have faced devastating winds, torrential rain, and flooding that displaced millions. Watching from Singapore, it is...

28/09/2025

Ever wondered why 7 is the max number of times any paper could be folded?

28/09/2025

As things are getting more and more expensive in Singapore, buying an atas mooncake is one form of luxury we can actually afford since it comes only once a year.

As we celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, it’s also important to consider the environmental impact of mooncake packaging.

As we celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, numerous ads for fancy mooncakes start to fill our social media timelines, malls, and almost everywhere you look. Traditional mooncakes of the yesteryears were focused on the flavours and came in simple boxes, but...

26/09/2025

While new entrants keep consumer choice wide, the rapid loss of independents and heritage names erodes the civic fabric those places supported — the third places, the cultural memory, and the everyday encounters that quietly make Singapore our food city.

Singapore’s dining scene — long touted as a global food capital where hawker stalls, neighbourhood cafés and inventive fine-dining all coexist — has been going through a reckoning. The last 18 months have seen an unusually high number of permanent...

25/09/2025

While the piggy biscuit and cage are rather cute representatives of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in rural China during the Ming and Qing dynasties used to place adulterers in pig cages to drown them.

How did caged pigs become so popular as a wholesome family celebration?

Known as piggy biscuits, mooncake biscuits or doll biscuits (which is a direct translation of its Cantonese name, "gong zai beng"), they're only available whenever mooncakes are on sale. And usually in the lead up to Mid-Autumn Festival. These biscuits...

23/09/2025

The final frontier just became a final resting place for the wealthy.

For up to S$158,000, Woodlands Memorial can pack your loved one’s ashes (or keepsakes) into a Space Box and launch them into outer space.

It’s Singapore’s first funeral parlour to offer cosmic farewells, and you get options: let the box orbit Earth for a few weeks (before re-entering our atmosphere in fiery glory), land it on the moon, or send it on a one-way trip into deep space — because why not make the afterlife interstellar?

12/09/2025

Got plans to head to South Korea next week? Take note that South Korean airport workers at 15 airports across the country will go on strike from Sept 19 to Oct 9.

Workers are demanding a rotating schedule divided into four teams for more rest after night shifts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

12/09/2025

For those planning on going to Bali, there's been major flooding

Torrential rain since late Tuesday triggered floods and landslides in seven districts across Bali, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said in a statement.