KULAI: All contra lanes at the two land checkpoints in Johor will be activated in anticipation of the high volume of vehicles from Singapore during Christmas and New Year. State works, transportation and infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said it is hoped that the activation of the contra lanes at both Bangunan Sultan Iskandar...
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued a lifetime prohibition order (PO) against Ng Chong Hwa, also known as Roger Ng, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte. In a statement on Tuesday (Sept 5), MAS said the PO was issued following Ng's conviction in the United States for conspiracy to launder...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Two Singaporeans who sold a sonar, which eventually ended up with a survey centre operated by the Myanmar Navy, admitted in court on Aug 25 to breaching a law which controls the sale of strategic goods including weapons. The two men - Poiter Agus Kentjana, the 57-year-old sales manager at...
Lucky for him, his girlfriend found it funny. K-pop group Girls’ Generation member Kim Taeyeon, 34, was in Singapore over the weekend to perform two sold-out shows as part of her The Odd of Love tour. Taeyeon's last solo concert in Singapore was in 2019. A day after the gigs, local fans flooded social media to gush about the Korean powerhouse singer’s performance. However,...
For Jae, who relocated to a small city outside of Tokyo two weeks ago, having job satisfaction is a good trade-off. Though there's also the "serious culture shock". No part of this story can be reproduced without permission from 8days.sg. If you follow Jae Liew on Instagram, you’d know the actress, who starred in English dramas Tanglin and Derek 2, is a Japanophile. She...
Props to Shu Yi Ching for standing up to the creep. If you ever had someone take a video or a photo of you in public without your consent, you would know it's a very upsetting experience. Even more so when you have no idea what they would be doing with that photo of you. And trust...
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Chinese language media Lianhe Zaobao has stressed that it takes its mission of delivering information seriously and remains committed to neutrality. The comments by Zaobao’s editor Goh Sin Teck came a day after the Washington Post put up its story “In Singapore, loud echoes of Beijing’s positions generate anxiety” on July 24. Goh said the...
The iconic cat and mouse duo will take their antics to Singapore in a collection of three-minute shorts, premiering on Cartoon Network and HBO Go in August. Tom And Jerry, arguably the most famous cat and mouse duo in the world, are coming to Singapore. On Wednesday (Jul 26), Warner Bros Discovery announced that its first-ever localised...
Do you guys remember what you were doing when you were 10? Some of us were probably whining about going to school or fretting about the impending PSLE, but for 47-year-old Singaporean musician Eric Ng's 10-year-old daughter Lyla Ng, she's busy serenading crowds with her beautiful voice. Eric is a prolific songwriter and producer and has worked...
A hater even threw a bottle at him when he was walking along Orchard Road. Now 17 years after the singing competition, Joakim looks back at what he calls his “baptism of fire”. For the uninitiated, season 2 of local singing reality show Singapore Idol, which aired 17 years ago in 2006, was a cultural phenomenon. The season,...
