Look who’s a gamer now. Local Facebook page SGVirality posted this hilarious screenshot of a Dota 2 player profile impersonating local actress Xiang Yun, 61, and it’s cracking up the Internet. This comes just days after the actress announced that she’ll be relaunching her social media accounts to deter impersonators and scammers. Oops. The screenshot, which appears to have...
Friends, don’t try this at home. When local actors Xu Bin, 34, Zong Zijie, 27, and Damien Teo, 22, heard that their bonus was based on their “performance”, they decided it was time to twerk for their money. Yesterday, the actors’ agency, Noontalk Media, shared a hilarious TikTok featuring them dancing for their boss, Dasmond Koh. As the intro for The Pussycat Dolls song...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Workers’ Party MP Leon Perera and senior party leader Nicole Seah have resigned from the party over an extramarital affair, in the latest incident to rock the country’s political scene. WP chief Pritam Singh announced this at a press conference on Wednesday (July 19). He spoke to members of the press...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Two senior members of Singapore's largest opposition party have resigned after admitting they were in a relationship, Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh said on Wednesday. Member of parliament Leon Perera and the party's youth wing president Nicole Seah handed in their letters of resignation after a video was posted on social media earlier...
Amazon started laying off employees in its cloud services division on Wednesday (April 26) as part of a retrenchment exercise that is expected to affect 9,000 employees, and those from the Singapore office were not spared. The exercise, which was announced in March, comes on the heels of layoffs that cut 18,000 jobs between November 2022 and...
Mr Li Xiting, founder and chairman of Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, a global provider of medical devices based in China, has again topped Forbes' list of billionaires in Singapore. Mr Li was among 35 billionaires from the Republic – up from 26 in 2022. Their collective net worth came to US$118.9 billion (S$157.6 billion), compared with US$106.7 billion in...
Most of us hope that our health issues would disappear, and sometimes they do. On Tuesday (March 28), veteran actor Moses Lim shared on local Christian platform Hai Hao Ma a health scare he had after a routine visit to the cardiologist half a year ago. It was revealed during the check-up that his pulse was slower...
After refusing to sell his house to developers working on a luxury condo project, this homeowner in Geylang has found himself in a pickle. As the contractors have begun their work constructing the new condo, his two-storey house is now sandwiched between the two imposing buildings, reported Shin Min Daily News on Tuesday (March 28). The 50-unit condo project, NoMa developed by Macly...
Once the chief judge on reality-singing competition Singapore Idol, Ken Lim Chih Chiang was on Thursday (March 30) made to stand before a district judge after he was accused of molestation. Lim, the executive director of record label Hype Records, is said to have molested a 25-year-old woman by touching her breast. The alleged incident happened on...
Investors are piling into China's tech, media and telecom shares, with speculative bets on chatbot development crowding out other sectors in a scenario that offers a stark contrast with global caution. Mainland China computer, communications equipment and media indexes have surged between 29 per cent and 35 per cent this year, outstripping a rise of just 3.5 per...
