Update: see notnaiise.wordpress.com 2015 Naiise goes big with largest store opening at Central (todayonline.com) “Can someone give Naiise’s founder Dennis Tay and his team a trophy?” 2016 Who says Singapore designs don’t sell? (straitstimes.com) Five Places to Shop in Singapore (nytimes.com) 2017 How Lombok is an island of respite for Naiise’s Amanda Eng and Dennis […]
What’s Singapore’s single most identifiable landmark? It’s changed over the years, and that’s the subject of another blogpost entirely. At some point it was the Merlion (featured in Japanese ads), at some point it was Changi Airport’s control tower. Before that, it might’ve been buildings like The Esplanade, or Old Parliament House. But today, I […]
“Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years.” I personally believe that Section […]
I want to make a page of my favorite people in Singapore, who I feel confident in recommending to others. A work in progress, in alphabetical order: Alfred Lua (@alfred_lua) Product marketer at Buffer, triathlete. [alfredlua.com] Ben Reinhardt (@ben_reinhardt). We have a shared interest in trying to nudge Singapore towards becoming one of the truly […]
1990 – Goh Chok Tong becomes PM. Boon Lay MRT completed. 1991 – SQ117 hijacking. Flor Contemplacion arrested for murder (hanged in 1995). 1992 – Chewing gum banned. Nanyang Poly opens. SCV launches first cable channel. IRAS formed. Senoko Power Station fire, 13 hours no power. 1993 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes President. Edusave launched. […]
This is an attempt to catalogue crimes committed by Singaporean police officers. Sexual Crimes Former auxiliary police officer who abetted rape of his girlfriend sentenced to jail, caning Cop fined for molesting colleague on 3 separate occasions A former full-time national serviceman (NSF) with the Singapore Police Force pleaded guilty on Wednesday (July 31) to […]
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I once had an idea for a site called “priorities.sg”. The idea was to have a centralized place to figure out what our priorities ought to be, as a nation. On retrospect, it’s kind of presumptuous to claim to know what a nation’s priorities should be. I can only speak for myself. So I figured […]
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How will Singapore cope with a terrorist attack? How can we mitigate the suspicion? How can Singapore remain competitive and relevant 50 years from now? What is the future of Parliament, and what sort of electoral reform should we be looking at? What are the backstories of successful businesses in Singapore, and why do we […]