2019 Struggling grocery startup Honestbee fires its CEO (techcrunch.com) Honestbee Chairman Brian Koo Resigns, Firm Still Owes Ex-Staff Almost $1M In Salary (vulcanpost.com) 2020 Honestbee founder’s biggest lie in a web of deceit (techinasia.com) Joel Sng (ex-Honestbee CEO) claimed to be descendant of Sun Yat-Sen, until found out by Bloomberg (reddit.com) Honestbee taking legal action […]
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 […]
I asked my Facebook friends for Cafe recommendations. In no particular order: Artistry (Jln Pinang) – now closed Group Therapy (Duxton, Katong) FB Two Men Bagel House My Awesome Cafe – staff always smiling. 202 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore, 068639. IG Royal Pratas & Curries at Killiney Road – their Teh Halia is great, they attract policemen […]
I want to write a quick blogpost about the Singapore skyline. I’m not an architect, or architecture student, or even any sort of long-term observer or student or hobbyist-appreciator of buildings. I’m just a guy who lives in an island-city-state with some thoughts and observations about the place we live in. 1. General Post Office […]
2007 377A serves public morality : NMP Thio Li-Ann Email from Derek Hong 2009 In 2009, a group of conservative Christian women from the Church of Our Savior, under the leadership of Josie Lau and orchestrated by Dr Thio Su Mien, took over the executive council of the group alleging AWARE, a non-governmental organization in […]
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 […]