23 Oct 2025, 11:19 UTC338 views1 reactionsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[Asia Top Bars 2025]
🇭🇰 Hong Kong’s Bar Leone topped Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 again.
🏅 This is followed by Seoul’s Zest and Singapore’s Jigger & Pony, unchanged from last year.
🍸 The awards, held on 16 Jul in Macau, saw Bar Leone—famed for negronis and its olive oil sour—cement its regional dominance.
💃🏻 Its co-founder Lorenzo Antinori also launched Montana in Hong Kong with Simone Caporale of Barcelona’s Sips (W…
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22 Oct 2025, 15:51 UTC277 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[Tan Jiak Kim]
⚰️ On 22 Oct 1917, Tan Jiak Kim, a prominent Peranakan Chinese merchant successful in the banking and insurance industries, passed away.
💼 He was conversant in Malay and homeschooled in English and contributed significantly to the Straits Settlements community and donated generously to the less fortunate.
👊 As the longest-serving Chinese member on the Straits Settlements Legislative Council, Tan fou…
21 Oct 2025, 07:00 UTC228 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[low interests]
💰 Trump wants lower interest rates to cut US debt costs, but inflation at 2.7% is already above the Fed’s 2% target, making rate cuts inappropriate.
🔥 Erdogan’s similar push in Turkey led to 80% inflation and currency collapse—showing how populist interference wrecks economies.
📉 Populist leaders tend to push for low rates to gain short-term popularity, ignoring long-term damage.
🏦 Borrowing costs…
20 Oct 2025, 15:33 UTC190 views1 reactionsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[NPHS '24]
📋 The '24 National Population Health Survey found Singapore’s obesity rate rising to 12.7%, up from 10.5% in '19–'20.
🧔🏻 Men (13.1%) were slightly more obese than women (12.3%), and those aged 30–39 had the highest rate (14.9%).
👴🏻 43.6% of adults aged 18–74 had abdominal obesity, mostly seniors aged 60–74.
📊 By ethnicity, Malays (31.7%) led, followed by Indians (19.3%) and Chinese (8.4%).
🏋🏻♂️ Health…
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17 Oct 2025, 00:50 UTC194 views1 reactionsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[CareShield Life]
♿ S'poreans born in 1979 or before with mild or moderate disabilities will no longer be able to opt in to the CareShield Life scheme 2026.
💰 CareShield Life is a long-term disability insurance scheme that provides monthly payouts in the event you are unable to perform 3 out of 6 Activities of Daily Living.
📋 These ADLs include:
Washing
Feeding
Toileting
Mobility
Wearing
Transferring
🚨 The scheme …
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16 Oct 2025, 06:48 UTC162 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[MOHO]
👀 The Museum of Hidden Objects & Feelings (MOHO) is an interactive exhibition that looks at loneliness in today’s digital age, and what it means to be connected.
🪪 Each visitor is issued a MOHO Passport on entry, which they can use to collect stamps by completing the activities at the various booths.
🥤 Get all of the stamps, and you can redeem a free drink when you’re done with MOHO.
🎪 From an old sketchboo…
15 Oct 2025, 04:21 UTC163 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[Reno Galore]
🏡 Are you planning to buy your first home — or looking to upgrade your current one?
🧑🏫 Join us for Reno Galore, a practical and insightful sharing session designed to help you make the most of your property purchase.
📚 Learn how to:
• Maximise housing grants and loan options
• Avoid common financial pitfalls and hidden costs
• Understand the Master Plan and how it affects property value
• Read fl…
13 Oct 2025, 13:54 UTC215 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[Oct 2025 BTO Launch]
🏘 3,294 BTO flats with wait times of less than 3 years will be offered in the upcoming sales exercise in Oct.
🏢 There will be a total of 9,100 BTO flats to be offered!
🗺 The launch will include units from:
Ang Mo Kio (1420)
Chai Chee (850)
Bishan (530)
Teban Gardens (620)
Bukit Merah (1020)
Telok Blangah (870)
Fernvale (1030)
Mount Pleasant (1350)
Chencharu (810)
Yishun (560)
🧑🏫 The team wi…
22 Sept 2025, 15:40 UTC205 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[B$]
🇧🇳 Brunei will introduce a new series of banknotes that standardises the use of the term "Brunei Dollars," replacing "Ringgit."
💵 The new series is scheduled to enter circulation in 2026 for B$1, B$5, B$10, B$100 and B$500.
💲 The new series also aligns Brunei's currency unit with the Currency Order 2004, which officially designates "dollar" as the national currency name.
💪 This change aims to strengthen publi…
28 Aug 2025, 01:21 UTC219 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[The Dot Shrimp]
🦐 For the first time ever, you can now buy live, locally-farmed shrimp and fish!!
Exclusively at 3 Giant outlets:
🛒 Tampines North
🛒 IMM
🛒 Tengah Plantation Plaza
🐠 These outlets will feature in-store aquatic tanks filled with groupers, sea bass, tilapia and even vannamei shrimp (whiteleg shrimp)
🇸🇬 The fish and shrimp were raised right here in Singapore!
👨🌾 SAFEF is working with local farms to…
27 Aug 2025, 01:40 UTC172 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[Singapore Basketball]
📰 Recent match-fixing scandals plagued the local basketball scene, but have you wondered how did the sport grow in S'pore?
🏀 Basketball was introduced here in 1925, and the association was set up to govern the sport in 1934.
🛖 The sport was considered a predominantly Chinese sport in the past because it was popular in Chinese schools and villages.
🎽 Some of these teams remain today as amate…
26 Aug 2025, 01:20 UTC211 viewsread 7 September 2026 Photo
[lowest SORA]
🏠 Attention to homeowners and mortgage seekers!
📉 The 3-month SORA, a key benchmark for housing loans, has dropped to 1.6993% as of Aug 19, its lowest level since Sept 2022
😱 That’s almost half of what it was at the start of the year (3.02%)!
🏦 With rates sliding, banks are offering some seriously attractive home loan packages
📊 Fixed rates are now dipping below 2%. Standard Chartered’s lowest star…
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