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SINGAPORE - As some 50 residents rushed to evacuate from a Housing Board block in Telok Blangah after a fire broke out in one of the flats on Wednesday (Aug 3), Madam Doreen Ong, 73, headed towards the lift instead to save her husband who is blind. The housewife was returning from marketing just before noon when she saw a...

A diner was severely bitten by sandflies while sitting outdoors at Essen @ The Anchorvale in Sengkang on July 29. The food court is in the Anchorvale Community Club and has indoor and outdoor seating. Sharing photos of the numerous bites on her legs, Stomp contributor A said: "I experienced close to 40 sandflies bites in the evening. A few...

It was an al fresco fiasco. Restaurant customers dining outdoors at Jalan Kayu were forced to leave due to ashes from the burning of Hungry Ghost offerings outside a neighbouring business on Sunday afternoon (July 31). Stomp contributor Lala was one of those customers. She told Stomp: "The seventh lunar month is when there are prayers for Hungry Ghost and...

Singapore News - As some 50 residents rushed to evacuate from a Housing Board block in Telok Blangah after a fire broke out in one of the flats on Wednesday (Aug 3), Madam Doreen Ong, 73, headed towards the lift instead to save her husband who is blind. The housewife was returning... Read more at www.tnp.sg

IT may be news to some, including the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Idris Ahmad, but Oktoberfest has been celebrated here for decades now.

Many ancient cultures speak of a time when the dead return to visit the living. Mexico has the Day of the Dead, the United States has Halloween, and Starbucks has all-week pumpkin-spiced lattes. For us here in Singapore, when the Hungry Ghost Festival (from July 19 to Aug 26 in 2022) is upon us, there are plenty of taboo things...

Imagine being scared out of your wits every five minutes while at work. No, it has nothing to do with paranormal encounters this Hungry Ghost month nor aftershocks from an earthquake, but a situation that some shop employees at Bukit Batok bus interchange have had to deal with whenever an MRT train pulls into the station. A 76-year-old staff member...

Singapore News - It was an al fresco fiasco. Restaurant customers dining outdoors at Jalan Kayu were forced to leave due to ashes from the burning of Hungry Ghost offerings outside a neighbouring business on Sunday afternoon (July 31). Stomper Lala was one of those... Read more at www.tnp.sg

PETALING JAYA: Police say a man who made the azan – the Islamic call to prayer – at a Chinese temple in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, is mentally-unwell.

Most Pinoys are firm believers in luck.