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In a nod to her love for her family, Ms Audrey Fang’s brother Benjamin directed the hearse carrying his sister to drive by the floral shop their mother ran in Depot Lane. Ms Fang kept the business alive after her mother died in 2019. The 39-year-old left her job as a design manager in a construction firm in 2022 to...

SINGAPORE - Two people were taken to hospital after a hawker stall in Newton Food Centre caught fire on Sunday (March 24). Early investigations suggest that the fire was caused when food that was being cooked in the stall was left unattended, said a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) spokesman, in response to queries. He added that the two people...

Singapore News - Two people were taken to hospital after a hawker stall in Newton Food Centre caught fire on March 24. Early investigations suggest that the fire was caused when food that was being cooked in the stall was left unattended, said a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)... Read more at www.tnp.sg

From nuns and nursing home residents, to a hospital patient who came with his leg in a cast, voters have been turning up at 1,264 polling stations on Friday.

Photo Exhibition: 'Passing for Protection'.     Image by Southeast Asia Globe.In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, the Southeast Asia Globe will host a photojournalism exhibition called Passing for Protection.  The exhibition will showcase photographs from Cambodia’s remote forests and the lives of those living in the Kingdom’s most controversial protected areas. Divided into five themes—Landscapes, Threats, Protectors, Protected and On the Horizon—Passing for Protection...

Rainforest Seminar Series #3: Interconnection of Human and Wildlife From the Lens of Pulitzer Center’s Fellows. Sumatra lost 40% of its old growth forest from the 1990s until 2010, making it the global epicenter of tropical deforestation. International grantees and Fellows of the Pulitzer Center will share their wildlife-focused investigations from Sumatra and elsewhere in Asia with university students and lecturers in the area. What's the impact of deforestation on the wildlife populatio...

SINGAPORE - Making climate change relatable to audiences can be a challenge in Singapore, where the impact of the complex, scientific phenomenon is less obvious, image-wise. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - On April 1, 2020, the Cabinet met and discussed whether to impose a circuit breaker, given the rising number of Covid-19 community cases. There were differing views on whether to lock down the country or wait a little bit longer, recounted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in an interview for a new book chronicling Singapore's fight against the...

SINGAPORE - The biggest news topic last year, a virus which has affected all aspects of peoples lives around the world, dominated Singapore Press Holdings annual journalism awards for its English/Malay/Tamil Media Group on Wednesday (March 17). A majority of the 17 winners were recognised for content directly related to the coronavirus and its fallout, in part reflecting the attention and resources newsrooms devoted to the coverage. Among these is the Cross-Media Package of the Year, produced b...

The Straits Times Through The Lens: A look back at 2020 by Straits Times and international photographers Photo exhibition Through The Lens will feature ST photojournalists coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore, as well as photos submitted for the 2020 World Press Photo competition.ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE https://str.sg/JzS5 They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This...