Stay updated with breaking news from Hungry Ghost. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Despite a few hundred agents and websites explaining how your HDB flat is a great “stepping stone”, upgrading is never as easy as it sounds. You need to make enough from selling your flat that you can cover the CPF refund, as well as the 25 per cent down payment on your condo. And let’s be honest: like most sellers,...
John Stifler: In gratitude Published: 2/9/2021 9:41:20 AM I continue to be impressed by how local businesses are finding ways to support the community in the midst of all the coronavirus constraints. On a recent Saturday, the Hungry Ghost bakery in Northampton donated two large bags full of bread to Dine In/Help Out, this year’s socially distanced version of the annual wintertime soup-and-bread supper that serves as a fundraiser for the Haiti Ministry of Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst. Normally the supper is a lively party in the church’s parish hall. This year instead, drivers delive...
Breathing new life into dying art form Leong (right) harbours hopes that Cantonese opera will be recognised as a Malaysian art form. BACK when the web was what spiders spun and the TV was in black and white, the Chinese opera was the entertainment that drew large crowds. Today, such performances are staged only occasionally, mostly on significant dates such as the Hungry Ghost Festival. For the younger generation, who have unlimited entertainment options thanks to new technology, sitting in the moonlight for a three-hour stage retelling of palace intrigue or lost love is no longer as mag...
10. Wild Australia: After the Fires (ABC) I tossed and turned about whether to include director Cian O’Clery’s hour-long, Hugo Weaving-narrated documentary about the Black Summer bushfires on this list – not because it isn’t well made and insightful, but because it’s a terrible example of burying the lede. The words “climate change” are mentioned for the first time 46 minutes in, which is an egregious mistake: context is important, as is understanding the nature of TV (i.e. that not everybody will watch until the end). Trailer for Wild Australia: After the Fires Otherwise, the p...