Nathan Law, a former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist, said he was denied entry into Singapore after arriving in the city for a conference. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/asia-pacific/politics/hong-kong-nathan-law-singapore/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #nathanlaw #hongkong #singapore #china #democracy
Chee Aun 🤔
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Very good web storytelling about the hawker centre signage and typography in Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2025/09/singapore-hawker-signs/index.html
A Singapore shipping company has said it will refuse to pay Sri Lankan court-ordered damages of $1 billion for causing that country's worst case of environmental pollution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal/singapore-sri-lanka-pollution-damages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #singapore #srilanka #pollution
Very good web storytelling about the hawker centre signage and typography in Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2025/09/singapore-hawker-signs/index.html
At a conference yesterday, one speaker mentioned that he naturalized as a #Singapore citizen for "personal reasons" and gave up his US passport.
Sounded strange, so I looked him up and, of course, those "reasons" were tax evasion.
Wished I could have asked him what he thinks about all the migrant workers in Singapore who, despite paying taxes and building the economy, face far higher barriers to becoming #Singaporean and can't buy a passport like him.
Anke
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yur daily dozing dragon
#dragonfly#Singapore #insect #biodiversity #macro #nature #bug #animal #wildlife
yur daily dozing dragon
#dragonfly#Singapore #insect #biodiversity #macro #nature #bug #animal #wildlife
Yasuto Monden, an activist investor who took over as president of one of his target companies, has started a Japanese equity fund and is seeking U.S. investors including family offices as clients. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/11/companies/axium-capital-fund/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #axiumcapital #singapore #us #investments
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Singapore is already covered with signs like 'if 'women' online are promising you naked photos in return for gift cards / credits, it is a SCAM'
And the fraud situation is getting worse because of Meta
What a shithole of a company (on top of everything else that they do)
Singapore is already covered with signs like 'if 'women' online are promising you naked photos in return for gift cards / credits, it is a SCAM'
And the fraud situation is getting worse because of Meta
What a shithole of a company (on top of everything else that they do)
Mx Arjuna
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UPDATE 3: check this thread I will try to keep it updated
UPDATE2: nights are becoming dangerous and protest organizers are urging the public to stay home. You can continue to use the below if you want to support the delivery drivers and their surroundings (tell them the food is for them/family/friends and to tip)
Hey Southeast Asians, your Grab app works ACROSS the region. If you'd like to order medical supplies or food for the folks in Jakarta and Bandung, you can.
(Twt links to follow underneath)
#tootSEA#Indonesia#Malaysia#Singapore #thailand #vietnam #philippines#SoutheastAsia
(Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on fedi)
53% of people in Singapore disapprove of gay sex
50% of people in Singapore disapprove of gay marriage
Who are the people who think gay married people are fine as long as they don’t have sex?
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/gay-same-sex-lgbtq-marriage-ips-study-survey-5319326
Cool video about the people who work with wildlife rescue in Singapore.
When I still lived there I lived in some old forest areas, so I often had to call them to come get the snakes, bats, from my house (which is a pretty different experience from how others experience Singapore)
UPDATE 3: check this thread I will try to keep it updated
UPDATE2: nights are becoming dangerous and protest organizers are urging the public to stay home. You can continue to use the below if you want to support the delivery drivers and their surroundings (tell them the food is for them/family/friends and to tip)
Hey Southeast Asians, your Grab app works ACROSS the region. If you'd like to order medical supplies or food for the folks in Jakarta and Bandung, you can.
(Twt links to follow underneath)
#tootSEA#Indonesia#Malaysia#Singapore #thailand #vietnam #philippines#SoutheastAsia
(Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on fedi)
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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It always fascinates me when I meet queer Singaporeans in their 50s and 60s who moved to San Francisco / Oakland, who have never experienced Singapore as a place where they knew anyone who was open and out. Who don’t really have much of a link at all to the queer Singapore that I know and love.
Vs
That is the only life I know, almost all of my friends there are queer activists, the only people in the closet are religious people, lots of people ‘cohabitate’, buy homes, have children (logistically harder but I have seen it)
A lot has changed in a very short time; and nothing has, too, in other ways.
It always fascinates me when I meet queer Singaporeans in their 50s and 60s who moved to San Francisco / Oakland, who have never experienced Singapore as a place where they knew anyone who was open and out. Who don’t really have much of a link at all to the queer Singapore that I know and love.
Vs
That is the only life I know, almost all of my friends there are queer activists, the only people in the closet are religious people, lots of people ‘cohabitate’, buy homes, have children (logistically harder but I have seen it)
A lot has changed in a very short time; and nothing has, too, in other ways.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said jobs for citizens will be the government’s top priority as the city-state faces risks from rising global trade barriers and artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/tech/singapore-jobs-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #singapore #ai #jobs
I do love this about #Singapore:
“In 2015, the then Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who has a first-class degree in mathematics and a diploma in computer science from Cambridge, shared a Sudoku solver on Facebook which he had programmed himself in C, which racked up 36,000 likes and 12,000 shares within a day. One of his ministers, Vivian Balakrishnan, promptly translated the program to JavaScript and posted his own version online. That sort of alacrity for technology in the upper echelons of government is still rare in much of the rest of the world and Singapore has that to its advantage. “
https://restofworld.org/2025/mehran-gul-new-geography-of-innovation/
Glad that someone informed me that my side project https://busrouter.sg is featured on CNA Insider's Singapore Hour "The Unseen Side of Singapore’s Bus System", under the chapter "Woodlands Bus Depot: The Eyes and Ears of Singapore’s Bus System" (04:08) https://youtu.be/_BURy2_mGZM?t=248&feature=shared
Pretty cool. #Singapore
Map on a screen showing a route with bus stops marked, and a subtitle at the bottom reading "The road isn’t passable for Service 973,".
Map with location names and route lines displayed on a screen, with subtitles reading, "As the bus captain waits at the scene,".
A person pointing at a computer screen displaying a bus route map with the subtitle "You mean the road isn’t passable?" at the bottom.
A person monitors a digital map displaying bus routes and stops on a computer screen at a bus operations control centre.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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I saw a photo of a Singapore flag with bras hanging over it with the caption ‘happy neh neh tional day’ and I haven’t stopped laughing.
I do love a good Singlish joke