Good Morning guys! Guess what? Hindi pa ako natutulog. I’ve been surfin’ the net since 1pm of March 10 (yesterday) and until now gising pa rin ako.. ‘eto nakareceive ako ng text from Karen, pinapagawa ako ng testi kaya nagtesti naman ang lola mo. I’m sure that she is gonna re...

Singapore will introduce new legislation that will make it harder for foreigners to evade taxes back home by hiding their money in bank accounts in the city state. Singapore will “assist (other countries) on bona fide requests for information�, the Finance Ministry announced on Friday. The annou...

Thousands of foreign workers, including London School of Economics graduates with six-digit salaries and desperately poor Bangladeshi factory workers, are streaming home as the economy in Singapore suffers the worst of the recessions in Southeast Asia, reports the Washington Post. Singapore is an ep...

Rising cases of dengue fever, chikungunya, bird flu and ebola viruses were reported in several Southeast Asian countries in the past two months. Relax, there are no pandemic threats. Not yet, anyway. Last month, 4,521 dengue cases and 13 dengue-related deaths were reported in Malaysia. These are ala...

Photo by the incredibly ramblinglibrarian Inspired by the ramblinglibrarian, I’d like to share my experience in virtual attendance of my first BarCamp, namely BarCamp Singapore 3. Organized by Preetam Rai, and helped by many others including @claudia10, @shenheng, @cneil, the event had over 20...

Isn’t life a bitch? No sooner than Singapore is ranked as the world’s most competitive nation by another think tank, the economy tanks. It’s the worst slump in at least 33 years, reports Bloomberg. And things are not going to get much better soon, the prime minister said the other day. It’s ...

Is Singapore’s mainstream media putting words in the prime minister’s mouth? You don’t see Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong saying there will always be a place for traditional media in presenting trusted, unbiased and informed opinions, as reported by the Straits Times and Today. That’s what t...

Citigroup is in talks with the US Treasury about increasing government ownership of the troubled banking conglomerate....

Digital dong appreciators in Singapore rejoiced today as government officials have OK'd the digital distribution of the Grand Theft Auto IV 360-exclusive expansion, "The Lost & Damned." Regardless of the "controversy" surrounding the expansion's full-frontal male nudity, Ernest Khoo, Singapore's...

The port of Singapore has been so badly hit by the global downturn that hundreds of ships are lying idle at anchor waiting for business, according to the Chicago Tribune. Singapore port no safe haven in economic storm, it says in a grim report, which begins: On a typical day, more than 500 ships sai...