by Tanya Ong | Oct 15, 2018 | Community, History, SIA, SQ
With her sarong kebaya uniform, the Singapore Girl has become a symbol for Singapore Airlines’s tourism and hospitality. And this year, the iconic kebaya uniform turns 50. Advertisement Originated in 1968 Singapore’s commercial aviation industry goes a long way back,...
by Joshua Lee | Oct 7, 2018 | Almost Famous, badminton, Community, History, Interview, MS weekend, Repair, ronald cheong
Ronald Cheong is an unassuming old man who spends a good part of most of his days at the void deck of his Sengkang block. The 83-year-old sits there for a few hours a day, quietly repairing shuttlecocks while the rest of the world goes by. Advertisement “You see, like...
by Kayla Wong | Oct 5, 2018 | Abroad, ASEAN, Colonialism, History, Japan, Japanese invasion, News, southeast-asia, Wang Gungwu
The Japanese invasion in Southeast Asia and the region’s subsequent response to it helped shape the region, said historian Professor Wang Gungwu. Advertisement Wang was speaking at his lecture on Wednesday, October 3, titled “Before Southeast Asia: Passages and...
by Tanya Ong | Oct 4, 2018 | 1819, Community, History, PSLE, PSLE t-scores
PSLE aggregate scores will soon be a thing of the past. Come 2021, students will be graded according to eight Achievement Levels (AL) instead of T-scores. Advertisement T-scores introduced in 1970s The PSLE aggregate score is the sum of the T-score of all four...
by Joshua Lee | Sep 29, 2018 | 1819, Community, Flamin' Hot Stories, glutton's square, heritage, History, NHB, Orchard Road, orchard road carpark
Pop-up markets are a dime a dozen today. But one of the earliest pop-up markets in Singapore happened during your parents’ time in the 60s to 70s and it was a hawker centre called Glutton’s Square, or Orchard Road Car Park Market. Today, the area is occupied by...
by Belmont Lay | Sep 27, 2018 | History, News, PR, Singapore
Singapore’s population has hit 5.64 million in June 2018. Advertisement To mitigate the shrinking size and ageing profile of Singapore’s citizen population, Singapore grants between 15,000 and 25,000 new citizenships annually. These statistics are according to the...
