A woman in Singapore, who had drinks in a hotel room with some colleagues, lied to her aunt they had sexually assaulted and raped her, so the latter would book her a Grab ride home. Her aunt subsequently accompanied her to lodge a police report, where she repeated the lie to police officers in September…
Ibrahim Iskandar, the sultan of Johor, has touted the Singapore-Johor Special Economic Zone (SEZ) as one of the promising developments in the state during an interview with Malaysia news agency Bernama on Sep. 22. The state ruler also spoke on a number of topics, including his readiness to take up the position of Yang di-Pertuan…
Ms. Khalifa, the writer from Derna, remembers how as a child the city’s identities as a place of culture and resistance intertwined. In the 1960s she attended a play at the city’s theater with prominent female actresses, she said. The proceeds of the play went to support the Algerian resistance to the French occupation. That…
Do you know of an F&B place that should be featured on Mothership? Tell us more at [email protected]. A chicken rice stall in Bedok will be selling fried chicken with rice at S$0.20 on Sep. 23 and 24, 2023. Good Good Bird is located at 412 Bedok North Avenue 2, and opened for business on…
Second Minister for Education and Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman visited Urban Hawker in New York and enjoyed the “incredible” Singaporean cuisine whipped up at the stalls there. Urban Hawker is the first Singapore-style hawker food centre in New York. The stalls at Urban Hawker had been curated by MakanSutra founder K.F. Seetoh to resemble the…
The new Apple iPhone 15 models are on sale in Singapore on Friday, Sep. 22, 2023. Queues, predictably, started to form outside the Apple store in Orchard Road, as well as outside the Courts outlet at The Heeren on Sep. 21. 8world News reported that hundreds of people began waiting outside Courts as early as…
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned during a visit to Canada’s capital on Friday that pulling back on support for Ukraine would erode its war effort and ultimately lead to further aggression by Russia, with dire consequences. “I believe that you’re supporting either Ukraine or Russia,” he said at a news conference in Ottawa shortly after he…
Mediacorp actress Ye Jia Yun, 21, has made her runway debut at Milan Fashion Week. She walked at Anteprima’s Spring/Summer 2024 show on Sep. 21. Her height is listed as 178cm on her profile. Ye made her showbiz debut after participating in Star Search 2019, where she finished as the second runner-up. She is listed…
The time has come for beloved panda cub Le Le, who was born in Singapore in 2021, to return to China. Mandai Wildlife Group announced in a Sep. 22 press release that the juvenile panda will leave for his motherland in the second half of December 2023. His return will contribute to the conservation of…
Amin Mee Goreng Stall, a food stall at Block 498 Jurong West Street 41, has been temporarily suspended for two weeks from Sep. 19 to Oct. 2, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced. The suspension under the Points Demerit System was the result of the licensee of the eatery accumulating 12 demerit points over a…
Eat 3 Bowls (呷三碗), the Taiwanese food eatery at Crawford Lane, is closing down on Sunday, Sep. 24. News of its sudden closure was announced on Facebook on Sep. 18. No reason was disclosed. The business first started out as a food stall at Seah Im Food Centre in January 2016. Its Crawford Lane outlet,…
[Editor’s note at 4:26pm on Sep. 22, 2023: This article was updated with a new statement from the police. Only one person was conveyed conscious to hospital.] A five-vehicle chain collision along the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) on Thursday (Sep. 21) morning saw one person taken to hospital. Vans and taxi covered in cement Footage…
A Singaporean man claimed that he and his two friends were mugged by three men in Johor on Sep. 18, 2023, while they were on the way back to their hotel. Mugged after being approached by man who talked nonsense According to Stomp, one of the alleged victims said they left a Thai disco at Zenith…
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has given a New Zealand couple a refund after they had to sit next to a flatulent pet dog in the premium economy cabin, during a 13-hour flight from Paris to Singapore. After the pair requested a seat change, they ended up in economy class seats for the rest of the flight,…
The main Merlion statue at the Merlion Park will be undergoing maintenance works for 12 weeks from Sep. 25 to Dec. 13, 2023, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced in a Sep. 22 media advisory. The board did not specify the reason that prompted the maintenance work in the advisory. While these works are in…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine completed a three-day visit to the United States on Thursday, after addressing the U.N. General Assembly and trying to shore up continued support from Washington. Here are four key moments from his trip. A warning at the U.N. Mr. Zelensky gave on Tuesday his first in-person address to the annual…
Fok Lok Kee Private Kitchen, a restaurant in Geylang that specialises in Sichuan cuisine, is looking for two female customers who were accidentally charged S$840 for their S$84 meal on Sep. 20, 2023. According to a Facebook post put up by the eatery on Sep. 22, the accidental excess charge took place after its staff…
Like every other full-time working adult, I start each week praying for Friday to come sooner so I can spend my night with friends without worrying about getting up early the next morning. But as soon as Friday arrives, I end up ditching all my after-work plans in favour of lying in bed to watch…
Traffic along Upper Cross Street in Chinatown was briefly disrupted on Sep. 21, 2023 after a row of Mid-Autumn Festival decorations came loose. What happened According to a video uploaded by @erictoh.et on TikTok, the row of Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns could be seen drooping from the cable. @erictoh.et decorations dropping at chinatown #midautumn #chinatown #fyp…
Ms. de Gaulmyn said that “politicians love to be seen with the pope,” especially Mr. Macron, a political disrupter who has long been fascinated with Francis’ willingness to shake things up in the church. Meeting the pope, a moral authority on the issue of migration, “will also help him lean leftward a bit,” Ms. de…
A 36-year-old Singaporean man was given two weeks’ jail on Sep. 21, 2023, after he went around a coffee shop in Hougang proclaiming to patrons that he was God while wearing a Singapore flag like a cape. What happened Court documents revealed that the man, Roy Ravi Jaganathan, left his flat and went to Block…