Views & Visions: Back to the office (again) Part 1 Posted August 21, 2021 The news wasn’t unexpected. After all, COVID-19 infection numbers have remained relatively low in Singapore. But when the government announced that more employ…
25 Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century: The airplane Posted August 20, 2021 On a windy December day in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright became the first people to fly a powered airplane. Their four flights in a field near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, were t…
News Mash-up: Political Leaders Posted August 19, 2021 UK PM Johnson marries in low-key ceremony British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at West…
Stephen Hawking’s archive and belongings to be preserved inside the UK Posted August 18, 2021 The work of the late British scientist Stephen Hawking and the contents of his office will be preserved in the country, the British government has said. An agreement was signed…
News Mash-up: Global Entertainment Posted August 17, 2021 Disney+ superhero TV show WandaVision sweeps the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards Marvel comics spinoff WandaVision
China to allow all couples to have 3 kids, in effort to cope with aging society Posted August 16, 2021 China’s ruling Communist Party said May 31 it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid agin…
Just J-pop: Daichi Miura Part 2 Posted August 15, 2021 Continued from Part 1… Eventually, Miura set off on his own. After a period where he met with prominent Western songwriters and dancers, he debuted a…
Just J-pop: Daichi Miura Part 1 Posted August 14, 2021 The original vision for the 2020 Olympic opening ceremony in Tokyo was to be a celebration of the country’s pop culture prowess. According to a leaked document, t…
News Mash-up: British Royals Posted August 13, 2021 BBC criticized over Diana interview of 1995 The British government vowed May 21 to examine how the BBC was run, after a
News Mash-up: Accidents Posted August 12, 2021 Italian cable car crash kills 14 people At least 14 people, including five Israelis, died and a child was seriously inju…