Lim Tean salutes donors to Terry Xu’s crowdfunding with Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma
Singapore — At first glance, Mr Lim Team’s Oct 18 Facebook post could be mistaken for declaring that the crowdfunding effort to help Mr Terry Xu raise almost $88,000 to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for legal costs had been accomplished after only a few days.
After all, Mr Lim began his post by writing “Victory!” and included a clip of Luciano Pavarotti, arguably the most famous opera singer in the world, singing “Nessun Dorma” at the Torino Winter Olympics in 2006.
Despite injuries midway, Jason Zhang finishes concert
Photo: Instagram screengrab/justforstar
Chinese singer Jason Zhang Jie had a fall after the mid-rise platform structure he was on malfunctioned. He continued to bear the pain and completed the concert for his audience despite suffering back and hand injuries.
When the concert footage revealed the extent of his injury, his fans reacted with shock and worry. Zhang Jie was preparing to go on stage on his Oct 15 concert when the descending platform structure he was standing on suddenly malfunctioned, causing him to fall and land on his back.
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Coffee shop staff receive verbal abuse from customers during vaccination status checks
People eat at a hawker centre in Singapore on June 19, 2020, as restrictions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are eased. - Restaurants, retail shops and most other businesses reopened in Singapore on June 19 as the virus-hit city-state eased curbs, but the city-state's leader cautioned residents "not to go overboard celebrating". (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
Singapore ― Coffee shop staff are appealing for understanding from customers during vaccination status checks, highlighting they have been on the receiving end of verbal abuse from diners.
Beginning Oct 13, unvaccinated individuals are no longer allowed into shopping malls, large standalone stores, and attractions.
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Ong Ye Kung says, “We are moving closer to the light at the end of the tunnel” but many netizens are unconvinced
Photo: FB screengrab/Ong Ye Kung
Singapore — On Monday, Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung said that despite others’ opinions of the “flip-flop” approach the government has taken in managing the Covid-19 pandemic, it was the “correct” approach for the country.
“Some may feel that this middle-of-the-road approach is unclear, and may even appear to be a ‘flip-flop’. But it has helped us avert the massive deaths that many countries have suffered from,” the Straits Timesreported Mr Ong as saying at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Asia-Pacific Conference.
Migrant worker calls out Tan See Leng for slave-like conditions in Jurong dorm, says, “Please do not call us ‘your brothers’ “
Migrant workers wearing face masks look out from a quarantined dormitory building. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
Singapore ― Frustrated with Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng’s pretence of care, and the poor conditions at a foreign worker dormitory in Jurong, Zakir, a Bangladeshi migrant worker took to social media with an open letter.
After dormitory residents at Westlite Jalan Tukang dorm gathered en masse to confront the dormitory’s management on Wednesday (Oct 13), the situation escalated such that armoured riot police were called in.
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