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In August 1902, a tiger escaped from a circus performing nearby at the end of Beach Road. [11] The Raffles Hotel, was a luxurious hotel on the same street, with parts of the building under renovation that day. The tiger wandered near the Singapore Volunteer Corps Drill Hall, before allegedly scratching a watchman on a towboat.
Stereographic photograph (1903) of the Man-eater tiger, who had killed an estimated 200 people, in the Calcutta zoo. Tiger attacks are a form of human–wildlife conflict which have killed more humans than attacks by any of the other big cats, with the majority of these attacks occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. [1] [2]
Authorities have called the spate of deadly incidents unprecedented, saying that only four tiger attacks in total, two of which were fatal, were recorded in five years between 2017 and 2022.
Chinese authorities issued a warning after a viral video showed a farmer narrowly escaping a Siberian tiger attack on Monday in the country’s northernmost Heilongjiang province.. Two men were ...
MALAYSIAN TIGER TO ROAR IN SINGAPORE “Tiger Stripes,” the Malaysian coming-of-age, body horror film that debuted in Cannes’ Critics Week section has been set as the opening title for this ...
The first fatal attack of a tiger on a human was reported in 1831. Tiger hunting became a sport in those years. [17] The expansion of plantations on Singapore Island led to more encounters between humans and tigers; daily tiger attacks were reported in the late 1840s.
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The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...