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Straits Times Online Mobile Print (also abbreviated as STOMP or S.T.O.M.P) is a Singapore-based web aggregator and citizen journalism web portal managed by the SPH Media.
"Five Cs of Singapore" — namely, cash, car, credit card, condominium and country club — is a phrase used in Singapore to refer to materialism. [1] It was first coined as a popular observational joke during the 1990s about the aspirations of some Singaporeans that exhibits materialistic tendencies by constantly seeking to obtain material possessions in an effort to impress others.
The paper was founded as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 15 July 1845. [11] [12] The Straits Times was launched as an eight-page weekly, published at 7 Commercial Square using a hand-operated press. The subscription fee then was Sp.$1.75 per month.
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was formed on August 4, 1984, through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. [3] SPH readership has stagnated since the early-2000s, as Singaporeans increasingly turned to online media for their news consumption. [4]
The Singapore Sporting Club was founded on 4 October 1842 by Scottish merchant William Henry Macleod Read to operate the Serangoon Road Race Course at Farrer Park Field. [ 3 ] The club held its first race, the inaugural Singapore Cup race, in February 1843 to marking the 24th anniversary of founding of modern singapore by Stamford Raffles . [ 3 ]
The Wee Shu Min elitism controversy occurred in October 2006 in Singapore.Wee Shu Min, daughter of parliament member Wee Siew Kim and a then eighteen-year-old student on Raffles Junior College's Humanities scholarship programme, found herself in controversy [1] after posting on her blog what were viewed by some Singaporeans to be elitist, [2] naïve, and insensitive statements against ...
According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands: Find theme words to fill the board. Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found. Drag or tap letters to create words. If ...
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 ...