This Week in the News is your weekly roundup of the top headlines in Singapore. If you have to read only one thing today to keep from being clueless, this is it. This breakdown has been arranged in chronological order, starting from Monday.
The lovely Rail Corridor is going to get its own art space in 2014, just like the Singapore River Underpass Art exhibits. Yay!
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A Canadian artist based in Jakarta Ken Pattern lampoons Marina Bay Sands in his latest exhibition. It’s quite hilarious… and true, too.
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Believe it or not, an actual sinkhole appeared in Commonwealth a few days ago. Let’s hope it’s not the beginning of anything.
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Singapore’s first kitty cafe opened on Christmas Day and was completely booked up! We got a sneak preview and weighed its pros and cons (thankfully, not many).
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Changi Airport is going to have self-boarding gates next year. And while you’re at it, check out their cool tilt-shift video, too.
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More on the Little India Riot: local activist lawyer M. Ravi wants one of the Indian deportees to return here and get back his Singapore work permit.
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Aren’t they cute? These two chimps have acclimatised to their surroundings in Mysore and may be released into an open moat enclosure in the new year.
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SilkAir’s testing a new wireless in-flight entertainment system that’s going to be free for passengers!
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A resident in Boon Keng has been arrested for throwing some really nasty killer litter out from his seventh floor home.
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