Shift Buzz Nine maids, most of them Indonesian, have died this year in Singapore after falling out of high-rise buildings while hanging laundry or washing windows. Workers' rights groups want a ban on such tasks, but the Singaporean government is unwilling, and 80% of Singaporeans recently said in a poll that Singapore is “pandering too much to maids.”
Design Buzz Did you know that there are areas of Singapore that look like a magical land of candy and rainbows? I want to live in a world that looks like this.
Food Buzz A whole smorgasbord of menu items available at McDonald's restaurants abroad that we in the United States can only salivate over from afar. Those creeps at McDonald's International are holding out on us.
http://current.com/news/92783895_bukit-panjang-slashing-3...
They have drive-by knifings in Singapore.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid959009704...
Just 28 families live in Singapore's only remaining traditional village. 90% of Singapore's population has been moved into government housing in order to modernize and use land as efficiently as possible. The few people living in Kampong Buangkok are the last holdouts. And, as we know, they are surrounded by robots.
A viral video appears to be a snippet from a security cam tape showing the ghost of an old woman haunting a well-known office building in Singapore. The creepy video turns out to be a hoax developed by a Singapore advertising company.