On the second day of the Chinese New Year (CNY), at least 30 monkeys appeared in the Punggol East HDB area searching for food. They broke into residents’ homes, leaving monkey footprints all over the ...

The scourge of glue traps in Singapore continues, with two mynahs recently found stuck in glue smeared on a manhole cover in Woodlands. In a Facebook post on Friday (31 Jan), the Animal Concerns ...

In a cruel twist of fate, a man in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, unknowingly gave a stranger a jackpot prize-winning lottery scratch ticket. In an interview with Hourly News, the man introduced ...

Amid a United States (US) probe into the new artificial intelligence (AI) bot from Chinese company DeepSeek, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has quoted a statement from American ...

Birthdays are special occasions and many would go to great lengths to celebrate the milestone with their partners. For her husband’s birthday, a woman in Malaysia resorted to projecting her well ...

The voluntary programme, named Compressed Work Schedule (CWS), gives employees the option to work for four days per week. However, employees have to first fulfil a 40-hour work requirement before ...

A man who is apparently not from Singapore was amazed when he saw a garbage truck out and about. In a post on XiaoHongShu, he concluded that Singapore was a “rich country” as even our garbage trucks ...

Alerted to expired products on supermarket shelves, baby food retailer Lilo sought help from the police to investigate. It turned out that a woman had allegedly swapped out the expired products at two ...

A domestic helper’s gruelling work schedule has drawn attention from the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME), a non-governmental organisation advocating for migrant workers’ ...

A small medical plane seemingly fell from the sky and crashed into a neighbourhood in Philadelphia, USA. According to ABC, the incident occurred on Friday (31 Jan) evening. The incident came just days ...

On Chinese New Year’s Eve (28 Jan), a 60-year-old chef suffered a cardiac arrest while working at Tung Lok Signatures restaurant in Orchard Rendezvous Hotel. Fortunately, three doctors happened to be ...

On Thursday (30 Jan), a young boy in China threw firecrackers into a septic tank, triggering a methane explosion that damaged multiple nearby vehicles. One car had even flipped over from the force of ...