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Dengue: NEA says no need to avoid Orchard Rd

Orchard Gateway construction site near Somerset MRT station. On 23 October 2013, Singapore’s famous shopping belt, Orchard Road, was reportedly put on red alert for dengue fever by NEA ('Dengue bites Orchard Road'). At the time, a cluster of 18 dengue cases were reported in Orchard Road. A dengue cluster is formed when 2 or...

Defiant SPH takes ST website hacker head-on

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), which owns the Straits Times (ST) website that was hacked yesterday (1 Nov) for a misleading article by ST journalist Irene Tham, has refused to meet the demands of the hacker. Ms Tham had written an article - since deleted from the ST website [Link] - where she substituted "Singapore" for "Singapore...

3-year-old boy rescued in Chai Chee’s flooding

Flooding at Chai Chee Shin Min published a news article yesterday (31 Oct) reporting that during the second heavy flooding in Chai Chee in the afternoon of 29 Oct, a 3-year-old boy was rescued by his father. Chai Chee was earlier already flooded on 28 Oct due to a heavy downpour ('PUB: Not possible to eliminate flash floods'). On...