From ‘Call it what it is: Flooding’, 27 Dec 2011, Today (Peter Loon Seng Chee): From a “once in 50 years” event, flooding is now expected in almost every heavy downpour, reducing our first-world roads to a wet mess. But in “No floods in Orchard Rd, just ‘ponding’: PUB” (Dec 24). this was referred to [...]
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From ‘No charity from stores’, 18 March 2011, Voices, Today (Aleteia Gray): WE HELD a fund-raising event called Japan Day at my children’s school yesterday. I had offered to help organise a stall and thought I would ask for some donations in kind from businesses in our area, to be sold at the fund-raiser. …To [...]
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From ‘Photographer handcuffed for taking flood photos’ 18 July 2010, article in Asiaone website Lianhe Wanbao reported that an experienced photographer (Wu Qing Shun) from their paper was handcuffed by a policeman while he was attempting to take photos of the flood. …While going up close to the cars to get a better angle for [...]
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From Headlights and Horns 11 Oct 1924 Letters to ST The use of glaring headlights has been an evil for some time..We come across cars flying from the opposite direction with wonderful glaring headlights and we just have to stop to avoid an accident or from getting into the drain. We are of the opinion [...]
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From ‘Chinese New Year’, 14 August 1924, Letters to ST One section of the community observes January 1 as the New Year, another the Old Chinese New Year and the rest I do not know what. To avoid ridicule, uniformity should be the rule, and personally we should discard such ceremonies as Chap Goh Mainh, [...]
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