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Kolkata Durga Puja 2025: Best Pandals, Food, & Guide To The Festival
Times Now
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September 9, 2025
Kolkata Durga Puja 2025 Guide: Best Pandals, Food, & Guide To The City’s Biggest Festival Every autumn, Kolkata sheds the ordinary and becomes incandescent. This is to welcome Durga Maa for the city’s biggest festival, which celebrates art, food,...
Singapore orders Meta, X to correct ‘false’ claims by US comic Sammy Obeid over show cancellations
Malay Mail
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September 4, 2025
SINGAPORE, Sept 4 — Singapore’s Ministry for Digital Development and Information (MDDI) has reportedly instructed Meta and X to issue correction notices to users who accessed posts by US-based comedian Sammy Obeid, after he failed to comply with a...
Sports News | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao to Host India's AFC Asian Cup Qualifier Against Singapore on October 14
Latestly
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September 4, 2025
New Delhi [India], September 4 (ANI): The AFC Asian Cup 2027 final round Qualifiers Group C match between India and Singapore, on October 14, will be held at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao, Goa. "The Senior Indian Men's National...
entertainment 'It's where I became my favourite version of myself': Tanya Chua talks about long-term move to Taiwan
Asiaone
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September 4, 2025
Some say there is a need to step out of your comfort zone to find yourself and for Singaporean singer-songwriter Tanya Chua, it's moving to Taiwan. The 50-year-old is a guest in an upcoming episode of Taiwanese talk show Let's Go Home and...
singapore Sammy Obeid fails to comply with Pofma, Meta and X to carry correction notice: MDDI
Asiaone
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September 4, 2025
The Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) has instructed Meta and X to issue correction notices for Sammy Obeid's social media posts regarding his cancelled Singapore show. This comes after Obeid failed to make the requested...
Turning fear into a musical dream
China Daily
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The cover of Chan's digital album, Fear and Dreams, which is recorded from his live show and released globally by Universal Music on Aug 25. [Photo provided to China Daily] Fear and dreams are two universal experiences in life, and Cantonese pop...
World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand And Vietnam: Sept 6, 2025
Bernama
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September 6, 2025
INDONESIA 1. ONLINE CRACKDOWN FOLLOWS NATIONWIDE PROTESTS -- THE JAKARTA POST Arrests of activists and social media users for posting content on social media that the police allege incited a string of protests and riots in Jakarta and other...
How to watch Australia v Argentina: Live streams, TV details for Rugby Championship clash
Rugby World
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September 5, 2025
The third round of this year’s tournament gets underway in Townsville, Queensland. Watch Australia v Argentina live streams, as the southern hemisphere giants resume their Rugby Championship 2025 campaigns in Townsville, Queensland. – Date:...
Sports News | Indian Women's Team All Set to Kick off Their Asia Cup 2025 Campaign in Hangzhou
Latestly
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September 4, 2025
Hangzhou [China], September 4 (ANI): The Indian Women's Hockey team is all set to take on Thailand as they kick off their Women's Asia Cup 2025 journey on September 5. India, having last faced Thailand during the Women's Asian Champions Trophy...
Singapore PM Lawrence Wong Says Partnership With India Rooted in Deep Reservoir of Trust Amidst Global Turbulence (Watch Videos)
Latestly
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September 4, 2025
New Delhi, September 4: Stressing that partnership between India and Singapore is rooted in shared values, mutual respect and deep reservoir of trust, Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Thursday said that the partnership between two nations...
Despite cinemas closing, this Singaporean debut director is defying the odds with a new indie sci-fi comedy
Channel News Asia
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September 5, 2025
“When I was thinking of an actor to play that character, we needed someone who looked bedraggled and unkempt … But in Singapore, everyone’s so poised and well-groomed. I needed someone who could play a believable idiot, but who was also scary,”...
singapore Voluntary liquidation of Cathay Cineplexes 'not expected to adversely impact core businesses': mm2 Asia
Asiaone
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September 4, 2025
Cathay Cineplexes' parent company, mm2 Asia, said that the voluntary liquidation of its cinema chain business is unlikely to have a major impact on its core businesses or continuing operations. In a bourse filing on Wednesday (Sept 3), the...
Brunei Week Celebrates Successful First Showcase at MakBesar Grand Market in Singapore
The Bruneian
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September 5, 2025
The Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) successfully launched its inaugural Brunei Week at the bustling MakBesar Grand Market at Suntec City Convention Centre, Singapore. Held from 5 to 7 September 2025, the event gathered some 20...
Smarter stadiums, immersive apps & AI commentary: The new era of sports engagement
Hindustan Times
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September 5, 2025
The recently-passed Online Gaming Act may have killed money-backed gaming in India but elsewhere AI-powered fan engagement is deepening its hold on sport fans and changing the way we consume sport. At the ongoing US Open at Flushing Meadows, for...
While creatives fight AI, fashion may profit from its ‘negative space’
The Business Times Singapore
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September 5, 2025
EVERY week, we read about authors and artists in copyright lawsuits against companies behind generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications such as ChatGPT and Midjourney. Presently, there are about 50 ongoing lawsuits globally claiming...
Making waves in Maine: ‘Lift All Boats’ program mentors teens in the art of lobstering
Mainebiz - Oregon
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On a sweltering day in early July, the navy-blue and white Sea Smoke — a 32-foot Holland lobster boat — pulls into Portland Harbor with a crew of young lobstermen and women hauling freshly caught crustaceans piled high inside bright blue barrels....
Trance Effect to perform at Music Matters Live 2025 in Singapore
The Morung Express
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Kohima, September 5 (MExN): Trance Effect has been officially invited to perform at Music Matters Live 2025, Singapore’s premier international music showcase. The band is managed by the South Korean talent agency Sound Puzzle. Music Matters Live,...
New body Singapore Muaythai Association aims to raise standards
The Straits Times
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September 5, 2025
SINGAPORE – Hit by turmoil and negative publicity in recent years, Singapore Muaythai has received a new lease of life in 2025, with a new national governing body in place for the sport. In June, the Singapore Muaythai Association (SMA) was...
JJ Lin, Taufik Batisah and other local musicians auction guitars for charity
The Straits Times
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September 5, 2025
SINGAPORE – Home-grown musicians JJ Lin, Taufik Batisah, Benjamin Kheng, Shabir Sulthan and Awi Rafael have each signed and donated a guitar to Gift A Guitar, a charity initiative that seeks to provide underprivileged youth with the gift of music....
Singapore’s 50 Richest 2025: Combined Wealth Jumps To $239 Billion; Facebook Cofounder Eduardo Saverin Adds $14 Billion To Remain At No. 1
Forbes
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Forrest Li. Ore Huiying/Bloomberg This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Singapore’s Richest 2025. See the full list here. On the 60th anniversary of its independence, Singapore posted better-than-expected economic growth of 4.3% in the first...