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Bali High, Food & Drink

Bali High, Food & Drink

If the beach club party lifestyle in Bali’s Ulu Cliffhouse becomes too frenetic for you, the cliffside resort in Uluwatu has the solution with its new sister property, The Clubhouse at Ulu. Situated just atop…

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Massive steel sculpture takes pride of place on Belgian highway

Massive steel sculpture takes pride of place on Belgian highway

LAVAUX-SAINTE-ANNE, BELGIUM (Reuters) – A 60-metre tall semi-circle of steel cast to look from a distance like a towering but incomplete ring, is set to surprise drivers taking a scenic tour in the south of…

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Whisky Most Fowl, Food & Drink

Whisky Most Fowl, Food & Drink

In the day, Original Chew Kee Eating House serves its famed soy sauce chicken. But at night, cocktails take over – at least until Aug 31 when Single Scotch malt whisky brand Auchentoshan turns the…

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Samoans ink painful bond with their motherland

Samoans ink painful bond with their motherland

APIA, Samoa (Reuters) – Oliver Fagalilo takes a labored breath and tenses his body before a sharp steel comb, dipped in ink, drives into his skin. Six hands keep his body still and his skin…

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Spotlight On Local Talent, Arts

Spotlight On Local Talent, Arts

The upcoming Bizet’s Carmen by the Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO) shines the spotlight on the largely Singaporean cast. Out of the 11 cast members, six are Singaporeans including tenor Jonathan Charles Tay who is making…

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Historic Budapest synagogue to reopen amid Jewish cultural revival

Historic Budapest synagogue to reopen amid Jewish cultural revival

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Tamas Irsai was a teenager when he last sang in the choir in Budapest’s Rumbach synagogue during World War Two, before most Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps. A general view…

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Tiffin Room’s multi-layered spread, Food & Drink

Tiffin Room’s multi-layered spread, Food & Drink

NEW RESTAURANT Tiffin RoomRaffles Hotel1 Beach RoadSingapore 189673Tel: 6337-1886Open daily for lunch and dinner: 12pm to 2pm; 6.30pm to 10pm PAPADUMS are grossly misrepresented in Singapore. We blame it on Samy’s – that banana leaf…

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‘People who love life and music’ – dance parties return to Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – Members of rival Iraqi biker gangs, clad in studded leather and black berets, burst out of their semi-circles to break dance, their tattoo-covered arms waving neon glowsticks. The Mongols Motorcycle Club…

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From wild Maine blueberries comes a buzzworthy new bubbly, Food & Drink

From wild Maine blueberries comes a buzzworthy new bubbly, Food & Drink

Appleton, Maine UNLESS you have trained eyes, you could drive the narrow roads winding through the heart of coastal Maine’s wild-blueberry country and never realise you were surrounded by acres of blueberry vines. They slither…

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Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters

Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters

RACHEL, Nevada (Reuters) – Connie West, co-owner of an alien-themed motel in the tiny U.S. desert outpost of Rachel, Nevada, believes they are coming no matter what. Not aliens, but alien hunters. A whimsical invitation…

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