34 years ago on 26 March 1991, Singapore Airlines flight SQ117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists. After 9.5 hours, SAF commandos killed the hijackers & freed the hostages.

In 1997, Singapore revealed the commandos involved in the rescue belonged to the elite Special Operations Force (SOF).

Good morning from Bangkok, where today Marriage Equality has become a reality in Thailand. The first couples have registered their unions, like here at a pop-up at Siam Paragon Mall. #LGBTQ #สมรมเท่าเทียม

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

Say what you will about Ebenezer Scrooge but his pajama game was on another level. You can hate the man, but you can't hate that nightgown/cap/slippers/candle combo. Straight-up cozy.

Social media has become so clogged with clickbait, AI generated images and text, unsightly ads and trolling that sometimes it's more tempting to just unplug from the mess for some peace and quiet.

When Israel ordered citizens to evacuate border regions more than a year ago, it allowed poor migrant farmworkers, most of them from Thailand, to stay put — to water crops, prune trees and harvest fruit as rockets fell around them. Six have died this year.

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I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

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Mexican President Sheinbaum fires back at Trump in a statement: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs...

The Singaporeans are giving out free beer made from recycled toilet water at the COP29 climate summit. “At first their eyes widen,” one of the leaders of Singapore’s youth delegation said. “Then we reassure them. They’re usually coming back the next day for another.”

This, to me, is the funniest sort of reaction to the ICC warrants for two Israeli leaders. There's a crop of Western elites for whom the shabby tentpoles of their moral universe simply collapse when you suggest Churchill was guilty of war crimes. But, yes, he was, as is the US in the Middle East

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Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

Students looking at their PSLE results as they are handwritten on the blackboard at River Valley English School in Singapore, Nov 16, 1967.

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