Singapore’s rapidly changing skyline is currently dominated, in terms of height, by One Raffles Place, Republic Plaza and United Overseas Bank Plaza One, which are 919ft (280m) tall; the tallest residential building is the 803ft (245m) Marina Bay Tower. SOM can already claim authority...
Likewise, America’s mere millionaires were more spread across its cities than in the UK. Manhattan was home to just 7pc of the country’s millionaires and Los Angeles to another 2pc, while London is home to 42pc of Britain’s rich. Overall, the US boasts the most millionaires in the wor...
Traditionally foreigners have preferred to live centrally in leafy upmarket areas such as Orchard Road, Bukit Timah and Tanglin. Newly developed Sentosa Cove, where homes feature private yacht berths, has recently joined the desirable residence list. A reduction in expat company housi...
“The fleet got away and there were no options to come back into the race so it was decided there and then.” American Larsen who skippered The Wave Muscat’s sister ship Oman Air before being snapped up by Bertarelli is one of the most experienced sailors in the sport with four America’...
Some say this is a result of hackers staging a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, where lots of spurious requests are sent to a website to bring it to its knees, while others say it’s a result of exponentially increasing trading activity as more people pour into the goldrush...
The price eased in the second half of last week as Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, was subject to an attack. Mt. Gox said it believed hackers aimed to “destabilise Bitcoin in general” as well as abuse the system for profit. “Attackers… wait for everybody to panic-sell their Bit...
Doesn't this make it worthless? Bitcoin's creators realise that, for anything to be valuable, it has to have some scarcity. So Bitcoin has been made difficult to create. You need powerful computers to do so, and the process is continuously being made harder. Some draw an analogy with ...
That is why gold has been so much in demand during the financial crisis – and popular with shrewd sceptics in the years before. The clarion call of those "gold bugs", shrill in normal times, sounds more reasonable in the "new normal" – the age of unrestrained money printing and financ...
Hall added: “For now this trend is likely to continue because Singapore remains very attractive to many foreign professionals, particularly those from Europe where the unemployment rate has just reached a record high of 12 per cent. Singapore has also built a reputation amongst many p...
"The Singapore Botanic Gardens fulfills the criteria for World Heritage Site assessment, and is a well-loved outdoor area for Singaporeans from all walks of life," said the attraction's director Nigel Taylor. The campaign for the gardens to be considered a UNESCO World Heritage site w...
So how would I buy some of my own Bitcoins? You choose a virtual wallet from one of the various providers. This means you can start to receive coins from other users, and send them onwards. You can buy Bitcoins on specialist online currency exchanges, and they also change hands over o...
* One charity expects a rise of up to 12 per cent in the number of cases of PTSD each year until at least 2018. Last year, 2,550 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were treated for mental health issues, taking the total diagnosed since 2007 to 11,000 – a significant proportion of t...
The Rolex episode takes place at a sensitive time for the church, which has just elected a new leader. Last year, it emerged that the senior hierarchy of the church had been riddled with informers during the communist era. A Gallup poll last month found that the Bulgarian orthodox chu...
Ms Wood said she declined the packet and Ronnie, who is now 65, quit 'freebasing' for good shortly afterwards following a two-week stint in rehab. But their expensive drug habit had left the pair with little money, she said. "The cost of the drugs – not to mention some questionable de...
What’s the first thing you do? I love going to the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which are a sort of miracle in the heart of the city. They were started in the 1850s, but more than a 150 years later, you can still find these wonderful acres and acres of beautifully lush gardens among all...
As central banks around the world increase liquidity, much of this cash is finding its way into Asian property. Foreign investors are attracted to the stable governments of Hong Kong and Singapore along with their robust economies. Although foreign buyers will feel the brunt of the ne...
Barton and Hamann, of course, played together in the Manchester City midfield for a season. They parted ways in the summer of 2007, since which time one has become a washed-up, semi-retired has-been whose considerable footballing talent is now a fading memory and who lives his life vi...
The Bank of Italy suspended all bank card payments on Vatican territory from the start of the year and ordered Deutsche Bank Italia, which manages electronic payments for the world’s smallest country, to turn off its systems. Italian newspapers reported that the action was taken after...
But it is the smaller yachts further back, like Jazz , and the current handicap leader Black Jack , a 66 footer, that will be hampered by the latest wind and any chance of handicap honours will depend on how quickly Jazz can negotiate Storm Bay, up the Derwent River and get to the fin...
The 23-year-old, whose attack sparked protests across India, has been moved from the Safdarjung hospital in central Delhi to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon, close to the city's international airport, officials told AFP. She will then be flown out for treatment abroad, the source added, w...
By contrast, Sir Mervyn is paid £305,000 a year and receives health care worth around £3,000. He has voluntarily frozen his pay since 2010 and turned down a significant pay rise earlier in his term. Mr Carney’s £480,000 basic salary has been increased by £144,000 because he has chosen...
Anton Du Beke and Anne Widdicombe do the sort-of salsa on Strictly last year Photo: BBC When we started our "class", they moved so fast I could barely keep up. Some of my friends picked it up easily, though. There I was left-footed and struggling (it was like a really painful aerobics...
Mr Osborne is preparing to deliver the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, in which he is expected to announce another extension to the Government’s austerity programme. Spending cuts and tax rises are now expected to last until at least 2018. The Chancellor indicated yesterday that he was...
There is no time to ask him precisely what he means but on one level he is rather stating the obvious, for to travel from Bangkok to Singapore is to move from the chaotic rough-and-tumble Asia of the last century to the ordered, organised and super-efficient Asia of the 21st century, ...
She was 11 but dressed in age-six clothes and carrying a red handbag with swear words written on it. She wore a little skirt that had never been ironed and her hair was so long you couldn’t see what colour her eyes were. Together we put away the few clothes she came with and I tried t...
McIlroy still had to wait to see whether Louis Oosthuizen could beat Manassero in a play-off and keep the money race alive in the minds of the mathematicians. But the young gentleman from Verona also eagled the 18th, with a 12-footer, on the third sudden-death hole to deny the South A...
is Richard Happer’s latest book, which uncovers 250 of the world’s craziest laws. Published by Punk Publishing , here we pick out some of the most useful laws for travellers to bear in mind. A location to die for If you fancy a spot of eternal life, forget the Holy Grail: just go and ...
“The thing is I hadn’t even thought about it until Sunday because it was such a massive jump up the standings,” said Hanson. “But seeing your name up there in second on the list gets you motivated. For me to win an event in which there was five of the world’s top 10 was massive.” Hans...
As Singapore residents gear up for Halloween celebrations, a "worldwide phenomenon", according to singaporezombies.com, has hit the small island for the first time. The zombie walk is a public gathering where people with a common interest for the walking dead, dress up as zombies and ...
Pierce the meat all over with a skewer. Put it in a large, sterilised plastic box or bucket (something non-reactive) and cover the meat with the brine; it must be totally immersed. The best thing I've found for weighing it down is two massive bottles of vodka. Put them in on top of th...
