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With pent up travel demand, SIA is launching an A380 service on the Singapore/Kuala Lumpur route for certain flights between November 4 and December 2. With SIA and certain other carriers like British Airways and Emirates reintroducing the A380 on long haul routes, flight deck crews first need short familiarisation flights. So BA has announced A380 flights to Madrid, Frankfurt and possibly other European destinations prior to deploying four of them on Los Angeles, Miami and Dubai routes.

From Channel News Asia WASHINGTON: Singapore is working on establishing a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with the United States before the end of the year, said Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong on Thursday (Oct 7). Speaking at an event at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, Mr Gan noted that as a hub for business and travel, it is important that Singapore remains connected to the rest of the world despite the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have had successful pilots of vaccinated travel lanes (VTL) with Germany and Brunei to facilitate the entry of fully vaccinated individuals into Singapore for business and leisure. We are now working on a VTL w…

Much as one admires Singapore's amazing success as an economic miracle on what until independence was virtually just a swamp, its rulers have never taken lightly any criticism of its governance. Indeed, that government has resorted to more litigation against the media, corporations and even its own opposition MPs than almost any other anywhere. The city state's founding Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew was admired worldwide. But even he admitted he had to resort to non-democratic methods. Two of his oft quoted dictums were - “We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extrem…

On Tuesday Singapore had its highest number of new one-day covid cases in more than a year. As a result the government has paused reopening and introduced some new restrictions. What is worrying is that discounting children under 12, 90% of the population is fully vaccinated. The majority of the 809 new patients are aged 66 and over. Of these, 75 are seriously ill requiring oxygen - double the number form 2 days earlier - and 9 are in intensive care. Dale Fisher, a professor at Singapore’s National university hospital who specialises in infectious diseases, said on Monday "We’re sort of feeling our way, but clearly you can’t just open the gates and say the vaccine w…

From Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: Singapore will soon allow travellers fully vaccinated overseas to be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safety measures, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Thursday (Aug 19). From 11.59pm on Friday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will issue "tamper-proof" vaccination stickers to newly arrived travellers who have been fully inoculated with a vaccine under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency use list. hese stickers will be affixed to the passports of the travellers. To obtain this sticker, travellers must produce an English-language vaccination certificate to ICA officers at immig…

From The BBC Joshua, Kennede and Sam Jo call themselves The SG Boys. They have started one of the first LGBTQ podcasts in Singapore - where gay sex is still illegal. Singapore's government argues that the ban must remain to reflect society's conservative views, and as a compromise it has said it will not enforce the law. But LGBTQ activists argue that as long as it remains, it perpetuates a stigma and fuels discrimination. The SG Boys tell the BBC about the challenges of living as a gay person in Singapore, and how they hope their podcast will spread love and empathy for their community. Video …

From South China Morning Post Socially-conservative Singapore on Wednesday said it “noted with regret” that the US embassy in the city state had co-hosted a webinar with a local LGBT support group earlier this week. Multi-ethnic Singapore has strict laws regulating public assembly. Foreigners are prohibited from taking part in events dealing with a political cause. “Ministry of foreign affairs has reminded the US Embassy that foreign missions here are not to interfere in our domestic social and political matters, including issues such as how sexual orientation should be dealt with in public policy,” it said in a statement. “These are choi…

From Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: Jewel Changi Airport as well as Terminals 1 and 3 will be closed to members of the public from Thursday (May 13) for 14 days after a COVID-19 cluster with 25 cases was identified there. All workers in Terminals 1 and 3, as well as Jewel Changi Airport have been undergoing mandatory COVID-19 tests in a special testing operation that began on Sunday. Terminal 2 has been closed since May 1, 2020. While the special testing operation is ongoing, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Changi Airport Group (CAG) said on Wednesday that the passenger terminals buildings will be closed to members of the public from Thur…

From The Nation All travellers to Singapore from May 2, 11.59pm (Singapore time), who have a history of travel to Thailand 14 days prior to arrival in Singapore, will now be required to serve their 14-day Stay-Home Notice (SHN) at dedicated SHN facilities. he announcement by Singapore's Ministry of Health applied to Singapore citizens, permanent residents and long-term pass holders, the Singapore Embassy in Bangkok said. "Travellers will no longer be able to opt out of serving their 14-day SHN at dedicated SHN facilities," the embassy said.

From Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project will be discontinued after the HSR agreement lapsed on Dec 31, 2020, the Prime Ministers of both countries said in a joint statement on Friday morning (Jan 1). Both Singapore and Malaysia will now proceed with the "necessary actions". In the statement, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said: "The Government of Malaysia and the Government of Singapore wish to provide an update on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR Project in view of the expiry of the suspension period of the HSR Project on Dec 31, 2020. "In light…

From Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has set up a Safe Travel Office (STO) to ensure an easier and smoother traveller experience with the gradual reopening of borders, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Thursday (Aug 27) in his ministry’s addendum to the President’s address. This comes as Singapore sees stable local community transmission of COVID-19 and embarks on various travel schemes with other countries, he said. President Halimah Yacob told Parliament on Monday that Singapore will safely resume air travel to maintain its role as a global and regional hub. Singapore has reciprocal travel arrangements with Mal…

NOTE -- To access list of cities described in article, use hyperlink at end. Many ASEAN and EU locations are mentioned. From Singapore Airlines Covid-19: SIA and SilkAir transit flights through Singapore SIA, SilkAir and Scoot customers can transit through Singapore Changi Airport from selected points in Asia, Europe and the South West Pacific region to any destination in the SIA Group network currently operated by SIA, SilkAir or Scoot. For the latest cities approved for transit flights through Singapore, please refer to the table here. Please note that the transit flights are only for ou…

From Flight Global Singapore puts pause on Changi airport Terminal 5 project Singapore Changi Airport’s mega Terminal 5 project will be pushed back by at least two years, with a possible redesign in the works, amid uncertainty over the pace at which air travel demand will recover from the coronavirus outbreak. Transport minister Khaw Boon Wan says the Singapore government will “do a thorough study” on post-pandemic air travel demand and the design of Terminal 5. Khaw states: “We are confident that air traffic will return; the uncertainty is how quickly it will be. Analysts’ projections range from 2 to 5 years. We are doing our own study, in consultati…

From Washington Post Amid reopening, Singapore to create new housing for 60,000 migrant workers As Singapore took tentative steps to lift lockdown measures Tuesday, with some businesses opening their doors and some students back in the classroom, the country saw its first death among a migrant worker: a 51-year-old Chinese national, who was the 24th person confirmed to have died of covid-19 in Singapore since March. Singapore has confirmed more than 35,000 cases in a population of less than 6 million, a toll driven higher by outbreaks in crowded migrant-worker dormitories. The government pledged Tuesday to create less-dense housing for some 60,000 m…

Channel News Asia reports that of Singapore's 4,427 cases, more than 2,600 can be traced to migrant worker dormitories. A record of 942 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Singapore as of noon on Saturday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a media release. The "vast majority" of these are work permit holders living in foreign worker dormitories, it said. Of the new cases, 14 are Singaporeans and permanent residents, as the ministry noted that the number of local cases continues to decline. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-new-cases-singapore-942-apr-18-dormitories-12655240

From Channel News Asia High Court judge dismisses all three challenges to Section 377A SINGAPORE: Three men have failed in their challenges against Section 377A of the penal code, after a High Court judge dismissed their court actions against the law that criminalises sex between men on Monday (Mar 30). In a case summary released by the court, Justice See Kee Oon rejected arguments that the law is unconstitutional, and defended the decision not to pro-actively enforce Section 377A. He said that Section 377A "serves the purpose of safeguarding public morality by showing societal moral disapproval of male homosexual acts". It cannot be said to be redunda…

From Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: Singapore confirmed on Tuesday (Feb 4) its first locally transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus, among six new cases of the disease detected in the country. Four Singapore residents with no recent travel history to China have tested positive for the virus, which has sickened more than 20,000 and killed more than 420 people since it was detected in Wuhan in central China. One of them was a tour guide for a group of Chinese tourists, two work at a shop the group had visited, while a fourth case of local transmission was the domestic helper of one of the cases, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said at a briefing. The tour…

From Bangkok Post SINGAPORE: Foreign visitors travelling to Singapore using selected transport services can now submit electronic arrival cards up to 14 days before they reach the country. This means that these visitors will need to produce only their passports for immigration clearance upon arrival — instead of filling out paper arrival cards — as their details will already be in the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA’s) system, TODAY reported The move, announced by the ICA on Wednesday, is part of the authority’s new “SG Arrival Card” e-service, which went on trial last October, and has now been extended to visitors travelling via certain airlin…

From The Nation Singapore gay community urged to fight sex ban after India ruling A senior Singapore diplomat Friday urged the country's gay community to challenge a law banning homosexual sex after India's top court stuck down similar legislation, a rare high-level intervention on the issue. Tommy Koh, ambassador-at-large in the Singapore foreign ministry, made the comments on Facebook in response to a post about Thursday's historic ruling, which followed a decades-long campaign against the law in the South Asian nation. "I would encourage our gay community to bring a class action to challenge the constitutionality of Section 377A," Koh said, referring to t…

From CNN Singapore (CNN) — A 250-meter-long bouncing net three stories above ground. A 50-meter-long suspended bridge with glass-panel flooring. Walking trails amongst a lush jungle of animal-shaped topiaries in a five-story terraced garden. A 40-meter-tall waterfall cascading from an opening in a vaulted glass roof canopy. An art sculpture made up of four giant, integrated slides. And that's just scratching the surface. The thrilling attractions at Singapore's SGD$1.7 billion (US$1.27 billion) Jewel Changi Airport, an addition to Changi Airport due to open in 2019, will boost the already impressive offerings of a facility that's been voted best in t…

Many forum readers are regulars at Took Lae Dee, the popular 24-hour diner in Foodland's supermarket on Patpong 2. Now the chain, known for cheap and tasty food, is opening in Singapore. Took Lae Dee, a familiar sight to readers on Patpong 2 From Coconuts Singapore Took Lae Dee is one of the more famous 24-hour chain restaurants in Bangkok, and also the oldest of its kind in the city. Even those who don’t identify with the nocturnal types fueling up on Bangkok’s post-party food scene may already know of the eatery: It’s popped up in several Thai flicks, as well as CNN Travel‘s recently republished story on “50 Reasons why Bangkok is No.1”. This month,…

Steveboy wrote the above in the now locked Derailing of Threads thread. Unfortunately the comment does need some addition. I agree Bkowing Wind is a much larger site than this one with vastly more contributors. As befits the young age range of most of the posters, a lot of it is boring to the older generation, although it is sometimes interesting to be reminded of those topics which interest the young gay Asians of today. It does have a very active and often intrusive moderating team, though. Yes, the flaming room helps by removing more controversial posts. But the site's moderators are very active at jumping in to make sure rules are followed. Warnings are common and …

I'm in Singapore lah. I've been for a wander in the area around my hotel in Bugis, hoping against hope that I'd find something interesting but was hardly surprised when I didn't. Afterall, this isn't Pattaya. Saturday night I went to Gardens by the Bay to catch the light show. Amazing! After the show I wandered over to take in the concert. The first act was two hot young guys dancing. I felt a bit embarrassed as I was the only onlooker who cheered at the end of their act. People standing in front of me turned around and stared. So, that's what a gay guy looks like! Act two was a very suggestive dance routine by 5 young scantily dressed girls. The guys in …

This is what happens when we let people get out of control on the Internet. First they stalk guys, then they accost them for sex on the MRT. Maybe the old man thought he was in Hong Kong or Taiwan circa 1960. Sad and shameful - where will it all end? https://coconuts.co/singapore/drunk-old-man-violently-accosts-american-man-sex-mrt/

WANTED! A hot young guy with a nice big cock in Singapore! Are there any massage places you could recommend? Is Gayromeo active there? Thanks.