Posts Tagged ‘singapore’

‘…it’s raining, it’s raining, gotta find a way to get away (get away), gotta find a way to get away (get away)…’ Amidst the flooding and all, it’s ironic for this song to pop out. I was channel surfing this morning (I’m still when I had my breakfast and stumbled upon a music video on [...]

Singapore Flyer Horror

Posted: December 24, 2008 in World
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The super sleek and the world’s largest observation wheel that overlooked the country’s panoramic view named the Singapore Flyer will be closed to entries until further investigations been done after the Tuesday incident, reported on Channel NewsAsia. For 6 hours 173 passengers were stranded after an electrical problem occur on its drive unit number 1, [...]

An American tourist was visiting a temple in Singapore when he noticed two statues of a man and a woman by the altar. He asked the monk what was the significance of the two. The monk explained that in the Chinese system of yin and yang, positives must always be balanced by negatives, and having [...]

In the meanwhile there are bigger things to worry about now approximately hundreds of other islands and reefs to fight over of of the coast of South China Sea that Malaysia could lose if nothing is done to claim them. As the claim of ownership extends beyond islands to marine features such as reefs and [...]

So Singapore has Pedra Branca and Malaysia has got her Middle Rocks and based on the newspapers’ publications it has shown that Malaysian fishermen now can also enter freely into the rich waters around Middle Rocks. How about South Ledge now? The court, in 15-1 majority, held that Malaysia had ownership to Middle Rocks and [...]

The dispute between Malaysia and Singapore on Pulau Batu Puteh and its two adjacent marine features has been going on for almost 30years, Pulau Batu Putih(PBP) is of 7.7 nautical miles off Johor and 25 Nautical miles from the country, Singapore. Almost the size of a football field and holds a lighthouse the argument started [...]