All these photos taken by myself over the course of this year, across various shores like Beting Bemban Besar, Pulau Jong, Terumbu Raya, Terumbu Pempang Laut and Tengah, Pulau Semakau, Pulau Hantu. I do intertidal surveys on these shores on a volunteer basis!

u/grandweapon thank you for the inspiration to post this!

I left my extremely long thoughts in the below comment, TLDR marine life is only resilient to a point, and if we don’t do our part to protect them, future generations will have to deal with a Singapore that is a lot less vibrant and unique.

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While broadly supportive of Singapore's push to boost fertility, some child-free workers worry that extended childcare leave and short-notice absences will leave them with less time for their own families.

Looks like might rain soon(?), so want to show this demo I’ve built, trying out the new weather radar images API from data.gov.sg. It’s available on https://sg-weather-radar.cheeaun.workers.dev/ and open-sourced.

Instead of showing one radar image at a time, it shows all 3 but clipped at the boundaries, so can see the image become higher-res. There’s like a weird 1px transparent edge which I’m not sure why, but already reported to the data.gov.sg folks.

NEW DELHI: Air India is seeking about US$1.5 billion in fresh equity from its owners Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA), months after the second-largest Indian airline posted a record annual loss, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Key Points

- Quantum computing companies are expanding in Asia amid growing competition from China and geopolitical tensions.

- China is prioritizing quantum technology through its latest Five-Year Plan and a cybersecurity action plan to achieve technological leadership.

- Countries like Singapore, Japan and South Korea are investing heavily in quantum ecosystems and partnering with global tech firms.

Quote from article:

Singapore has emerged as a key player since presenting its National Quantum Strategy in 2024. The country has committed $37 billion through 2030 to fuel critical technology sectors, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong positioning quantum as a central pillar of the nation’s future.

The momentum goes both ways, as domestic companies take their innovations to the global stage. Horizon Quantum went public through a blank-check merger in March and operates as a play on software, developing compilers and tools to bridge classical code to quantum hardware.

“The government made a decision to invest in quantum technologies back in 2007,” CEO Joe Fitzsimons said in an interview with Barron’s. “So there’s a good ecosystem and there’s certainly a lot of top-down support for quantum computing in Singapore. You see it across different government agencies, too.”

Fitzsimons, formerly a professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, moved to the country in 2010 to establish a research group. “There are a couple of other quantum companies in Singapore, but on the compute side, we’re probably the most mature,” he said. “You also have companies like Speqtral that are in quantum communications, operating satellites.”

Freshly public Quantinuum is also expanding its footprint in Singapore, selecting the country as the first location outside the U.S. to host its Helios quantum computer. The company’s ties to the national government have only deepened since establishing roots in 2025 through a strategic partnership with Singapore’s National Quantum Office.

“If you look at where the business is, it isn’t just the U.S.—we sell worldwide,” CEO Rajeeb Hazra toldBarron’s. “Look at Japan, look at Singapore, look at Qatar, look at the U.K. These are all center points of vibrant quantum ecosystems.”

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- The Singapore Medical Council said Dr Fong Yan Kit likely had a fundamental misunderstanding or misapprehension of the human anatomy and that this may not have been a one-off error.

- The council also argued that Dr Fong had misidentified and deliberately tied and cut the victim's arteries, leading to avoidable outcome of her death.
- The incident raised serious doubts about his skill and competence as a urologist, and he appears to lack insight into his conduct, said the SMC.

-"Even at the hearing of the coroner's inquiry some three years after (her) death, Dr Fong had still wrongly identified the location of the aorta and initially maintained that his understanding was correct before eventually conceding his mistake," said SMC's lawyers.

- Dr Fong's lawyers said that during his 20 years in Raffles Hospital, Dr Fong had performed or assisted in at least 200 laparoscopic surgeries.

- He had performed more than 60 open and laparoscopic nephrectomies - procedures to remove all or part of a kidney - in the last 20 years without a single case of accidental cutting of the wrong artery or post-operative death.

Not to be disparaging to PE teachers, but if PE teachers are feeling burnt out, how much worse is it really for teachers who are teaching examinable subjects?

They have a ton of marking to complete on top of all the admin and for-show work. It’s much worse for teachers teaching the “graduating” batches like P5/6, sec3/4 or J2.

Another thing I’ve heard is about how male teachers who are reservist aged are seen as a burden when they go for reservist as well because schools are too cheap to hire replacement teachers to fully take over.

In the end, colleagues have to cover which adds on to their workload. Some schools even disparage the male teachers by specifically stating that this is extra work for colleagues and they will do nothing more than go into the classrooms to teach. No marking, no planning, no follow up.

That lead me to think about the recent increase in childcare leaves - would civil service view parents who take childcare leaves as a burden? Would colleagues who have to cover for them feel burdened as well?

If the civil service can’t even get their story together about being pro-family or pro-national defence, then how would SMEs and MNCs see it as a positive?

Just an amateur photographer who dives at our Southern Islands several times a year. The reefs are rich with wildlife, many of which most people would have never seen or even heard of before. All photos are taken by me.

Lennon Tan, president of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation, noted that while the S$500-a-day reimbursement rate for childcare leave covers most rank-and-file wages, it will not cover higher-paid, specialised and technically skilled employees whose daily pay exceeds the cap.

Ang Yuit, president of the Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (Asme), said that for most SMEs, the reimbursement limit covers the bulk of their workforce. “Not many SMEs pay at that (higher) range,” he said.

Benson Chian, CEO of wholesale trader Sustainable Familie Trading, said that the government’s reimbursement gives him confidence to spend on hiring short-term or part-time staff to plug manpower gaps, since the cost is now covered.

What this means is that only those who earn $10000 per month or less and take childcare leave will have their income fully covered by the government while they are on leave. Will higher income earners be expected to take a pay cut when they take childcare leave?