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Best known for his 2019 boys love drama TharnType: The Series, Thai actor Gulf Kanawut will be making his way to Singapore for his first fanmeet here this month.

Tickets are priced at $168, $238, $288 and $428 for Silver, Gold, VIP and SVIP tickets respectively.

For Silver-tiered ticket-holders, the group photo session with Gulf, 26, will include 20 fans in total, while Gold and VIP ticket-holders will get photos in groups of 15 and 10 respectively.

Additionally, Gold and VIP ticket-holders are given a pass to attend the soundcheck and mini talk session, exclusive pass and lanyard and also stand a chance to win a signed poster.

After toiling hard at work, the family behind popular hawker stall Botak Cantonese Porridge are finally going on a much-needed vacation to Yunnan.

On top of that, Hwee Yi revealed that her parents, Ngoh Jook Guan and Ivy Lim, will begin planning for their retirement.

Over a decade ago, Jook Guan was selling mixed vegetable rice while Ivy was running a porridge stall at Golden Mile Hawker Centre.

Eventually, they set up Botak Cantonese Porridge together at The Hawker Centre @ Our Tampines Hub.

Shortly after achieving an all-time high resale flat price of $968,000, Sengkang has crossed the million-dollar line in the same month.

This is the first time a resale flat in that estate has reached the million-dollar mark.

A five-room HDB flat on Compassvale Drive, just a kilometre away from the latest record-breaking flat, was previously the estate's most expensive resale flat at $968,000.

The median resale price for a five-room and executive flat in Sengkang is $629,000 and $775,000 respectively, according to HDB records.

Popular South Korean singer Sandara Park, who went by Dara in the disbanded K-pop girl group 2NE1, will be making a public appearance this coming Monday (May 6) for the Waterbomb Singapore 2024 open press conference.

One of the largest summer festivals in South Korea, Waterbomb typically hosts performances by K-pop, K-hip hop and EDM acts with epic water gun battles in between.

Even though the lineup for Singapore will only be revealed at Monday's event, it was confirmed that more than 10 acts will be in attendance.

While all the early-bird tickets are sold out, you can still try for the standard ticket sales.

Italian construction group Webuild said on Friday (May 3) it has pitched a project to rebuild Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed in March after a container ship crashed into a support pillar.

The project includes the design and planning for the reconstruction, which envisages a cable-stayed bridge with the aim to improve safety, adaptability, sustainability and to ensure maximum safety for navigation, the company said.

"We at Webuild and our US subsidiary Lane are ready to make ourselves available, to quickly restore this strategic bridge for local mobility," Webuild CEO Pietro Salini said in a letter sent to the US transportation secretary, the governor of Maryland, and the director of the Maryland Port Administration.

If you saw a svelte woman strutting at Marina Bay Sands yesterday (May 2) like it's her runway, making people turn their heads to admire her twice, you might have met Chinese actress Gulnezer Bextiyar.

In a Xiaohongshu post yesterday, a netizen posted a video of Gulnezer walking hand-in-hand with another woman, believed to be her friend, at The Shoppes at MBS.

Fans gathered around her as she was seen walking in the airport towards the arrival hall.

A few minutes later, Chinese actress Jiang Shuying and Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin were seen walking out of the arrival hall with Gulnezer following closely behind.

"What we offer is customised earthquake early warning.

Another co-founder Lin Ruei said the app, which was launched in 2022, tracks fast-moving seismic waves from more than 130 seismic sensors the team installed across the island to give users early warnings.

For instance, he said, the app could give users in more populated western Taiwan a warning of up to 30 seconds for a quake from the remote eastern coast.

"If you get a 10-second early warning and you move to a secure spot, maybe it would be a life-saving tool for you.".

NUEVA ECIJA — Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source of income in a region dependant on rice-growing.

Following a prolonged spell with little rain, the dried-up dam has revealed parts of a sunken church and foundations of old structures from the old town in Nueva Ecija province in recent weeks.

"When I heard about the sunken church of old Pantabangan town resurfacing, I got excited and wanted to see it," said 61-year-old retired nurse Aurea Delos Santos.

The old town was relocated in the 1970s during the construction of a dam, which now serves as the main irrigation and water source for Nueva Ecija and nearby provinces, according to the local government.

HONOLULU — The injuring of Filipino crew and damage to Philippine vessels in the South China Sea is "irresponsible behaviour and disregards international law", US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told a joint press conference on May 2.

sailors have been injured and property damaged, that is irresponsible behaviour," he told a joint press conference in Hawaii.

Austin reiterated the United States would continue to support its former colony the Philippines, as outlined in a 1951 Mutual Defence Treaty.

China this week accused the Philippines of encroachment and warned it not to challenge its resolve to defend its sovereignty.

This holds "promising" potential for a higher fruit yield in the March to August durian season.

Similarly, Malaysia expects a higher yield of even sweeter Harumanis mangoes this year.

Meanwhile, an expert foresees a weaker output of oil palm — the fruit from which crude palm oil is extracted — as the hot, dry spell continues.

The Malaysian Palm Oil Board recorded that in 2022, crude palm oil production increased by 1.9 per cent to 18.45 million tonnes, from 18.12 million tonnes in 2021.