Singapore

The absurdity of empire in JG Farrell’s The Singapore Grip 0
- BUSINESS
- September 12, 2020
In 2017, the then British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson paid a visit to the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar. Approaching the giant Tharawaddy Min bell that hangs in the pavilion, Johnson began muttering lines from Rudyard Kipling’s classic imperial poem The Road to Mandalay: For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they
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Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 11, 2020
Singapore is trialing robot dogs to enforce social distancing in its parks, to assist the national coronavirus-control effort. As outlined by GovTech Singapore, the nation’s digital advancement agency, the beast is a Boston Dynamics Spot device that’s been programmed to roam a 3km stretch in the River Plains section of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park during
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Arkphire acquires Singapore based Generic Technologies 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 28, 2020
Chris Ambler, Head of Arkphire’s Asia Pacific business Ireland headquartered IT company, Arkphire, has today announced its acquisition of Generic Technologies, a leading Singapore based IT Solutions and Services company. This is a landmark acquisition for Arkphire following the opening of its regional office in 2019 and will support the Group’s expansion in the Asia
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Culture Crossover: Future World Exhibition, Singapore | Emerging tech & innovation 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 13, 2019
The marriage of art and technology is not exempt from controversy. While the most conservative of the cultural establishment are reluctant to let tech encroach on traditional mediums, techies are also prone to distrusting the elitism and pretensions of the art world. To those who fall into the above categories, a visit to Singapore’s ArtScience Museum might
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