SINGAPORE: Women in Singapore are increasingly angry over the continued campaigns to get them to start making babies. They have told Bikyanews.com repeatedly and across ethnic and class lines that it is "insulting" and "angering" that women are (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Christian population is continue to show its anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) side. The most recent example was a preacher in the Southeast Asian country saying gay people are "diabolical" and should be (...)
SINGAPORE: For one of the world's largest per capita polluters, Singapore's move to begin to track their carbon emissions is winning environmentalists over.
"We are excited about the future and the potential to be a leader in the battle against (...)
SINGAPORE: A group of Singapore women are pushing for change, on a more grassroots level in the county. They meet weekly at one of the four women's houses to talk openly about their struggle to be part of society after facing injustice and sexual (...)
A Singapore law professor was found guilty of corruption Tuesday after a judge ruled that he abused his position to obtain sexual favors and gifts from a female student in exchange for good grades, court officials confirmed to (...)
SINGAPORE: Women in Singapore are increasingly angry over the continued campaigns to get them to start making babies. They have told Bikyanews.com repeatedly and across ethnic and class lines that it is “insulting" and “angering" that women are (...)
SINGAPORE: For the past few months, we have been reporting regularly on women's rights issues, doing the best to not trivialize or sexualize women in Singapore. But continued articles published by English and Chinese language websites have continued (...)
SINGAPORE: Online gambling in Singapore could soon become the domain of the government and may cease to exist altogether.
The government is studying measures that can be taken against online gambling, and to restrict access to — as well as patronage (...)
SINGAPORE: Women's rights activists have praised the sentencing of a Swiss national accused of having commercial sex with a minor has been sentenced to jail for four months and three weeks. However, they said the sentence should have been (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Christian population is continue to show its anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) side. The most recent example was a preacher in the Southeast Asian country saying gay people are "diabolical" and should be (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore's animal rights community is angry after a man was reported and photographed bouncing on a tiger in China. The activists tell Bikyanews.com that they plan to protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in the island country to voice (...)
SINGAPORE: An upcoming integrated development right above Tanjong Pagar MRT station is set to include Singapore's tallest building. The main tower will be 290 meters high when it is completed in 2016.
It consists of 38 floors of Grade A office (...)
Marina and Jun walk hand in hand, stealing a kiss here and there. In August, the couple joined some 15,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in demanding the Singapore government end the criminalization of the gay community.
It (...)
SINGAPORE: The Singapore government has said it will begin to crackdown on domestic workers coming into the country looking for work in the Southeast Asian country, a new memo from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said. It added that women suspected (...)
HO CHI MINH CITY: The Vietnamese Health Ministry has called for same-sex marriage to be legalized, warning that research shows stigma against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) people can damage their physical and mental health.
It is (...)
SINGAPORE: While not technically illegal, Singapore's new trend of swingers parties has some couples fearful they could be arrested. But the “excitement" of the events have them coming back for more.
At a number of upscale couples' homes in the (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore animal rights activists are continuing to be frustrated over the use of two pandas from China to promote what they have described as “cruel animal conditions” at the Singapore Zoo.
The exhibit, the River Safari, ended its soft (...)
SINGAPORE: Three Lebanese football referees were charged on Thursday with receiving sexual bribes in exchange for fixing a match in Singapore, the government's anti-corruption bureau said.
Referee Ali Sabbagh, and assistants Ali Eid and Abdallah (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore is hopeful that its Botanic Gardens can become the next UNESCO World Heritage Site, but to do so one of the world's most densely populated countries must campaign to get the 154-year-old Gardens declared a heritage site.
The (...)
SINGAPORE: India's Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Ajit Singh is on a visit to Singapore from Tuesday to Thursday, at Singapore's invitation. The goal of the visit is to boost discussion on increasing air travel and transport between the two (...)
SINGAPORE: Women in Singapore have long complained about the lack of quality romantic night wear and lingerie, Perk by Kate is to become Singapore's representative lingerie e-commerce site.
Similar sites have erupted across the region that enable (...)
SINGAPORE: In yet another attempt by the government to promote more sexual activity from its female population, a new online website hopes to get women to start getting busy with their husbands and have babies. It comes after numerous ads last year (...)
SINGAPORE: A new LGBT-themed magazine is launching this month in Singapore, but it won't be available on the newsstands in the Southeast Asian city-state, because being gay is illegal in the country. According to a report by 429Magazine, the (...)
SINGAPORE: Virgin America and Singapore Airlines have inked a broader deal to their existing partnership that will give frequent flyer passengers more ways to earn and redeem points for travel on either airlines, the companies said this week.
The (...)
SINGAPORE: A new “Venus in Fur” play from David Ives to be shown in the country beginning March 15 has seen a fervent campaign against the producers over its use of fur and its eroticization and sexualization of women in the country by two unlikely (...)