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A Cultural Renaissance In Singapore | Adrian Mourby | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

Singapore has an international reputation for business and tidiness. You can make a fortune here, as long as you don’t eat on the buses or drop litter, but the one thing no one associates Singapore with is art

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Seeking Singapore's Swing | Sally Howard | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

No shortage of mouth in today's Singapore then. But what about its trousers? Risqué and hip-hugging; or the same old greying civil-servant slacks dressed up as something racier?

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Singapore | Steve Knipp | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

For visitors from faster paced places, this small tropical-island nation seems the world's most regulated theme park. Everywhere one goes there are helpful Disneyland-like signs to ease one on one’s way

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Singapore Stop-over | Anthony Toole | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

Tall buildings lit up like galaxies, and where these were reflected in a broad stretch of water, they assumed an almost transcendental quality that compelled and held the gaze

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The Imperial Herbal Restaurant | Isabella Tree | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

The Imperial Herbal Restaurant in Singapore is definitely not the place to go on a first date. Before you’ve had time to shake out your napkin or sink an aperitif

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To market, to market, to buy a topless toad | Susan Storm | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City

I try not to watch as a nimble fingered man reaches into a slimy pool of frogs, plucks one out and proceeds to skin it, as easily as I’d pull off my pantihose

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