Tong biru they give, Our future hangs in the tong, What a sorry state!

An honorary doctorate is a high level academic honorary degree that an university confers to a recipient and exempts them from the normal requirements for that academic degree. The degree is given to honor the recipient and also benefits the university or degree-giving institution by association. Recipients’ qualifications may range greatly. They can have no relationship to the school, no ...

American pop singer Lady Gaga wore a dress made of raw beef to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, sparking off immense publicity and controversy at that time. Designed by Franc Fernandez and styled by Nicola Formichetti, the dress was condemned by animal rights groups and named by Time as the top fashion statement of 2010. Lady Gaga may have ...

A teenage girl who goes by the web moniker “Adelyn Hosehbo” is trending right at the top of Google Search,Facebook and Twitter in Singapore. And it is all for the wrong reasons. Adelyn was thrust into the spotlight amidst a lot of controversy on Tuesday after she allegedly boasted on Facebook about slapping her mother for nagging at her, prompting ...

After three decades in captivity cooped up in tiny cages, starved of natural light and subjected to gruesome hepatitis and HIV experiments in an Austrian laboratory, a group of 38 were finally released to the new £3million Gut Aiderbichl Animal Sanctuary near Salzburg, Austria , where they can spend the rest of their lives in peaceful retirement. A television camera ...

The internet craze of planking has evolved into the more dangerous batmanning as fans seek out ever more dangerous thrills. You can forget planking….batmanning is now the latest internet craze. Batmanning calls for a sudden rush of blood to the head. Batmanning, also known as toe hooking, is simply hanging bat-like upside down by feet from walls, ledges, platforms, raised ...

Curry is one of Singapore’s national dishes, a dish that is equally loved by the island’s British, Chinese, Indian and Malay populations. And it recently became the catalyst for a mass campaign with political overtones in Singapore. A quarrel over the curry aromas wafting from one Singaporean Indian family’s kitchen into the home of a neighbor has bubbled up into ...

Whole yak penis, tiger penis, ox penis, dog penis or sheep testicles, anyone? One man’s food is another man’s poison but at Guo Li Zhuang Chinese Restaurant, one man’s taboo is another man’s tonic. A visit to the restaurant is not for the faint-hearted. It specializes in dishes prepared from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals from a ...

We always find it cute when little kids do grown-up things, like doing Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk or singing a catchy rap song. But preaching? A  preacher firing up a crowd of worshippers is nothing unusual, but it is highly unusual in the case of Kanon Tipton. It’s because he is only four years old. Dubbed the “pint-sized preacher” and “world’s ...

Top fashion magazine French Vogue has stirred up a lot of controversy, condemnation and outrage by publishing provocative pictures of a 10-year-old model Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau in its January issue co-edited by designer Tom Ford. The shots show Ms Blondeau in heavy make-up, revealing outfits and provocative poses. One image shows her reclining in a gold dress, the slashed v-neck ...