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Big boost for local TV talent
The world's largest talent scouts, William Morris Agency, will hold a masterclass to help Singapore stars flex more showbiz muscle.
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Kids raise record $450,000
Donations for ChildAid poured in to surpass last year's $390,000 as hearts melted over the outstanding performances.
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Canadian school board pulls fantasy book after parents' complaints
The movie adaptation of "The Golden Compass", opens in S'pore today. -AP
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Mesopotamian sculpture sells for record S$83m
A tiny and extremely rare 5,000-year-old white limestone sculpture from ancient Mesopotamia sold for US$57.2 million (S$83 million) in New York on Wednesday, smashing records for both sculpture and antiquities. -AFP
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Rubens oil sketch sells for record price at auction
The work, Two Studies of a Young Man, was painted between 1615 and 1617. -AFP
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Brother & sister
Two siblings will compete against each other in this year's National Piano and Violin Competition.
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Arts Fest booked for 30 years
Mr Venka Purushothaman took a year to complete Making Visible The Invisible.
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Rowling magic tales fetch $5.6 million
The hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry fetched nearly 40 times its expected price. -Reuters
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Faecal art: artist exhibits slabs of human excrement in London
Artist said his intention was to confront audiences with the horror of the so-called untouchables in India.
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Arthur C. Clarke's 3 wishes on his 90th birthday
The British-born author has written more than 100 sci-fi books, including '2001: A Space Odyssey.' -AP
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Rising paper price ups book prices in China
Voracious demand for books and a crackdown on small, polluting paper mills have caused a paper crunch in China. -AP
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10-day mega book fair opens at Suntec
Unlike last year's fair that focused on Chinese books, English titles take up a quarter of space this year.
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Time after time
Multi-disciplinary artist Joshua Yang set a record for the longest continuous drawing with a marathon 26 hours. And then he drew some more.
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Magna Carta sold for S$31m at New York auction
The royal charter, dated 1297, enshrined the rights of man into English law. -AFP
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Is S'pore the region's new party hot spot?
They can usher in the new year in fashionable cities such as Paris, London or New York, but it's Singapore that is the party town of choice for foreign revellers.
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Say bye to the year in style
Some of us have barely recovered from Christmas and now, it's time to think about how you're going to spend New Year's eve.
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