Tag: Singapore

  • Man sues woman for friend-zoning him, demands $3 million for ’emotional trauma’

    A man has sued a woman in Singapore for being friend-zoned to the tune of $ 3 million. The man, identified as Kawshigan, is seeking three million dollars, for “emotional trauma.”

    Kawshigan is taking Nora Tan to court for not reciprocating his feelings and for the “trauma” he felt when he found out she considered him just a friend.

    The two first met in 2016.

    Kawshigan started to develop romantic feelings for Nora Tan who had always thought of them as friends.

    After Nora consented to go to counseling with him, he decided to postpone filing a lawsuit against her. After receiving counseling for one and a half years, he was still unable to understand that she was not interested in dating him.
    He then filed the law-suit against him.

  • Fawad Chaudhry faces backlash, NA members demand draft of proposed media authority

    Fawad Chaudhry faces backlash, NA members demand draft of proposed media authority

    Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry faced a hard time in the committee as members demanded to see the draft law of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), reported Kalbe Ali for Dawn.

    Spokesperson of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Marriyum Aurangzeb, demanded that the draft of the law should be presented for the establishment of the authority instead of a verbal briefing by the minister.

    Adding to her point, Aurangzeb said, “The attitude of the information minister was dictatorial.”

    Fawad Chaudhry said that some people did not want to have any regulations in the media industry, adding that Pakistan cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies being formulated against it.

    “It is important to regulate the media,” the minister said, adding: “We have studied the laws of the United Kingdom (UK), India, Australia, Singapore, and European nations before formulating the draft PMDA law.”

    “But most of all, there will be no compromise over the rights of media workers and against floating of fake news and there was a severe pressure against the Authority regarding these two things,” said Fawad.

    After reflection on the proposed PMDA, the chairman of the committee PML-N’s Mian Javed Latif decided to form a subcommittee, which will be headed by Aurangzeb with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Kanwal Shauzab and Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Nafisa Shah as its members.

  • Pakistani filmmaker wins gender equality award in Singapore

    Pakistani filmmaker wins gender equality award in Singapore

    Award-winning Pakistani filmmaker, Shehzad Hameed Ahmad was recently honored by the United Women of Singapore for supporting the cause of gender equality through his films.

    Over last 10 years, Shehzad has done significant work highlighting and supporting women causes and creating awareness for gender equality. Singapore-based Ahmad was awarded the Gender Equality Impact Change-maker (male individual) award.

    His work includes The Pakistani Four 2012, where he travelled across America to film the journey of four Pakistani American women, Flight of the Falcons 2015, were he filmed the inspiring journey of Pakistani school teacher and her two-room school in Gujranwala, where he highlighted the issues of girls’ education in rural areas of Pakistan.

    His work was being featured on TVF International, Toggle, Dawn News, National Geographic, TV Ontario, CAN and Crime and Investigation Channel, amongst others.

  • Singapore sets a mosquito factory to curb dengue cases

    Singapore sets a mosquito factory to curb dengue cases

    Every year dengue fever comes and makes us all worried even though the government is trying to control the deadly virus with initiative like fumigation, surveys to check larvae, public awareness campaigns on television and radio etc. However, the mosquito-borne disease is far from being under control.

    But what Singapore has done to fight against dengue is surprising as well as interesting.

    Instead of killing mosquitoes, Singapore has set up mosquito factories which produces a new type of mosquito. What happens is when this ‘new kind’ of mosquito goes out and ‘falls in love’ with other mosquitoes, the outside world mosquito will no longer be able to reproduce which means that the mosquito population decreases.

    And what’s even more interesting is that this new mosquito does not bite.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJfBmHgSxBA