Best short-haul holiday destinations:Singapore

Best short-haul holiday destinations:Singapore

Still consider this city a place in which to merely pause on the way to somewhere else (or somewhere more interesting)? It’s time to catch up.

  • byAnthony Dennis

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What is it really like to eat lab-grown meat? I’ve just tried

What is it really like to eat lab-grown meat? I’ve just tried

For a few hundred bucks a head,Singapore diners will get an exclusive seven-course menu featuring cultivated meat concocted in Australia.

  • byZach Hope
Airline review:The enhancements keep on coming in this premium economy
★★★★
Airline reviews

Airline review:The enhancements keep on coming in this premium economy

Singapore Airlines’ recent revamp of an already decent premium economy offering is the first in almost 10 years.

  • byAnthony Dennis
Singapore hotel’s $170 million revamp adds 50 shades of grey
★★★★
Hotel reviews

Singapore hotel’s $170 million revamp adds 50 shades of grey

There’s a lot to recommend this new hotel,particularly for shopaholics or business travellers enjoying a quick Singapore stopover.

  • byBen Groundwater
Fines and jail time – even Singapore can’t stop people vaping

Fines and jail time – even Singapore can’t stop people vaping

As Australia debates legislation that would effectively outlaw vaping without a prescription,Singapore is struggling to make its own hardline laws work.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
How Singapore pulled a swiftie and started a cultural arms race

How Singapore pulled a swiftie and started a cultural arms race

Singapore’s “unfriendly” exclusivity deal with Taylor Swift has upset some country leaders.

  • byZach Hope
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The luck-bringing dish you must eat over Lunar New Year

The luck-bringing dish you must eat over Lunar New Year

Each ingredient has been chosen for its significance around the new year,representing everything from luck to wealth to sweetness in life.

  • byBen Groundwater
Airline review:This economy class is ‘very economy’,but excels at it

Airline review:This economy class is ‘very economy’,but excels at it

Scoot owns being a low-cost airline and excels in this niche. If you know what to expect,you can prepare and endure.

  • byFlip Byrnes
Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia in March

Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia in March

One of the world’s largest airlines will begin flying from Melbourne to Istanbul in March,a move expected to lower airfares ahead of summer in Europe.

  • byAmelia McGuire
Free flights,GP tickets:Singapore minister charged in rare corruption case

Free flights,GP tickets:Singapore minister charged in rare corruption case

Transport and Trade Relations Minister S Iswaran was slapped with 27 charges in a case linked to a billionaire hotelier behind the Singapore Grand Prix night race.

  • byChris Barrett
Airline review:This cabin crew makes you feel good about flying economy
★★★★
Airline reviews

Airline review:This cabin crew makes you feel good about flying economy

In economy,you’re never going to be lavished by the sort of attention afforded to those in the pointy end,but this crew comes close.

  • byAnthony Dennis