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❄️ Keeping cool, Tokyo style: Shorts, sneakers and no ties https://asia1.news/4ypM6M0

😱 A $5.5m home purchase was caught in an inheritance dispute — what every Singapore homebuyer can learn from it https://asia1.news/4vFfLhJ

🇸🇬 Best National Day 2026 promotions, dining deals and events in Singapore https://asia1.news/4wN01dn

🦠 Foodborne illnesses at restaurant chains are rare but can sicken customers

Big US restaurant chains don't get linked to foodborne illness outbreaks often, but the number of meals they serve causes a lot of concern when contamination of some kind sickens customers.

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🔥 Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota pushes farther into the US and engulfs DC in haze

The thick smoke enveloped the nation's capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and prompted Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians to postpone their game against Pittsburgh Pirates in Ohio.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷⚽️ Saka's hat trick lifts England past Mbappe and France 6-4 in wild World Cup third-place game

It was the highest-scoring World Cup game since Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 in 1982, and the 10 goals were the most in a third-place match.

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👮‍♂️ Chinese blogger jailed for fabricating Xiaomi EV video claims, state media say

A Chinese blogger has been given 20 months in prison for fabricating negative claims about the safety of Xiaomi's SU7 electric sedan, state media reported on Friday (July 17).

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🦾 South Korea-US team unveils robotic technology that dresses the wearer

The technology developed by researchers at South Korea's Kaist and Stanford University uses soft and flexible "vines" powered by air pressure embedded in clothing. When pressurised, the vines glide the fabric up close to the wearer's body like an ivy plant climbing on a structure, even if the person does not remain standing still.

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💪 Ex-SIA stewardess opens up about fight against rare brain cancer: 'I told him he could find another girl'

Teresa, 31, a former Singapore Airlines cabin crew, has glioblastoma - the most aggressive form of brain cancer - hasn't given up the fight. She has this to say: "Cancer doesn't define your destiny.".

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🤧 'I didn't need to be ashamed': Retrenched Singaporean turns self-doubt into motivation to help others

After losing his job, a 50-year-old Singaporean documented his rebuilding journey on social media, saying opening up about retrenchment helped him heal while encouraging others facing the same struggle.

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⚽️🎰🚫 World Cup 2026: Overseas gambling site using Singapore firms to collect illegal bets

A gambling website based overseas has been collecting illegal bets on Fifa World Cup matches from punters in Singapore who make transactions via PayNow with local firms.

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😢 Man dies after hit-and-run accident near Suntec City; driver arrested for suspected drink driving

Friends of the late Dan Xiao Tingfeng have appealed for eyewitnesses to step forth, hoping for some closure. Meanwhile, a 38-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the case.

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🗓 Outsourced progressive wage model workers to get at least 10 days annual leave from 2029

The Ministry of Manpower said this will ensure that outsourced workers receive leave entitlements that better reflect their continuous years of service, even when their employers change.

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🇸🇬🫡 NDP 2026: First-ever Presidential Gun Salute at Kallang Basin, public can see and feel the impact

The 21-gun salute is a staple at the National Day Parade every year, but there's still something fresh about this year's Presidential Gun Salute - the first time it is being conducted from the Kallang Basin.

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😤 PMD rider speeds down road, runs red light in Punggol

A video posted on Facebook page SG Road Vigilante shows the rider speeding past a car on the road at around 5pm on Saturday (July 18). In the footage, the rider is seen without a helmet, his shirt billowing in the wind as he runs a red light.

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🚨 Singaporean arrested in Indonesia after authorities raid etomidate vape factory in Jakarta

A 34-year-old Singaporean man has been arrested in Indonesia after authorities raided a house in north Jakarta that was allegedly being used as an etomidate vape factory.

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16 US service members have died in the Iran war, reflecting a conflict fought largely in the air

The deaths reflect the complicated reality that American boots don't need to be on the ground for there to be lethal risks in a conflict that involves drones, missiles and airplanes. American forces are arrayed across the Middle East, making other nations targets of Iran as the fighting has escalated after a breakdown in peace talks.

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✈️⚽️ International visitors came to the United States for soccer. Some saw beyond the clichés, too

From across borders and oceans, they came to the United States to watch football. Along the way, they have encountered American classics: the first bites of Raising Cane's chicken, wide-eyed tours through the outsized commercial landscape that is a Buc-ee's travel plaza, and the realisation that pretty much everything American is enormous.

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🇨🇳 Rescuers race to find survivors in the rain after a landslide in China kills at least 8

The latest death toll stands at eight. Another 34 remain missing after the landslide in Chongqing on Friday (July 17).

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"I wouldn't do that again and for any amount of money... it was stressful and miserable at times. I made myself miserable."

😔 Jim Parsons wouldn't do The Big Bang Theory again as it made him 'miserable'

Despite Jim winning major accolades, including four Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe, for his work on the sitcom, the personal toll was not worth it.

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