Time in Singapore

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AirAsia's food delivery service no longer available in Singapore (The Straits Times)

The message on AirAsia Food's Web-based ordering platform, saying that the SIngapore address was outside the service's coverage area. PHOTOS: AIRASIA.

He said then that AirAsia’s priority was to improve the platform’s technology infrastructure. Mr Fernandes said at the time that the group was operating 168 flights weekly to 12 destinations across Asean. AirAsia’s food delivery business was part of the company’s foray into digital services. These made up about 60 per cent of its pre-pandemic flights. Prof Loh said the pivot to food delivery was likely a considered move at the onset of the pandemic, when it was difficult to foresee when air travel would resume. It is extremely saturated and has no room for new entrants, including AirAsia.”

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Titan of Singapore science education retires after 50 years (The Straits Times)

Professor Leo Tan has served as the director of the Science Centre, was the founding dean of NIE and help to set up the Lee Kong Chian Natural History ...

On top of teaching the biology curriculum to teachers-in-training, he and a colleague had them start an aeroponics farm on campus, in the hope that they would be inspired to find engaging ways to teach. He is one of the most approachable people I know and made the effort to remember all his staff, right down to the cleaners, by name.” He is a man who needs to keep busy. He wanted them to be innovative in classrooms. Several of them were previously students of NUS and NIE. Repairs to the building were needed, and he did not have a budget for exhibitions. In the early 1980s, the Science Centre was considered outdated and dull. “I saw the cracks and I thought, ‘Am I going into a building that may cause an accident? The centre got its big break in 1989 when it held Singapore’s first dinosaur exhibition, with real skeletons flown in. But the Science Centre took me out of my cocoon of university life.” He then led the school from 1994 to 2007. People would rather go to the Jurong golf course next door,” recalled Prof Tan.

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