For 83 years, Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan has been a warren of shops and warehouses, where small turret trucks laden with ice-filled boxes of fish zip around. But Tokyo city officials say it became dilapidated and unsanitary. Tsukiji Market ceased operations on Oct…
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) recently organised NTUtopia, a “premium by-invitation” career fair for NTU students. However, the fair drew flak when students who failed to score a minimum GPA of 3.75, or were not in scholar programmes, were ineligible to participate in the fair.…
Created by real-time big data, Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital model of Singapore as a Smart Nation initiative. Virtual simulations could analyse how Singapore will fare under various conditions. For example, “live” data like air quality, temperature and noise data could be used…
On Sept 28, a magnitude 7.5 quake occurred 78km north of Palu, Indonesia at 6.02pm Singapore time. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) had initially issued a tsunami warning, but retracted it shortly after, a move that…
