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Continuing from our exploration of Asian music festivals for 2024, be sure to cast your gaze towards Europe when planning your next rave-filled holiday.

Over three immersive days, Horst Music Festival showcases visionary architectural stages and site-specific art installations, creating an unparalleled artistic experience.

Horst Music Festival runs May 9-11 at Asiat Park, Mechelsesteenweg 255, 1800 Vilvoorde, Belgium.

Immerse yourself in the electrifying world of electronic music at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), returning with a bang!.

SINGAPORE - The Bank of Singapore (BOS) has uncovered cases of misuse of medical benefits by its staff, and up to 40 employees left the bank last week.

In response to queries from The Straits Times, a BOS spokesperson declined to provide details, citing confidentiality.

BOS' medical insurance scheme allows employees to claim up to $10,500 for medical and dental expenses.

But ST understands that staff who were found to have misused their medical benefits were told to repay what they claimed.

SINGAPORE - Up-and-coming chef Tariq Helou died unexpectedly on April 25.

His mother, Ms Catherine Yong, told The Straits Times that the restaurant will continue running.

Chef Helou started cooking at age three, scrambling eggs "without permission", he told The Straits Times in 2020.

This article was first published in The Straits Times.

Not to be confused with Phoenix Park in the Tanglin area, Phoenix Estate is a landed enclave in Choa Chu Kang.

When I'd visited Windermere EC and Pavilion Park landed estate in the past, the time taken to get there made commuting seem a bit of a trek.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by Phoenix Park!

As mentioned, the Phoenix Estate is extremely generously spaced.

Born in 1914, Mr Tan began his career as a car salesman, but took up flying to prove a point.

After the war, Mr Tan returned to Singapore and worked with the Department of Social Welfare until he retired.

One of his sons is Mr Tan Thuan Heng, a former national swimmer and Singapore's first Sportsman of the Year in 1967.

The hope of visiting Tan Kay Hai's grave and finding out more about him and his descendants was too great," she said.

The Omoda E5 is just one of the many products brought about by this EV extravaganza and has a lot to prove if it wants to stand out amongst the crowd.

It's a tough ol' field to be in and not one that's easy to penetrate but on paper, it seems the Omoda E5 might just be able to.

Alas, while on paper it seems to have all the marbles, in practice, the E5 loses quite a few of those marbles.

This is incredibly grating because the Omoda E5 has every manner of bong, ding, chime, alarm, and ring that sound constantly and are extremely difficult to ascertain as to what they are sounding for.

It seemed like the driver had forgotten to return the fuel nozzle back to its original location after refuelling.

As a result, the fuel nozzle, and part of the hose, was still attached to the car's fuel filler port as the vehicle travelled down the road.

It seems the driver is completely unaware about the fuel nozzle still attached to their car, casually cruising down the road.

The careless driver attempted to leave the petrol station, not realising that the fuel nozzle was still attached to his vehicle.

SINGAPORE – The police are investigating a case of a teenager found living in a wet market stall for almost a year.

Stall owners at the Circuit Road Market and Food Centre said the girl, who barely spoke and merely gestured, relieved herself in pails in the stall as she would not leave even to use the toilet.

Stall owners said the units have been shut since NEA conducted its checks around three weeks ago.

When asked why they did not alert the authorities about this, the stall owners said they did not want to create trouble.

A 70-year-old man's decomposing body was found in his Bukit Merah HDB flat on Thursday (April 25) after a neighbour had noticed a pungent smell emanating from the unit.

When a Shin Min Daily News reporter visited the ninth floor of the block at about 5pm on Thursday, it was reported that a foul stench lingered in the corridor.

Jiang added that the man had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar.

Other neighbours whom Shin Min spoke to said they had occasionally smelled something rotting but did not think much of the smell.

BEIJING — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken snapped up a Taylor Swift album along with one by classic Chinese rocker Dou Wei during an unexpected detour to a Beijing record store on Friday (April 26) after talks in China meant to ease superpower tensions.

In the Beijing record store, he described mega pop star Swift, whose hits include Bad Blood from her fifth album in 2014, as a successful American export.

In 2019, Swift's album Lover broke a new record for an international artist in China as it surpassed one million combined total streams, downloads and sales within a week of its release.

The combined total made it China's most-consumed full-length international album ever in such a short space of time.