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75 best Singapore food you must try Singapore is, undeniably, one of the greatest food cities in Asia, if not the world. Eating and drinking is pretty much a national pastime, and for good reason: our Little Red Dot is chock full of dining destinations for all tastes, cuisines, pursuits, and occasions, just waiting to be explored. The beating heart of our local food scene, however, is our unique hawker culture. Born out of our status as a global port, Singaporean cuisine is both distinct, and in debt to many other ethnic and national cuisines. Our hawker food scene is...

The term “remake” is getting increasingly tricky to pin down in video games. What’s the difference between a “remake” and a “remaster”? How much do you have to change (or not change) from the original to become more than a “remaster”? And when does it just become an entirely new game? The developers at Capcom have the unenviable task of revisiting Resident Evil 4, considered not just one of the best survival horror games ever but one of the best games of all-time. The task is a mountain to climb, but they do have a guiding light. “A lot of...

The mayor of Saanich has been promoting the concept of pre-zoning, in the press and on his website. Pre-zoning would massively curtail the number of community hearings on zoning processes, greatly reducing community power and influence in shaping their own future. This would in many ways be devastating for local democracy and the environment, which will be heavily affected. Unfortunately, the public at large is barely aware of pre-zoning and what it entails and just how much it will affect both them and their communities. What little awareness there is about pre-zoning, tends to be marketed through extensive PR and...

The City of Victoria has won a civil suit that it spent $5,000 to “vigorously defend” because it feared losing would impact its ability to enforce certain bylaws in the future regarding tents in public parks. B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled on Feb. 17 against Niki Ottosen, an advocate for unhoused people who sued the city for $500 after some items she had donated were seized by bylaw officers. Ottosen said in her suit that the bylaw staff “wrongly confiscated” some donations she had collected for unhoused people and then did not return all of the items in the “same...

Money talks.According to a Reuters report, the European Union will apparently not object to Microsoft’s unprecedented $69 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard. The Redmond firm went on a charm offensive in Brussels last week, signing a variety of deals with Nintendo and NVidia GeForce Now, promising Call of Duty for at least the next 10 years should the deal clear. During a press event in which Xbox “paraded” its minuscule market share compared to PlayStation, suit Brad Smith held aloft a contract for Sony, awaiting its signature.And it looks like it did the job: sources claim the EU is unlikely...