Shanti Pereira, Maximilian Maeder win top honours at Singapore Sports Awards

At the annual Singapore Sports Awards on Monday ( June 3 ), sprinter Shanti Pereira and kitesurfer Maximilian Maeder were honored.

Sprint star Pereira won the Sportswoman of the Year award at the meeting held at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore, while back-to-back earth hero Maeder won the Sportsboy of the Year award.

Although this is Maeder’s first time winning the award, Pereira has then won it three more times.

Singapore Sports Awards are supported by the Tote Board and the Singapore National Olympic Council ( SNOC), which recognize the most deserving individuals and sports teams for 2023.

In her statement, SNOC leader Grace Fu singled out Pereira and Maeder for their “exceptional successes”. &nbsp,

” Shanti Pereira’s deeds at the Asian Games silenced the state. Her continuous pursuit of excellence brought her tremendous victory on the record… She showed us that with hard work and determination, anyone is possible”, said Ms Fu, who is also Minister for Sustainability and the Environment. &nbsp, &nbsp, &nbsp,

” Max Maeder’s victory in kitefoiling is nothing short of magnificent,” says Maeder,” and his success has established new standards for Singapore sport.”

Swimming champion Nicholas Mahabir, board sport person Izaac Quek, fighter Samuel Robson, and bowling Aiman Lim were the other contenders for the Sportsboy of the Year award.

Zeanne Law, a Wushu rival, won the Sportsgirl of the Year award. &nbsp,

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HDB’s Bidadari master plan wins international real estate award

The property also has a sizable biking and pedestrian network, most of which passes through Bidadari Greenway and Bidadari Park, aside from MRT and trucks.

For instance, the 700m Heritage Walk, which is lined with rain trees, provides color for commuters arriving at Woodleigh MRT station, while a park connector connects residents to clean spaces that are not directly connected to the estate, like as Bishan- Go Mo Kio Park, Sungei Serangoon, or perhaps Punggol Park.

At integrated society and life hub, Woodleigh Mall, people have an array of shopping, dining, medical and financial options.

” Bidadari’s well-designed housing developments, in addition to the good provision of lush vegetation and the protection of the city’s function as a bio-diversity hub, have made good contributions to the surrounding atmosphere and will enable the inhabitants to live healthy and active life,” said HDB.

With the completion of the Woodleigh district and the addition of more apartments over the coming year in the Alkaff, Bartley Heights, and Park Edge districts, HDB stated that it is on track to realize its goal of” A Community in a Garden” for Bidadari.

According to HDB chief town planner Chong Fook Loong, the master planner and developer of Singapore’s public housing estates, the agency is constantly looking for creative ways to improve living conditions for residents.

” We are pleased to have received a Gold FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Award for the Bidadari masterplan, which demonstrates our ongoing efforts to create vibrant and endearing homes for Singaporeans,” said the organization.

This award will encourage us to work toward the completion of Bidadari by 2025.

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American singer Tori Kelly performing in Singapore in August

The first presale session is happening on Friday ( May 31 ) from 2pm to 11.59pm via Kelly’s official website.

The second tickets period is for Mastercard people from Jun 3 to 5&nbsp, via Mastercard’s Precious website.

For LiveNation members, the third and final tickets treatment will take place on Jun 5 at 4 p.m. and end at 11 p.m.

Thereafter, public income will take place from 2pm on Jun 6 via Ticketmaster.

Tori Kelly began her musical career by competing in numerous musical competitions, including America’s Most Brilliant Kids and American Idol. After a series of extended plays, she gained major achievements with her debut full-length record Impenetrable Smile in 2015, which debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 and was awarded Golden by the Recording Industry Association of America. Since therefore, she has amassed hundreds of millions of streams and Silver credentials.

Fans of the animated company Sing will likewise know her as the words of&nbsp, Meena, a brilliant but shy teenage elephant.

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Dua Lipa to perform in Singapore in November, presale tickets available from Jun 10

Information regarding the ticket prices may be made public eventually.

On May 3, Dua Lipa released her most recent album, Radical Optimism, which soared to the top of the charts in several nations, including the UK, France, and Spain. Lipa has a number of hits, including New Rules, Levitating, and One Kiss, since bursting onto the field in 2013.

She has also won three Grammy Honors, with her most recent one being best pop vocal record in 2021 for&nbsp, Potential Nostalgia.

Even performing in Singapore on Nov 6 is R&amp, B singer- manufacturer Ne- Yo. Pre-sale register for his present as part of his Champagne &amp, Roses Tour is now available on Sistic. In 2023, he gave his final performance in Singapore. &nbsp,

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All We Imagine as Light: Indian sisterhood story earns glowing reviews at Cannes

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The new movie from Indian director Payal Kapadia features modern Mumbai street scenes.

However, All We Imagine as Light does not depict the wealthy, well-off Mumbai of Bollywood actors and billionaires in business. Otherwise, the director uses voices of actual refugees from Mumbai, who are the town’s beat, to represent the street scenes.

This is Kapadia’s first narrative picture, and it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival’s primary competition section on Thursday evening. Standing ovations were given for the entire eight-minute movie.

It’s a major success for the cinematographer, and also for India. For the first time in 30 years has an Indian film participated in Cannes ‘ main competitors area. Kapadia, 38, stock the fame and the possibility of winning one of the show’s exclusive prizes with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ali Abbasi, Jacques Audiard, and Jia Zhangke.

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American films have performed quite well on the global festival circuit over the past four decades.

Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay won the Lens d’Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. A few days before the September 11 terrorist assaults, Nair’s 2001 typical Monsoon Wedding won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

The Lunchbox, a famous film from Ritesh Batra’s 2013 video, received the Grand Golden Rail Award at Cannes. Additionally, earlier this year, Women May Be Ladies, a directorial debut from Shuchi Talati, won the Grand Jury and Audience medals at the Sundance Film Festival.

India, the biggest film-producing nation in the world, has so far been left out of the race to win Palm d’Or or one of the other important Cannes prizes. This year, owing to Kapadia’s wonderfully realised and moving picture, India stands a good chance of winning.

Now there are many glowing reviews online. The Guardian in its five- sun assessment describes it as “glorious … an absorbing history full of humanity”. The critic compares the movie to Aranyer Din Ratri ( Days and Nights in the Forest ) and Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar ( The Big City ). Kapadia’s drama, according to IndieWire’s A-grade review, gives Mumbai a romantic eye, which is demonstrated by the way “people occupy their place …whether alone or sharing.”

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Kapadia, the daughter of a well-known American musician, is well-versed in Mumbai, a city with a different and multiracial population.

In contrast to many different locations in the country, Kapadia claims,” It’s also a position where it’s a little bit easier for women to work.”

” I wanted to make a movie about people who leave their homes to labor elsewhere,” said the director.

In All We Know as Gentle, Kapadia follows the life and hardships of two southern Indian nurses who work in a hospital and reside up in a cramped, cramped flat in Mumbai.

One nurse – Prabha ( Kani Kusruti, who played a supporting role in Girls Will Be Girls )- is married. Her father, who resides in Germany, hardly ever speaks to her. But her husband’s surprise surprise, a corn cook, arrives unexpectedly. She hugs the system, as if it is the next sign of love in her marriage.

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The second nurse, Anu ( Divya Prabha ), is more adventurous and is carrying a secret romance with a young Muslim man Shiaz ( a charming young actor, Hridhu Haroon ) who is also from Kerala.

Anu is Hindu, and her family did not approve of their relationship with Shiaz.

Anu and Shiaz cannot be in a private area in Mumbai due to 22 million persons clamouring for place and the terrible monsoon season.

But then suddenly a third hospital nurse, Parvaty ( Chhaya Kadam, who appeared in two films at Cannes this year ), decides to leave the city, forced to do so by the wealthy’s redevelopment of a slum.

Was this offer a chance to alter the course of these characters’ existence?

Payal Kapadia's New Film All We Imagine As Light

The challenges of students Kapadia documented in her most recent movie, a video titled A Night of Knowing Nothing, are not different from those of negotiation space.

The movie made its debut at the Cannes festival’s Managers ‘ Fortnight side section in 2022. It won the L’Œil d’or” Golden Eye”, the show’s best documentary honor.

Following the 2015 student strike at the country’s exclusive government-run Film and Television Institute of India, A Night of Knowing Zero followed. Kapadia participated in the attack, and she received her education in direction in 2018.

In an appointment in 2022, she described the film as a “love notice to public institutions and what they stand for – a place where people of all strata of society can be together and relish independence, both intellectual and physical.”

All We Imagine as Light has a comparable message to it.

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India is leading the Asian gin movement with over 30 brands and counting

Besides herbs, Indian create gin makers are tuned into conservation practices and, more importantly, make work in the local communities. ” We introduced our rum to their innovative green ecoTOTES in Singapore and have also partnered with them to introduce this innovative package answer to India,” Mehta continued.

Tamras and Stranger & Sons are also working toward securing a Green Accreditation from the Ministry of Environment by 2025, employ native women to handle grapefruit, and adheres to a zero-waste plan and saves 10,000 litres of water per batch.

Goa, a seaside retreat an afternoon from Mumbai, is the “local” for the majority of craft gin distilleries. With their lower excise taxes, the area attracts a few craft breweries. At the same time, Goa is India’s team area and attracts scores of revellers across the time, for whom, having is a major priority. Every global brand that comes to India is launched in Goa, according to Bachooali, who is based in Goa with his co-founder family Devika Bhagat. It’s the best test business”.

Indian art gins are even bravely entering international markets, including the US and UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and picking leading international awards along the way, while Indian scotch drinkers have increased leaps and bounds.

At the same time, gin is a saturated category with numerous contenders, said Brandon Grust, general manager for Southeast Asia at Proof and Co.” The gin and tonic movement are not going away, nor is it being diminished. Having said that, I do n’t hear from any countries asking for more gins from consumers or businesses. I think new brands that are trying to establish themselves in Singapore will generally struggle to do so unless they are of exceptional quality and with clear objectives in mind.

The well-travelled Virmani believes that India’s unrestricted spice bounty will enable new players to grow even further. Every neighborhood in the UK has its own gin, he said, and you might wonder if they are actually distinct from one another. We do n’t have the problem in India because there’s so much to uncover. There is no limit to the flavors and aromas that you can experiment with in India.

In Singapore, there are six Indian craft gin brands.

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Singer-composer AR Rahman performing at Singapore National Stadium this August

At a later time, facts regarding the concert’s tickets will be revealed. Rahman may play a concert at Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 27 before his Singapore music.

In a job spanning over 30 years, Mr Rahman has produced the music to over 140 Hollywood, Bollywood and Kollywood pictures. Some of his famous pieces were featured in 1992’s Roja, 2001’s Lagaan and 2006 ‘s&nbsp, Rang De Basanti.

He won two Academy Awards, one for best initial rating and the other for best initial track, for his work on Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.

He directed his initial film Le Musk in 2022, which was completely shot in Rome.

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Olivia Rodrigo adds 2nd Singapore show after 1st show sold out quickly

Concert organiser Live Nation Singapore announced on Tuesday ( May 21 ) that sales for Rodrigo’s second performance will begin at 2pm on May 23. Fans can get their reservations via Ticketmaster, with cards costing between S$ 108 and S$ 308. &nbsp,

VIP ticket holders will be able to get first exposure to the venue’s merchandise counter, an official VIP plywood and lanyard, a VIP present item, and an early entrance to the venue.

Born in 2003, Olivia Rodrigo first gained recognition as one of the key stars on the Disney set High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. However, after the phenomenal success of her debut record Nasty, her singing career exploded.

The record sold more than 4 million US copies in June 2023, earning the hits Drivers License, Deja Vu, and Great 4 U.

Rodrigo released her follow-up record Nerve in 2023, which won record of the year and best roll vocal record at the 66th Grammy Awards.

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