Lim Ruey Yan

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Ruey Yan is with ST Now, the desk that covers breaking and trending news for The Straits Times. He was previously with ST’s Life desk, where he covered trending and entertainment news, and with the foreign desk, where he was a bilingual journalist monitoring news from Greater China and Malaysia.

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‘One season is perfect’: Spider-Noir star Nicolas Cage reacts as series cancelled after one season

Nicolas Cage played the titular character in Prime Video series Spider-Noir.

HK star Aaron Kwok’s daughters attend prestigious IB school; fees cost over $61k a year

Aaron Kwok with his wife Moka Fang and their two elder daughters were in Singapore in August for a family holiday. Kwok and Fang have a third daughter who turns one in October.

Duo arrested after drugs, weapons found in car in Toa Payoh

Several items are laid out on the ground behind a police cordon in Toa Payoh.

Tucker, the internet’s beloved golden retriever, dies after battling cancer

Tucker, who was eight, was diagnosed with lymphoma and died on Sept 2, said his owner Courtney Budzyn.

Rapper Sheikh Haikel reveals that he has stage 4 cancer

Sheikh Haikel also shared the news of his cancer diagnosis on Instagram on Sept 4.

‘No excuse for ignorance’: Taiwan actress Tsai Yi-chen fined and apologises for staining Japan temple stone

Taiwanese actress-host Deborah Tsai Yi-chen (seen here in Japan in 2024) was fined 500,000 yen (S$4,060) for the vandalism.

Haze in S’pore: PSI crosses 101 in central region as air quality enters unhealthy range

Hazy conditions seen from Toa Payoh Lorong 1 at 9am on Sept 4.

Veteran HK actor Lau Siu Ming dies at 94

Lau Siu Ming’s turn as the androgynous tree demon Lao Lao in the horror-fantasy film, A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), became one of his most famous roles.

Marina Square closure: 5 things about the 40-year-old mall

The Marina Square shopping centre in 1996.

Death of late Hong Kong singer Anita Mui’s mother brings family spat back in limelight

Tam Mei Kam, the mother of Hong Kong pop diva Anita Mui, with her elder son Mui Kai Ming in 2008.

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