Wednesday*s #sgroundup: COE prices close high

By Elizabeth Soh | Yahoo Newsroom – 

Here are the top trending stories from today in case you might have missed them:

COE prices close higher across the board

The latest open bidding exercise for the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) ended with mix results on Wednesday.  …

Certificate of entitlement (COE) prices ended higher across all categories in the bidding exercise on Wednesday.

The premiums for Category B, or larger cars above 1,600cc, saw the biggest rise from $65,001 to $72,990.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/coe-prices-for-august-up-across-all-categories-102838569.html

Domestic wholesale trade slips 6.1% in Q2 as construction material sales slide

 

Construction supplies trade fell by 14.9%.

Domestic wholesale trade contracted by 6.1% in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, data released by the Department of Statistics revealed today.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/domestic-wholesale-trade-slips-6-063700927.html

Singapore bodybuilder triumphs over public scorn, image issues

Photo by Cheryl Tay

"Are you a man in a bikini?"

"What's your 'ladyboy' name?"

Bodybuilder Doreen Yeo doesn't feel angry when she receives such questions.

The 27-year-old does, however, get embarrassed, and can only bravely smile and walk away.

When she's with her husband Mohamad Haris, they've been mistaken for a gay couple, and are often subjected to looks of disgust. They are so used to it that they aren't bothered anymore, but Haris, 29, won't hesitate to defend his wife if he has to.

https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/fit-to-post-sports/singapore-bodybuilder-triumphs-over-public-scorn--image-issues-091034283.html

Shigga Shay blends Singapore flavour with gangster rap in 'Lion City Kia' video

Singapore rapper Shigga Shay in music video for hip hop track Lion City Kia. (YouTube Screengrab)

If Singapore ever needed a multi-racial National Day song that appeals to youths, this could be it.

"Welcome to Lion City where we grew up HDB/ Party on River Valley/ with all of my Karang Gunis," raps Singapore hip hopper Shigga Shay in his newly released track "Lion City Kia [Kid]".

The rapper, whose real name is Pek Jin Shen, connects Singaporean youths of all ethnicities – Ah Bengs, Mat Reps and Anjiks included – in one multilingual song, where he and two others rap about the common experiences local youths go through.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/what-is-buzzing/singapore-rapper-shigga-shay-connects-all-of-singapore-s-ethnic-groups-in-new-track--lion-city-kia--084312362.html

Islamic State video purports to show beheading of U.S. journalist

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter guards a position on the front line of fighting with Islamic State (IS) militants, …
Islamist militants fighting in Iraq released a video on Tuesday which purported to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley and U.S. officials said they were working to determine its authenticity.

The video, titled "A Message to America," was released a day after Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has overrun large parts of Iraq, threatened to attack Americans "in any place."

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-video-purports-show-beheading-u-journalist-235301541.html

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