‘Law works quickly in Singapore’ — LA Times writer sounds shocked that man who grabbed Ariana Grande is already in jail

ByAnna Maria Romero

November 19, 2025



SINGAPORE: At the Asia premiere of Wicked: For Good in Singapore on Thursday (Nov 13), Ariana Grande, who plays one of the movie’s leading roles, was accosted by a man who jumped over a barricade. The incident left Grande and her co-stars, including Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, visibly upset, and fans who came to the event can be heard calling out to the actress to ask if she was all right.

After a promising beginning, is Singapore's cultivated meat industry on the way to the slaughterhouse?

What is next for the nascent industry that seemed off to such a good start?

A chef prepares Good Meat's cultivated chicken at the Eat Just office in Alameda, California, on Jun 14, 2023.
(File photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

Justin Ong Guang-Xi

17 May 2024


SINGAPORE: It was June 2022, and the lab-grown meat industry looked like it had a sizzling future.

The largest cultivated chicken meat facility in Asia broke ground in Singapore, with a 30,000 sq ft complex at Bedok Food City, set to produce "tens of thousands of pounds" of meat a year. 

Singapore drops ‘30 by 30’ farming goal, sets revised targets for fibre and protein by 2035

One of the new targets is for Singapore to by 2035 produce 20 per cent of the country’s consumption of fibre – a category
that comprises leafy and fruited vegetables, beansprouts and mushrooms.

Nov 04, 2025

SINGAPORE - Singapore has replaced its original 2030 farming goal with new targets for fibre and protein production by 2035, amid headwinds confronting the local agricultural sector.