SINGAPORE - Well-known local undertaker Roland Tay Hai Choon was on Friday (Sept 30) charged in court for income tax evasion of more than $427,000 and for failing to register his business for goods and services tax (GST). The 75-year-old founder of Direct Funeral Services was handed three charges of understating his income to evade tax and another count under.
A wedding is an important affair, and it looks like this couple is dead serious about their big day. Last Saturday (July 23), a man surnamed Huang and his wife surnamed Zhuo, donned traditional garb for their Chinese wedding ceremony at Nirvana Memorial Garden, a columbarium located in Choa Chu Kang. Why did they pick this unusual venue for a.
The idea of scattering a loved one's ashes into a garden may sound taboo to some Singaporeans. Chinese tradition, for example, requires that the deceased's ashes have to be returned to their birthplaces and either buried or have their ashes preserved for future generations to pay respects to and receive blessings from, reported a New York Times article in 2015..