SG Weather

It will be the South-West Monsoon Season between June and September in Singapore, when you are visiting for SIGIR 2008. You might experience late morning or early afternoon showers — however, they won’t affect most of the plans you might have. Just in case, you can check out the weather forecast or even the [...]

Traveling resources

If you are trying to find your way around Singapore, a good place to start is www.streetdirectory.com. You can search by building name or street address and see the location on a map. StreetDirectory.com may not be as fancy as Google Maps, but it does come feature-packed. Once you’ve found your location, you can list [...]

Spot the Merlions

Do you know that Singapura (Malay for Singapore) has a mystical beginning? Legend has it that a prince of Sumatra named Sang Nila Utama and his men set sail from Palembang and reached the Riau Islands. The story goes on when the prince went on a hunting trip to a nearby island.
While hunting, he spotted [...]