{"id":24723,"date":"2025-12-31T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24723"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:57:35","slug":"crowds-gather-at-marina-bay-for-new-year-countdown-several-areas-now-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24723","title":{"rendered":"Crowds gather at Marina Bay for New Year countdown; several areas now closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Around four hours before midnight, polytechnic students Mr Eros E, 22, and Ms Yasmine Maricar, 21, had already settled down along the Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade near the Red Dot Design Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The pair said they had spent the afternoon shopping at Suntec City and had dinner before heading over early to soak in the atmosphere. It was their first time ringing in the new year by watching the fireworks at Marina Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Eros said he was looking forward to the year ahead, especially the chance to travel after completing his polytechnic studies. &#8220;Next year we&#8217;ll have more opportunities for us to travel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both said they were surprised by the level of security in the area, noting that several spots they had hoped to access were off limits to revellers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/countdown-2026-marina-bay-kallang-police-crowds-5769616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around four hours before midnight, polytechnic students Mr Eros E, 22, and Ms Yasmine Maricar, 21, had already settled down along the Marina Bay Waterfront&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--2hAgmXOK--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_167\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/31\/jem_0011.jpg?itok=XFwcl0KG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1625,545,10211,4275,14450,9992,544,791],"class_list":["post-24723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-areas","tag-bay","tag-closed","tag-countdown","tag-crowds","tag-gather","tag-marina","tag-year","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}