Satisfaction with mainstream media services here has been rising slowly over the last two years.However, it is newspapers that stole a march over their digital rivals, showing the largest rise in content quality.The latest annual media con- sumer experience...
Punishment is not the same as discipline and it is not right to dish it out to young children, say experts.Dr Christine Chen, president of the Association for Early Childhood Educators (Singapore), says: "Punishment is imposed on the child....
The tender for the High-Speed Rail (HSR) project linking Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is expected to be called within a year, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.He said the ministry was looking forward to the signing of...
The use of social media is commonly associated with younger folk.Nine in 10 millennials here use Facebook, the most popular social media platform here. On average, they spend 2.3 hours a day on social media, according to global insight...
The husband reaches for a bottle of whisky, his fast-food meal in front of him. His wife is feeding a baby doll. They ignore each other, focusing instead on the TV screen outside the frame.This portrait of emotional alienation...
The day before the month of Ramadan began, Madam Rohaya Zainal Abidin lost her husband Zulkefli Yusop, 47, in a hit-and-run accident in Johor Baru.In the month that followed, the 44-year-old mother of four was the recipient of an...
Eight years after a man dressed as a woman attempted to rob the bank he was guarding, Certis Cisco auxilliary police officer Rosli Mohamad Sa'ad still remembers the stubble on "her" chin which gave the robber away.Mr Rosli, 54,...
Pay to park outside their landed homes? Not fair, said most of the residents who spoke to The Sunday Times.The issue over whether landed home owners should pay for parking their cars on public streets outside their houses has...
The computer screen lights up with blotches of green and red, formless shapes moving here and there.I am watching these dancing images, ignorant and clueless, next to a man who knows exactly what is taking place.I see meaningless colours;...
Four days after chicken rice eatery Pow Sing Restaurant was suspended after customers reported falling sick, its sister shop a few units away also suffered the same fate.It was announced yesterday that Pow Sing Kitchen's licence has been suspended...
