SINGAPORE - The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will take over all operating assets, including trains and signalling systems from SMRT on Oct 1 this year. In a statement, LTA said that this move to the New Rail Financing Framework (NRFF)...
Sea view? Check. Gym? Check. Street football and basketball courts and pool table - check, check and check.Welcome to Tuas View Dormitory at Tuas South Avenue 1, facing the Straits of Johor.
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A week before Hari Raya Aidilfitri, a 66-year-old stall helper lost the lower half of his right leg after an accident while he was riding a motorised bicycle.Mr Hassan Jalal was hit by a car while trying to change...
SINGAPORE - The Government could hold an airwave auction to determine Singapore's fourth mobile operator later this year, The Straits Times reported on Friday (July 15).The auction, which could be held as early as October, could allow the new...
The calibre of students being admitted to top secondary schools should be more even under the new PSLE grading system, said experts, and this could "level out" how these schools are perceived.But until this "levelling out" happens, parents said...
Wear plain clothes, take a taxi and behave normally.Singapore bank robbery suspect David James Roach, 27, had scribbled these three "points to note after carrying out a robbery" in a notebook that was recovered after his arrest in Bangkok,...
A pre-school teacher who put a girl's hair clip on a six-year-old boy in front of his classmates will continue to teach at Zoo-phonics School's Serangoon Central branch.This follows an internal investigation into the matter that blew up after...
Pow Sing Restaurant's director had made it a point to eat a plate of chicken rice from his eatery's kitchen every day after he learnt about the gastroenteritis cases linked to it."I told all my staff to eat the...
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has sacked a professor and revoked a doctorate awarded to a student for falsifying data in their research.Professor Ravi Kambadur, who led the research group studying myostatin, was found "wilfully negligent" in his supervision of...
SINGAPORE - Singapore plans to sign a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia next Tuesday to build a high-speed rail link that is expected to cut travel time between the city state and Kuala Lumpur to around 90 minutes.The rail...
