In Singapore, it is illegal to buy cigarettes if you are under 18 years old.But that has not stopped many youngsters from trying to get an illegal puff of smoke.Shopkeepers The New Paper spoke to say they have seen...
As a primary school pupil in the 1960s, Er Meng Hwa spent many of his days helping his father at their fresh-fish stall near the Singapore River.The ability to gut fish and pick out the choicest cuts at the...
He is a retiree who loves hiking and has been going for weekend hikes at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve for the past 15 years.And even though the nature reserve was closed to the public in 2014 for restoration...
He had not lived with his family for over a decade, and for more than a year, he had lost touch with them.Lately, he had made plans to reconnect with them.But tragically, this was not to be.On Saturday morning,...
SINGAPORE - Come August 9, subscribers to local telcos Singtel and M1 will be able to enjoy free mobile data for a day.Singtel postpaid mobile customers will be able to enjoy that privilege on top of free calls and...
She is $60,000 in debt and has to work two jobs, just so she can send her six children to school.In hope of a better life for them, the 54-year-old woman, Anna (not her real name), puts almost every...
Most residents described him as a harmless man who often loitered at the block looking dazed.But one family claims he was a stalker who terrorised them for more than two years.Regardless of who he really was, it all ended...
SINGAPORE - "My dad, the hero," Facebook user Fique Fiq posted on his page on Sunday (July 10), after his father helped rescue a child who was locked in a lorry.His father is Senior Warrant Officer (SWO) Hasanuddin Johar,...
YOUNG Chinese Singaporeans may have shifted away from their mother tongue to speak more in English but a new study has found that pre-schoolers still have a foundation in the Chinese language.More than half of them are bilingual though...
A horrific child abuse case has led to outrage and questions. Two-year-old Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser died after getting beaten by his mother and her boyfriend. They
were sentenced on Tuesday (July 5).What can be done before it is...
