SINGAPORE - Police officers wearing bulletproof vests were seen outside Standard Chartered bank branch in Holland Village on Thursday afternoon (July 7) after a suspected robbery.A caller to Mediacorp hotline described the suspect as a Caucasian male wearing a...
Flyers and letters warning that bomb attacks will be carried out at a number of locations in Batam and Bintan in the Riau archipelago have surfaced, an Indonesian news website has reported.According to Batam Today, the flyers claim that...
When The New Paper first asked Madam Rozana Anuar, 65, about the crowd she was expecting at her home yesterday, the cleaning coordinator warned: "You may not be able to enter the flat."And that was exactly what happened at...
A judge made it clear that defaulting motorists who fail to settle fines at the night courts must expect heavier sums when the case is referred to the day courts.Noting that night courts set fines between $400 and $600,...
Singapore-based airlines will have to comply with two new safety requirements that are expected to be in place in less than five years. Both rules aim to avoid a recurrence of what happened to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 more...
Volkswagen Singapore is ready to fix the first batch of vehicles affected by the global diesel scandal.The 18 Tiguan crossovers and two Caddy commercial vans will have their engines reprogrammed so that they meet Euro 5 emission standards at...
The rat that was trapped in a rat trap and fell from the ceiling of a Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) foodcourt last Friday was not the only rodent spotted there, it has emerged.About a year ago, a live...
SINGAPORE - Dolphin sightings in the Singapore Strait are quite rare, and it was even more unusual to see a dolphin carcass washed up on the beach at East Coast Park on Wednesday.By Thursday morning, a three-member team from...
A pedestrian reportedly died after an SBS Transit bus ran him over just outside Toa Payoh bus interchange on Thursday (July 7).Stella, a contributor to citizen journalism website Stomp, saw the aftermath of the accident this morning.In the photo...
MTR, Hong Kong's rapid transit railway system, said it will question China's CSR Qingdao Sifang company about the quality of the 102 trains being manufactured for its use following revelation that Singapore's SMRT had shipped 26 faulty subway trains...
