SINGAPORE - The recent spate of bomb blasts in a number of Muslim-majority countries were against Islam and do not represent Muslims around the world, Minister Yaacob Ibrahim has said.In a Facebook post on Tuesday (July 5), the Minister-in-charge...
SINGAPORE - A Bangladeshi national who tried to enter Singapore illegally by swimming across the Straits of Johor has been arrested.In a statement on Tuesday (July 5), the Immigrations and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said that the man was first...
SINGAPORE - Despite seeing that a pupil was in school uniform, a tobacco retailer in Ang Mo Kio went ahead to sell the 14-year-old cigarettes. For that, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has revoked the tobacco retail licence of Song...
Singaporean writer O Thiam Chin is an avid runner who runs one full marathon every year. It is fitting then that the 38-year-old's circuitous route to literary success has been a long and at times arduous journey.He barely scraped...
Residents of Block 203, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, are not overly concerned about the possible discovery of two more active tuberculosis cases, as most have already been screened and received the all-clear.However, some believe neighbours who have not...
Factory activity shrank for the 12th straight month in June as the lacklustre global economy continued to weigh on Singapore's beleaguered manufacturing sector.Elsewhere in the region, manufacturing experienced a small lift in some economies but analysts say the uptick...
The Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) has ruled that a US$43 million (S$57.8 million) spat between parties based in the United States and Singapore is an "offshore" case - paving the way for foreign lawyers registered with the SICC...
A jealous woman who was angry that her boyfriend kept nude photos of his ex on his laptop decided to publish them online.Freelance copywriter Yeo Hui Qi alias Yeo Min Ping, 29, was sentenced to a month in jail...
Most parents of children with special needs want new laws to promote the rights of their children, and better pre-school education for them, a survey has found.The survey polled 835 parents with special needs children aged nine and below...
The Boy Who Lived lives again, bringing with him a new wave of Pottermania, nine years after the release of the seventh - and supposedly final - Harry Potter book.J.K. Rowling's saga, which started with an orphaned boy wizard,...
