As she lifted the sanitary pad bin in the women's toilet at Tampines MRT station, Madam Jumiati Amat noticed it was heavier than usual.The 75-year-old cleaner, who was about to empty the bin of its contents at around 1.30pm...
A ban on smoking in parks at public housing estates that came into force on Wednesday was still news to some smokers yesterday.Three of the four people seen smoking at the Toa Payoh Sensory Park yesterday said they did...
Big plans to transform the Mandai area into a 126ha nature precinct by 2023 would have to include better ways to get there as transport options are now very limited.Only two daily bus services, 138 from the Ang Mo...
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has retracted 11 academic papers authored by researchers from the National Institute of Education (NIE), following investigations into research malpractice.One particular researcher had a hand in all 11 papers.Eight of the papers cite the lead...
A female diner lost her cool and went on an angry tirade against employees at a restaurant in Jem shopping mall on Friday (June 3).A video of the incident was uploaded on Facebook by Euphemia Lee, which Stomp contributors...
A Singaporean man who caused a deadly car crash while on holiday in New Zealand last year was sentenced to four months of home detention and 200 hours of community service on Friday (June 3).Lew Wei Kiong, 30, was...
SINGAPORE - Officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) have foiled a man's attempt to smuggle more than 6,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes into Singapore.In a statement on Friday (June 3), ICA said that they had stopped a...
It is a common scene at many kopitiams (coffee shops in Hokkien) - a food runner takes the order of a local customer but remembers colloquial terms wrongly, and ends up mixing up simple orders like 'kopi-O' with 'kopi-C'.Frustrated...
SINGAPORE - Responding to a call for assistance at Tampines MRT station, personnel from the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) made a grim find: The body of a newborn baby.A spokesperson said that SCDF were alerted...
SINGAPORE - About 80 residents of SimsVille condominium in Geylang had to be evacuated on Friday (Jun 3) afternoon, after a fire broke out on the premises.In a Facebook update, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) revealed that the...
