An ang moh and a Chinese helicopter have landed in Oxford. Well, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).Feeling blur like sotong? Don't. Get yourself a teh tarik at the hawker centre and celebrate.Those are just a sample of the Singlish...
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) officer found the horse lying in its stable and it did not get up even when she got close to it.Its behaviour was already unusual, but its condition was even more shocking, she...
Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat looked his usual self at a pre-Cabinet lunch at the Istana yesterday, said Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth Baey Yam Keng.But at about 5.30pm, Mr Heng, 54, collapsed at the Cabinet meeting.A...
A school teacher who hit an elderly pedestrian as she was changing lanes was fined $4,000 and banned from driving for two years yesterday for causing death by negligence.In a rare move, the prosecution told the court that the...
Image: Category: NewsBusinessSingaporeBlurb: The investment firm is not named in the so-called Panama Papers. -The Straits TimesPublication Date: Friday, May 13, 2016 - 14:00Keywords: Panama PapersGICExternal URL: GIC 'not named in Panama Papers'Send to mobile app:
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Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be covering the duties of Finance Minister after Heng Swee Keat - a core member of Singapore's slate of fourth-generation leaders - remains under intensive care after suffering a stroke.In a statement...
Twice a week, public relations officer Mohamed Fawzi Ali, 46, visits the families of inmates in Macpherson, where he lives.He fondly recalls how he had helped a 10-year-old girl whose father was in jail. After visiting the child and...
The steel frame of an MRT train keeps commuters inside safe from lightning strikes, and is like the protection offered when one is inside a car or an aeroplane, said experts.Hence, a lightning strike, which was suspected to have...
As children, the Ong siblings used to get free rides on public buses sometimes.Their father, Ong Cheng Siang, was the second-generation owner of the Green Bus Company which operated five routes from its terminal in Queen Street to as...
A government veterinarian who checked on a horse at a Gallop Stable's Pasir Ris ranch three years ago saw its right hind leg severely swollen and infected, and it had flies in its eyes.The next day, another vet who...
