A BUS captain was jailed for a week yesterday for causing an accident which resulted in an elderly passenger's foot being amputated.SMRT driver Lau Pik Choong, 53, drove off while 88-year-old Ting Lang Kin was alighting, causing her to...
TEN years after they were first earmarked for redevelopment, four blocks of flats in the mature Ang Mo Kio estate are finally facing the wrecking ball.Come February next year, blocks 246 to 249 along Ang Mo Kio avenues 2...
TWO elderly people have been cheated of nearly $26,000 in what is known as an "apple scam". The victims are told to put all their valuables in a plastic bag for a ritual, only to find out later that...
SINGAPORE - High taxi rental, long hours at the wheel and sometimes the odd fare evasion to boot, doesn't make life easier for taxi drivers.Least of all not for one driver, who wants to be known as Danny. He...
You may have remembered the name and face but just couldn't place it.Then again, it doesn't matter now that we know that the People's Action Party's Mr Murali Pillai and the Singapore Democratic Party's Dr Chee Soon Juan are...
Temasek Polytechnic will be presenting 11 awards to its top students from next week during their graduation ceremonies. Tracy Low spoke to three students on what drove them to success.When Joy Sim was 14, she saw how her grandmother...
When he was 14, Goi Jia Jian faced a phishing scam on the online role-playing game, RuneScape.His account was hacked and all his hard-earned winnings were stolen.He was furious and devastated.Not wanting to fall victim to such a scam...
The drivers of a taxi and a sports car were injured when the vehicles collided near Geylang late on Monday night.Police said they were informed of the incident at the junction of Guillemard Road and Geylang Lorong 22 at...
It is one setback after another for beleaguered petrochemical producer Jurong Aromatics Corporation (JAC).Just as the firm's receivers were completing talks on a tolling agreement, a fire that razed one of its storage tanks last week also destroyed all...
He leaves for work every day worried for his wheelchair-bound mother's safety.This is because he lives next to a flat brimming with newspapers - a potential fire trap.Mr Derek Ang, who has been living with his 78-year-old mother in...
