After a night of drinking, Mr Sean Tan usually gets into his car to head home. But the 32-year-old accountant does not take the wheel.Rather, a valet driver, more commonly known as a "jockey", drives him home in his...
SINGAPORE - The police have received around 400 reports about scam phone calls.The police said in a statement today that members of the public first received calls from persons claiming to be employees of courier companies or banks in...
Mr Tommy Lim, 58, visits his sister's niche once a year for the annual Qing Ming Festival.This year was no different.But when the taxi driver and his mother, 86, arrived at his sister's niche at Mount Vernon Columbarium last...
A mystery buyer has offered $17.5 million for the ageing Beauty World Food Centre in Bukit Timah.The sum was offered by investors through real estate agency PropNex, whose spokesman told The Straits Times that the final amount is still...
Just over three years ago, the Transport Ministry removed taxis from the certificate of entitlement (COE) bidding process to take some heat off car bidders.Now, three years after third-party taxi app provider Uber arrived, the heat is back on.During...
There will be more certificates of entitlement (COE) in the coming months and this is expected to drive vehicle prices down further.There will be 9,634 COEs a month, on average, from May to July. This is a 15 per...
For the first 25 years after independence, research and development (R&D) was not a key concern in Singapore, though maths, science and technology were important parts of the school curriculum right from the start.The next 25 years, however, saw...
The total amount of waste generated in Singapore rose by 159,000 tonnes last year to hit 7.67 million tonnes - just short of the high of 7.85 million tonnes in 2013.But for the second year running, food waste has...
Train services along parts of the North-South and East-West lines will start up to an hour later on Sundays to give engineers more time to carry out maintenance works.Stations open at different times but full services will be up...
President Tony Tan Keng Yam gave the Budget the green light yesterday, paving the way for the Government to carry out its spending plans for the new financial year.Dr Tan's assent came a day after the spending plans were...
