SURFING speeds on Singapore's free public Wi-Fi service, Wireless@SG, will be more than doubled to 5Mbps by the end of this year, as the Government sees the network as a key enabler of Singapore's smart-nation vision.The number of Wireless@SG...
SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has, for the first time, hired women to fly its planes. Two of them joined in August during the last intake of cadet pilots.Their training - in Singapore and Australia - will take between two and...
SINGAPORE - The Constitutional Commission formed to review Singapore's elected presidency will hear from a number of contributors at public hearings in April and May.In a statement on Monday (Apr 11), the Commission revealed that it had received more...
SINGAPORE - A man who killed his wife in a jealous rage two years ago escaped the gallows when he was jailed nine years on Monday (April 11).Truck driver Zheng Xianghua, 38, killed 37-year-old Wang Xueyan at a Tampines...
The refrain is familiar by now: Singapore's tech startup ecosystem lacks technical talent, particularly in the engineering/programming/coding fronts. It was the one thing the city-state scored really low on in the Compass' Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015 report.That's why the...
SINGAPORE - Have an idea to transform a public space into an active community space to facilitate greater interaction? You can now submit a proposal to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to get support for your project.In a statement...
You see a 1.1m-tall sculpture of an adorable bird standing on a public lawn. What do you do?Admire it? Take a selfie as you pat its beak? Or get someone to snap a shot of you sitting astride it?It...
A gambler with assets in Perth failed to shake off a debt of over $620,000, owed to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), on grounds that Western Australian law does not allow gambling on credit which he used to chalk up...
In 1953, bound for Malaya, 27-year-old Jean Mary Gray boarded a plane to Singapore from Heathrow Airport, England. Her father used to say: "If you want to see the world and can't afford to, get a job and see...
Some maids in Singapore are being trained to recognise signs of mental stress and to offer help, in a move to improve mental health support for foreign domestic workers here.The aim is to help distressed domestic workers who have...
