Less than a year after Singapore Pinacotheque de Paris opened in Fort Canning Arts Centre with a splash, the private museum said that it will shut its doors on Monday.Art Heritage Singapore, which manages the museum, announced in a...
Several issues of serious journalistic concern arose from recent allegations by Dr Lee Wei Ling, a former columnist of The Sunday Times, after she blogged about events last month to commemorate the death of her father, Mr Lee Kuan...
A Singapore High Court judgment, involving a Muslim couple who divorced in a Johor Syariah Court, has pointed out a gap in the law here.In the case, the 52-year-old man divorced the woman, 37, in 2012 - allegedly without...
The heatwave in the region has led to more costly Malaysian greens at wet markets here.Prices of cucumbers, long beans, bittergourds and brinjals have risen by 10 per cent to 20 per cent since last week, while French beans...
Many parents said it is about time that the often-debated Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) aggregate score be consigned to history, but some asked why it will be implemented only in 2021.Another key question is how the new system...
More safety checks will be carried out at workplaces and harsher penalties imposed on errant employers to curb the rising number of on-the-job deaths.The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will also be stepping up efforts to help small and medium-sized...
SINGAPORE - Rail operator SMRT Corp has completed its internal investigations into the cause of the track accident that claimed the lives of two of its young employees on March 22.The Temasek-owned company said on Friday (April 8) that...
From July 1 next year, workers will get to be re-employed up to the age of 67 years.The announcement of the date for raising the re-employment age ceiling has been a long-awaited one, and comes 23 years after the...
Professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) will be given more support in securing new jobs, after making up the bulk of retrenched workers last year.Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say yesterday announced enhancements to three programmes aimed at helping higher-skilled...
The Manpower Ministry is adopting a stick-and-carrot approach in dealing with the issue of hiring foreign professionals.Employers who persist in hiring them for no good reason and fail to have concrete plans to nurture their Singaporean staff will find...
