RESIDENTS of Hougang town can look forward to three more community spaces along waterways in the neighbourhood by 2018.These are among 20 projects slated for completion in the next five years under the ABC (Active, Beautiful, Clean) Waters programme.Work...
THE People's Action Party (PAP) is set to announce its candidate for the Bukit Batok by-election today, The Straits Times understands.Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told reporters yesterday: "We will be announcing our candidate very soon, and we are...
SINGAPORE - A motorcyclist who went out of his way to help clear a path for an ambulance on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) has received widespread praise on social media.A video clip of his kind gesture, which was...
I never, in my wildest dreams, thought that I would one day work closely with this great man.I grew up in Changi Village. My father worked as a civilian for the British at the nearby airbase. Our quarters were...
SINGAPORE - A motorcyclist helped clear the path for an ambulance on an expressway here after noticing that vehicles did not make way for the emergency vehicle travelling on the right-most lane.On Saturday, Facebook user Maria N Clyde Alexander...
Don't ask me how many times I tried to say "no" to Lee Kuan Yew. And don't ask me how many times he accepted it. The number is zero.Mr Lee is one who, once he sets his mind he...
After I moved to Hong Kong, I sort of became Kuan Yew's second port of call. Run Run Shaw was No. 1, my wife Pauline and I, No. 2.He liked Pauline and found her simple and earthy ways agreeable.He...
I witnessed Mr Lee's determination and discipline first-hand during the trying period of 1996 and 1997. First there was his 1996 lawsuit against Yazhou Zhoukan, a Chinese language newsweekly, which had published the comments by a lawyer, Tang Liang...
After graduating, I went back to Kuala Lumpur where my father had a small law firm and was working for Tan Cheng Lock.I travelled to Singapore a few times, hoping to get some lead work.I would meet up with...
It may only be a cup of coffee, but the rising price of this key consumer item is an example of the cost-of-living crunch that some Singaporeans are experiencing.Chua Chu Kang GRC MP Zaqy Mohamad tells The Sunday Times...
