The committee in charge of conceptualising a memorial to honour Singapore's founders has made its recommendations on two possible sites for its location: Fort Canning Park and Bay East Garden at Gardens by the Bay.The 15-member Founders' Memorial Committee,...
SINGAPORE - Learning opportunities and benefits at work rank highly among students as important attributes for their first jobs.In a survey conducted by online job portal STJobs, respondents listed what they expected in a first job in order of...
PEKAN NENAS, Johor - A Singaporean fugitive was sentenced to 12 months' jail for illegally walking across the Causeway into Malaysia without a passport.Sessions Court Judge Salawati Djambari sentenced Tan Hock Chye, 47, to the jail-term soon after he...
SINGAPORE - Shops will no longer be allowed to display cigarettes and tobacco products from next year.Customers will have to request for a text-only price list from tobacco sellers instead.This ban was implemented after amendments made to the Tobacco...
Five people were left injured after a collision between a taxi and a lorry along Jurong East Street 21 yesterday (March 13).Among the injured were three young girls.Stomp contributor Ryan, who had been at the scene, and who sent...
When he told locals in Sumatra that he wanted to make stools out of old newspapers, they laughed at him.But they agreed to help him because the income would put more food on the table for their family.After his...
SINGAPORE - Election fever is back, and this time, all eyes are watching the impending battle for single-ward Bukit Batok.The fight for the single member constituency (SMC) is beginning to hot up as some supporters of the Workers' Party...
SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong turned down blogger Roy Ngerng's request that he be let off by paying $36,000 of the $150,000 he owes in damages. PM Lee responded to the request by saying Mr Ngerng had to...
A team of Singapore students made an electric car so light that it is lighter than the driver.By shedding about 25 per cent of the car's initial weight of about 60kg, it could travel much more efficiently.At 44kg, the...
On this day, 51 years earlier, a young Army officer walked out of the jungle in Kota Tinggi, Johor, his 7.62mm self-loading rifle slung to his shoulder and his fatigues covered in mud.He had just completed a risky mission...
