SINGAPORE - A new $2 billion jobs and training package will create close to 100,000 opportunities for workers affected by the Covid-19 economic slowdown, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (May 26). He told Parliament in...
Jobs will be a key part in the Fortitude Budget, which will be announced by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat this afternoon (May 26). Heng, who is also Finance Minister, wrote in an earlier Facebook post: "The decision...
Saying goodbye to a loved one is never easy, especially during such trying times where circuit breaker regulations mean being unable to honour one's passing the way it normally would. Due to the sudden passing of a relative, a...
A group of Singaporeans worked feverishly to arrange a special flight to Bangladesh to grant a dying man his wish to celebrate one last Hari Raya Aidilfitri in his home town Dhaka. Mr Sikdar Rana, a 34-year-old shipyard worker,...
One Yishun resident was certainly heeding the government's call to stay home and stay safe to a tee when he helped to extinguish a fire from the comfort of his home. The 29-year-old assisted officers from the Singapore Civil...
SINGAPORE - Early one October morning in 1969, Singapore police officers found the body of a man dumped in a storm drain. He had been stabbed to death, police said, in what became one of the country's most...
A video of a group of passers-by assisting a bus captain after she could not continue driving has gone viral. According to the Facebook group Singapore Bus Drivers community, the Tower Transit bus driver broke down after she learnt...
SINGAPORE - Singapore will sink into a deeper recession than earlier forecast this year amid the deterioration in global demand from the coronavirus pandemic as well as the expected impact of circuit breaker measures at home. The economy will...
Singaporeans are willing to give up some privacy in the fight against Covid-19. But the type of technology and how it is used also matters. A study by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) released on Sunday revealed that less...
Singaporeans are willing to give up some privacy in the fight against Covid-19. But the type of technology and how it is used also matters. A study by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) released on Sunday revealed that less...
