Even as home values fall towards the tail-end of the lease, the Housing Board flat can still be a nest egg for retirement, wrote National Development Minister Lawrence Wong yesterday. "They provide a good store of asset value, so long...
SINGAPORE - The Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) has lodged a police report over a flyer, which allegedly offers health checks to women, said to be circulating in Yishun. SCS chief executive officer Albert Ching, in a statement to The Straits...
For those who regard museum visits as boring - think again. It's now possible to "play games" at the National Museum of Singapore using a virtual and augmented reality app. That's right, just like playing Pokemon Go. And it is...
An SMRT bus collided with an Uber car in the Marina Bay area yesterday afternoon, injuring two people. The empty SMRT bus collided with the white Toyota Sienta at the junction of Bayfront Avenue and Raffles Avenue at about 2pm. The...
A burst water pipe between two Housing Board blocks in Aljunied flooded a carpark yesterday morning, with national water agency PUB and the Marine Parade Town Council temporarily supplying some 75 households with water from an alternative source. A pipe...
The authorities reiterated yesterday that the Sungei Road flea market will not be relocated, even as a new group is petitioning to get the issue heard again in Parliament. In one-on-one engagements with some 200 vendors conducted at the market...
A man was tasered during a confrontation with police in Woodlands on Sunday night. A video clip, posted on Twitter on Monday, showed the man in a stand-off with two policemen. He was shown in a second clip being pinned down...
Two new cases of locally transmitted Zika virus infections have been found at the Poh Huat Terrace/Terrasse Lane area, in the neighbourhood of two other clusters discovered recently. The National Environment Agency (NEA) yesterday said both new cases are residents...
When passengers are bumped off overbooked flights, the practice in Singapore is to ply them with compensation. This includes travel vouchers, meals or hotel accommodation, on top of being placed on an alternative flight to the destination, airlines told...
Three Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) paramedics brought life into the world while responding to an incident in Novena, successfully delivering a baby boy in his home. The happy father, Mr Kean Ho, 39, was so grateful that he tried...
