Most building conservation efforts in Singapore are led by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), which decides what to add to the country's stable of 7,000-plus protected structures. In a rare case, a group of heritage enthusiasts, including executives from a...
There is no need to close the pre-school in Clementi where a staff member was found to have tuberculosis (TB), said Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday. He assured parents that the TB Control Unit (TBCU) is taking...
A sales executive who got 14 months' jail for subjecting her maid to abuse almost daily for about three weeks was yesterday unsuccessful in appealing for a lighter sentence. Instead, High Court judge See Kee Oon increased Ang Lilian's sentence...
Lawyer S. K. Kumar, a familiar figure in the courtroom, was yesterday disbarred for misconduct that included misleading the court and wasting its time through being absent from hearings or seeking unnecessary adjournments. Once, he asked a client to get...
Teacher Yusrina Ya'akob has a second chance to give Singapore the present she had been planning for its 50th birthday. Two years ago, she was the co-leader of Aluminaid Team Singapura Everest, which saw its ascent up the mountain cut...
Many Singaporeans disagree with the upcoming water price hike announced in Budget 2017, a poll of more than 1,100 citizens by government feedback unit Reach found. Overall, 52 per cent of those surveyed in the two weeks after the 30...
Singapore's headline consumer price index in February rose the most in more than two years on the back of increased private road transport cost, data showed on Thursday. The all-items consumer price index (CPI) in February rose 0.7 per cent...
Are the events that have happened in Yishun in recent years too strange to ignore? If you think so, you'll probably like the new promotional clip for sci-fi horror show Stranger Things posted by Netflix on its Facebook page. But...
Want to get back home at the end of the day in a levitating hovercraft? Flying vehicles may just be a part of Singapore's transport network in the near future; in fact, the Ministry of Transport says that you can...
The Republic's top badminton mixed doubles pair Terry Hee and Tan Wei Han will face an uphill battle at next month's OUE Singapore Open, in their quest to reach a first-ever Superseries quarter-final. The Singaporeans, ranked world No. 17, will...
