A long-simmering conflict between preserving an age-old tradition during the Qing Ming Festival and showing consideration for the environment has come to a head. The Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery in Bright Hill Road, the largest Mahayana Buddhist...
Sketching and photography trails were some of the unique local experiences that home-rental platform Airbnb put on offer on Monday last week. Users may book these experiences, which cost between $80 and $185, through its website or app. But both the...
One year ago, SMRT trainees Nasrulhudin Najumudin and Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari died in Singapore's worst rail accident when a train hit them shortly after they stepped onto the rail tracks. Seow Bei Yi speaks to their families and...
The number of postal articles cleared annually in Singapore spiked by over 40 per cent from 2014 to last year, making it tougher for the authorities to detect contraband items like drugs and cigarettes. But the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority...
A young boy was hit by a taxi after he beat a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing in Punggol while riding his skate-scooter. Facebook user Cheng Boon Hui uploaded a video showing how the child had whizzed across the...
The company which powers Singapore's Formula One race has been accused of colluding with others to ensure it offered the lowest bid to win the tender. The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) yesterday issued a Proposed Infringement Decision against Cyclect...
The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) School of Law, the third law school here, which commenced classes in January, has a specific focus in areas of family and criminal law. This comes after the fourth Committee on the Supply...
There are now three bike-sharing apps in Singapore, after the official launch of Mobike yesterday. Like ofo, another Chinese-owned bike-sharing app, and oBike, a Singapore venture, Mobike uses a dockless bike-share system and users can unlock its bicycles by scanning...
He has not seen his family for more than two years and does not even have their photographs with him. But yesterday, Mr Khan Nasir Uddin, 44, was reunited with his family of four over a video call back in...
SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a series of milk powder thefts at supermarkets islandwide, police said in a press release on Tuesday (March 21). Police received a report on March 6, informing...
