Grassroots leaders and volunteers across Singapore will be trained in psychological first aid, to help residents overcome the shock and mental distress following a terror strike. Psychologists and counsellors from the newly formed Human Emergency Assistance and Response Teams will...
Between them, Singapore's three charity dialysis organisations had space for only 100 new dialysis patients as of last Tuesday, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). This should be enough to last till June or July, an MOH spokesman said. She...
A motorcyclist encountered a double whammy when was thrown off his bike and nearly got run over by a bus, following an accident involving four other cars. According to Stomp contributor Alex, the accident took place along the Seletar Expressway...
This is not a wishing well. Please do not throw coins into the pond," so say two new signs at a turtle pond in Dempsey Hill. The signs were placed there last Monday after news broke that a turtle in...
Every time cab driver Ong Koh Chee encounters passengers with luggage or carrying bulky items, he makes it a point to help them load their items into his taxi. The 56-year-old, who has been a cab driver for 20 years,...
So it looks like nothing is standing in the way of taxi companies imposing their version of "surge pricing" on customers. Last Friday, the Public Transport Council (PTC) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) issued a statement saying they had...
A six-star hotel in the heart of the city is still shuttered more than a year after it was scheduled to open, due to a dispute among its owners. The Patina, Capitol Singapore, whose 157 rooms are spread across the...
Over the next 15 years, 10,000 to 13,000 trees in Singapore could be removed to make way for transport and housing projects - an ongoing trade-off between nature and development. But the National Parks Board (NParks) is taking steps to...
Singapore has built more rain shelters on expressways for motorcyclists to take cover or take breaks, but some bikers have still been spotted pulling up on road shoulders despite a horrific crash on the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) on...
A retired banker has lost his appeal in challenging a decision by a Law Society review committee to dismiss his complaint that opposing lawyers in disciplinary proceedings against his wife, prominent surgeon Susan Lim, had inflated their fees. Mr Deepak...
