May Schooling takes some persuading to say yes to this interview. "Joseph is the one you want," protests the mother of Singapore's first Olympic gold medallist. "I'm just his mother. What is there to write?" Or, she suggests, why don't I interview...
One would think that as the owner of a bookstore, Mr Kenny Leck would have plenty of time to devour as many books as he wants. But don't be so quick to judge a book by its cover. Like many...
The six-year-old girl was less than a metre away from her father when a man approached her and showed her a video on his mobile phone - of himself engaged in a sexual act. The brazen actions of American mixed...
Many Singaporeans are unaware of their monthly water usage even as they think that the recently announced water price hike is unnecessary - a reaction that shows they do not appreciate the cost of water, said water management experts. In...
She is studying to become an aerospace engineer, but Miss Brenda Ng, 19, has already participated in eight art and design competitions and bagged accolades. Her latest win? The LINE: Search For Singapore's Next Young Sticker Artist competition, for her...
FairPrice supermarket has indefinitely closed a food counter at its Ang Mo Kio store after a cockroach was seen scuttling around in a packet of braised duck. A video of the small cockroach in the packet was posted on Facebook...
Around 200 shoppers and mall workers were evacuated from Chinatown Point yesterday after fire broke out at the mall. Schindler-branded escalators on the mall's third storey caught fire at around 3pm. Nobody was on the escalator at the time and there...
In a civil suit, the High Court had on Feb 6 awarded a judgment of $1.1 million to Madam Hedy Mok and her aunt, Madam Chung Khin Chung, the elderly woman who had been manipulated by Yang Yin into...
SINGAPORE - Yang Yin, the former tour guide from China who was convicted of cheating a rich Singaporean widow of $1.1 million, will serve a longer jail term of nine years. Yang, 42, was convicted in September last year for...
Singapore - Twenty-seven years of marriage, two British sons and a granddaughter could not protect Singaporean Irene Clennell from deportation, but now the feisty grandma is fighting to get back to her family. Clennell, 52, was deported to Singapore Sunday, despite...
