In Singapore, many landlords prefer leaving their units empty to renting to certain ethnic groups. Owners of private residential properties routinely exclude individuals from tenancy based on ethnicity, even explicitly stating in advertisements that requirements are "no Indians/ PRC" (slang...
He runs his own business selling sports equipment and mobile phone accessories, and interacts regularly with suppliers in China over the phone. This, along with his interest in the Chinese economy, led Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) student Simon Chow, 17,...
Medical students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have a new home that accommodates both classroom learning and clinical experience with "patients" under one roof. Unveiled yesterday, the new campus for the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Novena has...
By the middle of this year, transferring funds to a colleague or stallholder can be done on a mobile phone without having to enter their bank account number. All you need is their mobile phone number, regardless of the bank...
Three-year pilot scheme to help young working adults ease into parenthood To encourage the stork, goodies like enhanced housing grants were introduced in Budget 2017 last week. Yesterday, Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Josephine Teo threw one...
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC is in talks to buy a 40 per cent stake in a property rental company owned by India's biggest listed real estate developer DLF Ltd, DLF said on Wednesday. DLF announced back in October 2015...
Singapore - An American mixed martial arts instructor was jailed for four years by a Singapore court Thursday for having sex with underage girls and possession of child pornography. Joshua Robinson met two Singaporean girls online, court documents showed, and pressured...
SINGAPORE - Singapore is considering using drones and unmanned vehicles to inspect its underground railway tunnels, its transport regulator said on Wednesday, its latest experiment with new technology. The Land Transport Authority has put out a request on the possibility...
When Mr Philip Chew, 82, visited his old workplace in Taman Jurong three years back, he was struck by how much the place had changed. The retired civil servant, who worked for JTC Corporation in the 1970s, could find neither...
Hakka people used to sing their traditional songs loud and proud at the mouth of the Singapore River in the early 1960s, said freelance voice-over artist Lee Yong Tick. "Back then, there wasn't much to keep the people entertained at...
