As a friend to both America and China, Singapore can be put in a difficult situation if there is friction between the two giants, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with British broadcaster BBC. He made the...
Budget 2017 was neither politically motivated nor one that took a "wait-and-see attitude", Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Chan Chun Sing said yesterday, refuting the arguments of the Workers' Party (WP). Instead, the key thrust of the Budget is...
Environment Minister says water is a "national security issue" Water prices were increased substantially to reflect its true scarcity value, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli told Parliament yesterday. As MPs debated the Budget for the second day,...
A construction worker fell nearly 20 storeys to his death at the work site of upcoming mixed-use development Marina One yesterday morning, hitting another worker as his body landed on the third storey. The Singapore Civil Defence Force received a...
Two readers 'Din' and 'Anonymous' alerted Stomp to an incident that happened this morning (Mar 1) at the Marina One construction project in Marina South, where a man died after falling down from a height. Stomp contributor Din, who was...
Four years ago, a young couple left their jobs to set up Fluff Bakery, a small cupcake shop in Kampong Glam. They already had a loyal following on Instagram, where Ms Nursyazanna Syaira Mohammad Suhimi, 29, would post pictures of...
The Australian air safety authority has launched a probe into an incident involving a Singapore Airlines (SIA) aircraft. Flight SQ291 was approaching Canberra Airport on Feb 22 when the pilot brought the Boeing 777 below the stipulated lowest safe altitude. The...
"Why should you presume to tell me how my country should run?" That's what Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told BBC HARDTalk host Stephen Sackur when asked about Singapore's freedom of speech and trade. Mr Lee's comments were made during a...
Ten current and former employees of waterproofing and general works company TAC Contracts were charged in court with corruption yesterday. The men were accused of individually giving bribes ranging from $490 to more than $59,000. They allegedly gave the money to...
A district judge denied bail to Malaysian businessman John Soh Chee Wen on Tuesday, as prosecutors added seven new charges of witness tampering to the alleged "mastermind" of the 2013 penny stock crash and suggested additional involvement manipulating the stock...
