Dealers are greeting the new tiered additional registration fee (ARF) for motorcycles, announced earlier this week, with mixed reactions. Targeted at curbing the rising number of expensive motorcycles, the new fee was announced by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in...
Computing seems to be the hottest ticket in town. Graduates from the information systems course at the National University of Singapore (NUS) saw the highest jump in salaries, according to the latest graduate employment survey. They took home a median monthly...
The new head of the Singapore Management University's School of Law, at age 35, is the youngest to hold the post. Associate Professor Goh Yihan will succeed Professor Yeo Tiong Min as dean in July. Prof Yeo will continue as Yong...
SINGAPORE - A 75-year-old man was injured in an accident along Lorong Chuan on Wednesday (Feb 22). The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted at about 2pm to the accident just outside a petrol station on Lorong Chuan. The 75-year-old...
A huge fire with thick columns of smoke broke out Thursday morning at a waste management plant in the western part of Singapore, local authorities said. The Singapore Police Force and the Singapore Civil Defence Force, in statements posted on...
Yesterday was Ms Nur Aizza's 36th birthday. And she started the day by getting trapped in her car after it overturned while on her way to work. Her husband, Mr Shawal Latib, 35, was driving their blue Honda Fit at 7.05am...
PETALING JAYA - An American performing arts lecturer who had apparently taught at a few universities in Malaysia has been exposed as a sexual predator by a US school he worked at more than 30 years ago. According to his LinkedIn...
When it comes to urban tree density, Singapore wears the crown. The City in a Garden trumped 16 cities around the world, in a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the World Economic Forum. Almost 30...
SINGAPORE - A car parked near Block 717, Clementi West Street 2 was crushed after bags of cement fell on it. Lianhe Wanbao reported that the incident took place around 10am on Tuesday (Feb 21). An eye witness told the Chinese...
SINGAPORE - A childcare centre here has denied allegations that it had neglected children and fed them rotten fruit. Photos of the centre were circulated on Chinese social media platform Wechat last Tuesday (Feb 14). Read also: Viral online post alleges that...
