As a firefighter, ambulance driver and now part of the service support unit with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), Mr Halim Mohd, 51, understands the need for blood donation. That is why he has been donating blood for over...
Commuters are marginally more satisfied with private-hire car services than taxis, a Public Transport Council (PTC) survey shows. A poll of 1,526 respondents found that 95.8 per cent of them were satisfied with private-hire services such as Uber and Grab. A...
Online drug peddling here saw a significant jump last year - with an almost seven-fold increase in those arrested for buying drugs and related paraphernalia online, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) yesterday. Presenting an overview of the local drug...
SINGAPORE - She first heard a loud, cracking noise above her. She looked up, only to find a 40m-tall tembusu tree falling fast in her direction. Ms Tay Pei Lei, 26, who was having a picnic near the tree with...
Crying maid lets Tampines man into neighbour's flat, where wheelchair-bound woman is found dead He had just finished praying for his family Tampines when he screamed from a neighboring country level yesterday afternoon. When Mr. Ashaari Hasan Basley, 27, ran out...
The woman who died after being hit by a falling tembusu tree at the Botanic Gardens last Saturday was an inspirational leader who garnered huge respect from all who knew her. Ms Radhika Angara, 38, was at the Gardens with...
Citizen journalism website Stomp was alerted to a tree that had fallen at the carpark of Blk 134D Yuan Ching Rd on Monday (Feb 13), barely two days after a 270-year-old Tembusu tree fell and killed one woman at...
Star Wars fans (or geeks) - gather your light sabers because the Star Wars Run is set to take place in Singapore this May. Jointly organised by The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and local race organiser Esprimo, Star Wars...
A total of 27 suspects were arrested in several Malaysian states from Feb 6 to Feb 8 in a police operation against Internet love scam syndicates across the Singapore-Malaysia border. Royal Malaysia Police's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) and Singapore...
SINGAPORE - Environmentally conscious individuals will have another reason to ditch their cars in as early as August, when the first of 1,000 French- made battery-powered hatchbacks are deployed here in the first big- scale car-sharing scheme of its...
