How Singaporean should Singapore be? According to one British film production house, Molinare, it means changing all street signs from English to Chinese and removing British tourists from scenes filmed in Singapore. A tweet-storm brewed over the weekend after Molinare revealed it had digitally...
Two Singaporeans caught smuggling drugs were jailed in separate cases in New Zealand and Australia. Sole breadwinner Mohamad Nazjib Abdul Majit said he tried to smuggle 100g of methamphetamine in his underwear because of financial stress related to his business. He...
SINGAPORE - Even with the largest recall in mobile phone history, Samsung continued to grow on consumers, with its name on nearly one in every three smartphones that made their way to Singapore last year. The latest data from market...
Singapore's highest-rated Channel 8 television drama The Little Nyonya (2008) might never have seen the light of day had it not been for its scriptwriter Ang Eng Tee. Besides the fact that he had created and wrote the popular period...
On the morning of Feb 15, 1942, the British raised the white flag of surrender. In the second of a three-part series, Chong Zi Liang drops by the bunker where the decision was made 75 years ago and visits...
Mr Jonathan Toh has seen his workplace shrink from being an old giant in Singapore's retail space to becoming a modern pop-up store. The last John Little outlet, in Plaza Singapura, that closed on Jan 2 is a far cry...
SINGAPORE - The guidelines around a new category of private homes for short-term rentals will become clearer in the coming months, with the Government set to engage both industry stakeholders and the public in the second quarter of this...
Three men helped put out a fire that broke out yesterday at a hawker stall in the popular Whampoa Makan Place food centre. Photos and a video of the men fighting the fire at the Hi Leskmi Nasi Lemak stall...
SINGAPORE - The 40m-tall tembusu tree that on Saturday (Feb 11) uprooted and killed a 38-year-old woman and left four others injured was unlikely to have fallen due to the lack of space, said Mr Lahiru Wijedasa, a former...
It was his first chap goh mei celebration at Loyang Tua Pek Kong temple on Friday night. Mr Chan Cher Hua, 38, and his wife, Madam Law Siew Lan, 37, were among the 6,000 devotees who turned up on the...
