For best friends Leah Tee and Laura Lee, both 17, being posted to the same school in the Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) made their day. They both got their first choice - St Joseph's Institution's International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme -...
The charitable organisation received a call from someone who wanted to sponsor a food drive for the needy. As the donor initially wanted to remain anonymous, Mr Nizar Mohamed Shariff, founder of Free Food For All (FFFA), accepted the donation,...
The recent culling of chickens by the authorities here highlights the constant tension between animal lovers and those who are less enamoured by them, said Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday. "It's a very real issue. It's...
They are new HDB flats with many owners yet to move in, but the lifts at one particular block are already experiencing technical problems. On Wednesday, some homeowners had just collected their keys to one of the three blocks at...
One of the lifts broke down in a new block of flats in Bukit Batok on Wednesday, just days after residents had moved in. The lift in Skyline II, a 33-storey Housing Board block, went up and down several times...
When you see foreign objects on MRT tracks, chances are that they are inconspicuous and will not be staring back at you. Well, that was not the case for Twitter user Ashley Soo. She posted photos on her account on Jan...
SINGAPORE - A man who evaded national service (NS) for a decade, between Dec 22, 2004, and May 4, 2015, was sentenced on Thursday (Feb 2) to four months' jail. On Jan 13, Jonathan Tan Huai En, 28, the elder...
SINGAPORE - A Singapore Airlines (SIA) air stewardess was found dead in a San Francisco hotel room on Tuesday (Jan 31, US time), several hours before she was to depart from the city on the return leg of a...
SINGAPORE - The mother and daughter pair found dead in a Woodlands flat were cremated at Mandai crematorium on Wednesday. Madam Zhong Peishan, 39, and her four-year-old daughter Teo Zi Ning were found dead in their Woodlands flat on the...
SINGAPORE - His day job involves organising events and conferences for companies. But on Thursday nights, Mr Irza Fauzan Suprapto, 35, is a football coach at a street football court near Chin Swee Road. For each session, Mr Irza puts about...
