SINGAPORE - Stricter licensing requirements for pet dogs will kick in on March 1, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) said in a statement on Tuesday (Jan 31). Under the enhanced regulations, announced in November last year (2016), dog owners...
SINGAPORE - Picking up his first passengers of the day, SMRT taxi driver Mr Mohamad Nazaruddin received an unexpected addition on route: the couple's baby. Madam Ma.elena del Rosario Ortiz and her husband, Mr Hamid, were on their way to...
SINGAPORE - YMCA of Singapore's former president Robert Loh has died at the age of 91. Dr Loh, who was the association's longest-serving president from 1970 to 1992, died at 2.45pm on Tuesday (Jan 31). He would have turned 92...
A Singaporean mother was stopped by Frankfurt Airport police and asked to prove she was lactating after a security check showed a breast pump in her carry-on bag when she was travelling alone. Ms Gayathiri Bose, 33, told the BBC...
www.ica.sgov.asia This is the URL of the fake Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) website that is phishing for visitors' visa application numbers and passport numbers. These are screengrabs from the fake website: ICA said in a statement on Tuesday that a police...
Have you ever felt short-changed when the ikura sushi you ordered comes with cucumber slices taking up the space where even more salmon roe should be? Turns out, chefs who serve the sushi this way are not trying to stint...
Like many who recently received a hongbao, you probably ripped it apart, kept the cash and discarded the red packet. Not Mr Samson Low Seng San, 86. He keeps the empty hongbao envelopes, now in the thousands. They are everywhere in...
Ms Wu Sau Ling, 27, had not expected her job to involve brushing aside leaves and branches while trudging along muddy tracks. But that was what she and fellow Housing Board planners had to do while visiting the site of...
A new supercomputer in Singapore, much more powerful than anything else in the region, is transforming research and industry here. Not yet a year old, the machine is already being used to design safer and more cost-effective megastructures, as well...
In August 1957, Singapore was still a British colony. However, earlier that year, Britain agreed to set in motion the wheels for internal self-government. The Labour Front, helmed by then Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, was in power in Singapore's fledgling...
