Even on her days off, Miss Mary Jane Lentejas, 25, a nursing aide at the Red Cross Home for the Disabled (RCHD), would still head there to check on the residents. She is among the 53 healthcare employees who live...
I stood in front of a packed stadium with the floodlights intermittently blinding me as a row of footballers prepared to rain shots at my goal post. I saved two, but the next three flew past my flailing hands, and...
To ensure second-hand smoke will not bother residents in public spaces, Nee Soon South grassroots organisations have built 42 designated smoking points near coffee shops and Housing Board blocks. Although smokers will not be penalised if they light up outside...
A Jetstar plane bound for Phuket had to turn back to Singapore yesterday afternoon, 25 minutes after take-off due to a "ventilation issue". The Airbus A320-232 landed safely at 3.55pm at Changi Airport's Terminal 1, with no reports of injury. A...
In its first year of operation, the Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE) has handled more than 500 cases, with salary disputes, request for transfers and physical abuse being the three most common issues. While over 80 per cent of all...
With 60,000 tonnes of electronic waste - as heavy as 220 Airbus A380 planes - churned out every year, Singapore was recently named the second biggest e-waste producer in South-east Asia and the Far East by a United Nations...
Radio veteran Juanita Melson, the voice behind the announcements MRT commuters got used to hearing from 1994 to 2008, has died. Mrs Melson, who was in her early 70s, was a programme manager for over 20 years with Rediffusion, Singapore's...
A couple with a baby in a stroller narrowly avoided trouble on Saturday after an escalator they had just stepped off buckled behind them. The incident took place at White Sands shopping mall in Pasir Ris on an escalator riding...
Girls tend to outdo boys academically at a younger age although this gap closes as they enter their late teens and early 20s. Statistics from the Ministry of Education (MOE) showed that in the last 10 years, girls performed "slightly...
SINGAPORE - The kampung spirit of Singapore's old days is being rekindled in Tampines Street 43, thanks to two refrigerators. Placed in the lift lobby of a block of flats, the fridges have been placed there for residents in the...
