While the authorities have been busy culling wild boars in Pasir Ris, at least one resident has been feeding the animals, which may have doubled in population in the area. The thriving pack of wild boars in Pasir Ris Drive...
Had Mr Mohamed Ayub Shaik Dawood and Mr Roslan Zainal kept silent, no one would be any the wiser. But speak out they did. The colleagues at The Fullerton Hotel righted an injustice they had first noticed in a newspaper report...
For the past 23 years, the Serangoon Plaza branch of Singapore's famed Mustafa shopping centre has been Mr P. Mohamed Rafeek's workplace. "This was the biggest building in the area in the eighties and nineties. It was almost like a...
At high speed, the Malaysian motorcyclists zoom past traffic, weaving across lanes, squeezing between vehicles, even speeding on road shoulders. Some of these reckless riders may have had to pay the price for their actions, judging by data which Khoo...
SINGAPORE - Eleven people were taken to hospital on Saturday (Jan 14) morning after a Mercedes collided with a lorry carrying foreign workers in Yishun. The police told The Straits Times that they were alerted at 7.51am to an accident...
Since domestic helper Cherryann-Lynn Santos, 36, started working for a family in Singapore nine years ago, she has been "shopping" at the dumpster at her condominium in the east for gifts to send home for Christmas. "We find clothes...
A dog is a man's best friend... or so the saying goes. But people have also forged strong ties with other animals, such as cats, rabbits and hamsters. Rescued animals, in particular, develop exceptionally close relationships with their owners - going...
Two 1.8m-high walls, on either side of the road, slope upwards into the Labrador Nature Reserve. Occasionally, rays of sunlight break through the foliage and dance across their red-brick surfaces. Joggers and other park users hardly pay them attention as they...
Temperature records were smashed yet again last year, the third year in a row, possibly a signal of more sweltering days to come. A special type of paint which cools by reflecting a spectrum of sunlight might offer some respite...
Eunoia Junior College (EJC) has a name some have dismissed as pretentious, but principal Wong Mei Heng says the school's focus is on substance and character. "We want to anchor students in values... We are not building elitism. We are...
