SINGAPORE - A woman was killed in an accident involving several vehicles, including a private bus and a lorry, at Pioneer Road North on Thursday (Jan 12) evening. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the...
SINGAPORE - After 55 years of running a mobile provision shop, Mr Foo Kee See, 78, fondly known as Uncle Bread made his final round in Serangoon Gardens, Seletar Hills Estate and Kovan on Wednesday (Jan 11). "I'm old, I...
SINGAPORE - A man was charged in court on Thursday (Jan 12) with driving a car in a dangerous manner along the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) at about 1.40am on Jan 5. Brandon Ng Hai Chong, 30, allegedly drove against...
SINGAPORE - A man was arrested on Wednesday (Jan 11) after locking himself in a Marsiling flat for hours. Police said that they were alerted to a case of rash act and theft at Block 180C, Marsiling Road, at 6.28pm. A...
SINGAPORE - For selling tobacco to minors under 18-years-old, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has suspended the tobacco retail licences of eight errant tobacco retailers. The suspension will last six months, HSA said in a statement today. "HSA inspectors have observed...
Last week's case of falling concrete pieces in a Yishun HDB flat injuring an 80-year-old man may have been dramatic. But it was not an isolated one. In the last three years, about 17,800 households received help from the Housing...
More than 250 paramedics from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) will serve hospital attachments over the next six years, in a move to hone the skills of emergency services here. This is in response to the complex needs of...
Ministry of Education (MOE) kindergartens, which had a muted response at the start three years ago, are now seeing higher demand and enrolments. Last year, there were 1,300 applications for places in the 15 kindergartens, which were set up by...
Oil giants Shell and ExxonMobil both had busy starts to the week. Shell had a chemical leak at its Pulau Bukom manufacturing site on Monday, while a fire broke out at ExxonMobil's Jurong Island chemical plant on Sunday morning. No one...
A bus driver who contracted a deadly infection while on a pilgrimage to Mecca died yesterday, a day before his family was due to fly him home from a Jordan hospital. Mr Abdul Ghafur Mohd Ibrahim, a Singapore permanent resident...
