There is a significant risk that the water level in Johor's Linggiu Reservoir could fall to zero if 2017 is a dry year, said Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday. The water level in Linggiu Reservoir stood at 27 per cent...
Polytechnic graduates from last year's cohort have outperformed their seniors when it comes to pay and employment rate. Fresh poly graduates had an employment rate of 90.6 per cent last year, up from 88.9 per cent in 2015. Those who landed...
Two more radicalised foreign domestic workers were sent home between Dec 18 and yesterday. In all, seven foreign maids have been radicalised and repatriated in the past two years, said Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam in a written reply to...
Singapore will match the RM20 (S$6.40) road charge that Malaysia has imposed on foreign vehicles since Nov 1 last year, said Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan in Parliament yesterday. He also said drivers of Singapore-registered vehicles entering Malaysia via Woodlands...
Former Hougang MP Yaw Shin Leong, who left Singapore abruptly some five years ago after he was expelled by the Workers' Party (WP), is now working in a private education college in Myanmar and goes by the name Amos...
Driverless trucks may be tested on the roads here within three years, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and PSA Corporation announced yesterday, following the signing of agreements with automakers Scania and Toyota Tsusho. The two companies will design, develop and...
Singapore has launched a new five-year road map aimed at helping the legal sector adopt and create new technologies, in preparation for what Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon describes as the "uberisation" of the law practice. In the Legal Technology Vision...
The number of people marrying in their early 20s or younger has plunged in the past decade. More Singaporeans are better educated and study for longer periods before they start work. Many also want to establish their careers before they...
With people who marry young much likelier to divorce, an intensive programme of one-on-one sessions and workshops will be rolled out to help young couples stay together. Couples aged 18 to 24 will be encouraged to go for the Early...
In the realm of statecraft, soft power can amplify loudly when wielded correctly. Moments after Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said in Parliament yesterday (Jan 9) there was no need to engage in megaphone diplomacy over the Terrex vehicles confiscation,...
