Two Vietnamese men were sentenced to six months' jail for smuggling 12 endangered songbirds into Singapore in early December. They were also sentenced to four months' imprisonment for animal cruelty, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) and Immigration...
From Jan 1, 2017, the upper age limit for driving instructors will be raised from 70 to 75, the police said in a news release on Wednesday (Dec 28). With the revision, those who are 70 years old and older...
If you have not yet encountered a tragic story, how does an ocean fish encounter an untimely death in the hands of a careless servant, here is. First released on the local site for all Singapore things yesterday morning (December...
On Christmas Eve, an express coach crashed into a ravine near Muar, Johor, killing 14 people, including three Singaporeans and a Singapore permanent resident. The New Paper looks back at other serious road accidents this year: JAN 24 Photo: The Straits...
Transformation of the economy was the keystone of Budget 2016. But many local businesses are not taking steps to change, the latest National Business Survey released by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) yesterday showed. About six in 10 of small- and...
A number of fixed-rate mortgage plans have been pulled from the shelves lately as banks grapple with the uncertainty over the pace of interest rate hikes. Market watchers noted some banks are trying to ensure their margins are not squeezed...
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will begin collecting iris images from Singapore citizens and permanent residents as another identifier, in addition to photographs and fingerprints. This comes as part of the amendments to the National Registration Act (NRA), which...
SINGAPORE - A woman who travelled by coach from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore allegedly suffered dozens of bedbug bites that left her itching all over her body. Administrative executive Natalie Yap, 29, wrote on Facebook detailing her unpleasant experience onboard...
Two men, one Malaysian and another Singaporean were charged with illegally importing puppies and animals on Wednesday (December 28), the AVA said in a statement. Malaysia Yeun Jian Iun, aged 21, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in...
In November in Singapore, a rare and mysterious trilobite beetle surprise was found to be a big news in November, when a Facebook video it got millions of views. The National Geographic Society says, "Another evidence of our modern concrete...
