The surprise discovery of a rare and mysterious trilobite beetle in Singapore in November became big news in November when a Facebook video of it garnered millions of views. Yet another testimony to the rich biodiversity hidden within the crevices...
From Pakistan to South Korea and Singapore, Internet Help found this year's serveral showstoppers. If you still remember, the "yan dao" policeman, whose real name is Ryan Koh, has left the market in April when he got married in an...
New coffee table book features Kranji countryside's charm, history, farms and people Farmland accounts for about 1% of Singapore's land. Nearly 600 hectares have been allocated to more than 200 farms - many of them in Cranty - producing food...
It was a long wait, but in July, the Ministry of Education (MOE) finally announced a major change in the PSLE scoring system. Students will no longer be rated for their performance relative to their peers. Instead, the new system will...
Even as 2016 draws to a close, with many notable events shaping what has been called by many a year of change, 2017 looks to be a significant year. The Straits Times looks at what to expect for housing,...
2017 will become the housing policy changes quietly start the year behind the scenes. On the stage, however, few fireworks are expected. In an interview in October, Minister of State Huang Za-hua highlighted some changes. The most important of these is the...
It was a special Christmas for the Leong family, and mom came back in the hospital three months later. Ms Ang Liu Kiow, 53, was in a coma after an accident on 17 September, in which a 17-year-old man was...
Private security company Certis Cisco first hired Taiwanese nationals as APOs, making them the first potential employees not to be Singaporeans or Malaysians. Recruitment will begin next month, Cisco Cisco hopes to hire 120 college graduates, aged 20 to 40...
Back home in Singapore, 2016 is also the first year of many. In August this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong paid a six-day official visit to the United States, and since 1985 has been the first visit by...
Some residents use umbrellas in elevators because the heavy rain on Christmas Eve caused a large leak in one of Toa Payoh's HDB flats and the other in Tampines. One of the five elevators in Block 213, a fountain in...
