Two Singaporean women were among 14 people who died yesterday, police said when a bus stopped suddenly 6 meters from the north-south freeway near Johor Bahru. Another 16, including six other Singaporeans, were injured in the accident, which occurred around...
A massive project to replace every timber sleeper on the North-South and East-West MRT lines (NSEWL) with hardier, concrete ones has been completed, The Sunday Times has learnt. A total of 188,000 sleepers across the two MRT lines were upgraded...
Sister Gerard Fernandez is sitting in a meeting room at the Good Shepherd Place in Toa Payoh, telling stories about her past in a voice clear, calm and soothing. It was the early 1940s and she was then barely six...
Last month, Kelvin Seah, an economics lecturer at the National University of Singapore, analyzed the International Student Assessment Program (PISA) survey data in 2012 and found a surprising finding that tuition was worse than non-tuition. Dr. Seah, 34, says he...
When housewife Hua Yingying was a student, she was taught the basic concepts of maths and science from textbooks in school, and did not have much homework. "We also didn't have things like hands-on learning or project work. Now, even...
In a class last month, Primary 5 pupils at Woodgrove Primary School mulled over a mathematical puzzle unlike any standard problem sum. The puzzle read: "Take any two-digit number, reverse the digits and subtract the smaller number from the larger...
The shortlist of 12 candidates is complete with these final five, and voting opens from today till next Thursday. A mental health advocate, a boy who rushed to help an accident victim, the founder of a social enterprise, the head...
One year ago, Indonesian housewife Novi Ratna Sari spent most of the Christmas holidays at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital anxiously keeping watch over her month-old baby, who was recovering from a major operation. Little Jeslyn Lim had a...
Some Singaporeans holidaying in Hokkaido have been stranded in the icy Japanese prefecture since Thursday, after heavy snow caused more than 250 flight delays and cancellations for the second time this month. But clear skies yesterday saw the New Chitose...
SINGAPORE - The Singapore Consulate-General in Johor Bahru and officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) are in Muar, Johor to help Singaporeans affected by the bus crash that killed 14 this morning (Dec 24). The Consul-General is in close...
