When Chong Hui Min collected her N-level results yesterday, she started crying. "I waited for this for two years," Hui Min, 17, said several times as she looked at her results. She read six subjects and obtained four distinctions, with an...
Squeezed into the pages of a thick, crumbling leather-bound death register from the Bidadari Cemetery are the names of the war dead. They run into the thousands. These were Singapore civilians who died between March 1942 and April 1944, and...
Something grew more slowly than Singapore's economy in the last decade, and it was good news for the environment. From 2000 to 2012, the economy grew 5.7 per cent a year on average, while greenhouse gas emissions rose just 2...
He was 70 and suffered from several chronic ailments, but he believed in working hard. Since 2008, cleaner Lai Seow Wah had worked at Singapore Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng, a columbarium in Bishan Lane. On July 1, he climbed...
Changkat Changi Secondary School student Kevin Cheong went from being a self-proclaimed failure at Secondary 3 to scoring nine points for his N-level exams this year. It is a huge change for the Normal (Academic) student who so hated school...
Parents are keen to see their pre-schooler succeed in school but they may not know how to create the environment for success. They may have misconcep- tions about their child's readiness for school, said Ms Zhang Gui Yue, a...
The driver of the Mercedes-Benz that left a trail of carnage yesterday was seen mumbling and talking to himself when motorists rushed to him. At about 8am, the 53-year-old had driven against the flow of traffic on the Ayer Rajah...
SINGAPORE - Changkat Changi Secondary school student Kevin Cheong was devastated when he failed most of his exams and had to repeat Secondary 3 in 2014. He felt like an outcast and his self-esteem plunged. He lied to his mother,...
SINGAPORE - The 37-year-old man who died in a six-vehicle accident on the Ayer Rajah Expressway on Monday (Dec 19) morning was an actor and event emcee who appeared in several commercials. Mr Liong Kuo Hwa, also known as Jackie...
More than 40 years ago, a young Mr Ong Tiong Tat spotted a man eating char kway teow by himself at a stall in Zion Road. Mr Ong approached the man and learnt he was Mr Koh Choon Joo, a...
