SINGAPORE - The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) will be deploying two officers to Indonesia following the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that has claimed more than 97 lives in Aceh, Indonesia. The two SCDF officers will form part of a five-man ASEAN...
SINGAPORE - Straits Times Press (STP), the book publishing arm of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), today launched "E W Barker: The People's Minister", written by Ms Susan Sim, who was a former journalist and Indonesia Bureau Chief with The...
SINGAPORE - A fire broke out near the top floor of a high-rise building above Farrer Park MRT station on Wednesday (Dec 7) night. According to eyewitnesses, the building appeared to be the Park Hotel Farrer Park, which is slated...
SINGAPORE - A former bus captain who caused the death of an elderly pedestrian on the first day of his official duties was jailed for six weeks and banned from driving for five years on Wednesday (Dec 7). Malaysian Wong...
SINGAPORE - Prices across the different Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) categories mostly fell in December after the first round of bidding. The COE price for cars in category A - 1,600cc and 97kW - fell from $50,951 to $48,000. There was...
Six elderly couples who said "I do" more than 50 years ago renewed their vows yesterday in an emotional ceremony at the Registry of Marriages (ROM). They held hands, looked lovingly into each other's eyes, expressed their gratitude and promised...
Lawyers who submit "last-minute applications" after the appeal process has been completed will now have to explain why they could not raise the arguments during the appeal. The apex court made this clear last week when it dismissed the applications...
For the past four years, 77-year-old Lim Hang Chung has been a friend to the needy and dying by providing them with free funeral services. He is the founder of Afterlife Memorial Service (AMS), which organises funeral arrangements for the...
Several current and former directors of Swiber Holdings have been hauled up for questioning by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and released on bail. The directors interviewed by Singapore's white collar-crime unit between Nov 30 and Dec 2 were Swiber executive...
Sky Travel & Tours apparently closed on day their Hokkaido tour group was to depart. The 68-year-old cleaner had saved up for months and was ready to leave for her week-long Hokkaido tour on Monday night. The plan was to go...
