There was a slight drizzle yesterday morning outside the Raffles Place MRT station. But that did not stop a crowd of commuters from braving the rain to get copies of The New Paper, which became a free newspaper yesterday. Thousands lined...
Move to bring down drink-driving tragedies A cabby whose stalled taxi was hit by a drunken driver's car on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) died after being bedridden for eight months last year. Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and National...
They were killed after a train hit them near Pasir Ris station. Mr Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, 24 and Mr Nasrulhudin Najumudin, 25, were part of a team of 15 SMRT employees carrying out inspection works on the MRT tracks...
Take my life, but don't harm my son - that was what Sheng Siong supermarket chief executive Lim Hock Chee's mother, Madam Ng Lye Poh, told her kidnappers after she was abducted in January 2014. Mr Lim told The New...
SINGAPORE - Sales executive Lee Sze Yong was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday (Dec 1) after he was found guilty of kidnapping the elderly mother of Sheng Siong supermarket boss Lim Hock Chee in January 2014. Lee, 44, was...
SINGAPORE - For housing their foreign workers in unapproved accommodation, two construction companies have been barred from hiring new ones and from renewing the work passes of their existing employees. Between January and June last year, B-Construction had housed its...
SINGAPORE - More people are tuning in to SPH Radio's Kiss92 and UFM100.3, according to the latest Nielsen Radio Diary Survey results released today (Dec 1). The report estimates that Chinese station UFM100.3 had about 399,000 cumulative listeners in October...
Two king sago palm trees standing in Singapore’s Japanese Garden are “firm and strong”, just like the ties between Singapore and Japan. Both Emperor Akihito – who in 1970 planted the trees with his wife Empress Michiko when they...
Two foreign workers who climbed over the gates of a burning house to alert its residents were yesterday presented with an award for bravery. The fire on Nov 10 left a two-storey bungalow in Sunset Place badly charred. A lightning...
The authorities continue to search for a 60-year-old man who fell overboard from a cruise ship in waters off Malacca on Sunday. Mr Wuan Poh Fatt was reportedly travelling from Singapore to Penang with five others, and is believed to...
