SINGAPORE - Commuters passing through the one-north Circle Line MRT station on Wednesday (Nov 16) afternoon were met with the troubling sight of a severely-cracked glass panel along the platform. The panel, which was along the train tracks but visible...
The 81-year-old woman, who was carrying five tote bags with both hands, had no difficulty going up the escalator without using the handrails at Ang Mo Kio MRT station. The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said she felt the...
IN HIS now-classic The Age of Unreason, the organisational behaviour and management writer Charles Handy described a scene out of the General Synod of the Church of England in the 1980s. The controversial topic of women priests was being...
The 1860s St Andrew's Cathedral has been likened to a great-grandmother. As she ages in tropical Singapore, her list of ailments accumulates. For instance, the plaster finish encasing the neo-Gothic structure is flaking in a few areas, and its plumbing system...
TECHNOLOGY is rewiring the financial industry and increasingly altering the way that we transact in our daily lives. From paying for a Grab ride with GrabPay to using Apple Pay to purchase items with the tap of a thumb,...
SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Education (MOE) has announced that the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results will be out next Thursday (Nov 24). In a statement today (Nov 17), MOE said that pupils can collect their result slips from...
Family violence is not a private matter, say the authorities, who are embarking on a three-year public education campaign to urge people to break the silence if they know someone is being hurt. The campaign comes as family service centres...
Logistics - the art and science of moving stuff around in a fast-paced economy - is the latest industry to face a bold makeover in the Government's $4.5 billion Industry Transformation Programme. The goals are: to be operationally excellent, to...
The phone call came out of the blue and caught her by surprise. What surprised Mrs Eunice Tay even more was being told that the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) needed her back to helm the charity in the short term. She...
While this is the second time a National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief executive has been embroiled in a scandal, leaders in the charity sector were quick to draw a distinction between the two incidents. They said the fallout from Mr...
