A new method of land reclamation will be adopted at the north-western tip of Pulau Tekong, adding new land the size of two Toa Payoh towns for military training purposes, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said yesterday. The empoldering method...
A beauty salon in Jurong East has closed down, leaving its customers with at least $20,000 worth of unused prepaid services. Bioapex International sent a text message to its customers on Monday saying that it is in financial difficulty and...
Another taxi-booking app has bitten the dust in Singapore. After two years in the market, the London-based Hailo stopped operations here on Tuesday, The Straits Times has learnt. The app was introduced in Singapore in October 2014, under a joint partnership between...
National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief executive Edmund Kwok was sacked due to a personal indiscretion involving a male employee, NKF said yesterday. The employee complained to his supervisor on Monday last week, and the matter was brought up to the...
SINGAPORE - The 36-year-old Singaporean businesswoman found unconscious in her Hong Kong hotel room last Saturday (Nov 12) died of a stroke, preliminary investigations have found. Ms Linda Koh, managing director and successor to family-run business KSP Marketing, had been...
Singapore - Singapore will launch a new electronic payment system using blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the city-state's central bank chief said Wednesday. The Singapore stock exchange and eight banks will take part in the pilot project, which...
Following the incident of a washing machine which caught fire in a Housing Development Board flat in Bukit Panjang, Samsung Singapore has said that moisture from the bathroom was the likely cause of the fire. According to a press release issued on Wednesday (Nov...
A taxi crashed into a Thai restaurant at Toa Payoh at around 5.20pm Wednesday (Nov 16). According to Stomp contributor Ng, who was on her way to work when she witnessed the incident, said she was only "a few steps"...
SINGAPORE - Parents, your kids are going to love this. There are dinosaurs on the loose at Mandai, and they are not at Jurassic Park, but Zoo-rassic Park - the dinosaur-themed event at the Singapore Zoo and River Safari. From Nov...
A 42-year-old food stall assistant went on trial in the High Court yesterday for allegedly sexually abusing his biological daughter over a period of more than two years when she was between 11 and 13 years old. The man pleaded...
