Mr Philip Yeo grabs a piece of paper on his table and starts doodling furiously. "Life," he proclaims, right hand deftly executing a series of lines and dots, "is a series of points". How a person's life pans out, he says,...
The Workers' Party-run town council has agreed to appoint a third party to recover improper payments it made between 2011 to 2015. The Sunday Times understands that the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) had, on Friday, replied to the Housing Board's...
The police have identified three groups of home owners who are vulnerable to burglaries. They are: flat-dwellers who share a common corridor from which arms can easily snake into homes through windows; owners of new Build-To-Order flats who leave their...
He said he was a fool for love. Andy (not his real name) felt that his former wife, a Chinese national five years his senior, married him only to become a Singapore permanent resident (PR). A 31-year-old engineer, he met her...
Days after the election that propelled tycoon Donald Trump to the most powerful perch in the world, an American expatriate enclave in Woodlands remains in shock. Residents of Woodgrove, a landed estate near Singapore American School, are not in the...
Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam gives his take on whether governments in Asia are now more sceptical about democracy. In an interview with the Financial Times on Oct 17, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was asked by correspondent Jeevan...
Rodrigo Duterte, Brexit and now Donald Trump. The recent American presidential election is but the latest example of the politics of disruption, or populist politics fuelled by anger against the establishment and a rejection of an economic system that...
The author of an advice column in Teenage magazine has apologised for her widely panned response to an alleged rape victim. In an open letter, Ms Kelly Chopard, who has penned the Dear Kelly column since 1996, said: "I sincerely...
The three brothers behind this ornamental fish farm in Seletar West Farmway 4 devoted more than half their lives to their fish business. Come Nov 15, they are winding up the business as the land will be taken back by...
SINGAPORE - Dr Tan Cheng Bock, who lost in the 2011 presidential election, has expressed disappointment that he will not be able to contest in the next presidential election in 2017. But he said on Saturday (Nov 12) that he...
