She thought it was a mere infatuation. Until she felt threatened. Ann (not her real name), an administrative assistant in her 20s, was stalked by her ex-lover for over a month after their break-up in July. Ann told The New Paper she...
Finding tenants for her four investment properties never used to be much of an issue for investor Jenny Yang, but those days of easy money are long gone. Two of her units - a studio apartment in Novena and a...
The decline in private home prices is wooing buyers back to the market and giving agents something to cheer about after a few lean years. Take agent Daryl Ou, who hit his sales target for the year in June. "I managed...
You might have spotted them during the Mid-Autumn Festival last month: miniature hot-air balloons - with hopes and wishes written on their paper bodies - rising high into the sky. Lit paper lanterns, or sky lanterns, drifting against the dark...
They came in droves - Indonesians, Thais and Malaysians - to receive quality medical treatment in Singapore's private hospitals. But 15 years on, Singapore's ambitions to become a healthcare hub appear to be receding quietly. The region's well-heeled medical tourists are...
Bank employee Jeffrey Tan considers himself to be savvy in making financial investments. But last December, the 30-year- old began putting $20,000 in an offshore sports arbitrage betting company and went on to lose half of it. He also persuaded about...
What can the dying teach the living? Quite a bit, it seems. A small but growing number of people spend their last days recording their thoughts on life and how they cope with impending death in order to share them...
Every passenger has experienced it: trapped in a plane while it circles for what seems an interminable period above the airport where it is supposed to land. Now, airports and airlines in the region have reached agreement that while delays...
Delivery rider Gerry Tan has seen his monthly earnings rise 80 per cent - from $2,000 to $3,600 - since he started his job almost two years ago. The 25-year-old, who transports everything from steaming plates of pad thai to...
SINGAPORE - Lasalle College of the Arts student Cheryl Chou, 20, was crowned Miss Universe Singapore 2016 on Sunday night (Oct 16) at the grand finals of the beauty pageant. She triumphed over 14 other finalists for the coveted title....
