A 33-year-old Singaporean supporter of terror group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was arrested here under the Internal Security Act in August, the Ministry of Home Affairs said yesterday. Asrul Alias, a technician, has been placed under a...
SINGAPORE - Rail operator SMRT and regulator Land Transport Authority (LTA) are deciding on what to do with the problematic Bukit Panjang LRT (BPLRT), including the option of scrapping it altogether. In a company blog, SMRT Trains managing director Lee...
SINGAPORE - They didn't strike the Toto grand prize, but you can say that the two punters who won the Toto Group 2 prize tonight are even more lucky than any top prize winners. The two winners will get $4.3...
SINGAPORE - About 80 per cent of people in Singapore believe that the death penalty should be retained, according to a survey conducted by the Government. The survey also found out that there was greater support for the death penalty...
Popular Japanese cheese tart shop Bake will be opening its second store in Singapore at Westgate on Oct 17. For a week from the opening date, the first 50 customers per day who purchase 12 pieces, or two boxes, of...
SINGAPORE - After five months, Night Safari's baby elephant finally has a name. She's called Neha, which means "loving" in Sanskrit and "symbolises the love her elephant and human family showers on her", Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) said in a...
A 44-year-old woman was yesterday allowed to retract her guilty plea for ill-treating three pet dogs after the court accepted her contention that she had been pressured to plead guilty. Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, after examining the circumstances leading to...
The best-known case of a fatal stingray attack is that involving Australian television personality Steve Irwin (right), who was known as the Crocodile Hunter. The wildlife expert and documentary host was filming an underwater documentary in 2006 when he died...
SINGAPORE - A car at an Ang Mo Kio carpark ended up a blackened heap after it caught fire spontaneously on Tuesday (Oct 4) afternoon. No one was injured in the incident, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said. SCDF was...
Madam Serene Tong was at work on Tuesday afternoon when she was told in a phone call that her husband was in hospital after an accident at Underwater World Singapore (UWS). The clerical officer was not told the details of...
