It was in 2009 when Yang Yin first moved into Madam Chung Khin Chun's sprawling Gerald Crescent bungalow, going on to trick the 89-year-old widow into handing over more than a million dollars. But it was only five years later...
KO OLINA, Hawaii - The threat that violent extremist groups pose to Southeast Asia is growing each year as they become more organised and focused in their aims, Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Friday. Ng was speaking...
The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has clarified an assertion in a statement by Mr Lee Kuan Yew's estate that was issued following a High Court ruling on interviews that Mr Lee gave in the early 1980s. The AGC said the estate's...
A 70-year-old woman who suffered third-degree burns on both legs following treatment at a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic will receive $50,000 in damages. Housewife Chow See Mui first visited the Annie Tiang TCM Clinic in East Coast Road in...
SINGAPORE - Former tour guide Yang Yin was sentenced to six years' jail on Friday (Sept 30) for misappropriating $1.1 million entrusted to him by a wealthy Singaporean widow. Yang, 42, from China, befriended Madam Chung Khin Chun when he...
SINGAPORE - A man who allegedly held a two-year-old boy hostage in a Sembawang flat in a dramatic 17 hour-stand-off with police was on Friday (Sept 30) hauled to court. Muhammad Iskandah Suhaimi was charged with having a knuckle duster...
SINGAPORE - Overseas Singaporeans should remain covered under MediShield Life, the MediShield Life Council (MLC) has recommended. However, a small and distinct group of overseas Singaporeans who live abroad permanently can ask for MediShield premium collection to be suspended, if...
SINGAPORE - The authorities are considering imposing Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges on the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) for the first time, in a move to ease congestion there. The tolls could be implemented from as early as the second...
SINGAPORE - The Housing Board (HDB) on Friday (Sept 30) embarked on an ultrasound inspection of the sunshades in four blocks in Tampines. This comes after a concrete sunshade on the fourth floor of Block 201E, Tampines Street 23, dislodged...
SINGAPORE - The Zika cluster at Bedok North was closed on Friday, the second one to close since the outbreak began in Singapore on Aug 27. There were five cases at this cluster which included Bedok North Avenue 3, Bedok...
