SINGAPORE - Mr Li Shengwu said he will pay a $15,000 fine for contempt of court but he does not admit guilt and disagrees that he said anything illegal in a private Facebook post. Mr Li is the grandson...
With the Covid-19 pandemic pushing back the Olympic Games to 2021, local swimmers Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen will get more time to train for their events. The pair have been granted extensions of deferment from full-time National...
By now, you might have been tickled (or horrified) by a video making its rounds on local social media: 16 prominent Singaporean political figures seemingly singing in unison to a Japanese pop ballad from a video game series. Yes, it’s...
SINGAPORE - Singapore's recession was deeper than first thought in the second quarter due to coronavirus lockdown measures, and the government said the trade-reliant economy's path to recovery remained uncertain due to the pandemic. Gross domestic product (GDP) fell...
SINGAPORE - Singapore’s Temasek Holdings is terminating its $4 billion conditional offer for conglomerate Keppel Corp by invoking a material adverse change (MAC) clause following the company’s poor financial results. Keppel’s large second-quarter loss that breached a threshold in...
Hiring a confinement nanny from Malaysia typically sets one back $3,000 to $3,500 a month. But this is set to increase as cross-border travel between Singapore and Malaysia starts again. Applications for cross-border travel arrangements started yesterday and it takes...
When he found himself at the tail-end of a National Day mobile column in Woodlands Avenue 3 on Sunday (Aug 9), Foodpanda delivery rider Abdul Rahman waved at residents and received a loud cheer. What many may not know...
Pedestrians will not be policed based on how they walk under the new pedestrian code of conduct. Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Baey Yam Keng told The Straits Times last Friday (Aug 7) that the code was meant to...
Scattered across the island, Singaporeans gathered in pockets of joy despite the Covid-19 pandemic to celebrate their 55th National Day, their first socially distanced one. The reduced festivities meant the spectacles of yesteryear were out of the question. Yesterday...
There were 188 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Monday noon (Aug 10), taking Singapore's total to 55,292. They included one community case, a Singaporean, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday. There were also 12 imported cases who...
