Singapore did not raise the South China Sea territorial dispute or a July arbitral tribunal ruling on the dispute at a recent multilateral summit in Venezuela, the Republic's Ambassador to China Stanley Loh said yesterday, in a letter refuting...
Rules-based international orders like the one represented by the United Nations are critical to the survival of small states, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told world leaders yesterday, as he outlined the predicament smaller nations face in a period of...
National utility company Singapore Power is replacing an entire fleet of 400 service vehicles with electric vans, starting with 31 battery-powered Renault Kangoos to be delivered by year end. It is the biggest purchase of electric vehicles here. And unlike...
A 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty yesterday to two charges of allowing her boyfriend to abuse her son who was about a year old then. On one occasion, the infant suffered a broken skull after Tan pushed him off the bed. The...
Rail operator SMRT has convened a panel to review an appeal submitted by the National Transport Workers Union (NTWU) against the termination of two employees. The men were involved in a fatal track accident on March 22, in which a...
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has found no evidence of mechanical fault in a spate of "sudden unintended acceleration" cases, after four months of investigations. The phenomenon, which causes a vehicle to pick up speed even though the driver is...
She knew her boyfriend was ill-treating her son, but chose to turn a blind eye. The 25-year-old sales assistant even lied on his behalf by telling others that "spirits" had caused the toddler to develop bruises. Yesterday, the woman, who cannot...
Budget carrier Scoot begins flying from Singapore to Sapporo, via Taipei, three times a week from Saturday. The flight to New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, will take around nine hours and the price of a return...
A hairstylist, upset that his boyfriend of eight years reneged on his promise to go public with their relationship, killed his lover after the latter avoided his calls and told him that he was "not gay". The tragic turn of...
Workplace deaths in the first half of this year went up from a year ago, as did the number of minor injuries sustained at work. Major injuries, however, decreased. There were 42 fatal work accidents from January to June this...
