After receiving his scholarship, Mr Santhiran Ezhavarasan met Mr S R Nathan. The chat he had with the former Singapore president made him realise the importance of education. Mr Nathan had encouraged Mr Santhiran, then an Institute of Technical Education...
A wholesale store to six minimarts to a multi-storey shopping complex - that is the evolution of All India Supermart, owned by cousins Mr Madhi Ayyakkannu and Mr Rethina Kumar. Said Mr Ayyakkannu, 45, of their decision to scale the...
As expected, queues for the newest Apple iPhones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, formed in many locations in Singapore as early as yesterday morning (Sept 15) ahead of sales today. However, media reports show that many people...
The Council of Presidential Advisers (CPA) will be given a stronger voice as the president will have to consult it on more issues and its size will be increased from six to eight members. But the Government has rejected a...
The eligibility criteria for presidential candidates will be made more stringent, but they will not be tightened to the extent proposed by the Constitutional Commission. One key suggestion that the Government accepted in its White Paper yesterday will require potential...
Not all iPhone 7 buyers in Singapore will receive their handsets today as Apple has been hit by global supply delays, especially for the model called jet black. The three local telcos - Singtel, StarHub and M1 - started contacting...
After two weeks of dreading the worst and hoping for the best, Mr R. Manokaran's family finally had good news on Wednesday. To much relief and joy from his loved ones, the barber opened his eyes for the first time...
Five retailers in Kampong Glam were fined a total of $14,200 after they were found guilty of selling shisha molasses/tobacco without licence, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said on Friday (Sept 16). Four of the retail outlets had persisted in the...
He was looking at his mobile phone while his six-year-old daughter, a non-swimmer, played in a swimming pool nearby. Mr Zacharias Alexander Karamoy later looked up and saw, to his horror, his little girl motionless at the bottom of the...
National para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu has won a second gold medal at the Rio Paralympics on Friday morning (Sept 16), local media reported. She came in first in the women's 50m backstroke S2 event with the timing of 1 min...
