Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is in Laos from today until Thursday for the ASEAN and East Asia summits, said the Prime Minister's Office yesterday.The ASEAN meetings in the capital Vientiane will be attended by leaders of all 10...
Home owners may eventually be able to do away with paper property titles and instead have them stored digitally with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA).That will save them from having to hunt for their physical titles when the time...
The unknown signal interference which bedevilled the Circle Line last week has ceased as mysteriously and suddenly as it started.The Land Transport Authority said trains have been running smoothly since last Friday evening - a change from the unprecedented...
SINGAPORE - Uber's new upfront pricing for its ride-hailing UberX service has come under fire from some commuters who complained that their fares have increased.Uber, which introduced the upfront pricing on Aug 31, claimed it would ensure "no math...
SINGAPORE - A 62-year-old Singaporean man, who was in critical condition after a tour bus he was on crashed while returning here last week, died from his injuries on Sunday morning (Sept 4).Mr Lim Sia Thian died from severe...
A Singaporean has failed in his application for refugee protection in Australia, with an Australian tribunal noting that being in debt and threatened by unlicensed moneylenders in Singapore is no grounds to seek such protection.The tribunal cited the sound...
For the past 17 years, Madam Jurina Johari has lived with just one kidney.Years after her right kidney was removed in 1999 because of chronic kidney disease since her teens, the single parent would discover blood in her urine,...
The Zika virus is likely here to stay, with cases popping up from time to time just like dengue, which is also carried by the Aedes mosquito.With the presence of Aedes mosquitoes here, a high population density and the...
Parents of school-going children are not taking any chances should the Zika virus spread to other parts of Singapore during the week-long school break that started last Saturday.Many parents told The Straits Times they will keep their young ones...
Amid sprawling and majestic lantern set-ups depicting Asian folklore on the moon, small mobile phone lanterns bobbed in an array of hues across Gardens by the Bay yesterday.Clutched by visitors, the smartphones, encased within translucent paper and perched on...
