IPOH - Former Singapore president, the late S.R. Nathan, was a regular visitor to Ipoh to see his old chums."Even before he stepped down from his position in 2011, he would visit at least once a year," said his...
Visitors to the Singapore Zoo could soon be able to stave off the heat in some areas of the park, thanks to a new outdoor cooling system that is touted to blow air as cool as 24 deg C.The...
Olympic champion Joseph Schooling will return to Singapore in November for a Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) fund-raiser - but the swimmer himself is also set for a cash injection.The 21-year-old, Singapore's only medallist at the Rio Games, claimed the...
THE 20-year-old woman who has been missing since July after supposedly leaving for a trip to Melbourne has got in touch with her family.Ong Hwee Ting, who lived in Ang Mo Kio, had been missing since July 12, after...
SINGAPORE - Clad in a white, short-sleeved shirt and dark pants, Mr S R Nathan was on a stroll in The Straits Times newsroom to get acquainted with his new workplace when a reporter stopped him and said: "Eh,...
When Mr S R Nathan became President in 1999, I was an awkward kid on the cusp of teenagehood, ignorant of current affairs and blissfully unaware of the challenges he had to overcome.Neither did I know what the President...
SINGAPORE - Visitors to the Singapore Zoo could soon be able to stave off the heat in some areas of the park, thanks to a new outdoor cooling system that is touted to blow air as cool as 24...
SINGAPORE - Tankers full of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are gathering off Singapore waiting for buyers as a flood of supply from the US and Saudi Arabia has outpaced demand for the fuel, trade and industry sources said on...
Singapore is taking the next step in the move towards self-driving vehicles with the world's first public trial of self-driving taxis.Robo-taxis developed by nuTonomy, a Massachusetts based transportation software firm, will operate autonomously in a Singapore business district on...
Several years ago, her father was forced to sell the family home after he was declared a bankrupt when his business went bust.A few years later, just as they were getting back on their feet, he became partially paralysed...
