A law to protect the identities of vulnerable adults involved in abuse or neglect cases is being proposed by the Government.These adults, once made known to the director of social welfare, will be protected from public scrutiny.Nobody - including...
A daycare centre for dogs re-opened its doors to canine boarders on Thursday after a month-long closure to stem what was believed to be an outbreak of a serious bacterial infection.The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is allowing Sunny...
Lawyers booked for inappropriate conduct in court may have to agree to training or counselling by a senior lawyer as part of a new protocol worked out by an ad-hoc study committee.The arrangement to be put in place provides...
An electric bus will be tested out for the first time in Singapore on a public route, in a pilot which could see more of such green vehicles being used for mass transport.The Land Transport Authority (LTA) revealed to...
Singaporeans need to move away from knee-jerk punishments and public shaming of individuals who make racist or xenophobic comments online, several academics said yesterday.While such people should be called out, demonising them, reporting to the police as the first...
She received a WhatsApp message from her friend on Wednesday last week informing her of the number of dengue cases in her neighbourhood.She ignored it.The next day, one of her three sons had an unusually high fever and was...
When a Sentosa Cove resident started keeping tilapia five years ago, they bred quickly and he ended up with hundreds of them.Now he has only two left after the rest were eaten by otters in more than 20 attacks...
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been running highly efficient and well-organised weapons factories in the Middle-East.But would they be able to get rockets to their followers in Batam, Indonesia?That's one big question that came up...
The opening of two mega childcare centres in areas with high demand for the service has been delayed.Initially slated to open by the third quarter of this year, the centres in Jurong West and Sengkang West run by NTUC...
A technician who stole $32,700 worth of treadmills, cross-trainers and bicycles from the gym-equipment supplier he worked for was jailed for 10 months yesterday.Suhaime Jamin, 48, is the third employee of AIBI International to be imprisoned over the thefts.He...
