Despite the size of the National Stadium, it took only 22 days to turn it into this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) venue. The features include a 3,760 sq m stage – about the size of nine basketball courts – lights, speakers and…
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NTU professor fired for data falsification
A Singapore-based professor and his wife’s academic careers are in tatters after he was found guilty of being wilfully negligent in the direction of his institute research team.
Professor Ravi Kambadur (right) was recently…
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Teacher under probe for calling pupils 'retarded monkeys'
She has been accused of denigrating her pupils with such insults as “a disgrace to God” and “a bunch of retarded monkeys”.
The teacher has also allegedly threw objects such as staplers, marker pens and water bottles at the…
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Sailor Cheng and shooter Ser can surprise
He is a world-class sailor, she is ranked in the top echelon among shooters, but Colin Cheng and Jasmine Ser are not fancied to return to Singapore with a medal from the Olympic Games in Rio next month.
But former national…
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Drunk driver jailed for slashing student
Someone hit the side of his van in a carpark, so the delivery driver stopped the vehicle and got out with a knife.
Kugan Kesavan, 27, who was intoxicated, then slashed a 17-year-old student twice, even though the teen was not…
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Schooling can win gold in Rio Olympics, says Tao Li
One wonders if Tao Li knew it when she prepared to take the plunge at the 2008 Games.
But the only time there was any sort of excitement generated by a Singapore swimmer in an Olympic pool at the time was way back in 1984,…
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Singapore may be set for a historic Olympic performance
In an Olympic Games about firsts, they are also striving to make a breakthrough, in the pool, with a gun, on saltwater, with a bat.
While talk of the host nation in recent months has been about a maddening, dangerous mosquito…
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Thailand trounce Singapore 4-0
They had only one goal on their minds, which was to bring home the football gold medal from the Asean University Games.
The boys from Thailand are one match away from achieving their goal, after they thrashed Singapore 4-0 in…
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Lopez: Schooling can create Olympic history
There are 20 days to go to the opening of the 2016 Rio Olympics, where the swimming programme will possibly generate as much electricity as the 2008 Beijing Games, once again because of Michael Phelps.
In 2008, the American…
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Teacher under probe for callling pupils 'retarded monkeys'
She has been accused of denigrating her pupils with such insults as “a disgrace to God” and “a bunch of retarded monkeys”.
The teacher has also allegedly threw objects such as staplers, marker pens and water bottles at the…
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