He was only eight when he was diagnosed with dengue haemorrhagic fever and needed nine bags of blood to survive.
If his father had not gone around asking his friends to donate blood, Mr Koh Wee Jin Algene may not be where he…
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Translator for Bangkok bomb suspects held
A translator for the two Uighur men accused of last year’s deadly Bangkok bombing was remanded in custody yesterday for drug possession.
It further complicated a murky trial that has failed to answer key questions about the…
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Win cash prizes in TNP's Match & Score contest
She had just bought the last copy of The New Paper at the news-stand.
Madam Faridah Ibrahim, 55, remembers how her jaw dropped when she realised she had the winning combination of monkey images.
It won her $6,000…
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Lions conjure 1-0 win for new coach Sundram
REPORTING FROM YANGON
AYA BANK CUP
MYANMAR 0
SINGAPORE 1
(Faris Ramli 34)
New national football coach
V Sundramoorthy is right…
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Library volunteers laud initiatives under National Reading Movement
SINGAPORE – Growing up with eight siblings and about 10 cousins under one roof, Madam Wong See Moey had always put family first.
Spending her childhood in an attap house in Sembawang, the former childcare teacher recalled being taught the importance of…
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NLB launches two-month festival to promote reading
SINGAPORE – Ten-minute “bite-sized” theatre performances adapted from works by local writers, and a horror literary trail based on places mentioned in a Tamil novel.
These are just two of the 175 programmes organised by the National Library Board (NLB) for…
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The Big Read: Telcos ring the changes as the consumer becomes king
SINGAPORE – A frequent traveller to places such as the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan for work, information technology sales professional Brandon Lim used to chalk up mobile phone bills of at least S$500 to $600 a month. “I had long conference calls that…
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US, Singapore reaffirm their close defence relationship
SINGAPORE – The United States and Singapore on Friday (June 3) reaffirmed long-standing bilateral defence relations at a meeting between US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter and Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen.
At a breakfast hosted by Dr Ng, the two men…
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Pay as you throw among ideas to cut down waste in Singapore
SINGAPORE – Sorting household waste with colour-coded bags or charging users for the amount of waste they throw out could be future solutions to changing consumer behaviour to better manage and raise recycling rates here.
These ideas were identified in the…
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Electric buses, charging stations part of proposals in LTA’s 2050 road map
SINGAPORE – Decades from now, electric buses with carbon emission levels that are half of those from diesel-powered buses could ply Singapore’s roads, where they may be able to be charged quickly at bus stops along the routes that they travel.
These were…
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