Category: NEWS

Singapore may see its second panda cub born to Kai Kai and Jia Jia as early as 2024, should the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) be successful in extending their stay for another term. ( read original story ...)

Eight men aged between 21 and 55 were arrested for unlawful entry into Singapore in the wee hours of Friday (Aug 27).. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said today that Singapore is on track to meet its target of getting 80 per cent of the total population fully vaccinated by the end of August. Given this level of ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Minister for National Development Desmond Lee on Friday (Aug 27) urged youths to adopt sustainability as a core value, such that it becomes a part of “what it means to be Singaporean”. ( read original story ...)

The Workers’ Party has renewed calls for the government to introduce some of the party’s policy ideas published in its manifesto at last year’s general election, such as a nationwide minimum wage, ... ( read original story ...)

All residential households in Singapore will soon each receive a package of six antigen rapid test (ART) self-test kits, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday (27 August). ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s health officials will start distributing self-test kits for Covid-19 and begin to close some vaccination centers, the government said, as the country approaches a major milestone of ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore-listed transport giant ComfortDelGro Corp has clinched a $1.13 billion deal to operate rail services in Auckland. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The National Parks Board (NParks) on Friday (Aug 27) officially opened Singapore’s first wildlife forensics centre to identify and detect the origins of seized wildlife and wildlife ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese index futures will remain the main tool for investors to hedge their Chinese exposure despite the Hong Kong bourse announcing a rival product, a top executive said, citing SGX's many ... ( read original story ...)

Sniffer dogs are being used at border checkpoints to detect the smuggling of endangered animals, and items such as elephant ivory and pangolin scales, to further clamp down on wildlife smuggling. ( read original story ...)

A former deputy group director of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Thursday (Aug 26) admitted to taking about S$1.24 million in bribes in the form of loans from contractors and sub-contractors. ( read original story ...)

Work from home, study from home, live from home. That’s our reality and with it comes an assumption of safely shopping from home. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's producer price inflation increased in July, data from the Department of Statistics showed on Friday. The manufacturing ... ( read original story ...)

This year’s batch of students to enrol in Yale-NUS College will be its last, the National University of Singapore (NUS) said on Friday (Aug 27), as it announced that the college will be merged with ... ( read original story ...)

A 44-year-old Indian-origin man was jailed in Singapore for two-and-a-half years for stealing an excavator and attempting to sell it to a heavy-vehicle repairman in March 2018, according to a media ... ( read original story ...)