Category: NEWS

The biggest nature park in town, Chestnut Nature Park, has three trails for you to choose from. The park itself is divided into two sections, the North and the South, with two trails that run on the Northern part of the park and another that traverses the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s health care system is distinctive, and not just because of the improbability that it’s admired by many on both the American left and the right. It spends less of its economy on health care than any country that was included in our recent ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan said on Monday that it had been assured by Singapore that a long-term military agreement between the two sides would remain in place. “[Singapore said] everything would be the same as usual,” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister David Lee said in ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Sports School student has dropped her swimming major to focus on her indoor skydiving training ahead of the 2017 World Championships. Ditching swimming at Singapore Sports School, Choo Yixuan now focuses her time fully on indoor skydiving at ... ( read original story ...)

Twenty years ago in Asia – as Hong Kong returned to China under the “one country, two systems” formula, there was hope that the former British colony would set an example for a freer, more progressive China. Yet, at a recent Milken Institute Asia ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore and Malaysia on Thursday said some 200 participants this week attended a London briefing on the project – a 350km bullet train line that will slash travel time from the Lion City to Kuala Lumpur from hours by road to 90 minutes by rail. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - He started training in memory sports just two months ago, but Singapore Polytechnic (SP) student Ng Cheng Yu managed to memorise a string of 132 binary numbers and recall the order of 25 playing cards in a deck during the second Singapore Open ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore needs to do the same on a national level, with our different races and religions,” Channel News Asia quoted Mr. Lee as saying. He named former President Devan Nair, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Monetary Authority of Singapore Managing ... ( read original story ...)

Norwegian is currently offering some amazing ticket prices from London Gatwick to Singapore – starting at just £233 Return, or £83 one-way! This deal can be found outbound from London Gatwick on the UK version of the Norwegian site where prices start ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Bukit Batok East Avenue 3, woke up to a water geyser, shooting up several meters high due to a water pipe burst on Sunday morning, October 1. The incident occurred near Block 223. Singapore's Public Utilities Board (PUB), in a statement to ... ( read original story ...)

Nok Air’s outgoing boss believes his company needs a strategic partner to stay afloat and that Singapore Airlines may step in if Thai Airways International (THAI) ends its financial support. “The shareholders have been discussing about this themselves ... ( read original story ...)

Fact: Weekends are made for long indulgent brunches. Because, why else would anyone slog through the work week? To celebrate the glorious combination of breakfast and lunch, we’ve put together 10 of our favourite restaurants in Singapore to kick back ... ( read original story ...)

Contents (It’s LONG and probably will change). Heading down, I walked straight into the mother of all immigration queues. Whilst there were lots of desks open, the rate of processing was slow for a Sunday afternoon. I recognise this conga line from ... ( read original story ...)

Two years ago, the multinational coalition force set up to smash the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was looking for a specific target. The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) team based in Kuwait was given the job. Its officers are experts at analysing ... ( read original story ...)

Fifty-seven years after colonial rule, Nigeria is still struggling to find its footing as other nations that attained independence in the 1960s make great strides globally, writes TOBI AWORINDE If population was the determining factor, Nigeria would be the ... ( read original story ...)

They miss local food, and once a week, they sing the National Anthem. Insight stayed three days with members of Singapore's medical team supporting the coalition in the fight against ISIS. They may be in harm's way, but touches of home mean a lot. ( read original story ...)