Category: NEWS

It’s 3 p.m. on a sultry Friday outside Raffles Hospital in Singapore’s busy Bugis district, a stone’s throw from the Arab quarter. Workmen in hard hats move swiftly about, striving to complete a long-awaited 20-story extension to this flagship of ... ( read original story ...)

Singaporeans got a jolt in June when a quietly raging dispute between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his two siblings exploded on social media. Such unprecedented public venting, by the late Lee Kuan Yew’s heirs no less, exposed a rare vulnerability ... ( read original story ...)

In recent years, it has become more expensive to buy a car in Singapore. With COE prices hovering at around $50,000 and the Additional Registration Fee (ARF) increasing, one can expect to pay much more for cars today. For example, a Mazda 3 costs about $ ... ( read original story ...)

Preliminary data shows that Eco-Link@BKE helps some species, but a lack of data means we cannot be sure. Man-made wildlife corridors are becoming a popular policy tool to create connectivity between natural areas for animals – but how well are they working? ( read original story ...)

PETALING JAYA: National bowlers Sin Li Jane and Esther Cheah, fresh from their one-week joint training session here with European champions Sweden, are relishing the chance to take their fierce rivalry with Singapore into the women’s competition of the ... ( read original story ...)

In 2015, DBS CEO Piyush Gupta said the banking industry’s greatest threat was competition from outside the traditional financial sector. This competition takes place primarily in the domain of online commerce and transactions. Two years later ... ( read original story ...)

If you did a double take on "Sky High Fun", you're not alone, so did we. Following the merger announcement of Singapore-based carriers TigerAir and Scoot, a multi-platform campaign has been created by Publicis Singapore launching Scoot into 35 new ... ( read original story ...)

The story of Amazon’s coming to Southeast Asia may as well have been written by Samuel Beckett – we all talk about it a lot but it never shows up. Until now, that is. After a long time of “will they, won’t they,” the US ecommerce giant could ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: News organisations are important in the fight against fake news, even as new legislation is being developed to deal with the problem, said Mr Chee Hong Tat on Wednesday (Jul 26). In his keynote address at the Global News Forum, the Senior ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - When a new terminal opens in 2017 at Singapore's Changi Airport, the world's best for five years straight according to a survey, passengers will be able to, in theory, go through check-in to boarding without speaking to another person. ( read original story ...)

Singapore Airlines is known for being one of the best airlines in the world. In suites class & first class the airline offers great pajamas and amenity kits. However, many are surprised to learn that the airline doesn’t have amenity kits in business class. ( read original story ...)

Parmjit Kaur, 50, allegedly submitted false claims for training grants from the then-Singapore Workforce Development Agency between 2011 and 2013. The grants were purportedly meant to go towards in-house courses that Harry conducted for its employees. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — The Republic will gain a stronger foothold in the new area of dispute resolution between foreign investors and states — or investment dispute resolution — with the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) to set up a staffed office here in ... ( read original story ...)

Set up in 2009 by Singaporean Teo Jia En, 35, and her Italian husband Federico Folcia, 38, Roomorama announced last week on its website that it has stopped accepting bookings, while it mulls over its future. “Increasing competition and regulatory ... ( read original story ...)

A relative's death prompted him to start volunteering in 2014 with the Singapore Red Cross (SRC). Three years later, Mr Deniis Mark, 53, is one of 28 individuals and eight organisations presented with awards at the fifth Singapore Red Cross Awards yesterday. ( read original story ...)

Chelsea’s match against Bayern Munich was only a pre-season game, yes, but it was still Chelsea versus Bayern Munich, two of Europe’s biggest teams facing off. This was only the third match between the two sides in the last ten years. There was of ... ( read original story ...)