Category: NEWS

SINGAPORE: The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will waive the additional fee for the collection of Singapore passports and identity cards (IC) at 27 designated post offices from Oct 1, ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's health ministry reported 1,178 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the highest since April last year. A recent rise in cases after the relaxation of some COVID-19 measures has prompted ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Premier League (SPL) season will be extended by about a week after COVID-19 cases were detected among players at two football clubs over the past week. The final round of fixtures for the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is "actively working" with a number of countries on establishing quarantine-free travel lanes, and expects to further open up its borders "in the coming weeks and months". ( read original story ...)

Some health experts in Singapore are calling for mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus with a growing toll of severe COVID-19 among unvaccinated people as infections surge and with vaccine ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Eighteen individuals have been arrested for suspected illegal labour importation, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Tuesday (Sept 21).. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

A 28-year-old lawyer who died just nine days before he was admitted to the Bar was on Monday (20 September) posthumously added to the rolls, the first time this has happened here. ( read original story ...)

Dementia Singapore has launched a one-stop online resource portal on dementia, which it hopes will play a key role in raising awareness on the condition. ( read original story ...)

Elsewhere, India is set to restart vaccine exports from October, Vietnam is buying 10 million vaccines doses from Cuba, and construction sites in Melbourne were shut following violent anti-vaccine ... ( read original story ...)

As the anti-vaccination movement has gained a foothold in many countries, even while tighter restrictions are imposed for non-vaccinated individua ... ( read original story ...)

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (20 September) confirmed 917 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, taking the country's total case count to 78,721. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 910 new local COVID-19 infections as of noon on Monday (Sep 20), comprising 832 community cases and 78 dormitory residents. Two patients also died on Sunday, bringing ... ( read original story ...)

Of the local cases, 832 were in the community and 78 cases were among dormitory residents.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

The next one to two weeks ‘will be critical’ for the city state, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said in a Facebook post late on Sunday, as cases breached the 1,000 mark for the second day. ( read original story ...)

Vaccinated travellers from more countries could enter Singapore without quarantine in the coming weeks as the authorities work to expand the vaccinated travel lane scheme. Gwyneth Teo reports. ( read original story ...)

COVID-19 clocked in its highest daily score in 17 months this past weekend with more than 1,000 daily cases, despite a never-ending struggle to contain the virus. ( read original story ...)