Man arrested and to be charged for serial cat abuses at Yishun
Above shows one of the abused cats, Greyie, who was found badly injured at Northland Primary School. Greyie has survived and is recuperating at the vet but its hind legs are now paralysed. (Photo: Cat...
View ArticleAccess to water is a human right
By M Ravi In modern day Singapore, there are still people who cannot afford to pay their utilities bill, which results in the termination of their water/electricity supply by the Public Utilities Board...
View ArticleCar free Sundays in CBD and around Padang in 2016 for six months trial by URA
Parts of the Civic District and Central Business District (CBD) will be closed from traffic on the last Sunday of each month for six months, starting from 28 February next year. This comes under a...
View ArticleTrain fault causes service disruption between Boon Lay and Clementi MRT...
Train operator, SMRT announced in a tweet this morning that a train fault near Jurong East MRT station disrupted normal train service, resulting in additional travelling time along the East-West Line....
View ArticleIsraeli Embassy apologises for incident involving Singapore flag
The Israeli Embassy in a statement on Wednesday apologised for an incident in which the Singapore flag was used as a table cloth at a party hosted by one of its junior diplomats. In its statement, the...
View ArticleChina cannot be absent: Xi Jinping, in new year message
“The world is so big, and the problems are so many,” China’s president, Xi Jinping, said in his new year message on Thursday. “The international community expects to hear China’s voice and see China’s...
View ArticleUpbeat but cautious message from PM Lee
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s new year message is one of confidence and hope, but also caution. It is not an unexpected message, given the occasion – a nation celebrating the dawn of a new year –...
View ArticleWP town council to go back to court – again
The Workers’ Party-run town council, Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC), is seeking the Court of Appeal’s assistance in the appointment of accountants to manage its accounts and books. The Straits...
View ArticleThe AEC’s agreement on free flow of skilled labour needs careful attention
A momentous thing just happened – but perhaps few have paid any attention to it. After almost 10 years of negotiation, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was finally brought into existence on Thursday....
View ArticleGIC’s pay-for-volunteering scheme gets criticised
In what is already turning out to be a controversial initiative one day after it was announced, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore, or GIC Pte Ltd, is...
View ArticleHDB not given a carte blanche to look into AHTC’s affairs
Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC), run by the Workers’ Party, issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, saying that it “welcomes the Court’s rejection of the submission of the Attorney-General’s...
View ArticleThree charged for murder of American stuntman
14 individuals (11 male and three female) have been apprehended by the police for the death of American stuntman, John Denley Nelson, 30. Three were charged with murder this morning while the rest have...
View ArticleChingay 2016’s 8000 balloons not meant to be released into the sky
The People’s Association (PA) announced the details of the upcoming annual Chingay parade 2016 to the media on Thursday. Mr Nah Juay Hng, the committee chairman for Chingay 2016, said that the audience...
View ArticleLta seeks public’s input on color scheme for public buses under new BCM
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is asking for members of the public to vote for the color scheme of public buses under the new Bus Contracting Model (BCM). The transition of buses into the new...
View ArticleTraction fault causes service disruption on NSL and detraining of passengers...
A traction fault along North-South Line on Saturday evening, caused the train service to be disrupted for close to two hours between Woodlands and Kranji MRT stations in both directions. [NSL]: No...
View ArticlePM Lee Hsien Loong wishes speedy recovery for Malaysian PM’s surgery
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak successfully underwent a minor surgery to remove a small benign growth on his right hand in Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) last night. HKL in a statement,...
View ArticleRSAF conducts successful evacuation of a civilian crew, 100km off Singapore’s...
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)’s Rescue 10 Search and Rescue team was activated on Saturday night to evacuate a civilian vessel crew suspected of a heart attack. The rescue team...
View ArticleSAF and former rigger address claims of PRC parachute rigging contractor
On Tuesday (12 January) evening, Ministry of Defence clarifies on the viral post by a person named Leslie Ang about how the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has engaged People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
View ArticleTwo new statutory boards to be formed under MOE and MOM
Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Ministry of Education (MOE) have announced two new statutory boards to be formed under the two ministries to drive the national SkillsFuture initiative. A new statutory...
View ArticleSPH settles copyright infringement with out-of-court settlement from TRS editors
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) said on Wednesday that it has reached an out-of-court settlement with the two editors of The Real Singapore (TRS) over a copyright infringement suit it had filed last...
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