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Singaporean man charged in Johor with trafficking over 10 kg of drugs

MALAYSIA: A Singaporean man has been charged with trafficking...

Tutor turns nasty after parent declines to make advance payment or loan him $500

SINGAPORE: A family's search for a private tutor ended...

Two arrested, weapons seized after video of vicious assault goes viral online

SINGAPORE: A man and a woman have been arrested...

24-year-old male student arrested in connection with voyeurism case at NTU

SINGAPORE: A 24-year-old has been arrested in connection with...

Business

Johor businesses urged to tap JS-SEZ for growth and investment opportunities

MALAYSIA: Businesses in Johor have been strongly encouraged to...

Sick of being broke? Eliminate these 8 silent budget killers now—before they sink you

Living paycheck to paycheck is like running on a...

Singapore SMEs eye JS-SEZ for growth amid rising costs and global trade tensions

SINGAPORE: The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) is emerging...

Fresh grads chasing $10K salaries? Singaporean asks: ‘Isn’t that unrealistic?’

SINGAPORE: A young local Reddit user took to the...

Singapore Politics

Ng Chee Meng asks PM Wong to exclude him from government role in new leadership lineup

SINGAPORE: Jalan Kayu MP and National Trades Union Congress...

Australian think tank piece says GE2025 results mean Singaporeans have become ‘incredibly savvy voters’

SINGAPORE: The Lowy Institute, a think tank based in...

PM Wong confirms Pritam Singh to remain as leader of the opposition

SINGAPORE: In a Facebook post on May 5, Prime...

Long weekend or rising apathy? Some wonder at low voter turnout for GE2025

SINGAPORE: On Sunday (May 4), the Elections Department (ELD)...

Monthly Archives: August 2021

Chee Soon Juan says his misgivings about Yale-NUS in 2012 have come true

Scammer ‘boyfriend’ tells woman to transfer S$10K; stopped by OCBC staff

Couple who abused helper and rubbed faeces on face, sent to jail

Li Shengwu weighs in on Yale-NUS closure

Maskless ‘sovereign’ kicked out of SG quoted in Daily Mail as saying he’d ‘do it again’

COMMENT | Didn’t realise we spoke English for the sake of minorities; PM Lee claims it put those who spoke only Mandarin and dialects in a disadvantageous position”

New Covid-19 variant with multiple mutations sparking concerns

COMMENT | A new low for our own Prime Minister to deny Chinese privilege in Singapore

Woman on Seah Kian Peng’s Kamala/Alamak joke: “I can’t bring myself to laugh. You give me $5 also I would not laugh at this”

After over 1 month, man succeeds in convincing mother, 83, to get vaccinated