In 1991, after Mr Low Thia Khiang was elected by the residents of Hougang as their MP, he observed a sharp rise in the indiscriminate disposal of bulky items and furniture at the lift lobby and common areas of...

Firefighters may be off-duty. but their instinct to know when something is not right never goes off duty. That was how 8 firefighters saved the day at Causeway Point, a shopping mall in Woodlands. Eight off-duty firefighters from Bukit Batok Fire...

Carrie Chan, a student at Kaplan College, said on her Facebook that she was detained in a SBS bus by its ticket inspector, who refused to let her alight unless she paid a fine for under-paying fare. She said that she boarded...

Many Singaporeans may be skeptical of Government announcements like, "public housing has remained largely affordable to most Singaporeans". But the situation here is certainly not as dire as in Hong Kong where the high property prices have prevented young...

By: Richard Wan CNA reported on 23 Jan that the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Chan Chun Sing, told the St Gallen Symposium Singapore Forum that instead of blindly chasing conventional definitions of success, society must have diverse groups...

Socio-political commentator Alex Au has given his views on the topic of the Singaporean-Kiwi trying to dodge National Service (NS) and said that the real reason why Singapore ties itself in illogical knots over the issue of NS is because of...

Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Leon Perera visited the constituency he contested in at the last election yesterday. He shared some pictures of this visit to East Coast constituency, and shared the thoughts of some the residents there. During his visit, he had...

The Hindus in Singapore celebrated Thaipusam yesterday. Thaipusam is a day which is celebrated in the honour of the Hindu deity Murugan. Most devotees carry milk pots called kavadi in a procession from one temple to another, but it is...

By: Ravi Philemon In his column for The Straits Times its editor-at-large, Han Fook Kwang, had this to say about the pending changes to our electoral system: "Whenever the Singapore electorate has been asked to decide, it has shown itself to...

A relic of World War II, a 105mm British projectile, was found at a construction site near Fernvale Lea in the Sengkang West vicinity on Friday night (22 Jan) and was safely detonated by the Singapore Armed Forces yesterday. On Friday night,...