By: Akikonomu Singapore's Workers Party had an election last weekend. That got them into the news because apparently in Singapore, even for an opposition party, the party leadership is a position for life and any open challenge for the post is...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) which is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, recently added several Singlish words when it updated and revised the entries in its dictionary. Among the Singlish words added is the word...

By: Suresh Nair PASS by the west coast of Singapore and you get a bubbly Japanese feeling. The Japanese School is there, the Japanese Gardens offer refreshing green scenary but, more captivating, is the rip-roaring football influence of Albirex Niigata...

Teen blogger Amos Yee was allegedly assaulted in Jurong Point recently. According to the Youtube video which had since surfaced, besides a Caucasian man who tried to intervene to beak up the 'aggressors', no one else lifted a finger. A...

The TODAY newspaper reported that a newborn baby was found dead in the first floor toilet of Tampines MRT station on Friday (June 3) afternoon. A 75-year-old cleaner found the body of the newborn baby in a red plastic bag in...

Chinese women are increasingly hiring a fake boyfriend to fend off relatives. By: Roshni Kapur Chinese women who face pressure to find a boyfriend or get married can now rent a fake boyfriend online. Taobao, China’s largest online marketplace, allows single women...

By: Forever Vagabond Earlier, it was reported that PRC Yang Yin used a fake degree to apply for EP and PR in Singapore, and somehow, the ICA and MOM have both failed to detect Yang's fake degree (https://theindependent.sg.sg/why-did-mom-and-ica-fail-to-detect-yang-yins-fake-degree-in-the-first-place). Yang's case of...

By: Forever Vagabond ST reported that a dormitory operator, KT Mesdorm, was fined $300,000 on Tuesday (May 31) for housing foreign workers in an overcrowded dormitory (http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/dormitory-operator-fined-300000-for-housing-more-workers-than-allowed-in). It was convicted of intentionally helping three companies to house their foreign workers in...

PAP MP Tan Wu Meng commenting on the police investigations into the breaches of the Cooling Off / Polling Day restrictions said in his Facebook yesterday that the law should take its course. He took issue with the statement the Workers'...

A local Chinese newspaper has reported that a 70-year-old man set himself on fire in a carpark at the junction of Geylang Lor 19 and Lorong Bachok last night (1 June) at around 10pm. Witnesses said that he stood next to...