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Satellite-based ERP system will benefit motorists: Transport Minister
Despite grumblings about plans to integrate Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) with satellite technology, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew insists that the system can help motorists plan their journeys and...
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300-room Premier Inn to open in Singapore mid-2016
UK hotel operator Premier Inn will make its debut entry into Singapore mid 2016 with a 300-room hotel in Beach Road. The Premier Inn Singapore Beach Road will join the group’s 670 hotels globally...
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Woman throws up in taxi, declares 'my father is a multi-million construction...
That wasn't a typo. In a video that's just beginning to make its rounds, a woman is seen berating the person recording her, believed to be the driver of the taxi she apparently threw up in. Instead...
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Bumbox competes with SingPost to be your personal online shopping mailbox
If you have ordered something online before, chances are you would have faced this problem: your parcel deliveries are shipped to your house but you are always not home during the day. If that is the...
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Shisha will soon be banned in Singapore: MOH
Photo: Shisha smoking is often seen as being less harmful than cigarette smoking, but it's actually just as, if not more — a single session is equivalent to inhaling smoke from 100 or more cigarettes;...
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Sim Lim swindlers Mobile Air laugh as Vietnamese tourist begs for refund
The assholes at Sim Lim Square’s Mobile Air are at it again, despite a probe by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) over the high profile case that saw them refunding a customer $1000 in...
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French actress Juliette Binoche coming to Singapore for film festival in...
Oscar winning actress Juliette Binoche is coming next month for the 4th Rendezvous With French Cinema, held in conjunction with the Singapore International Film Festival. On Dec. 5, the Chocolat star...
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Lee Minho show in Singapore this weekend cancelled due to 'unforeseen...
Earlier today, local organiser Fast Track Events issued a statement on Facebook, announcing the cancellation of Lee Minho's show in Singapore this weekend. The REMIN:HO Global Tour concert was slated...
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Student pens longest poem in Singapore — over 15,000 lines in total
Singaporeans are well capable of literary feats — a 25-year-old student just composed more than 15,000 lines of rhyming couplets in the longest poem ever written here, the Straits Times reports....
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Prominent feminist author Naomi Wolf publicly disagrees with AWARE regulation
American best-selling author and renowned feminist figure Naomi Wolf was recently in town for the Singapore Writers Festival as a guest speaker, giving a lecture on the modern feminism movement and the...
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Groom service is standard at Singapore pet hotel
A luxury pet hotel featuring air-conditioned suites, spa services and gourmet meals was unveiled Tuesday in Singapore, further raising the level of pet pampering in the wealthy city-state. The 4,317...
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SIA top carrier in the world: Condé Nast Traveller
According to the Condé Nast Traveller magazine's Readers’ Choice Award, Singapore Airlines (SIA) has been voted as the best carrier in the world. The UK magazine collected over a million votes from...
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Killer litter still a major pitfall in HDB estates
Minister for Environment and Water Resources Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan updated Parliament yesterday on the situation of high-rise littering problem in Singapore, and apparently it’s still a persistent...
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Video: Singapore police band's quirky cover of 'Orang Singapura'
Law enforcers aren't necessarily boring folks, and a video uploaded recently by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) to zap the Monday blues, proves it. In their Facebook post, SPF even reminds fans to...
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57-year-old serial thief arrested
The police put an end to a 57-year-old man’s crime spree two days ago when he was arrested for suspected involvement in a series of theft cases. The man was involved in bizarre case of daylight...
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58-year-old man arrested in Toa Payoh for loanshark harassment
Police have arrested a 58-year-old man for a series of loanshark harassment cases. Investigations that followed his arrest in Toa Payoh after a single case was reported to the Jurong Police Division,...
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Kudos: Passersby foil snatch theft attempt in Choa Chu Kang
On Oct. 3, members of the public Mr. Abdul Qaliff bin Rahim and Mr. Sakiman bin Ishak helped nab a 24-year-old man, who'd snatched a victim's handphone. The victim had given chase and shouted for help...
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LTA wants to regulate third-party taxi booking apps
Four major third-party taxi booking apps — Easy Taxi, GrabTaxi, Uber and Hailo — have already made landfall here, and so far it's been pretty awesome for us commuters. The Government however, in all...
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WTF: Mobile 22 in Sim Lim Square also made customer cry for overcharging
A 19-year-old undergraduate has come forward with her own story about Sim Lim Square and it's just as tragic as the rest. According to The Straits Times (ST), the international student, who did not...
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Elderly woman hospitalised for four days before dying of dengue
In a release issued yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced that a 78-year-old Chinese woman has died of dengue. A resident at Woodlands Avenue 5,...
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