LTA's non-taxi-booking app now available for download
A taxi app produced by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has been released today, and it promises to bring commuters and taxi drivers in Singapore closer. Don’t be mistaken, LTA’s Taxi-Taxi @ SG is...
View ArticleTampines murder leaves co-tenants deeply shaken, no longer willing to live in...
A horrific incident shook the residents of Tampines Central early yesterday morning where a woman was found dead in a flat and the bloodied murder suspect found in another block 30 metres away from the...
View ArticleSMRT bus and train services extended for Christmas Eve merriment
Public transport commuters, spread all the merriment you want on Christmas Eve this year without worry for SMRT will be extending their bus and train services on Dec. 24. According to the public...
View ArticleCecilia Cheung loves it when people in Singapore enquire after her, give her...
Cecilia Cheung likes Singapore so much she talks about it even while in Hong Kong, a city that basically puts food on the table for her. According to the Ming Pao Daily News, the 34-year-old actress...
View ArticleBukit Batok rats getting 'eliminated'
Residents worried by the colony of rats living on a hill near Bukit Batok MRT station will soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Two days after a video of the skin-tingling scene went viral on...
View ArticleTampines murder suspect charged in hospital
The 37-year-old man arrested for the murder of a woman at Tampines Central 1 was charged today, at the Changi General Hospital. The suspect and the victim — believed to be a couple from China — were...
View ArticleWanted: Man in 30s suspected of molest in train from Khatib MRT station
Police is looking for this man to assist with investigations into a case of outrage of modesty reported on board the train travelling from Khatib MRT station to Yio Chu Kang MRT station on Dec. 17....
View ArticleVideo: Have you met Singapore's amazing opera-singing taxi driver?
Neither have we, but we want to, the way School of the Arts (SOTA) singing teacher Dr. Thomas Manhart has. Here's why: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if...
View ArticlePoints for effort, but Arterial lacks cafe magic
COCONUTS CRITIC'S TABLE—At this point, Chinatown shophouse 24 Temple Street seems almost a cursed address. It has been home to CrazyWorld Café and then Table 24 in just a short span of time. But the...
View ArticleFemale body found in Seletar Reservoir
The lifeless body of a Chinese female was recovered from Seletar Reservoir this morning, Channel NewsAsia reports. The story was first reported by MediaCorp's Channel 8 News, who were told by the...
View ArticlePatient drives 63-year-old nurse to tears with note telling her "you're not...
A handwritten note originally posted by Singapore page 'Five Stars and a Moon' has gone viral. Accompanying it was a letter by one 'Cindy Ong', who said the note was given to her mother, a senior...
View ArticleThis looks like the pre-enlistment check-up from hell
Or does it? When someone sent a note to citizen journalism site The Real Singapore complaining about the medical check-up he went through on Dec. 15, part of the customary National Service...
View ArticleBlackberry launches throwback smartphone the Classic, in Singapore
Blackberry has revived a familiar sight, which has now reached Singapore shores. The Blackberry Classic has been launching around the world, with its official launch in the US held on 17th December. It...
View ArticleChairman of TANGS Singapore: E-commerce will never replace brick-and-mortar...
The last couple of months saw some of the biggest online shopping sprees in Singapore – online flash sales, Black Fridays and the recently concluded 12.12 Online Fever. Websites such as Zalora,...
View ArticleMedicinal Poison: Two Chinese elixirs found with extreme levels of arsenic
The Health Science Authority (HSA) has put out an alert, warning members of the public not to consume a batch of Chinese Proprietary Medicines after they were found with levels of arsenic that exceeded...
View ArticleTaipei emerges as NYE destination of choice for Singaporean travellers
A recent study of the searches on TripAdvisor.com reveals that Taipei is the Singaporean destination of choice for the New Year. The study, which looked at activity on the website linked to the period...
View ArticleCut by Wolfgang Puck only Singapore restaurant to make it to TripAdvisor's...
Only one local restaurant made it to TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice Awards this year: Cut by Wolfgang Puck. An amazing restaurant, but the fact it's the only Singapore contender to make it to not...
View ArticleSingapore Airlines' Vistara to take off in January
Bookings for Vistara went live today as Tata and Singapore Airlines' joint full-service carrier announced its launch on Jan. 9. With Delhi as its hub, Vistara, which means "limitless expanse" in...
View ArticleSingaporeans last almost 10 minutes watching porn: Study
Singaporeans don't like to admit it, but we do love indulging our appetite for porn every once in a while, and what better way to give in to our inner hankerings than with the internet — the home of...
View ArticleMan accused of murdering Vietnamese girlfriend declared 'not of sound mind'
Jackson Lim Hou Peng, the Singaporean man charged with the murder of his Vietnamese girlfriend in November, has been declared to be mentally unstable and will be moved out of the Changi Medical Complex...
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