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New lifestyle mall to open in Seletar end of this year
Residents in Seletar and neighboring estates will find themselves spoilt for choice come December this year when Seletar Mall opens, Singapore Business Review reported. The four-level mall is a joint...
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Photo Essay: Lights, camera, Geylang Serai
Each day, the city shifts a little so that images are fast forgotten. What many Malay Muslims in Singapore used to love — such as old Geylang wet market and food stalls in the open-air carpark — have...
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Pro-LGBT comic artists, fans criticize lack of transparency in MDA's...
The availability in local bookstores of a Marvel comic depicting a gay wedding but not an Archie comic with a similar storyline raises questions on the Media Development Authority’s book review...
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Man with walking difficulties carried up ten stories to his apartment
Service to others is alive and well in Singapore! Two good samaritans, Nur Farizzat Zainal Abidin and Joseph Lee, took turns carrying a man with walking difficulties up ten stories to his Choa Chu Kang...
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Mass deaths of fish at Pandan Reservoir due to insufficient oxygen
Authorities have removed hundreds of dead fish from Pandan Reservoir so far in the past few days, but the process has yet to come to a halt. Despite the clean-up, tests show the water quality was...
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Renovations on Sultan Mosque to start next month
The S$3.45 million refurbishment of the Sultan Mosque will commence next month, and visitors can expect to use the new lifts by Q4 of next yea. As per the February announcement, two new lifts will be...
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Turn back time by walking along the new Queenstown Heritage Trail
The media caught a glimpse of the newly established Queenstown Heritage Trail yesterday, which stretches from Tanglin Road to Portsdown Road, and which aims to educate the public on the history of...
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Woman robbed on Holland Road after being pushed out of lift by stranger
An unidentified woman was seemingly pushed out of a lift and robbed of her handbag in a Facebook video below, shared by Georgina Lee on Facebook last Monday. According to Lee, the incident happened...
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Integrated complex in Bedok to open in 2017, will cater to East Coast residents
About 250,000 East Coast residents are anticipating the establishment of a new family-centred complex the “size of three football fields” in Bedok, scheduled for completion in 2017. It will house...
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Cars battle out hours-long traffic on Causeway during Hari Raya weekend
The prediction of heavy traffic this Hari Raya weekend from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) came true, as cars were situated bumper-to-bumper in hours-long traffic on the Causeway...
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Temasek engineering students create mobile app to help the elderly balance
A team of final-year students from Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Engineering constructed a mobile application that will help in the rehabilitation of patients aiming to regain their balance....
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Singapore snags its fourth gold at this year's Commonwealth Games
Singapore beat sixth seeded Malaysia 3-0 in the women's table tennis final Sunday to secure a fourth straight gold at the Commonwealth Games. In the final, world number 10 Yu Mengyu, beaten by India's...
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Singapore will match any increase Malaysia makes in Causeway toll charges
Should Malaysia raise its toll charges for the Causeway, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority has stated that it will match the price. Reports say Malaysia will raise toll charges for all vehicles...
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Weeping Tiger: Low-cost airline sees major losses
Singapore’s budget airline Tigerair suffers an operating loss of S$16.4m from April to June this year, an increase in losses of S$10.2m from the same period last year. This comes on top of the closure...
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Schooling earns Singapore first swimming gold at Commonwealth Games
Singapore’s 19-year-old Joseph Schooling made history today when he placed second in the men’s 100m butterfly final, winning Singapore its first Commonwealth Games swimming medal. Schooling clocked in...
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Sentosa strapping majestically fake birds to cab roofs for promotional stunt
If you happen to see a colorful bird atop the cab you just hailed, don’t worry – it’s just a marketing campaign for Sentosa’s “Wings of Time”. The 3D structures were produced and installed by Moove...
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Toronto may copy Singapore’s free early bird subway program
Toronto may take a page from Singapore’s public transit playbook and allow free transit for early birds. Indeed, a mayoral candidate for Canada’s largest city, David Soknacki suggested Friday that...
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“Freak” storm topples several trees on Riverdale Drive
Trees in four different areas of Singapore toppled over today after a bout of strong wind and thunderstorms, causing traffic and obstructing a car park entrance in the northeast. The areas affected...
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Sad times: Divorce rate rises, marriages fall in Singapore
Marital dissolutions increased in number last year even as the number of marriages fell, according to a 2013 statistical report on marriages and divorces by the Department of Statistics. Last year saw...
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Initiative launched to make Singapore even more squeaky clean
Singapore is already one of the world’s cleanest cities… but it’s about to get even more spotless. The “Keep Singapore Clean” movement was launched today by education minister Heng Swee Keat, and...
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