AN UNEMPLOYED man was charged on Friday with stealing 10 pieces of 500 cash chips amounting to $5,000 from Resorts World Sentosa. Ooi Boon Huat, 56, is alleged to have stolen the chips at the casino...

A MAN who threw hydrochloric acid at his neighbour's face was jailed for 15 months on Friday. Rio Lawrence Patrick Dutton, 47, admitted to causing hurt to Mr Basri Bakri by dangerous means at...

SINGAPORE: Six Social Work and Special Education undergraduates received a financial boost to their studies on Thursday, when they were awarded the inaugural Tan Chin Tuan—SSTI Award. The Tan...

BANGKOK (AFP) - – Supporters of Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra were set to gather on the streets of Bangkok Friday for mass protests aimed at toppling the...

"But do you think she could fill the Indoor Stadium?" I hedged. Fill it? Like, 11,000 seats? I wasn't going to be responsible for his loss if 11,000 people didn't turn up, I joked. ...

BY ESTHER AU YONG PROGRAMMES developed to counsel and assist teen Malay-Muslim couples have paid off. Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim announced in Parliament yesterday that the...

EMPLOYERS will be advised to pay retiring workers, whom they cannot re-hire, an Employment Assistance Payout of between $4,500 and $10,000. The Tripartite Guidelines on the Re-employment of Older...

By Cheryl Lim TOMORROW, families can take part in an Amazing Race-style cross-island race in the Businesses for Families Cross-Island Race. They will start at United Square shopping mall, and fan...

NINE months after electoral changes were announced, the Government took the first step of introducing the proposed revisions in Parliament yesterday. Three laws have to be amended to allow for key...

SINGAPORE - UBS' joint head of Asian equity- capital markets has resigned, becoming the latest senior manager to jump ship as markets show signs of recovery in the region, a source told Reuters...

She draws $1,000 monthly, thanks to the Workforce Skills Qualifications(WSQ) courses she attended. Previously, she drew much less as a part-time hawker's assistant. Come July, Madam Zarina can...

JACK NEO: GOOD morning. Thank you for being here today. These few days have been very difficult for us. I believe all of you already know that. I was the one who caused this entire saga. It's...

The 50-year-old, who has not been seen in public since news of his infidelity broke last weekend, held a drama-filled press conference yesterday morning to address the scandal. Similar to the...

A SCIENTIST here is working on a treat- ment method that will kill only cancerous cells in the nose, without affecting the healthy cells surrounding them. For over a year, the National Cancer Centre...

SINGAPOREANS will remember her name not because it's unusual, but for the fact she has been labelled Jack Neo's 'Woman No. 2'. Ms Foyce Lim (Le Xuan), 25, is the second woman to blow the lid on the...

HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan was asked for his secret to looking young by Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Lam Pin Min in Parliament on Tuesday. Giving a bashful grin, Mr Khaw, 58, said: 'There's no...

By Salma Khalik SUBSIDIES for patients at community hospitals will go up. Patients can also use more of their Medisave funds to pay for treatments at these hospitals from the middle of this...

By Joan Chew HOSPICES are so short of beds that terminally ill patients sometimes have to be put on a waiting list for a place, with some dying before they can be admitted. On some days, two of the...

ARE the number of road bullies increasing? Increasingly, there are more reports of drivers being harassed by other road users, especially on citizen journalism website Stomp. The latest account of...

Columnists and bloggers are calling him Singapore's Tiger Woods - not for his golfing skills but for an extramarital affair that has tarnished the image of the city-state's most beloved film...

TV STAR Mark Lee said Jack Neo had intended to apologise to his fans, his family and others but cut the press conference short on Thursday when his wife became too upset. 'Jack told me in the car...

Fortis chairman Malvinder Mohan Singh (centre) will be nominated as the new chairman of Parkway. He is seen here with Parkway chairman Richard Seow and TPG Capital senior partner Tim Dattels. -- ST...

ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN CROWDS filled the aisles yesterday at what is billed as the largest IT, digital, mobile and consumer electronics exhibition in Singapore. IT Show 2010 will run until Monday...

IN JANUARY, Madam Tamilselvi Rathinasamy lost her job as a waitress. Since then, the 41-year-old has been struggling to land a new job. A key reason, she believes, is her poor education level and...

FEWER Muslims are getting hitched below the age of 21, and among those who do, fewer have broken marriages. Both downtrends can be traced to the efforts of community groups in persuading couples to...

TO ENCOURAGE more motorists to apply for the Park and Ride Scheme, the Ministry of Transport is extending the scheme to three new carpark sites. They are at Block 53A, Strathmore Avenue in...

SINGAPORE has bought a million doses of a vaccine to protect the people here against the H5N1 bird flu. The vaccine will arrive by the end of the year. The bug is particularly scary for Singapore,...

William Dull's antics last month were captured on video. The crew were forced to restrain the Australian, who was believed to have been drinking. -- PHOTO: DIARIOVASCO TV WEARING a T-shirt...

CENTRAL Provident Fund (CPF) members with $60,000 in their retirement accounts when they turn 65 will be automatically included in the CPF Life annuity scheme, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong...

-- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM A CHINESE firm new to Singapore's residential development scene has topped the bidding for an executive condominium (EC) site in Yishun. Beijing-headquartered MCC Land...

ON WEDNESDAY, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a statement advising Singaporeans travelling to Thailand to e-Register with the ministry at Registration enables the ministry to contact...

SEVERAL school trips to Thailand during the March holidays next week have been postponed or cancelled, following reports of a planned protest in Bangkok. Schools usually send students to serve needy...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - – Rape of women and girls appears to be increasing in Cambodia and victims face stigma and get little justice, rights group Amnesty International said in a report to mark...

SINGAPOREANS are generally happier with the overall standard of public transport services here, compared to a year earlier. More than nine in 10 commuters were satisfied with the services, based on...

By Esther Au Yong FEWER certificates of entitlement (COEs) are expected to be available for bidding this year and the next, because the growth rate in the number of cars in the last two years has...

By Yeo Ghim Lay & Nicholas Yong FOR three months last year, Bukit Panjang resident Tan Say Kiat, 32, went car-free and made his daily journeys on public transport. While commuting to his...

VOLUNTARY welfare organisations (VWOs) were abuzz with the latest move by the Health Ministry to bear the full cost of building two new nursing homes. The decision means that the VWOs and private...

(RTTNews) - The Singapore stock market has finished higher now in five straight sessions, collecting more than 100 points or 3.7 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index finished just above...

TEARFUL pleading, shoving, shouting, wailing and an impassioned display of loyalty. It was all over in just five minutes, but there was no lack of Channel 8-style drama when film-maker Jack Neo and...

Those companies which cannot find a way to re-employ their workers at retirement age should offer them a severance pay-out of between $4,500 and $10,000. -- PHOTO: ZAOBAO THOSE companies which...

Legislation was introduced in Parliament yesterday to make a number of major changes to the political system. If all goes according to plan, the revisions should become law by next month. -- ST...

From next month, there will be a bigger-than-expected cut in certificates of entitlement (COEs) needed to buy vehicles. -- ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN FROM next month, there will be a...

By Dave Thompson BIRMINGHAM, England, March 11 - World number one and top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia booked his quarter-final slot with a 21-11 21-17 victory over Sony Dwi Kunncoro at the All...

BANGKOK – The Thai capital braced for possible violence as anti-government demonstrators prepared to launch Friday what they hope will be one of the country's biggest protests ever, aiming to...

SINGAPORE : Singapore leaders have expressed their condolences on the death of Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al—Azhar University. The prominent cleric died of...

SINGAPORE: The Charity Council will embark on an exercise to refine the Code of Governance for Charities and Institutions of a Public Character or IPCs, which was first introduced in November 2007. ...

SINGAPORE: The Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall will be closed later this year for a makeover that will take at least three years. On Thursday evening, it hosted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and...

SINGAPORE: From 2013, CPF members turning 55 and with at least S$40,000 in their Retirement Accounts will be automatically included into CPF LIFE. Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong told Parliament...

SINGAPORE: Public transport users were more satisfied with bus and train services in 2009 than the year before. That’s according to the latest Public Transport Satisfaction Survey 2009, which...

A PART-TIME property agent duped eight foreigners in a rental scam and collected nearly $22,000 for herself and her accomplices. Razieya Mohamed Ali was jailed for 11 months by a district court...