SINGAPORE — A coroner’s court heard on Wednesday (March 9) that wires fusing together in a three-pin plug used to power a water heater was the main factor behind the deaths of an 80-year-old ...

SINGAPORE — At least 13 victims have fallen prey to a "new variant" of a job scam involving a travel company, with their total losses exceeding S$38,000 since January this year, the police said ...

Dr Lui Weng Sun, 48, was cleared of molesting a female patient in November 2017 District Judge Jasvender Kaur found several aspects of her evidence to be inconsistent with what she told police ...

SINGAPORE — Secondary school streaming will be replaced by subject-based banding in 2024, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung announced on Tuesday (March 5). Previously, students were channelled into ...

Talented young footballers aged 13 to 17 will be drawn together to form national youth squads, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong said on Monday (March 6) They will train at an ...

SINGAPORE — With various other young persons, Jovan Soh Jun Yan helped to scam OCBC customers of S$12.8 million. More than 768 police reports from OCBC bank account holders were made between Dec ...

SINGAPORE — In a bid to improve the safety of transporting construction workers, the Government will require all lorries with a laden weight of more than 3,500kg to ...

SINGAPORE — Around 70 per cent of the victims of job scams reported between 2019 and 2021 were younger adults aged between 20 and 39, Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs, said on ...

SINGAPORE — A co-conspirator who played a key role in a fraud to cheat the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) of over S$11.8 million through the now-defunct Productivity and Innovation ...

SINGAPORE — Singapore’s total population is likely to be below 6 million by 2020, and “significantly” below 6.9 million by 2030, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Josephine ...

SINGAPORE — As the campuses of several junior colleges (JCs) are “somewhat dated”, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung announced on Tuesday (March 5) that three of them will be rebuilt, while a ...

SINGAPORE — As her pawnbroking business was not doing well due to her competitors, Fun Sho Mei decided to pawn her customers' pawned goods, which were still redeemable, to other pawn shops under ...