France honours Hong Kong film director Anti-establishment sentiment among youngsters a global phenomenon: Chang Malaysia elections: Barisan on track for two-thirds majority in Sabah, wins Labuan North Korea says no plan to use American as bargaining chip Bangladesh building collapse d...
PM Lee and wife Ho Ching sharing a light moment with train lead service attendant John Laliberte, 57, on being a fellow left-hander after Mr Laliberte took his meal order. The Straits Times Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrived in New York City by tr...
Joy Fang My Paper Monday, Mar 25, 2013 SINGAPORE - Singapore is too fixated on producing professional, managerial, executive and technician (PMET) jobs for Singaporeans, and this mindset creates a problem, said economics professor Linda Lim yesterday at a population-policy forum. Prof...
By Noor Ashikin Abdul Rahman The New Paper Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 SINGAPORE - It is hard to picture Demi Lovato as the wreck she was several years ago. The cheery pop star appeared poised and mature before the press when she was interviewed just hours before her performance at The Col...
SINGAPORE - One of Taiwan's biggest music festivals is coming to Singapore this may. Tiger Beer will be presenting Spring Wave Singapore 2013 on May 4 at Gardens by the Bay. Headlined by renowned Taiwan artists Jam Hsiao, Wu Bai, A-Yue, Cheer Chen, Joanna Wang and local singer, Olivia...
Mr Choi Dae Ho, 22, may be a black belt in taekwondo, but instead it was his gentle act of chivalry that put him at the centre of online buzz. The taekwondo coach from Korea who gave his slippers up to an old woman on a Singapore bus said that the 'small' gesture was something he felt...
The Star/Asia News Network Monday, Dec 10, 2012 Major Chinese dailies reported that a woman from Singapore had been jailed for abusing her maid, including poking and scratching her naked body for not being able to clean the washing machine in three minutes. The Indonesian maid ran awa...
By May Chen The Straits Times Monday, Dec 10, 2012 SINGAPORE - RAFFLES Institution (RI) is taking disciplinary action against one of its teachers, Mr Adrian Chng, for using inappropriate language - even though he did not do so in his capacity as an RI teacher. RELATED STORIES Police r...
By Salma Khalik The Straits Times Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 SINGAPORE'S 6,000 food outlets sold $6.2 billion worth of meals in 2010 - or a 12 per cent increase over the previous year. With three in five people here eating out at least four times a week, one way to get them to eat healthi...
By Rebecca Lynne Tan The Straits Times Friday, Nov 16, 2012 The flavour of the year, it seems, is Spanish. At least 10 Spanish tapas bars and restaurants have opened in the past year, with no fewer than three setting up shop in the last month alone - Bomba in Martin Road, Kaixo in Tan...
Football: Japan?s Ishige to train with Manchester City One girl's food adventures around the world China's painful past displayed under political shadow New $80m clinical trial grant to boost medical research Mando-pop stars in Singapore for Chinese music awards Myanmar state media de...
Vietnam PM escapes punishment despite censure Two Chinese kidnapped on Cameroon-C.Africa border Microsoft launches new music service HDB resale market stabilising: Khaw US duo win Nobel Economics Prize for match-making theory US stocks open higher as retail sales jump S'pore govt send...
The New Paper Tuesday, Oct 09, 2012 SINGAPORE - In the anonymous freedom of surveys, away from the glare of the National Conversation, more than half of us apparently do not want to be here. A Mindshare survey carried out early this year found that 56 per cent of the 2,000-odd polled ...
SINGAPORE - Mr Tan Cheng Chuan has only six months left to live, and his dying wish is to spend his last days with his two beloved dogs. The 63-year-old owns Silver and Rover, a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old schnauzer respectively. RELATED STORIES Cat-lover hits dog-lover over stray res...
Graphic animation - one of many digital media project under the new Singapore Media Fusion Plan (SMFP) unveiled by the Media Development Authority (MDA). The New Paper Friday, Sep 21, 2012 There is a high level of satisfaction with media offerings among local consumers, a study has fo...
SINGAPORE - A United Arab Emirates man who molested three Singapore Airlines stewardess was fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of outrage of modesty. School teacher Ahmad Abdulla Saleh Alyasi, 41, was on a flight from Dubai to Singapore with his family on August 19 when...
By Kwok Kar Peng The New Paper Monday, Sep 03, 2012 It's not every day that you star alongside K-pop singers. For MediaCorp actor Rayson Tan, his first brush with the singers was a bittersweet, and literally painful, experience. Last month, the 47-year-old veteran acted with SKarf for...
SINGAPORE - Mr Kelvin Ong never graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a double mathematics major. In fact, he never attended the university, The Sunday Times reported. Last month the Education Ministry revealed that Mr Ong was neither a pupil nor teacher in the ...
SINGAPORE - Mr Kelvin Ong Wee Loong, the founder of AristoCare centre, charges a whopping $250 per lesson for parents of primary school students looking to clinch a place in the coveted Gifted Education Programme (GEP). RELATED STORIES Parent pays nearly $6,000 a month in tuition fees...
