SINGAPORE – The Government has no intention to ban tuition, said Education Minister Ong Ye Kung on Friday (Sept 28), reiterating that doing so would be akin to just treating the symptoms of a rigorous ...

A 2020 global survey that polled more than 2,000 Singapore respondents was analysed by IPS It found that Singaporeans were among the most political apathetic and least politically active in the world ...

SINGAPORE — Several prominent fourth-generation (4G) leaders were on Sunday (Nov 6) voted into the highest decision-making body of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), as chairman Gan Kim Yong ...

Plastic products are commonly and heavily used in Singapore, but awareness about recycling is lacking. People here use at least 1.76 billion supermarket plastic bags, plastic bottles and plastic ...

Pak Kian Huat, now 85, challenged several details about killing Lim Soi Moy, then aged 79, in 2019 The couple had four children together but never married after meeting in their teens He was initially ...

Fifty-eight per cent of youth surveyed said they have become more fearful because of the pandemic But 59 per cent were optimistic that life would be better a year from now Still, the top two feelings ...

NUS and its research partners did a survey to "understand and establish” the mental health and resilience of adolescents here About one in three of the youth reported mental health symptoms such as ...

SINGAPORE — For Ms Shuhadah, upgrading from a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat to owning a private property is a goal she would like to achieve at some point in her life — not for herself, but ...

We live in a time when roughly half of the jobs in 2020 are not yet known to us, and conversely, half of the jobs today will be extinct. While many businesses and individuals understand the need to ...

Blocks 562, 563, 564 and 565 along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 (pictured) have been chosen for the Housing and Development Board's Selective En bloc Redevelopment scheme. Four public housing blocks in Ang Mo ...

SINGAPORE — Recently, a man wielding a sword allegedly attacked some cars and a pedestrian along Buangkok Crescent. He has since been charged and remanded for psychiatric observation. This means that ...

SINGAPORE — Mr Jeremy Cheok has just two requirements for anyone willing to work in the restaurant he founded: Two hands and two legs. Age, he said, is not a factor. Yet, he continues to find it tough ...