Singapore

Lowering the minimum voting age is not enough to ensure informed youth political participation. Young voters need political education and practice opportunities to understand and internalise principles of democracy. This was a key finding in Asia Centre’s latest report “Youth and Disinformation in Malaysia: Strengthening Electoral Integrity”. Asia Centre, a research institute in Special Consultative […]

SINGAPORE — For many years, I harboured dreams of being a pilot. I took all the right steps to arm myself with a commercial pilot licence, because I thought this would be my career trajectory for the foreseeable future. But then, the unforeseeable happened – the Covid-19 pandemic. It struck at the worst possible juncture […]

Going out for a run or jog? Well, here is some good news. Singapore has been voted the fourth best city for running. According to data by shoe company, SportsShoes.com the city comes in at number four based on Instagram hashtag data. Singapore landed at number four with plenty of running groups sharing their sunrise […]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on 11 May that it has imposed a civil penalty of $100,000 on Mdm Tan Su Lan for false trading in the shares of Aspial Corporation Limited (ACL) and Far East Orchard Limited (FEOL). MAS said Mdm Tan had pledged ACL and FEOL shares as collateral for share […]

The Police said that on May 6, 33-year-old Xu Shaowen and 32-year-old Lim De Xian of 7W Consultancy Pte Ltd (“7W Consultancy”) were charged in court for their suspected involvement in cheating and falsification related offences in respect to grant applications made under the Professional Conversion Programmes (“PCP”). The PCP is offered by Workforce Singapore […]

As the number of people applying for and renewing passports continues to rise, Immigration and Checkpoints says applications now take at least six weeks to process. “Longer Processing Time for Passport Application. Due to overwhelming passport applications, please expect a longer processing time of at least six weeks,” said a notice on the official website […]

The Police said on Wednesday (May 11) that they were investigating a woman for being an unauthorised person acting as an advocate or solicitor. The Straits Times (ST) identified the lawyer as Ms Violet Netto who earlier this year represented Malaysian drug trafficker Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam in an appeal against his death sentence. He was […]

The Police and the Land Transport Authority said in a joint-statement on 10 May that they will be charging two men, the 61-year-old car driver and a 28-year-old car owner, for their suspected involvement in an incident which occurred at Red Swastika School on 11 January 2022. The incident captured on video where a man […]

Mr Lim Tean, an advocate and solicitor with Carson Law Chambers (“CLC”), will be charged in court on 12 May 2022, said the Police in a press release. Mr Lim is being charged with the following offences by the Police: Criminal Breach of Trust – Sometime in November 2019, Mr Lim Tean was entrusted with […]

Facebook user Aristotle Motii Nandy highlighted a commuter who appeared to be Chinese in his post for moving away to sit elsewhere on an MRT train after he sat next to her. He said, “Blatant prejudice? I sat next to this person and she shifted to another seat…” In reply to one Facebook user who […]

Take some time out and experience go-karting at SCAPE Playspace. The area overseeing Grange Road is now RaceHub, an electric go-karting track. RaceHub features a 200 metre long track at the basket ball court and members of the public can enjoy go karting underneath floodlights at SCAPE, the first of its kind in the Orchard […]

A man who was part of a religious order of the Catholic faith when he committed unlawful sexual acts with two teenage boys here was sentenced to five years` jail on Thursday (May 5). The Singaporean, is 60 years of age and is not a priest. The offender however, had taken a vow of celibacy […]