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Singapore Customs arrested three male Malaysians, aged 28 to 33, and seized a total of 512 cartons and 759 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes in an operation on 22 November 2022. Singapore Customs said that in an operation conducted at an industrial building at Yishun Industrial Street 1, Customs officers checked on three men and two […]

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 […]

The JTC, National Parks Board (NParks), and Singapore Land Authority (SLA) have issued a final notice to the caretakers of an illegal makeshift shrine on a roadside green verge along Science Centre Road today, to vacate the site by 12 December 2022. A statement by the authorities said that this was communicated to the shrine’s […]

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 […]

British billionaire Richard Branson turned down the Singaporean government’s offer for him to speak in a live televised death penalty debate and its war on drugs. In its place, he urged Home Affairs and Law to engage local activists in the discourse and not him. The invitation comes after Branson ranted through a blog post […]

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 […]

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 […]

Star Wars Day is an informal commemorative day observed annually on May 4 to celebrate the Star Wars media franchise created by founder and former chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm, George Lucas. Observance of the day spread quickly through media and grassroots celebrations since the franchise began in 1977. The date originated from the pun […]

The Speaker of Parliament calls out social media user who slurred him and said, “glad I helped to make his day”. Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin took to Facebook today (2 May) to name and shame a social media user who referred to him as a “PAP dog”. The social media user had commented on […]