Early reports say the Workers' Party has won the key battleground of Aljunied GRC , beating the PAP team led by Foreign Minister George Yeo. The WP win in Aljunied was reportedly more than 2 percentage points, which means it did not require a recount. According to a Yahoo! source, the...
Dear Alvin and all who had voted for Mr and Mrs Chiam See Tong, I want to thank you for voting for CST for the past 27 years. You are all indeed brave, enlightened souls! With big hearts! No doubt a legacy of Chiam See Tong’s leadership. For all these years, we in PAP constituencies h...
Standing Pen Patron: No admission for infant in arms and child aged below 12 years old. Child 12 years old and above must purchase ticket for admission. Normal Seats Patron: No admission for infant in arms and child aged below 7 years old. Child 7 years old and above must purchase tic...
THE Elections Department on Saturday morning advised an opposition party to file a police report after it raised complaints that Cooling-Off Day rules were flouted. The National Solidarity Party, in an e-mail letter on Friday, said that it had been informed a People's Action Party boo...
A FURIOUS father in China pulled his son out of a cyber cafe by his hair, stripped him naked and dragged him home by his feet after the game-addicted teenager disobeyed a computer ban. Lu Tan, 39, said he had warned son Xiaomeng, 14, dozens of times not to play computer games, adding,...
A KOREAN drama fan was gang-raped after she followed a man she befriended on the Internet to his house to watch a Korean drama series. Sin Chew Daily reported that the incident took place at about 10pm on Tuesday at a house in Bandar Manjalara, Kuala Lumpur. She met the man for the fi...
dear PM Lee, this is your opportunity to be a very different leader for a very different Singapore in a very different era. abolish the GRC system, and other ungentlemenly practices such as redrawing boundaries, using national resources as political tools, etc. when you rise above tha...
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen launched an 'aggressive' attack on Thailand over a border dispute during the first session of a summit of South-east Asian leaders on Saturday, a senior official said. -- PHOTO: AP JAKARTA - CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen launched an 'aggressive' att...
NEW YORK - MESSAGE to New York's most-watched - and feathered - mum to be: happy Mother's Day! Violet the red-tailed hawk nesting on a Manhattan window ledge amazed experts and hordes of online fans when one of her three eggs beat the odds to hatch a fluffy baby. The nest, perched out...
A HUMBLED George Yeo, stunned by the historic breakthrough of the Workers' Party (WP), which captured the first GRC for the opposition, said a new chapter has opened in Singapore's politics after Saturday's polls. Mr Yeo, a Foreign Minister and a core member of the People's Action Par...
NSP files complaint against Tin Pei Ling Singapore GE 2011: Results Live Kelong King's high life in London Election buzz words A mother's love Scenes from the General Election Time for PAP to change Trail of tears On the campaign trail with Ong Ye Kung Shortcut leads to fatal accident
JAKARTA - A PLANE with around 25 passengers and crew crashed into the sea on Saturday in eastern Indonesia, killing everyone on board, a navy officer told local radio. 'I can confirm that all the passengers were killed when the plane exploded as it crashed into the sea,' a navy office...
SINGAPOREANS trekked to polling booths across the island as soon as they opened at 8am on Saturday. Voting at 732 polling stations, which include Housing Board void decks, community centres and schools, closes at 8pm. A record 2.21 million Singaporeans will be heading to the ballot bo...
Contact Us | Careers | Copyright & Trademark Notices | Enquiry | Download Catalogue | Newsletter Sign Up | Shop Online Copyright © 2010 TWG Tea Company Pte Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
BEIJING - CHINA'S biggest search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to provide free downloads of copyrighted music from next week. The move comes as a response to increasing criticism of its involvement in copyright infringement. The new service, Baidu Ting, will see the search giant in head-to...
Reynaldo Reyes, 12, holds his shorts as he walks past a group of boys waiting for their turn during an 'Operation Circumcision' at a basketball court in Paranque city, metro Manila. -- PHOTO: REUTERS MANILA (Philippines) - HUNDREDS of boys in a Philippine city turned out on Saturday f...
, Journey with Karen, Miss Tan and Mr Raymond in three stimulating and inspiring stories that will prove us we can dance. Set in a nondescript shopping mall with a freestyle dance cafe, toys that can come to life, and a make-over demonstration that leads to a road of self-discovery, t...
Subscribers of The Sunday Times should expect their copies to be delivered late on Sunday morning. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN SUBSCRIBERS of The Sunday Times should expect their copies to be delivered late on Sunday morning. This is because of the expected late news after the results o...
THE People's Action Party secured 81 out of 87 seats against an opposition tide in Saturday's polls that dragged down its share of the vote to 60.1 per cent and swept the Workers' Party to victory in Aljunied GRC. Although still a landslide victory for the PAP by international standar...
MOST Singaporeans proved to be early birds when it comes to polling, with more than 83 per cent of them or 1.85 million of voters having done their duty by 5pm. Already, almost half of the total number of voters had cast their votes in the first four hours of Polling Day, Saturday. So...
Chick vs. Dick: EP74 - The Ice-Cream Challenge Paul and Kay Kay work behind the counter at Cold Stone Creamery and try to whip up their signature ice-cream creation!
THE Workers' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang's biggest political gamble of his life paid off as he led his team to a historic victory in Aljunied GRC in Saturday's general election. Hailing the breakthrough by the opposition as a 'political landmark in modern Singapore', a heavily ga...
WORKERS' Party made a historic breakthrough by winning Aljunied GRC, with a narrower margin of 9.42 per cent in the defining battle for the 143,148 votes. The keenly-watched results, announced at 2.10am, was greeted with cheers and jubilation from WP supporters. The opposition team, l...
SINGAPORE: Singapore President SR Nathan arrived at 8.30am at Haig Girls' School to cast his vote. He was accompanied by his wife. Haig Girls' is the polling centre for Marine Parade GRC. Speaking to reporters, President Nathan said: " I hope I have done everything possible as expecte...
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the voters have decided and he is "humbled" that they voted the PAP government back to power. Speaking at a post-victory news conference after the General Election results were announced on Sunday, Mr Lee said voters had given the PAP a s...
Golden Village Gold Class Grand Level 3 Great World City Shopping Centre, 1 Kim Seng Promenade, 237994, Singapore, Singapore Tel. 1900 912 1234, www.gv.com.sg
Is the General Election getting you down? Not sure which political party logo to sport? Don't want to be accused of being partisan and destroying the future of Singapore? Don't want people to accuse you of being Pro-PAP or Pro-WP or Pro-any other party? Wear the Tur Kwa from the mrbro...
Unsupervised visitors to this zoo in Malaysia habitually threw their still-smouldering cigarette butts near the enclosure of this female Orang Utan named Shirley. The result? The primate has learned to smoke, and now shows withdrawal symptoms without her regular nicotine 'fix'. STOMPe...
Seven people were killed and 16 wounded in a string of attacks across Thailand's far south that included two roadside bombs detonating within minutes of each other on Saturday, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP YALA (Thailand) - SEVEN people were killed and 16 wounded in a string of attacks ...
