Mr Awang Ahmad and his wife visiting Mohd Fadli at the Duchess of Kent Hospital. -- PHOTO: METRO AHAD A SIX-year-old boy in Sabah paid a deadly price for being noisy, Metro Ahad reported. Mohd Khairadri Awang Ahmad and two elder siblings were attacked by their furious uncle who could ...
Two Singaporean women were detained and ordered a strip search by Malaysian authorities. (Yahoo! Photo) Two Singaporeans were detained by Malaysian law enforcement officers on 9 June after they were accused of entering Malaysia illegally. The pair were also ordered to strip and do squ...
Nong Shim's Shin Ramyun and Nissin noodles. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW and SHAHRIYA YAHAYA INSTANT noodles here are safe to eat, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) on Sunday. The reassurance from Singapore's food safety watchdog came after excessive amounts of a cancer...
At 6.45pm yesterday, the Causeway was almost empty in both directions. When The Straits Times drove through, it took just half an hour to go in and out of JB. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN TRAVELLERS crossing the Causeway were yesterday spared the gruelling jams that have plagued the c...
Singapore is ranked second in providing security to its citizens, according to an annual survey of the rule of law around the world released on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAO BIN WASHINGTON - SINGAPORE is ranked second in providing security to its citizens, according to an annual surve...
A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island. -- ST FILE PHOTO JAKARTA - A STRONG 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Monday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings issued. The under...
Xu Yuanyuan, 19, was fined $1,500 for failing to keep a proper lookout at a pedestrian and causing hurt by colliding with a cyclist who, as a result, died from injuries sustained. -- ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM A PEDESTRIAN stepped onto the road without looking to the right and collided with ...
NEW YORK - COCKROACHES have been identified as a possible explanation for dramatic neighbourhood variations in asthma rates among New York City children. In some neighbourhoods, 19 per cent - nearly 1 in 5 - of children have asthma, while in others the rate can be as low as 3 per cent...
The Obedient Wives Club created a controversy in Malaysia as some feel it degrades women. Three Singaporeans have taken it upon themselves to pioneer a local branch of the controversial Obedient Wives Club (OWC). Dr Darlan Zaini, a literature professor, Hamidah Ari and her brother, Az...
Singtel is tweaking its mobile broadband service to give customers on its higher-end plans a faster, more reliable connection on the go. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN SINGTEL is tweaking its mobile broadband service to give customers on its higher-end plans a faster, more reliable connecti...
Scientists have uncovered genes tied to migraine headaches - including one in which the link is exclusive to women. -- ST POSED PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI PARIS - SCIENTISTS have uncovered a trio of genes tied to migraine headaches, including one in which the link is exclusive to women, acco...
Mr S. C. Nar carrying a dog which has three of its legs injured. The dog was taken to a vet by volunteers. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING REPORTS of wild boars spotted in some forested areas of Singapore have resulted in a spate of illegal wild boar traps being laid. Believed to have been la...
SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has published the typical speeds of its mobile broadband services in what it says is a first for the mobile industry in Asia. It publishes the speeds which customers can expect 80 per cent of the time. A subscriber of its 7.2Mbps plan,...
Tomorrow 14th June, we will be chillin’ with two DailySocial team members who are flying in from Indonesia, a few guests from the Sandbox Network and others. This chillin’ session is co-organized with Sandbox Network . Guests DailySocial Team Wiku Baskoro is a full-time writer at Dail...
24 year old PRC deliveryman Zhou Hou aka ‘dog-catcher’ from Shandong province, northern China has begged for mercy from Singaporeans as Singapore netizens filed police reports against him in a rare show of unity against the seditious remarks he posted on a Singapore forum for mainland...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino's office said on Monday it was renaming the South China Sea as the "West Philippine Sea", as tensions with Beijing mount over the disputed area. The Philippines and China, along with Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have competing claims...
JAKARTA : A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Monday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings issued. The undersea quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 13 kilometres (eight miles) around 211 km...
CHRISTCHURCH: A series of strong quakes, including a 6.0-magnitude tremor, rocked New Zealand's stricken Christchurch Monday, causing one building to collapse and prompting evacuations. Power company Orion said electricity had been cut to 54,000 homes. The US Geological Survey measure...
What do you do when Echelon is over? Go to the afterparty, of course! by Joash Wee Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box We are into the final three days before Southeast Asia’s largest technolo...
Alison Green , On Monday 6 June 2011, 21:34 SGT Unless you're extremely lucky or tolerant, you'll have your share of annoying co-workers over the years. Here are the six most common types and how to deal with them: 1. The interrupter . Whenever you're talking with a coworker, this per...
'The doctor said I'd never do push-ups again' They were the victims of one of the most vicious robberies in recent times, in which a gang of seven Sarawakians went on a rampage on May 29 last year, slashing three men and killing one. The attack was so brutal that one lost four fingers...
My husband is currently away at the moment. He has gone overseas for 3.5 weeks, which means I have been left to fend for myself (and my 3 kids) for a while. THE DAY AFTER HE LEFT, what do you know, both the taps in my bathroom broke. Both of them . Arrgh. “Fixing things around the hou...
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The only thing worse than having no customers is having non-paying ones. And small businesses, with limited credit and cash flows, suffer from non-paying customers more than most. After all, it sucks doing a whole bunch of work and rack up a large number in your receivables column, bu...
Over the years, Holland Village has seen so many restaurants come and go, but I will always remember Yee Cheong Yuen noodle restaurant which has been there since the start. I’m not a big fan of their Ipoh Hor Fun , but it’s nice to see a familiar face around after all these years. I r...
The police have arrested a 37-year-old man who is believed to have outraged the modesty of an 11-year-old boy at a stairwell at Tiong Bahru shopping mall. In a statement, the police said officers saw the pair entering the stairwell while patrolling on Saturday. Smelling a rat, the off...
SPRINGFIELD (Illinois) - TAIWAN'S top-ranked Yani Tseng won the LPGA State Farm Classic on Sunday, firing a four-under par 68 for a three-shot victory over American Cristie Kerr. Tseng finished with a 21-under total of 267 on the Panther Creek Course, which may have hosted the last Sp...
CHRISTCHURCH: A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand's quake-hit city of Christchurch on Monday, prompting the evacuation of a building holding an inquest into February's deadly tremor. The USGS measured the quake, which hit just 10 kilometres (6 miles) from Christchurch, at 5.2-m...
A group of about 30 individuals are being investigated by officers of the Singapore Police Force for gathering at Wisma Atria yesterday, to express their dismay at the Ministers’ high salaries. A pseudonymous character ‘Mandy Mary’ and her team of volunteers had asked “Singaporeans” t...
I believe the overarching idea of operating transport services as commercial concerns has not changed, but the content of the commerce is being modified, in a direction somewhat like Hongkong: transport companies are allowed to utilize their real estate to generate income in order to ...
TWO Singaporean women who drove into Johor Baru were detained by Malaysian customs, stripped, and made to squat and stand while pulling their ears. They were detained for 24 hours for "illegal entry" as their passports were not stamped at the Malaysian customs, reported Shin Min Daily...
