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We, the Head of the Religion of Islam in the State of Selangor, take great concern over the actions by the Enforcement Division of the Selangor Department of the Religion of Islam (Jais) which carried out a search at the Thanksgiving Dinner event which was held at Hall 3, Dream Centre Complex...

Security guard drowns at condo pool SINGAPORE - A security guard was found drowned at a condominium swimming pool in Serangoon North Ave 1 yesterday. The incident happened at about 6.20am, reported the Shin Min Daily News. The deceased, Bai Xuan An, 53, had gone to the condominium to...

GENEVA - When it comes to socks, one is more likely to find a French or Swiss man wearing a smelly pair than a German or a Brit. A study by Swiss firm Blacksocks found that only 66 percent of Frenchmen changed their socks daily, while just seven in ten Swiss men put on a clean pair every day...

The SlutWalk will be held in Singapore for the first time this December. The SlutWalk is an event meant to fight for women's rights to be safe, regardless of their appearance or dressing. Usually held as a protest march, it has already reached cities including Toronto, New Delhi and Seoul...

He prized his love life more than his life. To his detriment. He had prostate cancer and could have been cured if he had had the cancer surgically removed at an early stage. But because that carries a risk of his losing his ability to have sexual intercourse, he decided to gamble with his...

KUALA LUMPUR - A 61-year-old taxi driver nearly had his ear bitten off by his new Vietnamese wife when he tried to have sex with her. The 29-year-old also splashed a bottle of minyak angin (medicated oil) in his eyes and threatened to cut off his private parts with a pair of scissors before...

SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) today announced that Singapore has one of the highest employment rates internationally. According to a report released by the Manpower Research and Statistics Department and the Singapore Department of Statistics, nearly eight in ten (77 per cent)...

STOMPer BlackStallion was disgusted to see this foreign worker at a coffeeshop in Tampines Central cleaning her fingernails with a pair of scissors meant for cutting food. Said the STOMPer: "I was at a restaurant in Tampines Central a couple of weeks back and saw this foreign worker...

SINGAPORE - Tan Geok Kim, 60, admitted in court today that he made a 12-year-old boy perform oral sex on him and vice versa on August 12, 2009. The Straits Times reported that the unemployed man had met the boy at the toilet of Eunos MRT station earlier that day. Following the student out...

SINGAPORE - Doctors told him he had only five years left to live, but his girlfriend insisted on marrying him anyway. And on Oct 8, the 30-year-old Republic of Singapore Air Force officer finally gave up the fight against brain cancer after battling it for three years. Mr Ho Jian Heng was...

SINGAPORE -Residents in Yishun have been irked by the sight of a disabled beggar in a wheelchair, whom they claim is not as poor as he seems. According to a Wanbao report, the man, is frequently seen in the Yishun-Chong Pang area. But some residents whom the Chinese daily spoke to are not...

A former National University of Singapore (NUS) professor, Dr Alirio Melendez, is being investigated for scientific fraud, The Sunday Times reported. If allegations are true, it will be the first major case of scientifc fraud here, the report said. The university was alerted to the...

Cheap thrills at host bar in S'pore Midnight strikes and the stage lights suddenly come on. It is showtime for some 30 sharply dressed young men who strut out in suits, perfectly styled hair in the vein of K-pop stars, and enough foundation on their faces to support Marina Bay Sands' triple...

KUALA LUMPUR - A man sodomised his 23-day-old son after his wife, who was still in confinement, refused to have sex with him. The 39-year-old mother noticed that her son was weak and listless and found injuries on the baby's anus and mouth when she was bathing him. "She brought him to a...

SINGAPORE - A woman wants to divorce her husband after her son's grades started slipping, reported the Lianhe Wanbao. The couple's son is enrolled in an elite secondary school and has always done well enough to be among the top ten in his class. But she got worried after her son's grades...

Migrant worker goes to hospital for help, has toe attached to his hand Li Zicheng, a migrant worker from Sichuan Province working in Guangdong Province, recently encountered a very big headache: Guangdong Huizhou Huiyang Bone-setting Hospital had cut off one of his toes and then transplanted...

Most women in Singapore are unprepared for life's key moments such as their first dates, a survey by by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (JJVC) found. In the poll, 189 women aged between 20 and 39 ranked job progression as their number one moment in terms of their career. Graduation came in...

President Tony Tan visited the South West Community Development Council (CDC) on Wednesday, Oct 5. He met mayors Dr Amy Khor, Mr Teo Ser Luck, Dr Teo Ho Pin, Dr Maliki Osman and some District Councillors from the five CDCs to better understand the work of the CDCs. At the closed door...

Mr Lee Kuan Yew, together with five others, have resigned from the People's Action Party's central executive committee (CEC) The CEC accepted the resignations of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Mr Goh Chok Tong, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Mr Wong Kan Seng, Mr George Yeo and Mrs Lim Hwee Hua on Wednesday. In a...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dead at 56 Apple Inc co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. Jobs' death...