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A couple who planned for a wedding after living together for five years, discovered they were brother and sister when their families met, The Daily Mail reported. The woman in her ninth month of pregnancy is in a desperate state after learning that the father of her child is her brother, it...

The employer of the foreigner should be paying for the medical fee, isnt it?

He was beaten up so badly that his own mother could not recognise him in hospital. Secondary 5 student Lim Chang Ming, 17, was studying for his O-level examinations at the void deck of Block 114 Lengkong Tiga in Kembangan on Thursday night when he was beaten up by a group of "between nine and...

Chris' Tea House's business hardly dented by online threats Singapore, November 7, 2011 Mrs Christina Lim was keeping her fingers crossed. Will the online boycott call by netizens, upset by her daughter's "cheapskate" remark on a customer, affect her weekend tea business? She...

Police have taken in 20 teenage girls in Shanghai, China, who have been offering sex to earn pocket money. Among those arrested are mostly students under 18 years old and two under 14. Three of the suspects are believed to be the masterminds behind the "teenage prostitution ring" and face...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that Parliament is a place for serious discussion and not just criticism. Mr Lee added that Parliament is not just a place to hold either the government or opposition to account. Instead both sides should participate in...

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad said Sunday that Muslim-majority countries should look east for development models and not at Western nations, which he described as "failures". The outspoken former long-time leader, who is known as a fierce critic of the West, said...

In upholding the civility of enjoying English tea with style in a building retroffied with old world charm, the owner of a tea house has set a few rules for customers. First, kids under the age of nine are not allowed in Mrs Christina Lim's Chris Tea House, a Upper Paya Lebar shophouse that...

HER halter-neck dress exposed her slim shoulders. But the biggest change in Fiona Xie today is not so much that she looks so much thinner in person than she used to be. It's that she doesn't skirt issues and talks in circles anymore, preferring to tackle questions head on, even (gasp!)...

A couple in China were found sleeping on a bed, stacked up with bank notes totaling more than 80mil yuan (RM39.34mil). Henan police made the discovery after arresting Li Wuzhi and his wife, Cui Yanyun. The couple were accused of leading a group specialising in producing and selling drugs...

New immigrants and locals to come together at first-ever Integration Carnival New immigrants and Singaporeans will have opportunities to interact in the first-ever Integration Carnival come Oct 29. Jointly organised by the People's Association (PA) and Singapore Discovery Centre (SDC)...

SINGAPORE - Singapore plans to make transfer of money into the country that involves tax evasion a crime, the central bank said on Thursday, stepping up its fight against the inflow of illicit funds. "Singapore intends to make criminal (any) laundering of proceeds from tax offences," Ravi...

SEPANG, Selangor - A 14-year-old girl who gave birth to a stillborn at home has ad**mitted to having had four abortions. The teenager, who lives with her family in a shophouse at Pulau Meranti here, was found by her parents on Monday night looking pale. They were shocked to see her...

A postman who molested young girls 75 times over a span of 22 years all over Singapore was packed off to jail for 16 years on Tuesday. Abdul Razak Hamid, 53, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of causing wrongful restraint to the victims aged five to nine when he molested them in various locations...

A man deliberately exposed his private parts to girls at the King Albert Park McDonald's, said STOMPer Hoo. The man reportedly dropped items on the floor several times, and exposed his genitals to the STOMPer's girlfriend and her friends, as he bent over. The STOMPer relates the incident...

STOMPer SP saw a curious sight on Orchard Road -- a woman was walking a man on a leash. Wrote the STOMPer: "Walking the human. "Spotted a weird couple, a leashed man was seen walking around the Orchard Road area...what the! "I was walking around doing some shopping when I chanced...

HARARE- A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, state media said Wednesday. "I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am...

Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Pereira of the Republic of Singapore Air Force has seen an improvement in his men's morale since storytelling was introduced there in 2008. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO By Jermyn Chow , DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT IT COULD be a story of a dangerous mission overseas, or a...

Skint cops are moonlighting as MASSEURS and Avon ladies in a bid to make ends meet. A record number of officers in Scotland have taken on second jobs to earn extra cash. Their part-time careers away from the beat include teaching karate, telesales, selling Avon beauty products and giving...

AS THE age-old adage goes, money is the root of all evil. But money - or the lack of it - is also the root of all unhappiness among Singaporeans. The top three causes for unhappiness here: Insufficient personal savings, growing expenditure in the last six months and the current state of the...