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KUALA LUMPUR: The female Immigration officer who carried out a body search on two Singaporean women, during which they were told to strip naked and perform nude squats, carried out her responsibilities and duties well. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said in a written reply...

Raunchy photographs of a man bearing close resemblance to singer Leehom behaving intimately with two other men, are being posted on the internet! Since Leehom’s debut in the entertainment industry, there have been countless rumours about his romantic involvement with various female artistes...

Local television news parody show, The Noose, has spread its wings past the island's shores. The series, which has produced memorable characters such as Barbarella, Leticia Bongnino, and B.B See, and pokes fun at all things Singaporean, has been nominated for Best Comedy in the International...

HE DID not want to let his daughter go on a school trip to Hong Kong as she was not doing well in her studies. But when Mohamed Salim Shahul Hameed, 47, learnt that she had left for the trip on Nov 28 last year, he became angry with his wife. He felt that Madam Mohamuthal Mohd Hanifa, 44...

AN INDONESIAN businessman was yesterday jailed 18 months for stabbing his wife in their daughter’s Eunos flat on June 5. Over what was apparently a quarrel which started because of a slammed door, Soewarsono Aris, 61, stabbed Madam Kie Gek Bwee, 56, eight times in the abdomen, thighs and...

Reducing the vehicle growth quota for Singapore is a right move, former presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian said on Tuesday. There are already too many vehicles in Singapore 'judging from the congestion on roads and the difficulty in finding parking spaces', Mr Tan wrote in his blog on...

The majority of voters in the May 7 General Election (GE) relied largely on mainstream media, such as newspapers and television, for election news. Even the 30 per cent minority who sought their news from the Internet said they turned to mainstream media for some election information. The...

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Another Honest Mistake?

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A young man slashed a teen for molesting his girlfriend, causing him to lose his three right fingers. Ho Bee Hing, 21, had brought the 17-year-old to a park at Bangkit Road on April 8 on the pretext of talking to him. He then questioned the victim on whether he had touched his girlfriend...

Teacher charged with having sex with 14 years old student A former teacher was charged on Friday with having sex with a student on 18 occasions. He was also charged with one count of attempted sex. The 41-year-old allegedly attempted to have sex with the 14-year-old in a room at the girl's...

Four months into his job as a medical officer at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Beijing native Feng Juefei attended to a patient who had to undergo a surgical procedure for a liver problem. She bombarded Dr Feng, 29, with questions like 'Is it confirmed that I have to do this?' and 'Why do I...

MALACCA - "Hi, I am Shasa. Want to be friends? I can take you around Malacca." Male visitors to Taman Melaka Raya here are likely to be met with such coy greetings from some pretty faces such as Shasa, as scores of transvestites shift their operations to the busy commercial hub of the city...

Married couples in Singapore have been faking their divorce in order to buy new flats to be rented. The flats rentals typically earn them an extra $2,000 to $3,000 a month. Vice-president of real estate company Propnex, Mr Lim Yong Hock, told Lianhe Wanbao that such practices began about 10...

Heaven’s internal rehearsal photos exposed In 2010 when the famous “Heaven” [or "Heavenly World", a type of nightclub, sauna, KTV, or adult entertainment club] was investigated by Beijing police under suspicion of providing sexual services and then banned from operating, its closure made...

SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is looking into, among other things, using private sector employment agencies to help unemployed Singaporeans - including older workers - find jobs. Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is also Manpower Minister and Finance Minister...

A former drug trafficker wonders if he is still being given a second a chance in life, when he has to spend money and time applying for a new passport each time he goes for an overseas work trip. The STOMPer, Leong, said: "Yellow Ribbon Project helps some but there are some more people who...

Are Singaporeans making a mountain out of a molehill? A reader has written in to The Straits Times (ST) Forum pages questioning the fuss over Abercrombie & Fitch's giant advertisement. Singapore's regulatory watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS), had seen fit to...

A recent survey of 500 firms showed that more than 300 companies currently hire 'S' Pass holders. However, 29 per cent of these companies indicated they will be hiring less foreign workers, as compared to the 18 per cent which said they will hire more. 'S' Pass holders are usually mid-level...