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Unhappy to be told that he had to check in his carry-on bag, a 41-year-old man on board a Scoot flight said he had a bomb in the bag. This led to the Hat Yai-bound plane being forced to turn back to Singapore, and Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) fighter jets being scrambled to escort it...

SINGAPORE: Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured after an SBS Transit bus crashed into a school bus in Bedok on Tuesday (Oct 2) morning. The police said they were alerted at about 6am to an accident involving two buses at the junction of Bedok Road and Bedok Place. The school...

SINGAPORE: Primary and secondary schools will reduce the number of examinations and assessments students are required to sit from next year, as part of efforts to reduce the emphasis on academic results. The move, announced by the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Friday (Sep 28), will provide...

SINGAPORE: The body of an 83-year-old woman was found floating in a canal on Wednesday morning (Sep 26) near Block 690B, Choa Chu Kang Crescent. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the incident at about 6.55am. The body was retrieved by SCDF officers and the woman...

SINGAPORE - What an assistant athletics coach allegedly did to her was traumatic enough, but national hurdler Kerstin Ong was stunned by her teammates' reaction when she confided in them. Instead of supporting her over the alleged outrage of her modesty by the coach, a 40-year-old man, they...

SINGAPORE: Starting November, all 1.4 million electricity consumers in Singapore will have the option of choosing their preferred electricity price plans from as many as 12 providers. With the nationwide rollout of the Open Electricity Market, consumers will no longer have to buy electricity...

SINGAPORE - The nearly seven hour delay on the East-West Line (EWL) on Wednesday (Sept 19) was caused by a switch mechanism problem, said Senior Minister of State for Transport, Dr Janil Puthucheary. Thousands of MRT commuters faced delays of up to 40 minutes during the rush hour on Wednesday...

SINGAPORE — A 31-year-old passenger was headed for a church along Chapel Road, near Katong, presumably for Sunday church service, around 7am. But he never made it. Fatigue had caught up with the driver of the Uber car, Muhammad Khalis Muhammad Rizauddin, who lost control of his vehicle along...

SINGAPORE - Illegal cough syrup and medicines worth about $40,000 were seized by the authorities on Thursday (Sept 6). In a statement on Friday morning, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said that more than 100 litres of illegally manufactured cough syrup and 1,400 tablets of assorted...

SINGAPORE - A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regular bit a policeman following a drunken row with a taxi driver, and was arrested. While out on bail, Benjamin Ler Xin Chyi, a Third Sergeant, flew into another drunken rage, hitting his own father and throwing a table fan out of a ninth-floor flat...

SINGAPORE - The apparent disappearance of many wild neighbourhood chickens in Tampines has perturbed some residents, but the town council and the authorities have clarified that just four of the birds have been removed. On Saturday (Sept 1), Chinese-language daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that...

SINGAPORE - Popular travel blogger Nuseir Yassin, better known as the founder of Nas Daily, reiterated in a Facebook post on Thursday (Aug 30) that his viral videos on Singapore were not sponsored. The 26-year-old, famous for his one-minute clips that are uploaded daily, was responding to...

SINGAPORE: Ride-hailing company Grab and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) have agreed to jointly study the travel patterns of commuters in Singapore, in a move that seeks to improve efficiency of the transport network in the city. Under the memorandum of understanding, Grab and URA have...