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A year on, SINDA’s women empowerment campaign moving in the right direction: Indranee Rajah

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Indranee Rajah, who also serves as SINDA president, inaugurated the initiative last year. Last...

Calling all creative kids in Singapore: Month-long Children’s Season 2023 runs till June 25

The Singapore Children’s Season 2023 runs from May 27 to June 25. The highlight of season, organised by National Heritage Board and the...

Decoding dark facts in the search for missing Singaporean-Indian climber Shrinivas Dattatraya

Singaporean-Indian climber Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya's search and rescue (SAR) efforts are reportedly ongoing, the Change.org signature...

Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong tests positive for COVID-19

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday he has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from...

SEA Games 2023: Singapore win gold in men's six-a-side cricket event

The Singapore men’s cricket team emerged with the gold medal in the six-a-side cricket tournament in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2023.

UK royals Prince William and wife Kate to visit Singapore for The Earthshot Prize 2023

Prince William and wife Kate will visit Singapore later this year for The Earthshot Prize ceremony, in partnership with Temasek.

Happy Mother’s Day! Runway Mom, a Singapore society event, returns for its Season 7 finale on May 27

Runway Mom is a platform for mothers — not professional models, but regular women — to walk the runway, and show off their poise and...

Singapore beat Indonesia to clinch bronze in Mens' T20 cricket at SEA Games 2023

The Singapore cricket team secured the bronze medal in the T20 Men’s Cricket event at the South East Asian Games 2023 being held in...

Theatre Review: ‘Hold the Mushrooms’, an emotional rollercoaster on and off stage

Are fathers usually condemnatory about their daughter’s choice of a partner? Are mothers always oscillating between spouse and child,...

Indian Navy chief meets Singapore minister alongside maritime defence show and ASEAN+1 naval drill

Indian Navy chief, Admiral R Hari Kumar, called on Singaporean Minister of Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen. This took place within the scope of...

Singapore HSA fines 13 people for selling e-vapourisers illegally

Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has prosecuted and slapped SGD 102,000 worth of fines on 13 persons for selling electronic...

DBS, Esplanade team up for community events in Marina Bay

Singapore-based bank DBS and Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay have announced a strategic partnership to launch a community uplift project...

Untreated mental health issues indirectly costing Singapore SGD 16 billion: Study

A study conducted by Duke-NUS Medical School and the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Singapore suggests that symptoms of anxiety and...

Singapore commutes death penalty for heroin dealer, right after hanging Tangaraju Suppiah in cannabis case

The Singapore Court of Appeal changed the death sentence of a heroin dealer to 10 years in prison on the same day that Singaporean Indian...

Singapore death penalty: Rehearsal of execution today for Tangaraju Suppiah

Singapore death row convict Tangaraju Suppiah will be taken to his execution chamber, to have the prison authorities explain to him how he...

Singapore death penalty: Family of Tamil man Tangaraju Suppiah pleads for mercy, retrial

The family of death row convict in the narcotics trafficking case Tangaraju Suppiah has made an appeal to the Singapore authorities to save...

Singapore satellites TeLEOS2 and Lumelite-4 launched by ISRO’s PSLV in a perfect flight

Two Singapore customer satellites — TeLEOS2 and Lumelite-4 — have been launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from...

Singapore death penalty: Tamil man to be executed on April 26 over marijuana trafficking

Singapore News: In the first such instance in 2023, the authorities in Singapore will execute a Singaporean Tamil man named Tangaraju...

Teco Maritime win Izaara Cup 2023 as tournament returns to Singapore after three years

Singapore News: local Izaara Cricket Fiesta was relaunched after a hiatus of three years this year at the Ceylon Sports Club.

Not for India, don’t take: Singapore Malay woman and Indian husband ‘shooed away’ from Ramzan snack stand

A Malay-Indian Muslim woman in Singapore describes how she and her Indian Muslim husband were very rudely driven away from a Ramzan snack...

Singapore sees 3.5 times Indian tourists in 2023 so far compared to last year: STB

The number of Indian visitors to Singapore in 2023 so far has seen a surge when compared to last year. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)...

'Devdas - the Musical' to get world premiere on Esplanade stage in Singapore

‘Devdas - The Musical’ will get a world premiere from April 21-23, 2023 at the Esplanade Theatre in the Singapore.

Daisy Irani returns with Indian-Chinese comic face-off on Singapore stage

Noted Indian television actress, director and producer from Singapore Daisy Irani Subaiah returns to essay one of her most well known...

Disney Cruise Line, Singapore Torism Board to relaunch cruise vacations to Southeast Asia

Singapore Tourism Board and Disney Cruise Line have announced cruise vacations to Southeast Asia for the first time.

Toa Payoh Heritage Trail shines the spotlight on pioneering town

The National Heritage Board (NHB)’s refreshed Toa Payoh Heritage Trail will expound on the history of Singapore’s “model town”.