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By Elena Chong An airforce technician who pushed a teacher on the chest at a carpark was fined $1,400 on Friday. Cheah Jun Wei, 24, was also ordered to pay $600 compensation to the victim. He ...

World No. 1 badminton player Lee Chong Wei returns a shot against Shon Wan Ho of Korea during their Men's Singles Final match of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2012. Lee will be giving this ...

File photo of firefighters from the Airport Emergency Service (AES) carrying out a drill in a mock-up of an aircraft fuselage. Changi Airport Group is boosting its level of emergency preparedness ...

The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) has nominated Gu Juan ahead of SEA Games champion Fu Mingtian for this July's London Olympics. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE ...

Former Workers' Party (WP) MP for Hougang, Yaw Shin Leong, leaving with his wife after a meet-the-people session on 8 Feb 2012. Mr Yaw has penned a personal letter to his former constituents to ...

RazorTV Thursday, May 17, 2012 It was a sad morning for the three children of taxi driver Cheng Teck Hock who died in last Saturday's Rochor road ...

The common corridor of a Housing Board block in Kampung Arang Road next to Tanjong Rhu. Clean and uncluttered corridors in housing estates. This is but one way to treat common spaces with respect, ...

The Workers' Party's candidate Png Eng Huat emphasised on Friday that there are already alternative voices in Parliament who can play that role 'very well'. -- MY PAPER PHOTO: ...

SINGAPORE -- Singapore on Thursday stuck to its economic growth projections of 1-3 percent for 2012 but warned there was a chance of a "disorderly sovereign debt default" in the eurozone ...

Long-time employee of a goldsmith, Ho Yuen Kum, was jailed for 24 months on Friday for misappropriating and stealing gold ornaments amounting to about ...

In celebration of its 167th birthday, The Straits Times (ST) will hold a carnival and concert at the newly-opened Gardens by the Bay on Sunday, July 15, as part of its efforts to deepen engagement ...

(MENAFN) Singapore's Trade and Industry Ministry announced that during the first quarter, the city-state's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.6 percent, compared with an expansion of 3.6 ...

By Elena Chong A man who conspired with his colleague to stage a break-in at his office and steal $45,000 was jailed for nine months on Friday. Tan Tien Poh, 31, was an assistant manager of ...

Actress Gong Li (right) in a photograph taken with Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Seong, in 2001. Mr Ooi has personally confirmed that he has been divorced from actress Gong Li for three years, a ...

By Elena Chong A technology company was fined a total of $40,000 and ordered to pay a penalty of $745,391 on Friday for tax evasion. ATT Systems, which designs and develops electronic ...

A file photo taken on Jan 18, 2012, shows former Romanian Embassy charge d'affaires in Singapore, Silviu Ionescu, arriving at the Bucharest court for a new hearing in his trial. -- PHOTO: ...

Open The Straits Times on Friday and you may see a square-shaped barcode near some stories. This 2-D barcode is a QR code (Quick Response code) and your gateway to a more dynamic reader experience. ...

SINGAPORE, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a way to kill cancer cells by "starving" them of energy, and the discovery paves ...

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Stamford American International School teacher Ben Gavel, 39, guiding Grace Mahara, six, in using the iPad. Children up to Grade 5 level will learn on iPads while older students will use MacBooks. ...