Singapore News

SINGAPORE: The Attorney-General's Chambers (A-G) filed an urgent appeal on Thursday against a High Court judge's ruling that there are sufficient grounds to hear the Hougang by-election case in open court.

SINGAPORE: One of Singapore's top golf clubs said Thursday that it will compensate the family of a member who died in 2009 after being struck by lightning while playing on its course.

SINGAPORE: Former MediaCorp actor Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, was fined $3,000 on Thursday for hurting a woman who failed to clean up after her dog.

SINGAPORE: The family of the man who allegedly murdered his 25-year-old girlfriend is said to be "quite shaken", according to defence lawyer Sunil Sudheesan.

SINGAPORE: The Nanyang Technological University's accounting research has come out tops in Asia, according to the latest ranking by Brigham Young University.

SINGAPORE: SBS Transit said it wanted to pay for all funeral expenses, including repatriation costs, incurred by the family of a Malaysian who died in a bus accident in Sengkang on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE: Singapore and the United States reaffirmed the excellent and long-standing bilateral defence ties between the two countries when Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen met his US counterpart Leon Panetta at the Pentagon on Thursday.

SINGAPORE: The move to scrap one avenue for rich foreigners to fast-track their permanent residency applications by parking large sums of money here will have little impact on the Republic's economy, analysts noted.

SINGAPORE: Police have arrested six men, age between 23 and 42, for suspected involvement in five separate loansharking cases.

SINGAPORE: About 400 residents from the Tanjong Pagar and Radin Mas areas got together for a pre-Community Games event on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE: The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has lodged an appeal against a High Court judge's ruling that there are sufficient grounds to hear, in open court, an application by an Hougang resident to order the Prime Minister to hold a by-election in the constituency within three months or within a "reasonable time" deemed by the court.

SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said Singapore's social policies should not come at the expense of future generations.

SINGAPORE: The National Youth Council will be taking more concrete steps to groom the next generation of Singapore's leaders.