Singapore News

SINGAPORE - Singapore's Elections Department has issued Political Donation Certificates to four prospective candidates in the Hougang by-election, a day before Nomination Day on 16 May.

SINGAPORE: The Workers' Party (WP) on Monday defended itself in the wake of former candidate Sajeev Kamalasanan's resignation from the party.

SINGAPORE: 16-year-old Singaporean Paralympian Gemma Rose Foo won gold at the Mannheim Para-Equestrian Championships in Germany over the weekend. She placed first in two of the three Dressage events available in her grade.

SINGAPORE: There were 225,550 speeding violations in 2011 - a 10 per cent increase from the year before, according to the Traffic Police.

SINGAPORE: The three service disruptions last month on the Bukit Panjang LRT, which lasted more than 10 minutes, resulted from signalling and train faults.

SINGAPORE: Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew has reiterated that the Vehicle Quota System (VQS) is necessary to keep the growth of Singapore's vehicle population at a sustainable rate.

SINGAPORE: Over nine in 10 older Singaporean workers continued to be employed beyond the age 62.

SINGAPORE: The proportion of Foreign Domestic Workers (FDW) who have been found with infectious diseases or pregnancies have not been high, Deputy Prime Minister and Manpower Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said.

SINGAPORE: The Health Ministry has moderated the subsidy adjustments for Permanent Residents (PRs) in the lower-income bands.

SINGAPORE: As of February this year, S$3.3 million have been disbursed to support 11 athletes from four sports under the Olympic Pathway Programme.

SINGAPORE: The haze may return between June and October when the traditional dry season for Singapore and the southern ASEAN region is expected to occur, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said.

SINGAPORE: There have been no reported cases of Singaporeans with radiation illness due to travel to Japan, said Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong.

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority (MDA) has yet to recover $3.5 million worth of loans from undelivered projects.

SINGAPORE: The legal services sector's value-add to the Singapore economy saw a 28 per cent growth from 2007 to 2011.