Three people, including a three-year-old, have died in a fire that broke out in the living room of a flat in Bedok North on early Friday morning (May 13).
A family of six from Singapore was allegedly asked by a Johor immigration officer for a bribe after they drove past an unmanned booth at the Johor Bahru checkpoint across the Causeway without getting their passports stamped. The incident went viral on Chinese daily Shin Min Daily News' Facebook page on Tuesday (May 10), prompting a response from Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who said that he will take "this allegation seriously".
An attempt to smuggle 17 dogs in a Malaysian-registered lorry was foiled by Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers on Monday (May 9). A total of 8,520 e-vaporiser refill pods and 20 bottles of Binozyt, an antibiotic, were also found in the lorry.
Helping someone should come from the heart and you should go all out to do it regardless of any barriers faced along the way.
That is the mindset 14-year-old Erlene Ang Kai Yi had when she helped an elderly woman with her heap of cardboard along Kelantan Lane on March 18.
Tampines Town Council has installed P-bollards by a ramp at a Housing Board (HDB) block to prevent vehicles from passing through while still allowing wheelchair access.