For the first time 10 guests of honour -- from all 10 Asean countries, including Singapore PM -- were invited for the annual official celebrations, signifying India's growing strategic interests in its eastern neighbourhood that surrounds the maritime underbelly of Asia - the Indo-Pacific.
An Uber driver was given a two-week jail term on charges of outrage of modesty of a female passenger; the man had been involved in 20 similar incidents since 2010.
Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 99 suspected drug offenders in a five-day island-wide operation from January 21 to 26, seizing drugs worth more than S$52,000.
Daniel Smalley, a Brigham Young University (BYU) electrical and computer engineering professor and hologram expert has developed the 3D image projection similar to those in science fiction films.
A 60-year-old repeat offender in Singapore has been arrested again for vandalizing a police vehicle, threatening a police officer with a wooden pole and punching a retiree.