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President Halimah Yacob appoints 3 judicial commissioners of High Court

Tan and Chionh has appointed for a three-year term and will take their oath on March 16. Ang will be sworn on May 17 and for a period of 18 months.

Feb 12, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Fall in business travel drags tourism receipts to first decline since 2009

Singapore sets second record in tourism receipts, visitors

The tourist visit rate in Singapore has increased by 6.2 percent to 17.4m and China, Indonesia and India have become top three largest markets for visitors to Singapore.

Feb 12, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Residents and people crowd the corridors of a public housing estate

Singapore: Planning to buy resale flats? HDB provides S$211 million to help 11,000 families

Housing and Development Board said 1,000 familes will receive the government grant to buy resale flats once their resale transaction is completed.

Feb 11, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore: Two GCE O-Level syllabus to prepare students for future knowledge needs

Ministry of Education(MOE) believes that these two developed O-Level subjects help to improve skills, which will make the students more prepared for future.

Feb 11, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Office workers pass a Singpost office under construction in Singapore

SingPost postman dumps letters to dustbin, caught red-handed [VIDEO]

SingPost apologised to Singaporean residents for such inconvenience and said that they have recovered the mails and started to process them.

Feb 10, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore: Senior residents receive gifts from PM Lee Hsien Loong

PM Lee went to Blk 409 Market, including Food Centre to interact with local residents and distributed those red packets and other gifts over there.

Feb 10, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

China trains and supports maritime militia to sail in the South China Sea

Indonesian navy seizes vessel for carrying 1 tonne of crystal meth in Batam waterway

A patrol boat KRI Sigurot 864 spotted the boat MV Sunrise Glory, which was flying a Singapore flag, as it entered Indonesian waters in the Singapore Strait.

Feb 10, 2018

By Samhati Bhattacharjya

Singapore: 34-year-old customs officer to face 18 months' jail for GST fraud

Li Xiangqing was found guilty for GST fraud when he was assigned as a customs officer of chat refund claims made by tourists at Changi Airport.

Feb 10, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore: 1 killed, 5 injured after car accident on Changi Coast Road

Singapore: Van catches fire on CTE; motorists advised to avoid lanes 2, 3

Several videos that were circulated on social media showed a vehicle engulfed in flames and several SCDF officers were also spotted on the scene.

Feb 9, 2018

By Samhati Bhattacharjya

Singapore man arrested for obscene video distribution

Singapore: Man takes obscene videos of NTU students, gets one month jail

Mitchell Low Tian Wei, the trainee teacher, had 14 obscene videos and 61 uncensored films of various men showering in his mobile.

Feb 9, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore: ICA seizes more than 1,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes at Tuas Checkpoint

The duty and goods and services tax of the contraband cigarettes amounted to about S$82,100 and S$6,040 respectively.

Feb 9, 2018

By Samhati Bhattacharjya

Singapore: Stepfather sentenced to 6 months' jail for abusing 2-year-old toddler

When the mother came to know about the third physical abuse by her husband, she informed a social worker about the three incidents on June 15, 2017.

Feb 9, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore: 'Escobar' owner to change logo, images of gastropub, receives complaints from CNB

Stan Sri Ganesh, the owner of 'Escobar' hopes to unveil the new logo within a month but the name will be same.

Feb 9, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

SBS Transit to open Punggol Point LRT Station on Dec 29

Singapore: LTA will carry out study to measure impact of railway noise across nation

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) said the findings will be used to plan appropriate noise mitigation measures in the future.

Feb 9, 2018

By Samhati Bhattacharjya

SingPost robbery UPDATE: Masked man robs branch at Potong Pasir Community Club of S$3,000

Singapore police said that the robber pressurised a staff of a SingPost branch at Potong Pasir Community Club to hand over about S$3,000.

Feb 8, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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