SINGAPORE — Caregivers of elderly folk, and seniors themselves, can look forward to receiving more support under an updated national plan on ageing. The 2023 Action Plan for Successful Ageing offers ...

The politics of the Sept 14 marathon Parliament debate aside, MPs brought up key facts and economic arguments about the foreign talent issue For instance, the official statistics on job growth and ...

SINGAPORE — The authorities and wildlife volunteers have launched efforts to reduce potential conflict between residents and smooth-coated otters after numerous encounters between the amphibious ...

HONG KONG — Pasta is Italy’s staple food, but it’s not only Italians who indulge in platefuls of the doughy concoction every day. People all over the world adore it. It comes in more than 300 shapes: ...

SINGAPORE — Consumers in the Republic shop online to get better bargains and are among the world’s fastest adopters of mobile shopping despite being relatively new to e-commerce, business consultancy ...

SINGAPORE — The Government has announced the fate of golf clubs here, after days of speculation over which of the golf courses with leases expiring within the next 10 years will have to make way for ...

With NTU’s Go-Far programme, journalism students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information get to go abroad every year to report on issues overseas. This year, 13 of them visited ...

SINGAPORE — In disagreement with public prosecutors who had sought a jail term for former National Parks Board (NParks) assistant director Bernard Lim Yong Soon, a district judge fined Lim the maximum ...

SINGAPORE — In a move that would mirror the Education Ministry’s foray into the pre-school sector, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is considering operating nursing homes, as part of efforts to expand and ...

1990: Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia’s then Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin signed a Points of Agreement (POA), under which the Malayan Railway station would vacate the land at Tanjong ...

The 2020 census found that the proportion of singles have risen across all age groups since 2010 It also found that women had fewer children than in 2010 Singapore’s population grew 1.1 per cent ...

NEW YORK — Mr James Knight recently made an unorthodox career move for a 27-year-old coder: Quitting a well-paid gig writing software for Google to go freelance. He gave up catered lunches, ...