Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Saturday, July 24. Tokyo Olympics: An opening ceremony like no other as Japan welcomes the world The ceremony lacked the usual […]
Keep S’pore flexible with 24-hour nodes, creative use of space for evolving needs Singapore is changing its approach to long-term planning. Rather than deciding the development needs of future generations for […]
SINGAPORE – Singaporeans living with the reality of temperatures creeping upwards can take comfort that mitigating the impact of climate change may not require drastic changes to land use, but […]
SINGAPORE – Taxi and private-hire car drivers will get additional financial support till end-September to help ease the impact of the latest set of tightened Covid-19 restrictions. The Land Transport […]
SINGAPORE – Hawker centre and market stallholders bearing the brunt of tightened Covid-19 restrictions will receive a one-off cash injection of $500 per stallholder, as part of relief measures announced […]
SINGAPORE – Eligible tenants on commercial properties will get additional help with rent payments, as Singapore tightens restrictions to curb Covid-19 infections in the community. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) […]
July 23, 2021 2:00 PM A one-off $500 will be given to each stallholder in hawker centres.
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Friday (July 23) announced a $1.1 billion support package to help cushion workers and businesses from the impact of phase two (heightened […]
SINGAPORE – Scientists from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a bicycle helmet that could be cheaper for cyclists, while offering them greater protection from accidents. They said their […]
SINGAPORE – Three major cinema chains have told The Straits Times that they are ready to return to the phase two (heightened alert) measures from Thursday (July 22), with some […]
SINGAPORE – A 46-year-old man allegedly duped two companies into paying a total of more than $4 million to two other firms – one of which he was a partner. Hussain […]
SINGAPORE – The usual din was missing at wet markets, hawker centres and coffee shops as tighter Covid-19 safety rules kicked in on Thursday (July 22). When The Straits Times […]
SINGAPORE – Queues for free rapid antigen self-test kits continue to form at several venues across Singapore on the last day of their collection on Wednesday (July 21). The test […]
SINGAPORE – In the wake of the alleged murder of a 13-year-old at River Valley High School, several religious groups have come forward to pray with the bereaved and for […]
SINGAPORE – An elderly man continued operating his massage business during the circuit breaker and it was found to offer sexual services. As part of a move to address the […]
SINGAPORE – SingPost will launch a commemorative set of six stamps featuring Olympic sports on Friday (July 23) to celebrate the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The stamps feature some of the […]
SINGAPORE – The Istana Open House, slated for Aug 1, has been postponed, amid a tightening of pandemic measures here. The event was meant to celebrate National Day, and guests who […]
SINGAPORE – More than 18,000 people flocked to mosques across Singapore on Tuesday (July 20) for their congregational Hari Raya Haji prayers. It was a quiet affair compared with pre-pandemic times, when more […]
SINGAPORE – After a 16-year-old River Valley High School student was charged with murdering a schoolmate three years his junior on Tuesday morning (July 20), Law and Home Affairs Minister […]
SINGAPORE – Enforcement action has been taken against 66 firms which did not comply with Covid-19 workplace safe management measures. This comes after the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) received more than 3,500 […]
