Are kids eating too much sweet stuff?
When a public health don recently went to a fast-food outlet, he saw a mother pour Coke into a baby milk bottle - and feed it to her toddler.Anecdotally, Singapore's young children seem to be consuming...
View ArticleFrom IMH patient to pillar of support
Desmond Ng was 18 and a second-year polytechnic student when he began hearing voices in his head, especially around people in school."I would get this feeling of fear and paranoia around them and hear...
View Article20th century heritage list salutes Chinese structures
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View ArticleYang Yin trial: Widow's niece regrets not acting earlier
It was in 2009 when Yang Yin first moved into Madam Chung Khin Chun's sprawling Gerald Crescent bungalow, going on to trick the 89-year-old widow into handing over more than a million dollars.But it...
View ArticleYang Yin trial: How judge decided on six-year term
In his 22-page grounds of judgment, Principal District Judge Bala Reddy explained in detail how he decided on a jail term of six years for Yang Yin's criminal breach of trust offences.He took into...
View ArticleWhy leave change to Uber and gang?
We have all heard about how driverless cars will magically change the way we commute and transform the entire urban landscape.There will be far fewer vehicles on the road because these autonomous pods...
View ArticleA message of simplicity
It is a shame the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Balestier Road, mostly used as a landmark by pedestrians to find their bearings, is often overlooked as a destination.After all, the pre-war Art Deco...
View ArticleTaiwan desperately seeking tourists
TAIPEI - What a difference a year can make.Around this time last year, Mr Lu Jian-yi's phone was ringing almost non-stop. At the other end of the line were tour operators scrambling to find enough tour...
View ArticleSupport for elite Singapore athletes will be reviewed
A first Olympic gold has inspired Singapore to believe in the seemingly impossible for the future, but also got authorities thinking harder about what needs to be done to ensure success is...
View ArticlePursuing a diploma for her future
When she was younger, financial difficulties forced Ms Joline Shi to give up studying banking and finance in a polytechnic after a year.She had to start working soon after, but has never wavered in her...
View ArticleHigh prices for DBSS units in Ang Mo Kio
Three units at premium public housing project Park Central @ Ang Mo Kio have been resold, with the priciest going for $980,000 - at least 40 per cent more than it originally cost.The deals were closed...
View ArticleDuterte's Hitler remark 'misinterpreted'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday sought to douse global anger over his remarks likening his brutal anti-crime war to Adolf Hitler's massacre of over six million Jews."We do not wish to...
View ArticleUS media turning against Trump
When USA Today, one of America's most widely read newspapers, broke a 34-year-old tradition of staying neutral in elections, it did so because it found Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump...
View ArticleMe & My Money: Risk-taker plays waiting game
When it comes to investing, Mr Ernest Low, 45, is aggressive. As a risk-taker, he adopts the same approach to his career path.He left a stable job in the civil service, which he had taken out of...
View ArticleSurvey: Investors' great expectations unrealistic
There appears to be a mismatch in investment return expectations and what can be achieved realistically, according to a survey of financial advisers by Natixis Global Asset Management.It noted that...
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