Majority of residents of brick-faced Tampines blocks vote for paint that matches original colour
Residents of the eight 497 blocks in Tampines Street 45 have decided: 76.02 per cent voted for the original paint scheme in a recent poll.
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She is only the second candidate from Southeast Asia to be elected into the world court based in the Hague, Netherlands, since its founding in 1945.
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5-room HDB flat with 94 years left on lease sold for S$1.8 billion; highest resale price ever in Singapore
SINGAPORE: A five-room flat in Queenstown broke records as the most expensive resale HDB unit in Singapore’s history, changing hands for S$1.818 million, or a whopping $1,521 per square foot (psf). According to reporting from EdgeProp, the Oct 30 transaction was for a unit at Blo...
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SBS Transit makes police report on man who allegedly taped phone to bus to film TikTok video
To follow a "trend", a man in Singapore made a TikTok where he was seen taping a phone to the back of an SBS Transit bus while it was stationary along Jalan Besar. The rest of the video, supposedly filmed from the taped phone, showed him on a motorbike apparently following behind...
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Parliament in brief: Safeguards for workers during haze and other highlights from Nov 3
Parliament also passed a new law to rename a ministry and debated cybersecurity measures for the maritime industry.
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About 46,000 SIA booking records accessed in data breach involving travel tech company Amadeus
Customers’ names, booking references and travel details were among the data exposed, but SIA said its own IT systems were not breached.
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Courts to consider reformative training or imprisonment as default sentences for young scam offenders
A new bill was introduced in parliament on Nov. 3, 2026, requiring courts to consider reformative training or imprisonment as punishments for convicted young scam offenders. In its first parliament reading, introduced by Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs Goh Pei Ming on b...