National Cancer Centre e-mail lapse allegedly exposes patients’ details including names, workplaces
Names, email addresses, workplaces are among details revealed in the carbon-copied recipients list.
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S'pore gardener, 55, hospitalised after cooking & eating wild mushroom
About an hour after a woman ate some wild mushrooms she had foraged and cooked, she started experiencing abdominal pain. The pain continued to grow, such that she was admitted to the emergency department of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital roughly two hours later with severe, generalised ...
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ICA: 27 motorists caught for traffic offences at Woodlands Checkpoint during September school holidays — Eight hit with entry bans
SINGAPORE: ICA officers conducting stepped-up traffic enforcement at Woodlands Checkpoint during the September school holidays between September 4 and 13, 2026, caught 27 motorists for traffic violations, queue cutting, and dangerous road behaviour. Of the 27 detected, 24 were ca...
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‘Go home and make your own hot water’: Singapore diner slammed over 50-cent charge complaint
SINGAPORE: A diner has questioned whether water is becoming an expensive commodity after being charged S$0.50 for a small glass of warm water at a local eatery. Posting in the Complaint Singapore (Anonymous) Facebook group on Friday (Sep 18), the diner uploaded a picture of the r...
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Two men arrested by Singapore police after Italy busts international child abuse network
The police were acting on a tip-off from the Italian police, who arrested 17 earlier in the week.
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Haze in Singapore: PSI in central region back in the unhealthy range
The 24-hour reading in the area hit 102 at 1pm and increased further to 107 at 3pm.
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Air quality back at unhealthy levels in central Singapore
The 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) in the central region crossed into the unhealthy band at 1pm.
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‘No response’: Yoga Inc shutters SAFRA Punggol outlet, cancels classes at Our Tampines Hub
Customers learnt of the closure only through their instructors.
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Singapore and Canada sign joint declaration to establish economic partnership framework
The framework includes areas such as emerging technologies as well as energy and food security.
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Singapore drops out of global top 10 in 2026 Global Cities Index, ranks second in Asia
SINGAPORE: Singapore ranked 29th worldwide out of 1,000 in the recent 2026 Global Cities Index released by Oxford Economics on Sept 15. Although the country did not reach the top 5, Singapore ranked second among Asian cities, only behind Tokyo, and also jumped to third place glob...
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Cyclist, 16, arrested after accident with 74-year-old pedestrian who later dies
The male teenager was arrested for the offence of a rash act causing death.
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Scammers are using AI to commit crimes at speed. How is Singapore police's new Cyber Command keeping up?
Hackers are using AI to help write malicious code and find exploitable weaknesses, says a cybersecurity specialist with the Singapore Police Force's new Cyber Command....
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2-year-old S’pore boy is one of estimated 400 in world with disease caused by single altered gene
Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim syndrome was identified in 2016 and affects brain development.