SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has done it again.
For the 18th consecutive year, it has been honoured with the Distinguished Patron of the Arts award – the highest honour given to arts sponsors by the National …

SUPERMARKETS here are increasingly inking contracts with farms here and abroad for an assured supply of greens and meats on their shelves.
These contracts, which bind these farmers to supply the goods in agreed-upon quantities and …

RELIEF from overcrowded trains will come no later than next May, when the first five of 22 new trains are added to the rail system.
They will cut waiting time by a minute on average for …

FLOURISHING sectors such as infrastructure, resources and property have helped propel eight locally-listed firms into the Forbes list of best small and medium-sized companies.
The number of Singapore firms on Forbes Asia’s ‘Best Under A Billion’ …

FOUR people have been caught for their suspected involvement in loansharking activities in three separate arrests over the last two days.
On Tuesday, a 36-year-old woman who is believed to have given her Automated Teller …

REMEMBER how boring physics classes used to be?
Not anymore. These students at Hwa Chong Institution got to build a roller coaster for a physics class to learn how to apply Newton’s Laws of Motion to …

POLICE have uncovered a new cyber extortion scam.
The scammers would proposition Internet users into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam, and extort from the victims by threatening to circulate their compromising photos …

A HIGHLY intoxicated Korean national fell nine floors to his death while apparently trying to climb back into his bedroom from the parapet of a condominium development.
A verdict of misadventure was recorded on Thursday on …

FACTORY output is showing signs of faltering with a key indicator suggesting that Singapore’s manufacturing sector has shrunk for the first time in 16 months.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a barometer of factory production, fell …

ARTS sponsors gave .1 million to the arts last year, a sharp drop from the .2 million given in 2008.
Ninety-two sponsors were honoured for their giving at the annual Patron of the Arts Awards ceremony …