Barely two weeks after the fatal Ferrari-taxi crash that killed three people, another high-speed crash has taken place at exactly the same site at the Rochor/Bugis area. More »Four-car accident at Rochor Ferrari crash site
Beaten but unbowed, People's Action Party candidate Desmond Choo says that "change is coming" More »Change is coming: PAP's Desmond Choo
The war of words rages on. More »DPM Teo questions Png Eng Huat’s integrity
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged voters in Hougang to make a fresh start by voting for Desmond Choo, the People’s Action Party candidate for Hougang. More »PM Lee to Hougang voters: Make a fresh start
His love literally set her on fire. More »Woman dies after being set on fire by ex-lover in Sengkang
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A mother in Mexico has been arrested on suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son during a ceremony. Police said on Thursday they had arrested seven people, including the boy's parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out during the ritual in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighborhood on the eastern flank of Mexico City. "There was some kind of ceremony inside a house," said Laura Uribe, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors in the State of Mexico, a populous region that borders much of the capital. She did not give details of what the ritual involved. ... More »Mexican mother arrested after son's eyes gouged out
Fight fire with fire. That's what celebrity blogger Wendy Cheng, also known as Xiaxue, did when she was repeatedly flamed on Facebook over the past week. More »Celeb blogger Xiaxue's name-and-shame post sparks debate
An opposition candidate won by a landslide in a Singapore by-election on Saturday as voters handed a stinging rebuke to the ruling party in a poll seen as a referendum on their recent reforms. More »Singapore ruling party rebuffed in by-election
A tearful People's Action Party (PAP) candidate Desmond Choo makes an emotional appeal for voters to give him a chance to forge a new future for them, during his party's last rally for the Hougang by-election on Thursday. More »Tearful Desmond Choo tells Hougang voters: I will stand up for you
“Baseless attacks” and “character assassinations” were what characterised the Hougang by-elections, said the Worker’s Party (WP) Secretary General Low Thia Khiang on Saturday night. More »Low Thia Khiang slams 'baseless attacks' at WP
A day after his defeat at the Hougang by-election, People's Action Party's (PAP) Desmond Choo went around the estate on Sunday morning thanking residents for their support. More »I'm still very encouraged: PAP's Desmond Choo
One of Vietnam's wealthiest people was ousted from the communist parliament Saturday, reports said, after she was accused of failing to disclose that her Vietnamese-American husband was wanted for fraud. More »Wealthy Vietnam MP sacked over husband fraud claim
A new report from DTZ revealed that home sales in this price bracket have overtaken units sold at S$1,000 psf or less. In addition, sales in this segment increased by 14 percent in Q1, while other segments saw a decline of between 26 and 63 percent. More »HDB dwellers drove demand for shoebox units in Q1
Despite having a psychiatric disorder, the man accused of killing his lover and two other women in Singapore had some self-control when he committed the act, a psychiatrist said before a court on Wednesday. More »Accused in Yishun triple murder case 'not of an unsound mind': psychiatrist
Workers' Party's Png Eng Huat, who won the by-election in the single member constituency over People’s Action Party candidate Desmond Choo on Saturday, is now expected to make good on his promises. More »Png must now start proving himself: residents
The findings, part of the Futurepriority Report 2012 published by Scorpio Partnership and supported by Standard Chartered Priority Bank, gathered views from individuals worth more than US$1.4 million (S$1.8 million). More »S'pore has least happy millionaires in Asia
Have Workers’ Party sent their best man in interests of the Hougang residents? More »PAP: Is Png Eng Huat the best man?
Political watchers are not surprised by the Hougang by-election results, which showed Workers’ Party candidate Png Eng Huat winning handily in the opposition party’s stronghold. More »PAP must rethink its approach: analyst
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - A migrant workers group has called on the government to investigate the death under mysterious circumstances of a Filipino domestic helper in Mongolia last year. More »Probe of Filipina's death in Mongolia sought
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Vatican magistrates formally charged Pope Benedict's butler with illegal possession of secret documents on Saturday and said a wider investigation would take place to see if he had any accomplices who helped him leak them. Paolo Gabriele is suspected of leaking highly sensitive documents, some alleging cronyism and corruption in Vatican contracts, in a scandal which has come to be known as "Vatileaks". A statement referred to Gabriele, 46, who was until his arrest on Wednesday night serving the pope meals and helping him dress, as "the defendant". ... More »Pope's butler charged over leaks scandal