Warning: This article contains references to suicide. A coroner’s inquiry that opened in Singapore on Thursday has laid bare the final weeks of a 44-year-old food business owner whose life unravelled under the combined weight of clinical depression, a suicide…
What happened? A Singaporean woman met a man on Tinder in early 2021. He told her he was a wealthy pilot from Qatar. She believed him, fell for him, and eventually found herself providing sexual services in Dubai to raise…
Two stations. Four kilometres. And, apparently, a formidable set of engineering problems that have pushed passenger services on the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link to February 2027. RTS Operations (RTSO) CEO Marzuki Ariffin addressed the project’s technical demands in…
Seven workers are dead. The government’s response arrived on a Monday morning Facebook post. The sequence of fatalities that prompted Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower to act began accumulating in September. Four of the deaths occurred in the construction sector, three…
There is a phrase that has quietly haunted the families of students in Singapore’s special education schools for years — the “post-18 cliff.” It describes the abrupt drop in structured support that follows graduation at eighteen, when the scaffolding of…
Singapore’s regulatory reach into Islamic religious education has deepened, and the implications extend well beyond administrative paperwork. Effective October 2, any individual or organisation that provides Islamic instruction to ten or more people at least once a month must now…
The Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System Link, a 4-kilometre rail corridor connecting two of Southeast Asia’s most economically intertwined cities, will not carry its first paying passengers until February 2027 at the earliest. That date, confirmed by operator RTS Operations…
On 15 September, Shoko Kawata posted a photograph to X — a new mother cradling her daughter, a mayor stepping into territory no elected official in Japan had formally navigated before. The image carried weight beyond the personal. Within weeks,…
It began with a single image shared between colleagues. On August 20, a photograph began circulating that appeared to show a crocodile lurking in the waters of Pandan Reservoir, one of Singapore’s popular public recreational spaces. Singapore’s national water agency…
Singapore’s youth offending rate edged upward in 2025, reversing a period of relative stability and exposing a structural vulnerability that reaches well beyond conventional delinquency: young people are being drawn, in growing numbers, into the machinery of financial scams. The…
