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The TL;DR: An Irish university has launched a first-of-its-kind degree in online content creation and social media. But many Singaporean youth tell The Straits Times they are not interested.
Between the 1980s and early-1990s, primary school pupils would squat along the longkangs to brush their teeth after recess. Every pupil was given a plastic tumbler and toothbrush in the nation's push ...
A man was injured after a GetGo car reversed into a carpark space in Bukit Panjang with the door on the driver’s side open. A video showing the aftermath of the incident was posted on social media on ...
There was blood. A man was taken to hospital after a case of assault in a Toa Payoh 24-hour coffee shop, said police. Stomper Wei Sien shared videos of people in the coffee shop after the incident on ...
A quick-thinking cyclist and officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) helped a man out of a canal in Telok Kurau on Sunday. In photos posted on Facebook by Love Cycling SG group member ...
Nasi Lemak chain Crave has initiated a recall of a recent batch of begedil (potato patties) from their stores after a man took to social media and claimed he found a bug in a packet of food purchased ...
Being a special needs youth does not stop Lee Jun Le from practising calligraphy. Or for that matter, completing his artworks in under a minute. Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the tender ...
Making Singapore a home to be cherished by all, requires a revitalised focus on improving the lives and livelihoods of Singaporeans, said Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh on Tuesday. In the ...
As the noise from media coverage and funeral preparations faded, Mr Raja Manickam found himself on an Air India Express flight from Singapore to India on June 17 with the body of his grand-nephew, Mr ...
For two hours, he kept his emotions in check as rescue workers cut through steel and concrete to get to his grand-nephew Vinoth Kumar, who was trapped under rubble after part of the Fuji Xerox Towers ...
TAIPEI – Sonia Sui was involved in a public dispute over noise with residents living one floor below her Taipei condominium unit in February, but she has not seen them for some time now. The Taiwanese ...
BANGKOK - Police in Thailand have launched what is believed to be the country’s first durian guarding scheme after thieves stole 1 million baht (S$39,100) worth of the spiky fruit from a plantation in ...