Gold-plated “defined benefit” public sector pensions are a major drain on the finances of any country that offers them ...

A destroyed house in the city of Druzhkivka, which was the target of two Russian airstrikes on Wednesday, 0, 2025.

A helicopter carrying released Israeli hostage Keith Siegel has landed in Tel Aviv. The helicopter flew over Hostages Square, where a crowd of Israelis applauded and cheered.

Certain foods, though relatively innocuous to humans, can be harmful to animals. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The US is a fairly clean country (with a few glaring exceptions like the NYC subway), but we've got nothing on Singapore ... one major dirty culprit — chewing gum — in 1992.

All Singapore-registered cars are also not allowed to pump the subsidised RON95 petrol (but you can still pump RON97 petrol). One of the first few things that many Singaporeans tend to buy after ...

The author and her beloved bubblegum. Source: bjaffe/blogger We were a gum-chewing family. Mom loved gum, but because she had upper and lower dentures, she only managed to chew denture gum.

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SINGAPORE: Singapore will deliver a seventh tranche of humanitarian aid to Gaza consisting of food, essential supplies and medical supplies, amid a ceasefire deal that has paused fighting in the ...