LAHORE  - It was in July 1998 that Mian Nawaz Sharif, as prime minister of Pakistan, participated in a SAARC summit in Colombo. From there he went to Singapore where he had an overnight stay and met his counterpart Lee Kuan Yew and asked him the secret of the city state’s economic ...

SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said Saturday.The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore police said Thursday they needed hard evidence to crack down on match-fixing cartels, after coming under pressure to arrest suspected ringleaders of networks which targeted hundreds of football games in Europe and beyond.Police said authorities had supplied information about ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s ruling party suffered a rebuke on Saturday when it lost a parliamentary by-election despite promising more reforms and massive public spending to appease a restive electorate.The opposition Workers’ Party defeated the People’s Action Party (PAP), which has ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore on Monday announced increased cash bonuses for parents of newborn babies and introduced paternity leave as part of a package of measures to boost population and reduce dependence on foreigners.Parents of Singaporean babies born since August 26 last year will receive a ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore’s first female Speaker of parliament was formally installed on Monday, replacing a disgraced predecessor who stepped down after he confessed to an extramarital affair. Halimah Yacob, a 58-year-old Muslim lawyer and unionist who is never seen in public without her ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Muslim woman will replace the former Speaker of Singapore’s parliament, who was forced to step down in a sex scandal, it was announced Tuesday. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he would nominate Halimah Yacob, currently minister of state at the Ministry of Community ...

SINGAPORE  - Singapore has turned away a ship carrying 40 people rescued off Myanmar, port officials said Thursday, amid media reports the passengers could be stateless Muslim Rohingya. Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said it denied entry to the Vietnamese-registered bulk ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore’s parliamentary Speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after confessing he had an extramarital affair with a community worker, setting off a fresh sex scandal in the city-state. Michael Palmer, 44, a married father of one who was only sworn in as Speaker in ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore will no longer publish the names of top scorers in national student examinations to reduce academic pressure on children but the move has drawn mixed reactions, press reports said Wednesday.On Thursday, when the results of the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) are ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Singaporean taxi driver has been heralded as a hero after he returned Sg$1.1 million ($900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab.Sia Ka Tian, 70, was shocked to find the money in a black paper bag on the back seat on Monday after he dropped the ...

SINGAPORE  - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joined Facebook and Twitter on Friday to better connects with citizens who have increasingly vented their frustrations with his government on social media. Lee, 60, said he decided to “join the fun” and set up a Facebook page ...

SINGAPORE  - American Angela Stanford posted a six-under 66 to grab the first-round lead Thursday at the $1.4-million HSBC Women's Champions tournament in Singapore.Japan's Momoko Ueda was two shots adrift at four-under 68 and tied for second place alongside four South Koreans including Choi ...

ISLAMABAD - Like Pakistan, which is under immense US pressure for the release of Raymond Davis these days, Singapore, Japan and Italy had confronted similar kind of situations and in spite of enjoying cordial relations with United States, these states withstood all the US pressure to convict and ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Australias Qantas Airways grounded all its Airbus A380s Thursday after an engine failure forced one of the superjumbos to make a dramatic emergency landing in Singapore with more than 450 people aboard. The explosion in one of the four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, which showered ...

KARACHI Three blind golfers representing the International Blind Golf Association (IBGA) proved that people with disabilities can still lead a sporty lifestyle. The trio is taking part in a blind golf challenge that was organised ahead of the inaugural Handa Singapore Classic which tees off on ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore looks set to become the worlds fastest-growing economy in 2010 after the government upgraded its forecast to a blistering 13 to 15 percent annual expansion, economists said Wednesday. The new estimate, up sharply from an earlier prediction of 7.0 to 9.0 percent, ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapores housing sector is still sizzling despite government measures to cool it down, with demand fuelled by a strong economy and foreign investor confidence, analysts say. Hefty price tags have not dented the market, with buyers flocking to pre-construction sales offering ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore's inflation rate climbed to its highest level in 28 years in 2008, with the poor being the hardest hit, the statistics department said Monday. The 6.5 percent rise in the consumer price index last year was more than triple the 2.1pc increase in 2007, it said in a ...

Singapore's deputy prime minister said the island state, which is hosting a summit of Asia Pacific leaders this year, may further tighten laws against public protests, reports said Saturday. Wong Kan Seng, who is also Home Affairs minister, said the government is reviewing public order laws and may ...

KARACHI - A delegation from BMA, Pakistan's Premier Investment Group, presented international investors with an analysis on Pakistan's economy and equity markets at the Trade Tech 2008 Conference in Singapore. BMA made the case for international investors to keep Pakistan in their sights due to ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A man was mauled to death by up to three tigers which pounced on him at Singapore Zoo on Thursday, officials and news reports said. "This is a case of a man who was mauled by a tiger," Lieutenant Colonel N. Subhas, the director of public affairs with the Singapore Civil Defence ...

Three white Bengal tigers mauled a zoo cleaner to death in Singapore on Thursday after the man jumped into a moat surrounding their enclosure, the zoo said. The tigers, which each weigh more than 220 pounds (100 kg), pounced on Nordin bin Mondong, a 32-year-old Malaysian, according to Biswajit ...

At least 17 people been killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to state television. A further 14 people, all of them civilians, are reported to have been wounded in the blast. Witnesses say security forces have cordoned off the area, which is close to the airport road.  ...

The Sindh Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution putting forward PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari's name as a presidential candidate. Law Minister Ayaz Soomro tabled the resolution in the session today and it was later unanimously passed in the House. 

At least 30 Afghans were killed and 83 injured when a truck overturned in southern Iran on Thursday, according to media reports Thursday. Local medical official told the news agency that the casualties were among a total of 125 Afghan illegal immigrants travelling in the 10-wheeler. The cause of ...

Two Indonesian men have pleaded guilty to charges related to illegal organ trading in the first case of its kind in Singapore, the health ministry and media reports said. The men admitted in court to lying about being related to patients to whom they said they were donating kidneys, and about not ...