They will face stiffer penalties; authorities also get more power to fight online vice The authorities will have more powers to act against owners of residential premises used as “pop-up” brothels that move from one unit to another, and against vice syndicates operating online, under changes to the Women’s Charter passed by Parliament yesterday. The[…]
SINGAPORE – The Riverside Piazza near Clarke Quay will be put up for collective sale via tender at a reserve price of $198 million on Nov 5, marketing agent Colliers International announced on Monday (Nov 4). The Riverside Piazza comprises 40 apartments and 24 commercial shops, with sizes ranging from 58 sq m to 333[…]
Nissan agent Tan Chong Motor is putting up another showroom for sale, six months after it said that it was closing its Bukit Timah flagship outlet. Meanwhile, businessman Peter Kwee is selling two showrooms in Leng Kee Road. Tan Chong’s three-storey facility in Toa Payoh Lorong 8 is on the market for $13.5 million, real[…]
The services of the security agency at Eight Riversuites condominium in Whampoa, where a resident verbally abused a security officer over the Deepavali weekend, have been terminated. The cessation is not related to the incident, the Security Association Singapore’s executive director Ikhsan Suri told The Straits Times. When The Straits Times visited the condominium yesterday,[…]
The elevated station on North-South Line opens today with green features The MRT network’s newest station will open for service on its oldest line today, with new features that are friendlier to commuters and the environment. Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday afternoon that Canberra station on the 30-year-old North-South Line (NSL) is the[…]
More residents will soon be able to get information and news from digital screens in Housing Board lift lobbies and lifts, as part of the Republic’s Smart Nation drive to leverage digital technologies. The announcement comes even as the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said yesterday it will be reviewing regulations for digital display panels[…]
SINGAPORE – The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a residential site at Irwell Bank Road for sale by public tender, it said on Thursday (Oct 31). The site spans an area of 12,789 square metres (sq m) with a gross floor area of 35,809 sq m. The 99-year leasehold site can yield about 445[…]
Duo hope to retain key historical buildings at Moulmein site where public health crises were fought Towering apartment blocks could replace the country’s last sprawling low-rise medical complex in Moulmein Road – the former Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) where public health crises were battled for more than a century. The site has been earmarked by[…]
Canberra MRT station, which has been in the works since April 2015, will open tomorrow, benefiting about 17,000 households in the area. Located between Sembawang and Yishun stations, it is the 27th station on the North-South Line. Its ship-themed design was inspired by the area’s historical past as a British naval base, said the Land[…]
Residents living in Pasir Ris and Punggol will be able to travel with greater ease between the two towns when a new road opens to traffic soon. The road, which will open at 3pm on Nov 17, will provide motorists with an additional route between the two towns and help to ease traffic flow on[…]
HK protesters want the right to vote because that helps tilt the balance of power in favour of ordinary folk There is nothing like an election to focus the minds of the political elite on what matters to ordinary citizens. Singapore may not be a liberal democracy but it is an electoral democracy. That means[…]
Market confidence might have been dented due to weaker economic growth and the escalation of the trade war but landlords have been able to hold rents steady due to tight vacancies and limited upcoming supply. In fact, Grade A Central Business District (CBD) rent increased marginally by 0.4 per cent to $10.65 per square foot[…]