Singapore

Singapore to freeze car number from next year

Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, is not going to allow any growth in its car population, citing the small city-state’s land scarcity and billions of dollars in planned public transport investments.
24 October 2017, 05:39 AM

Electric car-sharing service to roll into Singapore

An electric car-sharing service is going to be launched in Singapore in December, in what the company behind the scheme says is going to be a first for Southeast Asia.
28 September 2017, 06:04 AM

President off to Singapore for medical check-up

President Abdul Hamid leaves Dhaka for Singapore on Sunday afternoon for medical check-up there.
6 August 2017, 08:07 AM

Football: Asia backs 48-team World Cup, says FIFA boss

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino on Thursday said Asian countries backed his plan to expand the World Cup to 48 teams -- and added that up to three countries should be allowed to co-host the tournament.
8 December 2016, 09:19 AM

Football: FIFA's Infantino urges zero tolerance for child abuse

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has called for "zero tolerance" of child abuse in football and promised to look into ways the global governing body can do more to prevent it in the wake of the scandal sweeping the game in England.
8 December 2016, 07:06 AM

Bangladesh beat Singapore 8-0 to seal final berth

Bangladesh romped into the final of the 5th Men's AHF Cup after thrashing Singapore 8-0 in the first semifinal today.
26 November 2016, 10:49 AM

Phelps hails role inspiring his own defeat by Singapore's Schooling

Michael Phelps has acknowledged a "small part" in his own dramatic Olympic defeat by Singapore hero Joseph Schooling but bears no grudge.
16 August 2016, 08:32 AM

Stunning Phelps, Schooling wins Singapore's first gold

In just one performance, Singapore's Joseph Schooling beats swimming great Michael Phelps, takes home his city state's first Olympic gold medal and becomes an instant millionaire.
13 August 2016, 05:08 AM

Singaporean Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, 44, detained under ISA for promoting violence and ISIS, radicalising others

A Singaporean who actively spread radical ideology online and helped radicalise at least two other citizens is detained under the Internal Security Act in Singapore.
30 July 2016, 10:49 AM

Drone seized at Dhaka airport

Custom intelligence seize a drone at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka due to a ban on its import.
26 July 2016, 15:18 PM

Singapore plane catches fire on runway

A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Milan catches fire shortly after making an emergency landing.
27 June 2016, 04:38 AM

Bangladeshi paralysed in work accident gets $600,000

A Bangladeshi construction worker paralysed after a worksite accident is awarded about $600,000 in damages and costs.
18 June 2016, 12:47 PM

Light pollution 'affects 80% of global population'

More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.
12 June 2016, 06:48 AM

4 Bangladeshis convicted in Singapore

A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers, detained in Singapore under the Internal Security Act (ISA), of financing terrorism.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Six Bangladeshis charged with terror financing

A Singapore court yesterday charged six Bangladeshi workers with terror financing, over a month after they were arrested on the
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

6 Bangladeshis charged in Singapore with financing terrorism

Six Bangladeshi workers detained in Singapore last month are charged with financing terrorism. Their goal was to set up an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the IS in Iraq and Syria.
27 May 2016, 08:22 AM

How Islamic State in Bangladesh began

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
5 May 2016, 05:07 AM

'They formed cell, met in parks, shared radical contents'

The eight Bangladeshi workers held recently in Singapore had allegedly formed an “Islamist” cell that met in parks and other
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM

5 ‘militants’ deported from Singapore remanded

A Dhaka court has placed five alleged militants, who were deported from Singapore, on seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed under the anti-terrorism act.
4 May 2016, 09:33 AM

ISA detentions: Bangladesh must have zero tolerance for terror, says Bangladesh envoy in Singapore

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.
4 May 2016, 05:33 AM