How should the Government handle rumours?

In the lead-up to the country's birthday this month, the talk of the town - and even across the Causeway - was about the "news" that wasn't. 

S'pore richest in the world? Not quite

A RECENT survey caused quite a few people to do a double take when it declared that Singapore is the richest country in the world.

Memory project draws 300,000 submissions

In this 1975 photograph, nine-year-old Petrina Edema sits with her mother Olive, then 34, and four-year-old brother Ian outside the National Theatre after a visit to the Van Kleef Aquarium. The aquarium closed in 1991. Ms Edema, now 46, remembers being both in awe of and terrified of a shark there. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF PETRINA EDEMA

The lure of the audacious lie

There was a time when it was my job to sift through job applications. I learnt a couple of things very quickly.
One is that many people overestimate the importance of silver awards in secondary school military band competitions in how that reveals their "raging thirst to succeed".

Goodbye, Corina the great survivor

Corina suffered from Werdnig Hoffman, which made her limbs deformed and lifeless. Her mother, Madam She Hieng Kim, selflessly and lovingly tended to Corina's every need. -- ST FILE PHOTO

I had just reached Hong Kong after a 15-hour flight from New York when I received an SMS telling me Corina Zheng had died that Friday afternoon.

Address root cause to fix COE woes

IS THE Government mixing up two separate objectives in its latest move to remove taxi bids from Category A of certificates of entitlement (COEs) - long the staple of buyers of bread-and-butter cars?
Or is it trying to kill two birds with one stone?