Daily Archives: July 20, 2017 (31 Articles Found)
The BCA SkyLab celebrated its first birthday with an award on Thurs. Built by BCA, the laboratory was one of 12 winners at the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2017. It won in the…
Train service on the North-South Line was delayed slightly on Thurs evening when workers fixed a loose clamp on the rail. After a quiet spell following a software patch to fix glitches in a new signalling system, the…
To a generation of Singaporeans, the Singapore Conference Hall (SCH) evokes a wave of nostalgia. In its halcyon days, it represented the hospitable face of the nation, as the venue of choice to host foreign dignitaries. Unionists remember…
Having to lock the front door is something that Ms Hayley Pereira, who recently moved into her HDB flat in Depot Road, is still getting used to. Her former home in Normanton Park, where the 29-year-old marketing executive…
Parts of a century-old road may have to be sacrificed to make way for the Tengah Air Base expansion. However, portions of the Lim Chu Kang heritage road could yet survive, with ST understanding that the authorities are…
Ever so often, the roar of fighter jets breaks insurance sales manager Derrick Ng’s concentration at home. But the Jurong West St 25 resident, who lives 5km away from Tengah Air Base, has resigned himself to the piercing…
One BTO site is in the far eastern side of Yishun, while the other two in Sengkang and Sembawang are several kilometres away from the nearest MRT stations and town centres. But with a wait time of 2…
In addition to the 80, 000 graves and six farms slated to make way for the Tengah Air Base expansion, a quieter change – in a way befitting the serenity of a heritage road – is the realignment…
As bike sharing takes off here, the indiscriminate parking of these bicycles has become an issue. There have been initiatives to tackle the problem, in the form of schemes from the operators to penalise irresponsible riders and reward…
As a layman, I am still confused by HDB’s reply that purchasers of HDB flats are owners (HDB buyers are home owners, not tenants; July 19). I live in an HDB flat and have a duplicate lease. The…
It is saddening to read news of lift breakdowns, especially when they result in injury or even death. As I live on the 16th floor, I have to take the lift daily. But after the many reports of…
Urban planners were on Thurs urged to invest in digital infrastructure as a way of easing the burden on fast-growing cities. Speaking at the Asia Urban Governance Leaders Forum, Senior Minister of State for National Development Dr Koh…
A construction company building the underpass for the Bukit Panjang MRT station has been fined for illegally discharging liquid into a canal and for not providing an adequate holding tank. Ed Zublin AG Singapore was fined S$2,000 for…
Public map platform OneMap has undergone a facelift and is now available as a mobile app that is able to provide users with the shortest and most sheltered walking routes, said SLA team behind the revamp on Thurs.…
Resident artists at the Goodman Arts Centre (GAC) are up in arms over recent increases in rent and service charges. The Arts House Limited (AHL), which manages GAC for NAC, upped rents and service charges from July, and…
In his first public comments on last week’s collapse of a partially completed viaduct, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said yesterday that there were “lessons to be learnt”. Asked by TODAY if there was a need to relook…
A suspected gas leak inside the clean room of an electronics manufacturing company in Kallang Way on Tues resulted in 11 workers being sent to hospital, said the company yesterday. Giving its account of the incident, RF360 Singapore…
The number of jackpot machines at social and football clubs here will be reduced by about a third over the next two years, as part of stricter new rules governing the operation of these machines, the authorities announced…
Any realignment of Lim Chu Kang Road for the expansion of Tengah Air Base could mean more hassle getting to the Kranji Countryside, but farms and businesses there are not fretting just yet. After Tues’s announcement by the…
The realignment of Lim Chu Kang Road for the expansion of Tengah Air Base could likely mean that it is no longer used as an alternate runway, a defence expert said. It could also add to parking woes…
If you are heading to the beach at East Coast Park, avoid the 400m stretch between the Bougainvillea Garden and car park F2. That area has been closed and a clean-up operation is underway after an oil patch…
The capital flight to greener pastures abroad from Singapore has slowed to a trickle, amid a turnaround in the property market at home. Data compiled by RCA and Knight Frank Research shows that the number of outbound investment…
Have you ever wondered how much rental income you could make from renting out your home (and moving back home with your parents)? Whether you’re just idly curious, or seriously thinking of taking that step, here’s how to…
A joint venture company formed by Afro-Asia Shipping (AAS) and Shimizu Corp Investment and Development Division is set to redevelop the Afro-Asia Building. The total project is estimated to cost more than $320 million, which the JV intends…
Hoi Hup Realty’s 531-unit EC, Hundred Palms Residences, has received more than 2,000 e-applications, according to ERA’s Hundred Palms Residences FB page. E-applications for the development were open from July 4 to 17. Sales bookings for the EC…
This chart from Colliers shows that 59% of developer sales were done at a median price point between $1,000 to $1,499. Meanwhile, 35% of the sales were at the $1,500 to $1,999 psf. “We believe that the sweet…
JTC has awarded the tender for the industrial site at Tuas South Link 3 (Plot 24) to Pan Asian Flow Technology, a subsidiary of Pan Asian Holdings. The company submitted the highest bid of $2m in the tender…
HDB has commenced the construction of BTO flats in non-mature estates of Yishun, Sembawang, and Sengkang. According to ERA KEO Eugene Lim, these flats are in slightly less popular locations, which could be the reason behind HDB’s move…
Le Quest, Qingjian Realty’s first mixed-use development in Bukit Batok, will be opened for preview this weekend. Set to be completed in Nov 2024, the project will feature five 12-storey apartment with 516 residential units, 6,000 sqm of…
Situated close to the Jurong Regional Centre with PIE separating Jurong and the north region, Bukit Batok is known for many of its attractions including the former quarry hill called ‘Little Guilin’ and shopping centre, West Mall. According…
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