How the date for Hari Raya is determined: Where science and faith meet
Hari Raya Puasa is celebrated on the first day of Syawal, the 10th month of the Islamic calendar. As Muslims follow a lunar calendar, each year is only 355 or 354 days.
Zhaki Abdullah
New Disney cruise ship to set sail from Singapore from 2025
The 208,000-gross-tonne vessel is expected to be the largest cruise ship calling here, as well as the largest ship in Disney’s fleet.
Singapore hospitals resume elective surgery deferred due to Covid-19
But procedures have evoled. Some hospitals have ramped up the use of minimally invasive methods for elective procedures, which require patients to stay in the hospital for less…
413 people get Covid-19 vaccine injury payouts, over $1.8m offered to applicants
A total of $1,895,000 has been paid out or offered to applicants, The Ministry of Health shared on January 25.
Number of Singapore dengue cases in 2022 likely to be second highest on record
As at 3pm on Dec 30, 32,097 dengue cases had been reported – amounting to 91 per cent of the record high of 35,315 cases recorded in 2020.
Rainy weather sees temperature drop to 24 deg C in some areas in Singapore
It was sweater weather in Singapore on Wednesday as temperatures dipped amid rainfall across the island.
Over 386,000 have received bivalent Covid-19 vaccine since mid-October
Singapore is introducing a bivalent version of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine for those aged 12 and above.
Singapore approves Moderna’s first bivalent Covid-19 booster jab
Targeting both the original strain and the Omicron BA.1 variant, it has been authorised for use for people aged 18 and above who have received their primary vaccination dose.