For the first time 10 guests of honour -- from all 10 Asean countries, including Singapore PM -- were invited for the annual official celebrations, signifying India's growing strategic interests in its eastern neighbourhood that surrounds the maritime underbelly of Asia - the Indo-Pacific.
An Uber driver was given a two-week jail term on charges of outrage of modesty of a female passenger; the man had been involved in 20 similar incidents since 2010.
Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 99 suspected drug offenders in a five-day island-wide operation from January 21 to 26, seizing drugs worth more than S$52,000.
A 60-year-old repeat offender in Singapore has been arrested again for vandalizing a police vehicle, threatening a police officer with a wooden pole and punching a retiree.
A couple, who had been on death row for torturing and starving their Cambodian maid to death, escaped with a 10-year jail sentence when the Federal court found them guilty of a lesser offence.
This attack was part of a terrorism-response exercise, code-named Exercise Heartbeat, and aimed at helping Singaporeans prevent and prepare against terror attacks.
When teachers welcomed new sports development program for students by redesigning the National School Games Junior Division, parents thought that maybe the authority is going overboard to reduce stress levels in the ongoing education system.
According to the law, Jasmine Angie Ong could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined up to $5,000 for the rash act to endanger the personal safety of other people.