AT BEST, Singapore can expect to attract 9.8 million visitors this year. The worst-case scenario: numbers falling to a five-year low of 8.8 million.

SINGAPORE'S trade performance last month likely worsened dramatically, based on full-year container throughput figures released from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) on Thursday night.

THE Singapore Tattoo Show at the Singapore Expo this weekend is an event of firsts.

The convention happening from Jan 9-11 is the first of its kind in Singapore and the first time tattoo artists from Asia and the west will come together and create art side by side.