January 25, 2009 Sunday
Updated

Instead of fireworks, those who showed up at the opening of this year's River Hongbao 2009 last night got firecrackers instead.

Belt-tightening extended to this year's festival, launched - literally - with a bang by Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng at the Marina Bay floating platform.

 
Tough for workers to just go

FOR foreign workers who have to go home after spending just a few months in Singapore, their problems do not end here.

SIA cuts 4 single-class flights

SINGAPORE Airlines' non-stop, business-class- only flights to the United States have become the latest casualties of a global downturn in travel.

NUH sued over transplant op

A MAN who gained a kidney but lost his wife following a 2005 organ transplant has sued two doctors and the hospital where the surgery was performed.

   
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