Joyce Lim

joycel@sph.com.sg

More prime district home owners defaulted on loans in 2019

Jan 27, 2020, 5:00 am
An Exclusion Order on the front door of a flat directing Madam Iwa and Mr Low Bok Siong to leave their Pending Road residence for a month. ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

Noisy neighbours case: Couple who flout court order risk jail, says MinLaw

Jan 9, 2020, 5:00 am
Above: A police officer checking the contents of the bin of a rubbish chute at Block 534 Bedok North Street 3, inside which a baby boy was found alive yesterday. The newborn was later taken to hospital. Left: Town council cleaner Patwari Shamin told

Police looking for parents of abandoned baby boy

Jan 8, 2020, 5:00 am

Police searching for parents of baby found alive in rubbish chute; looking at in-car cameras

Jan 7, 2020, 11:51 am

Singapore's first Exclusion Order: Man's noisy neighbours say they will not comply

Jan 7, 2020, 5:00 am
Top: A 2013 photo showing maids at a walkway between Lucky Plaza and Tong Building in Orchard Road. Above: Filipino maid Leonila Incillo near the site of the accident at Lucky Plaza where people have placed flowers in memory of the victims. Madam Inc

Fatal Lucky Plaza accident highlights lack of public places for migrant workers

Jan 5, 2020, 5:00 am
Mr Daniel See pasting a copy of an Exclusion Order directing his neighbours to leave their residence after they were found to have breached an earlier court order to stop creating a din.

First Exclusion Order issued to bar man's noisy neighbours from home

Jan 5, 2020, 5:00 am

Number of highly indebted borrowers falls by 40%

Dec 29, 2019, 5:00 am
Under the pilot scheme, a letter informs a first-time offender arrested on a drink-driving charge, without injury or damage to property, of the sentencing framework prosecutors will adopt should the offender plead guilty.

Pilot scheme to deal with drink drivers raises concern

Dec 29, 2019, 5:00 am

62-year-old with $3k monthly income servicing $100k credit card debt

Dec 29, 2019, 5:00 am

Businesses must now give debtors more time to settle up, courts should not be first port of call

Dec 22, 2019, 5:00 am
More food establishments using CCTVs amid rise in food poisoning cases

Commercial kitchens turn to CCTVs to ensure food safety

Dec 17, 2019, 5:00 am
Mr Daniel See, 29, pointing to a closed-circuit television camera which was installed as instructed by the Community Dispute Resolution Tribunal to capture any noise and activity in his Bukit Panjang flat.

Man seeks to evict 'noisy' neighbours from HDB flat below his

Dec 15, 2019, 5:00 am

Credit checks for employees and potential hires by financial institutions appropriate: MAS

Nov 27, 2019, 5:00 am

Hong Konger who held illegal public gathering in Singapore repatriated

Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 am

HK organiser of illegal gathering about HK protests repatriated; S'porean warned for facilitating it

Nov 20, 2019, 10:41 pm
Gold Kili Food general manager Audrey Ho says the packaging of her firm's products states that they are produced in Malaysia, even though it is a Singapore brand. Gold Kili moved part of its production to Johor last year, spending about RM6 million (

Garlic from China, but it's a 'Product of Singapore'

Nov 17, 2019, 5:00 am

Product of Singapore but made in China? Industry players call for clearer food labels

Nov 16, 2019, 9:31 pm
The management corporation of Sanctuary Green in Tanjong Rhu sought to force the sale of a unit whose owner is said to be owing more than $10,000 in management and sinking-fund fees, plus interest.

Unpaid condo maintenance fees: MC can sell unit to recover sums

Nov 10, 2019, 5:00 am
Mr Erramalli Ramesh, a resident of the Eight Riversuites condominium in Whampoa, was in the news recently after a video of him verbally abusing a condo security guard was widely shared.

'$1.5m condo' parking saga: Checks find no evidence of man using fake credentials

Nov 9, 2019, 5:00 am

Authorities checked educational qualifications of $1.5 million condo man and found nothing amiss

Nov 8, 2019, 4:24 pm
A monitor to track noise levels installed at a void deck in Ang Mo Kio by the Municipal Services Office and Singapore Kindness Movement as part of a pilot project to deter noise pollution in community spaces. ST PHOTO: KHALID BABA

Noise top cause of spats in housing estates

Oct 27, 2019, 5:00 am
A view from Block 409 Tampines Street 41 overlooking the East-West MRT line. From a sample of 39 Housing Board flats in five locations sold between 2017 and this year, the transacted prices of units that directly faced noisy roads or MRT tracks were

Outside noise could affect home prices

Oct 27, 2019, 5:00 am
Austrian chef Karl Dobler and Ms Eugenia Ong closed their restaurant Table At 7 in Mohammad Sultan Road in April after its lease expired. Ms Ong says they plan to reopen the restaurant at 41 Namly Avenue next month, focusing more on catering as it ge

Why restaurants in Singapore are opening and closing at record rates

Oct 20, 2019, 5:00 am
Jane (not her real name), who has mild intellectual disability, was duped into signing up for an expensive mobile phone plan for a woman who took the phone and left Jane to pay for the contract of $78.88 per month. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Targeted by cheats, those with special needs pay the price

Oct 15, 2019, 5:00 am