Air pollution from forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island reached severe levels in Singapore on Monday, triggering a health alert in the densely populated city-state.

Lawyers for the Singapore government told a coroner's inquest on Monday that an American scientist found hanged in the city-state last year killed himself and was not murdered as his family claims.

Lawyers for the Singapore government told a coroner's inquest on Monday that an American scientist found hanged in the city-state last year killed himself and was not murdered as his family claims.

A former senior Singapore civil servant was jailed for six months Thursday for receiving oral sex from a female executive of a supplier company in return for business favours.

Singapore is fighting back against a rapidly worsening dengue epidemic by distributing insect repellants to every household and recruiting hundreds of disease control officers, officials said.

Singapore is telling doctors to be more vigilant against dengue fever as the mosquito-borne disease surges this year.

A Singaporean judge on Monday sentenced a former law professor to five months in jail for accepting sex and gifts from a student in exchange for good grades.

Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam War raged on, Army Spc. Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta — both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

Singapore on Wednesday issued a stern warning to foreigners to abide by its laws, after Malaysians arrested for staging an illegal protest had appealed for leniency.

Singapore's government says a new policy will require online news websites to be licensed, a move that is being criticized as a form of censorship in a country where media outlets are already strictly controlled.