Salma Khalik talks to Ganga and Jamuna's Nepalese neurosurgeon.
SINGAPORE patients, even subsidised ones, have it good – when compared to those in Nepal. So do doctors.
The public hospitals in Nepal are crowded, not very clean and the staff harried.
In the private sector, where patients might have to pay half a months’s salary for a simple treatment, things are marginally better.
Ong Sor Fern shortlists Singapore's 30 promising talents under 30.
30 under 30.
It was a catchy concept. As the Life! team brainstormed about what would make a great cover story for the inaugural issue of a revamped Life! section, this was the idea that we came back to as the best way to relaunch with a bang.
The idea was to find 30 talents in all the various fields that Life! covers - everything from the arts and entertainment to food and fashion. The catch - they all had to be under 30 years of age.
Jessica Lim sees red at a Case meeting on breastfeeding. Red faces, that is.
SO THERE they were, then, officials of the Consumer's Association of Singapore (Case), all pressed suits and starched shirts, at their flourescent-lit office on the fifth floor of the Ulu Pandan Community Club, poised to talk to reporters about... breast-feeding.
The conference began with Case vice-president Lim Biow Chuan (did someone say "clinically"?) pulling out price tables from a survey conducted last month which showed that going natural isn't just good for the baby, it's cheaper too.
$710 cheaper over half a year, to be exact.
Clarissa Oon suggests telling kids off when they are clearly being self-centred.
SHE is disturbed by this sight: teenage boys and girls on the MRT whom she saw falling asleep in their seats, right on cue, whenever a pregnant woman walked in.
The unionist, a mother of two children aged 17 and 19, spoke with rising passion in her voice about the consequences of Singapore's young being brought up by maids and babysitters and growing up without "family bonding" or thinking to look out for others.
Can our schools go beyond the paper chase and do more to teach them moral values and integrity, she asked Senior Minister of State for Education Grace Fu
Nur Dianah Suhaimi sorts out reactions to her Sunday special report.
IMAGINE being pregnant with a kicking unborn child, waddling around on swollen feet and nursing a massive backache - then, getting sacked.
Working on last Sunday's special report on how pregnant women were getting fired by SMEs, it's not difficult to see which side most people would be on.
Many were still wounded by the experience - never mind that their babies are now three years old. One got so upset after recounting her story to me, it triggered a nervous breakdown.
Lim Wei Chean scouts out who queued at the Natas travel fair.
TALK about getting bitten by the travel bug.
The first person in line for the Natas travel fair that began today arrived at 7 am – a full five hours before doors opened.
In scenes normally reserved for property launches and freebie giveaways, there were 50 people in the queue by 9 am.
Tan Wei Zhen gets all Googley with Singapore's own Google guy.
SINGAPORE’s very own Google bigwig was in town yesterday, to speak at an IDA conference. The Straits Times caught up with him after the talk, to get his thoughts on the future of the Net, and he let on that he has a new role within the company.
Whether it says so on his name card is another thing. But Tan Chade Meng, who officially works in a human resources position* at the online giant after cutting his teeth at the engineering side, now considers himself an evangelist of "Googlelyness".
Tessa Wong on why 080808 isn't good for weddings after all.
ABOUT that 080808 wedding date.
Geomancers tell The Straits Times there are a couple of theories floating around - if you pardon the expression - about why giving the altar a miss on that day makes sense.
The biggest one, of course, is that you might have more than a couple of "uninvited guests" gatecrashing your shindig. The other is of the now you see it, now you don't variety: The 080808 groom might accidentally get hitched to an otherworldly bride during the ceremony.
