As the phone tapping inquiry heats up, Joel Cooper asks why one shameless hack is still refusing to mend his ways.
Hacking phones, bribing cops - it seems nothing is off limits for the sleazy tabloid pack.
But despite the growing backlash, one particularly sordid and unethical journalist has so far managed to escape unscathed.
Don't be fooled by his boyish charm and innocent looking white dog.
After singer Amy Winehouse is found to have died of alcohol poisoning, Joel Cooper asks: Why do so many stars die at 27?
When Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London flat in July, fans were devastated but maybe not that surprised.
It was no secret that the British soul diva with the towering beehive hairdo and even bigger talent had been fighting a losing battle against various addictions.
Her best known song was titled Rehab and the press had cruelly nicknamed her Wino – a reference to her debauched lifestyle, which was fuelled by a destructive on-off relationship with her junkie former husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
Carmelita Miki Kwek on what homeschooling has taught her
A lot of adults talk about the ‘rat race’ of corporate life, but I don’t know anything about that. I’m not eighteen yet - I just finished my A-level equivalents, and I’ve only had an office job for about four weeks (and don’t my bosses and supervisors know it).
But I do know about the educational system.
I used to attend a mission school in Singapore. My parents began homeschooling my sister and me when we relocated to Shanghai in 2003.
Ashutosh Ravikrishnan shares the life lessons he learnt from the Harry Potter series
'I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us all killed - or worse, expelled.'
Hermione Granger, 11, a first-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, had just returned to her dormitory with her friends, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, after accidentally discovering a three-headed dog in an area out of bounds to all students.
To a nine-year-old me then, it seemed that getting expelled would be worse than getting killed.
Tan Herng Yih defends Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the new Transformers lead actress
People around me say Megan Fox did a better job in Transformers as compared to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Of course, if you were to compare both the actresses, I have to agree that Megan played her role well. But her acting skills were surely honed by her stints in Ocean Avenue, a Swedish-American soap opera, and Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen.
And Rosie? She zipped from a Victoria's Secret catalogue to the silver screen. It couldn't have been an easy transition - the pitfalls of acting are greater than tripping on the runway or getting sand into her unmentionables in a beach
Lai Han-Wei shares his music festival-going tips for Saturday's Laneway Festival in Singapore
Another year, another batch of top music acts coming to Singapore.
When once we would have been lucky to catch the occasional major pop act, a variety of events have now begun cropping up to cater to varied, niche tastes.
Yet, with the decent spread of music acts as well as lower ticket prices for some acts, I’m sure there’s going to be some first-time concert-goers out there.
Lee Jia Xin takes the Volkswagen Polo Sport for a spin
Volkswagen has been successful on the sales charts in Singapore in 2010 and for good reason as it has a strong range of products. While the Jetta has been the German marque's perennial bestseller here due to the Singapore consumer's penchant for a car with a boot, its hatchback models such as the iconic Golf and Polo have been making inroads into the local car buying public's consciousness.
The Polo in particular has done particularly well as seen by the little hatchback's proliferation on our roads. The 'mini-me' Golf styling, solid build quality and affordable pricing have all contributed to its
Vanessa Jalleh goes behind the scenes of this gargantuan production for more Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacle.
An amalgam of theatrics and science, Walking with Dinosaurs – Arena Spectacle, is an enjoyable production which will captivate audiences of all ages eager to step back in time to walk with the dinosaurs.
The show opens with the Triassic Period and the first dinosaurs the audience encounters are little baby dinosaurs, followed by the sneaky Liliensternus. The audience travels forward to the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, meeting 20 dinosaurs along the way.
The show ends with a massive confrontation between a Torosaurus, Ankylosaurus and a mother Tyrannosaurus Rex defending her mischievous baby.
Lee Jia Xin takes the Toyota Camry Hybrid for a spin
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The Toyota Camry Hybrid is given very little visual differentiation from its more mundane siblings. PHOTO: TOYOTA
Deepika Shetty ponders on motherhood as she remembers her own mother's life.
JUST how did she do it? It is a question that is often on my mind.
It has been playing on my mind even more all of this week.
Compared to what my mother went through, I only had to deal with minor irritants such as the flu and gastroentritis and its attendant woes. As my body whirled in pain, my son's stomach did too. It turned out to be a seemingly endless round of doctors and medicines.
