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The study draws on two different studies conducted here more than a decade ago. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Scientists and clinicians at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have identified two compounds - sST2 and suPAR - in the blood of dengue patients that could determine if a patient is at risk of severe dengue in the early phases of the disease.

SINGAPORE — An acute manpower shortage in coffee shops and restaurants in Johor Bahru has been reported in Malaysia as more workers choose to cross the Causeway to Singapore for work, The Malaysian Insight news website reported on Thursday (Aug 31).

Although the Government provided subsidies and grants, Prof Chia noted that the price-to-income ratio – which indicates housing affordability – has declined from 2001 to 2021 in the BTO and resale HDB markets

January 03, 2021 A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products. The Straits Times SINGAPORE - What started as being a curious 16-year-old, wanting to be cool and fit in with friends quickly turned into a habit and today Chris is a full-blown, self-confessed smoking addict. That is not his real name, and with reason: As of Friday (Jan 1), the full-time national serviceman, 20, became guilty of underage smok...

The Straits Times Time to do more to stub out smoking in Singapore? The Jan 1 raising of the minimum age limit for smoking to 21 is the latest step to manage the harm of tobacco, following measures over the years to shrink the space you can take a puff in public. But some feel more needs to be done to weed out the habit. A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM https://str.sg/JDob ...