Singaporeans love to be scared. At least that's what the sales figures of local ghost story books are saying. NO DEAD END: Books by Singaporean authors usually get a dead response from readers, ...

IT'S called Jalan Wat Siam, but its nickname has a more sinister ring - 'cemetery road'. And true to its nickname, this road at Pulau Ubin has already claimed two lives. On ...

A man holds joss sticks at an altar during the hungry ghost festival in Singapore July 30, 2006. Businesses may be hit by a double whammy this year due to an oddity ...

August 08, 2008 Friday, 07:12 PM Frankie Chee explains why the Singapore Flyer had to turn the other way. THERE is no scientific explanation to Feng Shui, but the ancient Chinese art of seeking ...

HER lover may be dead, but Miss Dang Thi Tho still wants to marry him. The 25-year-old Vietnamese, who nearly drowned when her married boyfriend dragged her into the sea, intends to have ...

Of hungry ghosts and Olympic hosts Wooing the supernatural: Genevieve Woo ‘Chinglish’ is the new English: Lian Pek One has made a documentary about hungry ghosts, the other about China’s fetish for ...

ANACHRONISM hangs like a musty draught in the basement of Katong Shopping Centre. It's a rabbit warren of mom-and-pop shops peddling mops and pails, maid employment agencies, shoe stores, dressmakers and ...

Close your eyes and 'visit' the afterlife Now in Singapore: Taiwanese ritual that takes believers on 'tour' to meet deceased loved ones By Maureen Koh April 15, 2007 A walk in hell to meet the ...

SINGAPORE: One of the two priests at the centre of the Amutha Valli forced exorcism trial, said no exorcism has ever been performed in Singapore. Testifying in a packed courtroom, Father ...

Dubbed as Wollongong's Indiana Jones, STOMPer John, a Singaporean historian and researcher at the University of Wollongong, says he has the answers to the unexplained underground structure in the forestry between Woodlands ...