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The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Mar 2010SINGAPORE Airlines will use Jetstar's aggressive push into Singapore as leverage to back its bid to be allowed to fly between Australia and the United States.Jetstar's decision early this year to make Singapore its Asian hub - instead of Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh - has given Singapore Airlines the ammunition it needs in its long-standing push to be allowed to
Finfacts Ireland, 14 Mar 2010London and New York were tied for first place in the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFC 7) report, published last Friday by the City of London Corporation. They were followed by Hong Kong and Singapore, while Dublin got a ranking of 31 in a 75-city sample.Asian centres continued to make gains, with Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing, in
In 1971, the Ministry of National Development met
officials from the major oil companies in Singapore to announce a
major decision. All petrol stations within the Central Business
District (CBD) were to be phased out over a period of 30 years,
with some having to quit immediately. In 1970 there were a total of
150 petrol stations throughout Singapore; 30 still remained after
21 were re-sited away from the city area. SHELL the main oil
company was the most affected by the government’s ruling to re-site
the bulk of its petrol stations away from the city area.
Photo 1: SHELL station at Beach Road, opposite the
former Beach Road Camp which would later become the future South
Beach Hotel (circa 1968). Site is now occupied by Raffles
LaSalle.
Ten years later, a public tender was called in 1982 for a petrol
station at the Golden Shoe Multi-storey Car Park - bounded by
Church Stre[...]
The proposed changes to the election rules announced in
Parliament yesterday are just another ploy by the PAP to instill
fear in the people. As far as the Internet is concerned, citizens
should be free to campaign for whichever party and candidate they
choose.
The “advertising guidelines” introduced is clear indication that
the PAP is running scared of the New Media and how it is a leveler
of information flow.
The ruling party also knows that because of its control of the
traditional media, more and more Singaporeans are turning to the
Internet for information. The overwhelming sentiment in cyberspace
is for the opposition and against the PAP.
The Government is thus desperately trying to regulate cyberspace
during the elections even though it knows that it is near
impossible to do so given the nature of the beast.
The Singapore Democrats has been [...]
Please forward this information to your friends. The Court of
Appeal (Supreme Court) will hear Vui Kong's appeal this coming
Monday, 15 March at 10am.
Encourage your friends to come for the hearing and invite them
to join this Facebook group for updates.
Link to the large flier to be printed out and passed around.
Yong Vui Kong’s appeal hearing takes place at 10am on Monday, 15 March 2010.
Yong Vui Kong was 12 when he left his grandfather’s palm oil estate “deep in the forests of Sabah” in Malaysia to strike it out on his own. He had had enough of watching his mother being abused by his grandfather and her relatives. He wanted to help her escape what he now calls “that place of pain”. And so, he made up a story. He told his mother that he had found someone who would take him in as a godson. But the truth was, his “godfather” ran an illegal gambling business. Vui Kong went to work for this man, hoping to save up enough money so he could rescue his mother.
He was eventually thrown out by his godfather. Vui Kong thinks it was probably because he was too small and skinny to be of any use. He ended up washing cars to survive, making about RM$3 a day. It was har[...]
I have created a Facebook Group named as above. The reasoning is as
below:
HDB used to be a very unique and successful socialist approach to
provide basic adequate housing for Singaporeans. The HDB scheme was
made possible by the power of Land Acquisition Act that allows the
government of the day to acquire land at dirt cheap prices. It is a
social contract between the people and the government to empower
them to acquire land at cheap prices while in return, the people's
basic housing needs are taken care of by the government providing
HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED HDB flats to more than 80% of the
population.
The break down of Cost price of HDB was made available back in 1981
when the government showed us how much COST SUBSIDIES have been
given to the citizens.
However, since the introduction of "Asset Enhancement Program" in
early 1990s and subsequently the introduction of "Marke[...]
ok! I'm probably just blogging because i want to get things out
of my mind. I doubt anyone is following up on my blog anymore since
the last time I blog was 'donkey years' [as quoted by Miss Z]
ago!
I discovered 3 happening things this weekend....no I'm not refering
to the IT fair at Suntec where I was stuck in that human
jam.....but sadly to say 1 of them is not really worth celebrating
but yet stir up quite a number of feelings in me...
Happening 1
My good friend cum colleague Miss Z is attached! I'm truly happy
for her! Hope she and her romantic bf stay sweet always!
Happening 2
Another case of a couple being discovered! although i don't know
them personally, but Miss Sunshine loves this kind of news!
After the IT show, me and RK were waiting for bus to go
home...among the crowd i heard a ger behind me asking her bf in the
usual gf to bf tone "wouldn't you take 502 wit[...]
