A Singaporean woman has been detained by police in Shanghai. Standard Chartered private-bank relationship manager Wu Yidian Eden was allegedly detained for "harbouring and shielding criminal activity" and has been brought 125km away to Wuxi city, according to reports. It's believed th...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 15 Mar 2012 Normal train service on the Northeast Line has been suspended until further notice after a new problem relating to electricity insulation was found, said operator SBS Transit. In its fourth update on the NEL breakdown since 5am, it said after fixing ...
SINGAPORE, March 14 (Bernama) -- Education Minister Heng Swee Keat will chair a 16-member board to administer the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism and spearhead initiatives to support the teaching and learning of English and Mother Tongue Languages, especially at the pre-school leve...
San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar 2012 Surging oil prices are starting to pinch the pocketbooks of Asian consumers and could quicken inflation and slow economic activity in a region that has led global growth in recent years. The jump in crude — the U.S. benchmark is trading near a ten-...
Yahoo! News Singapore, 13 Mar 2012 SingTel has warned its SingNet customers of suspicious emails, requesting for their personal information to avoid having their SingNet accounts terminated. The telecommunications company posted a Facebook message on Tuesday warning customers of email...
As Dow Jones Newswires reports Tuesday, the Monetary Authority of Singapore is considering allowing the country’s banks to issue covered bonds in small amounts to widen their sources of funding. The bonds could potentially be Basel III-compliant. The MAS said in a consultation paper i...
Yahoo! News Singapore, 13 Mar 2012 “It is now the time for me to express my personal thoughts,” she wrote. In outgoing SMRT CEO Saw Phaik Hwa’s first post on her new personal site , the 57-year-old shared that she will be “taking a walk down memory lane, and moving on” in her final we...
Realising the importance of science, technology, and innovation as key factors in driving economic growth and competitiveness of countries, Southeast Asia and Europe have forged a science and technology partnership this year. The year 2012 will be known as 'Asean-EU Year of Science, T...
Tourism-review.com, 12 Mar 2012 To prepare for the next phase of development, a further $905 million is to be invested over the next 5 years. These funds are deemed necessary for Singapore to stay ahead in business and pleasure tourism even though 2011 was a record year. 13.2 million ...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 9 Mar 2012 Some Singaporeans are doubtful that the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) new initiatives to enhance values-driven education will give students a boost in their education. The newly launched Edusave Character Award was announced by Minister of Education H...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 9 Mar 2012 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will call for by-elections in Hougang. This is PM Lee's full reply in Parliament to PAP MP Christopher de Souza's question on a by-election in Hougang: The Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC) seat is vacant after th...
OPINION: $1k-flat for the poor: More unbelievable contradictions Singapore Democrats, 6 Mar 2012 Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam made his now infamous comment about famil... PAP MP Vikram Nair threatens to sue The Online Citizen inSing.com, 2 Mar 2012...
Tiger Airways (Australia) has been given approval to operate up to 64 sectors a day from October, which effectively means it will be able to fly its current fleet of eight A320s to their maximum capacity for the first time since it was grounded as an imminent threat to public safety b...
The Wall Street Journal, 7 Mar 2012 As The Wall Street Journal is aware, my father, Reform Party founder Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, was sued numerous times for defamation, culminating in being bankrupted over a few words in an article published in the Workers' Party newspaper that he...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 6 Mar 2012 Production for the widely-anticipated film about former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is likely to start after the middle of this year, says its director Lee Thean-jeen. Speaking to Yahoo! Singapore in an interview on Tuesday, Lee said that the script f...
A SINGAPOREAN man who underwent sex change surgery before being convicted on drugs charges escaped caning after a court recognised the change in gender. Preeta Nivashani Rechnam, 40, was jailed yesterday for seven years and three months for a second drugs offence, but she escaped cani...
Singapore Democrats, 6 Mar 2012 Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam made his now infamous comment about families earning $1,000 a month being able to buy a flat. This kicked up a storm on the Internet (see here). But instead of taking a second look at wha...
New Delhi, March 5 : India Monday banned six defence firms, including four foreign companies, from doing any business in the country for 10 years beginning 2012, following the chargesheeting of a former Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) chief in a graft case. The companies banned are Singa...
Several ministers are backing Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam's comments that sparked a massive online furore recently. Minister Tharman, also the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), had said on Thursday (1 Mar) in parliament, that a family earning $1,000 a month can afford to buy a ...
Designed by Aedas, the Sandcrawler Building in Singapore will house a 100 seat theatre, LucasFilm Singapore offices, a public podium and other employee spaces. The glassy building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 3 Mar 2012 An Hougang resident has filed a high court application on Friday requesting the Prime Minister to call for a by-election in the ward within three months. The 42-year old part-time cleaner, Vellama D/O Marie Muthu, filed the application via her lawyer ...
The Malaysian Insider, 3 Mar 2012 The Cabinet has agreed to set a minimum wage of below RM1,000 for the 3.2 million workers in the private sector, with a RM100 difference between states in the Malay peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak, sources say. “There will be a minimum wage below RM1,...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 3 Mar 2012 Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Friday that the purpose of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was to ensure that "the tax system is fair". Speaking at a Channel NewsAsia forum on Friday evening with panelists fr...
insidethegames.biz, 3 Mar 2012 Singapore's Ng Ser Miang today became the first of the major contenders to publicly admit that he is considering standing next year to replace Jacques Rogge as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Speculation has been rife in Olymp...
Singapore coach Radojko Avramovic has told critics they should look at the resources he had at his disposal for Wednesday's 7-1 defeat to Iraq. Trailing 4-1 at half-time in the World Cup qualifier, Singapore's eventual capitulation to the 2007 AFC Asian Cup champions came after Hariss...
On Tuesday, a handful of octogenarian veterans from Mr. Bose’s Indian National Army, or Azad Hind Fauj, gathered at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, mingling with former Singapore President S.R. Nathan, among others. The occasion: the Southeast Asia release of “A Gent...
OPINION: Is NUS PRC scholar Sun Xu required to serve National Service? The Singapore government has sponsored Sun Xu with scholarship beginning in 2006 to study in Raffles Junior College, and thereafter another ... Company pays CPF to unemployed PRs to increase foreign workers quota -...
OPINION: Is NUS PRC scholar Sun Xu required to serve National Service? The Singapore government has sponsored Sun Xu with scholarship beginning in 2006 to study in Raffles Junior College, and thereafter another ... Company pays CPF to unemployed PRs to increase foreign workers quota -...
OPINION: Is NUS PRC scholar Sun Xu required to serve National Service? The Singapore government has sponsored Sun Xu with scholarship beginning in 2006 to study in Raffles Junior College, and thereafter another ... Company pays CPF to unemployed PRs to increase foreign workers quota -...
Yahoo! Singapore News, 1 Mar 2012 Eligible voters from the Hougang single-member constituency (SMC) can consider going to Singapore's High Court to seek clarification on the applicable laws that govern by-elections. This, say constitutional law experts, may be the only way for a defin...
