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  • Singapore celebrates Vesak Day

    Minister of State for Trade and Industry, and mayor of the North East district Teo Ser Luck (Centre L) giving out gift packs to ComCare beneficiaries of Punggol Centre on Vesak ...

  • New Catholic Archbishop holds first mass service

    Father William Goh was ordained as the Archbishop Coadjutor of Singapore on Feb 22, 2013. More than 500 people from 31 Catholic churches here gathered at the Cathedral of Good Shepherd on Friday morning to commemorate the succession of Archbishop William Goh as the fourth head of the Catholic Church here. -- ST FILE PHOTO: RAJ ...

  • Govt to award IT tenders worth $1.2b this year

    A computer user checking out the Housing and Development Board InfoWeb site. IT service providers can look forward to securing $1.2 billion worth of IT contracts from the Government this year. The contracts will let government agencies tap into cloud computing, implement IT projects in weeks and enhance the user experience of e-government services and apps. -- ST FILE PHOTO: LIM WUI ...

  • Netizens pour cold water on PUB video

    A VIDEO intended to encourage Singaporeans to save water has been derided by netizens - with one branding it "an all-time low".Its star - the national water agency's mascot Water Wally - has even been compared to a "paedophile" as he is seen walking up to a boy in a shower.The Water Wally Shower Dance clip was posted on April 15, and tells viewers to keep showers to ...

  • Singaporean charged with alleged football match-fixing by Hungary authorities

    BUDAPEST: Hungary has charged 45 people, including one Singaporean, as part of a probe into alleged football match-fixing.Prosecutors said the Singapore national and 44 Hungarians had allegedly rigged games in Hungary, Italy, Finland and two international ...


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The Cat's Meow

There is virtually no chance that we will ever know what happened aboard the Oneida, media baron William Randolph Hearst's luxury yacht, on the night of November 18, 1924. We do know that a movie producer named Thomas Ince was taken off the yacht the next morning and he died a few hours later. The official story was that it was heart failure caused by acute indigestion, but if you moved in ... ...

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  • Hungary hunts shadowy Singaporean Tan mastermind of global match fixing ring

    (28 mins ago) Hungarian prosecutors have indicted a Singaporean businessman known as Dan Tan and 44 Hungarians suspected of being involved in an international match-fixing conspiracy. Tan was known as the ';boss’’ by his accomplices Chief Prosecutor Imre Keresztes said in a statement that 32 local and international matches are thought to have been manipulated by the suspects, ...

  • Fewer luxury homes sold to foreign buyers in Singapore

    home market of Singapore in the first quarter to a much greater extent than buyers from China, India and the United States. DTZ Research said Indonesian buyers bought 11 ...

  • Singapore posts surprise growth in first quarter of the year

    growth performing better than expected while inflation fell to levels not seen for more than three years. Economists say the numbers point to the resilience of the Singapore economy in the face of global headwinds and the dampening effects government policies are having on home and car prices. Workers struggling with cost- of-living pressures will welcome the news that inflation sank to 1.5 ...

  • Singapores April industrial production grows 4.7

    (MENAFN) Singapore witnessed a 4.7-percent growth in industrial production in April on year, reported Xinhua News citing the city- state's Economic Development Board (EDB).Biomedical production was the only industry to face a decline, which reached 2.7 percent during the month.April's figure is compared with a 3.8-percent fall in March and a 16.3-percent decline in February.It's ...

  • Singapores economy grows 0.2 in Q1

    (MENAFN) Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced that the city-state's economy expanded in the first quarter by 0.2 percent from a year before, reported Xinhua News.The figure is revised from the 0.6-percent decline estimated previously in April.Furthermore, it's compared with a growth of 1.5 percent recorded in last year's fourth quarter.On quarterly ...

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