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  • Indian lorry driver jailed in Singapore

    An Indian lorry driver has been jailed by a court in Singapore for causing the death of one person and injuring 14 others due to negligence while driving. Periyasamy Jayaprakash, 25, pleaded guilty to causing the death of Mathialagu Kathiravan, 19, when his lorry collided head-on with another lorry on the Tanah Merah Coast Road here in the morning of July 3 last year, the Straits Times reported ...

  • Singapore Asia’s Politically Incorrect Success Story

    A city-state located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula with a population of 5.2 million, Singapore is arguably the most successful among the four "Asian Tigers" — a group that also includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. When this former British colony became a fully independent country in 1965, its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was a lowly $511. Today, that figure ...

  • Singapore UAE to widen bilateral cooperation

    Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and his United Arab Emirates counterpart Sheikh Abdulla Zayed Al Nahyan agreed on Monday that bilateral ties were excellent and there was scope to widen ...

  • More getting help from Sindas tuition programme

    More students across more levels are getting help from Sinda's flagship tuition programme, Project Teach. The programme, which offers school-based intensive tuition classes to underperforming Indian children, has about 1,320 students under it. This is up from the 1,254 last year. In 2001, the programme was only open to primary schools but started to take in secondary school students last ...

  • SMRT to extend bus and train services on the eve of Vesak Day

    SMRT train services (North-South, East-West and Circle Lines) and selected bus services will be extended on the Thursday, the eve of Vesak Day. The last trains will leave City Hall interchange at 12.30am on May 24. The last train timings between the Expo and Changi Airport stations however remain unchanged. Feeder buses will correspondingly extend their hours to match the last train services ...


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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu zang long) [Blu-Ray]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu zang long) [Blu-Ray]

If there is one thing few American directors have achieved, it is an elegant action movie. Most American action movies are loud and bombastic, full of sound and fury but signifying virtually nothing other than clumsy escapism. This is not say that they don't work in ... ...

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  • Lubna Al Qasimi and Singaporean FM discuss joint efforts in International Development

    WAM ABU DHABI, May 21st, 2013 -- Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of International Cooperation and Development, has held extensive talks with the Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs, K. Shanmugam and his delegation, on ways to support efforts in international development, stimulating the response to crises and providing emergency humanitarian support to those affected, in ...

  • North West CDC steps up anti-dengue awareness campaign for June holidays

    Ms Laverne Ong (left) and son Silas Lin, look at the mosquitoes during the launch of MozzieFree Homes. With some families planning to spend the June holidays overseas, the North West Community Development Council (CDC) is stepping up its preventive measures against dengue. It has launched an initiative called Mozzie-Free Homes and is working with five travel agencies, schools and grassroots ...

  • ST Super Fan contest Siblings win with Gangnam Style

    Felicia, at left, and Valerie with their brother Rexford doing the Gangnam Style dance in front of France's Eiffel Tower last year. -- PHOTOS: NEO XIAOBIN, ...

  • Singapore may give Indonesian banks more access in boost to DBS

    SINGAPORE | Tue May 21, 2013 8:42am EDT SINGAPORE May 21 (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank said on Tuesday it is exploring the possibility of giving Indonesian banks greater access to the city-state's market, in a move that may help Southeast Asia's largest bank DBS Group get majority control of Bank Danamon. Its announcement follows Indonesia's central bank's ...

  • Laws alone cant fix unfair hiring here

    My Paper Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Some Singaporeans have expressed anxiety over perceived discriminatory practices at their workplaces, such as foreign managers hiring from their own home country. This has, in turn, led to calls for the Government to implement anti-discrimination laws, said Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday. He said: "I would suggest that this is not just ...

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