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  • UAE Singapore discuss global development

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Singapore have held talks over international development. The talks were held between UAE's minister for international cooperation and development, Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid al-Qasimi and visiting Singaporean minister for foreign affairs K. Shanmugam and his delegation. Both sides discussed ways to support efforts in international development, stimulating the ...

  • ComfortDelGros biggest shareholder slashes stake

    ComfortDelGro Corp's largest shareholder, the Singapore Labour Foundation, is paring down its stake in the transport giant. -- FILE PHOTO: ...

  • PM Lee says US and China must take steps to ensure peace

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged the world's two biggest powers, America and China, to take steps towards enhancing trust and preventing mishaps - as China's rise brings about significant change in the world's balance of power. This will involve the pair becoming more transparent and forming clearer rules of engagement in their relationship, as well as institutionalising ...

  • CPF contributions Board recovered $293m from errant firms last year

    The CPF Board recovered $293 million from errant firms last year. The CPF Board said Thursday morning that more than 190,000 workers benefitted from CPFB's recovery efforts, consistent with 2011's figure. -- ST FILE PHOTO: CAROLINE ...

  • City Harvest trial Defence produces document to show Xtron cashflow prosecution objects

    Koh Siow Ngea (above), Xtron Productions director and City Harvest Church (CHC) member, leaving the Subordinate Courts after testifying as a witness on the fourth day of the embezzlement trial involving six church leaders. The City Harvest trial was stood down for a short while on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 afternoon after the prosecution objected to a document that Senior Counsel Kannan Ramesh ...


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10,000 BC

10,000 BC

In 10,000 BC, disaster specialist Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) reimagines prehistory to his own liking in telling the adventure of a noble primitive with great cheekbones and stylish dreds who sets out to be reunited with his love, who has bee ... ...

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  • Singapore says regrettable for US engineers family to walk out of coroners inquiry

    Singapore's Foreign Minister and Law Minister K Shanmugam said on Wednesday that it is regrettable for the family of a US researcher to walk out of a coroner's inquiry into his death last year in Singapore."We hope they will take part in the inquiry. If they don't, it is regrettable but the inquiry will continue," the minister told a press conference in the evening.The ...

  • CHC trial Sun Ho lost more than $14m on album

    AsiaOne Tuesday, May 21, 2013 SINGAPORE - It was revealed in court yesterday that a loss of more than $14 million was incurred from the production of an album for pop singer Sun ...

  • Singapore GDP +1.8 On Quarter In Q1

    Singapore's gross domestic product was up a seasonally adjusted annualized 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the previous three months, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said in Thursday's revised reading.That's sharply higher than last month's advanced estimate that showed a 1.4 percent contraction - although it's still down from the 3.3 percent ...

  • Singapore Data On Tap For Thursday

    Singapore is on Thursday scheduled to release April figures for inflation and industrial production, highlighting a modest day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.Inflation is expected to add 0.1 percent on month and 3.4 percent on year after dipping 0.5 percent on month and rising 3.5 percent on year in March. Industrial production is expected to fall 0.3 percent on month and gain 0.7 percent on ...

  • DBS allowed a stake in Danamon as Singapore and Indonesia trade horses

    If bank regulators played high-stakes poker - and who knows, perhaps they do - then the conversation between Indonesia and Singapore around the green baize would have gone something like this: "I'll see your money for our bank - and I'll raise you access for ours to your market." Indonesia's central bank has finally approved DBS taking a stake in Bank Danamon. However it ...

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