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  • Singapores exports continue to fall

    Singapore's external trade continued to fall in the first quarter of this year, with declines for total trade, non-oil domestic exports (NODX) and non-oil re-exports (NORX), the city-state's trade promotion agency, International Enterprise Singapore, said Thursday. This is the third consecutive quarter of decrease for both total trade and NODX. According to the data, the NODX, a key gauge of ...

  • President appoints 103 honorary Aides-de-Camp at Istana ceremony

    President Tony Tan Keng Yam officiated the appointment ceremony of 103 Honorary Aides-de-Camp (ADCs) at the Istana on Thursday morning. Currently, the President has three full-time ADCs. Honorary ADCs assist these full-time ADCs in the discharge of their duties to the President by helping in areas such as receiving guests and serving as liaison officers for VIPs or emcees at official events, to ...

  • Former accounts officer forged 95 cheques and pocketed $634000

    A former accounts officer with a trading and services company who forged 95 company cheques and misappropriated $634,000 was jailed for 50 months on Thursday, May 22, 2013. -- ST POSED PHOTO: WANG HUI ...

  • Public to vote for names of 16 Thomson Line stations

    Members of the public may now vote for their preferred names for the 16 Thomson Line (TSL) stations. Starting from Thursday, they may vote online through the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) portal until June 17. -- PHOTO: ...

  • City Harvest DPP shows that 2 documents signed in 2007 were drafted in 2010

    Church founder Kong Hee (right), and his lawyer Edwin Tong (left), leave the Subordinate Courts after the fifth day of the City Harvest Trial, on May 22, 2013. On the sixth day of the City Harvest trial involving six accused persons from the church, the prosecution showed that two sets of documents which were signed in 2007, appeared to have been drafted only in 2010. -- ST FILE PHOTO: SEAH ...


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Welcome to Mooseport

Welcome to Mooseport

Welcome to Mooseport is a political satire that wants to be little more than a warmnfuzzy comedy. Theres plenty of ripe comedic potential for skewering politics, but the movie bypasses almost all of it. In some ways, this is a letdown, but the result, watered ... ...

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  • Regrettable that Todd family left inquiry...

    Singapolitics Wednesday, May 22, 2013 It is "regrettable" that the family of American researcher Shane Todd has decided to not to participate at the inquiry into his death, said Law and Foreign Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday in a press ...

  • PM Lee speaks in Tokyo of World War II memories

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivers the Keynote Speech and Dialogue at the Nikkei Conference in Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, May 23, 2013. The Second World War holds different meaning for each generation, because of the different memories they have formed about it, said Mr Lee in Tokyo on Thursday, before illustrating the point with his personal stories of what he remembered. -- ...

  • Singapores inflation slowed to 1.5 in April

    Singapore inflation slowed to 1.5 per cent in April from 3.5 per cent in March, largely due to a big drop in certificate of entitlement (COE) premiums for ...

  • Friends and family of Shane Todd met with police at his apartment after his death

    (Left to right) Brother John, mother Mary, brother Dylan, and father Rick. Shane's other brother Chet and his wife Corynne were on a different flight at terminal 3 together with computer forensics expert Ashraf Massoud.The family left Singapore for the US this morning. -- ST FILE PHOTO: RAJ ...

  • Singapores GDP growth slows in Q1

    The Ministry of Trade and Industry says gross domestic product (GDP) climbed 0.2 per cent year-on-year in the three months to March, much slower than the preceding quarter's 1.5 per cent year-on-year ...

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