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MM Lee said he wishes the USG well in its efforts on North Korea, but he would be surprised if the North Koreans agree to give up nuclear weapons. They might give up a first-strike capacity, but they want nuclear weapons in case the USG decides to seek regime change. They are psychopathic types, with a "flabby old chap" for a leader who prances around stadiums seeking adulation. MM Lee noted that he had learned from living through three and a half years of Japanese occupation in Singapore that people will obey authorities who can deny them food, clothing and medicine. Full story
An alleged $12.47 million ($A9.70 million) fraud at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has prompted the Singaporean Auditor-General to pay greater attention to the procurement of IT services.
The number of people here above 50 years old diagnosed with AIDS has doubled in five years to 142 last year, local media reported on Monday.
In line with the Singapore Government’s continuous efforts to enhance its online presence, the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (MICA) today launched a new Gov.sg application for Android phones. This is in addition to the Gov.sg iPhone app which was launched in June this year.
New information has come to light on the case of Jonathon Wong, a University of York student who was arrested on March 19 2010 for making child pornography.
Dutch architectural design firm UNStudio, in collaboration with Singapore-based DP Architects, has been selected to design Plot A of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) campus. Full story
Singapore Airlines is planning to resume A380 services to Melbourne and Sydney in mid December, according to aviation blog, Airline Route.
Business sources in Rangoon said Zaw Zaw’s Max Myanmar Group of Companies got a green light from the military junta for building Burma’s largest port and industrial area.....Full story
Recently, two unnamed red-shirted key figures gave a bare-all interview to Singapore's Straits Times, in which they asserted that anti-monarchy sentiment in Thailand has significantly grown, and that up to 90 per cent of the red shirts may now be anti-monarchists no longer interested in a peaceful struggle for democracy. Full story
CapitaLand Viet Nam Investments Pte Ltd (CVI) has entered into a US$200 million joint venture with Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Asia Pte Ltd (MEA) and an affiliate of GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, to invest in prime real estate development projects in HCM City and Ha Noi. Full story
Hong Kong is confirmed as the best value on earth for consumer broadband – while Singapore joins the top ten nations worldwide for the first time – in analysis revealed today by Point Topic as part of its Broadband Tariff Benchmarks – Q3 2010.
Singapore’s athletes returned from the recently concluded 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games with four gold, seven silver and six bronze medals (4-7-6). The 17-medal haul was lower than the pre-game prediction of 30 to 33 medals.
Foxconn Technology Group’s Singapore unit has sued Creative Technology Ltd. for failing to pay $500,576 for supplies and services that Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics, said it provided. Full story
Singapore National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has said that the cooling measures recently passed by the government are beginning to take effect, ..... Housing and Development Board resale transactions have dropped by about 20 per cent in Q4 2011 and cash-over-valuation (COV) is down 10 per cent from Q3, Mr. Mah said at a groundbreaking ceremony for the SkyVille@Dawson and SkyTerrace@Dawson developments on November 27. Full story
Singapore-made mini spy planes will be part of the army's arsenal in two years, local media reported on Monday.
Nov 29 (Reuters) - Singapore's airport service company, SATS Ltd , said on Monday it would buy a majority stake in airline catering firm TFK Corporation from Japan Airlines (JAL) , for 7.8 billion yen.
(RTTNews) - Producer prices in Singapore decreased 1.4% in October compared to a year ago, Statistics Singapore said on Monday. This follows a 2.5% fall in the previous month. Full story
A*Star researchers say they have developed a system working in 60GHz 'millimeter wave' spectrum - increasingly the spectrum used for experimental high speed WLans - which would allow three Blu-ray movies of 25Gb each to be downloaded in one minute.
SINGAPORE, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The message that those at risk of contracting HIV should have themselves tested does not appear to be getting through in Singapore, local media reported on Monday.
Here in Singapore, NGD is a great thing. We don’t really have to care much about anything because almost everything gets done for us. Oxymoronic as it may be, we can actually afford to proactively NGD.
A video circulating on the Internet of a meeting between Burma's former spymaster Khin Nyunt and the country's current police chief has political observers wondering about its source and significance.
Singapore is set to introduce new guidelines on junk food advertising. The policy has received backing from Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, after recently published statistics indicated that diabetes rates are now at a 12-year high.
SINGAPORE, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- A survey by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy found that more than 95 percent of Singaporeans agreed that they should care for their parents.
The rate of diabetes in Singapore has risen to a 12-year high, according to the latest national health survey.
Soaring property valuations have sent the net wealth of households in Singapore rocketing to an all-time high of S$1.16 trillion (US$886 billion) in the third quarter of this year. That is 29 percent up from the height of the financial crisis early last year, and higher than the S$1 trillion that households registered a year ago, itself a record. Full story
A national tripartite committee has released a set of recommendations to improve health promotion in the workplace, Singapore Radio 938live reported Saturday.
Singapore, Nov. 27 (CNA) A Singaporean hospital has expressed interest in developing medical exchange programs with Taiwan on liver transplant operations, a hospital executive said at a conference Friday.
From the distance of a crisis-hit Euroland or a near static United States, Asia's economies still look good. But the closer one gets to individual countries the less appealing they seem.
SINGAPOREANS were once exhorted to regard the current 30 years as a second marathon of life, in which everyone who completed could win a prize.
A 39-YEAR-OLD civilian employee of the Singapore police force masturbated in his office before adding his semen into his female colleagues’ drinking bottles, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
Earlier this week FutureGov revealed that the Singapore government will use IBM software to 'trawl' the internet for sentiment from Singaporeans.
Eircom Group, Ireland’s largest phone operator, said it may breach the terms of its loans as the country’s austerity measures imposed to combat the collapse of the banking system forces consumers to cut spending.
Social networking has been embraced by the Singapore armed services to engage and educate citizens of the Lion City state on the need for compulsory military service.
Following the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) decision to take further measures to cool real-estate prices, enough land to generate 14,300 private residential units has been released under the government land sales programme for the first half of 2011. However, a Financial Stability Review released by MAS afterward stated that low borrowing costs may cause property prices in the city-state economy to rise further if capital inflows persist at current levels. Full story
BUCHAREST, Romania - A former Romanian diplomat charged in a hit-and-run accident that killed a man in Singapore has been released from prison until his next trial date Jan. 12.
Singapore - An Indonesian maid was on Friday charged with the murder of a 12-year-old disabled girl in Singapore, a media report said.
SINGAPORE--Cloud computing is the highest form of outsourcing, according to the CEO of Chinese outsourcing firm HiSoft. He added that while China is still catching up with India's level of sophistication and dominance in the offshore market, the mainland has unique advantages that will enable it to eventually emerge as the outsourcing hub of the world. Full story
Four young writers from India and Singapore have won the "Asia's Challenge 2020" essay prize organized by the Asia Business Council in partnership with TIME and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Full story
Singapore's manufacturing output increased 31.0 percent in October compared to the same period last year, official data showed on Friday.
I feel a little sorry for newly appointed Home Minister Shanmugam. He is answering some awkward questions that the former Home Minister, Wong Kan Seng, should be answering. But that's life.
SINGAPORE: Google, Colgate and NTUC Fairprice are among the most popular brands in Singapore, according to a new study.
CapitaLand Ltd., Singapore’s biggest developer, said government measures to curb property speculation are “incremental” and will help the real estate market development sustainably over the long term.
General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who was attending the closing ceremony of the 2nd security joint training of the Chinese and Singaporean armies, met with Teo Chee Hean, deputy prime minister and defense minister of Singapore, on November 24. During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on issues of common concern. Full story
The Singapore Government launched the Co-Innovation Partnership (CI Partnership) to encourage the co-development of innovative solutions with the private sector to meet the government’s longer term needs.
A cross-ocean exchange of Hakka culture between The Char Yong (Dabu) Association from Singapore and the Council of Hakka Affairs under the Executive Yuan took place last week with the aim of forming alliances in upholding Hakka traditions. Full story
Singaporean communications provider StarHub has launched a games store targeted at casual and competitive digital gamers. StarHub Games Store will serve as the central point of access for all new digital gaming content that the operator will launch in the upcoming year, ranging from mobile games, casual PC games and competitive multiplayer PC games Full story
A Singapore company is about to launch the first tablet computer running Microsoft's Windows 7 software to go on sale here.
