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SINGAPORE – The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will set up dedicated departments to combat money laundering and strengthen enforcement, it said on Monday. This will take effect on Aug 1. Singapore’s financial sector faces the
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Tremors reported in parts of Singapore as magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra. JAKARTA/SINGAPORE – The Indonesian island of Sumatra was hit by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake with tremors felt in neighbouring Singapore just
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SINGAPORE – This year’s Great Singapore Sale, which started on Friday (June 3), will run for a longer period – 10 weeks, up from eight for the past 12 years – and have a new official
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BRITO, Nicaragua — A Spanish explorer conducted the first survey to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans here in the 16th century. Napoleon III of France dreamed about it. The railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt briefly
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BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand’s 88-year-old king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has received treatment for narrowing of the heart arteries with “satisfactory results”, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement on Tuesday (June 7). King
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NAYPYITAW – From Dec 1, Singaporeans travelling to Myanmar for short trips will no longer need to apply for a visa. Myanmar nationals visiting Singapore will also not have to apply for a Singapore visa
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Tips on how to consume rice with other foods and beverages to reduce its sugar impact. SINGAPORE – Eating white rice on its own is bad, as it can push up blood sugar or glucose
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Singapore car crashed onto Causeway railway tracks; train service between Singapore and Malaysia disrupted for an hour. SINGAPORE – A Singapore-registered car crashed onto the railway tracks on the Causeway on Monday (June 6) morning,
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Despite recent security issues, social unrest, and concern about the region’s economic outlook, European cities continue to offer some of the worlds’ highest quality-of-living, according to Icon Solutions’s Quality of Living survey. Safety, in particular,
Read moreSingapore used to be a Free Trade Country. When and Why did it Stop Link to this post!
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Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month – the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945. The visit will be
Read moreMalaysia Airlines said yesterday it has temporarily banned checked-in baggage on some flights to Europe because of “unreasonably strong head winds” on the longer routes it is having to take for safety reasons. The airline
Read moreA car dealership employee, who was hauled to court last year to face a charge of abetment to cheat, yesterday had his charge amended to conspiring to commit criminal breach of trust. Koh Chek Seng,
Read moreSingapore Airlines joined Qantas in the top 20, along with Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Ethihad, Japan Airlines, Swiss, and Virgin Atlantic, according to airline review website AirlineRatings.com. SINGAPORE: This is one
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Some economists believe that this year’s haze episode will be twice as costly as the one in 1997. How much would you pay for clean air in Singapore so a Indonesia-based research centre estimated that
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SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – When Mr Billy Loh started in 2008 as a property agent, his profession was seen as a route to wealth in Singapore. Now, he has to know his way around the city
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Go back a few decades in Singapore’s culinary history and the only praiseworthy things were its well-known street food, a handful of upmarket hotel restaurants and Les Amis, the city-state’s first independent, high-quality French restaurant.
Read moreAs a Expat working and living in Singapore, I like to keep up to date with the news from England. However when I read this story about Tech Support it stopped me in my tracks.
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