Thursday, 28 September 2017 : Malaysia and Singapore will jointly build a four-kilometre subway link that is expected to ease border traffic between the two countries and foster growth. The proposed Rapid Transit System Link will run from Bukit Chagar, where Johor Baru’s immigration facilities are located, to Woodlands North in …
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Wednesday, 20 September 2017 : Believing they were investing in valuable art pieces, a Malaysian in the construction business and his father bought 13 paintings, supposedly the works of renowned Indonesian artists, for more than S$2.8mil (RM8.54mil). But they later discovered that the paintings were imitations. Seven paintings, bought from …
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Friday, 15 September 2017 : Singapore will host a grand prix until at least 2021 after signing a new contract with Formula 1. The night race around the streets of the south-east Asian city state made its debut in 2008 and has become one of the blue riband events of …
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Thursday, 14 September 2017 : Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is confident Halimah Yacob will fulfil her role as the republic’s eighth president with distinction. “The President is the apex of our political system and symbol of our multi-racial, multi-religious nation,” he said in his latest Facebook posting. Halimah …
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Tuesday, 12 September 2017 : Former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s first Malay president in more than 47 years, after the Elections Department (ELD) said today that only one individual qualified for the inaugural reserved Presidential Election. Among those who submitted application forms, only one …
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Monday, 21 August 2017 : Even in a multiracial and multicultural society such as Singapore, Caucasians taking up uncommon jobs have raised eyebrows. Phillip George Laskaris, an Australian businessman, says he saw a gap in the Singapore market for good quality Thai durian and jumped at it. The 55-year-old Greek, …
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Monday, 21 August 2017 : Ten sailors are missing after a U.S. warship collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore on Monday, the U.S. Navy said, the second accident involving U.S. Navy destroyers in Asian waters in little more than two months. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain …
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Monday, 21 August 2017 : No oil spill was reported after a collision between a U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel in Singapore waters, authorities in the city-state said on Monday. Ten sailors from the USS John S. McCain were missing after the collision with the oil tanker east …
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Thursday, 17 August 2017 : Malaysia came from behind to beat Singapore 2-1 while Myanmar overcame Laos 3-1, setting the stage for a cracking tie between the two on August 21 for Group A supremacy. Malaysia started the tie at the Shah Alam Stadium knowing a win would take them …
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Saturday, 12 August 2017 : The Singapore economy grew by 2.9 per cent on a year-on-year (yoy) basis in the second quarter (Q2) of 2017, faster than the 2.5 per cent growth in the previous quarter, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) today. In releasing the latest economic …
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