[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore’s seven new COVID-19 cases were all imported infections, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said on Wednesday (November 25). One of them is a permanent resident of Singapore who returned from India. Ad Ad Four are work permit holders who traveled from India, the Philippines and Indonesia. The …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – After sharing a bottle of red wine with a potential employer, the former head of an investment firm, Levin Lee Keng Weng, decided to drive home. While driving down Bukit Timah Road in the left-most lane around 11 p.m. on November 28 last year, the 53-year-old lost …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) has designated a total of 324 child care centers for the next period of the Associated Operator (POP) program, a 30 percent increase compared to the current period, said the agency on Wednesday (November 25). Under the new five-year POP period, ECDA …
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[ad_1] HONG KONG – For a group of Thai Thai in the city, dancing without a care in the world has proven to be quite contagious, especially when they remove their masks and mingle in close proximity to others. A group linked to at least 21 dance clubs in Hong …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – After an elderly woman living alone was not seen outside her condo unit for months and letters began to pile up outside her door, the condo management was notified. But his fate was only discovered more than a year later, on Monday (November 23), when police officers …
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[ad_1] BANGKOK: Thousands of Thai protesters on Wednesday (November 25) called on King Maha Vajiralongkorn to relinquish control of a royal fortune worth tens of billions of dollars, in recent months of demonstrations directly focused on the monarchy. Protesters have broken a long-standing taboo by criticizing the king and police …
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[ad_1] Wesley Wee is a published author who suffers from cerebral palsy, but in the eyes of Tangs security personnel, he was just a beggar in a wheelchair and kicked out of department stores. “I am not a beggar,” he lamented in an interview with Lianhe Wanbao. The 40-year-old recounted …
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[ad_1] It was the 1980s, Singapore was shifting towards bilingualism, and many citizens were having a hard time learning a new language: English. For local director Jack Neo, who has a Chinese upbringing, the winds of change did not save him and he was discriminated against for not speaking English …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – There has been another request to allow real HDB upgraders for the first time to a private condominium to defer the payment of additional buyer stamp duty (ABSD), this time from UOL group CEO Liam Wee Sin. “We are hopeful that the government will …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore has started importing frozen shrimp from Saudi Arabia, a first for the Middle Eastern kingdom, as part of its efforts to diversify its supply chains to safeguard food security. The move could lead to more trade between the two countries as they begin to analyze the …
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