[ad_1] SINGAPORE – This year’s Primary School Completion Exam (PSLE) gave special consideration to 140 6th grade students for Covid-19-related reasons, and some papers were missing because they were on sick leave due to an infection acute respiratory. These students represented 0.4% of the 2020 PSLE cohort. On Wednesday (November …
Read More »Indonesian fisheries minister arrested by anti-bribery agency
[ad_1] JAKARTA: Anti-corruption officials arrested Indonesia’s fisheries and maritime affairs minister Edhy Prabowo early on Wednesday (November 25), an agency spokesperson said, without giving a reason for the arrest. The minister was among several people detained and could be detained and interrogated for up to 24 hours, added Ali Fikri …
Read More »Parents Collect PSLE Results of Their Child Who Died from Cancer, Parenting & Education News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – In 2008, when he was an eight-month-old baby, Raphael Lee was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in his left forearm. He underwent treatment for this rare form of soft tissue cancer for a year and the disease went into remission. But in 2016, when Raphael was a Primary 2 …
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Read More »2 men accused of defacing, removing or destroying PAP and PSP election posters
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Two men were charged in court on Wednesday (November 25) with defacing, destroying or removing election posters belonging to the People’s Action Party (PAP) or the Progress Party of Singapore (PSP). Lim Song Huat, 48, received three charges under the Parliamentary Elections Act of defacing two PAP posters …
Read More »PSLE results: 98.4% of students can progress to high school
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: For the fifth year in a row, 98.4% of sixth-grade primary school students who took the primary school completion exam (PSLE) reached secondary school. A total of 39,995 candidates applied for the PSLE this year, of which 39,361 students were assessed as eligible to advance to high school, …
Read More »Singapore Needs To Manage Risks, Not Eliminate Them, By Reopening For Travel: Chan Chun Sing
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore needs to manage risks, not eliminate them completely, as the country prepares to reopen for travel, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Wednesday (November 25). “Isolating ourselves from the world is not an option,” Chan said in a speech at the TravelRevive fair. “Singapore …
Read More »Hot stocks: Singapore Airlines gains nearly 17% on the week, companies and markets
[ad_1] Wed, Nov 25, 2020 – 11:35 am SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) share price has been making steady gains for two days with high volumes. The shares rose 8.2 percent or S $ 0.36 on the day to S $ 4.77 at around 9.15am on Wednesday. That’s about 15.7 percent higher …
Read More »Director of freight forwarder, 3 other people arrested more than 1,200 cigarette boxes without paying tax
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The director of a freight forwarding company was arrested along with three other people after authorities found thousands of boxes of cigarettes without paying tax, Singapore Customs said on Wednesday (November 25). The goods and services tax (GST) evaded on cigarettes amounted to almost S $ 163,000. Ad …
Read More »Singapore pressures Digibanks in the face of US and China crackdown
[ad_1] Singapore’s financial regulator will stick with its plans to grant digital banking licenses before the end of the year, undaunted by increased scrutiny in China and the United States that is hitting major Chinese applicants. “The regulatory tightening that is happening in China will not have an impact on …
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