Singapore Informer

May 22, 2013 1:45 AM A MAN who stole $ 300 worth of cough syrup from a clinic which had refused to sell it to him was jailed for 2-1/2 years yesterday.      Full News here – RSS Print – Singapore

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Minister of State for Finance Josephine Teo said the Tote Board has donated S$ 1.2 billion or almost half of all its donations to the social sector in the last five years. Full News here – Singapore Local News – inSing.com

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And for the first time, there will be a variety show. It will feature personal and collective Singapore stories through nine short and entertaining segments filled with music, movement and humour. Full News here – Channel NewsAsia Singapore News

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Serving the faithful for more than 165 years, the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd on Queen Street, will soon see its gates closed. The last of several surviving structures lining Bras Basah Road from the 1800s that is still used in the role it had been built for, the closure is thankfully not a permanent one. [...]

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May 07, 2013 1:51 AM A FEMALE loan-shark runner was yesterday sentenced to four years’ jail over a harassment spree that the judge branded “shocking”.      Full News here – RSS Print – Singapore

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Over the next three years, the Nanyang Technological University will be getting another S$ 132 million for its water research institute, bringing its total funding to about S$ 400 million by the end of 2016. Full News here – Singapore Local News – inSing.com

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The Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) has renewed the casino licence of Marina Bay Sands for another 3 years, with effect from 26 April 2013. Full News here – Channel NewsAsia Singapore Business News

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Former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu was sentenced by a Bucharest court to three years in prison on Wednesday (Mar 27), for a deadly hit-and-run accident that took place in Singapore in 2009. Full News here – Stomp – Singapore Seen

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March 27, 2013 1:53 AM TABLE tennis coach Luo Jie told a court yesterday how he had held weekly training sessions at Fuhua Secondary for more than two years, but did not receive a cent in payment despite repeated promises that he would be paid. Full News here – RSS Print – Singapore

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Here’s how the Von Trapp family, from the move The Sound of Music, looks like now. Full News here – Stomp – Singapore Seen

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Sports programming will get a boost in funding by more than S$ 250 million over the next five years. Infrastructure budget for sports will also be doubled. Full News here – Singapore Local News – inSing.com

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By Leong Sze Hian   Bottom 20% wages fell 10% from 1997 to 2000? I saw a facebook posting by Dr Ang Yong Guan which said “Mr Yeoh Lam Keong, the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) vice-president who was a senior economist and strategist at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation for 26 years, was one of [...]

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SINGAPORE: Labour chief Lim Swee Say said that the next three years is an important transition time for companies as they embark on the painful process of restructuring.Move too slowly, he said, and Singapore will lose its competitiveness, with highe… Full News here – xinmsn – Singapore News

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“In a nearly two-hour speech, he detailed plans to make the tax system more progressive and further increase subsidies for lower-income and elderly workers in order to help improve social mobility.He also disclosed measures to mitigate the country’s reliance on foreign labour and to improve productivity.…..He acknowledged that society is facing widening income disparity. “We must take [...]

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