Singapore and Malaysia signs bilateral agreement on High Speed Rail
A bilateral agreement on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) has been signed by Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and ...
Day: 13 December 2016
Malaysia enthrones new king in lavish customary oath-taking ceremony
In a lavish ceremony full of customs and centuries of tradition, the Malaysian 15th king, Sultan Muhammad V (47), dressed ...
Judge of Appeal: jailed Bangladeshi worker should have been allowed to claim trial
High Court has quashed the conviction and sentence of a Bangladeshi construction worker who served a four-week jail term for ...
Worker’s Party seeks feedback on Redundancy Insurance scheme to help workers made redundant
The Worker's Party (WP) proposes its Redundancy Insurance (RI) scheme to ease the financial pressure on workers who are made redundant, ...
23 months’ jail and 6 cane strokes for police officer impersonator
The court punished a jobless man for duping and imposing as a police officer to an intellectually disabled woman with 23 ...
Number of journalists detained worldwide continues to rise
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is today releasing its annual worldwide round-up of journalists who are detained, held hostage or missing. ...
13,730 workers laid off in first nine months of 2016
Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has announced that in the third quarter of 2016 the resident long-term unemployment rate rose from a ...
MOM: Tripartite Partners to step up help for workers affected by economic situation
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) stated that a contraction in total employment, increased redundancy levels, and decreases in job vacancies ...
Significant drop in dengue infection cases compared to the week before
The number of dengue cases between from 4 to 10 December, had a significant fall in cases, where there had ...
MOM accepts recommendations of Tripartite Cluster for Cleaners
Ministry of Manpower (MOM) announced on Monday that the Government has considered and accepted the recommendations contained in the report ...
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High Court dismisses all three Section 377A challenges -
57-year old seafood seller identified as first from Huanan Market to test positive for COVID-19 -
Moscow begins lockdown, as Russia regions prepare for confinement -
WHO refused to acknowledge Taiwan, praises Singapore instead -
National Wages Council: 10% cut in basic pay or lower MVC, if wage cuts necessary -
Columbia Sportswear’s CEO takes pay cut on own salary while continuing to pay employees amid COVID-19 crisis -
PM Lee cautions public about fake COVID-19 email allegedly sent by him asking for “contribution” -
Impossible Foods launches Earth Month campaign to highlight Singapore’s environmental impact -
German Finance Minister committed suicide for worrying about the economic fallout caused by COVID-19 pandemic -
Lightning never strikes twice? For Dr Tan Cheng Bock, it could even be thrice -
Bethany Church Singapore: Dog abuse case does not relate to the church or its activities -
Getting to know what is monetary policy in Singapore & the S$NEER -
Govt should “exercise restraint” in deploying “institutional prerogatives” when wanting to call for early general elections, says Prof Donald Low -
Manpower Ministry to consider appeals from self-employed and freelancers who do not qualify for COVID-19 relief scheme -
SIA CEO now says to take 30% pay cut after Temasek’s bailout; his pay was $1.4m with total $5.5m pkg last FY
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Legal brothels in S'pore to close until the end of next month -
This is not a time for the government to be playing Jekyll and Hyde with Singaporeans -
PM Lee goes on walkabout in Ang Mo Kio, distributes bottles of hand sanitiser to patrons at Teck Ghee Court Food Centre -
Ministry of Manpower will not extend temporary housing support to Malaysian workers -
Dr Tan Cheng Bock: Obvious choice between an early election which may cause a far worse health crisis and a legal constitutional problem -
Resilience Budget: S'pore to freeze all govt charges and fees for one year until Mar 2021, temporarily suspend student loan repayments, says DPM Heng Swee Keat -
DPM Heng had responded to some requests for private-hire bus drivers facing challenges amid COVID-19 crisis, says WP’s chief -
More Indonesians carrying Covid-19 virus arriving to seek treatments in Singapore hospitals -
What are we to make of an opposition that is reduced to being a mere spectator in a crisis? -
Third death from COVID-19 infection in Singapore, 70-yr-old who had no recent travel history to affected areas and link to previous cases -
Lee Hsien Yang shares photo of late Lee Kuan Yew’s favourite carpet on his father’s fifth death anniversary -
Temasek's largest shareholdings plunged S$34.24 billion in three months -
Closing our borders to short term visitors but still going ahead with general elections, is contradictory -
Netizens condemn Lawrence Wong for delaying ban on foreign visitors and putting economy first before SG lives -
Lawyer Teo Soh Lung criticizes mainstream media for misleading people, calls SM Teo’s explanations on caretaker govt as ‘talking nonsense’
