Daily Archives: 2017-12-05
Khaw Boon Wan: Train system is a complicated engineering piece of work, “it will fail sometimes, hopefully rarely. But it will fail.”
By Neyla Zannia
2017-12-05 
0Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan in his speech at the 5th Joint Forum on Infrastructure Maintenance at the Environment Building on Scotts Road, announced that the Public Utilities Board )(PUB) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) have jointly formed a Standing Committee to regularly Read More
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Heng Swee Keat: Singapore must make sure government spending remains sustainable even as needs grow
By Neyla Zannia 2017-12-05 0Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in his speech at the Straits Times Global Outlook Forum 2018 on Tuesday (5 December), said that Singapore must make sure government spending remains sustainable even as needs grow and it becomes tougher to raise revenue as the country Read More
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LTA announces completion of investigation on the tunnel flooding incident at Bishan
By Neyla Zannia 2017-12-05 0The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced that it has completed its investigations into the flooding incident that occurred in the tunnels between Bishan and Braddell MRT stations on 7 October 2017, which affected about 231,000 commuters due to the stoppage of train Read More
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Amazon no longer offers free shipping for purchases to Singapore
By Neyla Zannia 2017-12-05 0Amazon is no longer offering free shipping for buyers who are purchasing from Singapore. Since June 2013, Singapore costumers were able to enjoy free shipping for buying qualifying goods worth at least USD$125 under the AmazonGlobal program. In a chat with Greek Culture, Read More
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Lawyers acting for Li Shengwu to challenge court order enabling AGC to serve papers to him
By Neyla Zannia 2017-12-05 0Lawyers’ of Mr Li Shengwu has announced that they are challenging the court order which enable the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to serve papers on their client in the United States. It was earlier reported that the AGC had earlier served papers for contempt Read More
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Train delay along NSL, commuters left confused over actual cause of service disruption
By Martha Soezean 2017-12-05 0Last updated on December 7th, 2017 at 11:02 amCommuters experienced delay in the train service again this morning along North South Line (NSL). @ChannelNewsAsia @STcom @tdy_T train fault on NSL. SMRT ruins lives. #smrt #trainfault pic.twitter.com/Km4q5GirKb — Singaporean (@swgj86) December 5, 2017 However, Read More
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Published on 2017-12-05 by The Online Citizen
What is the “focus” of Sport Singapore and MCCY for Singapore sports?
By The Online Citizenby Jose Raymond In his interview with Mediacorp’s 938FM, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sport Singapore Lim Teck Yin talks about Football, Funding and Fading, among other random sports matters. Unfortunately, Lim totally leaves out a key ‘F’ word – Focus. What Read More
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