According to ChannelNewsAsia: A fifth person has been charged with the recent Downtown East murder. Sixteen-year-old student Louis Tong Qing Yao is accused of being part of an unlawful assembly that attacked and killed 19-year-old Republic Polytechnic student Darren Ng Wei Jie between 5.30pm and 6pm on October 30. Tong also faces at least three [...]
According to AsiaOne News: IS IT time to take Singaporeans out of the comfort zone? In a controversial speech in Parliament last Wednesday, Nominated MP Loo Choon Yong said the move by the public and private sectors in 2004 to have a five-day work week could have eroded the Singaporean work ethic. The purpose of [...]
According to FX: Singapore Feb Foreign Reserves US$163.55 Billion Vs US$167.09 Billion Jan SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Singapore’s foreign reserves fell to US$163.55 billion at the end of February from US$167.09 billion a month earlier and was lower than US$171.74 billion a year earlier, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said Monday. In Singapore dollar terms, the [...]