Former interns say they worked in fear at software firm

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The software firm supervisor who is named only as Alan (above) allegedly hit the head of his younger subordinate and used vulgar language on him. According to Shin Min, the victim was an intern at the firm. -- PHOTOS: LIANHE ...

Singapore Asia’s Politically Incorrect Success Story

Human Events - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A city-state located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula with a population of 5.2 million, Singapore is arguably the most successful among the four "Asian Tigers" — a group that also includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. When this former British colony became a fully independent country in 1965, its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was a lowly $511. Today, that figure ...

Singapore UAE to widen bilateral cooperation

Channel News Asia - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and his United Arab Emirates counterpart Sheikh Abdulla Zayed Al Nahyan agreed on Monday that bilateral ties were excellent and there was scope to widen ...

More getting help from Sindas tuition programme

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

More students across more levels are getting help from Sinda's flagship tuition programme, Project Teach. The programme, which offers school-based intensive tuition classes to underperforming Indian children, has about 1,320 students under it. This is up from the 1,254 last year. In 2001, the programme was only open to primary schools but started to take in secondary school students last ...

SMRT to extend bus and train services on the eve of Vesak Day

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SMRT train services (North-South, East-West and Circle Lines) and selected bus services will be extended on the Thursday, the eve of Vesak Day. The last trains will leave City Hall interchange at 12.30am on May 24. The last train timings between the Expo and Changi Airport stations however remain unchanged. Feeder buses will correspondingly extend their hours to match the last train services ...

Lubna Al Qasimi and Singaporean FM discuss joint efforts in International Development

WAM - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

WAM ABU DHABI, May 21st, 2013 -- Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of International Cooperation and Development, has held extensive talks with the Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs, K. Shanmugam and his delegation, on ways to support efforts in international development, stimulating the response to crises and providing emergency humanitarian support to those affected, in ...

North West CDC steps up anti-dengue awareness campaign for June holidays

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Ms Laverne Ong (left) and son Silas Lin, look at the mosquitoes during the launch of MozzieFree Homes. With some families planning to spend the June holidays overseas, the North West Community Development Council (CDC) is stepping up its preventive measures against dengue. It has launched an initiative called Mozzie-Free Homes and is working with five travel agencies, schools and grassroots ...

ST Super Fan contest Siblings win with Gangnam Style

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Felicia, at left, and Valerie with their brother Rexford doing the Gangnam Style dance in front of France's Eiffel Tower last year. -- PHOTOS: NEO XIAOBIN, ...

Singapore may give Indonesian banks more access in boost to DBS

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SINGAPORE | Tue May 21, 2013 8:42am EDT SINGAPORE May 21 (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank said on Tuesday it is exploring the possibility of giving Indonesian banks greater access to the city-state's market, in a move that may help Southeast Asia's largest bank DBS Group get majority control of Bank Danamon. Its announcement follows Indonesia's central bank's ...

Laws alone cant fix unfair hiring here

Asia One - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

My Paper Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Some Singaporeans have expressed anxiety over perceived discriminatory practices at their workplaces, such as foreign managers hiring from their own home country. This has, in turn, led to calls for the Government to implement anti-discrimination laws, said Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday. He said: "I would suggest that this is not just ...

US scientists family walks out of Singapore inquest

West Australian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SINGAPORE (AFP) - The family of a US scientist found hanged last year in Singapore walked out of a coroner's inquiry into his death Tuesday, saying they had "lost faith" in the proceedings.The move came after their star witness, a US pathologist who never examined the body, came under intense questioning for saying Shane Todd may have been killed by assassins after quitting a ...

M1 to plug 3G gaps in homes offices using femtocell service

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Customers at the M1 shop in Paragon shopping mall on Jan 17, 2013. M1 customers with little or no 3G connections at home or in the office may be able to find quick relief in a new service aimed at plugging the connection gaps. -- ST FILE PHOTO: DESMOND ...

Subordinate Court judges to wear robes when presiding over open hearings starting Thurs

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

From Thursday, judges in the Subordinate Courts will wear robes when presiding over open court hearings. Currently, they are required only to dress formally. The use of the robe however does not apply to chamber hearings. It is the first of many initiatives in the pipeline to enhance the standing of the Subordinate Courts. The Subordinate Courts said in a media release on Tuesday that this is ...

Singapores First Home-Grown Influenza Vaccine In Phase 1 Clinical Trial

Medical News Today - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The vaccine based on Cytos' Virus-Like Particle technology may open the door to accelerated production of influenza vaccines in Singapore Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial with ...

Integration of medical and social services in long-term care needed Lien Foundation study

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Mr Tan Swee Pek, 83; Mr Eddie Chan, 74; and Madam Lam Ah Won (in pink), 75, are among nine senior citizens dancing to the Lala exercise at St Luke's Eldercare centre. A more holistic eldercare policy - rather than differentiating among health care, social care and housing - is needed in the long-term care sector. This was one of several insights shared in a new report commissioned by the ...

Dismissed employee forged time sheets to cheat former company of $18800

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

He was dismissed as a customer service officer by StarHub on June 15, 2011 for tardiness but Muhammed Syahmi Lopez, 23, continued submitting time sheets to his recruitment agency for a salary. Over the next seven months, he collected more than $18,800 from Recruit Express, a company that supplies workers to businesses. On Tuesday, he was jailed for six months by a district court. He had pleaded ...

NTU Swedish researcher study novel compound to alleviate colon cancer

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Lund University in Sweden have bio-engineered a novel molecule which has been proven to successfully kill tumour cells without doing healthy cells much harm. This molecule is based on a natural protein present in human breast milk, which has been found to have strong and wide-ranging tumour killing properties when bound to certain ...

Burglar jailed for 30 months for stealing cough syrup from clinics

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Lim Chee Wei, 32, who stole $300 worth of cough syrup from a Tampines clinic, was jailed for 2 1/2 years on Tuesday. -- ST FILE PHOTO: WANG HUI ...

Volunteer group to be trained by police psychologists to help victims of crime

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A small group of the public will be trained by police psychologists to provide care for victims of crime, especially those who have been through sexual or violent crime. Speaking at the opening of the Asian Conference of Criminal and Operations Psychology on Tuesday morning, Second Minister for Home Affairs Mr S. Iswaran said that having such a group of people will help the victims, and also ...

Nine motorcycles damaged in fire at Traffic Police headquarters SCDF investigating

Straits Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Thick black smoke billowing into the skies over the headquarters of the Traffic Police just after lunch on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. -- PHOTO: ...

Family of dead American condemns Singapore inquiry

The Standard - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(16 mins ago) The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner's inquiry into their son's death today, saying they had ';lost faith'' in the proceedings. ';The prosecution brings forth witnesses at the last minute and we have no chance to question it. Basically we actually have lost faith in the process,'' Rick ...

STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-ComfortDelGro near 6-yr highs lifts index

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

stock index , after it announced plans to expand its bus operations in Australia. The company's shares rose as much as 2.4 percent to S$2.14, the highest since July 2007, after it said its subsidiary CDC Victoria Pty Ltd plans to buy privately-held Driver Group Pty Ltd for A$22 million ($21.54 million), to expand its fleet in Australia. "While the deal is relatively smaller ...