2014年8月18日 星期一

2014-08-19 Singapore Singapore

  Reuters   
Economic success must not be the only measure of achievement  TODAYonline
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech rightly addressed Singaporeans' concerns, for example, over Central Provident Fund issues, retirement needs and different pathways to success. (“PM calls for cultural shift, announces key CPF ...

PM Lee's call for culture shift lauded by employers, unions   THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription)
Young domestic violence victims 'more likely' to run in with law, survey finds   Yahoo Singapore News
CPF scheme refinements could have positive spillovers on economy: Analysts   Channel News Asia
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  THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription)   
S'pore to honour former President Yusof Ishak  THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription)
The new mosque that is being built in Woodlands will be known as Masjid Yusof Ishak, while the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Iseas) think tank will be renamed Iseas - The Yusof Ishak Institute. - PHOTO: MUIS. THE late Yusof Ishak, Singapore's first ...

NDR 2014: PM Lee pays tribute to Singapore's first President Yusof Ishak   TODAYonline

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  Channel News Asia   
Number of dengue cases falls to 443  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — The number of dengue cases fell to 443 last week, reversing the previous week's rebound, figures released by the National Environment Agency (NEA) showed yesterday. Nonetheless, Singapore remains in peak dengue season and areas of ...

Dengue clusters in Choa Chu Kang, MacPherson, Kaki Bukit, Ubi of concern: NEA   The Straits Times
Choa Chu Kang dengue clusters stabilise, but NEA flags other areas of concern   Channel News Asia

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  The Straits Times   
The dark side of maid recruitment  The Straits Times
Despite the many arrests, deployment bans and restrictions introduced by the Philippines in recent years, the illegal recruitment of Filipino maids for households in Singapore continues to thrive, feeding on the layers of regulations and fees that hiring a maid ...


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  TODAYonline   
Cultural shift in way people are valued 'long overdue'  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — The Prime Minister's call for a cultural change in the way the Republic values its people triggered spirited public discussion and was backed by Members of Parliament and observers TODAY spoke to. Describing such a shift as long overdue, ...


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Foreign worker loses appeal against life sentence for murder  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — A Bangladeshi construction worker, who was convicted of murder, had escaped the hangman's noose — but he still wanted to appeal against the sentence, which will see him being locked away behind bars for life. In making his appeal ...


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  Channel News Asia   
MOE unveils school terms, holidays for 2015  Channel News Asia
The 2015 school year will start on Friday, Jan 2, and end on Friday, Nov 20, the Ministry of Education says. PHOTOS. File photo of secondary school students in Singapore. Enlarge; Caption. SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education (MOE) on Tuesday (Aug 19) ...

Education experts to advise Maharashtra's education department on Singapore's ...   Daily News & Analysis

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  The Straits Times   
Leviathan 2.0; The Fourth Revolution  Foreign Affairs
Governments around the world have fallen on hard times, and the crisis seems especially acute among the liberal Western states that until recently enjoyed decades of unprecedented prosperity and stability. Western powers that ushered in the Industrial ...

Honey, I shrunk the government: a paean to the virtues of the small state   New Statesman
Singapore shows the world the way ahead   The Straits Times

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On Facebook  The Straits Times
Being "mini-ambassadors", cabbies should not bad-mouth Singapore in front of foreign visitors, says a reader. Should they be rewarded for promoting the country to tourists? I was in a cab in Taipei and the driver praised Singapore and bad-mouthed Taiwan.

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No degrees, but they succeeded in their careers  The Straits Times
Ms Rachel Aw, 28, is now a franchise operations manager with the Les Amis Group, after completing a degree partly paid for by her employer. She joined as a trainee and rose to become a sommelier in five years. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE. - ST PHOTO: ...


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