2014年10月31日 星期五

2014-11-01 Singapore Singapore

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UN Rights Office Denounces Singapore Court Ruling Against Same-Sex Relations  RTT News
The United Nations human rights office on Friday expressed regret over a recent Singapore Supreme Court ruling to uphold a law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adult men, calling the directive a "missed opportunity" to strike down the ...

UN dismayed with Singapore anti-gay ruling   Rappler
OHCHR PRESS BRIEFING NOTES - (1) Singapore (2) Tunisia   StarAfrica.com
Singapore edict criminalizing same-sex relations 'missed opportunity' – UN ...   UN News Centre
Human Rights Campaign (blog)   
Yale Daily News (blog)   
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What the railway land dispute is about  TODAYonline
The vacated land, together with two parcels at Kranji and Woodlands, would be vested in a joint venture company and developed as residential and commercial land. In exchange, a plot of land of equivalent value in Marina South will be offered to the ...

Najib: Decision on KTM land in Singapore will see bigger profits for joint venture   AsiaOne
Settlement of Malayan Railway land case 'points way to handling disputes'   The Straits Times
M'sia wins dispute against S'pore on KTM land: 'No development charges on M+S'   Malaysia Chronicle
Bernama   
malaysiandigest.com   
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Ex-tour guide in asset dispute charged with falsifying papers  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — The former China tour guide at the centre of an ongoing legal tussle over an elderly widow's assets was slapped with 11 charges at the State Courts today (Oct 31) in a separate case against him. Yang Yin, 40, is accused of falsification of ...

Tussle over widow's assets: Ex-tour guide Yang Yin charged for falsifying accounts   AsiaOne
Former China tour guide charged with falsification of papers   Channel News Asia
Former China tour guide Yang Yin charged in court for falsification of accounts   The Straits Times

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Exec jailed for stealing RM500,000  The Star Online
USING a variety of methods in 2012 and last year, a shipping firm executive tasked with handling salary and leave matters for some of the workers misappropriated more than S$200,000 (RM513,700) that did not belong to her. But it was one lie too far when ...

Another shipping exec jailed for fraud in Singapore   SeaShip News
Former shipping firm executive jailed 32 months for misappropriating over $200k   The Straits Times

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Shaikh Abdullah meets Singapore's Prime Minister  Khaleej Times
The Prime Minister of Singapore welcomed Shaikh Abdullah and his accompanying delegation and discussed with them the means to boost relations of friendship between the two countries. Singapore: Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign ...

Foreign Minister Abdullah, Singapore PM discuss ties   Gulf Today
Abdullah Bin Zayed co-chairs inaugural UAE-Singapore joint commission meeting   gulfnews.com
4 agreements signed between Singapore and UAE   Channel News Asia
The Malaysian Reserve   
Morocco World News   
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  AsiaOne   
On Facebook  The Straits Times
What are some ways to gauge whether the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) has been a success? Is it still relevant in today's context? Let's not have an "objective" for everything. Instead, let's recognise that different kids have different talents. Some are ...

Gifted programme develops useful skills in children   AsiaOne

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Include gender identity, sexual orientation in Constitution  TODAYonline
I read with disappointment the report “Apex court rejects constitutional challenges against Section 377A” (Oct 30). It appears that further discourse on Section 377A will now reside in Parliament, to consider the extralegal arguments. It is sad that the rights of ...


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Malaysian Association Of Singapore Officially Launched  Bernama
SINGAPORE, Oct 31 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Association of Singapore (Masis) was officially launched tonight to connect Malaysians living, working and studying in Singapore. Masis mirrors similar associations in several countries which were founded to ...

New association for Malaysian community in Singapore   The Straits Times

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New Springleaf Nature Park near Mandai Road opens  Channel News Asia
The new 6-hectare park has a deck for bird-watching and a network of trails, and was unveiled on Saturday (Nov 1) by Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee. PHOTOS. Springleaf Nature Park is the first of four new nature parks which will be ...


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No sidelining of transnational marriages  The Straits Times
As transnational unions step out of the shadows, more governments are having to address the import of the changes these can trigger across a spectrum of social spaces. In Singapore, it is the sheer magnitude of the demographic shift that is taking place that ...


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