2014-10-30 Singapore Health

  The Straits Times   

30% rise in Medifund applications approved  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — The amount paid out by the Medifund scheme to help needy patients between April last year and March this year jumped 27 per cent to S$130 million, compared with the previous financial year, based on the fund's annual report released ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   

In US, search for answers after Antares space rocket explosion  Sydney Morning Herald
Washington: With a launch pad in Virginia covered in rocket debris,investigators began to figure out why the Antares rocket exploded catastrophically on Tuesday night just seconds into a planned cargo run to the International Space Station. The failure of the ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Entertainment

  South China Morning Post (subscription)   

Director Teddy Chen reaffirms his love of martial arts in his latest offering  South China Morning Post (subscription)
Of the more than 20 students in a judo class in a Hong Kong public housing estate in the mid-1970s, few were more stunned than the young Teddy Chen Tak-sum to witness their teacher's public humiliation. It shocked the 12-year-old that a formidable judo ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Sports

  AsiaOne   

Errant swimmers let off with a warning  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — The three swimmers involved in the last month's unauthorised outing at the Asian Games in Incheon will be issued warning letters after they were found to have “infringed the Code of Conduct for athletes and officials at major Games when ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Technology

  The New Indian Express   

Mobile "Wake-Up Call" for Digital Marketers as Asia Leads Smartphone Use  ClickZ
Asia's fast-growing mobile consumer base represents a huge opportunity for digital marketers, making an effective mobile Web presence critical. For businesses operating in Asia, it is more important than ever that they have mobile-optimized apps and ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Business

  AsiaOne   

OCBC says impact of housing loan drop to come in H2 of 2015  Reuters
SINGAPORE Oct 30 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Singapore's second biggest lender Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp said on Thursday that the impact of a sharp drop in Singapore housing loans will show up in its results in the second half of 2015.
OCBC Q3 net profit up 62% as loans surge, one-off China gain   The Malaysian Insider
OCBC Q3 net profit surge 62% on one-off China gain and growth in loans   The Straits Times
OCBC Q3 net profit up 62% to S$1.23 billion   Channel News Asia
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  THE BUSINESS TIMES   

New taxi app takes disruption up a level  THE BUSINESS TIMES
Observers say that Pay with Hailo could run the competition off the road. Mr Zeghibe calls the new taxi booking app a "constructive disruption" that could start a shared economy between taxi companies and third-party apps here. 30 Oct 5:50 AM. Singapore.
New third-party taxi booking app joins crowded market   TODAYonline
Say hello to Hailo, the latest taxi-booking app in Singapore   Channel News Asia
Hail to Hailo, the latest taxi-booking app on the block   The Straits Times

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  TODAYonline   

GBTA Forecasts China to Overtake US as No. 1 Business Travel Market by 2016  ASIATravelTips.com
According to the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), which released the latest figures from its Business Travel Index (BTI) outlook report on Wednesday, global business travel spend is expected to reach a record US$1.18 trillion by 2014, with nearly ...

2014-10-30 Singapore World

  CBC.ca   

Sri Lanka mudslide search continues but few survivors expected  CBC.ca
All hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more than 100 from 300 the previous night.. Sri Lanka mudslide ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Southeast Asia

  Philippine Star   

Immigration grants Sueselbeck's voluntary deportation plea  Inquirer.net
German Marc Susselbeck (in black), boyfriend of murdered Filipino transgender woman Jennifer Laude, also known as “Jeffrey,” confronts soldiers after climbing the gate of the facility where Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton is detained at the Armed ...

2014-10-30 Singapore Singapore

  Channel News Asia   

Court ruling major setback for gay rights: HRW  The Online Citizen
700px-Hrw_logo.svg A Singapore Supreme Court ruling on October 29, 2014, to uphold the country's ban on same-sex relations between consenting adult men is a major setback for equal rights in Singapore, Human Rights Watch said today. The court ...