Singapore is weighing regulatory, legal and economic levers against firms behind the haze and could amend or introduce laws “on an urgent basis to ensure further cooperation”, says Senior Minister K Shanmugam.
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Institutions from both countries will collaborate on next-generation positioning technologies.
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PM Wong is in Doha for the first leg of his five-day visit to the Middle East.
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70% of participants with treatment-resistant depression responded within a month of receiving treatment.
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Launched in September, the programme will be run at five daycare centres by 2027.
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SINGAPORE: After a recent YouTube video from Reno Scout where the very small kitchen of a four-room BTO flat at Tengah received a lot of attention, the Housing & Development Board responded in a Facebook post. According to the caption on the video from the design and renovation c...
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In 2005, Janet Jothi encountered a Sri Lankan mother and her daughter stranded at Changi Airport. The young child was in tears, and Janet would soon find out that the pair had encountered difficulties with their hotel accommodation during their stay in Singapore and were unsure w...
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The son of the 77-year-old woman who died after being hit by a minibus and dragged for 1.5km said she must have been in "great pain" at the time. The woman was found along the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) on Oct. 16 and pronounced dead at the scene. The police later said the woman...
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Mountbatten Member of Parliament (MP) Gho Sze Kee recently paid a visit to the family of her Town Council contractor’s cleaning supervisor, who had travelled to Singapore from Bangladesh. In a Facebook post on Oct. 17, Gho shared that the estate had become “noticeably cleaner” si...
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The fire, which involved contents placed outside a unit on the 10th floor, was put out using a water jet.
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In 2015, major retailers removed Asia Pulp & Paper's products from shelves because of alleged links to fires that caused severe haze.
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A 38-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly stealing a money box from a wedding reception at a hotel along Beach Road. The money box contained "ang pows", red packets containing cash amounting to around S$2,000. In a press release, the police said they were alerted to the...
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The team is confident that the first phase of a human clinical trial will be in five years.
