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MAS & MOF: Allegation in video is simply false

Last year, an undercover investigation secretly conducted by Global Witness (GW), a London-based NGO that campaigns against environmental and human rights abuses, recorded video footage supposedly showing abuse of logging licences by cousins and business associates of Sarawak Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud ('Expose: S’pore...

PRC workers who staged sit-in on top of tower cranes jailed

(Photo Stomp) The 2 PRC workers who staged a sit-in on top of 10-storey tower cranes over a wage dispute last Dec have been sentenced to 4 weeks' jail each. Zhu Gulei, 24, and Wu Xiaolin, 47, pleaded guilty to criminal trespass in Court today (21 Mar). The 2 crane operators each stood on separate cranes in Dec last year to demand...

S’pore and Indian Armies Conduct Bilateral Armour Exercise

India's T-90 main battle tank The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Indian Army (IA) are conducting Exercise Bold Kurukshetra, a bilateral armour exercise. This year’s exercise is the ninth in its series, with more than 700 soldiers from the SAF and IA participating in integrated manoeuvres as well as joint planning...