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Singapore's Minister of Finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, has been named "Finance Minister of the Year 2013" by leading financial publication Euromoney on 11 October 2013. He is slated to receive an award during a private presentation at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting in Washington this week. In conferring the award, Euromoney... 

Lim Swee Say Speaking at the annual People's Association (PA) Grassroots Seminar today (12 Oct), the PA's deputy chairman Lim Swee Say said that there are people who perceive that grassroots organisations exist to serve the government. He said, "From time to time, there are some perception -- I'm not saying it's really widespread... 

Ravinder Pal, CEO of "La Fondue", a Swiss restaurant at 25 Dempsey Road, posted an apology on its Facebook page yesterday ('La Fondue: We strictly hire in accordance with MOM regulations', 11 Oct) for a job advertisement which discriminated against Singaporeans. "On behalf of La Fondue, I would like to extend our sincerest apologies...