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(Reuters, 6 Mar) - Singapore's plan to mandate one day off a week for foreign maids after years of outcry by human rights groups is adding fuel to a raging debate about decent jobs and the soaring cost of living on the high-cost island. From well-paid bankers to labourers toiling in the searing sun, foreigners make up a... 

Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics builds Pegasus ultralight howitzers (6 Mar) - India on Monday blacklisted six armament firms for 10 years for their alleged role in a 2009 weapons bribery scandal, a government statement said. The firms targeted by the defence ministry included Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd, Switzerland's... 

(Bloomberg, 4 Mar) - The National University of Singapore said it welcomes a discussion with Yale University after professors at the Ivy League school expressed concern about civil and political rights at a branch campus scheduled to open in the Asian city-state next year. The campus, which will be jointly overseen by the two...