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Tory Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) (11 Aug) - “What you don’t understand, Chris, is that no Tory MP can survive on £33,000 a year,” one of the grander Conservative MPs (and a multimillionaire to boot) remarked to me as we were queuing in the members’ tea room. Much to my embarrassment,... 

(31 Jul) -  Johor will hold talks with bus companies to provide express services for locals working in Singapore, says Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin. (Click to enlarge) “With such a service, people will not have to drive across the Causeway to work. That way, they won’t have to pay for tolls,” he said. Apparently,... 

Singapore Telecom Q1 net profit down 17 percent (August 14, 2014)    Singapore Telecom (SingTel) said Thursday its financial first quarter net profit fell 17.4 percent from the year before due to the absence of one-time gains and weaker currencies of the countries in which it has key investments. Southeast Asia's biggest telecom...