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Book launch: The 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore: Commemorating 50 years It was at a session of the present parliament, elected in the landmark 2011 election, that a question that has not been asked for the last 50 years was raised. In a written answer to NCMP Lina Chiam, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean who is also... 

Poverty in Singapore affects an unknown number of families Singapore (9 Nov) - Begging is illegal here, under the island-nation's Destitute Persons Act, carrying a fine of up to $3,000 or imprisonment for up to two years for repeat offenders. But Singapore's poor still can be found, often selling packets of tissues outside food... 

Recent pictures of smog-filled Beijing alarmed even those environmentalists who think they have seen it all. The on-going wildfires in Australia are attributed by experts to climate change. We have our own scary experiences with the haze from burning forests in Indonesia. This is why the conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan to address...