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(AFP, 26 Nov) - More than 100 mainland Chinese bus drivers in Singapore refused to work on Monday in a rare case of labour mass action in the city-state. The drivers, disgruntled over their pay from state-linked transport firm SMRT, refused to board a shuttle that was going to ferry them from their dormitory to a nearby... 

The Statesman- 24 November 2012 India is Singapore’s new darling and tang li elaborates on how a meeting of minds may have just provided the world with a solution to its energy problems HOW attitudes change. Under Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, India was branded a contentious, free-wheeling democracy that... 

The New York Times- November 17, 2012 BEIJING — To a degree, the new leaders of China named just days ago have backgrounds that are as uniform as the dark suits and red ties they wore at their coming-out ceremony. The seven men on the Politburo Standing Committee have forged close relations to previous party leaders, either...