CPF Life designed to provide stable, lifelong returns
WE THANK Mr David Lok for his feedback last Saturday, 'Raise comfort level regarding payout guarantee'. As a national annuity scheme, CPF Life is designed to provide members with a lifelong income.
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Strong response to CapitaMalls Asia IPO
PROPERTY developer CapitaLand's latest unit to list, CapitaMalls Asia (CMA), has attracted huge interest in its initial public offering (IPO) - with the public tranche nearly five times subscribed.
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Ranking of CPF flawed: Expert
AN EXPERT on the Central Provident Fund (CPF) system has criticised a recent global report of pension plans that rated Singapore poorly in some key areas.
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Hirings looking up in banking and IT
THERE are growing signs of a pick-up in hiring but only in certain sectors, such as banking, while manufacturers adopt a wait-and-see attitude.
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Growing number of child patients
THE number of children treated for kidney disease at the National University Hospital (NUH) has doubled in the last 10 years, said a paediatric kidney expert yesterday.
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Scholarships for preschool teachers
KINDERGARTEN teachers will now be able to pursue a degree programme on the Education Ministry's dime.
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Citizenship test a good idea but what should it cover?
WHAT is Hari Raya Puasa? Who is Mr Lee Kuan Yew? Can you recite the pledge?
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Duo accused of lying and cheating
TWO police sergeants who allegedly conspired to get their hands on a $1,000 wad of cash found at Nanyang Polytechnic in April last year were in the dock for attempted cheating yesterday.
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Woman sues paraplegic athlete William Tan
WELL-KNOWN paraplegic athlete William Tan is being sued for about $400,000 by a woman, a doctor who he in turn alleged was once in an intimate relationship with him.
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Gamblers are easy prey
THEY come from diverse backgrounds - there are teachers, pilots, engineers and even the odd housewife alongside the jobless. But they share one thing in common: They are gamblers faced with mounting debts.
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Offer safer avenue for cash-strapped
WHILE the Government takes steps to eradicate loan-sharking activities by increasing penalties ('Tougher law on loan sharks', yesterday), we cannot deny the existence of a growing pool of desperate individuals who are prepared to pay exorbitant interest rates and risk harassment for a cash loan.
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Economy 'taking a short breather'
AFTER staging spectacular rebounds in the middle of the year, the economy is starting to pull back slightly and the property market boom has paused.
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'I'm not taking on Google'
YAHOO's new boss has a fairly simple default setting when it comes to competitors and critics - let's 'kick some butt', as she once put it - so it was no surprise that the message on a recent visit here was pretty forceful.
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Work to expand canals next year
A DIVERSION canal which overflowed last Thursday and flooded parts of Bukit Timah Road will be expanded over two phases in the next three years, said the national water agency yesterday.
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Violence cuts across all classes
THEY are articulate, self-assured, and often juggle children and careers. Some have master's degrees, and even PhDs.
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Govt aims to cool property market, not crash it
MEASURES to cool the property market appear to have been successful in tempering market exuberance for private homes.
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MP: Why not have a pre-citizenship test?
Interesting suggestion, says minister; Govt will study it. -ST, AsiaOne
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Dangerous job, but it pays well
HEGANG (CHINA): Mr Gao Shujun is one of the seven million Chinese coal miners who brave long hours in dangerous conditions every day, but it is the price he pays for economic survival.
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Phone message in a bottle
Indian artist Basavaraju Somaraje Gowda making a call from a mobile phone inside a 10-litre glass bottle in Bangalore yesterday. He had dismantled the phone outside the bottle, re-assembled it inside the glass interior, and used an earphone to make calls. With this installation, Mr Gowda has entered the Limca Book of Records, the Indian equivalent of the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Antarctica losing ice faster than expected
PARIS: The East Antarctic ice sheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, is melting faster than expected and could boost sea levels, threatening the world's major port cities, two separate reports have warned.
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Le art Hotel
You cannot miss the huge black and white photograph of a man in retro sunglasses carrying a dog that is plastered over the entrance of the 24-storey Le Meridien Bangkok hotel.
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Punk pioneers keep up the buzz
British quartet Buzzcocks, who are playing at Zirca this Friday, are considered one of the most influential punk bands who pioneered the genre back in the mid-1970s.
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Fann has H1N1 flu
She will be on sick leave for 10 days.
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YOG venues to close
AT LEAST 13 public sports facilities will be closed to prepare and upgrade them for next year's Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
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TV is the only way to catch football cheats
FOOTBALL, like all sport, is bewitched by television, by its long reach, its willingness to write large cheques, its capacity to make the dull seem dramatic in slow motion.
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One venture that made it big
SIX young adults squeezed into a small room not much bigger than a table tennis table plotted how to make money using the Internet.
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Timing of HDB tax hike 'avoids bigger increases later'
THE property tax of HDB flats is being raised next year partly to avoid having to introduce a bigger increase later should home prices continue to rise, said Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew.
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Govt to help seniors get wired
TWO months ago, retiree K.W Chan set up a Facebook account to share his vacation pictures with friends.
The 66-year-old spent a week mastering the online social networking site and now updates his account almost daily.
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Evicted church still on hunt for missing relics
ONE Eastern Orthodox church's wait for a new home is a reminder of how another such church in Singapore lost its home and property.
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Under-18s may get H1N1 jabs very soon
CHILDREN and youths under 18 may get their H1N1 jabs in a few days, as soon as the health authorities confirm it is safe for them.
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