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News, Articles
& Reports
2004
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Social Safeguards for Integrated Resort with Casino Gaming
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Update following earthquake and tsunami
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Monday with the Editor: Hello Singapore
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CPF Changes
from 1 January 2005
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130,000 yet to
qualify for ERS
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Monday with
the Editor: Doing Good Deeds |
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"...If I had gone down ten minutes later, it might
have been too late. The whole family of five might have succumbed to the
smoke, or worse, the stove might have exploded and fire might have consumed
the whole flat. And the big wooden furniture items cluttering the corridor
outside the entrance to their flat might have made escape more difficult..."
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Singapore Labour Market Report - 3rd Quarter 2004
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Deliveries in Singapore: 2001 - 2003
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Police reject Snowball.04 application |
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...The Police recognise that there are some
Singaporeans with gay tendencies. While Police do not discriminate against
them on this basis, the Police also recognise that Singapore is still, by and
large, a conservative and traditional society. |
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Hence, the Police cannot approve any application
for an event which goes against the moral values of a large
majority of Singaporeans... |
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Monday with the Editor: Fumbling through Mother Tongue |
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"...I thank my lucky stars that when I was at school,
in my time, I did not need to pass Mother Tongue in order to go to the 'A'
Levels. Thousands of Singaporeans who went to school in the 80s and beyond
must have had a hard time grappling with two languages. I do not envy them..." |
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Recent rape & molestation cases in Singapore
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Health Ministry
to set up new AIDS unit |
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In a few months, the Ministry of Health will
set up a unit that will focus on prevention
of AIDS. New HIV cases this year are set to
hit a peak of 300. More than 2,300 people
here have so far been infected, of whom 874
have died. |
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Source: Straits Times 1 Dec 2004 (H4) |
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Monday
with the Editor: Singapore Idol - who will win? |
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...But, what if there's a tie? It is possible, you
know. Glen Ong has an answer to this. Over radio this
morning, I heard him telling everyone that, if the
programme's producers allow, the two finalists should
compete over who says "She sells seashells on the seashore"
better. |
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Steady rise in number of ambulance calls
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Monday with the Editor:
A casino for
Singapore? Why not?
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Singapore facing an alarming AIDS epidemic |
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"According to WHO, there are about four thousand
people in Singapore with HIV. We have only diagnosed less than half of them. |
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"If we do not act, by 2010, we may have more than
15,000 HIV persons in Singapore. Then, sometime in the next
decade, Tan Tock Seng may very well
become the AIDS hospital..." |
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Dr Balaji
Sidasivan |
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More..... |
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Certification
of Registers of Electors 2004
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Review
of laws governing sexual offences
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Employer
ordered to compensate maid for failure to pay her salary
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Mobile
phone use and acoustic reuroma, a benign tumour
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Hitwise:
Singapore online retail report - What's hot & wanted
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ITE
campuses renamed as colleges from 2005
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Monday
with the Editor: Over-indulging our children
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New
School Graduation Certificate from 2008
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New
cases of HIV infection reported in first half 2004
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Question
No. 109 for Written Answer, 21 September 04 |
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Question
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Ms
Braema Mathiaparanam:"To ask the Minister for Home
Affairs (a) what was the total number of applications
for permanent residency made in 2002 and 2003 by (i) men
and (ii) women; and (b) how many in each case were
successful."
Answer :
In
2002 and 2003, ICA received an average of about 63,000
applications for permanent residence (PR) per year, of
which 45% were submitted by males.
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There is no significant difference in the approval rates
for PR between male and female applicants. The PR
approval rate is about 60%. |
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Source:
Ministry of Home Affairs
News Release 21 Sep 2004 |
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Safety
at MRT and LRT stations |
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"Despite
the various safety measures in place, there have
been more than 220 cases, where commuters were found
trespassing on the tracks at above-ground MRT and
LRT stations, between 1991 and 15 September 2004. |
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"Eighty-seven
percent of such cases were non-accidental acts,
which involved commuters jumping onto the tracks to
retrieve personal items, walking, running or taking
short cuts to another platform, and acts of
suicide....." |
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More |
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Singapore
Labour Market report - 2nd Quarter 2004
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Extension
of detention orders for 17 JI and MILF members
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Strong
support for Baby Package
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MRT
Accidents
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Casino
in Singapore?
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Monday
with the Editor: Give our young less stress at school
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Five-day
week for schools |
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ban on weekend homework, teachers will set tighter
and tighter deadlines and students would have
a harder and harder time catching up with
weekday work. Stress would build up to an
unbearable level..." |
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More |
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More
parents file complaints against their children |
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The
number of parents seeking to file complaints against
their under-16 children doubled in the past year
according to the Singapore Children's Society. The
number of such cases going before the Juvenile Court
increased to 143 in 2003 from 109 in 2002. More
than half involved girls, mostly between 12 and 15
years old. |
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Source:
Straits Times 6 Sep 2004 (1) |
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Monday
with the Editor: Red-brick National Library is no more
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Q
& A on immigration policies: Minister
Wong Kan Seng |
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"We will continue to treat foreigners living and working in Singapore well. |
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"But we should make some calibrations such that Singaporeans have more privileges than
PRs, who will in turn have more privileges than other foreigners. |
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"This is fair to our citizens and will also provide more incentives for suitable immigrants to take up PR and then
citizenship..." |
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Singles
can buy any type of resale HDB flats from 15 Sep 2004
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Monday
with the Editor: Radio madness in the mornings
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Automatic registration of societies from 1 Sep 2004
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SDU
successfully matches 4,050 members |
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Matchmaker
Social Development Unit (SDU) married off 4,050 of
its 26,000 members in 2003, up from 2,789 in 1999.
Since its founding in 1984, SDU has successfully
matched 34,000 members. |
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Source:
Straits Times 25 Aug 2004 (1) |
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Government's package of measures to support parenthood
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