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The Business Times Online Edition - Singapore

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BUSINESS students will get the chance to work with and learn from successful small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through a new project at NUS Business School. - [Read more]

A GOVERNMENT-appointed panel has called on the authorities to step up their engagement with Singaporeans online and to go easy on control of political content on the Internet. - [Read more]

THE former Seh Chuan High School has received healthy responses under the Ideas Tender Scheme by Singapore Land Authority (SLA). - [Read more]

WITH rising demand for treatment, Singapores latest national heart centre at Kent Ridge plans to increase its staff headcount at a rate of 10 per cent a year for the next three years. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE and Costa Rica yesterday announced they will begin negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). - [Read more]

THE manufacturing economy shrank in November, says the Singapore Institute of Purchasing & Materials Management (SIPMM). The institutes purchasing managers index (PMI) fell to 44.3 - a record low since it was launched in January 1999. - [Read more]

LESS than half of consumers here intend to donate to charity in the coming year, a MasterCard survey conducted in September found. - [Read more]

SINGAPORES first-generation biodiesel plants are back in business again - thanks to the slide in palm oil prices to levels two years ago. - [Read more]

DESIGNSINGAPORE has set aside $10 million over the next two years to help the design sector ride through this downturn and be in a better position for the upturn, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang said at the Presidents Design Award ceremony last night. - [Read more]

ATOS Origin, the worldwide information technology (IT) partner for the Olympic Games, will be the main IT partner for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) here in 2010. - [Read more]

JUST over half of successful entrepreneurs here say the environment for entrepreneurship in Singapore has improved in over the past 10 years, according to a report published yesterday by Barclays Wealth and the Economist Intelligence Unit. - [Read more]

DESPITE the current uncertainties and low oil prices affecting the oil and gas sector, Singapore sees good long-term prospects for itself in this industry, the Economic Development Board said yesterday. - [Read more]

IN a survey of 30 jewellery retailers here, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has found five that failed its test for gold fineness and eight that overcharged customers. - [Read more]

DESPITE the economic uncertainties and the onset of job insecurity, Singaporeans are just not ready to give up their holidays. - [Read more]

PROFESSOR Tan Chorh Chuan takes over today as president of the National University of Singapore (NUS). - [Read more]

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had a minor surgery last Saturday to implant a cardiac pacemaker. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE has concluded two separate Open Skies Agreements (OSAs), one each with Romania and Zambia, to allow full flexibility on air services. - [Read more]

SINGAPORES resident unemployment rate has risen from 2.4 per cent last December to 3.1 per cent in June and an estimated 3.3 per cent in September this year, according to the latest Singapore Workforce 2008 report released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) yesterday. - [Read more]

KATOEN Natie is spending some $60 million in its third phase of expansion, taking its total investments here to $150 million and creating a further 300 jobs within the next three years. - [Read more]

FOR the second day running, the Urban Redevelopment Authority has made available for application a reserve list site in an attractive location, despite the inopportune timing. - [Read more]