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Five more China-made food products sold in Singapore have been detected to contain the industrial chemical melamine. Two are flavoured milk and three are confectionaries containing milk powder as an ingredient. - [Read more]

Thousands of students and parents flocked to temples yesterday to pay their respects to the Chinese thinker-philosopher Confucius, ahead of his birthday on Friday. And no time is more apt than now - the current examination period in schools - to make fruit and paper offerings to Kong Zi, as he is known to the Chinese. He is, after all, believed to bestow luck and mental acuity on those sitting for exams. - [Read more]

Just like last year, Singapore has been ranked the fourth least corrupt country in a global corruption survey. It also retains its status as Asias least corrupt country on the Corruption Perceptions Index, released Tuesday (23 Sept) by Transparency International (TI). - [Read more]

Car owners are exploiting the free parking services at public parks by leaving their weekend cars at the parks over the course of the day. Then there are those who use the carpark as a park-and-ride centre - they leave their cars at these places and walk or take a short bus ride to their work places - saving on parking charges. - [Read more]

Singapores High Court has ruled that the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) magazine defamed Singapores leaders. It ruled that the editor, Hugo Restall, also defamed Singapores founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, current Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong. - [Read more]

Almost 1,000 armed and unarmed security guards will patrol the Singapore Grand Prix circuit this week and the message is, leave bags at home. Ticket-holders attending the first Formula One race to be held in the city-state can expect to be thoroughly searched. - [Read more]

Budget hotels arent doing any better than their high end counterparts when it comes to occupancy rates for the F1 weekend. Seven out of ten hotels that are near the Marina Bay area had occupancy rates of less than eighty percent. - [Read more]

The first day of F1-related road closures in the Marina Bay area has turned into a traffic nightmare for some, with road users stuck in traffic jams for up to an hour during the morning rush hour. The roads around the F1 street circuit were closed past midnight on Tuesday, but many motorists were caught unaware when they travelled to the Marina Bay area in the morning. - [Read more]

Close to 400 medical professionals and volunteers will be on standby to respond to any emergencies that may happen during the F1 night race in Singapore. From treating spectators suffering from heat stroke, to extracting a racer from a flipped car, the medical team has it all covered. - [Read more]

Singapore -- due to host tens of thousands of foreign visitors for its first Formula One Grand Prix this weekend -- said Tuesday it is unlikely to meet its annual target for tourist arrivals. Visitor arrivals in August fell 7.7 percent compared with a year earlier, to 842,000, the Singapore Tourism Board said. - [Read more]

Singaporeans who may have eaten three tainted Chinese dairy products recently yanked from stores have little risk of falling ill, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) said yesterday. - [Read more]

The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), one of the worlds biggest sovereign funds, said it achieved a real return of 4.5 percent over 20 years to March but saw a tougher environment ahead. - [Read more]

THE High Court has ruled that the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review defamed Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a July 2006 article in the magazine.

Shoppers are already switching to milk products from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Japan, said a spokesman for Giant hypermarket. It has already seen a 5 to 20 per cent rise in sales of non-China products, though no specific brands were named. - [Read more]

Chinas tainted milk scandal has sparked further confidence losses in products made in the country. This is the case with both local consumers and retailers. But businesses 938 LIVE spoke with feel its temporary and given the products involved, isnt likely to affect sales too much. - [Read more]

Over 15 brands of China-made products have been taken off the shelves, amid growing consumer concern in Singapore over the tainted milk scandal. Major supermarkets such as Cold Storage and NTUC FairPrice are also playing it safe by checking that items made in other countries do not contain dairy from China. - [Read more]

The worlds attention will be centred on the inaugural SingTel Singapore Grand Prix (SGP) this weekend, and many companies have jumped on the Formula One bandwagon for more eyeballs and branding mileage. - [Read more]

Barely nine days after its launch, the first run of some 5,000 copies of "The Singapore Grand Prix: 50 Years in the Making" is almost sold out. Publisher MediaCorp is thinking of a second print run. - [Read more]

Singapores newest expressway handled morning peak-hour traffic for the first time yesterday, carrying about 5,100 cars from the north-east to the city. - [Read more]

The next time you drive into Holland Village, you will be greeted by marshals who will direct you to the nearest parking lot. As electronic parking and signboards indicating the number of vacant lots finally went up yesterday, up to 10 car park marshals could also be found at the Lorong Liput carpark. - [Read more]