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Just under 5,000 policyholders have terminated their insurance contracts with the American International Assurance (AIA) so far, a small percentage of the over two million policies that AIA has in force in Singapore. - [Read more]

Singapore Exchange said late on Monday that it would tighten rules to discourage "naked" short-selling as part of a global move to stem the selling of shares by speculators who do not own the securities. - [Read more]

Wage growth in Singapore will probably halve to 2-2.5 percent in 2009 from around 4-5 percent this year if the country slides into a recession in the third quarter, a top labour union official said on Monday. - [Read more]

The Singapore government on Monday said that the countrys full-year economic growth may dip below its earlier forecast of between 4 and 5 per cent. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang attributed this to the impact of the financial crisis in the United States. - [Read more]

The National Environment Agency (NEA) saw a 12 percent increase in the number of complaints on high-rise littering from January to June this year as compared to the same time period last year. - [Read more]

Singapores financial institutions are well capitalised and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), says Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. - [Read more]

Jaywalking seems prevalent in Singapore, despite it being a crime that can end with offenders being sent to jail. In the first half of the year, 3,821 people were caught jaywalking, up from 2,070 in the same period last year. - [Read more]

It is the cost factor that first attracted them to Singapore for education, with the fee structure about one-third of that in the US or UK. But for Indian students, enrolled in educational institutes here, this cosmopolitan city state has become more than a second home. - [Read more]

Asias growing influence, coupled with the possibility of conducting highly innovative research and other factors that make Singapore a compelling destination seem to be the main reasons that talented academics are leaving the US and moving to Singapore. - [Read more]

In math, theres a right answer and a wrong answer -- but the way to get that answer is changing in some Minnesota schools. Chase Nielsen goes to school at St. Andrews Academy in Mahtomedi and he said, "Im doing pretty good with the Singapore math. Its kind of new, but Im doing pretty well." - [Read more]

Schools that have done well in the new MOE Achievement Tables include neighbourhood ones like Yishun Town Secondary, Kranji Secondary and Hai Sing Catholic School. Apart from doing well academically, they have also won Sustained Achievement awards in four non-academic areas - the arts, sports, physical fitness and uniformed groups. - [Read more]

Volunteers are crucial to making the Singapore Biennale 2008 a success. There are over 400 volunteers participating in this years Biennale, with nearly a hundred of them lending their time as tour guides. - [Read more]

Exactly a week before the worlds first Formula 1 night race kicks off in Singapore, almost 1,000 volunteer race officials went through some of their final paces on Sunday. - [Read more]

White Rabbit Creamy Candy, a milk-based treat popular with children and adults here, has been found to be contaminated with melamine. The candy joins two other brands - Dutch Lady strawberry-flavoured milk and Yili Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yoghurt Flavoured Ice Confection - on the list of dairy products from China which the authorities here say are adulterated by the chemical normally found in plastics. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday officially opened Phase 2 of the 12-kilometre long Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway or KPE.

Singapore Technologies Aerospace announced a $73 million contract to provide flying instruction to the Singapore Ministry of Defence.

Persistent defiance of the laws, not political pressure from the Burmese government, was the reason why a number of Burmese nationals working or studying in Singapore were asked to leave when their immigration ...

Chan Heng Chee, ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the United States, spoke to Girls Preparatory School students this morning, telling them that a person should be content with his or her choices in ...

An American blogger has been sentenced to three months jail for accusing a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself," he told AFP on Thursday.

Singapore, Sept 16: Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Singapores Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong exchanged views on the global financial crisis.