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The Singapore government is providing 22 million Singapore dollars (15 million U.S. dollars) to help companies defray the cost of purchasing energy efficient technologies and equipment. - [Read more]

This recession will be longer than previous ones, saysLabour chief Lim Swee Say - but help is on the way for companies with excess manpower in this economic downturn. The labour movement will give funding to these companies so that they can send their extra workers for training. - [Read more]

Job creation in Singapores labour market may be moderating, but the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) said there are jobs for fresh graduates. - [Read more]

DBS Group, which reported a slump in third quarter net profit, will cut 900 staff from Singapore and Hong Kong or 6 per cent of its workforce by the end of this month to reduce costs, its CEO Richard Stanley said on Friday. - [Read more]

When Ministry of National Development announced last week that it was suspending sales of state land through the confirmed list till June next year, jubilant developers lauded the swiftness of the government action that will hopefully stem the poor sentiment in the property market. - [Read more]

Singapores Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday congratulated Barack Obama on his election as the next U.S. president.

Category A - Car (1600cc & below) & Taxi: S$10,455 [DOWN]
Category B - Car (Above 1600 cc): S$8,301 [UP]
Category C - Goods Vehicle & Bus: S$8,889 [DOWN]
Category D - Motorcycle: S$1,509 [DOWN]
Category E - Open: S$10,490 [DOWN]

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Yesterday, 7 dating agencies in Singapore have received the Social Development Unit (SDU) Trust Mark. This accreditation is meant to separate serious players from other shady dating agencies.

Singapores attorney-general on Tuesday accused the Wall Street Journal Asia of seeking to undermine the city-states judiciary and sought a "substantial fine" on the newspapers publisher.

THE Republic of Singapore Air Force rolled out its first F-15SG multi-role fighter aircraft on Monday in St Louis, Missouri, in a ceremony officiated by Chief of Air Force Major-General Ng Chee Khern.

Singapore has dropped drug trafficking charges against Australian journalist Peter Lloyd, who will plead guilty to lesser charges instead. - [Read more]

Singapore restaurants grabbed top spots in a new guidebook to the best Asian eateries that favours the regions twists on modern European cuisine rather than street stall favorites. - [Read more]

RSP Architects and Jurong Consultants have been commissioned by the National Environment Agency (NEA) to study how to transform a quarter of the Semakau island - some 90 hectares - into an eco-park. - [Read more]

The Singapore Government is going to take former Singaporean lawyer Gopalan Nair to court again. It is accusing him of contempt of court. This time, the 58-year-old is alleged to have said, among other things, "that the courts were being abused for political ends." - [Read more]

Singapores attorney general accused the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday of waging a two-decade campaign to besmirch the Singapore judiciary, at the start of a contempt of court case brought against the newspaper. - [Read more]

The Singaporean government has promised to replace a picture of Korean beggars printed in its elementary school textbooks. The picture, printed in a social studies textbook for Singapores public elementary schools, shows several Korean homeless people sleeping under dirty blankets at a subway station entrance, with the caption ``Homeless people on the street next to it. - [Read more]

Oil giant Shell sparked off a price war on Tuesday morning when it brought petrol pump prices one cent lower than the five-cent reduction its rivals initiated on Monday. - [Read more]

Singapore launched a games resource portal for locally based games companies to feature their products and services and look for business opportunities. - [Read more]

Singapore may have been the first to implement bold initiatives such as the vehicle quota system and congestion pricing, but it gets many of its ideas from other cities. - [Read more]

As the authorities attempt to come up with a system to allow compensation for kidney donors, one committee has firmed up a way to do the same for another kind of donation: Human eggs. - [Read more]