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Employers eager for more information on the new re-employment law will soon have a better idea of what to expect. New guidelines on re-hiring due out early next year are likely to touch on matters like break-in-service and what constitutes unreasonable re-employment. - [Read more]

The deepening global financial crisis has hit the outlook for the local construction sector, even as current demand is at a record high. Contractors are now expecting a fall in demand from next year as more developers defer their projects. - [Read more]

The electricity price hike has not led to worse times households under the Pay-As-You-Use scheme so far. This is mainly due to increased Government rebates and subsidies for the poor. - [Read more]

Singapores central bank said Tuesday it stands ready to intervene and manage the Singapore dollar exchange rate if volatility continues. Citing the weakening external economic environment and its impact on Singapores economy, the bank said its monetary policy would shift to keeping the currency from appreciating too much, which hurts exporters. - [Read more]

More people are falling into bad debt as a result of gambling, and experts say given the current economic crunch, such cases may rise. Out of the cases seen at the Credit Counselling Singapore, 27.8 per cent are due to gambling, and this figure has already surpassed last years number of 23.9 per cent. - [Read more]

A recession looms but anecdotal evidence suggests that there are young Singaporeans who do not expect the partying to end. The Sunday Times spoke to 30 undergraduates and 20 young professionals below 30 years old. All but eight were unperturbed by the bleak economic outlook. - [Read more]

Singapores faltering economy has entered a "more advanced stage of weakness" as falling trade and tourism from other Asian countries adds to a slump in demand for the city-states exports from the U.S. and Europe. - [Read more]

It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator , south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia s Riau Islands .

The Secretary of the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee Zhao Leji and the Province Governor Yuan Chunqing met here on Sunday with visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Halfway through my 13-hour flight to Japan, I was cursing the idea of going all the way to Malaysia for a conference.

Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo met respectively with visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Beijing Thursday.

SINGAPORE: Singapores parliament voted yesterday to amend the city-states constitution to allow the government more access to the countrys reserves to cope with a faltering economy, local media reported.

U.S. Pacific Air Forces has announced plans for Commando Sling 09, an exercise that takes place at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore.

We have a population thats already attuned to the Singapore way of doing things.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met Singapores Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, in Beijing yesterday.

In Singapore, close to 200,000 people are walking time bombs, unaware of the health risk they face. According to data from the Health Promotion Board, more than 500 diabetics lose the use of their kidneys every year and will need either dialysis for the rest of their lives or a transplant. - [Read more]

Singapore is set to open its largest reservoir near the citys business district in November as part of plans to boost water security by cutting dependence on imported water. - [Read more]

SPH Magazines has announced that it will no longer publish lad mag Maxim in Singapore after its December issue. Photography magazine PHOTOVIDEOi will also be incorporated into leading consumer technology magazine HWM Singapore from December. - [Read more]

The share value of some of the biggest casinos in the US - including Las Vegas Sands (LVS), the parent company of Marina Bay Sands - has plummeted by as much as 91 per cent. But its Sands volatile fortunes that would be cause for concern to Singapore, given that the mega-integrated resort it is building at Marina Bay is one of few bright sparks on Singapores cloudy economic horizon. - [Read more]

Senior civil servants can expect their annual pay package to shrink next year, because a significant portion of it is tied to how well the economy is doing. - [Read more]