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Bloomberg News Nov 11, 2010 Singapore Seen Overtaking Malaysia 45 Years After Lees Tears By Shamim Adam Forty-five years after Singapores expulsion from a union with Malaysia left Lee Kuan Yew in tears on���. ���For me, it is a moment of anguish,��� Lee said on Aug. 9, 1965, the day. Singapore became a sovereign state. ���My whole adult life, I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories.��� Lee, 87, was. Singapores prime minister from 1959 to��.
Iraqs Christian leader appeals for missing nuns
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By 1993, it was said that one in fifteen households in Singapore employed a domestic worker, one of the highest rates in the world for countries with live-in domestic help; by 2007, this figure was one in six households; in 2009, it was one. Apparently, Singapores richest 20 percent earn 9.7 times more than the poorest 20 percent: the median monthly income of Singapores richest 20 percent rose from S$5, 328 in 1996 to S$7,278 in 2009; meanwhile, the poorest 20��.
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As MH17 probe pushes on, Russian jets prowl Ukraine to Baltic
NATO jets were scrambled from a Lithuanian air base at about 9 a.m. today to ���identify��� Russian aircraft ���flying without a pre-agreed schedule��� over neutral waters near Estonia, said Viktorija Cieminyte, a spokeswoman for Lithuanias Defence Ministry.
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(WaPost) ���Just like all the great men who built Southeast Asia in the post-colonial period, Lee Kuan Yew is a presence for as long as he breathes,��� said Ernest Z. Bower, an expert on Southeast Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies... More than two decades ago, political leaders in Singapore put forward the idea of ���Asian values��� to assert that liberal democratic principles and practices were not suited to the region, sparking an important debate that��.
Spore signs first-of-its-kind MOU to develop new capital for Andhra Pradesh
SINGAPORE ��� The Republic will help draw up the master plan and develop the new capital city of Indias Andhra Pradesh state in a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Singapore and another country, in a move which will further deepen bilateral ties.
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Japan automakers add 550000 cars to Takata air bag recalls
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Singapore Says Lee Tribute Draws More Than 400000 Over 4 Days
(Bloomberg) -- Almost 415,000 people paid final respects to Lee Kuan Yew ahead of a state funeral today for Singapores founding prime minister, which will draw dignitaries from around the globe. Singaporeans stood in line for as long as 10 hours to.
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Is such paranoia justified? Mr Lee goes on to say that the economy and defence are closely interlinked and ���without a strong economy, there can be no strong defence. Without a strong defence, there will be no Singapore��.
Tokyo conference highlights Japans age-old struggle for womens empowerment
More than half of the 11,017 companies surveyed by Teikoku Databank Ltd, Japans largest credit research company, said they had no female managers. Japan ranks 134th out of 188 countries in the Inter��� Parliamentary Union ranking of female .
India-Pakistan flood victims pack relief centres, death toll hits 400
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5 Ways Budget 2015 Might Give You A Little More Pocket Money. When we read a facebook post showing the increase in childcare fees schedule of one of Singapores largest childcare operators ��� the first thought that came to our mind was how affordable is it for middle income families? My first sckool. The full-day childcare fee will increase from next year, from $1,310.75 to $1,342.85. Middle-income.. PAP Ministers tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew draws flak online.
400000 citizens earning less than a months childcare fee?
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YOUR VIEW: The economics behind why EPL costs you S$60
For your information, in their bid to capture your eyeballs in 2010, SingTel paid more than 10% of what the world paid as a whole for EPL broadcast rights. Come on! SingTel reportedly paid close to S$400 million for the rights in 2010 compared to.
RM20 VEP charge for all foreign vehicles entering Malaysia from Singapore
The Malaysian government is still considering whether or not to impose similar charges for vehicles coming in from Thailand and Brunei. Singapore currently charges S$35 VEP a day for four-wheel vehicles and S$4 daily for motorcycles except on weekends .
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So it is fair to say, each time you fill up the tank in your vehicle, you are feeling the countrys prosperity. I could draw up a list. Toll roads that crisscross the nation; public hospitals for consultancy and medication capped at RM1 since 1982; billions spent... SINGAPORE: Singaporeans wept on the streets and queued in their thousands to pay tribute to founding leader Lee Kuan Yew as his flag-draped coffin was taken on a gun carriage to parliament for public viewing.
Singapore PM wins defamation suit against activist
Singapores High Court ruled Friday that an activist defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong by accusing him in a blog of misappropriating state pension funds. In the first such ruling in the city-state over a purely online article, a judge issued a.
ISIS is ���a travesty of all that religion stands for���: Shanmugam.
His remarks come about two weeks after Singapores Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, said the Southeast Asian country has ���not reached a point of making a decision yet��� on whether it would join the international fight against ISIS.. ���We have spoken on more than one occasion and on more than one international platform about the grave danger of the terrorism striking Syria,��� said Mr Al-Moualem, who is also Syrias Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.
100 Vietnamese runaway brides on China polices wanted list
Buying wives from Southeast Asian countries has become increasingly common in some of Chinas poor rural areas. ��� AFP file picBEIJING, Dec 11 ��� Chinese police are seeking more than 100 Vietnamese brides who vanished after marrying bachelors from .
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However, it is significant as it highlights how new media, particularly blogs and videos, have become a prominent newsmaker in its own right ��� even setting the agenda for what is to be featured in Singapores mainstream media (MSM).. Early dont say!��� The government was thus seen as contradicting its own publicly-declared position. Taming the white horse. For 2nd Lieutenant Li Hongyi, son of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, 2007 was indeed an unfortunate��.
Budget should look to future, help middle class: Analysts
SINGAPORE ��� Sandwiched between raising a family and caring for their ageing parents as the costs of living rise, the middle class could receive more attention in the Budget this year, which will be delivered by Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam .
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We should be willing to converse about and embrace diverse ideas, to learn, to educate one another from lifes school, and to wonder, for example, why Afghanistan is in worse straits after the most powerful militaries in the world have. But even Lee Kuan Yew recognized the limitations of military force when he said in a Newsweek interview in 2003 that, ���In killing terrorists, you will only kill the worker bees ���... MPs share personal stories in tribute to Lee Kuan Yew.