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Hong Lim Park (Clark Quay MRT station)
Saturday, September 13 at 5:00pm - Food Prices And Our Investment
Singapore
Saturday, September 13 at 2:00pm - National Cashflow Competition
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Sunday, August 10 at 2:00pm
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TOC Backtrack: Check out Viswa Sadasivan 1.5 years ago...with the moustache.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/05/sing
Source: theonlinecitizen.com
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Curvy women produce smarter children. Skinny is OUT!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7090300.stm
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children.
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MM Lee says opposition talks rubbish. How about PAP candidates who talk nonsense and can't make a speech to save their lives....they get 'elected'..
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/11/rubb
Source: theonlinecitizen.com
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Talking Point: Sylvia Lim faces off with Sembawang GRC MP Lim Wee Kiak
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/tp/index.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently said that the ruling People's Action Party has identified candidates, including potential office holders, for the next General Elections due in 2011 or 2012. The party says it's still looking. ...
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Low unemployment for the year. How about underemployment?
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/s
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
Labour chief Lim Swee Say said on Monday tripartite partners are confident that unemployment and retrenchment levels in Singapore will remain low.
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"Speculative bubble in property market a risk, says MAS"
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/s
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
The rise in risk appetite and sharp rebound in financial markets since the start of the year may have outpaced economic fundamentals, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore in its annual Financial Stability Review.
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"China has long offered low-interest loans
to African nations, usually on the condition that governments spend the
money on Chinese-made goods or on projects built by Chinese companies.....One result is that China has become a major builder of Africa’s infrastructure, including railroads, highways and canals." - now that...'s doing imperialism the smart way. No guns, no army, everyone's happy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/
to African nations, usually on the condition that governments spend the
money on Chinese-made goods or on projects built by Chinese companies.....One result is that China has become a major builder of Africa’s infrastructure, including railroads, highways and canals." - now that...'s doing imperialism the smart way. No guns, no army, everyone's happy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/
Source: www.nytimes.com
China offered African governments a multibillion-dollar package of financial and technical assistance.
theonlinecitizen
Complications for Muslims serving in U.S. army.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us/09m
Source: www.nytimes.com
In the years since Sept. 11, the service of Muslim-Americans is more necessary and more complicated than ever.
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WTO: Internet censorship disrupts transnational trade online.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technolog
Source: www.reuters.com
GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says. A censorship case at
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Theme for APEC 2009: "Sustaining Growth, Connecting the Region" Any thoughts?
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-1
Source: news.xinhuanet.com
SINGAPORE, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The world's business and political leaders currently converge in Singapore for the week-long APEC meetings to explore ways to promote economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Read TOC's exclusive with Viswa Sadasivan!
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/11/talk
Source: theonlinecitizen.com
TOC's Ganga and Ravi caught up with NMP Viswa Sadasiva.
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[1]"The BSI [Best Sourcing Initiative] offers grants of up to $75,000 or a maximum of 5 per cent of a
contract's value to a company that looks not just at price but also the
service provider's quality of work and performance when awarding a
contract."
[2]"By doing so, the BSI aims to encourage the service provider to look ...at
ways and means to improve productivity, an approach that made itself
felt first in low-wage, low-productivity sectors such as landscaping,
cleaning and building maintenance"
So how does BSI help workers...?
http://business.asiaone.com/Business/New
contract's value to a company that looks not just at price but also the
service provider's quality of work and performance when awarding a
contract."
[2]"By doing so, the BSI aims to encourage the service provider to look ...at
ways and means to improve productivity, an approach that made itself
felt first in low-wage, low-productivity sectors such as landscaping,
cleaning and building maintenance"
So how does BSI help workers...?
http://business.asiaone.com/Business/New
Source: business.asiaone.com
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"It's always hard at Chelsea but we'll deal with it better than we did at Anfield" - Ferguson.
http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/prev
Source: soccernet-assets.espn.go.com
Deco has stoked the fires ahead of the clash with Manchester United by claiming that he thinks Chelsea have too much fire-power for Manchester United to contend with.
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US hits China pipes with tariffs, China reacts by appealing to WTO.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8344
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The announcement is the latest in a series of trade disputes between the US and China, which called the move an "abuse of protectionist measures".
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US jobless rate rises to over 10%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8346
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The unemployment rate in the US rose to 10.2% in October, which was its highest rate since April 1983, according to figures from the US Labor Department.
