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THE Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will spend up to $2.5 million to increase the capacity at Woodlands Checkpoint, as land traffic between Singapore and Malaysia is poised to continue growing. - [Read more]

AS property values in Asia slide, hedge funds, private equity funds and pension funds are waiting in the wings to swoop in on good buys, according to KPMGs global head of real estate, Jonathan Thompson. - [Read more]

THE Research to Market (R2M) platform, aimed at bringing together interested stakeholders to discuss the commercialisation of technology, was launched yesterday at the Technology Commercialisation Forum (TCF) 2008. - [Read more]

NOTWITHSTANDING yesterdays short - covering bounce, the week just passed has served as a grim reminder to investors everywhere that the worst is not yet over for equities. - [Read more]

SOMETIMES animals behave so much like humans it amazes us. - [Read more]

DOWNSIZING is okay - if you come clean with consumers. - [Read more]

AN artificial heart in itself is not unusual. - [Read more]

SINgAPORE : Singapore, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and the US have warmly welcomed the announcement by Australia and Peru that they intend to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP). - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : The proportion of permanent residents (PRs) enlisting for national service (NS) is expected to hit 12 per cent in 2020, said Second Minister of Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said while APEC economies are facing a deepening crisis in view of the current global financial situation, APEC had demonstrated in the past that it will only grew stronger and more relevant after each crisis. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : Singapore and China have inked an agreement on aviation security cooperation. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Employers and workers have welcomed the Skills Programme For Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR). - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Despite the bleak global economic outlook, business prospects in Latin America remain bright. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Property developer City Developments Ltd (CDL) has been lauded for its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. It clinched three awards at the Asian CSR Awards 2008. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Senior management of investment company Temasek Holdings have volunteered to take pay cuts of between 15 and 25 per cent. They are leading Temasek's company-wide wage cuts as it repositions itself for the long term. - [Read more]

With effect from 1st December 2008, up to 124,000 local companies will benefit from the Singapore Governments enhancement of business financing schemes to support an extra S$2.3 billion in loans to help local ...

WALL Streets 5 per cent plunge to a five-and- a-half-year low on Wednesday sent stocks in this part of the world tumbling yesterday, serving a grim reminder to investors everywhere that the worst is not over for equities. - [Read more]

An annual survey shows that while fewer younger women were sexually active compared to those polled last year, their knowledge of the risks of unplanned pregnancies had dropped as well. - [Read more]

The National University of Singapore (NUS) sneaks up on you. One minute youre winding through Singapore streets, and the next minute youre in the middle of its collection of old-ish institutional buildings and treed streets. Down one street, however, you dont want to miss a small collection of buildings housing the universitys Enterprise Incubator. - [Read more]

THE fortunes of the Straits Times Index (STI) were almost entirely dictated yesterday by Hong Kongs Hang Seng Index. - [Read more]