The Singapore dollar hit a fresh record against the US dollar yesterday, touching S$1.2086 to the greenback in Asian trade before retracing slightly. Boosted by strong growth drivers and concerns about the US debt ceiling, some expect the Singapore dollar to appreciate even further to...
Rescue workers work at the site of a powerful explosion rocked central Oslo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS OSLO - TWIN shooting and bomb attacks left 17 dead on Friday as a Norwegian gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a youth camp and a bomb blast tore through government buildings in ...
Sue Duke, was accidentally run into by her daughter. -- PHOTO: DAILY MAIL A 17-YEAR-OLD learner driver daughter in the United Kingdom accidentally reversed a car into her mother, eventually killing her. Sky News reported Sue Duke, 41, was helping her daughter Lauren back into a parkin...
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SINGAPORE: Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore would not be able to punch above its own weight if it were to depend on talent from its own population. He was speaking at a dialogue to wrap up the two-day South Asian Diaspora convention in Singapore on Friday. DBS Bank's...
Commuters covered their mouths as a large plume of smoke from a westbound train engulfed Dover MRT station at 6.35pm today (Jul 22). Passengers were evacuated from the westbound train before it moved off from the station. STOMPers Hirakawa and Eddie Tan were at the scene. STOMPer Hira...
It is undoubtedly that any country requires talent whether they come from local or foreign sources. Singapore especially requires the inflow of foreign talent. I do not disagree with anyone in the government that foreign talent do contributes positively to the development and growth o...
Imbiah Lookout Butterfly Park & Insect Kingdom DESPERADOS in 3D Images of Singapore MegaZip Adventure Park Sentosa 4D Magix Sentosa CineBlast Sentosa Nature Discovery Singapore Cable Car Skyline Luge Sentosa The Merlion Tiger Sky Tower Siloso Point Fort Siloso Underwater World Singapo...
You can usually tell from photos if a guy is shy, because he would usually have his hand hover over the shoulder or waist of the pretty girl next to him, afraid to touch her. STOMPer ShyBoy , who sent in these pictures, said: "Ok, I admit. I've been guilty of this. "But who can blame ...
LONDON - SCIENTIFIC experiments that insert human genes or cells into animals need new rules to ensure they are ethically acceptable and do not lead to the creation of 'monsters', a group of leading British researchers said on Friday. While humanising animals in the name of medical re...
Presidential hopeful Tan Kin Lian wants the Public Transport Council (PTC) to delay fare hikes until transport operators improve the quality of service. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Tan Kin Lian wants the Public Transport Council (PTC) to delay fare hikes until tran...
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A screen projection of the OS X Lion features is pictured during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. -- PHOTO: REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO - Apple announced on Thursday that the new version of its Macintosh computer operating system was downloaded more than a million times in the 24 ...
How far would you go for a perfect picture with a wild animal? This 3-month-old tiger cub was chained to a wooden table and beaten bloody by keepers so it would 'pose' for tourists, to the point it lost a tooth. STOMPer Alan wrote: "This is just another example of how some people take...
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North Korea's imports of luxury goods from China almost doubled in a year. -- PHOTO: REUTERS NORTH Korea's imports of luxury goods from China almost doubled in a year, a report from China showed on Wednesday, indicating the ongoing shopping spree by the elite class of the reclusive re...
You don't have to drop exercise routines during Ramadan. (AFP) With the Muslim fasting month coming up, many of our Muslim clients in our personal training and fitness bootcamps ask us what they should do during this month to maintain the progress they have made in strength and fitnes...
Some of the news you might have missed over the week - Korean women holds 'Slutwalk Campaign', a woman sells her children on eBay and another grows a nipple on her foot!
mig33 , one of the world’s largest mobile-first communities, earlier this week announced its new developer program, releasing a slew of resources for developers that want to build social games and apps for its 50 million registered users. The company also introduced 12 new initial dev...
Some teachers mocked the special needs student in a Facebook post early this July. (Yahoo! photo) Four teachers who mocked a student with special needs online have been slammed for their comments, with some calling their actions "nasty" and "dispassionate". One of them, who is employe...
In what appears to be the first case in medical history, a 22-year-old woman has been found with a third nipple on her foot. The discovery baffled researchers because although there have been cases of people found with extra nipples on their bodies, they usually appear above the waist...
StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content Posted by Daniel Goh on 7/22/11 • Categorized as Resources Here’s another great resource for entrepreneurs – Tony Karrer ‘s StartupRoar (www.startuproar.com ), which aggregates and filters entrepreneurial conten...
Tips On Hiring For Small Business Owners Posted by Contributor on 7/22/11 • Categorized as Professionalisms by Bill Grodnik, CEO of Davinci Virtual A Hire Mind Before you begin accepting resumes and scheduling interviews, it is important to establish some requisites about what you’re ...
Abu Dhabi's billionaire Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan now enjoys the satisfaction of knowing that extraterrestrial visitors will know who he is - his name, which has been etched onto his private island of Al Futaisi, is visible from space. "Hamad" spans two miles wide, and the fir...
Korean Air's first A380 entered service in June and the company has just taken delivery of its second superjumbo from a total order of 10. -- PHOTO: AP PARIS - AIRBUS on Friday sought to minimise the scraped engine suffered by one of its A380 superjumbos operated by Korean Air as it b...
EM ASIA FX-Sing dlr, won rally on Greek deal; intervention caps Topics: International Economy Government and Policy On Friday 22 July 2011, 16:54 SGT * Sing dlr at record on models, leveraged names; MAS spotted * S.Korea estimated to have bought $500 mln-$1 bln to defend 1,050/dlr * R...
Spanish collector Mikel Barsa, who owns the 6 1/2-minute, grainy black-and-white film, is hoping for it to fetch at least US$500,000 (S$604,095). -- PHOTO: AP WE IMAGINE this is a vintage piece about Marilyn Monroe that all collectors would want to possess. A newly discovered 8mm vers...
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), July 20 (ANI): Akshat, a baby boy over the age of one, registered his name in the Guinness world records for having a total of 34 fingers and toes. He has set the record for having the highest number of fingers and toes and hails from the Bareilly district in...
Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by ground water circulating through them. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sinkholes are dramatic because the land...
