The S$29 million in funding for the scheme this year is higher than the one previously announced by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in his Budget speech in March this year. He had said that about $15 million would be set aside for the scheme annually.
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Road tax discs to be phased out from Feb 2017
SINGAPORE – Motorists will no longer need to display road tax discs on their vehicle windscreens from Feb 15 next year, as the Land Transport Authority (LTA) moves to streamline its operations.
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Motorists can continue to check, as well as print out proof of the validity of their road tax, via the One.Motoring website, the Land Transport Authority says.
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Allan Wu: 'Cool' to have women coaches
Allan Wu has no problems receiving driving advice from women.
The 44-year-old Singapore-based US actor-host, one of six contestants on Celebrity Car Wars, felt that it was “kind of cool” to have female coaches Gaby Dela Merced and Michele Bumgarner on the show.
He told TNP in a phone interview from Shanghai: “(Celebrity Car Wars) is about racing… so there’s a lot of testosterone in the show. It’s nice to see some girls (who) are actually qualified and are professional racecar drivers.”
He added that Dela Merced and Bumgarner were also “eye candy” for male viewers and that he found such knowledge of cars to be an attractive quality in women.
But this did not stop Wu from getting as competitive with fellow contestants Andrea Fonseka and Joey Mead King as he was with guys like Thai DJ-host PK and Filipino host-model Marc Nelson.
He said: “I want to beat everyone. That’s all there is to it. It doesn’t matter whether they’re a man or woman.”
Wu feels that his ex-wife, local actress-host Wong Li-Lin, is just as good a driver as he is, but said: “I’m better at parking, maybe.”
Likewise, Wu does not feel that women are generally poorer drivers than men.
What bothers him most on the road is people who drive slowly in the fast lane.
“That’s the worst… if I were younger, I’d be honking at them and kissing their butt, just having my car right up to the back of theirs,” he joked.
“You should have the common sense to realise (that you’re driving slowly) and move over.”
Added Wu, who does not have a car in Singapore but owns a Ducati Monster: “I prefer riding motorcycles than driving (cars)… you have the wind blowing in your face, you have the elements, the smog, the air, you feel alive.”
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Changes to MAS board of directors: Ong Ye Kung appointed; Lawrence Wong steps down
Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Senior Mnister of State, Ministry of Defence Mr Ong Ye Kung will be appointed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS’s) board of directors with immediate effect, a statement said on Monday (Aug 29).
His term will of appointment will run until May 31, 2019.
The MAS statement added that Minister for National Development Mr Lawrence Wong will step fown from the board.
Prior to his Cabinet appointments, Mr Ong held the position of director of group strategy at Keppel Corporation, overseeing long-term strategic planning of the group’s activities. Before joining Keppel Corporation, he was the deputy secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, overseeing the labour movement’s employment and employability programmes.
Mr Wong was appointed to the MAS Board on June 10, 2011 and has served as an active member of the MAS Board for more than five years. Last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Mr Wong was appointed the Second Minister for Finance to help with the operational responsibilities at the Finance Ministry with Mr Heng Swee Keat, who resumed his duties as Finance Minister on Aug 22.
Mr Heng was discharged from hospital on June 25 after undergoing surgery after collapsing from a stroke during a Cabinet meeting on May 12. The stroke was found to have been caused by an aneurysm, which was successfully closed.
The MAS board of directors (as of Aug 29, 2016) are as follows:
Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Chairman), Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies
Mr Lim Hng Kiang (Deputy Chairman), Minister for Trade and Industry (Trade)
Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Finance
Mr Ong Ye Kung, Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
Mr Quek See Tiat, Deputy President, Council for Estate Agencies
Mr Lim Chee Onn, Senior International Advisor, Ascendas-Singbridge Group
Mr Peter Ong Boon Kwee, Head, Civil Service and Permanent Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office) (Strategy)
Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore
Mr V K Rajah, Attorney-General, Attorney-General’s Chambers
Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, MAS
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Bobby Tonelli recalls time when car was hit by truck going 80kmh
Bobby Tonelli has crashed cars in his reckless youth, but was lucky enough to escape unscathed.
“In my late teens and 20s, I was in two major accidents (in the US),” the Singapore-based US actor and host told TNP at last week’s press conference of reality TV show Celebrity Car Wars, which Tonelli hosts.
“Once, I was hit broadside by a truck going about 80kmh and didn’t have a seatbelt on.
“Another time, I rear-ended an SUV and my airbags came on. The front of my car was just smashed.”
Both times, Tonelli, 40, said he was “very, very lucky” not to be hurt and he now drives more carefully to avoid more accidents.
“Nowadays, I just want to get home for dinner.”
In Celebrity Car Wars, celebrities vie with each other in driving challenges, such as drifting and racing through an obstacle course set in a mall.
“It got pretty competitive,” said Tonelli. “Since I was the host, they kept trying to find out details about the challenges from me beforehand and peppered me with questions. I felt like a school teacher.”
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Tonelli enjoyed test driving cars on the show, including a snazzy Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 sports car and a run-down Jeepney, a colourful Jeep commonly used for public transportation in the Philippines, where Celebrity Car Wars was filmed.
He also expressed admiration for the female contestants, cautioning that they were not to be underestimated.
“Andrea (Fonseka) had never driven a stick shift before the show, but she really grew within the series. And Joey (Mead King) was really tough too. It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female. Anyone can be good at driving.”
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Tonelli said his Indonesian girlfriend of three years, Ms Tata Cahyani (above), 40, is also a pretty good driver. A single mother of two, she works in the jewellery industry.
The couple have been on several romantic road trips together, such as trips across the Causeway to Johor, and a driving holiday in Tuscany, Italy, last year.
“I was so excited to rent a car and drive through the Tuscan countryside at night.
“I told her to talk to me and keep me awake while I was driving… She ended up falling asleep in the car five minutes later,” he said with a laugh.
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Does Tonelli, who used to date local actress Joanne Peh – now married to China-born actor Qi Yuwu and with a year-old daughter – see himself settling down and having children any time soon?
He said: “I thought I was going to be engaged or married by 40, but that was a goal I didn’t quite hit. I’m turning 41 soon. Time just flies by so quickly.
“But we are working on it. Things are going good, and we are talking about marriage and kids.”
Tonelli mused that starting a family shows a sense of progression in life.
“I’m lucky enough to have a job where I do cool things like drive nice cars, and it would be nice to have kids to share these experiences with,” he said.
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MAS appoints Ong Ye Kung to board, Lawrence Wong steps down
SINGAPORE – The Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and the Senior Minister of State for Defence, Mr Ong Ye Kung, has been appointed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Board of Directors with immediate effect.
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Good deal hunting, part 2: Looking at property amidst an abundance of discounts
In the final part of a 2-part series, Bernard Tong, managing director of The Edge Property, assesses the advantages of buying condos that are selling closer to cost.
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Ong Ye Kung appointed to MAS Board; Lawrence Wong to step down
Mr Ong Ye Kung, the Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and the Senior Minister of State for Defence, will serve on the central bank’s Board of Directors from Monday (Aug 29) to May 31, 2019.
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Singapore: 41 infected with Zika virus, more cases expected
THE Singaporean government has confirmed that 41 people have been infected by the Zika virus, but most have fully recovered.
Singapore announced its first Zika infection in May, with the virus imported by a 48-year-old man who had traveled to Brazil. On Sunday, the Health Ministry confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the virus.
The ministry said in a statement that the patients were “not known to have traveled to Zika-affected areas recently, and are thus likely to have been infected in Singapore. This confirms that local transmission of Zika virus infection has taken place.”
Of the group, 34 people have recovered, while seven remain at a hospital.
SEE ALSO: Malaysians on alert after first reported Zika case in Singapore
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said authorities are anticipating more Zika cases over time.
Channel News Asia quoted Gan as saying that this is partly because the ministry is conducting tests in affected areas, as well as the possibility that there could be imported cases in future.
“Singapore has a very high volume of international travel, therefore imported cases are almost inevitable,” Gan said.
He added that there is a “high likelihood” that the virus was being imported to Singapore as many cases are asymptomatic, adding that local transmission was “also very high”
The Health Ministry, he said, is monitoring the situation with the help of doctors to identify the affected areas, allowing them to carry out vector control.
SEE ALSO: WHO declares Zika a global emergency as Southeast Asia braces for outbreak
Zika is typically mild and seldom causes death, but shares symptoms with its vastly more fatal cousin – dengue – a common viral scourge in tropical Southeast Asia. Both are viruses are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. This makes nations ordinarily ravaged by dengue particularly vulnerable to Zika as well.
Zika and dengue are both endemic to tropical climates, and patients tend to display similar symptoms, such as muscle and joint pain, rashes, headaches and fever. Southeast Asian countries have had cases of Zika as recently as 2010.
However, the outbreak of the Zika virus in South America and its suspected link to causing microcephaly – a congenital condition associated with incomplete brain development – among babies has raised serious health concerns around the world.
There are no vaccines for either disease, though researchers are currently carrying out clinical testing in regions vulnerable to the viruses.
Additional reporting from the Associated Press
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