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CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE MINORITY REPRESENTATION
Dr Gillian Koh, deputy director, and Mr Tan Min-Wei, researcher, …
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Win Friend Request movie tickets
Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is a popular college student who lives her life to the fullest and gladly shares it with her 800 Facebook friends. But when she accepts a friend request from her mysterious classmate Marina (…
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Win Shaw Theatres IMAX passes
The highly anticipated scuffle between Team Cap and Team Iron Man at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport is going to be even more exciting if you watch it in IMAX.
The 15-minute airport fight sequence is shot entirely with state-…
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Robert Downey Jr. enjoys beating up the Cap in new movie
He does not have the title role in Captain America: Civil War, nor does he have top billing which goes to Chris Evans.
But Robert Downey Jr certainly has the biggest payday – a reported US$40 million (S$54.1 million) – to don…
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Firm fined S$150,000 for failing to ensure workers’ safety
SINGAPORE – A bid to replace an extremely flammable gas in the air cooling unit of a factory went awry, and resulted in a blast that left one worker dead and two injured in August 2012.
Yesterday, a district court ordered engineering company Sing Wah…
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Merits of ensuring minority EP under scrutiny at hearing
SINGAPORE – With Singapore making progress in becoming a race-blind society, would safeguarding minority representation in the highest office in the land be a regressive step or a nudge in the right direction?
This was the question that dominated the third…
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Ban parties, mps from endorsing presidential candidate: law don
Political parties, their leaders as well as Members of Parliament should be barred from endorsing presidential candidates so as to depoliticise the office of the Elected President.
This was a suggestion raised by Singapore Management University law don Jack…
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PM lauds Benny Lim as example of top-notch civil servant
SINGAPORE – From pounding the streets as a police constable to thwarting a local terror plot as the Internal Security Department (ISD) director, Mr Benny Lim has seen – and done – much as one of the nation’s top public servants.
And after 37 years in the…
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TODAY’s brief, Wednesday, April 27
Nomination Day for Bukit Batok SMC
Candidates seeking election as the Bukit Batok single ward’s MP will enter their names at Keming Primary School on Wednesday between 11am and noon. The by-election, triggered by the resignation of Mr David Ong from the…
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Welfare centre to offer speedier help for children at ‘moderate risk’
SINGAPORE – HEART@Fei Yue, a welfare centre, has launched a new system that allows it to process “moderate-risk” child protection cases faster.
Such cases may include children whose welfare may be neglected by drug-addicted parents.
The system, known as…
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