The agreement is the first between the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and an air navigation services provider in the region.
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Man lives on lorry with pregnant wife
A 44-year-old delivery man who has been living on his lorry with his pregnant wife hopes to rent a room in time for his baby.
For Wang Baohua, his lorry is both his means of living and his home, Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday.
He had split from his ex-wife seven years ago and sold his three-room flat before going to Vietnam to work.
He returned to Singapore in 2013 and stayed with an uncle for some time before moving into a rental apartment. However, his monthly salary of $1,000 was not enough to pay the rent of $600.
He started living on his lorry to save on costs and got his new Vietnamese wife, whom he married in August last year, to share in his nomadic life on wheels.
Wanbao visited Mr Wang at the Changi Beach Park on Tuesday and found that the pair’s “furniture” included a portable stove, cooking utensils and cutlery, cardboard that doubled as a bed and laundry that was hung out to dry on the vehicle.
The couple sleep on the back of the lorry every night and wash up at a nearby public toilet.
Mr Wang starts his job delivering goods at 3am and his wife follows him on his journeys.
He said his boss is very understanding and lets him live on his lorry, even offering to lend him $10,000 to buy a house.
He is thankful to his boss and his colleagues who have been “very helpful”.
As his wife is four months pregnant, Mr Wang hopes to rent a flat but has been unsuccessful so far.
He said some landlords do not let them cook in the house while others do not welcome pregnant women.
“So we decided to save the money and use it on gynaecologist fees,” he added.
Mr Wang had also tried applying for a two-room or rental flat from the Housing Board but was rejected as his spouse is a foreigner and his $1,900 salary does not fit the rental-flat requirements.
“We can bear hardship but my wife is already four months pregnant and it’s not very convenient for her to climb up and down. Now, we just hope that our baby will have a comfortable home when he’s born,” said Mr Wang.
His wife told Wanbao that she was already aware of his situation before she came here and that she “doesn’t mind” because she loves him.
Mr Wang added: “Even though we do not have much, in terms of material things, we are satisfied as long as we have each other.”
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North Korea fires short-range missiles into sea
Seoul – North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Thursday, fuelling military tensions after its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.
South Korea’s defence ministry said the two missiles were fired around 5:20am (2020 GMT Wednesday) and flew some 500 kilometres (300 miles), before landing in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) off the North Korean port city of Wonsan, a ministry spokesman said.
Short-range missile launches are a regular and relatively low-level item on North Korea’s long list of provocative gestures.
The North fired six high-calibre rockets into the sea a week ago in protest at the adoption of tough, new sanctions on Pyongyang by the UN Security Council.
Those sanctions were imposed as a direct result of the North’s fourth nuclear test in January and last month’s space rocket launch, which was seen as a disguised ballistic missile test.
Tensions have risen further this week with the launch of large-scale South Korean-US military exercises which Pyongyang responded to with threats of pre-emptive nuclear attack.
And state media caused a stir Wednesday by publishing photos of leader Kim Jong-Un posing with what was claimed to be a miniaturised nuclear warhead.
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Greater number of Singaporeans not identifying with any religion
TODAY reports: About 18.5 per cent of the Singapore resident population had no religious affiliation last year, up from 17 per cent in 2010, according to the General Household Survey 2015 report.
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