Singapore companies, highly exposed to slowing global trade and a lackluster commodity market, face a financing scramble in 2017, as more than US$12 billion of their bonds falls due and banks grow wary of lending to the resources sector. That…
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At the payment counter… Me: Do you have a gift wrapping service? Cashier stares blankly at me Me: Do you have a gift wrapping service? (gestures wrapping an item) Cashier looks lost: Master or Nets? Me: Nets. Wrap present, where?…
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Enam anggota Majlis Kerjasama Teluk (GCC) menerajui kutukan keras terhadap serangan peluru berpandu Khamis lalu (27 Okt) dilancarkan kumpulan militan Houthi Yaman ke kota suci Makkah. Saudi Gazette melaporkan GCC menyatakan serangan Houthi terhadap Makkah adalah “bukti penolakan mereka untuk…
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Two new ministers, Ong Ye Kung and Ng Chee Meng ascended to heaven, pardon me, appointed ministers 1 year after they were elected MPs. What have they proven in that 1 year – nothing except the usual political obfuscation and…
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Public memory is short. That’s what the PAP is counting on to get through the economic difficulties that we’re rapidly sinking into. But forgetting the past is what will surely prolong our troubles. Our only hope of recovery is to…
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