According to a poll by STJobs, one in five local under/graduates expects no less than $4,000 as their starting pay. This contrasts sharply with the average starting pay for a bachelor’s degree (without honours) at $2,741, according to an earlier…
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Singapore’s High Court on Thursday fined a prominent dissident blogger $8,000 for “scandalising” the city-state’s judiciary in an online commentary. Alex Au, 62, was punished over an October 5, 2013 post insinuating that hearing dates on a constitutional challenge to…
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In a post-budget 2015 forum on Feb. 26, 2015, Minister of State Josephine Teo was asked if national servicemen should be paid more. She said she noted the importance of giving NSmen recognition, but service for the country cannot be…
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It was reported that yesterday alone (3 Mar), SMRT was hit by two train service incidents, both during peak hours. In the early morning, a signalling fault at HarbourFront station on the Circle Line stopped all trains between Haw Par…
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Jakarta. Vice President Jusuf Kalla has denounced neighboring Singapore and Malaysia for complaining about the severe haze caused every year by Indonesian forest fires. He said he took note of the way the neighboring countries had kept complaining when toxic haze…
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