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Budget 2007: Poised for the future
IT'S official: The goods and services tax (GST) will go up to 7 per cent in one step, and it will happen on July 1. Revealing this yesterday, Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said it is best to make the change... [Read more]

Tampines v Home pre-season cracker
TWO Sundays ago, they were the toast of Singapore after being crowned Asean champions. But, for national-team stalwarts S. Subramani, Lionel Lewis, Noh Alam Shah and Indra Sahdan Daud, it is back to domestic action. All four should feature when Tampines... [Read more]

Flexi-work at 3 places for single Malay mums
MALAY-MUSLIM single mothers can soon seek work at new businesses that will allow them to keep flexible hours. The move will also pave the way for them to receive Workfare.This community initiative, announced by labour MP Halimah Yacob yesterday, involves setting... [Read more]

ComCare has spent $68m to help 90,000 individuals, families
EIGHTEEN months after ComCare was launched to fund social assistance programmes, the scheme has delivered on its promise to deliver faster and better help to Singaporeans in need, an official report declared yesterday.So far, 90,000 individuals and families have benefited through... [Read more]

HSBC line of credit just won't go away
LAST month, I received my statement of account from HSBC with an annual fee payment of $60. As I have no use for my personal line of credit, I called HSBC to terminate it. The officer told me that, as the... [Read more]

Putting the squeeze on Abu Sayyaf in Jolo's jungles
JOLO - A PRIVATE from the Philippine 3rd Marine Brigade serves mugs of sweet black coffee to the 'surrenderees' - four rebels from the extremist Islamic group Abu Sayyaf who have come out of the jungle. They thank him politely. The... [Read more]

Final is this EPL fan's big game
FOR Chelsea fan Eric Perera, there is nothing more important on weekends than catching his favourite English Premiership team in action.Fortunately, he will not be torn between the Premiership and his love for another team in blue - the Lions.Singapore will... [Read more]

Soccer Shorts
ITALY THE NEW LEADERS IN FIFA RANKINGS ROME: World champions Italy have replaced Brazil at the top of the Fifa rankings. It is the first time the European country have been ranked No 1 in the world since November 1993, and... [Read more]

LA hospital dumps patient on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES - A HOSPITAL van dropped off a paraplegic man in a rundown downtown area here, allegedly leaving him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag, police said. Witnesses to the... [Read more]

Fund managers selling more Sing$ offshore unit trusts
THE next time you buy a unit trust in Singapore, don't be surprised to find that it is registered in an offshore location such as Luxembourg or Dublin, instead of Singapore. In the months ahead, most new unit trusts are likely... [Read more]

Harvard updates core curriculum
BOSTON - HARVARD University has announced its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, focusing on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming American 'parochialism'. The curriculum at the oldest US university has been criticised as focusing too narrowly on... [Read more]