Year 1953
Honorary Citizen Award on Mr Tata and Tan Sri Tsao
Friday, 29th August 2008
Singapore honored Mr Ratan N. Tata (Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, India) and Tan Sri Frank Tsao Wen-King (Chairman of IMC Group, China) with the 2007 Honorary Citizen Award for their valuable contributions to the country. This is the fifth year Singapore is conferring the Honorary Citizen Award. President S R Nathan will confer the Honorary Citizen Award on the two recipients at a ceremony to be held at the Istana on 29 August 2008.
New Fairprice logo launched
Friday, 29th August 2008
Mr. Lee Kuan Yew launched the hip new logo of the NTUC FairPrice supermarket chain at its historic first outlet in Toa Payoh Central. He had opened it 35 years ago in the days when profiteering was rampant and food prices were painfully high. But he was all smiles when he hit a button to launch the logo and a vibrant red 'U' logo flashed on screens. Two climate-controlled trucks rolled past on cue, honking festively. Mr Lee later toured the supermarket, and lingered at a Heritage Wall of pictures and milestones. Included were black-and-white pictures of him and the Toa Payoh branch. The new-look logo mirrors that of NTUC, which carries a hallmark 'U' that puns on 'you'. So the revamped FairPrice identity 'reflects a deep-rooted relationship with the labour movement' and the promise to 'moderate the cost of living in Singapore'.
Money No Enough 2
Thursday, 31st July 2008
Jack Neo's movie, Money Not Enough II, was launch in major cinema around Singapore. This movie is done 10 years after the first "Money No Enough". The story is about the common man’s life in Singapore where the pursuit of money is a never ending passion. Through the ups and downs faced by the "three Yang brothers", help us to reflect at our own priorities while giving us a chance to laugh at ourselves.
Permanent Green To Symbolise Religious Harmony
Saturday, 19th July 2008
To symbolise the harmony of different religions with nature, with one another and with the larger Singaporean community, Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong the Guest of Honour at a tree-planting ceremony together with Singapore’s religious leaders at Stamford Green. Senior religious leaders from various religions in Singapore including the Baha’i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, De Jiao, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism were present. Stamford Green is the gateway to Fort Canning Park and is situated right next to the National Museum of Singapore. The trees that will be planted will form a permanent landscape at Stamford Green as an enduring symbol of our history and peaceful co-existence, and a tribute to our legacy of religious harmony.
Ren Ci’s founder Charged
Tuesday, 15th July 2008
Ren Ci’s founder and ex-honorary chief executive, Venerable Ming Yi, is facing ten charges, including two counts of criminal breach of trust and one count of forgery for the purpose of cheating. THE long-time head of Ren Ci Hospital the other charges includes misappropriation of funds and conspiracy to give false information to the Commissioner of Charities. Venerable Ming Yi birth name is Goh Kah Heng, aged 46, was charged, along with his personal assistant Raymond Yeung Chi Hang, 33, who faces two counts, and Phua Seow Hwa, 47, who faces one charge. Venerable Ming Yi is also a prominent television daredevil stunt man - where he abseiled 45 storeys live from Suntec City in 2003, in 2004 when he immersed himself in a tank of ice for about 23 minutes. Ming Yi other stunts over the years includes balancing on top of a five-storey structure for 2 hours, walking across parallel beams 66 storeys high and pulling himself up 23 storeys using rope and pulley.
TT Durai Jailed
Tuesday, 10th June 2008
Former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief TT Durai will begin his three-month jail sentence after the High Court threw out his appeal on 30 May 2008. Durai had been found guilty June 2007 of using a false invoice to deceive the NKF into paying S$20,000 to his interior designer friend, David Tan.
Two porn websites banned
Sunday, 25th May 2008
The two sites, which the regulator did not identify in the print media but local blogs named them as YouPorn and RedTube, work in a similar fashion to popular video-sharing website YouTube. The two websites according to Alexa (website ranking portal) was amongst top most visited sites by Singapore web visitor. These two porn sites have attracted more Singapore visitors than ChannelNewsAsia (top local news) and SingaporePools (top local gambling) sites.
Foreign ministers of ASEAN meets
Monday, 19th May 2008
Foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations are meeting here Monday to discuss help for cyclone-hit Myanmar. The meeting comes two weeks after a deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and states of Myanmar early this month and left more than 77,000 dead, 55,000 still missing and 19,000 injured. The special meeting to discuss the humanitarian situation in Myanmar and consider how best to assist Myanmar in its relief and recovery efforts.
HSBC Women's Champions 2008
Sunday, 2nd March 2008
The HSBC Women's Champions 2008, at Tanah Merah Country Club, Singapore, was the first to be held as a stroke play event - the previous three editions were all played in the USA to a match play format. The 2008 tournament won by the young 26-year-old Mexican star Lorena Ochoa. Playing in her first tournament of the year, led from day one before completing a 20-under-par 268 to record her 18th win on the LPGA with the biggest winning margin of her career.
Mas Selamat bin Kastari Escaped
Wednesday, 27th February 2008
At 4.05pm Mas Selamat bin Kastari, the JI leader, escaped from the Internal Security Department's Whitley Detention Camp where he was being detained. His family was visiting him at the time, and he was being led to a room to meet them when he asked for a toilet break. Mas Selamat had escaped through an unsecured bathroom window and fled. A massive manhunt comprising personnel from the Singapore Police Force, the Gurkha Contingent, the Police Tactical Unit and the Police National Service Key Installation Protection Unit were deployed in the vicinity of the area immediately after the escape. Followed by thousands of Singapore Armed Forces Personnel combing the forested area (very much like time the black panther escaped from the Singapore Zoo).
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