Dec 13, 2011 10:06 SGT Ministry of Home Affairs The Advisory Council for Community Relations in Defence (ACCORD) and members from the Singapore Business Federation and Singapore National Employers Federation Council visited the Police Coast Guard on 13 December 2011.
Dec 12, 2011 16:44 SGT Oxfam Australia Millions of people in West Africa could be protected from a serious food crisis if preparations are scaled up across the region, Oxfam said today. With early indicators pointing to a likely food crisis in 2012, and people at particularly high risk in Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad, now is the time to invest in preventative measures, the aid agency said.
Dec 12, 2011 14:45 SGT Motorola Solutions Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, today introduced the MC2100 industrial mobile computing series, addressing the need for a smaller, rugged mobile computer that expands the range of solutions available for both large enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses.
Dec 12, 2011 10:29 SGT Ministry of Health As part of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) efforts to better monitor prescribing patterns of benzodiazepines and to prevent the inappropriate use of addictive drugs, MOH is proposing to make it mandatory for all doctors to enter dispensing details for all benzodiazepines into a web-based Central Drug Prescribing Registry (CDPR) system.
Dec 10, 2011 16:49 SGT Ministry of Defence The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) successfully conducted an integrated live-firing during Exercise Forging Sabre 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA earlier today (Singapore time).
Dec 09, 2011 18:06 SGT Hyundai (SG) Chung Mong-Koo, Chairman and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, announced a comprehensive plan to provide financial, medical and educational aid to underprivileged students in Korea, using personal donations.
Dec 09, 2011 16:46 SGT Ministry of Defence Minister of State for Defence and Education Lawrence Wong officiated at the 2nd Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Senior Military Experts Appointment Ceremony at SAFTI Military Institute this evening, where 30 servicemen were appointed as Military Experts 4.
Dec 09, 2011 14:37 SGT PUB (Public Utilities Board) To develop the capabilities of the water industry workforce, the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), national water agency PUB, and the Singapore Water Association (SWA) have collaborated on a new training programme - the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) Used Water Treatment Technician Programme - for the water industry.
Dec 07, 2011 19:45 SGT Monetary Authority of Singapore The Government announced today an Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) to be imposed on certain categories of residential property purchases. The ABSD will be imposed over and above the current Buyer’s Stamp Duty, and will apply to the purchase price or market value of the property (whichever is higher) for the following purchases:
Dec 07, 2011 18:01 SGT Ministry of Manpower The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will introduce a mandatory Settling-In Programme (SIP), in place of the current English entry test, to help first-time foreign domestic workers (FDWs) better cope with living and working in Singapore.