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Written by Our Correspondent PAP Minister without portfolio and NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say has issued a call on his own party and government to “restore” part of employers’ CPF contribution rate to workers in the aftermath of the Singapore economy’s “strong” performance in the first quarter of the year. While the CPF contributions of Singapore workers [...] http://bit.ly/aeJp6X

Reuters, 16 April 2010 Tibetans mourned their dead relatives in the stricken Chinese town of Gyegu today, as the death toll from a strong earthquake earlier this week climbed to 760. Addressing residents of Gyegu in remote and windswept Yushu county high on the Tibetan plateau late yesterday, Premier Wen Jiabao clambered over rubble and pledged continued [...] http://bit.ly/b01vih

MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) leapt from 24th to fifth spot in this year's Governance and Transparency Index (GTI). The GTI, which ranks all companies listed on the Singapore Exchange on... http://bit.ly/bA1QwQ

Asian countries, led by India and China, are emerging "strongly" from the economic downturn, Singapore's Prime Minister said here, but emphasised that India needs to be more "open"... http://bit.ly/cwC4Fb

SINGAPORE: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has said that trust lends more legitimacy to a government than its legal authority. He made the point at the second Singapore—China Leadership forum att... http://bit.ly/a2AjM2

A DOCTOR who attended to a 17-year-old polytechnic student after he was injured at a taekwondo tournament has described the case as 'very unique'.

Dr Carol Lee Wei Hsin, Registrar of the emergency department of Changi General Hospital, said from her experience and reading literature, there were very few cases of a ruptured carotid artery at a sports event.

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TWO partners of a chemical treatment business were each jailed for two weeks and ordered to pay a penalty totalling $361,624 on Friday for tax evasion.

Lim Seow Hong, 56, and Zhu MinZi, 43, were convicted of two charges each of making false entries by under-declaring their share of profits from Advanced Chemical Treatment in 2005 and 2006.

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MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) leapt from 24th to fifth spot in this year's Governance and Transparency Index (GTI).

The GTI, which ranks all companies listed on the Singapore Exchange on their governance standards, financial transparency and investor relations, was launched by The Business Times and the National University of Singapore's Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre in Nov 2008.

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SINGAPORE'S exports grew by 27 per cent in March from a year ago, due to higher electronic and non-electronic domestic exports as the momentum of economic recovery picks up.

Non-oil exports (NODX) to all the top 10 export markets rose, including to Hong Kong, Europe and Indonesia, which climbed by 43 per cent, 25 per cent and 55 per cent respectively, according to the latest external trade figures released by International Enterprise Singapore on Friday.

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