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Since Lee entered office in 2004, the Singapore dollar has risen about 40 per cent against the currencies of the city state’s major trading partners, more than twice the gain for the US dollar in the same context, data compiled by Bloomberg shows.
The parents paid for years to have their infants’ cord blood stored, with the understanding that the stem cells they contained may provide life-saving protection if their children subsequently fell ill. They have formed a group to evaluate potential legal action. Some rejected Singapore-based Cordlife’s proposal to refund the fees for samples deemed to be damaged, saying it was inadequate.
Priyanka Kishore is the founder and principal economist at research company Asia Decoded in Singapore.
If Wong hopes to win over youth in the coming general election, which could happen as early as this year, he needs to rule on social media, according to analysts.
“I had not yet found my calling in public service,” Wong, who was then at the Ministry of Finance at the turn of the millennium, said in a media interview.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Friday criticised a commentary by British publication The Economist, which he said could not “resist sneering” at Singapore’s political leadership handover.
A coalition of over a dozen opposition parties, dubbed the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), led by the Congress party, hopes to deny Modi a third consecutive term.
A Singaporean woman who went missing while on a holiday in Spain has been found dead with 30 stab wounds, Spanish media reported on Wednesday.