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StanChart is expecting a potential penalty of around US$1.5 billion from U.S. authorities for allowing customers to violate Iran sanctions. [ LINK ] StanChart hasn’t been able to clean up its dirty linen despite a 2012 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in which it admitted secretly moving billions of dollars through... 

I take strong issue with what Senior Minister of State for Transport, Janil Puthecheary, said in Parliament. He said that MRT station employees are not trained to chase after (or apprehend) people and the protocol is for them to call for help in the event of molestation. Superficially, what he said may sound reasonable. But... 

I refer to the article “Singapore’s total population inches up to 5.64 million, after flat growth last year” (Today, Sep 27). It states that “After posting the slowest growth in more than a decade last year, the Republic’s total population size has rebounded slightly, based on government statistics released on Thursday...