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Ex-President Nathan given Order of Temasek, 1st Class

Former President of Singapore S R Nathan has been conferred the nation's highest award - the Order of Temasek, First Class. He topped the list of 3,197 individuals who received the National Day awards this year. Mr Nathan is the 7th person to have received the nation's highest award: 1985 (First Class): Dr Goh Keng Swee, former...

2013 National Day Message (TRE Satire Version)

[This is a satire piece by a TR Emeritus editor.] (1) My fellow Singaporeans, (2) We have made steady progress in solving the nation's problems. We denied these problems ever existed until you gave us a tight slap in GE2011. Thank you for that. BTW, we STILL deny we have a problem or that we caused it but from our actions,...

SingPost fined $10K for late delivery of 40,000 letters

The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has slapped a $10,000 penalty on SingPost for failure to deliver about 40,000 letters on time in February this year. IDA found that SingPost did not deliver the local letters by the second working day, according to the postal framework. This is SingPost's largest fine and its first since...