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Another example of PRs don’t want to be citizens

In one of the popular forum sites, Sgchinese.net, where PRCs in Singapore usually go to, one PR from PRC posted a message yesterday (17 Aug) asking for advice from his compatriots. The PRC who goes by the moniker, 'allgreen', asked how to go about withdrawing his Singapore citizenship application from ICA: http://bbs.sgchinese.net/thread-5769528-1-1.html He...

Starhub: We have stopped MIM service

TRE reader, SpiritOfSG, wrote in earlier, warning readers to check their Starhub mobile bills ('Warning to all Starhub Mobile users: Pls check your bills!'). In his letter, he said that since his friend subscribed to Starhub mobile service last October, she had been continuously charged by a Mobile-in-Motion (MIM) service linked...

S’pore not even in the top 20 of world’s wealthiest cities

According to the Wealth Report 2012 published by Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank, Singapore might be the richest country in the world in 2010 in terms of per capita GDP (i.e, total output of a country divided by the population) calculated using the purchasing power parity (PPP), but we are certainly nowhere near the top...