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For the fourth time this week, PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew appeared in the news again, this time to officiate at the opening of the Marina reservoir.   According to state news agency Channel News Asia, Lee "activated" the Marina reservoir fountain to mark the event last Saturday evening.   It was reported that it was his "dream"... 

Singapore government said Thursday that it was 'surprised' at a comment British Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne made after the city-state's High Court sent a British writer to jail for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in a book about the death penalty. Browne expressed his dismay and called on Singapore 'to recognize... 

THE Singapore economy will need to create as many as 130,000 jobs next year if the latest economic growth forecast is to be met, economists said yesterday. Most of these jobs are set to come from the service sector, although there is likely to be broad-based job creation across most industries, said human resource experts and...