The Sinhala and Tamil New Year Celebrations in Singapore
Source: Asian Tribune
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-04-25 11:57:06 -0700 | travel-news
55 editor The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Singapore together with the Coordinating Committee celebrated the " Sinhala and Tamil New Year and Cultural Show 2013" on 21st April 2013 from 11.00 A.M to 8.00 P.M at Toa...
Transparency Is the Rule in Chapter 11---Except for CEOs
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-04-24 16:43:45 -0700 | travel-news
GE Capital is quietly cutting off lending to gun shops, as the company rethinks its relationship to firearms amid the fallout from the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. With top executives' pay a hot-button topic, some companies in Chapter 11...
Indian origin man gets jail in Singapore
Source: NewKerala
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-04-24 04:50:40 -0700 | travel-news
Shumanagam, who worked as a safety supervisor for Bovis Lend Lease Pharmaceutical, a leading firm in making pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science facilities, pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe of Singaporean $250 in 2007 from a safety supervisor of a...
2 aid teams from Singapore deployed in Sichuan
Source: China News
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-04-23 10:04:20 -0700 | travel-news
Two small teams from Singapore-based Mercy Relief have been deployed to China's quake-hit province of Sichuan in response to a direct request for help from provincial authorities, the aid organization said on Tuesday...The team headed towards Lushan, a hard-hit county,...
Two Singaporean anglers killed in collision
Source: The Star
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-04-08 22:01:56 -0700 | travel-news
Two Singaporean anglers were killed and another is still missing after the boat they were in collided with a fishing trawler. Five other Singaporean anglers were hurt in the incident which took place at about 4.30pm on Sunday. Deputy Supt...
Long way to TK if you wanna rock'n'roll
Source: The Courier-Mail
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-03-30 07:39:36 -0700 | travel-news
IT'S not easy to get an all-male crowd of workmates dancing at a rock 'n' roll gig...It's 7.30 at night in Tarin Kowt, or TK as the soldiers call it. The humming of Black Hawk helicopters taking off is incessant...
Ibrahim pub hit by fire
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2012-06-17 19:27:48 -0700 | political-news
Wolter Peeters The Abercrombie Hotel, a historic Sydney pub with links to nightclub boss John Ibrahim, has been badly damaged in a suspicious fire. Emergency services were called to the pub on the corner of Broadway and Abercrombie Streets about...
Singapore Airlines flight forced to turn back
Source: The Courier-Mail
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2012-05-27 11:39:09 -0700 | political-news
Airlines superjumbo jet bound for Frankfurt was forced to return to Singapore today after developing an engine problem. Flight SQ26, which was carrying more than 430 passengers, landed safely at 6.40am local time after its crew reported a problem with...
POW children mark fall of Singapore
Source: BBC
Londonderry :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-04-15 16:58:37 -0700 | technology-news
POW children mark 70th anniversary of fall of Singapore BBC News Carol Cooper, pictured here as a baby, set up the Children of Far East Prisoners of War charity after finding her father's war diaries When Singapore fell to the...
Japanese coast guard orders helicopters
Source: United Press International
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2012-04-14 20:51:45 -0700 | business-news
Japan's coast guard has ordered four S-76D helicopters from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and its local partner Mitsubishi. The Japanese coast guard has flown legacy models of the S-76 and the new, medium-sized utility aircraft are to replace helicopters damaged as...
Airbus says A380 wing cracks pose no danger
Source: Channel NewsAsia
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2012-03-26 04:24:40 -0700 | business-news
Tiny cracks discovered in the wings of Airbus superjumbo A380 planes can be easily repaired and pose no danger, the aircraft's manufacturer said on Wednesday. Airbus' statement came the same day the European Aviation Safety Agency said 20 of the...
Salvors work to improve Rena buoyancy (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Tauranga :: New Zealand | updated 2012-02-04 18:49:11 -0800 | political-news
Salvors work to improve Rena buoyancy Maritime NZ, Fuseworks December 5, 2011, 10:28 am Rena is still intact after the weekend's stormy weather. Electronic sensors monitoring the movement of the wreck indicated some extra movement during last night's swells, but...
George Lucas Fuels Tuskegee Airmen Movie
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2011-12-19 09:04:57 -0800 | entertainment-news
Star Wars" creator George Lucas is betting millions of his own dollars that moviegoers will be drawn to an action movie about African-American fighter pilots in World War II. Mr. Lucas has self-financed a new film entitled "Red Tails" inspired...
Senate Delays Spending Bill
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2011-11-24 00:12:31 -0800 | political-news
Senate on Friday voted to put aside a short-term spending bill that ties disaster-relief funding to cuts in Democratic-backed programs aiding the auto industry, leaving government funding unsettled and the possibility that disaster victims will be without federal aid early...
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