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Online Only - Declaring of goods: Singapore Custom clarifies for everyone's benefit

We refer to ''I do declare, I'm confused'' (TODAYonline, Oct 27). The headline appears to lead readers to think that there is no certainty in making a...

Hongbao instead of flowers?

I REFER to ''It pays to be kind'' (Nov 4) and am glad that the Singapore Kindness Movement aims to get people thinking about taking the appreciation...

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How volleyball and pop have shaken China's idea of race

by Isabel Hilton

EARLIER this year, China picked Ding Hui, a young man from Hangzhou, for its national volleyball team. Last month, a 20-year-old Shanghainese, Lou...

All hail the generals

by David Ngiau

Like lead singers in a rock band, strikers by and large hog the headlines - there's nothing cooler than a guy scoring regularly. The gifted attacking...

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Poparazzi

“And the winner is…” – a night at the Singapore Hit Awards

SO as it turned out, the 15th Singapore Hit Awards, or SHA, should have been renamed the S.H.E. awards, seeing as the babelicious Taiwanese trio...

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The Big Story

Rethinking the Singapore growth model

AS SINGAPORE emerges from a global recession that turned out to be milder and shorter than earlier feared, there may be an impression that things are back to normal and it's business as...

10,550 private homes, maybe

SINGAPORE - It has come a month earlier this year than usual, in what seems a clear move to tackle concerns about the property market's exuberance. On Friday, the Government released details...

Some cheer for sports fans

SINGAPORE - The battle to woo sports fans has escalated, with StarHub and SingTel firing one-two salvos within hours on Friday. Is it a sign that the competition in pay-TV is finally turning...

Rethinking the Singapore growth model

AS SINGAPORE emerges from a global recession that turned out to be milder and shorter than earlier feared, there may be an impression that things are back to normal and it's business as...

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