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MOM can and will do more for foreign workers: Tan Chuan-Jin
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin has said his ministry can and will do more for foreign workers.He said this in response to various criticisms about the ministry's management of migrant worker matters.Mr Tan said the ministry's various systems, including those dealing with employment issues for workers, can be improved, and the ministry will continue to work on them.He...
Google+ iOS app adds support for Google+ Communities
Label: LifestyleApple iOS users can now do even more with Google+ on their mobile devices.Released yesterday, version 4.1 of Google+ for iOS lets you browse, search for, and join communities. You can find communities devoted to your own interests, read posts from fellow members, and post your own comments.You can now subscribe to any circle from your iPhone oriPad and receive notifications of updates and other items....
GRAIL Mission Goes Out With a Bang
Label: HealthJane J. Lee On Friday, December 14, NASA sent their latest moon mission into a death spiral. Rocket burns nudged GRAIL probes Ebb and Flow into a new orbit designed to crash them into the side of a mountain near the moon's north pole today at around 2:28 p.m. Pacific standard time. NASA named the crash site after late astronaut Sally Ride, America's first woman in space.Although the mountain...
Siblings of Sandy Hook Victims Face Survivor's Guilt
Label: Business Six-year-old Arielle Pozner was in a classroom at Sandy Hook school when Adam Lanza burst into the school with his rifle and handguns. Her twin brother, Noah, was in a classroom down the hall.Noah Pozner was killed by Lanza, along with 19 other children at the school, and six adults. Arielle and other students' siblings survived."That's going to be incredibly difficult to cope...
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Megacity China: the ultimate in urban migration
Label: World Joanna Carver, reporter(Image: Wu Hong/EPA/Corbis)NO, YOU haven't slipped into a dream within a dream within a dream. This megacity, which you'd be forgiven for thinking is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception, is Qingdao. It won the accolade of being China's most liveable city in 2009 and 2011. It is home to 8.7 million people. One of the main criteria for the prize is that the...
New private home sales in November fall to lowest level in 2012
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: The number of new private homes sold in November fell to the lowest level in 2012.Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), 1,087 units were sold in November -- 44.2 percent less than in October.It is also the second straight month of decline.October saw 25.7 percent less homes moved in at 1,948 units.Analysts attribute the decline to fewer property launches last month.Savills'...
Dueling analysts differ on Apple's prospects ahead
Label: LifestyleApple's recent stock slide has elicited different opinions from two analysts on the near-term prospects for the company.In an investors note released yesterday, Citi analyst Glen Yeung lowered his rating on Apple stock to Neutral from Buy. Citi initiated coverage of Apple last month, issuing a Buy rating based on an expected recovery from the stock's then "near-term trough."But with the share price...
Space Pictures This Week: Frosty Mars, Mini Nile, More
Label: HealthPhotograph by Mike Theiss, National GeographicThe aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, illuminates the Arctic sky in a recent picture by National Geographic photographer Mike Theiss.A storm chaser by trade, Theiss is in the Arctic Circle on an expedition to photograph auroras, which result from collisions between charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere and gaseous particles...
Newtown Victims: 'Hero' Teacher, Principal, 20 Kids
Label: Business Twenty bright first graders with their entire lives ahead of them were gunned down on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Along with the students, the lives of six school staffers, including a devoted teacher and a proud principal, were lost. Click through to see the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Noah Pozner and his twin sister celebrated their sixth...
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