CHINESE President Hu Jintao's visit to Singapore on Wednesday is expected to yield new bilateral initiatives in education and culture, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday.
It will also give a further boost to longstanding good relations between the two countries, Mr Lee added.
A MAN fell 12 storeys to his death on Saturday night while a fire raged in his flat where his two young children lay dead in their bedroom.
Neighbours in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 heard two explosions at about 9.50pm and saw thick, black smoke billowing out of the sixth floor unit in Block 543.
SINGAPORE'S economy may grow by 3 per cent next year and Singaporeans must be prepared for slower growth for several years, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Sunday.
In a speech at the Tanjong Pagar GRC Tree Planting Day at Henderson Heights, he said Singapore will not resume high growth until the major economies in the world have recovered, which could take years.
SHARM EL-SHEIK (Egypt) - CHINA'S premier on Sunday pledged US$10 billion (S$13.9 billion) in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government debts of some of the poorest of those countries, as the Asian powerhouse looked to deflect criticism that its investments in the continent were motivated purely by greed.
At a two-day China-Africa summit that began on Sunday, Mr Wen Jiabao also said China would build 100 new clean energy projects for Africa over the same period as part of an effort to help the continent deal with climate change issues.
