RESIDENTS in Admiralty Drive will have a recycling bin at every HDB block as part of a pilot project to get more people to recycle.
The six-month-long project by the National Environment Agency (NEA), recycling company SembWaste and Canberra constituency will involve 14 HDB blocks.
MANILA - ABOUT 50,000 Philippine policemen began enforcing a five-month ban on carrying guns in public on Sunday in hopes of avoiding bloodshed in the buildup to May elections, arresting 18 violators at checkpoints across the country.
The Philippines is a lively democracy and elections are often marred by violence and fraud. In the 2007 local and congressional elections, 108 people were killed in election-related violence, including 15 candidates, national police spokesman Chief Supt. Leonardo Espina said Sunday.
WASHINGTON - INTELLIGENCE officials who failed to prevent the botched Christmas Day attack on a US-bound passenger jet must be held accountable and disciplined, two leading US lawmakers said on Sunday.
'Someone's got to be held responsible,' Republican US Senator John McCain told CNN television's 'State of the Union' program, speaking from Jerusalem, during a swing through the Middle East.
SENGKANG'S first hawker centre and wet market officially opened on Sunday.
It scored a first on another front - it is the first standalone market and food centre which the Housing Board has allowed a private operator to build and run.
