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December 10, 2008 Wednesday
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SINGAPORE is setting the stage - literally - for special effects movies like Frank Miller's acclaimed 300, with a new 19-hectare media hub to be built at 1 North.

When completed in 2020, the park, which is about the size of 23 football fields, will feature digital media schools, production companies, 24-hour food and entertainment outlets, business hotels, service apartments, and Singapore's biggest and most high-tech film production set.

 
'If we can spend, why not?'

SINGAPORE'S school-going children seem unaware of terms such as 'recession' or 'economic downturn'.

SCDF dogs sniff out arson

THE skills of two new recruits to the Singapore Civil Defence Force - 'arson dogs' Max and Rex - are helping fire investigators here solve arson cases quickly.

First Aids orphans emerge

TWENTY-THREE years after Aids first surfaced in Singapore, the first Aids orphans here have emerged; among them are a pair of siblings who lost both parents to the disease.

   
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