SMOKERS in Singapore lit up 16 million more cigarettes a month last year despite being banned from smoking in more public places and being hit by record-high cigarette prices in 2007.
AS THE popularity of traditional engineering courses wanes, Singapore polytechnics are rolling out programmes this year in newly popular fields such as clean energy and aeronautical engineering.
SINGAPORE'S once-roaring oil rig industry has been hit by contract cancellations due to weaker energy demand and as plummeting crude prices dampen exploration.
Until the global financial crisis worsened last year, oil rig builders had been riding on soaring oil prices to reap a multi-billion-dollar bonanza.
A FORMER employee of the Cortina watch outlet that was cleaned out of $7.9 million in timepieces and cash on Christmas Day is now a wanted man internationally.
Mr Jerry Ee - who has been missing since the theft was discovered and got the sack from the company - has been listed under Interpol's wanted list for theft.
