PRESIDENT SR Nathan's Address to Parliament on Monday and the policy statements by Cabinet ministers that followed this week threw up little that was entirely new.
A US$100 million (S$146 million) international design centre is in the works to kick-start Singapore's fourth university.
A tie-up with the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the centre would meld architecture, engineering and information systems to come up with, say, a must-have electronic gadget, or the best transport system for a fast-expanding Singapore.
MRS Lim Hwee Hua may be Singapore's first woman Cabinet minister, but she is a little invisible from time to time.
When she is on official business overseas, some people still walk past her, looking for their male counterpart, she said. 'At meals, they continue to seat us women together.'
TRAINEE engineer Pattarin Kusopalin was in the corridor when she heard 'thunderous wails' for help. The Thai national froze, wondering where the 'terrifying noise' was coming from.
A door opened at the other end of the corridor in the Nanyang Technological University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and she saw a former teacher, Associate Professor Cheah Chien Chern, striding out.
