June 8, 2009 Monday
Updated

SPECTATORS at this year's National Day Parade (NDP) will be a full 20m closer to the action - close enough, in fact, to see even the expressions of performers on-stage.

 
State body to handle maintenance

SHE floods his cellphone with text messages, and deluges him with calls. But still, there is no sign of the $200 a month he owes her. He is already two months behind, and the 24-year-old data administrator who has custody of two of their three children is finding it tough to find money for even essentials like toilet paper.

'I really need every cent,' she told The Straits Times. She is moving to the next step, asking the Family Court to force him to pay up.

Funds needed for expedition

WHAT can be tougher than having to ski over 800 kilometres across Antarctica, with 100 kilogrammes of gear at minus 40 degrees Celcius?

46 submissions for NMPs

FORTY-SIX submissions for Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) have been received by the Special Select Committee, said a statement from the Office of the Clerk of Parliament on Monday night.

Thirty-one of them were from the general public, and 15 were proposed by six functional groups.

   
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