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The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Tuesday that traffic flow through the land checkpoints at Woodlands and Tuas is expected to be heavy over the coming weekend, due to enhanced security and the Good Friday holiday. -- ST PHOTO: EDWIN KOO » Full Story
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SINGAPORE and Thailand should work more closely to enhance cooperation, the leaders of the two countries said on Wednesday. To that end, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Thai counterpart Samak Sundaravej announced the resumption of two cooperation programmes.

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ALL the regulatory action flowing from the Wall Street tremors has been about holding investors' confidence. It was reasonable of America's central bank, the Federal Reserve Board, to assume the stunning end of the brokerage house Bear Stearns - sold to a rival bank for US$2 (S$2.70) a share, 7 per cent of its book value only two days prior - would not snap the chain of credit contraction that is making investors nervous about the holders of their money.
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MS LYDIA Rahman in Monday's letter, 'Expats score at expense of others', called for non-citizens to be made to pay twice as much for fuel at petrol stations and at least 50 per cent more to own a car, compared to what Singaporeans pay. She also begrudged the fact that the Government is providing more land for international schools for expatriate children.
April 21, 2008
Mas Selamat: Here's how he escaped
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng unveiled further details to the daring escape of JI fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari in Parliament on Monday when he released the Executive Summary of the Committee of Inquiry's report. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave his take on Government accountability over the issue. We bring you both speeches in full.
Gone in 49 secs
That's how long it may have taken Mas Selamat from the time he jumped out of an unsecured toilet window at the Whitley Road Detention Centre till the time he scaled a double perimeter fence, to his freedom. Mr Wong, who's also Deputy Prime Minister gives a detailed timeline of the JI leader's prison break
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The COI's recommendations
The Government has accepted a slew of recommendations put forth by the Committee of Inquiry (COI). Among them - centralising the command and control of the Whitley Road detention centre under the Internal Security Department and building a new detention facility in Changi Prison for political detainees.
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