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They are no longer just working in construction sites. These days, a growing number are also in service-sector jobs. Find out if they have problems coping with demanding Singaporean customers in The Sunday Times tomorrow. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN » Full Story
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THE doctor who first identified hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) here 36 years ago is shocked at the recent rapid spread of the viral disease. Since the current outbreak three weeks ago, over 2,600 cases have been reported. Dr Tay Chong Hai, 75, now a skin specialist in private practice, said it was 'unusual' to have 1,000 HFMD cases in a week.

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THE rush is on to stock up on the cheaper $7 Nets CashCards, although electronic payment provider Nets says there is ample stock to last until the new - and more expensive - version hits the market next month.
LONDON - THE news that Chelsea are confident of landing Brazilian winger Kaka in a £50 million (S$135 million) deal from AC Milan has been overshadowed by a double meltdown.
LOS ANGELES - MS SHARON Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realised she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages.

A GROWING number of cash-strapped Singapore-listed companies are looking to their own shareholders to raise fresh funds.

CHANCES are that one in every five babies born in Hong Kong last year will get a place in the public universities when they grow up.
YOU love your favourite Gap or Banana Republic top for its American preppy look, so get ready for a surprise - it may have been designed right here at home by a Singaporean.
SINGAPORE'S football tribesmen and their women have topsy-turvy notions of value for money. On any English Premier League (EPL) weekend gathering at club-pubs, like tonight, they slobber their way happily through jug after jug of over-priced beer.
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MS LYNN Lee's commentary last Friday, 'Quality debate v democratic ideals', sadly illustrated exactly what Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cautioned against in the debate on Professor Thio Li-Ann's by-election motion in Parliament: craving 'ideals' regardless of our experience of what works in Singapore.
HERE I am in England nursing some painful cold symptoms and with a business suffering from the credit crunch, yet I feel the need to respond to Dr Andy Ho's article last Thursday advocating illegitimate babies to enhance fertility in Singapore ('The (illegitimate) way to more babies').
SOME residents of Serangoon Gardens are incensed or anxious about the idea of a large number of male foreign workers coming to live in their area.
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
Duration: 32 min 24 secs | Filesize: 37.1 MB
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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