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500 children to show appreciation to bus captains and MRT station staff

About 500 children will be at bus interchanges and MRT stations around Singapore today (May 20), to show their appreciation to bus captions and station staff for their dedicated service. The kindergarten, primary and secondary school students will present them with cards and handmade gifts. - CHERYL LIN

All eyes on Tsai's inauguration speech

Taiwan's Beijing-sceptic President-elect Tsai Ing-wen is set to be sworn in today (May 20), with all eyes glued on her inauguration speech. Earlier reports said she would avoid provoking China and leave out her stance on the 1992 consensus, a tacit agreement between Beijing and Taipei that there is only one China, with each having its own interpretation of what that means.

G-7 Finance ministers and central bank chiefs to meet in Sendai

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial powers will kick off their meeting in the north-east city of Sendai today (May 20). Global economic uncertainties - including a British referendum on whether to exit the European Union that could potentially jolt markets - as well as measures to deal with tax evasion will be among the key topics that finance leaders of the G-7 advanced economies will discuss.