If a large-scale natural disaster were to happen, a multinational team, comprising military forces from 18 countries, can now be deployed swiftly and seamlessly to provide medical support.
This has been made possible after three years of preparation and training led by Singapore and Japan, the co-chairs of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM)-Plus Experts' Working Group on Military Medicine (EWG-MM).
Commercial and industrial tenants in Housing and Development Board (HDB) properties will no longer be allowed to assign their premises to another party.
The HDB announced this on Monday, in a move to weed out unhealthy speculation and rising assignment fees.
Assignment fee is the amount agreed upon between the proposed tenant and existing tenant for the transfer of the property.
The HDB has about 8,000 commercial and 10,700 industrial tenants.
Currently, they are allowed to assign their premises to another party, a move meant to facilitate the exit of marginal tenants and minimise disruption of services.
Singapore's economy grew 5.1 per cent on-year in the third quarter of 2013, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in advance estimates released on Monday, faster than the second quarter's revised 4.2% growth.
The market was expecting a 3.8 per cent growth.
OCBC's head of Treasury Research & Strategy, Selena Ling, said: "This was really unexpected, because if you look at August data for industrial production and NODX, actually they were pretty poor...So I suppose either there's expectation that the September data...is going to show a much better pick-up, or that going into fourth quarter, we could see a further acceleration in terms of momentum."
The Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) has launched a new free real-time lightning service on multiple platforms.
It will be available as a mobile app called Lightning@SG, on the MSS website, and through the weather information hotline number.
With the app, smart phone users will be able to customise up to three locations of interest and receive push alerts when lightning is detected within a pre-defined distance of either six kilometres or eight kilometres from their location of interest.
Users will also be able to choose the type of lightning (cloud-to-cloud and/ or cloud-to-ground) and thundery showers forecast that they wish to receive a push alert on.
Singapore’s Organising Committee for the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games have set their sights on attracting some $50 million in cash and value-in-kind sponsorships, with a look towards building partnerships with corporates beyond the games as a priority.
Speaking at a media event at the Experience Centre of the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday, Mr Richard Seow, Chairman of the 28th SEA Games Sponsorship and Marketing Advisory Sub-Committee, said: “We are pleased by the interest we are seeing in preliminary discussions with potential sponsors across industries from MNCs to SMEs.”
Sixty-six athletes across 15 sports, chosen by the High Performance Sports (HPS) Steering Committee, will receive the Sports Excellence Scholarship (SpExScholarship) after displaying immense potential for international sporting achievements in their individual fields.
In addition to these 66 scholarship recipients, the HPS Steering Committee has bookmarked 26 other athletes from nine sports who have shown potential to grow to the level of a SpExScholar, and will also provide them with support.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has improved its ranking - moving up 10 places to 76th worldwide in the latest 2013-2014 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
This is NTU's third straight year of progressing up the rankings. Since 2010, NTU has moved up 98 positions.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has also improved its ranking - from 29th last year to 26th this year.
