According to Chicago Tribute, The University of Illinois trustees agreed to build the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in partnership with Singapore’s government. The deal is that Singapore government will provide a grant of $50 million.
Smells similar in a sense to the deal with Australia’s University of New South Wales. Hope they don’t make the same blunder again. It better not be, once bitten, twice bitten, every shy again.
According to The Washington Post, Bloomberg has launched a Mobile Application suite of investment tools and services with SingTel. SingTel customers can look forward to the ability to “create a personalized portfolio to track the performance of their shares and stock exchange indices”.
Nice handy tool for investors.
According to International Herald Tribune, World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub says that tightly-controlled Singapore needs to loosen up restrictions to allow innovation so that it can remain competitive in the long-term.
He made his point by the illustration, “in United States, you can do a U-turn anywhere except where a sign forbids it, while in Singapore, drivers can only do a U-turn where a sign permits it”. Quoting him, “In this anecdote, there is a grain of truth. Innovation and creativity are, by definition, not orderly and not regulated”.
As a local, I do wonder how much control would the ruling party ease? Do their even see a need to ease control in order to be competitive? Just for example, regardless of the amount of debate on pink dollar, regulations will remain and pink dollar remains elusive.
An Israeli tourist, getting irritated with the wolf whistling by the road workers in a small New Zealand town, stripped off, used an ATM cash machine, before getting dressed and walk away.
Hmm… strange way of response. But, I guess, it works.
In Mexican, a donkey was jailed for biting and kicking two men. Oh, isn’t it interesting that animal can be jailed now. 
Actually, the reason behind the jailing of the donkey, is to get it’s owner to paid a fine of US$36, a hospital bill of US$115 for the two men, and in addition US$480 for each missed work day by each man. And, the owner has actually paid up for the fine and the hospital bill in order to get his donkey released. Very innovative way of handling the case.
According to ST, Myanmar cyclone survivors are being kicked out of wooden schoolhouse that they use as shelter. This is in order for the government to use the shelters are polling stations.
When a government is willing to kick out its disaster survivors just for political voting stations, it shows very clearly where their priority lies. It is definitely not on its citizens.
According to a recent survey, more than half of Americians will not be taking a summer holiday this year. They cite saving money as the reason, and will opt instead to stay home. Quoting Mr Tom Musbach, senior managing editor of Yahoo Hotjobs, which conducted the poll, “The economic downturn is leading to layoffs and stretched resources, which in turn leads to increased workloads and pressure to improve performance.”
That sounds like something which many often heard locally. More overtime, which may not be paid for, and higher workload, has always seem to be the norm in Singapore. However, for USA to be going towards such a trend, it does not bode well to the world economy.
It is really shocking to read that in Argentines, such a case of cold cruel death was inflicted on an innocent 2-year old. It really brings to the point on how a family of violence can prime young children to lack empathy, and perhaps knowing that they are minor, could well get away from prosecution.
In this case, the two brothers, according to Argentine law, will be held in youth homes until they reach 18, and then released without further punishment.
Society at large, is getting more apathy, and moral issues are getting less addressed
According to Reuters, TodayOnline and TheOnlineCitizen, Singapore media regulator (MDA) seized the political film “One Nation under Lee” and is investigating the screening of it to an audience of 70 at the Tulip Room in the Peninsular Excelsior Hotel.
With this investigation, Singapore made it to international news, and the political film, “One Nation Under Lee” is now the interest of many more who would not have hear of it. It is currently available in YouTube, and in this short 3 days, it has attracted more than 7,000 views.
According to ST, the trial will allow foldable bicycles (not exceeding 114cm X 64cm X 36cm) to be taken onto trains and public buses, but subjected to the time restriction and bicycle capacity per bus.
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This will allow foldable bicycle (not exceeding 114X64X36cm) of larger size to be brought onto the trains and buses. The current status before the trial is that foldable bicycle (not exceeding 81×58×30cm) are being brought onto the trains as SMRT officially allows luggage bag of such size to be brought onto the train. However, the restriction of hours means that it is meant for recreational, rather than daily office commuting usage.