THE three universities, five polytechnics and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) announced separately on Friday that they will raise tuition fees for the academic year starting this year. The institutions all said the increased cost of providing a quality education has forced the fee hikes which, as with previous hikes, will be bigger for permanent …
SINGAPORE—The Singapore government unveiled more measures to stabilize prices in the city-state’s housing market, which it says could rise beyond “sustainable levels.” The moves come less than five months after an earlier set of measures aimed at curbing speculative activity in Singapore’s property market and at a time when Asian economies face mounting inflationary pressures …
BEIJING (AdAge.com) — Chinese shoppers are going beyond popular online e-commerce categories like apparel, cosmetics and books. Sales on Alibaba Group’s Taobao for home furnishings and food surged last year by 120% and 95%, respectively, and diapers, mobile phones and light fixtures are fast-growing categories. At 420 million, China is the world’s biggest internet market …
THERE will be fewer new drivers on the road this year compared to last year, going by fresh statistics from the Traffic Police. The number of people taking up lessons to get their driving licences is estimated to have dipped by 30 per cent between the period from January to September last year, and the …
SINGAPORE: The starting pay for fresh polytechnic graduates rose 5.3 per cent last year, to an average gross monthly salary of S$1,871. Post-National Service (NS) diploma holders earned an average gross monthly salary of S$2,183, an increase of about 2.5 per cent from 2009. During the economic downturn in 2009, post-NS diploma holders’ gross average …
WASHINGTON – NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system, but its scorching temperatures are too hot for life, the space agency said on Monday. The exoplanet, named Kepler-10b, is the smallest-ever planet discovered outside our solar system, and was …
REVENUE from the integrated resorts (IRs) between April and November last year may have hit about $420 million but collections from other gambling activities have fallen. Second Minister for Finance Lim Hwee Hua said this in Parliament on Tuesday. Levies charged for entry at the IRs raked in $130 million for the Totalisator Board during …
The 2010 GCE ‘O’ Level examination results were released on Monday afternoon. (Yahoo! file photo) For the third year running, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School (SNGS) has produced the top O-level student. The 2010 GCE ‘O’ Level examination results were released on Monday afternoon at the respective secondary schools of students who sat for the …