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Last post by Pal
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:00 am
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Stamford American International School
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Pal » Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:34 pm
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Staying, Living in Singapore
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Stamford American International Singapore offers an holistic education for students from 2 months to 18 years of age, being the first and only school...
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Stamford American International School seems like an excellent choice for expat families in Singapore. I like that it offers multiple internationally...
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Last post by Raymond L Clay
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 5:00 pm
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Last post by joop
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 3:28 pm
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Singapore PR to wait 3 years to buy HDB resale flat
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Wd40 » Tue, 27 Aug 2013 6:27 pm
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Another HDB rule targeting PRs
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I consider buying a HDB flat as a non SC to be a high risk decision. The chances of the winds changing and PR's being forced en masse to hand back or...
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Last post by PNGMK
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:13 pm
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Pasir Panjang Road Widening
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Pennywhistle » Sun, 15 Sep 2013 2:25 pm
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I thought I had just nailed down a family friendly, and relatively quiet place to rent when I came across an article on a random Google search...
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Why should they worry about what expats want? They tryin' to get rid of us!
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Last post by sundaymorningstaple
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 4:05 pm
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UK turning into a Banana Republic?
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zzm9980 » Mon, 19 Aug 2013 6:41 pm
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The UK detained Glenn Greenwald's partner (boyfriend) while he was transiting through LHR from Berlin back to Rio. Glenn Greenwald is the Guardian...
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My god, this just gets more laughable:
in the face of all this, singapore's human rights records are not looking that bad afterall
A certain...
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Last post by chaaraard
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 3:24 pm
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Last post by Wd40
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:38 pm
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Last post by chaaraard
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 5:17 pm
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Syria ....
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Barnsley » Wed, 28 Aug 2013 1:14 pm
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The Americans are locked and loaded and Call me Dave has recalled Parliament and is vowing not to be on the sidelines ......
Ruskies and the Chinese...
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All calculated and choreographed.
I'll say one thing, they are really choreographing this one extremely and convincingly well with Putin's NYTimes...
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Last post by sundaymorningstaple
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:45 pm
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Making the Car distribution system fairer?
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Barnsley » Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00 am
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First proposal involves tax!
I thought Singapore was trying to avoid the perceived mistakes made in Europe of over taxation.
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I never mind, I confused kw and hp. That's really not too unreasonable for Cat A IMO.
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Last post by zzm9980
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 6:22 pm
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Last post by Mi Amigo
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 5:42 pm
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Suing the condo board
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movingtospore » Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:09 am
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Read the story in today's BCL about the harley owner suing his condo as they won't let him park in an actual parking spot. May the force be with him....
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Assuming he pays the same for the space whether it is car or mc.
Nope - you usually don't pay for a condo space.
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Last post by PNGMK
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 3:02 pm
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More corruption in squeaky clean Singapore?
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sundaymorningstaple » Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:35 am
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ICA officer at Tuas checkpoint faces 35 charges under Prevention of Corruption Act for granting VPs to foreigners in return for monetary gains in...
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Nak, I think a lot is from my home PC. I had to replace my old notebook and the new one is loaded with Windows 8 and a really sucky keyboard,...
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Last post by nakatago
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 2:23 pm
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Intereting stats NOT from Singstat.
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Mi Amigo » Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:53 am
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Singapore is number 1 again - beating India. That'll please the TRE folk.
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Just read the article that goes with the table.
none the wiser about what it means.
The table itself makes pretty grim reading but can someone...
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Last post by Barnsley
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:42 am
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Indonesia jails police general for corruption
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Mi Amigo » Tue, 03 Sep 2013 9:16 pm
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Indonesia's anti-corruption court has found a two-star general guilty of corruption and money laundering in a high-profile case.
Insp Gen Djoko...
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Obviously, the gent in question was paying off the wrong people.
I don't know, look at the amount he took and the amount he was fined. I'm guessing...
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Last post by zzm9980
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 1:04 am
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Last post by mre
Sat, 31 Aug 2013 8:22 pm
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WSJ report on PRC bus driver strike, and foreigner reliance
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zzm9980 » Mon, 26 Aug 2013 2:10 pm
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I just started reading it, but pretty interesting so far...
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Part 3...
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Part 5:
That last part throws up questions in some areas, which I guess WSJ would not want to openly address in their article, but we can all read...
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Last post by AngMoG
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:50 am
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Last post by ecureilx
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:13 am
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Foreign universities too are feeling the heat!
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Wd40 » Tue, 20 Aug 2013 6:44 pm
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Although not relevant to the above link, I always thought Singapore is really a poor return on investment as a destination for higher education for...
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Wonder if Yale will do the same in five years.
I'm shocked that Singapore Gov is acting shocked on this. HK vs SG in regards to freedom of speech...
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Last post by zzm9980
Sun, 25 Aug 2013 7:40 pm
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Piper Alpha disaster 25 years on
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Mi Amigo » Sat, 06 Jul 2013 6:27 pm
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I still get a horrible cold feeling running down my spine when I remember this tragedy. 167 men died; here are the stories of some of the survivors....
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Some remarkable stories.
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Last post by bgd
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:53 am
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Singapore: We're number 1, again!
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zzm9980 » Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:27 pm
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We're #1! :P :lol:
The report says the average person’s consumption in Hong Kong equals 4.7 global hectares, while the available...
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By the time you take the Islands and New Territories into account, HK has some pretty huge green spaces though not all agricultural.
Having lived in...
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Last post by ScoobyDoes
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 9:47 am
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Young Dubliner found dead
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Fortan » Wed, 21 Aug 2013 9:35 am
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I was made aware of this article about the death of a Dublin girl in her 20's, here in Singapore, by a friend. I was wondering whether any of you...
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I was on the DS Seacrest and was on time off when she went over during Typhoon Gay in '89. I'd spend a total of around 1.5 years on her but in two...
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Last post by sundaymorningstaple
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 4:24 pm
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Future of Entrepass
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AngMoG » Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30 am
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Hot off the LinkedIn news referral:
From 1 September 2013 only businesses with funding from a recognised venture capitalist firm or angel,...
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took a while. They lost the documents so had to resend. Approved again though but as usual just 1 year.
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Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:04 am
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