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WWF: Major Asian cities face climate disaster
Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, WWF warned on Thursday.
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Australian’s legal battle ends at the gallows
A young Australian heroin smuggler’s legal and diplomatic battle to avoid execution ended swiftly on Friday when he was hanged in a Singapore prison after all appeals were exhausted. Singaporean activists are campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty in the South-East Asian financial and technological centre.
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Airport becomes Singapore’s premier shopping mall
If Singapore is a shopper’s paradise, Changi airport must be its golden gate. With its plush carpeting, smartly dressed sales staff and modern decor, Changi could be mistaken for a chic mall along the Orchard Road shopping belt were it not for the signs pointing to flight boarding gates — and the jumbo jets parked beyond the glass walls.
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Singapore recalls dark days of Japanese surrender
Singapore on Monday marked the 60th anniversary of the formal Japanese surrender in the island during World War II which ended what many regard as the darkest chapter in its history. ”For those who lived through the war, the wounds have taken a long time to heal and the memories will not be forgotten,” said Information Minister Lee Boon Yang.
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Singapore sex guru offers baby-making retreat
Affluent Asian couples finding it tough to make babies will soon get help from a Singaporean ”sex guru” offering a novel program to ease a severe decline in the island’s fertility rates.
