Descriptive article, and pretty comprehensive, covering the unique features of the races, a summary of what happened, and what lies ahead - Cass
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"Singapore is likely to be the first Southeast Asian country to have Google's Street View service, following confirmation from the search giant that it has begun taking pictures across the island-state." - Cass
"Formula One Racing held its 800th race on Sunday in Singapore,with the Singapore Grand Prix - also the first Formula One race held at night. Organizers built, then lined a 5 kilometer track with over 1,600 lamps, said to be four times brighter than those used at football stadiums. Twenty drivers drove 61 laps for a total of 309 kilometers at speeds sometimes approaching 300 kilometers per hour - in a country that once banned the sport, in part for promoting reckless driving. Driver Fernando Alonso of Renault won the race with a time of 1:57:16.304. (25 photos total)" - Biao
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"The Social Development Unit is seeking bids from those willing to teach the 16-to-19-year-olds what they need to know about dating and finding the right partner in life.
The focus is on helping girls and boys to set goals for long-term love relationships, and shore up their confidence to relate with members of the opposite sex.
Hopefully, it will get them in the right frame of mind to want to eventually marry and have babies.
The winning bidder will have to produce teaching materials and have a pool of at least 30 trainers.
The SDU wants the programme run as a pilot project, with a view to having it integrated into the JC curriculum. The 16 colleges have about 30,000 students.
The 24-year-old matchmaking unit was set up originally to fix the problem of graduates who remained unmarried into their 30s and beyond.
More recently though, it has trained its sights on younger people, helping universities fund social activities to get undergraduates together.
Last year, it started a so-called" - Biao
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"Troy Chin may have made a mistake. A BIG mistake. Having left the music industry in New York City for his hometown in little-red-dotty Singapore, what's a loser who loves playing video games to do in a country obsessed with winning?" - Biao
“It is really a quintessential Singapore experience to live in one of those grand old houses surrounded by nature,” Mrs. Pickering said. “You can live in a condominium anywhere, but these houses are really unique." - Biao
dont know where this is but sure looks like some of the ones along Mt Rosie - viki saigal
I just think Singapore is such a great place to live in - ad the guys in this post missed out another big plus - low personal taxes. However, much as I would like to live here long term - i cant afford the housing - esp if I am retired or not earning - viki saigal
good point about the taxes! displays my student status by not including it in ;) - Daryl Tay
