Mr Lee, who was guest of honour at the SCO's fundraising dinner on Friday night, hailed the SCO as Singapore's premier Chinese orchestra with a 'distinctive orchestral voice'. -- PHOTO: ST PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong is pledging $250,000 each year for three years to the Singapore Chinese Orchestra .

During Singapore's Prime Minister National Day Rally speech for 2010 a few days ago, he spoke about the need for more foreign talent .

SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority said the upgrading of the train signalling system will result in shorter waiting times for commuters and a 20 per cent improvement to its existing capacity.

This city's most famous expatriate writer, W. Somerset Maugham, once wrote of Southeast Asia's peasant workers: These patient, industrious folk carry on the same yokes, the same burdens as their ancestors carried so many generations back.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sabah-born Yong Vui Kong, in death row for a drug offence in Singapore, will have his appeal heard in January.

Gothamist posed a very important question today, when they heard that Singapore's Changi International Airport installed a 4-story slide .

SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean visited the Singapore Armed Forces task group deployed in the Gulf of Aden for international counter-piracy operations at sea on Tuesday.

This blog is about the political struggle I am engaging in Singapore. The title "Singapore Alternatives" is chosen because my only political dream is to build a true alternative in Singapore.

Watching cars whizz round the race track is exciting but there can be long periods of waiting before they come round again.

National Day Rally - some views NATIONAL DAY RALLY 1. Moving, inclusive speech SIX years ago , after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's maiden National Day Rally speech, I was moved to write a letter to the Forum page .

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Singaporeans to "...let foreigners do the gambling..." yesterday, The Strait Times reported.

2. Households earning $8k-$10k now eligible for DBSS, and $30k CPF housing grant." 3. 16,000 more new flats will be offered this year, and up to 22,000 next year, pending demand.

THE late veteran broadcaster S. Chandramohan was a professional with a fine political sense, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a condolence letter to his widow on Monday.

Last update 15:21, Monday, 30/08/2010 Representatives and young people from ASEAN countries gathered yesterday, August 29, at the HCM City Youtha TMs Cultural House to open a cultural exchange week, which runs through September 4. Vietnam vows to build stronger ASEAN community ASEAN foreign ministers agree on major issues Fourth wall: Delegates ...

Two of the Keppel-built platforms used in the clean-up operation for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

SINGAPORE: Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr Marty Natalegawa who's here on an official visit, called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana.

SINGAPORE: Sweeping changes are in store for the education sector. Chief among them will be more choices for the less academically-inclined including a new direct track for Normal Academic students to enter a polytechnic without doing the O-levels. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed this in his National Day Rally speech at the University ...

SINGAPORE: Upbeat and reassuring - that's what many MPs and grassroots leaders had to say about Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech on Sunday evening.

Singapore will announce more steps to cool the property market after previous measures failed to keep prices from rising, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said his country is "managing" the entry of foreign workers including Filipinos as the prosperous Southeast Asian city state grapples with rising migration and declining local population.