Posts Tagged ‘WDA’
Brown Lotto trick ‘confuses’ fans (BBC 12 Sep)
Brown Lotto trick 'confuses' fans Brown said he got the numbers by asking 24 people to guess them Many fans and critics have been left confused by illusionist Derren Brown's explanation of how he appeared to predict Wednesday's lottery [...]
Wanted: Jobs with work-life balance (Sunday Times 13 Sep)
Wanted: Jobs with work-life balance The good news is more bosses are taking steps to boost staff wellness By Mavis Toh Fitness enthusiast and Sembcorp employee Paul Low has received close to $50,000 in sponsorship from his company to help [...]
Marry Rich
Reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband;- A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good [...]
How to retire prepared
HOW TO RETIRE Author Unknown Four Pre-Conditions for Retirement I retired in year 2000 at age 52. I am now 61, thus I can claim that I got more experience at retirement than most! I thought I should share my experience with mariners [...]
Foreign workers: How to strike that fine balance?( ST 12 Sep)
Foreign workers: How to strike that fine balance? New restrictions on the flow of foreign workers have caused companies in the services sector to fret. Insight looks at whether they are over-reliant on foreigners and what can be done to help [...]
Venturing out to start businesses (ST 12 Sep)
Venturing out to start businesses Grads, with the help of incubator schemes, are growing their start-ups By Cassandra Chew WHEN National University of Singapore (NUS) graduate Stanley Han, 28, registered his business in 2003 he did not even [...]
Courses for older workers in demand (ST 11 Sep)
Home > Singapore > Story Courses for older workers in demand More firms sign up for courses that prepare staff for working in later years or retirement By Theresa Tan Yishun Secondary maths teacher Lee Soo Miang [...]
Translated English Version Of Sin Min Interview Report
Someone has helped me done up a translated English version of the Sin Min interview report dated 10 Sep: Man, unemployed for 18 months, now dedicated to helping the unemployed here A man who currently resides in Australia (Syndey), Mr [...]
Article On Me In Sin Min Paper – In Mandarin
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S’pore still the easiest place to do business (ST 10 Sep)
S'pore still the easiest place to do business World Bank ranks the Republic top for the fourth time in a row By Alvin Foo SINGAPORE has been ranked as the easiest place in the world to do business for the fourth time in a row. According to [...]
Can There Be Good Things Coming Out Of A Recession?
Can There Be Good Things Coming Out of A Recession? Written by: Gilbert Goh This article first appeared here in March 09. Sometimes, because of the prevailing negativity surrounding a recession, we failed to spot the lessons that could be learnt [...]
Out of work, and Too Down to Search On (New York Times 9 Sep)
By MICHAEL LUO Published: September 7, 2009 They were left out of the latest unemployment rate, as they are every month: millions of hidden casualties of the Great Recession who are not counted in the rate because they have stopped looking for [...]
Colleges are falling in graduation rates (New York Times 8 Sep)
Colleges Are Failing in Graduation Rates By DAVID LEONHARDT Published: September 8, 2009 The College Dropout Boom But I would suggest that the list should also include a less obvious nominee: public universities. At its top levels, the [...]
This is how a real woman looks like (The New Paper 9 Sep)
Wed, Sep 09, 2009 The New Paper This is how a real woman looks like THE appearance in Glamour magazine of a model who fills more of the page than fashion's usual rake-thin stars is getting big cheers from US women. Lizzie Miller has [...]
High housing board resale prices not all good news (Mypaper 8 Sep)
HOUSING Board resale prices are at record highs. I wonder if this is good news, and also about the possible social repercussions. Though it will benefit upgraders who want to sell their flats in the open market, newlywed couples will continue to [...]
