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Singapore Asia's top REIT market (Bangkok Post)
Singapore has been rated as the best location in Asia-Pacific for real estate investment trust (REIT) potential for a second year.

Lee Kuan Yew warns Singapore must brace itself if escapee leaves (EARTHtimes.org)
Singapore -The city-state must brace itself for a return hit sometime if accused terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari has escaped to Indonesia, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew warned in a published report on Saturday. The alleged leader of the al-Qaeda-linke…

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Singapore unveils high-tech underground arms storage facility (People's Daily)
Singapore on Friday commissioned its first underground arms storage facility, the world's most modern one of its kind. Located at the old Mandai quarry, the Underground Ammunition Facility (UAF) is also the first large-scale undergr …

Lee Kuan Yew warns Singapore must brace itself if escapee leaves (EARTHtimes.org)
Singapore -The city-state must brace itself for a return hit sometime if accused terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari has escaped to Indonesia, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew warned in a published report on Saturday. The alleged leader of the al-Qaeda-linke…

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Australia: Socceroos To Play Singapore In Warmup For World Cup Qualifier (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Australia coach Pim Verbeek plans to field a team mostly of domestic A-League players for an international friendly in Singapore four days ahead of the Socceroos next World Cup qualifying match against China.

Shakespeare plays in manga form now available in Singapore (Channel NewsAsia)
SINGAPORE: Shakespeare classics are now available in a new art form Japanese manga. UK-based book publisher, SelfMadeHero, decided to combine Shakespeare with Japanese manga to attract more young people to gain knowledge on the classics.

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Singapore GP to release more seats for F1 from Monday (Channel NewsAsia)
SINGAPORE: Additional seats for the 2008 Formula One SingTel Singapore Grand Prix will be released in the coming weeks. From Monday, 10,000 grandstand seats situated at the Padang will be the first to be released.

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Expats vote Singapore, Copenhagen top places: survey (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Asian expatriates have ranked Singapore as the best place to live in the world for its safe and clean environment, while Europeans chose Copenhagen, a survey showed on Tuesday.

TAIWAN CARRIER DENIES REPORTED DEAL WITH SINGAPORE AIRLINES (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Transport Taiwan's largest carrier denied a rumor Tuesday that Singapore Airlines (SGX:S55) plans to buy a quarter of its shares, which soared to a record high earlier in the day.

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Anwar attends seminar in Singapore (Channel NewsAsia)
As campaigning for the general election on Saturday enters its last lap, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is taking a break from the hustings to attend a seminar in Singapore on Wednesday.

Singapore best place to live for Asian expats: survey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Singapore is the best city in the world for Asian expatriates to live in due mainly to its quality of life and low crime rate, a survey released Tuesday by ECA International showed.

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Singapore Stocks May Rebound (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) – The Singapore stock market has been headed South for much of the past week, but now the Straits Times Index may be due for a positive bounce as a bit of bargain hunting could lift the index to the upside.

Singapore best place to live for Asian expats: survey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Singapore is the best city in the world for Asian expatriates to live in due mainly to its quality of life and low crime rate, a survey released Tuesday by ECA International showed.

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Expats vote Singapore, Copenhagen top places: survey (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Asian expatriates have ranked Singapore as the best place to live in the world for its safe and clean environment, while Europeans chose Copenhagen, a survey showed on Tuesday.

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TAIWAN DOES WELL AT SINGAPORE TRAVEL FAIR (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Singapore Nearly 3,000 people booked trips to Taiwan at an international tour exhibition in Singapore, a successful showing that was the result of an aggressive marketing campaign, a tourism industry representative said Monday.

Singapore Hot Stocks-NOL up on strong freight rates (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SINGAPORE, March 4 – Shares of Neptune Orient Lines rose as much as 6.6 percent to S$3.23 with 2.5 million shares traded after NOL said it carried 17 percent more containers in the six weeks to Feb 8, compared with the same period a year ago, dealers said.

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Singapore: Asian Bourses Plunge On US Meltdown Fears (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
SINGAPORE: Asian bourses took a severe beating Monday (3 March), snuffing out faint investor hopes that the worst of the recent market turmoil was over.

PetroChina may build big Singapore refinery-paper (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SINGAPORE, March 4 – China's top energy firm PetroChina is considering building a multi-billion-dollar refinery in Singapore, a local newspaper reported, allowing it to escape Beijing's fuel price controls.

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Singapore-based artist's exhibition a hit in Shanghai (Channel NewsAsia)
SINGAPORE : A Singapore-based artist is spreading his love for drawing to children in China. His hands-on exhibition in Shanghai proved to be such a hit that it had to be extended.

Top official says terror fugitive likely still in Singapore (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Authorities believe a top Muslim terror suspect has not managed to flee Singapore and have launched an investigation into how he escaped from a high-security prison, a senior government official said Sunday.

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Top official says terror fugitive likely still in Singapore (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Authorities believe a top Muslim terror suspect has not managed to flee Singapore and have launched an investigation into how he escaped from a high-security prison, a senior government official said Sunday.

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Ochoa goes seven clear in Singapore (CNN.com)
World number one Lorena Ochoa is heading for a runaway victory at the HSBC Women's Champions after taking a seven-shot lead at the halfway stage of the LPGA tournament in Singapore.

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Singapore to deploy 50 men to Afghanistan (EARTHtimes.org)
Singapore – Singapore plans to increase its presence in Afghanistan from 10 to 50 men this year, the armed forces said Saturday. Two 20-man teams will head to Oruzgan province south-west of the capital Kabul for three months each, providing health ca…

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Singapore: Terror leader escapes from jail (USA Today)
The Singapore government apologized Thursday for a rare security lapse after an Islamic terror group leader escaped from jail, triggering a massive manhunt across the island nation for a man who walks with a limp.

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