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Posted on: 11 Mar 2010
(SINGAPORE) The economy is expected to register robust growth this quarter - 9.5 per cent, according to economists' forecasts - though it'll be more of a technical rebound than anything else.
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Posted on: 11 Mar 2010
AMERICAN technology company FormFactor said yesterday that its new $30 million facility in Singapore will become the sole source of the component at the heart of its manufacturing process. But the facility, officially opened yesterday, is a lot smaller than the one originally planned in 2007. Back then, the Nasdaq-listed company - which makes wafter probe cards - said it would open a $301 million facility in 2009 that would create 1,000 jobs.
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Posted on: 09 Mar 2010
MICROSOFT yesterday launched Asia's first regional School Technology Innovation Centre (STIC) - in Singapore. The launch was in conjunction with the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Regional Innovative Educators Forum, held here today and tomorrow.
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Posted on: 08 Mar 2010
KEPPEL Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and the Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (Marintek) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Saturday to collaborate on the development of technologies and training opportunities.
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Posted on: 04 Mar 2010
JUST as it had backed the growth-at-all-cost strategy, the labour movement will now go along with the move to boost productivity to drive the economy. Noting that different strategies are needed at different stages of economic development, labour chief Lim Swee Say told Parliament yesterday that higher productivity is the only option to sustain growth and higher wages for workers. And this can only be done if Singapore continues to keep its door open to foreign workers - but capped at the present sustainable level of one-third of the total workforce, he said on the second day of the debate on the Budget Statement.
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Posted on: 04 Mar 2010
A SOFTWARE company dubbed 'China's Little Giant' has opened its first R&D centre outside China in Singapore. Kingdee International Software Group Company, which has been operating in Singapore since early last year, said yesterday that it chose the island because of the government's strong support for the IT industry.
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Posted on: 02 Mar 2010
FOREIGNERS, excluding permanent residents, make up 10 per cent of SG Cares volunteers. Those interviewed say they do so to give back to society and also to better understand the community they live in.
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Posted on: 02 Mar 2010
A HIGH-LEVEL delegation from Egypt will be in Singapore this week to showcase the country as a key destination for investors seeking opportunities in the vast, largely untapped market of Africa.
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Posted on: 26 Feb 2010
AN AMERICAN firm that makes high-tech devices used in smart phones and flat-screen TVs opened an operations centre here yesterday. Lattice Semiconductor based the Ang Mo Kio facility here - its first in Asia - to bring it closer to its supply chain partners across the region.
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Posted on: 26 Feb 2010
SINGAPORE'S burgeoning clean technology industry is to boast a cutting- edge green business park that will help create 20,000 'green-collar' jobs by 2030. Plans for the 50ha park, to be built in three phases at a cost of $52 million, were unveiled yesterday. The park in Nanyang Avenue, near Tuas, will feature green technologies such as stormwater recycling, solar power generation and buildings with the highest standards of environmental performance set in a lush green landscape.