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A NEW columbarium expected to come up in Sengkang West in 2016 to provide a resting place for the dead has already stirred up unease among the living. Australian funeral services company Life Corporation won a tender called by the Housing Board in July to develop a Chinese temple integrated with a columbarium at a land parcel in Fernvale Link.

Shares in AirAsia Bhd fell 11.6 per cent after one of its aircraft went missing in bad weather on Sunday on its way to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya. Shares of the Malaysia-based budget airline fell at the start of trade on Monday, after Indonesia resumed its search for the missing jetliner QZ8501 at first light on Monday.

ONE issue most modern capitalist economies face is an overly competitive society, with distinct winners and losers in the economic battle. Economic theory, founded on the principle of utilitarianism, states that society will eventually benefit from growth and creative destruction.

ON DAYS off from his job as a construction site supervisor, Mr Vijayakumar Nagarajan, 31, likes visiting East Coast Park to relax. But yesterday, the S-Pass holder from Tamil Nadu was there to help clean it up instead.

Both public transport operators SMRT and SBS Transit have submitted their applications for fare adjustments to the Public Transport Council. (PTC) The council said on Friday that it had started its annual fare review exercise, and its decision on the applications will be announced in the first quarter of next year.

I am surprised to find Dr Chee Soon Juan’s letter published in The Straits Times (ST) newspaper today (18 December 2014). Dr Chee is the secretary general of Singapore Democratic Party, a liberal political party with several LGBT activists among its key supporters. The editors in ST group probably realised they do not have a choice as they are not the monopoly of information any longer thanks to the internet – Aspiring politicians are able to articulate their views to the public through their Facebook pages or affiliated social-media websites.

"One attacker was crying, 'Help me, I am injured'. But he was not and was trying to trap us, and shoot us," he added. Children's shoes and spectacles were strewn across the blood-stained floor of the auditorium the day after 132 students were slaughtered.

THE volatile global outlook has prompted private sector economists to downgrade their forecasts for Singapore's growth this year and the next. They now expect the economy to expand just 3 per cent this year, down from an earlier forecast of 3.3 per cent. The reasons behind the gloomier mood have been making headlines for weeks - the crashing oil price that is driving some producers to despair, a slowdown in China and the faltering economies in Japan and Europe.

For instance, while the Government rewrites banking laws to attract high-net-worth individuals from across the world (Singapore has the highest proportion of millionaires globally), it refuses to legislate minimum wage.

"I saw six or seven people walking class-to-class and opening fire on children." "As soon as we hid under tables, they fired bullets at our legs and our heads and then they burned our madam. They burned our madam. The firing continued but we didn't move because whoever moved got shot at."