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Friday #sgroundup: Ex-presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock uninvited from PA party

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Ex-presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock uninvited from PA party

Former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock said on Friday that he was uninvited from a Chinese New Year party organised by the People’s Association (PA) at the Istana this weekend. (Reuters photo)
Former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock said on Friday that he was uninvited from a Chinese New Year party organised by the People’s Association (PA) at the Istana this weekend. (Reuters photo)

Former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock said on Friday that he was uninvited from a Chinese New Year party organised by the People’s Association (PA) at the Istana this weekend.

Slated to be held this Sunday, the former People’s Action Party (PAP) Member of Parliament said in a Facebook post on Friday morning that he was “un-invited” after being told there was a change in “policy” for who should be at the garden party, which he noted he has attended every year with his wife since 1980.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ex-presidential-candidate-tan-cheng-bock-uninvited-from-pa-party-033731215.html


Musicals to pay tribute to Lee Kuan Yew as modern Singapore turns 50

Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will be featured in two musicals to be staged in time for the republic's 50th anniversary next year, The Straits Times reported.
Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will be featured in two musicals to be staged in time for the republic's 50th anniversary next year, The Straits Times reported.

Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will be featured in two musicals to be staged in time for the republic's 50th anniversary next year, The Straits Times reported.

Singapore theatre company Metropolitan Productions, the producer of one of the shows, said the idea of focusing on Lee's life was to attract Singaporeans to the opera.

"I wanted Singapore audiences to learn more about opera and I was thinking, what kind of a story would get Singapore audiences to watch an opera even if they don't like opera?" the paper quoted Metropolitan's Alvin Tan, a trained opera singer, as saying.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/two-musicals-lee-kuan-yew-making-says-singapore-010337427.html

Singapore angry at Indonesia move to name navy ship for convicted bombers

Anger is mounting in Singapore over neighbouring Indonesia's decision to name a new naval ship after two marines executed for a 1960s bombing in the city state's main shopping district that left three people dead. (AFP Photo)
Anger is mounting in Singapore over neighbouring Indonesia's decision to name a new naval ship after two marines executed for a 1960s bombing in the city state's main shopping district that left three people dead. (AFP Photo)

Anger is mounting in Singapore over neighbouring Indonesia's decision to name a new naval ship after two marines executed for a 1960s bombing in the city state's main shopping district that left three people dead.

Three Singapore ministers have asked their Indonesian counterparts to reconsider the move to name a new frigate after Osman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said, who were convicted for the March 1965 bombing of MacDonald House on Orchard Road.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-angry-indonesia-move-name-navy-ship-convicted-041155189--sector.html

Call to reduce cooling measures

Property industry experts are hoping to see a reduction of some of the previous market cooling measures in the Singapore Budget 2014, which will be revealed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam (pictured) on February 21. (Getty Images)
Property industry experts are hoping to see a reduction of some of the previous market cooling measures in the Singapore Budget 2014, which will be revealed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam (pictured) on February 21. (Getty Images)

Property industry experts are hoping to see a reduction of some of the previous market cooling measures in the Singapore Budget 2014, which will be revealed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam (pictured) on February 21.

Tweaks, or an entire roll-back of the additional buyers stamp duty (ABSD) and the total debt service ratio (TDSR), would be most welcomed by the sector.

Donald Han, managing director of Chesterton Singapore, said, "Our wish is for the government to consider scaling back or loosening certain measures which have yielded the desired results."

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/call-reduce-cooling-measures-013307968--sector.html

After 22 years, 'Tonight Show' host Jay Leno signs off

US talk show icon Jay Leno bid farewell to his remarkable 22-year run at the top of the late-night US television heap when he signed off from his show "The Tonight Show" for the last time. (AFP Photo)
US talk show icon Jay Leno bid farewell to his remarkable 22-year run at the top of the late-night US television heap when he signed off from his show "The Tonight Show" for the last time. (AFP Photo)

US talk show icon Jay Leno bid farewell to his remarkable 22-year run at the top of the late-night US television heap when he signed off from his show "The Tonight Show" for the last time.

"I want to thank you guys. You folks have been incredible," an emotional Leno, 63, told his fans in concluding his final broadcast.

"I'm the luckiest guy in the world," he added. "I got to meet presidents, astronauts, movie stars -- it's just been incredible."

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