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Tuesday #sgroundup: Integration in S'pore not about making foreigners more S'porean

·Elizabeth Soh

4 November 2014 at 5:06 am

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Integration is not about making foreigners 'more like Singaporeans': employers federation official

Tourists gather on a jetty around the Merlion next to the financial business district in Singapore on October 31, 2014

How can social cohesion and integration be fostered in Singapore?

Don’t think about it as making foreigners “more like Singaporeans”, said John Ng, vice president of the Singapore National Employers Federation, said on Tuesday at a conference on social cohesion and integration in Europe and Asia.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/integration-is-not-about-making-foreigners--more-like-singaporeans---employers-federation-official-074836187.html

Shisha will be banned in Singapore starting late November: reports

Shisha: 200 Times More Harmful Than Cigarettes?

Shisha tobacco will be banned in Singapore starting later this month, according to media reports.

Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Health Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim said in Parliament on Tuesday that the ministry would ban the importation, distribution and sale of shisha from later this month to prevent the “proliferation and entrenchment of shisha smoking in Singapore”, according to Channel NewsAsia.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/shisha-will-be-banned-in-singapore-starting-late-november--reports-065242496.html?linkId=10335954

Parents of Indonesian murdered in Hong Kong urge death for killer

Suratmi, mother of Sumarti Ningsih, an Indonesian woman murdered in Hong Kong, holds up her daughter's photo in Cilacap on November 4, 2014

The parents of a young Indonesian woman murdered in Hong Kong called Tuesday for her "sadistic" killer to be put to death, a day after a British banker appeared in court accused of killing her and a second woman.

The mutilated and decomposing body of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, was found on Saturday in a suitcase on the balcony of Rurik Jutting's upmarket apartment in the southern Chinese city.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/father-indonesian-murdered-hong-kong-urges-death-killer-055636188.html

One World Trade Center opens for business

One World Trade Center stands tall above other nearby buildings in New York on November 3, 2014

One World Trade Center, America's tallest building, has welcomed its first tenants, publishing group Conde Nast, in a symbolic moment 13 years after the 9/11 attacks that brought down the original Twin Towers.
About 175 executives of the group that publishes magazines like The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, filed through the doors of the building on Vesey Street, just steps from the memorial and museums erected at the site where the Twin Towers once stood.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/one-world-trade-center-opens-business-163317187.html

Many questions still unanswered in spaceship crash

In this Nov. 1, 2014, photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, Virgin Galactic pilot Todd Ericson, left, talks with NTSB Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart, right, at SpaceShipTwo accident site with investigators in Mojave, Calif. The cause of Friday's crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has not been determined, but investigators found the "feathering" system, which rotates the tail to create drag, was activated before the craft reached the appropriate speed, National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said. (AP Photo/NTSB)

Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to ferry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.

And another question looms: How far will the accident push back the day when paying customers can routinely rocket dozens of miles into the sky for a fleeting feeling of weightlessness and a breathtaking view?

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/many-questions-still-unanswered-spaceship-crash-080602561.html

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