Daily Archives: February 28, 2017 (23 Articles Found)
SUTD has named its largest lecture theatre after pioneering Singaporean architect, Dr Albert Hong, to honour his $30 million donation to the institution. The Albert Hong Lecture Theatre has a seating capacity of 530 people and is designed…
MinLaw called a tender on Tues for construction services to restore the current Red Dot Traffic Building on 28 Maxwell Road. MinLaw will take over the building as part of its plans to expand Maxwell Chambers, the integrated…
It was sad to read about how 17-year-old Jonathan Chow Hua Guang fell from a link bridge at Orchard Central and died. It was reported that the seemingly solid-looking ledge that the teen set foot on was nothing…
I read the report, Plan to limit proxies one can hold at condo meetings (Feb 2), with interest. Multiple proxies held by subsidiary proprietors (SP) is only one issue. An equally serious problem is sometimes the condominium’s MCST.…
I read with horror the news that a teenager fell to his death from the fourth floor of Orchard Central last Fri afternoon. He was reported to have leaped over the glass balustrade of the link bridge between…
For many Singaporeans, the only live chicks they might see are those at the Science Centre’s Discovery Zone. Residents at Sin Ming-Bright Hill, however, have had more opportunity, although not all of them welcome it. Over the past…
The automatic fire detection system will be triggered to alert the station staff and SCDF should a fire break out in the MRT train, said Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam on Tues. MP for Tampines GRC Desmond…
Trees under NParks’s purview are inspected by its own certified arborists, and the job is not outsourced to landscape companies, said MND Minister Lawrence Wong on Tues. And should accidents happen and trees fall due to natural causes,…
The culling of animals is only a “very small part” of the overall work of AVA, and it does not track the expenditure it incurs on doing so, said Senior Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee.…
The water price increase and helping the middle class cope with the rising cost of living were among the issues brought up by MPs on Tues, the first day of Parliament’s debate on the Budget statement. MPs also…
The Government is watching developments in the property market “very closely,” Minister MSF Tan Chuan-Jin said on Tues, while underlining the need for cooling measures to prevent prices from overheating. “We are tracking the property market very closely.…
Singapore’s gloomy property market is getting some relief from Hong Kong, as China continues to get tougher on capital control measures. A growing number of Hong Kong investors are on the hunt for office buildings and shopping malls…
For more than a decade, SMRT Trains had failed to comply with approved operating procedures meant to protect the safety of its workers, said MOM on Tues. These instances of non-compliance, dating as far back as 2002, came…
As more people shop online, malls are suffering. Singapore’s mall occupancy rate reached its lowest in 10 years in Nov last year, according to Bloomberg. In fact, a recent study by eMarketer revealed that nearly 40 per cent…
This month saw two incidents of falling trees. I have been living in Hume Ave for 20 years, during which many trees were planted along the park connector network. There are, however, nylon ropes still tied to poles…
There were mixed reactions from visitors to Sembawang Hot Spring when told that the area will be turned into a park as soon as next year. Some people who have been visiting it for years were cold to…
A fierce home loans war has broken out between DBS Bank and UOB, to the delight of home buyers. The prize, for now at least, is the prospect of financing the purchase of at least 1,225 homes being…
A six-storey office building in District 9 has been put on the market. The indicative price for 182 Clemenceau Ave is S$90 million, which works out to S$1,936 psf based on the building’s existing NLA of 46,490 sqft.…
A 99-year leasehold residential site at Toh Tuck Road in the west of Singapore has been put up for sale by public tender, said URA on Tues, 28 Feb. Launched for sale under the confirmed list of the…
Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Industrial REIT is proposing to acquire a four-storey light industrial building at 47 Changi South Ave 2 from its sponsor, Vibrant Group, at a psf price that is well above recent transactions in the area.…
Ng Shin Ein, a non-executive director of the manager of Sabana REIT has called it quits amid a revolt by Sabana REIT’s unitholders. According to Ng’s resignation letter, which was submitted to SGX late on Mon night by…
Property and hotel conglomerate City Developments Limited has seen a healthy uptake in its Singapore projects for the past quarter. Will it be able to sustain its momentum this year? To recall, CDL’s Forest Woods already has 75%…
On 28 Feb 2017, French MNC IT consulting and outsourcing firm Capgemini launched its innovation lab, known as Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), in Singapore. The exchange, is the company’s 10th globally and the first in SEA. They will…
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