Singapore Local News, 2011-01-15

---

Minister clears air on Thaipusam rules Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam has come out strongly to correct an article in The Straits Times last week on Thaipusam, which touched on the rules for religious processions here......     FAS looking at tapping Malaysian market to help lift Singapore football The FAS has suggested Singapore could work more closely with neighbour Malaysia to bring back the support and the passion surrounding the Malaysia Cup in a different form...... Lien Aid gets global charity award Lien Aid, the international development body founded by Lien Foundation and Nanyang Technological University, has received the Global Charity Award for NGOs from the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China's Ministry of Civil Affairs in Beijing...... SWAMI Home patients get hongbaos The sick, aged sick and handicapped at the Sunshine Welfare Action Mission got to celebrate Lunar New Year some two weeks ahead of the festival...... Education should inculcate values like love for family, community & country: SM Goh SINGAPORE : Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said education should inculcate values like love for the family, community and country...... Lee Yi Shyan to visit Suzhou Industrial Park SINGAPORE : Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Manpower Lee Yi Shyan will make a three-day visit to Suzhou, China from January 16-18...... Gateway to East Coast SINGAPORE : Plans for the "Gateway to the East Coast" were unveiled on Saturday as part of the S$1 billion Remaking Our Heartlands (ROH) programmes for three areas announced a week ago by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan......

Brisbane Aftermath: Photo accounts from S'poreans CHAOS ensues in the aftermath of the Brisbane flooding.With the power down in some areas and people flocking to open supermarkets to stock up on supplies, the road to recovery will be long and drawn out......     S'pore NGO wins Chinese philanthropy award LIEN Aid, the international development body founded by Lien Foundation and Nanyang Technological University, received the Global Charity Award for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) from the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China's Ministry ..... The end of MiFi for iPhone users? THE news of Verizon Wireless securing the iPhone 4 was greeted with celebrations in the United States when it was announced recently.But going beyond the headlines and the good news to US iPhone fanatics, the straitstimes.com team tested and found th..... iPad enters Singapore classrooms SINGAPORE - IF OPRAH can do it, so can schools in Singapore. Four schools in the city-state have begun handing out Apple iPads to students, relieving them of the need to carry satchels full of bulging text books and notes.Nanyang Girls High School ha.....