Singapore Local News, 2013-01-21

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Parents-to-be welcome new pro-family incentives From 1 May 2013, working fathers will be legally entitled to one week of paid paternity leave......     Banks begin "good-as-new" note exchange service Banks in Singapore have started their service to exchange new notes for the Lunar New Year...... M1 provides details on service disruption & recovery M1 has provided more details on the service disruption which affected customers from 15 to 17 January...... New parenting incentives "balanced": NTUC, SNEF Measures have been announced to help working couples balance their work and family commitments...... Baby bonus up by S$2,000 per birth Parents will now have more cash in hand as a result of the enhanced Baby Bonus scheme...... PM Lee hopes new incentives will bring more babies Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes that the new Marriage and Parenthood package announced on Monday by the government will encourage more couples to start planning, and Singapore will see more babies soon......

Ex-property agent gets 24 weeks' jail for forgery A former property agent has been sentenced to 24 weeks' jail for forgery, cheating and counterfeiting stamp certificates......     WP to hold second rally on Tuesday The Workers' Party will hold its second rally of the Punggol East by-election on January 22...... RP's Jeyaretnam happy with campaign progress so far As the by-election campaign passed the half-way mark, Reform Party's candidate for Punggol East, Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, said he is happy with the progress so far in terms of feedback and reach...... PAP's Koh pledges to address residents' concerns The People's Action Party's (PAP's) candidate for Punggol East, Dr Koh Poh Koon, has pledged to address concerns raised by residents, especially working mothers, on childcare support...... "It's so shameful", says NUS professor Tey The NUS law professor defending himself in the sex-for-grades corruption trial kept saying "it's so shameful" on the day he was picked up by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) last year...... Singapore unveils S$2b package to boost fertility rate The Singapore government has announced a S$2b package in another attempt to boost the country's low fertility rate...... Video clip of accident goes viral A video clip, apparently taken on a dashboard video camera and showing a lorry side-swiping a motorcycle on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE), has gone viral...... Channel NewsAsia expands coverage Regional broadcaster Channel NewsAsia embarked on a major relaunch on Monday to provide expanded coverage of Asia...... President Tan confident US will steer world out of uncertainty President Tony Tan Keng Yam has said he is confident that the United States will be able to rise to the occasion of steering of the world out of economic uncertainty, under the leadership of President Barack Obama...... SDA's Lim to launch online rally at 6pm The Singapore Democratic Alliance's (SDA's) candidate for Punggol East, Mr Desmond Lim, will start his online rally at 6pm on Monday......