Singapore Local News, 2013-02-28

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Benches from former National Stadium get new lease of life They have supported countless Singaporeans through National Day parades, sports events and music concerts......     SingPost sets up S$10m fund to help low-wage employees SingPost is setting up a $10 million "Inclusivity Fund", which will benefit its low-wage workers...... Govt taking brave step to achieve quality growth, inclusive society: Dr Yaacob Communications and Information Minister and Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim has described Budget 2013 as a brave step taken by the government to achieve quality growth and an inclusive society...... AGC to move office to Upper Pickering Street The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) is moving house...... Humans have to re-learn how to live in harmony with earth: Balakrishnan Environment and Water Resources Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said human beings will have to re-learn how to live in harmony with the earth......

NEA imposes tougher demerit point regime on food outlets The National Environment Agency (NEA) has tightened the cleanliness and hygiene point demerit system, reducing the threshold from 24 to 12 points to push for greater overall hygiene standards in food outlets......     President Tony Tan, PM Lee write valedictory letters to pope President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have written valedictory letters to Pope Benedict XVI, who is stepping down as the head of the Catholic Church...... Procedures, practices were "wanting": ex-STTA president In the third day of the trial of former president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA), Choo Wee Khiang revealed that certain practices at the association were wanting...... Sausages contain only chicken sourced & produced locally: IKEA S'pore IKEA Singapore said the sausages sold at its stores contain only chicken sourced and produced locally, and none of the ingredients are produced by the affected Swedish supplier...... Increase in colorectal cancer cases over past 5 years The number of colorectal cancer cases in Singapore has gone up slightly over the past five years...... New SDPC mark for cigarettes from March 1 From March 1, cigarettes sold in Singapore which do not bear the new Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette (SDPC) mark will be deemed duty-unpaid and illegal...... 3 in 5 SMEs yet to appreciate importance of adopting fair employment: survey A survey by the Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (TAFEP) of 500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) showed while many have diversity in their workplace, three out of five have yet to appreciate the importance of adopting fair employm..... AIM not bidding for PAP town councils' tender Action Information Management (AIM), which runs the People's Action Party (PAP) town councils' computer systems, will no longer operate the systems when its contract expires on April 30. It said on Wednesday that it will not participate in the latest.....