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SingPost...</description> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 08:55:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2332881 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Interviews are part of immigration clearance process: ICA</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/interviews-are-part-immigration-clearance-process-ica</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27157425.JPG?itok=fQgJLjuV" alt="" />SINGAPORE - Indonesia's former chief of general staff, Lieutenant General (ret) Suryo Prabowo, was interviewed by checkpoint officers, in accordance to screening procedures for border security, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Saturday...</description> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 06:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2332801 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Bicycle reseller’s acquittal overturned, gets 4 months’ jail</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/bicycle-resellers-acquittal-overturned-gets-4-months-jail</link> <description>SINGAPORE - He had apparently confessed to dishonestly receiving a stolen bicycle, and also chose not to testify in his own defence during his trial. Yet, Tan Song Hui, a bicycle reseller, was acquitted by a district judge. However, his acquittal was...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2332376 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Inform authorities of anyone who has been radicalised: MHA</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/inform-authorities-anyone-who-has-been-radicalised-mha</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27143171.JPG?itok=M2J6Cpmz" alt="" />SINGAPORE - Amid growing concern that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria propaganda is radicalising Singaporeans at a quicker pace, the Government is urging Singaporeans to quickly inform the authorities if they know if anyone has been radicalised. Between 2007...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:40:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2332016 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Past high-profile lift accidents</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/past-high-profile-lift-accidents</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/copy_of_allift11021_read-only.jpg?itok=-haC-69O" alt="" />June 9, 2016: Retired factory worker Lai Hsiu-Lan, 68, fractured her wrists and bruised her left eye after she tripped when stepping out of a lift at Block 285, Bukit Batok East Avenue 3. The floor of the lift car did not level with the ground outside when...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331951 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Big Read: Trapped in a manpower crunch, lift industry in need of a hoist</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/trapped-manpower-crunch-lift-industry-need-hoist</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27142250.JPG?itok=XNcSAnxL" alt="" />SINGAPORE - For lift technician Radali Tuah, toiling away for 12 hours each day - which includes clocking overtime hours nearly daily in the first half of each month - has become par for the course. But it was not always so. The 34-year-old, who maintains...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331956 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>4 S'poreans, including married couple, dealt with under ISA for plans to join ISIS in Syria</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/4-sporeans-including-married-couple</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/mha_0.jpg?itok=SlnsCSPK" alt="" />SINGAPORE - Four self-radicalised Singaporeans have been dealt with under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for intending to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis, also known as IS), among them a husband-and-wife pair who were...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331076 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Teachers make learning mother tongue languages more engaging</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/teachers-make-learning-mother-tongue-languages-more-engaging</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/collage_teachers.jpg?itok=3w60433G" alt="" />SINGAPORE - When she was a student, Madam Wei Xiurong's Chinese-language teacher would drone on and on in class, while she tried her best to take notes and memorise the words and characters. Now as a kindergarten mother-tongue teacher herself, the 44-year-old...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331931 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>M1 launches first commercial high-speed, disruption-free network</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/m1-launches-first-commercial-high-speed-disruption-free-network</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27141948.JPG?itok=FXfVzq6c" alt="" />SINGAPORE - M1 subscribers are set to get faster and steadier connections on their mobile devices, now that the telco is the first to launch a nationwide heterogeneous network (HetNet) that will seamlessly switch between different networks such as 4G and...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331916 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Extremist ideology a staple item on Batam’s Radio Hang</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/radio-0</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/hang_hq.jpg?itok=jJ1KBgTO" alt="" />SINGAPORE - For quite some time, a radio station in Batam has been propagating extremist ideology and propaganda that reaches listeners far and wide, including those in Singapore. With preachers giving their own interpretation of the Quran on the station,...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331121 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>S’pore, M’sia to issue joint tender for HSR project on Monday</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/spore-msia-issue-joint-tender-hsr-project-monday</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27135162.PNG?itok=g-lmRtHD" alt="" />SINGAPORE - Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) and Malaysia's MyHSR Corporation (MyHSR) will be calling for a tender on Monday (Aug 22) to appoint a Joint Development Partner (JDP) in the development of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR)...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2330716 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Swimmer Quah Ting Wen defends brother for Rio Olympics media snub</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/swimmer-quah-ting-wen-defends-brother-rio-olympics-media-snub</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27139520.JPG?itok=7BgEVhuj" alt="" />SINGAPORE - National swimmer Quah Ting Wen has hit out at the "naysayers and keyboard warriors" who criticised her brother after his snubbing of the local media at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 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Feline Wedding, owned by Ms Wang Choong Li, has sued a couple for defamation, after the couple took to...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:05:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331381 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>85 suspected drug offenders caught in latest CNB operation</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/85-suspected-drug-offenders-caught-latest-cnb-operation</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27138689.JPG?itok=ncq0Ea4M" alt="" />SINGAPORE - A four-day drug bust by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), which ended on Friday (Aug 19) morning, resulted in the arrests of 85 suspected drug offenders. Around 196g of heroin, 47g of ‘Ice' and other suspected controlled drugs were also seized...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:35:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Today</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">2331326 at http://www.todayonline.com</guid> </item> <item> <title>Man charged in hit-and-run incident at Newton Food Centre</title> <link>http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/man-charged-hit-and-run-incident-newton-food-centre</link> <description><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/photos/43_images/27138429.PNG?itok=XA4QPMZ4" alt="" />SINGAPORE - A 40-year-old man was charged in court on Friday (Aug 19) for his suspected involvement in a hit-and-run case at Newton Food Centre's carpark. 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