The Ministry of Health (MOH) is further relaxing the use of Medisave, this time to allow Singaporeans to cover non-urgent hospitalisation in approved hospitals overseas, and for palliative care at home.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan added that with an ageing population, he is also looking at allowing the use of Medisave for nursing homes.
But for [...]
Thai premier Abhisit Vejjajiva Sunday accused fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra of stoking unrest for personal gain as protesters surrounded the seat of government for a fourth day.
Thousands of demonstrators loyal to the exiled Thaksin have been camped out at Government House in Bangkok since Thursday, listening to fiery video addresses by their billionaire leader.
Thaksin [...]
Malaysia: Malaysia’s incoming premier Najib Razak faced the first test of his leadership Sunday, as campaigns were launched for three by-elections seen as a barometer of his popularity.
Najib was declared leader of the ruling party UMNO on Thursday, promising to introduce radical reforms after disastrous polls a year ago that jeopardised the UMNO-led coalition’s half-century [...]
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The US budget deficit could swell to 1.845 trillion dollars in fiscal 2009, quadrupling last year’s record shortfall, the budget arm of Congress forecast Friday.
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest estimate was far steeper than its January forecast of a 1.2-trillion-dollar budget deficit and would amount to 13.1 percent of the country’s entire economic output.
“The [...]
In 25 years’ time, Singapore will be a country that reflects the state of the major powers and its Asian neighbours.
While the look and colour of its society might change, its major resource – talent – will remain a predominant issue, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Friday.
He was speaking to an audience of [...]
Chinese naval ships will visit Japan this year, state media reported on Friday, in the latest sign of warming relations between the two sides.
The plan was mentioned in a press communique issued after a meeting in the Chinese capital between the defence ministers of the two traditional Asian rivals, China’s official Xinhua news agency said.
The [...]
With the dismal economy showing few signs of recovery, civil servants can expect their pay package to shrink in the year ahead.
TODAY has learnt that civil servants — who are awaiting news on their annual performance bonuses and pay increments as the financial year draws to a close — received a circular via email from [...]
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva sounded a positive note Friday as he headed into the second day of a censure debate aimed at toppling his three-month-old government.
The premier told reporters he believed he had countered all the charges laid out against him by opposition MPs during Thursday’s live televised session that concluded in the early [...]
US President Barack Obama’s prospective trade envoy vowed to push for strict enforcement of global trading rules and said a free trade pact signed with South Korea should be renegotiated.
Ron Kirk told his Senate confirmation hearing that the Obama administration wanted to ensure “the strongest possible enforcement” of trading rules even as countries were grappling [...]
Recession woes have affected many Singaporeans and for some, losing sleep over the economy could turn out to be something more serious.
Private clinics said they are seeing more patients with recession-related mood problems, with some doctors getting 50 per cent more cases compared to two years ago.
These problems can range from anxiety attacks, insomnia, to [...]
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was to address his community of exiles Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against China that forced him to flee to India.
Prayers, vigils and protests were planned throughout the day in Dharamshala, the northern Indian hill town where the Tibetan government-in-exile has been based since the Buddhist [...]
US President Barack Obama will Thursday make an “opening argument” on a perennial crusade that has thwarted previous presidents — making affordable healthcare available to all Americans.
Obama, who made healthcare reform a centerpiece of his election campaign last year, will hold a televised White House “summit” as the first step in a politically perilous [...]
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has warned that Singapore’s GDP could contract by 8 per cent during this global downturn, but he is confident that the country will recover faster than other nations.
Singapore has projected that its economy will contract by 2 per cent to 5 per cent this year.
Mr Lee was speaking on Wednesday [...]
Premier Wen Jiabao confidently declared Thursday that China would be able to ride out the unprecedented challenges of a worsening global crisis and achieve eight per cent economic growth this year.
In his annual “state of the nation” address to open parliament, Wen gave the most detailed blueprint yet of a four trillion yuan (585 billion [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets on Wednesday with Palestinian leaders as she pushes on with “aggressive” diplomacy after vowing to work towards a Palestinian state.
She is holding meetings with Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the occupied West Bank’s political capital of Ramallah a day after huddling with Israeli [...]
Las Vegas Sands said Wednesday it is working “aggressively” to meet its target to open the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore by the end of the year.
It said construction of the project’s first hotel tower has reached its halfway mark, and the three 55-storey hotel towers may be “topped out” in July.
President of Marina Bay [...]
North Korea on Wednesday warned of “merciless retaliation” should US and South Korean forces intrude on its territory.
The comments came five days before the start of a major military exercise by Seoul and Washington, which Pyongyang claims is a rehearsal for invasion.
“Our military and people cherish peace and do not want war,” Rodong Sinmun, the [...]
A DAY after he was knifed in the back by one of his students, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, 45, looked wan but alert.
When my paper visited him at the National University Hospital yesterday, he was sitting in a chair having a snack.
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President Barack Obama warned on Monday that America’s fast-worsening economic plight meant his government simply could not afford to fail in the politically perilous task of reforming healthcare.
As he nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his new health secretary, Obama argued that relieving families and businesses of the soaring costs of healthcare payments was a [...]
The parents of an NTU undergraduate, who fell to his death after stabbing his professor in the university campus, has identified his body at the Singapore General Hospital mortuary.
They flew in from Jakarta on Monday evening after the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) authorities notified them of the tragedy, which stunned students returning to the campus [...]
About forty per cent of jobs available at Singapore’s Employment and Employability Institute (E2i) are offering salaries of more than S$2,000.
The National Trades Union Congress’ (NTUC’s) secretary general, Lim Swee Say, added that these job openings form almost half of the 12,668 jobs openings which some employers had posted at the institute.
Mr Lim was speaking [...]
Masked gunmen launched a brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding seven team members, police said.
Up to 12 gunmen attacked the team’s convoy near the Gaddafi stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a 25-minute gunbattle with security [...]