It seems “Orchard River” has come to an area near you. Another torrential downpour early on Friday morning once again triggered flash floods across the island. However, this time, it seems Orchard Road was spared — instead areas like Upper Thomson Road, Bugis and Jalan Boon Lay seemed to be hardest hit. Heavy rain was also reported in Changi, Eunos, Jurong East, Tampines and Sims Avenue. A tree reported fell outside Orchard Central, near the Somerset MRT station on Orchard […]
Singapore bade a final farewell to one of its founding fathers, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, in a solemn State Funeral service on Sunday afternoon at the Singapore Conference Hall. In his eulogy, PM Lee Hsien Loong traced Dr. Goh’s life-long contribution to Singapore. He reflected how Dr. Goh introduced drastic measures to cut government spending, including civil service salaries, when he was appointed Finance Minister in 1959. PM Lee said: “This was obviously unpopular, but Dr. Goh stood firm… Dr. […]
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google opened up an entirely new store of inventory for advertisers today with Google TV, an interactive platform that collapses the wall between TV and internet in the living room. The service, created with hardware partners Sony, Logitech and Intel, will launch this fall on TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players. “Every ad on TV has the potential to become interactive,” Google TV Technical Director Vincent Dureau said at the I/O developer conference, where the platform […]
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LONDON: Millions of passengers were stranded on Friday after a huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland swept across Europe, grounding thousands of flights in the biggest air travel shutdown since World War II. Europe’s air traffic control centre said 16,000 flights were cancelled on Friday because of the “unprecedented” situation and more would follow, while one airline grounded all its planes in the affected area until Monday. Holidaymakers, businessmen, celebrities and politicians alike were forced onto overcrowded trains, boats […]
You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors […]
Singapore: Exceptionally strong growth was seen in the first quarter of 2010 and the Trade and Industry Ministry (MTI) says it now expects Singapore’s economy to grow by 7.0 to 9.0% during the current year. The revision upwards from an earlier 4.5-6.5% GDP growth is in view of the “exceptionally strong growth for the Singapore economy” in the first quarter and the overall improved outlook for external economies for the rest of 2010, MTI said in its news release on […]
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