Saturday, August 27, 2005
News
MM Lee, Participants Of 1968 NDP Recount Heavy Downpour Experience
What has a heavy downpour at the National Day Parade in 1968 got to do with Singapore's success story?
PM Lee Reshuffles Singapore Cabinet
Following Dr Tony Tan's retirement, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng will be appointed Deputy Prime Minister and continues to hold the home affairs portfolio.
Singapore Encourages Learning Of A Third Language
Bilingual Singapore is gearing up towards "trilingualism" among its population by encouraging students to learn a third language, apart from English and their own mother tongue, even if it is only for conversational purposes.
See Also: Mr. Sandman, Bring Me A Beach
Manhattan remains an island without beaches, real or artificial. Yet resourceful residents have for years shunned long rides to the seashore, adapting the idea of "going to the beach" to mean stretching out wherever they can strip down and oil up.
Editor's Note: Podcast
Singapore Investigates Film
A film director who could face charges over his documentary about an opposition politician said yesterday that police have asked him to surrender all remaining copies of the film and the equipment used to make it.

