Singapore - An Indian national was apparently electrocuted while cleaning a boat in the latest death to hit Singapore's beleaguered shipyard industry, news reports said on Tuesday.
The 20-year-old man was part of a team washing a ship's hull with a high-powered jet at DryDocks World Singapore when he fainted while shifting a powerful spotlight, The Straits Times reported.
The death Friday night was the eighth in the industry since June 8 and the third serious accident at DryDocks World in six weeks.
Singapore - A more helpful husband is the biggest wish among one in four working mothers struggling to balance domestic roles with careers, a survey said Tuesday.
Dads who play a hands-on role in parenting emerged as far more important than obtaining more childcare leave from employers, according to the findings of the Working Mothers' Forum, a support group.
The woes itemized in The Straits Times revealed that one in three Singaporean mums feel society is not understanding of the needs of working mothers.
Administrator Michelle Soh, among those surveyed, was quoted as saying that she feels squeezed by "so many roles - mother, employee wife and daughter" in a 24-hour period.
Singapore - The Asia-Pacific wealth market is still posing healthy growth estimated at 11 per cent annually, a UBS executive said in published remarks on Monday.
UBS, the world's largest manager of private wealth, is seeing positive inflows of funds despite the subdued economic mood, said Raoul Weil, the Swiss giant's global wealth management chairman.
Singapore - A slowing economy and rising costs are not stopping bargain hunters from travelling, with the United States and Europe the top destinations followed by Japan and South Korea, news reports said on Monday.
A record 65,000 people spent 40 million Singapore dollars (30 million US dollars) at the National Association of Travel Agents (NATAS) annual fair, up 14 per cent from last year's 58,000.
Singapore - The Asia-Pacific wealth market is still posing healthy growth estimated at 11 per cent annually, a UBS executive said in published remarks on Monday.
UBS, the world's largest manager of private wealth, is seeing positive inflows of funds despite the subdued economic mood, said Raoul Weil, the Swiss giant's global wealth management chairman.
Clients are more cautious, he acknowledged.
"They are taking a much more conservative allocation, decreasing their focus to equities," The Straits Times quoted Weil as saying. "But they are not putting on the brakes."
Singapore - A bankrupt opposition politician has been prevented from leaving Singapore to attend a prestigious Stanford University programme in the United States because the trip would not benefit her creditors, Chee Siok Chin said Saturday.
"I've travelled to the Ukraine, Brussels, Mali and the Philippines since being declared a bankrupt last August," said the 42-year-old Chee.
A Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) executive committee member and sister of SDP chief Chee Soon Juan, she said that the Official Assignee's Office informed her in a letter that the trip was of no benefit to her creditors. The office must grant permission before a bankrupt person can leave the city-state.
Singapore - An Indian national was apparently electrocuted while cleaning a boat in the latest death to hit Singapore's beleaguered shipyard industry, news reports said on Tuesday.
Singapore - The Asia-Pacific wealth market is still posing healthy growth estimated at 11 per cent annually, a UBS executive said in published remarks on Monday.
Singapore - A slowing economy and rising costs are not stopping bargain hunters from travelling, with the United States and Europe the top destinations followed by Japan and South Korea, news reports said on Monday.
