Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel takes a dominant victory in an incident-packed Singapore Grand Prix to move to the brink of the world title.

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Vettel wins but title must wait

Former senior government official Tony Tan wins Singapore’s presidential election after a recount with fellow front-runner Tan Cheng Bock.

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Singapore chooses new president

Manchester United will sell a significant stake in the club in Singapore to partly pay off their debts, the BBC learns.

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Man Utd to sell off stake in club

Semakau Landfill, a popular local getaway in Singapore, is the only active landfill that receives incinerated and industrial waste while supporting a thriving ecosystem.

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Refuse Collects Here, but Visitors and Wildlife Can Breathe Free

British author Alan Shadrake, 76, loses his appeal against a six-week prison sentence imposed by Singapore for insulting the judiciary.

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Singapore rejects author appeal

Voters in Singapore goes to the polls today in the most hotly contested general election in recent memory.

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Singapore holds general election

Sweden and Singapore come out top in a World Economic Forum study on the digital competitiveness of nations.

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Sweden is most ICT-wired country

The University of Wales is under investigation by the higher education standards watchdog over one of its collaborative centres in Singapore, it emerges.

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Watchdog in uni partner inquiry

HONG KONG – As unrest, fueled in part by Facebook , spreads across the Middle East and North Africa, the largest social network has been quietly laying the foundation for a future move into China. This month, Facebook opened a Hong Kong sales office in China’s special administrative region (SAR), its second in Asia. This follows the opening of a Singapore office last summer. It already has over 3 million users in Hong Kong. Facebook made the low key announcement during Hong Kong Social Media Week to a small group of local journalists: “We are excited about being a big part of the Asian market, in general.” When asked specifically about the company’s China strategy, Blake Chandlee, Vice President and Commercial Director, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Emerging Markets said “there are a lot of reason I do and don’t want to talk about China.” The Chinese government currently blocks Facebook, along with Twitter and YouTube, making it inaccessible to over 420 million internet users. That’s only a fraction of China’s 1.3 billion population and statistics show explosive growth online over the next few years as more Chinese get on the net. Experts say after Google’s very public departure in 2010 and the subsequent political fallout it caused, Facebook has been staying away from both Hong Kong and Mainland China, so as not to offend Beijing. According to Charles Mok, Chairman of Internet Society Hong Kong, “the main reason why Facebook [is here] is for business reasons and be where the advertising revenues are, but it is choosing to do it in a low-profiled way to minimize any political overtones or unnecessary speculations.” This could explain why Chandlee called co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Beijing last year a “vacation” with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, explaining “Mark is learning Mandarin.” During that trip, Zuckerberg is widely reported to have met with the head of Baidu , China’s top search engine, as well as, Sina CEO Charles Chao , Billionaire Jack Ma and China Mobile’s Wang Jianzhou . Zuckerberg appears to be well aware of the network of social media players vying for users on the mainland. These include: Sina’s Weibo, a Twitter-like micro-blog; RenRen, a Facebook equivalent with 170 million users; and Youku/Tudou, video sharing sites modeled after YouTube. As his meetings show, the young American CEO clearly wants to learn from them how to navigate this difficult market. While Zuckerberg works to climb over the Great Firewall, Facebook’s Chandlee and others are focused on the rest of the region. “We are north of 500 million users and we are growing… and a lot of that is in Asia.” Figures show Asians are flocking to Facebook and it is quickly becoming the region’s leading social network. After the US, Facebook’s largest market is Indonesia, which has tripled its users over the past year to an estimated 29.4 million people . India and the Philippines are also showing explosive growth. So what’s next? When asked about the future, Chandlee said simply “mobile is the future of our business, especially in Latin America and Asia. Zuckerberg recorded this nerdy infomercial   about mobile phones for Taiwan’s HTC so he could tell you himself.

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Facebook’s Very Long Road to China

As Singaporeans usher in the Year of the Rabbit, Singapore’s prime minister hopes citizens will follow the fertile animal’s example and reproduce.

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A Qantas A380 superjumbo leaves Sydney for Singapore in the first flight since one of the planes suffered an engine explosion earlier this month.

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A superjumbo aircraft who engine blew apart after the plane left Singapore earlier this month was damaged far worse than had been believed.

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Damage Worse Than Thought in Qantas Explosion

Singapore spreads the news with a unique magazine dedicated to design A foreword by BBDK design agency founder and Thinkingforaliving’s Duane King on the modern definition of craft kicks off the inaugural quarterly issue of Singaporean magazine Bracket , featuring interviews with an international who’s who in the creative industry like Aaron Rose, Geoff McFetridge, Frank Chimero and even musician and skate punk Tommy Guerrero. “But craftsmanship doesn’t pertain just to the handmade,” King writes. “Instead, craftsmanship is a basic human impulse; the desire to do a job well for its own sake. A craftsman is engaged in their work.” To that end, the artists starring in the issue are design studio SILNT and its research arm Anonymous’ picks of those who they believe best exemplify the issue’s theme. The format is simple. Subjects respond to a questionnaire by writing out their answers by hand and sending them back that way. While seemingly primarily geared toward those who recognize the names in the issue, questions like “What keeps you going?” and “Who/What do you have a bone to pick with?” keep it interesting for casual readers. Many of the interviewees sprinkle their sheets with doodles, while others like Amsterdam creative agency KesselsKramer take the cue and run with it, sending back a photographic accompaniment to answers. Only eight issues total, each between 24 and 36 pages, of the newsprint-printed issue are planned. Michel Gondry is already confirmed for the next edition, and upcoming topics will cover hunger, ethics and failure. Out in February 2011, the debut issue is $23 including postage for those outside of Singapore, and can be ordered directly from the site .

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The company said a “specific component in the turbine area” caused an oil fire that forced an A380 Airbus to make an emergency landing in Singapore last week.

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A Qantas passenger jet headed back to Singapore with engine problems shortly after takeoff, Australian Transport Safety Board spokesman Neville Blyth told CNN.

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