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SINGAPORE: Singapore s autonomous universities will be given some flexibility to admit more students this year in view of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing on Monday (May 24).
In a Facebook post, Mr Chan said he understands the challenges that our students who wish to study in foreign universities are facing , with COVID-19 disrupting some of their plans.
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Advertisement As in 2020, we will similarly give our local autonomous universities some flexibility to admit more students this year, he added.
Canadian national Sayjel Patel and wife Joy have had to radically reassess their property needs in the wake of the work from home trend that has rapidly taken hold.
The couple used to rent a one-bedder in Eunos for S$2,000 (RM6,195) a month when Patel was a researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design before relocating to Dubai in 2018.
But when his Singapore-based software start-up Digital Blue Foam started to grow and he decided to move back here, the 34-year-old chief technology officer, who now has a 17-month old baby, felt he needed a much bigger space for his growing family and to accommodate work from home.
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Singapore Press Holdings chief executive Ng Yat Chung (above) at Thursday s press conference, where he used the word umbrage in response to a reporter s question. The word became the top searched term on Google in Singapore that day and influenced marketing efforts on social media by brands such as Kopitiam and Foodfare, as well as Klook.PHOTOS: GAVIN FOO, KOPITIAM & FOODFARE, KLOOK/FACEBOOK
Singapore Press Holdings chief executive Ng Yat Chung at Thursday s press conference, where he used the word umbrage in response to a reporter s question. The word became the top searched term on Google in Singapore that day and influenced marketing efforts on social media by brands such as Kopitiam and Foodfare, as well as Klook. PHOTOS: GAVIN FOO, KOPITIAM & FOODFARE, KLOOK/FACEBOOK