S'pore Couple Allegedly Spends S$9K On Appliances To Avoid GST Hike & Saves S$100
A couple in Singapore spent S$9,000 on electrical appliances to avoid the imminent GST hike that will take effect on 1 January 2023.
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A couple in Singapore spent S$9,000 on electrical appliances to avoid the imminent GST hike that will take effect on 1 January 2023.
Tourists dressed up as People's Liberation Army soldiers pose in Liangjiahe village, where a teenage Xi Jinping spent seven years doing hard labor. Today the village is a popular red tourism site. The sign displays a quote from Xi: "Liangjiahe is where my roots are, and my soul. It is my second home." Emily Feng / NPR ZUNYI, China — Some people splurge for beach vacations or a week in nature. Office worker Huang Ge recently decided to spend his week off touring Zunyi, a remote, mountainous town in southern China that's important to his country's modern political history. "China's Commu...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Summer vacation season is well underway. And in China, that means Red tourism - that is, tourism revolving around sites important in Chinese Communist Party history. This month, the party turns 100 years old. So NPR's Emily Feng visited some of these sites to learn what history might tell us about the future. UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing in non-English language). EMILY FENG, BYLINE: I'm standing at a grand stone plaza when I meet a local retired history professor, He Siyu. He's leading a group of party members t...
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