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By Channel NewsAsia, Updated: 29/07/2011 Tan Kin Lian defends TOTO, 4D applications by his firm Tan Kin Lian defends TOTO, 4D applications by his firm SINGAPORE: Business development manager Kelvin Lee was surfing through the iPhone App store on Wednesday night when he stumbled on an app that generates numbers for the bi

Sports Council is amining to win 6 medals at the 2016 Olympics. Do you think it is possible or another Goal 2010 in the making? Even if possible, what are the tangible benefits of Olympic medals to the S'porean in general?

nice figure Korean Adoptee Is Top Advisor to French Presidential Hopeful French presidential candidate Francois Hollande, who emerged as the frontrunner in the first round of the vote, was captured on camera meeting with key advisers including a sharply-dressed Asian woman. Fleur Pellerin (39), whose Korean name is Kim Jong-sook, is the digital economy advisor for Hollande and a key confidante of the candidate. French media have singled her out as a top candidate for a Cabinet post if the Socialist Party candidate wins. Pellerin was born in Seoul in 1973. She was found in the streets when she was just three or four days old and sent to an orphanage. Six months later she was adopted by a family in France. Her younger sister is also a Korean adoptee. Her father was a technician who ran a small business, and her mother, who did not have much of an education, wanted her adopted daughter to succeed academically. "I studied very hard," Pellerin said. She passed her baccalaureate -- the equivalent to a high school diploma -- when she was just 16, two years sooner than most, and graduated from the prestigious ESSEC business school, Institut d'

CNA news : PE: HDB should investigate community sites transfer in Aljunied GRC, says Tony Tan SINGAPORE: Presidential candidate Dr Tony Tan said the HDB should investigate the issue of transferring community sites in Aljunied GRC to the People's Association (PA) to ensure that proper procedures were followed. Speaking in response to reporters after visiting a market at New Upper Changi Road, Dr Tan said he is concerned if there was any unfairness in the transfer of the HDB owned sites. He wondered if this had been done intentionally, or whether it was a mistake. The Workers' Party Chairman Sylvia Lim had accused the HDB of abusing its power as land owner by transferring the management rights of 26 open spaces from the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council to the People's Association. Ms Lim added that the PA curtailed the ground presence of the elected WP MPs by warning residents who apply for permits to hold events at these sites not to invite the elected WP MPs or risk having their applications turned down in future. "It's important that justice and fairness should be done. Not only that but that the public should see that justice and fairness has been done," said Dr Tan. - CNA/cc So, the PE hopeful had spoken against HDB. Does he carry weight on this ? or just another NATO .............