Friday #sgroundup: Many married couples in Singapore underestimate retirement period of 24 years

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Many married couples in Singapore underestimate retirement period of 24 years
Many people in Singapore are underestimating their retirement period, according to survey findings unveiled by …
Many people in Singapore are underestimating their retirement period, according to survey findings unveiled by Manulife Asset Management during a media briefing on Friday.
 
In a report entitled "Live long and prosper? Retirement and longevity risk", it said that Singapore individuals have been expecting their retirement period as a married couple to be 19 years, when it should be 24.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/many-married-couples-in-singapore-underestimate-retirement-period-of-24-years-095409235.html

Google removes Singapore hate blog against Filipinos
 A screengrab of the xenophobic blog entitled Blood Stained Singapore, which was by Wednesday morning taken down …
Google has taken down a blog that listed ways to harass Singapore's Filipino population, drawing praise from Internet users appalled by growing racial tensions in the city-state.

Police said Thursday that they are investigating the anonymous "Blood Stained Singapore" blog, which suggested Singaporeans should refuse to be served by Filipinos in restaurants, or "accidentally" shove them in crowded places.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/google-removes-singapore-hate-blog-against-filipinos-061911357.html
 
PM Lee's press sec issues letter to The Economist
 Singapore: Blogger Raises Funding to Fight PM Lee Hsien Loong's Lawsuit
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's press secretary Chang Li Lin has issued a letter to The Economist, in response to an opinion piece the magazine had written about the ongoing defamation case against Singapore blogger Roy Ngerng.

In it, she said, "You referred to an "alleged 'serious libel'" by Roy Ngerng. This is not an allegation. Mr Ngerng has publicly admitted accusing Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, of criminal misappropriation of pension funds, falsely and completely without foundation…"

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pm-lee-s-press-sec-issues-letter-to-the-economist-003335372.html
 
Syed Alwi Road suitcase murder: Suspects held for psychiatric observation
 Rasheed Muhammad (centre in white) and Ramzan Rizwan (right in red) were charged with murder in a Singapore court …
The two Pakistani men charged with the murder and dismemberment of their fellow countryman will be held for three weeks for psychiatric observation.

This decision, made by the presiding judge on Friday morning, is due to the gravity and nature of the case, where 59-year-old Muhammad Noor's upper body was found in a bloodied suitcase on Syed Alwi Road, and his legs dumped in a Muslim cemetery at Jalan Kubor, also in a piece of luggage.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dismembered-upper-body-found-in-luggage-on-syed-alwi-road-134754034.html
 
Search for MH370 shifts back to aerial zone, says report
 Search for MH370 shifts back to aerial zone, says report
The drawn-out search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will revert to an area hundreds of kilometres south of the previously suspected crash site following new analysis of the plane's flight path, a report said Friday.

Investigators grappling to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are set to scour a zone 1,800km from Perth – previously subject to an aerial search – when an underwater probe resumes in August, the West Australian newspaper said.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/search-mh370-shifts-back-aerial-zone-says-report-053342700.html
 

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