Friday #sgroundup: New Canberra MRT station to come up between Yishun and Sembawang

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New Canberra MRT station to come up between Yishun and Sembawang
 Photo taken at Sembawang MRT at 10:49 am,
Singapore's Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew announced on Friday that the government will be constructing a Canberra MRT station between Yishun and Sembawang stations on the North-South Line.

He said this during his speech at a groundbreaking ceremony for Singapore's sixth MRT line, the Thompson Line (TSL), adding that more details will be made available by the Land Transport Authority when ready.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/new-canberra-mrt-station-to-come-up-between-yishun-and-sembawang-074726439.html

Six women charged with rioting at Cineleisure Orchard
 Six women were charged with rioting at the State Courts on Friday.
Six women aged 18 to 30 were charged in court on Friday with rioting, after the incident took place at K Box Cineleisure Orchard early last month. Two of them each face an additional charge of "voluntarily causing hurt" to another person.

The accused are Wang Xi, 23; Liu Jiabao, 30; Wu Huamin, 18; Wu Huachun, 19; Qiu Zhulin, 28; and Ding Jiao, 28.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/six-women-charged-with-rioting-at-cineleisure-orchard-031233063.html

At long last: MOH approves MediShield Life upgrades
 MOH said they will be enhancing MediShield from March next year, to make it more inclusive. (Yahoo! file photo …
The government has approved all the recommended changes to MediShield Life, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday.

In a statement, the MOH declared that the Government will provide close to $4 billion in subsidies and other forms of financial support over the next five years.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/long-last-moh-approves-medishield-035900749.html

Singapore is still world's favorite meeting place: STB
 Tourists view the Marina Bay Sands resort hotel and casino from a pier at Merlion park in Singapore, on June 24, …
The Union of International Association (UIA) recently released its 2013 Global Rankings, where Singapore is named 'Top International Meeting Country' for the 3rd year running, and ''Top International Meeting City' for the 7th consecutive year.

UIA surveyed 174 countries and 1,465 cities, and found out that Singapore formed 9.4% of its database of meetings.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-still-world-favorite-meeting-034600759.html

Buy a discount maid at Singapore's malls
 Buy a discount maid at Singapore's malls
Bukit Timah and other Singapore shopping centres like it are the culmination of networks and organisations in the domestic worker industry, which extends from Singapore to various parts of Southeast Asia.

The industry comprises of brokers who recruit women from poor countries, training centres that prepare women for life abroad, "runners" who ferry domestic workers from airports to shopping centres, and finally the employment agencies themselves, of which there are hundreds in the city-state, competing in what is effectively a multimillion dollar industry.

More on the insight story about domestic workers in Singapore: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/buy-discount-maid-singapores-malls-081608912.html

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