Tuesday #sgroundup: LTA raises permit fees for foreign vehicles entering Singapore

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LTA raises permit fees for foreign vehicles entering Singapore

New cars are seen at a manufacturer's open air car park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Malaysia's …

From the start of August, it will cost 75 per cent more to drive into Singapore with a car registered overseas.
 
Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) is raising the vehicle entry permit fees for foreign-registered cars from $20 to $35 per day.
 
For goods vehicles, the fee will be hiked fourfold to $40 per month.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/foreign-registered-vehicles-will-have-to-pay-more-to-enter-singapore-032558889.html

Jennifer Lopez rounds up concert headliners at Singapore F1 Grand Prix

Jennifer Lopez performs at the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at Fontainebleau's BleauLive at Fontainebleau …

Heads-up, J-Lo fans: the pop diva will be gracing our shores once again to join the star-studded performance line up for this year's Singapore Grand Prix.

Her concert will happen after John Legend's on Sunday, 21 September, closing the loop on the major headliners of the Grand Prix entertainment segment. Access to her show is included with any three-day pass, Sunday single-day Pit Grandstand special ticket or the Sunday single-day Zone 4 Walkabout ticket.

She will join Robbie Williams, John Legend, the Pet Shop Boys and Ziggy Marley on various concert dates in September, when the race takes place here.

https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/john-legend--ziggy-marley--pet-shop-boys-to-perform-at-singapore-f1-grand-prix-080311321.html

New Zealand names Malaysian diplomat in sex assault case

A New Zealand court has now confirmed the envoy was from Malaysia

A New Zealand high court judge has lifted the suppression order protecting the Malaysian diplomat at the centre of a sex assault case in Wellington.

The diplomat is Muhammad Rizalman Ismail, a staff assistant with a defence portfolio at the Malaysian high commission, NZ news portal Stuff.co.nz said today.

According to the portal, Rizalman holds the military rank of warrant officer and may face a military board of inquiry in Malaysia.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/zealand-lifts-suppression-order-names-malaysian-diplomat-033852522.html

Thousands gather for pro-Hong Kong democracy march

Pro-democracy activists display placards before a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong on July 1, 2014 as frustration …

Carrying banners and chanting slogans, thousands of protesters gathered Tuesday for a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong that organisers say could be the largest since the city was handed back to China.

The rally reflects surging discontent over Beijing's insistence that it vet candidates before a vote in 2017 for the semi-autonomous city's next leader.

The march comes after nearly 800,000 people voted in an informal referendum demanding an electoral mechanism that allows voters to nominate candidates.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-braces-huge-democracy-protest-215515221.html

Japan approves larger military role

Monks protest outside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in anticipation his government will reinterpret …

Japan took a step away Tuesday from an American-drafted constitution that has long kept its military shackled, approving a plan to allow greater use of a force that was vanquished at the end of World War II.

In one of the biggest changes to Japanese security policy since the war, the ruling coalition gave approval to reinterpret the constitution on military affairs. It now awaits endorsement — a formality — by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made raising the country's military profile a cornerstone of his nationalist policies.

The move will allow the military to defend other nations in what is known as "collective self-defense."

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japan-approves-larger-military-role-064252285.html

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