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Singapore Airline jet loses both engines mid-air – FREE The flight landed safely in Shanghai after regaining power, SIA said. http://owl.li/2Z90OO Malaysiakini’s Facebook Wall

A Singapore court on Tuesday found a teenager guilty of offending Christians and spreading an obscene image in an online post that also carried comments celebrating the death of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. Blogger Amos guilty of spreading obscene imagewww.malaysiakini.comFREE But the prosecu …

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said a 2020 timeline to build a high-speed rail link between the city-state and Malaysia is unrealistic, adding that the two countries hope to reach an agreement by year-end on when the trains would start running. S'pore PM says 2020 timeline unrealistic …

Singapore and Malaysia have decided to push back an initial deadline of 2020 for the completion of a high-speed rail link between the wealthy city state and Kuala Lumpur, their prime ministers said on Tuesday, citing the complexity of the project. S'pore, M'sia push back high-speed rail li …

Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Abdul Razak have reaffirmed that both countries are fully committed to the success of the high-speed rail (HSR) project linking the republic and Kuala Lumpur. S'pore, M'sia commit to high-speed rail project's …

Najib off on two-day visit to Singapore – A memoranda on search-and-rescue and a ferry terminal deal will also be signed. http://owl.li/2Ybv7X Najib off on two-day visit to Singaporeowl.liA memoranda on search-and-rescue and a ferry terminal deal will also be signed. Malaysiakini’s Faceb …

Singapore police arrested a 17-year-old boy who posted a video online that was critical of the country’s late founding father Lee Kuan Yew, local press reported today. At least 20 police reports had been lodged against Amos Yee for his video ‘Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead!’ the Straits Times reported …

Video | KiniTV: A political blogger remarks that there are many in Singapore who see the negative side to former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's legacy. Blogger: Many in Singapore see negative side to Lee's legacywww.kinitv.comWorld: A political blogger remarks that there are many in Singapo …

FREE: With the recent passing of the architect of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, KiniBiz revisits two older articles, updated and combined into one for this purpose, written in 2013. It compares and contrasts the different styles of Lee with those of Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohama …

If Lee Kuan Yew represented the Singapore of yesteryear, his death this week raises the question of whether the generation of leaders in waiting will reshape the mould that transformed the city-state from a colonial backwater to a haven of prosperity. While Lee had long retired from active leadershi …

Video | KiniTV: The coffin containing former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is transferred to the parliament complex where it will lie in state before Sunday's funeral. Lee Kuan Yew's body leaves palace to lie in statewww.kinitv.comKiniNews: The coffin containing former Singapore pr …

1MDB redeemed US$ 1.1 bil from the Cayman Islands and parked it in Singapore. Singapore central bank helping in 1MDB probe Malaysiakini’s Facebook Wall

The small, wealthy city-state of Singapore has, for the most part of the past five decades, attributed its success to one man's vision and leadership. Lee Kuan Yew, the first leader of the People's Action Party (PAP), led his party to victory in 1959 and was instrumental in the country …

The health of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, has deteriorated further and he remains critically ill in intensive care, the prime minister’s office said today. Ex-Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew’s health deteriorateswww.malaysiakini.comThe update follows yesterday’s announcement …

Malaysia is willing to work with Singapore to become part of a regional oil pricing area, including offering land for storage the island state lacks, the head of a Malaysian state body coordinating a major new oil hub said. M'sia willing to work with S'pore on regional oil pricingwww.kinib …