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It’s 11:30AM. Good Morning, I’m Danielle with 938Live news.
- MY SKILLS FUTURE WEBSITE LAUNCH
- 11:30AM 938Live NEWS
- Danielle Tay
- 08/11/17
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My Skills Future, a new career and training website has been launched on Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Thar-man shan-mu-ga-rat-nam)
This new website aims to help all Singaporeans plan their learning and training journey from as young as age 11 to make informed learning and career choices.
The MOE will issue website account to all primary 5 students and above while adults can log into the website using their SingPass accounts.
On Sunday, DPM Tharman also launched a new public outreach programme where Singaporeans and permanent residents can attend free 90 minute talks conducted in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil at community centres and clubs on skills upgrading and career planning.
- US INTEREST RATES STEADY FOR NOW
- 11:30AM 938Live NEWS
- Danielle Tay
- 08/11/17
- [RUNS 0:36]
US Central bank’s meeting in Washington has The Fed raising the benchmark interest rates again, responding to signs of economic improvement.
Analysts expect a third hike in December and said that the statement issued after the meeting suggested that that plan remained on track.
The US economy expanded by 3% in the most recent quarter, creating the best six-month streak of GDP growth since 2014.
The Fed aims to keep inflation at about 2%, but the most recent estimates of its preferred inflation measure suggest it is running at about 1.3%.
In the statement, the Fed said it expected the inflation rate to rise closer to its target in the “medium term”.
- SUSPICIOUS OBJECT ON PENANG ROAD
- 11:30AM 938Live NEWS
- Danielle Tay
- 08/11/17
- [RUNS 0:45]
A suspicious-looking object was found at Penang Road this morning but the item has been established to be a toy, resembling a hand grenade, the police updated on their Facebook at about 11 am.
A member of the public alerted the police about the item which was lying in a bush next to a tree along Penang Lane. The police asked members of the public to avoid the area and not to speculate on the case.
A cordon was placed near the corner of Orchard Road and Penang Lane which obstructed traffic, a large area of Istana Park was also cordoned off with police tape.
The Singapore Armed Forces’ Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives Defence Group, decked in green jumpsuits, were seen entering the cordoned off area with equipment. Later, a forensics officer was seen picking up a grenade-shaped item and removing it from the scene.
The cordons were removed and Penang Lane was open to traffic at about 11am.
- CONSTRUCTION WORKER MEMOIR
- 11:30AM 938Live NEWS
- Danielle Tay
- 08/11/17
- [RUNS 0:54]
A 39 year old construction safety supervisor, Mr Md Sharif Uddin writes a memoir about his experiences working in Singapore with diary entries and poems since he first arrived in October 2008.
More than 100 of his stories and poems writting in Bengali have been translated, compiled into a book and published by local publisher Landmark Books.
Mr Md Sharif is believed to be the first Bangladeshi construction worker to publish a memoir in English about his experience working in Singapore. He says that the book is his feelings and memories and it was written in hopes for Singaporeans to understand the migrant workers’ sacrifices.
Landmark Books publisher Goh Eck Kheng came to know of Mr Md Sharif’s writing through the book Written Country: The History Of Singapore Through Literature where Mr Md Sharif was commissioned to pen a poem on the 2013 Little India Riot.
The 176-page book, which costs $19.90, will be launched at the National Library today during the Singapore Writers Festival.
