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Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) introduced several new initiatives at SIBCON as part of Singapore’s continued efforts to enhance bunkering processes and prepare the bunkering industry to meet future demands.
MPA previously announced the mandatory adoption of MFM for Marine Fuel Oil (MFO) deliveries in the Port of Singapore from 1 January 2017. MPA is on track for implementation with 110 bunker tankers already approved to perform MFO deliveries through MFM in the Port of Singapore.
More than 23 bunker tankers have also been scheduled for installation and testing over the next two months. Moving ahead, MPA will put in an additional S$0.5 million to fund the test-bedding of the use of MFM for Distillates deliveries. Trials have commenced and an update will be provided in the first quarter of 2017.
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SINGAPORE (Oct 4): Dreaming of a nice pay rise at the end of the year? Think again.
Salaries across Asia Pacific are projected to rise 5.9% in 2017 amid slowing economic growth, down from a projected 6.4% in 2016, according to Willis Towers Watson.
This marks the third year in a row that salary increase budgets have declined.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte plunged one of the United States' most important Asian alliances deeper into uncertainty on Wednesday by declaring upcoming U.S.-Philippines military exercises "the last," and ruling out any joint navy patrols.
The firebrand Duterte pledged to honor a longstanding security treaty with the United States, but said China opposed joint marine drills in the Philippines starting next week and there would be no more war games with Washington after that.
"I am serving notice now to the Americans, this will be the last military exercise," Duterte said during a visit to Vietnam. "Jointly, Philippines-U.S.: the last one."
http://maritime-executive.com/article/duterte-no-more-us-philippine-naval-exercises
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I have flown Bangkok - Abu Dhabi - Dublin - Edinburgh, with Etihad a couple of times and you do have to pass through Irish Immigration.
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The Philippines is the best macro story in Asia, according to Christopher Wood, the controversial equity strategist at CLSA. He said as much at a lunch for reporters last week during CLSA's annual investors' forum.
Investors are looking for domestically focused economies, given slow global growth. And they are also keen to target countries with heavy government spending. The Philippines ticks both boxes.
"The real story in the Philippines is infrastructure," Wood said. Despite the dramatic political grandstanding by new President Rodrigo Duterte, "his economic team is orthodox," Wood added.
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Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
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Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte will allow Indonesian maritime authorities to enter Philippine waters when chasing pirates.
“We can make it clear that if the chase begins in Indonesia and continues in international waters, and inside Philippine waters, they can go ahead and blast them off,” the Philippine leader said yesterday.
Duterte has been in Jakarta meeting his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo where the issue of piracy came up – the region has become a global hotspot, largely thanks to Philippine Islamist group, Abu Sayyaf targeting smaller ships in the Sulu and Celebes seas.
http://splash247.com/blow-feed-sharks-duterte-talks-tough-pirates/
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According to PGI’s Risk Portal, there were at least 81 incidents of piracy or attempted piracy in or around the Singapore and Malacca Straits between April 2015 and April 2016.
The majority of these incidents have occurred on the western approach to the narrow waterway, indicative of the heightened risk of piracy in surrounding waters. The actual number of incidents is likely higher, given that many are thought to go unreported.
The high-level of piracy in surrounding waters presents security considerations for travel to and from Singapore’s port.
http://www.marinelink.com/news/singapore-malacca-straits414129.aspx
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1983 on rotation then based in Bangkok office from 1987.
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This quote by Marcel Pagnol comes to mind :-
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"
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Communication, then I was using CompuServe dial up and then Loxinfo and also a fax machine, it’s so much better now. But it does have its down side,.........now you can never get away from the office.
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BOTEN, Laos — For five years, this remote town on the China-Laos border has lived in the shadow of more prosperous times.
On the main street, weeds grow where bustling shops and restaurants once stood. Old nightclub signs blister and peel in the tropical climate. Around town, abandoned multistory hotels loom like decaying sentinels, colonized by armies of jungle insects.
About a half-dozen years ago, Boten was a casino boomtown, a pinprick of neon amid thickly forested hills. Its gold-rush economy revolved around the Chinese casinos and gambling halls, which drew in thousands of visitors a month from across the border in Yunnan Province.
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This is what offends me. But I won’t demand their rainbow flag be banned and I certainly won’t riot in the streets.
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The term 'hub of mystery deaths' was used earlier..look back in the records for the last 10yrs..Hua Hin does not have a good record when it comes to suspicious deaths of UK nationals..
...& to me this poor man may find himself on that same list.
In almost no time at all the MiB seem happy with the cause of death being almost accidental & no foul play..TiT..(in a western country, IMO.. the investigation would have been longer, wider, & more thorough)
R.I.P. Iain.
Give us a break!!
He was drunk and in a fit of rage kicked in a shop window, badly cut himself badly and bled to death!!
Nothing suspicious about that.
And for all the conspiracy theorists out there, the shop is a central location and probably plenty of people witnessed what happened!!
But as usual, don't let facts get in a way of a good Thai bashing thread!!
This character Usual Suspect is a barkeeper in the town and he likes nothing better than a bit of Thai bashing
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The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. - Sir Isaiah Berlin
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Muslims kill Jews; blame Jews? Muslims kill Hindus; blame Hindus? Muslims kill Christians; blame Christians? Muslims kill Muslims; blame US?
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Argentina faces Germany for the World Cup and Nazi War Criminals on the run don't know who to root for.
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Heard today that as from the 1st of the month it is only open for Thai and Myanmar citizens and to other nationals with a visa for Myanmar already in their passport.
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I was out cycling yesterday evening and a mutt ran out with the intent to chase me and straight into an oncoming pick-up, couldn't have asked for a better result.
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I cycle three basic routes and if I get a persistent issue with feral dogs, I go on the attack with a stun gun. You do not have to touch them with it; just the mere sound sends them packing. Although a couple of years ago I had one which tried to bite me on the ankle, I stunned him and he had some sort of seizure and on my return found him at the same place stone dead.
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Saving Private Bergdahl
How a member of a special operations unit almost lost his leg—and his life—on a mission to retrieve Bowe Bergdahl.
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US spends $50bn a year on spying, Snowden says they can monitor all we do -- yet caught napping when ISIS takes Mosul etc. Remarkable
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Two of the five released Taliban are wanted by the UN for war crimes, will Qatar hand them over?
"Tough times are here to stay": Analysts on outlook for Singapore's economy
in Singapore General Chat
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SINGAPORE: For the third quarter of 2016, Singapore’s economy expanded by 0.6 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, advance estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) showed on Friday (Oct 14).
That is much lower than a forecast of 1.7 per cent by private sector economists surveyed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) last month, and marks a decrease from the previous quarter’s 2 per cent growth.
On a quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted annualised basis, the economy shrank 4.1 per cent during the July to September period, a stark reversal from the already-anaemic 0.2 per cent expansion in the previous three months.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-s-economic-growth-slows-sharply-to-0-6-in-q3/3203444.html?cid=twtcna