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2,577 drink drivers have been caught so far this year. Of these, 10 were arrested in an island-wide operation on Friday night.
Road blocks were set up from midnight in areas like Newton, Bukit Timah, Church Street and Chinatown areas to ring fence the cluster of entertainment outlets and drinking haunts in the [...]

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Asha Popatlal
Channel NewsAsia
Not all of the six new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries need to be switched on in November. Transport Minister Raymond Lim offered this little nugget of hope to motorists at a talk to the Press Club on Friday.
ERP was an obvious hot topic at the talk, especially as it comes after rates [...]

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Ilmeda Saad
Channel NewsAsia
Safety experts are calling for road safety education to be extended to upper secondary students.
This comes after the death of a 16-year-old boy who slammed into a tree while driving without a licence on Monday.
In Singapore, anyone below the age of 18 is not allowed to drive.
A 17-year-old youth, who wants to be [...]

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Dominique Loh
Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: As of Monday afternoon, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has received some 960 applications to get cash rebates from their Certificates of Entitlement (COE) and the Preferential Additional Registration Fee (PARF).
But car dealers have said that they are not expecting a rush of owners to give up their cars for cash.
Jackson Lee, [...]

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