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PRESS DIGEST - Singapore newspapers - Dec 26

Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:55pm EST

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SINGAPORE, Dec 26 (Reuters) - The following are stories from Singapore newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories.

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- Slightly more than 30,000 babies were born in Singapore in the first 10 months of the year, just one percent higher than the same period the year before, data from the National Population Secretariat showed. A record 13,209 foreigners took up Singapore citizenship over the same period.

- Urban rail services operated by SMRT Corp (SMRT.SI) and ComfortDelGro (CMDG.SI) were disrupted thrice on Christmas day, with two of the instances due to separate incidents of commuters going on its tracks.



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