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Genting International and Star Cruises, both part of Malaysia's Genting Group, were named as winner of a second casino licence on Sentosa island. Their family-oriented proposal featured a Universal Studios theme park and the world's largest oceanarium. Genting plans to invest SGD 5.2 billion in the project.

The amendment to the Legal Profession Act introducing limited liability law partnerships comes into effect on 4 Dec 2006.

Electronic legal information publisher Justis Publishing Ltd has signed an agreement with the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) to supply the JustCite service as well as the British Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) products through SAL’s LawNet service. These ICLR products include the authoritative series The Law Reports for the United Kingdom dating back to 1865.

The Ministry of Trade & Industry ("MTI") announced that Singapore and the Gulf Co=operation Council (GCC) have agreed to start FTA negotiations.

The UK Government published the controversial Legal Services Bill, signalling the onset of a radical shake-up to make the UK the most liberal legal market in the world.

Rules on registering charities are to be tightened with powers to the Commissioner of Charities (COC) to reject a new charity application and de-register existing ones. The proposals are open for public feedback at www.reach.gov.sg.

The Beijing High Court, last Friday, rejected the appeal by Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times. This is according to his lawyer and China's official Xinhua news agency.

The Co-operative Group, UK has launched a free legal services helpline as the company continues to position itself to take advantage of the post-Clementi liberalisation of legal services.

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has launched two free services on the Internet: the Land Query and StreetMap@Singapore services. The services can be found at www.inlis.gov.sg.

The E-Government Congress is organised by DZ Hampton with theme "Creating a Citizen-Centric Government to Achieve Excellence in Public Service".

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