SINGAPORE - Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced here Tuesday the biggest cabinet reshuffle affecting nearly all his 16 ministries in an effort to let the fourth-generation ministers shoulder more responsibilities.The regrouping of the cabinet will come into force on May 1. Two thirds of the ministries will be headed by younger ministers except for transport, health, defence, home affairs and law. The average age of the new cabinet will be 55, one year younger than the current one.Of the three men who have the potential to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Chan Chun Sing will chair the Ministry of Trade and Industry, while Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will be staying on in his existing role but will take over responsibility in National Research Foundation matters as well.In the Education Ministry, the 48-year-old Education Minister Ong Ye Kung, who is in charge of higher education and skills, will now be ascended to take charge of the whole ministry. He will relinquish his appointment as Second Minister for Defence.Three ministers will be retiring, who are Minister for Trade and Industry (Trade) Lim Hng Kiang, 64, Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say, 63, and Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim, 62.They will be taken over respectively by current labor chief Chan Chun Sing, 48, Second Manpower Minister Josephine Teo, 49, and Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S. Iswaran, 55.Lee Hsien Loong said in his facebook post that the younger ministers will progressively take over more responsibility for governing Singapore. custom military wristbandscustom name bangle braceletspersonalised rubber wristbandscustom wristbandscolor filled wristband
Golden Lotus Square, a tourist spot in Macao. [Photo/IC] MACAO -- Visitors on package tours to Macao rose by 39.6 percent year-on-year to 996,000 in March, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said here on Tuesday. Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that package tour visitors from the Chinese mainland (803,000), China's Taiwan (61,000) and the Hong Kong SAR (20,000) surged by 47.5 percent, 11.3 percent and 47.1 percent respectively, and those from South Korea (63,000) went up by 31.1 percent. In the first quarter of 2019, there were more than 2.4 million package tour visitors, an increase of 16.5 percent year-on-year. As the Easter holiday began at the end of March in 2018 yet in the mid of April this year, outbound residents using services of travel agencies in March 2019 decreased by 10.1 percent year-on-year to 121,000. There were 117 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of March 2019, an increase of two year-on-year. Number of available guest rooms grew by 2.2 percent year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 3.1 percent to 24,000 (62.9 percent of total). customize silicone wristbandscolored rubber bands for braceletsbest friend rubber braceletscustom-braceletscartier rubber bracelet<%2fcenter>
