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S'pore developer pumps $248m into Philippines
IN MANILA - BUSINESS park developer Ascendas is demonstrating its confidence in the Philippines as a location for business and investments. It will be injecting a total of $248 million into two separate projects here, it revealed yesterday. The first involves... [Read more]

Google gains again beat analyst forecasts
SAN FRANCISCO - GOOGLE'S fourth-quarter profit nearly tripled as the online search engine leader once again sprinted past analyst expectations, but the breathtaking growth was still not enough for investors.Google said on Wednesday that it earned US$1.03 billion (S$1.58 billion), or... [Read more]

Plans for new fund-raising moves to keep relief work going
WITH or without an executive president, Youth Challenge is going ahead with events on its calendar - including lunches for some elderly folk to celebrate the Chinese New Year.The events are scheduled for Jan 27 and Feb 14 - with the... [Read more]

Contest draws youths to total defence
A FEW months ago, 15-year-old Thakshayeni Skanthakumar thought that the Total Defence campaign was only about military stuff - soldiers, tanks and the like. But now she speaks animatedly about how it teaches Singaporeans of 'all races to come together as... [Read more]

Final push to seal deal with N. Korea
BEIJING - ENVOYS to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programme will hold a final day of negotiations today, US chief negotiator Christopher Hill announced last night. Mr Hill, the US Assistant Secretary of State, said the talks had snagged... [Read more]

Man plunges 16 floors and lives
A MAN crashed through a double-paned window in a Minneapolis hotel and plummeted 16 floors - but survived when he was caught by a roof overhang.Mr Joshua Hanson, 29, was taken to a hospital. Police and fire officials said he had... [Read more]

Lefty weathers conditions to share lead
PEBBLE BEACH (CALIFORNIA) - THE conditions were the toughest 'Lefty' Phil Mickelson had faced in eight months. It was a day of survival, when it was important to keep the ball in play and keep the big numbers off the scorecard.... [Read more]

Case file
CHARGED WITH MAID ABUSEA 47-YEAR-OLD Malaysian woman was charged yesterday with six counts of abusing her Filipino maid. Over a five-month period between October 2005 and February last year, Aw Ai Haw allegedly used objects such as a metal spatula, a... [Read more]

Staff to be more attentive when giving out info
We refer to the letter by Ms Liew Chuen Li (Online forum, Feb 13).We have contacted Ms Liew and apologised for the service lapse that she and her mother experienced.Upon receiving feedback from Ms Liew, we successfully turned on her mio... [Read more]

Could a wedding break the Gandhi-Bachchan ice?
IF THE Gandhis are the dominant clan in Indian politics, there is little doubt who calls the shots in Mumbai, headquarters of the nation's film world: The Bachchans are the first family of glamour. The city pauses when Amitabh Bachchan, India's... [Read more]

Passion crime brewed under Nasa's radar
HOUSTON - ASTRONAUT Lisa Nowak's attack on a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut has sent shockwaves through a tight-knit Nasa community accustomed to crew members becoming role models, not a party to love triangles. Flight engineer Nowak was... [Read more]