Singapore Goatse

Ailing Castro still has fight in him
CUBAN state television has shown footage of Dr Fidel Castro for the first time in three months, and the ailing leader said he was still in the fight to recover from surgery that forced him to relinquish power last July. The... [Read more]

China trade surplus hit $24.4b in January
HONG KONG - CHINA posted a US$15.9 billion (S$24.4 billion) trade surplus last month, pumping more cash into the world's fourth-biggest economy and adding pressure on Beijing to let the yuan rise faster. Imports jumped 27.5 per cent from a year... [Read more]

Baby trafficking case exposes abuse of women from E. Europe
PARIS - AS FRANCE'S biggest baby trafficking case unfolded in court last week, the question was not whether 23 babies had been surreptitiously sold for prices ranging from US$4,500 (S$7,000) to US$7,800 each. The purchasers, most of them couples from France's... [Read more]

'Free' Melbourne events more often than not well worth a ticket price
I refer to Ms Siti Aisha Mostafa's letter, 'Appreciation of the arts sorely missing' (Online forum, Jan 30).In it she mentioned: 'While working for the Singapore Biennale 2006, I came to realise that the majority of the crowd came only during... [Read more]

Booming tourism sector set five records last year
HOTELS added the icing on the tourism cake last year by hitting all-time highs for room rates, occupancy and total revenue.In all, five out of seven tourism indices set new records in a sterling year, one in which Singapore saw its... [Read more]

Safra looking into how best to assist widow
I REFER to Mrs Yim Bee Bee's letter, 'Widow excluded from Safra insurance scheme'' (ST, Jan 20). Safra is a club for national servicemen (NSmen) and was set up to recognise their contributions towards national defence and to provide them with... [Read more]

Singaporean jailed in JB for illegal entry returns home
SHE'S back. The Singaporean woman jailed for entering Malaysia with her passport unstamped has been released and deported. Malaysian immigration officers told The Straits Times they released Miss Cai Hui Si late on Tuesday night. Earlier, it had seemed that an... [Read more]

S'pore sends back fugitive Taiwanese tycoon to US
TAIPEI - FUGITIVE Taiwanese tycoon Wang You-theng was sent back to the United States yesterday because of problems with his travel document hours after he arrived in Singapore en route to Myanmar. The 80-year-old businessman and his fourth wife fled Taiwan... [Read more]

Successful NBA teams have star partnerships
ATLANTA - NO MATTER how good a basketballer is, he cannot win the National Basketball Association title alone.That is why the top teams in the league - Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, Utah and Houston - have at least two great players... [Read more]

Jewell vows to fight FA charge to the end
LONDON - WIGAN manager Paul Jewell, charged by the FA for his criticism of referee Phil Dowd, has vowed to 'fight this tooth and nail'.It is understood that Jewell has been contacted by at least 10 managers, who support his attack... [Read more]

Govt not likely to scrap estate duty, say tax experts
THERE is no shortage of people who hope the Government will read the last rites over estate duty at Thursday's Budget but experts believe the tax still has some life in it. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last year that... [Read more]