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WP's Png Eng Huat clarifies NCMP comments - Straits Times
But late on Monday night, an anonymous source e-mailed to the media images of minutes from the May 12 meeting last year where the CEC had voted on the NCMP seat. The images showed that Mr Png received one vote. Mr Giam got seven votes and East Coast ...
Cat hoarders here to get community help - Straits Times
... in Mountbatten and the other in Bukit Panjang - when neighbours complained about the cats in the two homes last October. In the Mountbatten case, the 69-year-old cat owner, who declined to give her name, said: 'They... have become part of my family.
Two wounded in Myanmar golf course bombing: Official - Straits Times
YANGON (AFP) - Two bombs exploded at a Myanmar hotel golf course on Saturday, wounding two people during a tournament to mark next week's Armed Forces Day, a government official said. The first blast occurred at around 7am at the Regina Hotel golf ...
China to restrict political websites amid scandal - Straits Times
The Utopia administrator, who refused to give his name, said the site had also been knocked offline in recent days, either because of heavy traffic or deliberate attacks. He said the order to remove content about Chongqing extended to similar sites, ...
US has traced most of the missing MF Global funds - Straits Times
In an online story published late on Tuesday, the newspaper cited unnamed sources briefed on the matter, who said they did not want to publicise the results for fear of compromising the probe or potential prosecutions. The Times said that while ...
Prominent activist couple goes on trial in China - Straits Times
... other people repeatedly in aggravated circumstances.' 'Ni Yulan has also been charged with fraud and fabricating facts. The case is being heard in accordance with the law,' the spokesman, who refused to be named, told reporters outside the courthouse.
Chinese woman runs away from home to escape 'Mama's boy' - Straits Times
The woman, who declined to give her name, had been in love with her boyfriend, 29, for three years. But the man found she was gone on Nov 19. He dialed 110 before police found her at Changshou Railway Station in Chongqing. 'Whenever we buy something, ...
Dell, China's Baidu pair up to make smartphones - Straits Times
A spokesman for Dell, who declined to be named, told AFP the US firm and Baidu would make smartphones together, but declined to comment further on details of the cooperation or the timing for product releases.
UN rights envoy attends Myanmar parliament - Straits Times
... the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, spent the third day of his trip in the capital Naypyidaw before heading to Yangon where he is due to hold talks with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, a government official said. ...
New-look Manchester United hunt 20th title - Straits Times
Humbled by Barcelona in the Champions League final in May, sources close to Ferguson say the ferociously competitive United boss has spent much of the close season simmering over his team's 3-1 defeat at Wembley. It was a match that saw the swansong of ...
US$2 trillion error in S&P calculations: US - Straits Times
Moody's and a third ratings agency, Fitch, say they continue to study the deficit plan to see if the US merits being kept in their ranks of AAA countries. Earlier, an official close to the discussions with S&P said: 'There are deep and fundamental ...
Gaddafi accused of role in rebel general's death - Straits Times
Gaddafi was clearly involved in the assassination, said the official who declined to be named as the death of the general remains shrouded in mystery and investigations are underway. The accusation, he said, was based on early reports from Tripoli that ...
Twin Indian Kashmir blasts wound nine policemen - Straits Times
The officers had rushed outside the station after a grenade was first set off, only to be hit by a much larger improvised bomb placed inside a parked scooter, a Sopore policeman who declined to be named told AFP. 'Ten minutes after the grenade, ...
Red Cross controversy threatens China philanthropy - Straits Times
'This is definitely going to have an impact,' a Red Cross spokesman, who refused to be named, told AFP when asked whether the incident would affect the amount of donations the group receives. The scandal erupted last month when a web user uncovered the ...
Finally, some track-side peace and quiet - Straits Times
... and we sometimes had snakes and mosquitoes because of the trees and bushes around the tracks. We had to use repellent all the time.' His wife, 50, an accountant who declined to give her name, was more sentimental. She said: 'I think I'll miss it. ...
'Six dead' in Vietnam gold mine accident - Straits Times
HANOI - SIX people died when an illegal gold mine collapsed in central Vietnam, a government official said on Friday, in the latest incident of its kind. The accident in Quang Nam province occurred during heavy rains last Sunday, said local official ...
Lagarde's IMF roadshow in India on Tuesday - Straits Times
'We are expecting her (Tuesday) June 7,' in connection with her campaign to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the source, who asked not to be named, told AFP. Ms Lagarde was in Brazil earlier this week - one of several emerging economic ...
Japan diplomat protests S.Korean visit to Kurils - Straits Times
Masatoshi Muto on Tuesday visited Seoul's foreign ministry to express regrets to vice foreign minister Park Suk Hwan, a foreign ministry official who declined to be named told AFP. The three lawmakers travelled to Kunashiri island on Tuesday, ...
Cannes juror Thurman breaks off for funeral - Straits Times
Actress Uma Thurman, a Cannes juror, excused herself from the film festival on Friday to attend a family funeral in Monaco, sources close to her said. -- PHOTO: AFP CANNES - HOLLYWOOD actress Uma Thurman, a Cannes juror, excused herself from the film ...
Top US official to visit Myanmar - Straits Times
A State Department official said later on condition of anonymity that Mr Yun will also try to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 65, who was released in November after spending most of the past 20 years under house arrest. ...
Philippine nuclear plant to become tourist site - Straits Times
PHOTO: AFP MANILA - TOURISTS will soon be able to wander through a nuclear power plant in the Philippines that was built nearly three decades ago but never used, a government official said on Wednesday. The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which has lain ...
French earthquake satire offends Japan - Straits Times
The Japanese embassy wrote to private French television channel Canal+ complaining of jokes about Japan on Les Guignols de l'Info, its popular satirical puppet show, said an embassy source who asked not to be named. He said the show displayed pictures ...
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However, a doctor who declined to be named, said that Mr M. Balaji, 43, needed to drastically reduce his weight from 240kg to about 60kg before he could undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the extent of his fracture.
N. Korea cracking down on IT gadget possession - Straits Times
The North Korean police agency is in charge of keeping track of the IT gadgets possessed by everyone, presses criminal charges against those who failed to report and even confiscates many of the gadgets, the source said. The reclusive communist state ...
Temasek taps IBM executive for Thaicom's CEO post - Straits Times
A source close to Shin Corp shareholders said Singapore's investment arm needs a person with a neutral image to lead Thaicom, as part of Temasek's effort to shake off the public perception that Thaicom is associated with politics. ...