Monday, March 5, 2007

News Today

Beijing manners improve, but not enough for Olympics
BEIJING - A CAMPAIGN to improve the manners of Beijing's queue-jumping residents ahead of the Olympics is showing results, although a gold-medal standard is still a long way off, state press reported yesterday.Incidents of littering, spitting, flouting of traffic rules and... [Read more]

Tougher clean-air rules for oil industry
BRUSSELS - EU REGULATORS plan stricter clean-air rules for oil companies, bolstering an environmental campaign that also targets carmakers. The Brussels-based European Commission aims to force the petroleum industry to cut emissions of gases blamed for global warming by 1 per... [Read more]

Yeo meets S'poreans in Brunei
Foreign Minister George Yeo met Singaporeans living in Brunei at a reception yesterday hosted by the Singapore High Commission. Mr Yeo, who is visiting Brunei, will call on Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtmadee Billah today. A Singapore Foreign... [Read more]

Picture-perfect smile
PHOTO: AP Visitors at a Beijing temple picking their favourite photo from a wall lined with smiling faces. Prizes will be awarded to the person in the winning picture and the photographer.... [Read more]

S'pore will take globalisation head on
GLOBALISATION has become such a dirty word in so many parts of the world that it was almost refreshing to hear Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam give his unflinching endorsement of the phenomenon. His message was simple and stark: Globalisation is... [Read more]

Stock market fever hits China's students
BEIJING - UNIVERSITY students on shoestring budgets have traditionally waited tables, flipped burgers at fast-food joints or taken on odd jobs to earn an extra buck. But recently, enterprising students in China are turning to a quicker, albeit riskier, way of... [Read more]

DPP's 'four heavenly kings' face graft probe
TAIPEI - FOUR leading members of Taiwan's ruling party, including Vice-President Annette Lu, will be investigated for corruption, a prosecutor's office said yesterday, a day after the head of the main opposition party was charged with graft. The prosecutor's office said... [Read more]

Woman sues club that suspended her over marital status
A WOMAN is suing her country club for suspending her membership because of a dispute over her marital status.Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) insisted its former vice-captain of the ladies' golfing sub-committee, Madam Kay Swee Pin, 53, was not legally married... [Read more]

More residents working for an income that has not changed for 10 years
I refer to the article, 'Singapore gearing up for 6.5m population' (ST, Feb 10).National University Sociologist Associate Professor Pauline Straughn said that Singapore needs to assure its people that growing the population will not result in more competition for jobs, housing... [Read more]

The Rupert Murdoch of Chinese media world
KUALA LUMPUR - HE HAS been dubbed the 'Rupert Murdoch' of the Chinese media world, but Malaysia's Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King is an incredibly publicity-shy individual. The Sarawakian tycoon has rarely given an interview - not even to newspapers in... [Read more]

Drawing the crowds at SMRT station
Auspicious Chinese couplets and paintings were given away free to SMRT passengers and shoppers at the Raffles Xchange mini-mall yesterday by artists from the Life Art Society (LAS). In the past three years, the society's giveaways have been held at SMRT... [Read more]

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