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Law firms move to keep young legal eagles
AT THE recent opening of the new legal year, Attorney-General Chao Hick Tin drew attention to the problem of Singapore's vanishing young lawyers. He referred to the number who drop out of practice each year, and said it might be an... [Read more]

Hosts Inter's poor defence allows Valencia to draw 2-2
MILAN - INTER Milan may be 14 points clear at the top of the Italian Serie A after 16 consecutive wins, but their Champions League hopes hang in the balance after a 2-2 home draw against Valencia. Inter's domestic domination counted... [Read more]

Thai court rejects ITV's request for fine injunction
BANGKOK - THAI television network ITV said a court has refused to consider its request for an injunction on 100 billion baht (S$4.3 billion) of fines, fees and interest it has been ordered to pay.Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court yesterday informed ITV... [Read more]

Sports World
VIETNAM PLAYERS JAILED FOR MATCH-FIXINGHO CHI MINH CITY: A Vietnamese court sent two former footballers to jail yesterday for fixing an international match. They also handed suspended prison sentences to six young players involved in the scam. All eight defendants were... [Read more]

West Ham heading south
LONDON - WEST Ham's battle for Premiership survival took a blow after a devastating defeat by rock-bottom Watford at Upton Park. Watford won 1-0, courtesy of Darius Henderson's first-half penalty on Saturday. West Ham could have earned a draw. But Marlon... [Read more]

Florida girl can't stop hiccuping
FOR more than three weeks, despite medical tests and home remedies, 15-year-old Jennifer Mee has been hiccuping. A lot. In fact, the teenager, who lives in Florida, is hiccuping close to 50 times a minute, stopping only when she sleeps. Jennifer... [Read more]

Crowds throng Istana open house
RECORD crowds roamed the Istana grounds yesterday, with more than 26,000 people passing through the gates of the President's official residence. Normally, around 15,000 to 16,000 people visit the grounds when it is open to the public during Chinese New Year,... [Read more]

Indian firms finding match with Western partners
NEW DELHI - A FLURRY of big-ticket cross-border acquisitions involving Indian companies over the past fortnight may amount to more than the US$29 billion (S$44 billion) that the deals were worth. Britain's Vodafone said on Sunday that it had offered US$11... [Read more]

Umno to street racers: Catch 30 thieves, get a free bike
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA's main party in the ruling coalition has volunteered to help curb street crime, offering new motorbikes to gangs of illegal street racers if they spend their time catching thieves instead. The chief of Umno Putera, the party's... [Read more]

Operation to secure Baghdad will take time, says Bush
US PRESIDENT George W. Bush said yesterday that the new US-led effort to secure Baghdad was under way but warned it would be hard-fought and offered no speedy resolution.'The operation to secure Baghdad is going to take time, and there will... [Read more]

Tsang envisions HK as China's key financial hub
HONG Kong must continue to thrive as a financial hub and at the same time take steps to ensure that the rich-poor wealth gap does not worsen.These were among the key goals for the city's Chief Executive Donald Tsang, who launched... [Read more]