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Fuel supplies: Steps in place for security
I REFER to the letter, 'What is procedure for managing energy crisis?' by Mr Raymond Tham Kon Weng (ST, Feb 8).The Government has put in place policies to safeguard the security of our energy supplies. We are developing a terminal to... [Read more]

Rest comes first, family can wait
ONE would have thought that Noh Alam Shah would rather have spent yesterday's day off in the comfort of his own home. The 26-year-old Lion, instead, chose to remain at the Amara hotel - the team hotel where a few other... [Read more]

Horse bites man at children's zoo
ON SUNDAY, a father carrying his year-old son in his arms was bitten by a horse in the Children's World Animal Land section at the Singapore Zoo.Mr Karl Verhulst, 39, said: 'It stretched over the 1.3m-tall barrier and in a flash... [Read more]

Volvo to acquire Nissan Diesel for $1.6b
TOKYO - VOLVO, the world's second-largest truckmaker, agreed to buy Nissan Diesel Motor for 7.5 billion Swedish kronor (S$1.63 billion) to add production in Asia, the world's fastest-growing economic region. Shareholders of Nissan Diesel, Japan's fourth-largest truckmaker, will receive 540 yen... [Read more]

Drogba reveals Chelsea differences
LONDON - DIDIER Drogba has confirmed one of football's worst-kept secrets - that there are problems between Chelsea's manager Jose Mourinho and his superiors.That is why the Premiership champions have faltered in the title race this season, the striker added, pointing... [Read more]

I was not the ideal president, says Aquino
FORMER Philippine president Corazon Aquino, who restored democracy to her country in the 1980s, has said that she never considered herself an ideal leader.Mrs Aquino, who turned 74 yesterday, was a housewife when she reluctantly took over as dictator Ferdinand Marcos'... [Read more]

FairPrice house brand to get trans fat labels
BY YEAR'S end, FairPrice, the largest supermarket chain here, will have the trans fat content on the labels of all food products sold under its house brand.It will also reformulate its products to reduce or remove trans fat, where possible.Its move... [Read more]

New taste of egg-vertising
TOKYO - WHAT came first: the chicken or the egg? In a new twist to the age-old conundrum, a Japanese firm is betting that - in shopping baskets at least - the chicken or rather chicken noodles will follow the egg... [Read more]

Intel chip to offer more power for less energy
SAN JOSE (CALIFORNIA) - INTEL has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly as an entire data centre - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.The world's biggest chipmaker said on Sunday it has developed... [Read more]

Abdullah focused on work, not polls
PUTRAJAYA - MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said on Thursday that he had not thought about the general election as he was focusing his attention on honouring the promises made in the last polls. 'I am not thinking (about the general... [Read more]

No headway in Iran's nuke stand-off
DEFYING innumerable United Nations Security Council resolutions, Iran let on earlier this week that it has set up more than 300 centrifuges in two uranium enrichment units at its underground Natanz complex. The country's nuclear programme is therefore set to go... [Read more]