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S'pore 'can draw on Philippines' experience in the arts'
MANILA - SINGAPORE can draw on the Philippines' experience in the arts sector, given the country's wealth of talented artists and institutions, visiting Singapore leaders said yesterday. This could be useful with the expansion of the arts scene in Singapore and... [Read more]

Click to create your own ads for TV
NEW YORK - THE Internet has allowed consumers to trade stocks without using high-priced brokers and travellers to book flights directly from airlines.Now it may free advertisers to make their own television commercials without going through a traditional advertising agency.Several companies... [Read more]

British doctors lose right to be own watchdog
LONDON - BRITISH doctors will lose the right to act as their own watchdog under government plans for Britain's biggest medical regulatory overhaul in decades. The changes, announced on Wednesday, are part of the government's response to the inquiry into how... [Read more]

Japanese gang leader kills himself
TOKYO - THE head of a Japanese gang appeared to have committed suicide yesterday, a week after the fatal shooting of a rival group's member triggered fears of an all-out turf war between the country's two largest yakuza clans. Kazuyoshi Kudo,... [Read more]

New accord, new Palestinian tangle
AFTER months of infighting between Hamas - which won the Palestinian elections - and the Fatah movement which ruled the nation for decades, the two have reached a deal, paving the way for a government of national unity. The deal was... [Read more]

Major computer retailer ejects the floppy disk
LONDON - BRITAIN'S largest chain of computer superstores will stop selling floppy disks once its stash is gone, the store said.PC World said the disks do not hold enough data and there are better alternatives.It has about 10,000 disks in stock... [Read more]

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]

Banking in money for charity
UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) held a Chinese New Year gala dinner last night for its small and medium enterprise clients, and money was raised for charity.Mr Sim Kok Hwee, 29, a corporate development manager at industrial equipment maker Zicom Group was... [Read more]

Bid for a place on Chingay float with Lions
THE Singapore Lions, who dramatically retained their Asean Cup football title in Bangkok on Sunday, will be riding high at this year's Chingay Parade. Led by skipper Aide Iskandar, the team will be perched on what has been described as a... [Read more]

Seoul pardons tycoons 'to boost economy'
SEOUL - SOUTH Korea yesterday announced pardons for more than 430 convicted business leaders and politicians in an attempt to reinvigorate the economy 10 years after the Asian financial crisis. The list agreed at a Cabinet meeting includes Park Yong Sung,... [Read more]

US troops told: Kill or nab Iranian spies in Iraq
WASHINGTON - THE Bush administration has authorised the US military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq in an aggressive new strategy to weaken Teheran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear programme.This was... [Read more]