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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

>> SINGAPORE

•	URA releases first transitional office site for sale

•	COE prices down

•	Prison authorities withheld letter from man given extra strokes

•	S'pore fund management assets grew 24 % in 2006

•	Asking price: $780k for this Tiong Bahru HDB flat

•	Global cooperation vital to fight terrorism

•	Restructure talk spurs buying of Cosco issues

•	Govt takes caning error seriously

•	MAN CANED TWICE THE LEGAL LIMIT

•	I ONLY WANT ENOUGH FOR MY SON

•	TNP goes out in the morning

•	Nargis thinks she's found this year's The New Paper New Face winner

>> ASIA

•	Ozzy Osbourne to help Taiwan in UN membership quest

•	Tokyo's isolated elderly risk dying alone

•	Thai military draws fire for post-coup budget hike

•	Blinded by love

•	China inspectors find one-fifth of goods substandard

•	Trials start for China brick kiln slavery scandal

•	Japan's first woman defence head has wardrobe woes

•	Japan ruling camp likely to lose upper house poll

•	China chemical spill halts water supply to 200,000

•	Asian shop in Scotland gutted, revenge suspected

•	China punishes 6 cities for polluting rivers

•	Surrender, or face punitive action

>> WORLD

•	3 admitted to using Internet to incite terrorism

•	Britain quizzes bomb plot suspects, reviews threat

•	Alternative therapies could reduce chances of pregnancy

•	Police to militants: surrender at 2pm

•	No ransom in deal to free BBC man

•	Napoleon letter to Josephine fetches US$7.7m

•	US orders 200 new workers to process passports

•	Mother donates eggs to daughter aged 7

•	BBC Gaza reporter freed after 4 mths

•	Muslims of Scotland nervous after airport attack

•	Heathrow terminal reopens after security scare

•	Iraqi doctors in Britain fear bomb plot backlash

•	"Doctors' plot" breaks homegrown British pattern

>> TODAY'S ASIAN NEWS HEADLINES

>>	CHINA

•	Survey: 80.9% of China's products up to standard

•	China to draft legislation on energy-saving buildings

•	China to allocate 15.4 bln yuan to help poor college students

•	Investment grows 26% in first half year

•	China speeds up military sector reform

>>	JAPAN

•	Study: Global warming to cause steamuer summer nights in Japan in 20 to 30 years

•	Tax revenue 1.4 trillion yen short

>>	TAIWAN

•	Lu says UN bid could go to court

•	Cross-strait EU-style integration unlikey: academic

>>	KOREA

•	S. Korea, Russia enter full-fledged space partnership

•	Seoul concert prices sky-high

•	More Korean women engage in economic activities

•	New trend in food marketing is 'funtional products'

>>	INDONESIA

•	Police under fire for poor performance on anniversary

•	2009: Target of national telephone network construction

>>	MALAYSIA

•	Government to go all out to stop illegal logging

•	Different stream schools important

•	A quarter of projects resolved

>>	THAILAND

•	PM asked to scrap national security bill

•	Locals take charge of problem schools

•	Baht strongest in a decade

•	AIDS on the rise

•	Cabinet approves police-revamp bill

>>	PHILIPPINES

•	Soldiers to get more benefits

•	RP is new education hub in Asia Pacific

•	Govt posied to miss tax collection targets this year

>>	BRUNEI

•	Strengthening ties between two nations

>>	INDIA

•	Centre to ease norms for new medical colleges

•	No honour in this

•	Japan keen to invest in infrastructure projects

>>	PAKISTAN

•	National Assembly body recommends free of cost medicines for tuberculosis patients

•	India and Pakistan agree to fight drugs, cross-border crime

•	Government wants to give further autonomy to provinces: Saifullah

>>	SRI LANKA

•	Sri Lanka to focus on niche tourism to bring more foreign exchange

•	Sri Lanka achieves money target for June

>>	BANGLADESH

•	Overseas remitting system shaken: Million-dollar scam: Corrupt people close to past political regime involved