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Nations offer $3.5m in flood aid to Indonesia
JAKARTA - INDONESIA has received offers of foreign aid totalling more than S$3.5 million to help it cope with floods that hit Jakarta and its surrounding areas in the past week. But, despite widespread complaints from flood victims about the lack... [Read more]

Road closures this weekend
IT IS that time of the year for the Chinese New Year countdown celebrations. The following roads will be closed to traffic from 5pm on Saturday to 3am on Sunday for the festivities and bazaar: New Bridge Road between Upper Cross... [Read more]

Tonight's News Articles
O'Neal's back but Miami still loseINDIANAPOLIS - DANNY Granger and the Indiana Pacers did not feel bad about spoiling Shaquille O'Neal's return.Granger scored 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and overtime as the Pacers beat the Miami Heat... [Read more]

EU firms lose $40b to China's barriers, says study
BRUSSELS - EUROPEAN Union firms are denied business opportunities in China worth at least 20 billion euros (S$40.3 billion) a year because of non-tariff trade barriers, a study published by the European Commission says.The survey, conducted by consultants for the EU... [Read more]

Taking no chances
PHOTO: XINHUA Safety comes first for these men as they don masks while clearing up a chemical spill from a truck in Shangyu city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. The truck was carrying more than 400 barrels of acetyl hydroperoxide when... [Read more]

Will Lions and fans incur Thai wrath?
I READ with concern the news that Thais burned an effigy of a Singapore leader outside the Republic's Embassy, in yet another protest following the diplomatic spat between the two countries. As our national soccer players are travelling to Bangkok this... [Read more]

Singapore beat Thais after 30 years
A 30-YEAR-OLD winless streak finally came to an end at the National Stadium last night. In front of 55,000 screaming fans - the second time in four days that the stadium was sold out - Singapore beat Thailand 2-1 to carry... [Read more]

News in Headlines
Tao Li and Kendrick not included in exclusive groupSINGAPORE swimmer Tao Li splashed her way to gold in the women's 50 metres butterfly at last month's Asian Games.But, come next year's Beijing Olympics, she is unlikely to make a similar impact,... [Read more]

'Education for all' law hurting migrant kids
SHANGHAI - IT SEEMED like an ordinary day earlier this month at the Jianying Hope School for migrant children in Shanghai.Fidgety students were settling down in their modest classrooms as their teachers prepared for the day's lessons.Then the policemen arrived. At... [Read more]

Fans watch game 'live' all over Singapore
TUCKED away in a sleepy corner in Bedok North, the normally serene Geylang United clubhouse was a cacophony of noise last night. Some 50 fans turned up at a live screening to root for Singapore in the second-leg final against Thailand... [Read more]

Has Capello coached his last Real game?
MADRID - REAL Madrid have denied radio reports that their manager Fabio Capello has resigned.But the Spanish media yesterday prophesied that last night's Champions League match with Bayern Munich was his swansong. Miguel Angel Arroyo, the spokesman for the club's board... [Read more]