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To ensure that children are not embroiled in their parents' conflicts, a new Family Child Court that will focus on child welfare will be set up later this year. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG » Full Story
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BANGKOK - A UN official says Myanmar's junta has seized all the food and equipment that the World Food Programme (WFP)had flown into the country for cyclone victims. But the WFP said that two relief flights will still be sent to Myanmar on Saturday, just hours after suspending flights due to the 'unacceptable restrictions' by the Myanmar government.


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IN BANGKOK - MYANMAR'S government remained in no hurry to allow foreign aid teams into the country yesterday, even as estimates of the death toll from Cyclone Nargis soared past 100,000.

MOST childcare centres and preschools that have been asked to shut down temporarily to break the transmission of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among their charges aren't doing so.
REIGNING Mr Singapore Tong Chin Wee has been implicated in the biggest dope scandal to hit Singapore sport.
IN WASHINGTON - OVER a year ago, Senator Hillary Clinton announced her bid to become the first woman president of the United States with a simple mission statement: 'I'm in to win.'
DO NOT overload your chief financial officer (CFO) with too many responsibilities, to the point where he can no longer focus on his key roles, Singapore's financial regulator urged yesterday.
IN TOKYO - CHINESE leader Hu Jintao was kept busy yesterday posing with ballerinas, speaking to college students and showing off his ping pong skills as he continued his charm offensive in Japan.
HE HAS been gone for decades, but P.Ramlee is still a box office sensation.
NO DISASTER relief execution in recent years has been remotely praiseworthy, not even in well-organised societies. The 1995 Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, which killed about 6,000 people, caught the local and national authorities flat-footed.
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I REFER to Tuesday's letter, 'Address Workers' Party query' by Mr Nicholas Loh, which asked how Singaporean workers' societal position was not in question.
April 21, 2008
Mas Selamat: Here's how he escaped
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng unveiled further details to the daring escape of JI fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari in Parliament on Monday when he released the Executive Summary of the Committee of Inquiry's report. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave his take on Government accountability over the issue. We bring you both speeches in full.
Gone in 49 secs
That's how long it may have taken Mas Selamat from the time he jumped out of an unsecured toilet window at the Whitley Road Detention Centre till the time he scaled a double perimeter fence, to his freedom. Mr Wong, who's also Deputy Prime Minister gives a detailed timeline of the JI leader's prison break
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The COI's recommendations
The Government has accepted a slew of recommendations put forth by the Committee of Inquiry (COI). Among them - centralising the command and control of the Whitley Road detention centre under the Internal Security Department and building a new detention facility in Changi Prison for political detainees.
Duration: 10 min 28 secs | Filesize: 12 MB
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