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January 15, 2009 Thursday

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Straits Times Headlines

Quicker action on patients' complaints against doctors

NTUC rebrands and expands its childcare services

Inside

Lessons from the brink

View Points

MP's long road to recovery

Drugs test a must for new foreign students at MDIS

Short-lived flight to a fake death

Who'll give me a job?

Dealing with desperate, even abusive people

Top 5 hiring industries and where to go for help

Small building jobs restored to help SMEs **

Aso embarassed again

TOKYO - JAPAN's beleaguered prime minister suffered fresh embarrassment on Thursday when a popular weekly magazine accused a member of his cabinet of having an affair with a married woman.

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshitada Konoike, who is also married, denied having an affair with the woman, but said she had visited him on several occasions at his government housing compound.

Laid-off worker dies of hunger

TOKYO - A JAPANESE man who was laid off from his job apparently starved to death in his apartment as Asia's richest nation goes through a painful economic downturn, a news report said on Thursday.

Pakistan must act against terror

MUMBAI - BRITISH Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday called on Pakistan to show 'zero tolerance' towards militant groups based in the country that have been blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks.

Adviser cleared of graft charges

TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S high court on Thursday cleared an adviser to former president Chen Shui-bian of corruption charges in a scandal involving a billion-dollar (S$1.49 billion) subway project.

Shoppers stung by fake notes

Cathay defers new terminal

2 executed after jail break

Drug dealer had traid link

Chen's new bid for freedom

Beijing readies for military show

HK delays political consultation

3rd son to succeed Kim

No sudden collapse in N.Korea

Indian elections in early April

Made in China coffee anyone?

Cutting back on CNY costs

13 child traffickers detained

Somalia mission for Japan

Japan's crime rate falls further

Court acquits ex-official

China baby slashed by maid

N. Korea's demand rejected

China wary of netizens

Snags in China-Taiwan flights?

Stimulus plan for China autos

China warns of travel chaos

350,000 homes without water

S.Korea clinic for sex offenders

Restart 'dream nuclear reactor'?

Arrested for spying for China

Quake parents want answers

Lax precautions caused bar fire

Hill: Nuke talks made progress

Chill winds cool CNY spirits

Beijing splurges on media

Quake hits southwest China

India-Pakistan war 'last resort'

N.Korea frees Japan gangster

China rights record criticised

China should lift nuke secrecy

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1	Gaza - a thorny road to peace
2	MP burnt, sent to SGH
3	Marginalised? Violence doesn't help
4	Hit-and-run at church: Residents sick of rude drivers
5	Terror has no religion, race or colour
6	S'poreans ranked lowest
7	Start school later and let children sleep longer
8	PM donates $500k to fund
9	PM urges no let-up in keeping seniors at work
10	Terrorists are responsible for their own actions

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Just too much rain

$653k for 4-room HDB flat

Prices for theme park

S'pore is 3rd least corrupt

Ex-RM jailed 74 months

English at work is 'weird'

Obama attends dinner

Floods hit Bukit Timah

ST News now on iPhone

Lecturer collapses, dies

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