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April 29, 2009 Wednesday

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Straits Times Headlines

Health Ministry raises pandemic alert level

MM takes in city sights from the Flyer

Inside

Taiwan's ailing health care system

View Points

Expect more layoffs but take heart

Getting Ready for re-hiring

Work begins on Marina expressway

Get facts right on sex education: Iswaran

EGM venue changed to Expo Hall 2

Pharmacies running out of flu drug

Labs racing to produce test kits and vaccines

Pork sellers at wet markets complain of poor sales

US patients 'may be passing on virus'

'Probable' case reported in S. Korea

4-year-old boy may be Patient Zero

Flu Shots

Making the Singapore brand great

Breaking News

Troops lock down capital

Man sets himself on fire

No Sri Lanka truce

Anger over looted relic auction

N.Korea threatens nuke test

China rejects reports as origin

Ban on stem cell research lifted **

Troops lock down capital

SRINAGAR (India) - INDIAN police and paramilitary forces locked down Kashmir's summer capital on Wednesday to prevent anti-election demonstrations after protests flared overnight.

Troops patrolled the deserted streets of Srinagar, the urban hub of a nearly two-decade-old revolt against New Delhi's rule of the Muslim-majority state.

Man sets himself on fire

BEIJING - A MAN is in serious condition after setting himself on fire in a crowded square in a southern Chinese city.

Xinhua News Agency says the man used flammable liquid to set himself alight in Chongqing's bustling Liberation Monument Square around noon Wednesday.

No Sri Lanka truce

COLOMBO - THE foreign ministers of Britain and France said on Wednesday they had failed to persuade Sri Lanka to end its offensive against Tamil rebels and allow aid in for civilians trapped by the fighting.

Anger over looted relic auction

BEIJING - CULTURAL officials in China on Wednesday harshly criticised plans by a French auction house to sell an 18th century jade imperial seal, in the latest row over the sale of looted relics.

N.Korea threatens nuke test

China rejects reports as origin

Ban on stem cell research lifted

87 down with food poisoning

Monks protest Miliband visit

Chopper technician found dead

Aso arrives in Beijing

Taiwan OK for WHO

China tackles fake degrees

2 detained over child rape

S.Korea holds by-elections

Politicians shun slums