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October 28, 2009 Wednesday

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Straits Times Headlines

Customer satisfaction drops again

Tourist arrivals rise at last

Star golfers ready for action

Inside

Chinese culture a hard sell

View Points

Bosses' shrinking pay packages

Tragedy at children's goodwill camp

MM Lee calls on Clinton, Geithner

Castro's sister, the CIA spy

Raffles, MM Lee and the rule of law

CJ on judicial independence and judicial review

Press can criticise, but Govt expects right of reply

'Tell me, if someone needs help'

Q & A

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Snatch thief caught in hospital

$29 for H1N1 vaccine shot

End to canola dispute sought

More working women needed

Free ride to the hairdresser

Home wrinkle device in 2010

Apec summit outfits unveiled

New US home sales tumble

Merkel re-elected, sworn in **

Pakistan car bomb kills 91

PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - A CAR bomb tore through a busy market in north-western Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 91 people as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and pledged American support for its campaign against Islamist militants.

More than 200 people were wounded in the blast in the main north-western city of Peshawar, the deadliest in a surge of attacks this month. The government blamed militants seeking to avenge an army offensive launched this month against Al-Qaeda and Taleban in their stronghold close to the Afghan border.

End to canola dispute sought

OTTAWA - CANADA is confident it can resolve its dispute with China over China's refusal to accept canola with blackleg disease without seeking World Trade Organization action, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Wednesday.

Ritz said he met with the Chinese ambassador to Canada on Tuesday.

Clinton unveils energy aid

ISLAMABAD - VISITING US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her visit to Pakistan on Wednesday to unveil a US$125 million (S$175.1 million) programme to improve the country's inadequate electricity supply.

'The funding will be aimed at repairing generation facilities, improving the overall effectiveness of local utilities providers, replacing inefficient tube well pumps and promoting energy efficiency,' she told a news conference.

Bangladesh considers 'begging zones'

DHAKA - BANGLADESH is considering creating 'special begging zones' under new plans designed to tackle the problem on the streets of the impoverished capital Dhaka, an official said on Wednesday.

India wants China as 'partner'

Clinton: 'Turning the page'

Corpse left on station roof

Call for deeper US-China ties

Pearl River Delta poisoned

Japan probes ship collision

Japan intercepts US missile

China to hunt 1950s remains

India swamped by e-waste

Pakistan kills 42 militants

Tigers fast dying out