AN ELDERLY woman died after she was hit by a train at the Clementi MRT station on Tuesday morning, disrupting westbound train service between Queenstown and Jurong East stations for about 50 minutes.

TEMASEK HOLDINGS had been searching since early 2005 for a successor chief executive officer, both within the company and outside it, Senior Minister of State (Finance) Lim Hwee Hua told Parliament on Tuesday.

Singaporeans, permanent residents and foreigners were considered for the post.

JAKARTA - INDONESIAN prosecutors demanded 20 years' jail on Tuesday for an alleged terrorist from Singapore who has confessed to killing a teacher and plotting an attack against Western tourists.

Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin laughed and giggled as the prosecution announced it would not seek the maximum sentence of death.

WASHINGTON - IN A RARE joint appearance in Congress, the top men at the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department on Tuesday defended Obama administration proposals for new authority to seize failing banks, gobble up bad debts and sell good ones to healthy competitors.