IPOH (Perak): Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had a warm and cordial meeting with Perak's Sultan Azlan Shah and Regent Raja Nazrin Shah in the state capital Ipoh on Friday, the fifth day of his eight-day visit to Malaysia.

Perak, the second largest state in Peninsular Malaysia after Pahang, was the first state visited by Mr Lee and a Singapore delegation after four days of meetings in Kuala Lumpur with Malaysian political leaders and the Malaysian King.

THE old may not be so weak and feeble afterall, at least when it comes to keeping the new flu bug at bay.

The 21 people in Singapore who have caught the new H1N1 flu are aged 10 to 50, with the largest group in their twenties.

This is in contrast to seasonal flu, which tends to strike the elderly more severely, said director of Singapore's Health Ministry's communicable diseases division, Dr Lyn James.

A WOMAN who took the Novena Church to court, and lost, has had some belongings from her home seized for not paying the hundreds of thousands she owes in legal fees.

A bailiff went to Madam Amutha Valli's Ang Mo Kio home in April and seized 15 items, including a 42-inch plasma TV set and a picture depicting Jesus Christ.

SHE may be focusing on her studies for now, but Tao Li is still in shape to smash national records.

She swam 1min 2.72sec in the 100metres backstroke at the National Swimming Championships on Friday, re-writing her own national record of 1:03.17 set in the meet's 2007 edition.