The Straits Times

June 18, 2009 Thursday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

US unveils sweeping new financial rules

Violinist gets to play on rare instrument

Inside

Malaria: Why is action so slow in coming?

View Points

Flu-stricken man denies socialising

17 new cases in one day

New campus coming up for UWC

Jet Li buys $20m bungalow in Bukit Timah

COE prices show double-digit gains

Buy-China order raises concerns

Space-saving Newater Changi plant

PAS No. 2 told: Quit or stop unity talks

Breaking News

Technology aids music industry

More families seeking shelter

Fun nights at the Museum

India reclaims Maoist zone

Temasek still outperforms

NDP action up close

US soldier waives hearing

Possible 1st local case

Brangelina give another US$1m

Escort charges hit Berlusconi

Stocks open little changed

Activists protest bullfights **

Thousands rally in Teheran

TEHRAN - TENS OF thousands of Mirhossein Mousavi's backers, wearing black and carrying candles, rallied in Tehran on Thursday to mourn those killed in mass protests against an election the defeated candidate says was rigged.

Days of public fury over the disputed election led Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, to invite Mousavi and the two other candidates beaten by hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to discuss their complaints on Saturday.

Finance overhaul 'essential'

WASHINGTON - TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended the US administration's vast regulatory overhaul plan as 'essential' in averting or containing future financial crises.

Mr Geithner appeared in Congress a day after President Barack Obama unveiled the wide-ranging program to reform financial market rules in the most sweeping overhaul since the 1930s.

Possible 1st local case

SINGAPORE on Thursday confirmed another 11 new cases of Influenza A (H1N1), bringing the total number of confirmed cases here to 77.

Of the new cases, one (Case 73) appeared to have acquired his infection in Singapore.

AYG takes flu precautions

FIXTURES aside, athletes set to compete at the June 29-July 7 Asian Youth Games will have to take note of a different schedule.

They will be required to take and record their temperature twice daily, as part of precautionary measures against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

Temasek still outperforms

SINGAPORE investment agency Temasek Holdings may have taken a hit recently on some of its high-profile banking investments, but over the longer term it has outperformed key global benchmarks.

Figures obtained by The Straits Times show that over a 10 year period to March this year, Temasek outgunned several closely-watched equity indexes.