The Straits Times

June 26, 2009 Friday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

H1N1 cases hit 315; things will get worse

Meet the SAF's first Malay general

Inside

An open letter to Mr H1N1

View Points

Diverse line-up for growth ideas

Pick a colour

Hard times, longer hours

Half the victims are under 20

Flu symptoms sending more to polyclinics

Extended Tamiflu still as potent

NUS camp cut short after two get H1N1

Work from home, securities firm orders 50 remisiers

Butter Factory cluster grows: 10 more infected

Around the world

S'pore's rich list takes a beating

French tourists taken on wild chase through NY streets

Temasek helps local needy

All 5 in Changi terror plot nabbed

Why Mas Selamat was not extradited

Breaking News

Slashed, stabbed to death

Top US aide meets Singh

Cisse joins Panathinaikos

US stocks drift lower

SAF unveils Leopard tank **

Electricity prices to go up

RUNNING the air-conditioner to beat the heat over the next three months will cost $1.50 to $15.20 more a month.

Electricity prices here will go up by about 7 per cent from Wednesday, on the back of increasing fuel oil prices, said utilities services provider SP Services on Friday. From next month, three-room households will pay about $4 more a month in power bills, and five-room households, about $6 more.

Slashed, stabbed to death

A CHINESE national was arrested on Friday morning for murder after his ex-wife was found stabbed and slashed to death in her Queensway flat.

The 46-year-old was nabbed in the vicinity of Block 23B at Queen's Close, where his former wife, Ms Wei Hong, 41, lived in a ninth-storey unit with their teenage son and three other tenants.

Flu hits May tourism

TOURISM arrivals fell again in May, the 12th consecutive month they have done so.

Worse, the spectre of Influenza A (H1N1) has cast a long shadow over an industry that is already reeling from the effects of the global economic downturn, and things look set to get a lot worse before they get better.

Outlook still bright: SM

THE outlook for Singapore's financial sector remains bright, according to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.

But he says industry players need to adapt to the new realities of the post-financial crisis landscape if the Republic is to remain a leading financial hub.

Mystery surrounds death

LOS ANGELES - ONE day after Michael Jackson's sudden death, speculation was already turning on Friday to what killed the 50-year-old 'King of Pop' just weeks before his long-awaited series of comeback concerts.

Jackson, a former child star who became one of the best-selling pop artists of all time before a descending into a strange and reclusive lifestyle, died on Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital, where he had been rushed in full cardiac arrest after collapsing at his nearby rental home.