The Straits Times

July 2, 2009 Thursday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

Bowler gives Singapore its first gold

Inside

HDB resale prices up 1.2%

Mind your Netiquette

View Points

What it should have been

MM Lee: Let's prepare Changi to stay ahead

Watch top football the way you prefer

Top youth award for JJ Lin, 5 others

Soldiers observe SAF Day, honour those who lost lives

H1N1-ready clinics to play a bigger role

H1N1 & the workplace

Kidney man and diabetic Thai girl die

Closed: Four kindergartens

RP stays open but puts in place more measures

Party-goers make beeline for Butter Factory

Flu Shots

13 hours in the sea, clinging on to wreckage

EU official calls for worldwide blacklist of unsafe airlines

Whole world in high-res, 3D images

Breaking News

Duo arrested for break-in

Girls' Beach Volleyball team out

Wall St slides on weak job data

Jet didn't break up mid-air

AYG events on July 3 **

1st case resistant to Tamiflu

TOKYO - JAPAN has confirmed its first case of a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 influenza that shows resistance to antiviral drug Tamiflu, a health ministry official said on Thursday.

Mr Takeshi Enami, an official at the health ministry, said that the patient's sensitivity to Tamiflu had yet to be tested.

Factory output up again

THE electronics sector appears to be on the brink of a robust recovery, if the latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is anything to go by.

The index, an early indicator of upcoming manufacturing demand, showed a surprisingly strong leap in the segment last month, signalling an impending turnaround in the industry.

Jet didn't break up mid-air

PARIS - THE Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic a month ago with 228 people on board did not break up in mid-air, the French bureau leading the investigation said on Thursday.

'The plane was not destroyed while in flight,' said Alain Bouillard from the BEA accident investigation agency, which released its first report on the June 1 disaster.

Expect 100,000 cases daily

LONDON - BRITAIN'S health minister Andy Burnham says the country could have 100,000 new cases of swine flu every day by August.

Britain has officially reported 7,747 cases and three deaths, but officials acknowledge the real number of swine flu cases is far higher, since many cases are not identified.

467,000 US jobs cut

WASHINGTON - US EMPLOYERS cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent, the government said on Thursday in a report that showed a labour market continuing to struggle with a deep recession.

The June job losses were more than 100,000 greater than the 363,000 consensus of Wall Street economists polled by Reuters and broke a four-month trend of moderation in job losses.