The Straits Times

July 21, 2009 Tuesday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

Those with flu more likely to have H1N1 now

Orchard Road's newest star beckons

Inside

Clash of the computing titans

View Points

Nasdaq president slated to helm SGX

Citi opens new $100m global hub in S'pore

School owner claims he is facing bankruptcy

Jakarta blasts: More than 2 bombers?

Sisters, 4 and 8, triumph over older programmers

Billions in Asia to witness eclipse

S'pore group head to China for rare glimpse

Structured notes fiasco settled fairly: Lim Hng Kiang

More than 13,000 get jobs in public sector

Breaking News

Fireworks factory blaze kills 10

More hotspots in Sumatra

Iraq wants 4th mobile license

N.Korea fears pressure at meet

Obama hates to shop

Wall Street surges

Dutch couple killed in blast

28 finalists named in poll

Black scholar's arrest questionable

Chinese websites closed again

Continental Air cuts 1700 jobs **

More hotspots in Sumatra

ALMOST twice as many hotspots have been detected in Sumatra as the same time last year and the year before.

Satellite images on Tuesday showed 2,248 hotspots in Sumatra, compared with 1,229 from the same time last year and 1,218 in 2007. It even surpassed the 2,031 hotspots in 2006, the last time that smoke haze hit Singapore hard.

Bernanke sees upturn

WASHINGTON - THE Federal Reserve is likely to maintain its easy money policy for some time despite signs of improvement in the economy and financial markets, chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.

Mr Bernanke, delivering his semiannual economic report to Congress, cited 'notable improvements' in financial markets and a somewhat brighter economic outlook but considerable risks led by high unemployment.

KPE traffic volume jumps

JUST 10 months after it was fully opened to traffic, Singapore's newest expressway, the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE), is filling up.

Checks with the Land Transport Authority showed that the average daily two-way volume is now around 63,500 vehicles - 30 per cent more than the 48,900 recorded last September, when it opened.

3 more patients in ICU

THREE more H1N1 patients with underlying medical problems have been admitted to intensive care units.

Two of them are in critical condition, said the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.In a statement, MOH said the three are:

A 46-year-old female foreigner with hypertension and kidney disease on dialysis who sought medical treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital's Emergency Department on Sunday. Before that, she had sore throat and fever for a week.

Goodyear won't be CEO

Mr CHARLES 'Chip' Goodyear will not become the chief executive of Singapore state investment arm Temasek Holdings, after he and Temasek mutually decided not to proceed with his appointment.

In a statement, Temasek said that both the Temasek board and Mr Goodyear have concluded and accepted that there are differences over certain strategic issues that could not be resolved.