ASK Malay dancer and choreographer Som Said what adjectives she hopes people will remember her by, and the 58-year-old laughs and says: 'People always associate me with 'traditional', so let it be that.'

Then she adds, firmly: 'But not conventional.'

The founder and artistic director of Malay arts company Sri Warisan Som Said Performing Arts made her name developing and promoting a traditional Malay art form. But it is her entrepreneurial spirit and ability to make the arts relevant to today's youth that won her this year's Berita Harian Achiever Of The Year award.

JAKARTA - AN INTERNET blog purportedly speaking on behalf of a group calling itself 'Al-Qaeda Organisation Indonesia' has claimed responsibility for the July 17 Jakarta hotel bombings.

The entry was posted on the Google site blogspot.com on Sunday but was only discovered Wednesday and reported in the Indonesian media.

LONDON - PREGNANT women who get H1N1 flu are at least four times as likely to be hospitalised as other people with the virus, a new study says.

While experts don't know if pregnant women are more susceptible to H1N1 flu, they say once pregnant women are infected, they have a higher risk of complications.

SINGAPORE state investor Temasek said its portfolio slid by at least $40 billion, or more than a fifth, in the year to March but it will stick with banks and sees opportunities in food and energy.

The fund saw potential in Asia and Latin America and was comfortable with financial services as its core portfolio holding, despite being hurt by the market meltdown last year after its high profile investments in Western banks, CEO Ho Ching said on Wednesday.