The Straits Times

August 15, 2009 Saturday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

Baby bonus has had little impact so far

Striking out on different paths

Inside

Chink in Pakatan's armour

View Points

Teacher convicted of altering exam scripts

Obama to attend Apec meeting in Singapore

Next stop: China, for this President's Scholar

It's official: HK is out of the recession

Festive message: Spend wisely

Kg Glam switched on to festivities

1st Tamiflu-resistant case survives

SIA offers option for older staff to retire early

500 dead in floods, mudslides in Taiwan

Taiwan thanks Singapore for aid package for victims

Web filter debacle has KL red-faced

US tests system to foil foreign Net censorship

Yudhoyono vows to tackle terror down to its roots

Deals galore to woo year-end travellers

Putting their sports career before books

India's groundwater supply running dry

Aussie wins right to die

Lawyer's name is music to needy

Breaking News

Gold again for Borchin

Tax dodgers scramble **

Chelsea wins 2-1 over Hull

LONDON - DIDIER Drogba lobbed his second goal of the game in injury time as Chelsea captured a 2-1 victory over Hull on Saturday to give Carlo Ancelotti a winning start in the Premier League.

Having equalized Stephen Hunt's 28th-minute debut goal for Hull with a 37th-minute free kick, Drogba scored the winner just after the officials had signaled six minutes of injury time.

Religion, race, health on cards

Four key items will be on the agenda of Sunday night's National Day Rally. These are: the state of the economy, Singapore's transformation in the past 50 years, health care, and racial and religious harmony.

Yettaw to be released

WASHINGTON - US SENATOR Jim Webb will fly out of Myanmar Sunday with an American convicted to seven years imprisonment after securing his release from the military regime, Webb's office said in a statement Saturday.

Ma apologises

LIUKUEI (Taiwan) - TAIWAN'S President Ma Ying-jeou bowed to public anger Saturday, apologising for his government's slow response to Typhoon Morakot, which devastated central and southern parts of the island.

Ma spoke at the end of a week in which his administration faced mounting criticism for failing to recognise in time the magnitude of the crisis as mudslides cut off hundreds of villages, leaving them only accessible by air.

Senator meets Suu Kyi

YANGON - US Senator Jim Webb met with Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday, the first foreign official allowed to see her since she was sentenced to 18 months of detention by the ruling junta, witnesses said.