The Straits Times

Sep 21, 2009 Monday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

Obama to jumpstart Mid-East peace talks

Auto checkpoint entry into Malaysia for frequent S'pore visitors

Saying 'I Do' 168 times over

Inside

Property: Govt has learnt from history

View Points

Sea piracy hits five-year high in waters near S'pore

Doctors too lax with weight-loss pills

6.39 PM

Pills obtained easily...

... and illegally online

MOH's guidelines

JI militant 'happy to be detained in Malaysia'

Mas Selamat never complained about ill-treatment: MHA

Govt steps in on company, union standoff

2004: When minister last sent case to arbitration

Breaking News

Drug user spared jail sentence

Church plans eldercare hub

More medical tourists

Out of the abyss

Stars pay final tribute to Sir Bobby

'Chanel advanced women's rights'

Mourinho hit with ban, fine

Piquet condemns Briatore

Gisele is UN goodwill envoy **

Plans for eldercare hub

THE oldest Anglican church in Singapore, St Andrew's Cathedral, has grown from being a place of worship for homesick English colonials to one that now leads the Anglican community in serving the wider good, regardless of religion.

Next year, the Anglican Diocese of Singapore will open the St Andrew's Autism Centre, and is planning to set up a one-stop eldercare hub to complement services at St Andrew's Community Hospital and Changi General Hospital (CGH) in the eastern part of Singapore.

2-year suspended ban

PARIS - RENAULT escaped severe punishment Monday for ordering former driver Nelson Piquet Jr to deliberately crash, receiving only a suspended two-year ban from Formula One's governing body.

Flavio Briatore, who quit as team principal last week, was banned indefinitely from any F1 activities by the World Motor Sport Council. Engineering executive director Pat Symonds, who also left the French team last week, was banned for five years after expressing his 'eternal regret and shame' that he participated in the conspiracy.

Bae out of hospital

POPULAR South Korean actor Bae Yong Joon was discharged from a hospital on Monday after five days of treatment.

The 37-year-old was hospitalised for septicemia caused by extreme fatigue and stress, reported Yonhap news agency.

Yoga helps cancer patients

NEW YORK - MS GALE McCombie was sitting in a hospital waiting room when she spotted a brochure offering free yoga classes for cancer patients.

But zapped of strength and confidence after undergoing gruelling treatments for breast cancer, Ms McCombie found the thought of entering any exercise class intimidating.

Piquet condemns Briatore

PARIS - FORMER Renault driver Nelson Piquet criticised his former team boss Flavio Briatore and expressed bitter regret for his own role in Formula One's race-fixing controversy on Monday.

After Renault were handed a suspended two-year ban by the governing FIA for ordering Piquet to crash in Singapore last year, the Brazilian driver said he hoped another team would give him the chance to 'start from zero'.