WASHINGTON - A COUSIN of the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage that killed 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, expressed shock over the event, in a statement released on Friday.
Nader Hasan is a first cousin of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, a Muslim army-trained specialist in combat stress.
THE recent uproar among Chinese netizens over Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's call for the United States to remain engaged in Asia to balance China is 'normal', the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
It will not affect the bilateral mood ahead of President Hu Jintao's state visit to Singapore next week, the ministry suggested.
AMID calls this week for companies to review cost-cutting measures and consider moderate wage increases, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong on Friday reminded bosses not to forget long-term fixes that they also need to make.
It was important for companies to invest in the future by reviewing their business strategies and how they could do things better, Mr Gan said. Workers, too, have to press on with upgrading themselves.
WASHINGTON - US EMPLOYERS cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October, government data showed on Friday, driving the unemployment rate to 10.2 per cent, the highest in 26-1/2 years.
The Labor Department said the unemployment rate was the highest since April 1983 and October's non-farm payrolls loss was the smallest since August last year. It revised job losses for August and September to show 91,000 fewer jobs lost than previously reported.
