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January 3, 2009 Saturday

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Straits Times Headlines

2009 growth forecast cut further

Bangkok fire: Two Singaporeans missing

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Political challenges in 2009

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Private homes continue freefall; HDB prices hold up

Fending off Somali pirates

Teenager on explosives charge

A*Star chief in top-8 list of Science journal

S'pore is hotter than before

Was it fireworks display or guests' crackers?

No fireworks in S'pore clubs

Brothers identify victim's body

S'porean faces terror trial in Jakarta

Dengue: Science bites back

Sri Lankan troops capture rebel capital

Israel rejects immediate ceasefire again

Gaza conflict can make or break Barak's fortunes **

Toyota to hold factory plans

TOKYO - TOYOTA Motor Corp, the world's biggest automaker, will freeze plans to build new factories in Thailand and Russia due to sluggish demand worldwide, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Saturday.

Toyota last month forecast a first-ever annual operating loss, blaming a relentless sales slide and a crippling rise in the yen for what it called an emergency unprecedented in its 70-year history.

Net loss for Mitsubishi, Mizuho

TOKYO - JAPANESE megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial appear to have experienced a group net loss in the three months to December due to a plunging stock market, a major daily reported on Saturday.

Oil prices cut in half a yr later

HOUSTON - EXACTLY one year after crude eclipsed US$100 a barrel for the first time, 2009 trading began on Friday with prices roughly half their year-ago levels, and some believe oil could be headed even lower.

Chilling US Dec car sales

NEW YORK - THE good news for the auto industry in December came when General Motors and Chrysler got their federal bailout. The bad news is coming on Monday, when automakers are expected to report another month of staggering sales declines.

Chrysler gets US$4b loan

Semiconductor sales fall

Where's the swindled cash?

IndyMac sale approved

US manufacturing slumps

Another tough yr for music ind

Dow closes 2.93% higher

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1	Kampung boy bitten by unprovoked dog
2	Real violence: Its effect on children a worry
3	Nuclear power the best alternative for Singapore
4	Prices of private homes falling
5	Honest mistake: Bank should not penalise customer
6	No lifts make life hell for aged mother
7	Means testing of hospital patients starts today
8	Boom to gloom for fresh grads
9	Stub it out, please
10	No direct link to fuel prices

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Just too much rain

$653k for 4-room HDB flat

Prices for theme park

S'pore is 3rd least corrupt

Ex-RM jailed 74 months

English at work is 'weird'

Obama attends dinner

Floods hit Bukit Timah

ST News now on iPhone

Lecturer collapses, dies

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