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January 11, 2009 Sunday

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Anti-suicide mission

Foreign workers to be cut

Taiwan bans indoor smoking

Day to mark defeat of uprising

Aso seeks new S.Korean ties

Rebel grp on brink of defeat

Aid package to help poor

Grand coalition unlikely: Aso

Lashkar founder detained

3 named to help Satyam

Slow holiday sales for Canon

AirAsia X eyes Japan

China urges Macau to diversify

Weak won attracts tourists

Huawei wins 3G phone deal

Auto show strips out glitz

A brokerage combo to come?

Satyam chief jailed

Globe and Mail to cut jobs

Obama touts stimulus plan

Race for Oscars begins

Elvis fever shakes Aussie town

Tintin still as popular

Harry sorry over racist remark

'Idol' star's home for auction? **

Scores feared dead

MAKASSAR (Indonesia) - SCORES of people are feared dead after a ferry carrying more than 260 passengers and crew sank in stormy seas off Indonesia's Sulawesi island early on Sunday, officials said.

The ferry was about 50 kilometres off Majene, western Sulawesi, when authorities lost contact with it around 2am (Singapore time), officials said.

M'sia will dodge recession

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA will not slip into a recession this year, a government official said, as he urged the nation's banks to keep offering loans to small and mid-sized businesses to maintain private sector confidence, news reports said Sunday.

20,000 rally against war

JAKARTA - AT LEAST 20,000 Indonesian Muslims staged a peaceful rally on Sunday in the capital to call for an end to Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Racial unity crucial

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S economy will suffer and the country will break-up if racial unity collapses, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak warned ahead of a key by-election.

'No unity means no political stability. No political stability means we are all in trouble,' he was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency late on Saturday.

1 killed in sky-diving accident

Thai polls close

2 S'poreans dead in accident

Hamid all for Causeway walk

3 stores robbed in 1 minute

Bid to attract more specialists

Thailand ramps up security

stories

Suicide on man's fall from block

Cool, not crash property market

Time for circumcision

NSF dies after ship incident

Going, going... gone

Over 100 icebergs ahead

Charged with slashing hubby

12,000 homes over 5 years

2 get RTC for Chinatown attack

Dot.com start-ups fail

commented

1	Gaza: Why Muslims are outraged
2	Gaza: Bombing civilians unconscionable
3	Drivers refuse to give way
4	Hit-and-run at church: Residents sick of rude drivers
5	ACS(I) betters last year's results
6	S'poreans ranked lowest
7	Ziyi goes topless
8	Flyer GM quits
9	Start school later and let children sleep longer
10	Boycott Coke

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Just too much rain

Prices for theme park

S'pore is 3rd least corrupt

Ex-RM jailed 74 months

English at work is 'weird'

Floods hit Bukit Timah

ST News now on iPhone

Lecturer collapses, dies

Bank staff jailed for cheating

Burned at slimming centre

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