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N-Day events to mark 50 years of self-rule

Fewer people taking taxis

Special Olympics off to a start

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No-fault regime's no magic bullet

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Brown staves off challenge, for now

Mortgage boss charged with toxic loans fraud

Show-stopping spectacular

Licensing for temp markets hard to swallow for some

How to save space and costs? Go for spiral staircases

Rio Tinto rejects Chinese tie-up

Sichuan city bus goes up in flames; 25 dead

PAS opening door to non-Muslims

A bitter fight to the end for PAS No. 2 post

It's not just about dollars and cents

Do you know a recession hero?

China Net czar has high praise for Singapore's global vision

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Hundreds protest over deaths

Integration is a 'challenge'

Dalai Lama honoured in Paris

Mousavi for president

Jet sent 24 error messages

Irie wins 200m backstroke

M'sia party picks moderates **

30 rebels killed, camp seized

COTABATO - THE Philippines' military said on Saturday its troops had killed 30 Muslim separatist guerrillas in three days of fighting on the southern island of Mindanao.

Ground troops supported by artillery barrages and rocket-firing ground-attack aircraft seized the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) camp near the town of Guindulungan early on Saturday, said Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Ponce, spokesman for an army division whose units took part in the fight.

M'sia party picks moderates

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S main Islamic opposition party on Saturday elected moderates to key positions in a move aimed at winning the support of non-Muslims.

But the vote for the post of deputy president was won by conservative incumbent Nasharudin Mat Isa at the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party's (PAS) annual congress.

Militant slain in attack

ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) - AN ISLAMIC militant was killed and another captured in the restive southern Philippines, the military said on Saturday.

Marine troops attacked a jungle hideout of the Abu Sayyaf militant group near Tipo-Tipo town on Basilan island on Friday, killing a suspect and capturing another, said Captain Neil Estrella, spokesman for a counter-terrorist task force based in this city.

Suu Kyi party warned

YANGON - MYANMAR authorities have summoned members of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party to rebuke them for provoking 'unrest' over a statement critical of her trial, state media reported on Saturday.

Four senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) met officials for 30 minutes late on Friday after comments by the party's youth wing were leaked to the website of a prominent blogger, the New Light of Myanmar said.

2 more flu cases in M'sia

5 killed in Thai restive south

PAS open to non-muslims

Indonesia to grow 3-4%: IMF

Suu Kyi's trial delayed