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June 8, 2009 Monday

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Straits Times Headlines

Income gap narrows with $1.1b boost for the needy

S'pore wins at Venice Biennale

Inside

Should Govt upgrade its growth forecast?

View Points

What it should have been

Faulty speed sensors may be behind crash

Doctors, ambulance service 'dismissed his condition'

Big retailers set up shop in night markets

'China will bounce back faster and help to lift Asia'

MM Lee visits KL and four Malaysian states

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Breaking News

US stocks pull back

Single aviation hub a reality soon

Airlines eye consolidation

Funds needed for expedition

46 submissions for NMPs

Brown faces revolt

3 more flu patients discharged

Military finds 17 bodies

Guangzhou Ind to repay US$8m

US stimulus spending sped up

Refugee crisis could worsen

US country artists try abroad

Obama ladies wind up Paris trip **

Single aviation hub soon

KUALA LUMPUR - THE Association of South-east Asian Nations' (Asean) single aviation market will become a reality in 'just a matter of time', enabling member countries to directly benefit from the growth in air travel worldwide.

Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, said every Asean member country believed it could be a hub and was prepared to take on competition.

2 dead in chopper crash

JAKARTA - TWO military personnel were killed and three others seriously injured on Monday in Indonesia when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed, an Army spokesman said.

3 shot dead in Papua raid

JAKARTA - POLICE raided and reclaimed a disused airstrip from alleged separatist rebels in Indonesia's remote Papua province, killing two armed men and one civilian, an official said on Monday.

2,000 flee Myanmar fighting

BANGKOK - MORE than 2,000 Myanmar villagers have fled across the border into Thailand amid fierce clashes between ethnic Karen rebels and government soldiers, the Thai military and rights groups said on Monday.

Plan to educate young Muslims

2 killed in south Thai violence

Arroyo 'least trusted': poll

Staff 'smashed' babies

Vietnam confirms 4 flu cases

Don't hinder fishermen

Campaigning US-style

Same old PAS

'Illegal immigrants' use M'sia

SM Goh visits Myanmar

Dual citizenship with M'sia?

Spiritual chief sidelined?