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December 18, 2008 Thursday

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Straits Times Headlines

UN sanctions raids on pirates' bases

Sydney murders: Ram Tiwary to face trial

Inside

Lack of morality in America's high places

View Points

Biggest export plunge in almost seven years

Lehman-linked investors to get news in Jan

Medifund kitty increased to help poor

Left to fend for themselves

Woman gets an almost totally new face

Lions feel the heat in Vietnam

What it should have been

Breaking News

S.Korea tried to kill Kim?

Wu to meet China counterpart

Japan, Aus hold security talks

30 Myanmar refugees accepted

S.Korea convicts 11 Chinese

'Bamboo carpet' for pandas

Police seek custody of suspects

Stop eating cats

China to send warships

New TV rules after Mumbai

HK police search for assailant

China rights activist jailed 2 yrs

Sri Lanka fuel price cut delayed **

Mobbed by commuters

MALAYSIAN police were called in on Thursday to keep crowds in check at the new Johor checkpoint as chaos reigned.

Thousands of Malaysian bus commuters pushed, shoved and beat on bus doors, trying to get a seat on a bus travelling to Singapore. Police arrived at 8.30am to assist immigration officers and SBS Transit staff in herding the crowd into bus queues.

Workers' pay still an issue

A GROUP of Bangladeshi workers abandoned in their Tagore Lane living quarters when they lost their jobs went to bed on a full stomach on Thursday, but still without the pay they say is owed to them.

Town council funds safe: Khaw

THE People's Action Party (PAP) has assured Singaporeans the town councils it runs are in good shape financially.

Early breast screening saves

MORE than 1,200 women have discovered they have breast cancer under the national screening programme that started in 2002.

The good news is that the cancer for 400 of these women is still in the extremely early stage - what is called ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS), sometimes referred to as stage zero, before the cancer cells have breached the duct walls.

No-go yet for Kallang site

9 research grants given out

SIIA chairman on sabbatical

Outram Sec has top N(T) boy

Milk for needy kids

Roped in to provide advice

Smaller flats supply upped

Aceing English

2nd fire station to be built

Molester gets jail and caning

Red Cross gets new chairman

Train evacuated

'Worldwide problem' in '09

Let off with a warning

MHA holds recruitment fair

New NTU Kauffman Campus

Milk suspension lifted

Autistic boy's fall an accident

Man faces hurt charge

2 accused of assault at club

S'porean drug ring busted

Investors to get news in Jan

Left in the lurch

How it happened

stories

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1	Good English the way to go
2	Smoking ban extended
3	When to let go of foreigners
4	Teaching: It's for those with certain qualities
5	Cyber bullies turn vicious
6	Euthanasia: Singaporeans ignore sanctity of life at their peril
7	PRs who live in Johor and drive into Singapore enjoy unfair advantage
8	Bush takes shoe attack in his stride
9	More ordered to pick up litter
10	Social graces: Young Singaporeans need to polish up

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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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