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May 4, 2009 Monday

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Straits Times Headlines

Grants to help firms boost hiring, retention

S'poreans more self-reliant than believed

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Process, pluralism, protection

View Points

Land checkpoints begin thermal scanning

Flu scare for student who returned from Mexico

Checks at Flyer but not at Expo

Difficult decisions that deserve support

Global caseload nears 900, experts say 'wait and watch'

Mexico traveller infects family and pigs in Canada

Asia case file

Financial sector to shrink in US economy

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Ill-fated coup

2. Six exco members from the same church

3. Thio Su Mien's idea of a takeover unravelled

4. Old guard gathered their wits and fought back

5. Membership surged from 300 to 3,000 in five weeks

6. Pastor Derek Hong used the pulpit, which he regretted

7. The big turnout: Women came early, stayed until night

8. They came from different races, beliefs and backgrounds

9. The lawyer and the even-handed advice he gave

10. Empty seats: Did some of Lau's supporters stay away?

Learn from this episode: DPM **

Schools take anti-flu measures

STUDENTS at Republic Polytechnic (RP) risk paying a $5 fine if they do not carry their thermometers with them on campus.

They are to check their temperature twice a day and declare their readings online, as part of stringent precautions set up at the school on Monday.

SAF set to do battle

ALL soldiers will have their temperatures checked daily at all military camps.

3 on home quarantine

THREE persons in Singapore were issued with home quarantine orders, which came into effect on Monday, even as no confirmed cases of H1N1 flu have been reported here.

The three quarantined include two Singaporeans and one foreign resident, said the Ministry of Health on Monday evening.

2 men die in van crash

A VAN carrying five people crashed into an eletrical grid box along Upper Payar Lebar Road on Monday morning, killing two passengers.

Concern over Mexican visas

$1.3m tax penalty

2 teens on loansharking charge

Stadium change for Cup match

Fined for molest, loansharking

SM Goh has chicken pox

Big clean-up at 4 centres

Help Sri Lanka war victims

SCDF gets new chief

I didn't want to be involved

'All-in-one' service

MTI minister at Asean retreat

Raymond Lim visits China

'Spiderman' burglar nabbed

Teen girls loansharking

The skinny on get-thin sites

Few travellers deterred by flu

Q1 profits not looking up

Boost to hiring, retention

Need to walk the talk

More join insurance firms

S'poreans more self-reliant

Checks at Woodlands, Flyer

Flu scare for NTU student

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Top PSLE girl from China

Woman dead, maid nabbed

Modest year-end bonus

Gang parades teen 'like a dog'

No pay hike for ministers

Lo Hwei Yen scholarship

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Just too much rain

Warning on asset bubbles

Dollar's fall could ravage US

Flu jab side effects reported

Floods hit Bukit Timah

Top PSLE girl from China

ST News now on iPhone

Lecturer collapses, dies

Stifling anger can kill

Kidnap scam bid foiled

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