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Entrepreneurs find success in designing and supplying playground facilities

Owen's last-gasp winner

US jobs picture may worsen

Federer clinches Davis Cup

Docs lax with weight-loss pills

Trouble in S'pore high seas

New Orchard mall targets youth

More parking in Orchard

'I Do' 168 times over

Man fell onto tracks, saved

Thai king hospitalised

Obama defends shield policy

Bear in Japan injures 9

Fire Chuene over Semenya?

Somalian radical Islamist calls

Muslims celebrate Eid

Foreigners hunt jobs in China

$33m to rehabilitate ex-rebels

Ease in election tension?

Warning on Kadeer film

Show compassion to all

Abhisit calls for peace

New development worries

Aussie intercepts asylum boat

Young Indian lovers kill 7 **

Quake-hit pandas go home

BEIJING - SIXTY giant pandas who were transferred to zoos around China after last year's devastating earthquake in Sichuan province destroyed their home are set to return in 2012, state media reported.

The 8.0-magnitude quake in May last year left more than 87,000 people dead and missing in Sichuan, and seriously damaged the Wolong nature reserve, which had 63 pandas in captivity, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Saturday.

Somalian radical Islamist calls

MOGADISHU- A TOP radical Islamist leader in Somalia, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, called on Sunday for more suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers in the country, after a deadly strike last week.

China's hydropower to double

BEIJING - CHINA'S hydropower capacity is expected to nearly double to 300,000 megawatts by 2020, state media said, as the nation powers ahead with the development of renewable energy sources.

Scientist killed by research?

CHICAGO - THE University of Chicago Medical Centre says the infection that killed a scientist may be connected to bacteria he researched that causes the plague.

The university said on Saturday that its researcher studied the genetics of harmful bacteria including Yersinia pestis, which causes the illness.

Britain PM launches podcasts

Panda population stable

Boston gets eco runway

Amazon brand gadgets soon