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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addresses Singaporeans in his annual Natioanal Day Message, delivered from the National Library for the first time. -- Picture taken off television
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SINGAPOREANS have every reason to celebrate National Day in a 'happy mood' this year, with the Government raising the country's full-year economic growth forecast to between seven and eight per cent.

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BEST FRIENDS - A NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL
Laugh, cry and reminisce as The Straits Times celebrates the power of friendship. The special supplement is ST's gift to S'poreans to mark S'pore's 42nd birthday.
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MS LYNN Lee's commentary last Friday, 'Quality debate v democratic ideals', sadly illustrated exactly what Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cautioned against in the debate on Professor Thio Li-Ann's by-election motion in Parliament: craving 'ideals' regardless of our experience of what works in Singapore.
HERE I am in England nursing some painful cold symptoms and with a business suffering from the credit crunch, yet I feel the need to respond to Dr Andy Ho's article last Thursday advocating illegitimate babies to enhance fertility in Singapore ('The (illegitimate) way to more babies').
SOME residents of Serangoon Gardens are incensed or anxious about the idea of a large number of male foreign workers coming to live in their area.
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THERE was a man in the driver's seat of this taxi, and he died at the wheel.
SO NEAR and yet so far. Little Anna Lim's parents watched in anguish as she sat at the edge of the hotel pool.
LONDON - CHELSEA must cope without John Terry, and possibly Didier Drogba, and hit the ground running when the Premier League starts this Saturday.
LONDON - LONDON'S Heathrow, the airport with the highest international passenger traffic in the world, has a terrible reputation to match.
OWNERS at Horizon Towers fear they could lose millions of dollars each in a lawsuit over their condominium's aborted collective sale.
TAIPEI - WELL-PAYING jobs, double income and healthy savings - Ms Jennifer Chang and her husband are the envy of many Taiwanese.
WHEN a music festival brings diverse acts together, you never know what is going to happen.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was in the United States early this week for talks with US President George W. Bush. He did not arrive bearing good news. 'The security situation in Afghanistan over the past two years has definitely deteriorated,' he told CNN.
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Former Indonesian president Suharto has died. (5:01)
SINGAPORE
Oct 2, 2007
Gain leadership skills, develop closer bonds with the rest of your schoolmates, and pursue intellectual interests apart from your normal academic schedule - that's what local students will be able to do with new boarding school programmes lined up for next year. (2:28)
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Oct 1, 2007
Take time to smell the roses - literally. (2:26)
SINGAPORE
Sep 27, 2007
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SINGAPORE
Sep 27, 2007
Police have classified the recent Hougang blaze that killed two siblings as "mischief by fire". (1:08)
SINGAPORE
Sep 27, 2007
Some movie buffs here aren't thrilled by the liberal rating given to Lee Ang's erotic espionage movie Lust, Caution. (3:32)
WORLD
Sep 27, 2007
Police tear gas and baton charges have failed to quell the biggest anti-government protests to take place in Myanmar in 20-years (1:58)
WORLD
Sep 27, 2007
The international community is calling for restraint in Myanmar amid reports that at least two monks and a civilian have been killed in anti-junta protests. (1:56)
WORLD
Sep 27, 2007
Israel has killed at least nine Palestinians in military operations in the Gaza Strip. (1:23)
WORLD
Sep 27, 2007
A photograph taken in Morocco of a fair-haired child bearing a striking resemblance to Madeleine McCann is not the missing four-year-old. (1:15)
SINGAPORE
Sep 27, 2007
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is aiming to go 'more green' by embarking on a new initiative to make its IT facilities and services more environmentally-friendly. (1:56)
SINGAPORE
Sep 26, 2007
With the situation in Myanmar descending from bad to worse as hundreds of thousands of monks and protestors battle security troops on the streets, here in Singapore, a quiet stir has been brewing slowly at Peninsula Plaza. (3:22)
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Sep 26, 2007
Two years after chronicling his personal experiences of learning the Chinese language, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will share his insights in another book, this time to map the changes in Singapore's language policy. (3:14)
SINGAPORE
Sep 26, 2007
Six women representing six countries let their feet do the talking - or squishing - in the 'Great Grape Stomp' at Labrador Park today, as part of a pre-publicity bash. (1:51)
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April 21, 2008
Mas Selamat: Here's how he escaped
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng unveiled further details to the daring escape of JI fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari in Parliament on Monday when he released the Executive Summary of the Committee of Inquiry's report. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave his take on Government accountability over the issue. We bring you both speeches in full.
Gone in 49 secs
That's how long it may have taken Mas Selamat from the time he jumped out of an unsecured toilet window at the Whitley Road Detention Centre till the time he scaled a double perimeter fence, to his freedom. Mr Wong, who's also Deputy Prime Minister gives a detailed timeline of the JI leader's prison break
Duration: 32 min 24 secs | Filesize: 37.1 MB
The COI's recommendations
The Government has accepted a slew of recommendations put forth by the Committee of Inquiry (COI). Among them - centralising the command and control of the Whitley Road detention centre under the Internal Security Department and building a new detention facility in Changi Prison for political detainees.
Duration: 10 min 28 secs | Filesize: 12 MB
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