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Nearly 80 per cent more drug addicts were nabbed last year, most of whom were heroin and Subutex abusers. One area of concern is the 670 heroin abusers caught, swelling six times more from the 116 arrested the year before. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW » Full Story
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IT IS a case of two minuses resulting in a plus. Last year, new car sales shrank by 8.8 per cent to 106,710 units. At the same time, the number of cars taken off the road - either scrapped or exported - shrank by 22.5 per cent to 64,145 units.

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BEIJING - CHINA and India, already the world's fastest growing economies, could become an even bigger global force after putting aside their differences and ushering in a new era of cooperation yesterday.

A FORMER teen actor who launched a rare challenge to Singapore's military justice system was released from detention yesterday. Private Marcus Ng, a 22- year-old one-time sitcom player, finished a seven-day sentence at the SAF Detention Barracks in Kranji for speaking aggressively to a superior officer.

MELBOURNE - THE prize-fighters punched their way out of trouble yesterday but British hope Andy Murray was felled by a fierce right hand at the Australian Open.
DETROIT - GREEN is the theme of this year's North American International Auto Show.
REGIONAL markets took a battering yesterday as doubts set in among investors that Asia might not be able to weather the economic storm brewing in the United States.
BEIJING - FANCY some 'American Flag Cooks the Space Person' for lunch? Not in the mood? How does a helping of 'Explodes the Vegetable Meat to Steam' sound instead?
STARGAZERS were not the only ones disappointed with the streamlined Golden Globes awards yesterday morning.
PICTURE the contrasting scenes: President Chen Shui-bian sulking in a corner, defeated and 'ashamed', as he acknowledged; Beijing's leaders in the Great Hall taking in the Taiwan election results, quietly satisfied they did not have to do much except to give Mr Chen enough rope to do himself in.
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I CAN safely speak for the countless Singaporeans who feel that Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) president Lee Bee Wah is the biggest party pooper of the year.
'Finally, someone to make sure there is no place for high-handedness. Well done, Ms Lee!'
MS LYDIA Rahman in Monday's letter, 'Expats score at expense of others', called for non-citizens to be made to pay twice as much for fuel at petrol stations and at least 50 per cent more to own a car, compared to what Singaporeans pay. She also begrudged the fact that the Government is providing more land for international schools for expatriate children.
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
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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.
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