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IN TOKYO - THE leaders of Japan and China yesterday moved to put the past behind them, agreeing to further lift bilateral ties and pledging not to view one another as a threat.

CERTIFICATE of Entitlement (COE) premiums tumbled yesterday for all categories except motorcycles, sending prices to their lowest levels in about a year.
LONDON - STEVE Bruce knows the pain of missing out on an English Premier League title on the final day of the season as a Manchester United player. But that will not stop him from trying to make history repeat itself for his former club.
SIOUX FALLS (SOUTH DAKOTA) - THE race is as good as over for Senator Hillary Clinton.
THE new hand on the tiller at DBS Group Holdings seems keen to keep the ship on an even keel, a plan that might disappoint those analysts tipping that the American was ready to rock the boat.
IN TOKYO - A VENERABLE restaurant located in a central Tokyo park was picked for an informal dinner for visiting Chinese leader Hu Jintao because of its strong association with Dr Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of modern China.
WHEN the programme for the annual Singapore Arts Festival goes out each year, the potshots start coming.
THE persistent spike in hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases is baffling, and not only for the more severe infections ascribed to the enterovirus-71 strain.
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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').
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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.
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