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SINGAPORE'S job market is showing signs of a turnaround on the back of an economy that registered a growth spurt in recent months, employment figures released yesterday confirmed.

Total employment rose faster than expected, according to the Manpower Ministry's preliminary estimates of the jobs situation for July to September.

Oval Office meeting

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Small steps to easier travel

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Condo's clerk ordered to return $2.2m

AN ACCOUNTS clerk was ordered to return some $2.2 million that he took over 18 months from a condominium management office, where he had worked since May 2003.

Creative's next chapter: e-book reader market

Students take pledge of silence for Aids awareness

For 32 weeks, doc was army trainee too

NUS to ramp up Asian focus

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More youths on a deadly high

HONG KONG: The narrow strip of border checkpoints between Hong Kong and Shenzhen is among the world's busiest border crossings. On a typical holiday, it handles more than a quarter of a million passengers.

Drug abuse rampant in entertainment world

Rate of drug abuse slows

Yudhoyono orders police to explain arrests

Japanese can again bank on their postmen

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Iran sends mixed signals on nuke deal

VIENNA: Iran's President pledged to work with the West to resolve a stand-off over its nuclear programme even as his country reportedly baulked at a United States-backed deal to limit its uranium enrichment and curb its ability to make a nuclear warhead.

China urges new era in ties with Australia

8th severed foot found on Canada's shore

Reflecting on beach art

Saddam 'planned to escape in 2006'

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Cheer spreads to more sectors

FIRMS in the manufacturing and services sectors are now more upbeat about the future, as the economic climate continues to brighten.

Analysts unfazed by stock market selldown

Women's dilemma: Family or career first?

Nasdaq-style board opens with a bang

Japan's central bank to end some stimulus measures

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The 'new normal' for emerging markets

BEFORE the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the advice from advanced countries and the international financial institutions to developing countries with respect to their financial systems was: 'You should look like us.'

Migrant angst and SM Goh's home truths

We're all one family, really

One line that speaks volumes

Living with stigma of leprosy

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Creative freedom, yes liberal excesses, no

BABY boomers will remember the controversial ban on Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris, starring Marlon Brando, in 1972. Hailed by critics as a film that changed the face of an art form, it was better known for an anal sex scene featuring an innovative use of butter.

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In Front

THE weather gods dealt the Barclays Singapore Open a bad hand again, with lightning and rain delaying yesterday's play and leaving many golfers yet to finish their second round.

Walking a tightrope

Lightning threat halts play

Emirates raises profile through sports sponsorship deals

Talking a decent game

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All for supermarkets

MY MOTHER-IN-LAW constantly exalts the variety and freshness of seafood and vegetables in wet markets. She always tells me not to do my weekly grocery shopping at Sheng Siong. Recently, I decided to visit the wet market in Bedok North Street 1 she frequents.

Bouquets

Safe outdoor camp options in Singapore

Why make employers 'post bail' for runaway maids?

Don't hold races in sensitive nature reserves

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The old and the beautiful

Home owners Tim Tham and June Siew are in their 30s and their furniture is much older than them.

Song to celebrate

Byron sale sets record

Male exec is a wolf

Cheesecake with drama

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