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PM: New slate of future leaders ready by next GE

THE ruling People's Action Party (PAP) will have the next generation of political leaders in place by the next general election in 2011 or 2012, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday.

Some candidates, including potential office holders, have been identified, he said, but the team that can one day take over from him and his senior colleagues is not complete now.

No mothballing of MRT stations in future

Poulter wins Barclays Singapore Open

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Pressing need for new regional alliance

1st-generation hawkers a fading breed

MR NG Hock Wah, 63, is looking for a successor. But none of his three sons - a paralegal, an architect and a policeman - wants to take over his business.

Getting into the trade

One week in Singapore

SPH opens its first Buzz Pod store

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Coping with rising tide of illegals

HONG KONG: Marine police seized a boat smuggling in illegal Afghan migrants at the weekend - the first time that nationals from the war-torn country had been caught entering the city claiming to be asylum seekers, police said yesterday.

'Living funerals' staged for the terminally ill

China sacks education minister

Sports memoir sparks furore

Close to 4m Chinese get H1N1 jabs as virus spreads

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IN AUSTRALIA: More beds to deal with influx

SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday it would increase the number of beds at its main immigration centre to cope with an influx of boat people, amid concerns about growing numbers of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.

A surge in punditry from the think-tanks

British uni courses to be more of an open book

Fire thwarts efforts to plug Aussie rig leak

Clinton lauds Israel in about-turn

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Talk of death of US$ holds no currency

FOR the Singapore traveller, making a beeline for the United States for Christmas shopping may make dollars and sense.

Singapore managers win praise

China industry set to sprint ahead: Survey

German in fraud probe little known among locals

On the move

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A dream team of two for EU

NOW the European Union (EU) is damned if it doesn't and damned if it does. If it doesn't appoint former British prime minister Tony Blair to be president of the European Council, there will be a sense of anti-climax. If it does, there will be expectations he cannot satisfy.

Greening versus warming

Asean still the best forum for region

Green energy's bright future

Extremism threatens to derail India's rise

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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.

Your Insights

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Poulter Guise

AN ASIAN almost forced a play-off, two Ryder Cup teammates traded birdies and the outright lead, and Sentosa stayed dry for the first time in days.

Pink champ is fine mix of style and substance

Too little, too late

Final round

Highlight of the day

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What Singaporeans can do

I REFER to last Friday's report, 'Singapore rejects emission cuts'.

Act now to counter looming threat

Why dual citizenship won't work

Runners stuck to designated trails at nature reserve

Race participant

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Lean and green

He may have been a champion swimmer but at the moment, Desmond Koh is a fish out of water. He is posing with his ex-MTV VJ wife Nadya Hutagalung for a photo shoot.

S'porean is US Sudoku champ

Hong Kong's love of wine bubbles over

No more Ms Nice Gal

Precious star lives fairy-tale dream

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