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BANGKOK: A two-hour meeting in Yangon yesterday between a top American official and Myanmar's detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has significantly raised the level of diplomatic engagement between the United States and Myanmar.

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell became the highest-ranking American official to visit the Nobel Peace laureate in 14 years.

New groom falls to death just hours after wedding

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China driving itself into gridlock

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H1N1 vaccine: Haj pilgrims get priority

WITH just two days to go before their first pilgrimage to Mecca, Mr Yusuf Yaqub Ali and his wife received their H1N1 flu jabs yesterday.

Ministry of Health not profiting from jabs

COE prices fall for all categories

New up-ramp to West Coast Highway viaduct

Every skip counts

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KPK scandal captivates Indonesians

JAKARTA: Indonesians are transfixed by a corruption scandal increasingly being seen as damaging to the President and his government, barely two weeks after they were sworn into office.

Top officials named in parliamentary report

Taiwan cram schools come under scrutiny

Japanese murder suspect may have had plastic surgery

Jitters over arrests of 'rumour' trio

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China's space plans: Let's talk, says US

WASHINGTON: The US military needs to deepen dialogue with China to better understand the intent of its space programmes, a US general said after a Chinese commander announced plans to develop offensive military capabilities in space.

Under the Milky Way

Republicans win 2 governorships

10 bodies found in US rapist's home

US, Italian spies guilty of kidnapping

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Chartered sold despite investor angst

A DECADE ago, investor Lui Chee Meng sank $30,000 into what he thought was a safe blue-chip company backed by Temasek Holdings.

Buffett bets on rail revival with biggest purchase yet

Cadbury gets on green bandwagon

Meet the Excellent Eleven

Winners

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Why Chinese netizens are upset

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent comments in the United States have caused unhappiness among China's netizens. He had urged the US to remain engaged in Asia so as to balance China's military and economic clout. He also said China's 'blue-water fleet with aircraft carriers cannot just be to deter foreign intervention in a conflict between Taiwan and the mainland'.

Internet citizenship expands

Scholars must be able to both think and do

Monumental risk

Why Chinese netizens are upset

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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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Red faces

LONDON: It was a night when the good, bad and downright ugly sides of Manchester United were witnessed.

Drogba is 'world's best'

Shaiful the Lions' king

Loony Rooney's kid has huge boots to fill

Indra keeps mum on divorce

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Make it compulsory for veteran athletes

ON OCT 4, former national footballer Dollah Kassim, 60, collapsed with a heart attack during a veterans match. He is still unconscious a month after the tragic event.

SPP: Potong Pasir voters not short-changed

Opening of new MRT stations still depends on nearby developments

Safety comes first, replies Sri Lankan envoy

Ban over, but driver can't get insured

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Amazing stories

Two new books are throwing up intriguing questions about Singapore: Who committed the curry murders? When did Singapore turn into a 'woman's world'? Whatever happened to the Singapore Stone? One of the books, Singapore: A Biography, is inspired by the personal accounts of the lesser-known pioneers - workers, prostitutes, rulers and revolutionaries who had a hand in creating the country until 1965.

Lion King rules at Marina IR

Raffles heads for heartland

Go ahead quote me

Bring back old script

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