Straits Times Interactive - PRIME NEWS

View Points

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

There should be a better way to manage a situation when a country goes into debt distress. The ad hoc nature of the current system causes long delays and helps no one. The situation in Greece is a case in point. The longer this process takes, the greater the anxiety for the consumers, producers and bankers in the country facing difficulty, and the higher the contagion risk for the global economy.

Inside

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

SINGAPORE'S three universities, five polytechnics and Institute of Technical Education will raise tuition fees for the next academic year. As with previous fee hikes, the increases will be greater for permanent residents and foreigners than for citizens.

Change of focus for property investors

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

THINK of property investment, and most people think of residential properties.

Japan steels itself for more winter misery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

TOKYO: Northern Japan was bracing itself for more heavy snow yesterday as severe winter weather continues to cause misery across a large part of the country, claiming at least 83 lives so far.

Earns $295 a month and drives a Porsche

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

MANILA: On the surface, it looked like any old road-rage case, except that this one escalated well beyond the everyday realm of fisticuffs.

Hubby works, but wife gets paid

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

JAKARTA: An Indonesian province has come up with what it hopes is one way of preventing its male civil servants from cheating on their wives - by putting their pay into their spouses' pockets.

KL cattle firm admits buying S'pore condos

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR: The cattle company owned by the family of Cabinet minister Shahrizat Jalil yesterday admitted it purchased several luxury condo units, saying they were investments made during a lull in its cattle business.

New mental health guide 'dangerous'

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

LONDON: Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labelled as mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, said specialists at a meeting in London.

A Hong Kong mum's anger

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

THERE is a popular joke in Hong Kong that couples should book a slot at a maternity ward the day they plan to conceive. That way, it is said, they would avoid the frantic hunt for a hospital place and obstetrician.

A Chinese mum's hope

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

CHINESE national Li Lan, 25, will be a mother of a baby boy by April, when she gives birth at a Hong Kong hospital.

HK faces dilemma over how to stem tide

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

THE floodgates opened in 2001 after Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal ruled in favour of granting the right of abode to Chong Fung Yuen, a boy born in the city to two mainlanders.

Mainland mums-to-be in HK good for business

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

HONG KONG: The phone is ringing off the hook in the office of Shenzhen businessman Ye Guowen.

Chemo 'poses no risk' to unborn babies

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

PARIS: Women who are given chemotherapy during pregnancy do not run a risk of harming their baby, doctors reported in The Lancet Oncology yesterday.

Nod given for extraditing S'poreans

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

FOUR Singaporeans accused by the American government of sending weapons parts to Iran were ordered to be extradited to the United States by a district court yesterday.

Man found dead in rubbish chute

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

A MAN was found dead yesterday at the bottom of a rubbish chute in Lengkok Bahru housing estate.

If KL raises Causeway toll, S'pore will follow

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

IF MALAYSIA increases toll charges for motorists using the Causeway, Singapore is likely to follow suit.

Remembering the fall of Singapore

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

A group of World War II survivors gathered at the Changi Museum yesterday as part of a series of events organised to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the battle for and fall of Singapore.

Petition to 'challenge overly loud minority'

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

A GROUP of social workers has launched an online petition against the 'not in my backyard' attitude towards elderly care facilities.

Carousel makes it a breeze to park and fly

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

EVERYONE is familiar with luggage on a carousel but now comes aircraft on a carousel.

Greeks go on strike as bailout sits in limbo

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

ATHENS: Greece's two biggest labour unions yesterday launched a two-day general strike, just hours after the euro zone's finance ministers demanded from Athens even deeper budget cuts before agreeing to release a crucial bailout.

Dairy Farm honours 'golden employees'

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

MORE than a decade before the law made it compulsory for companies to offer to re-hire their older workers, Dairy Farm Singapore was already putting it into practice.

Winning shot

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

This photo of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative, taken in Yemen during protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh last year, won the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 yesterday. The poignant image was shot by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for The New York Times.

Varsities, polys, ITE to raise fees

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

SINGAPORE'S three universities, five polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) yesterday announced separately that they will raise tuition fees by around 2 per cent to 7 per cent for the next academic year.

Sport and alcohol a natural but nasty mix

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

SPIRIDON Louis had a heart as large as Greece, but owned a training regimen better suited to a sailor on shore leave. When he won the first Olympic marathon in 1896, he drank wine the night before, two beers at the start, red wine after 14km and on asking for water later, was handed cognac. Fortunately he spat it out. That he won was impressive; that he could stand straight was a miracle.

Never too old for cupid

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

LOVE happened most unexpectedly for artist Jessie Liau, 58, and scientist Keith Carpenter, 60.