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Friday, June 29, 2007

>> SINGAPORE

•	777 entertainment outlets will go smoke-free this Sunday

•	St John's Home granted 3-mth extension of IPC status

•	24 UNSW Asia students offered places at local universities

•	M-Flex not making offer for MFS Tech

•	Four Singapore firms invest $127m in Tianjin

•	SPH's Paragon revalued at $1.82b

•	Genting Intl plans US$1.5 bln rights offer

•	NOL orders 8 container ships worth US$1 bln

•	SPH absorbs 2-point GST hike

•	S'pore leads world in new millionaires

•	Farrer Court site fetches $1.3bln in en bloc sale

>> ASIA

•	Myanmar copper thieves dice with death

•	IAEA team 'satisfied' with NKorea nuclear tour

•	Bodies of S Korean plane crash victims to be sent home

•	China's leaders make fashion statement

•	Altantuya threatened Razak's daughter

•	Altantuya's cousin sent threatening SMS to Razak’s PI

•	SMS from Razak to end liaison

•	Hong Kong drug addicts head to China to pop pills

>> WORLD

•	Police find bomb in London, open terrorism probe

•	German nurse jailed for life for five murders

•	Italy's first lady hit by car outside palace

•	Getting struck by lightning easier than striking lottery

•	Truth a casualty in heated US immigration debate

•	Thrombosis risks double after 4-hour travel

•	Toxin detected after 1 shift in smoky bar

•	Scientists swap genes in bacteria

•	Late-starters can benefit from healthy habits

•	Dracula's Castle up for sale

•	US cuts trade benefits for develping nations

•	'7 Point Pledge' to curb global warming

•	WSJ reporters protest Murdoch bid for Dow Jones

>> TODAY'S ASIAN NEWS HEADLINES

>>	CHINA

•	Chinese lawmakers take off suits to save energy

•	China to crack down on illegal labour

•	China oil reserves to be ready in one year

•	More help to be given to returned Chinese

>>	JAPAN

•	Office weighs less in the work-life balance

•	May industrial output dip rekindles slump fears

>>	TAIWAN

•	Gov't offers incenetive to woo foreign professionals

•	Amnesty applies to 25,670 felons

•	Taiwan welcomes use of 'Chinese Taipei'

>>	KOREA

•	Court backs suffrage for overseas Koreans

•	Professors defy government guidelines on admissions

•	Seoul to pay 85% of famers' income from free trade losses

•	Labour, regulations driving Korean firms overseas - survey

•	New rule requires netizens to confirm identities

>>	INDONESIA

•	Govt bank accounts restricted

•	Government to review cooperation with Microsoft

>>	MALAYSIA

•	High blood pressure tops list of ailments

•	Building harmony in a civil way

•	Low-cost carriers 'can succeed in long-haul mart'

>>	THAILAND

•	Golf courses are 'polluting the country'

•	PM: Thailand will drive region

•	Anger at law allowing sex attackers to marry victims

•	Deal could test relations with UK

•	University admission under fire

>>	PHILIPPINES

•	Rights watchdog decries 'dirty war'

•	Cyber training to help public-school teachers

•	President assures US official of security cooperation

•	World Bank says fiscal reform in RP has stalled

>>	BRUNEI

•	Marching on together

>>	INDIA

•	India invites US investments

•	India has 1 lakh millionaries

•	More Indians to travel abroad

>>	PAKISTAN

•	Pakistan foreign exchange reserves now $15.18 billion

•	Refrigerators and air-conditioners sale down 50 percent

•	Duty on import of 204 items raised

>>	SRI LANKA

•	Sri Lankan media rights body slam moves to bring back law that curbed critical reporting

•	Sri Lanka gilt rates up amidst heavy government borrowing

>>	BANGLADESH

•	Integrated plan needed before signing trade pacts

•	India want Bangladeshir resolve their problems: Shivshankar