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India to review policy on SEZ projects
NEW DELHI - INDIA is reviewing its policy on special economic zones as opposition to them grows.A panel of senior ministers will examine all new plans for the zones, which are intended to attract billions of dollars in investment and create... [Read more]

Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq would be the proper and moral policy
THE commentary, 'A Letter to the US Democrats', by Pavin Limanont (ST, Jan 16), is incomplete, over-simplified and offers up predictions of disaster that will likely be as untrue as all of US President George W. Bush's pre-war claims (weapons of... [Read more]

Property boom in China
BEIJING - IN NORTH-EAST Beijing, luxury Western-style villa developments with names like Yosemite and Chateau Regalia have mushroomed as the city experiences an unprecedented building boom. Hundreds of such villas and townhouses have been built in the satellite town of Shunyi,... [Read more]

Delhi strikes defence deals with Moscow
NEW DELHI - INDIA and Russia have unveiled new deals on high-tech defence cooperation, signalling that South Asia's dominant power will continue to depend on the Soviet Union's successor state to be its principal weapons supplier for another decade.Hours before Russian... [Read more]

Heavy storms kill 41 in Europe
PHOTO: AP Two cars lie crushed under tree trunks uprooted during heavy storms in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. Winds of up to 216km/h swept off the Atlantic on Thursday and cut a swathe of destruction across Britain, northern France, the... [Read more]

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Purchasing govt bonds to be made easier
I REFER to the letter by Mr Walter Theseira, 'Make it easier to invest in government bonds' (ST, Jan 19). The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) would like to see further development of the Singapore Government Securities (SGS) retail market. We... [Read more]

US lawmakers attack plan to send more troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON - THE Bush administration's plan to send more troops to Iraq ran into serious opposition in Congress yesterday, with both Democrats and Republicans launching scathing attacks on it.In what is looking to be the most significant confrontation between Congress and... [Read more]

'Reopen probe into murder of Mongolian'
KUALA LUMPUR - SENIOR lawyer Karpal Singh urged the police yesterday to reopen investigations into the gruesome murder of Mangolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.He said the revelations in Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda's affidavit read in the High Court last week made this... [Read more]

BY DAY: A private school; BY NIGHT: Supplier of vice girls
BY DAY, it appeared to be a private school. At night, it was supplying women for vice-related activities. This was how private school group Ritz Everton Academy was believed to have been operating, until it shut down suddenly in the middle... [Read more]

Private home rents rose by 10-15% last year
HOME owners renting out their properties made windfall gains last year, as rents posted their highest annual growth in at least 11 years. Rents of private homes islandwide rose by between 10 and 15 per cent for the whole of last... [Read more]