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US Airways may raise Delta bid
PHILADELPHIA - US AIRWAYS Group may raise its hostile takeover offer for Delta Air Lines by US$1 billion (S$1.54 billion) under certain conditions to win support from Delta creditors, according to a report in the electronic edition of The Wall Street... [Read more]

Eye on the 12
THE 12 charities the Corporate Governance Review looked at are:SingHealth FoundationRen Ci Hospital & Medicare CentreAng Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis AssociationBright Vision HospitalSt Luke's HospitalKwong Wai Shiu HospitalKidney Dialysis Foundation Singapore Cancer SocietyJu Eng Welfare AssociationLions Home for... [Read more]

Mourinho taunts Wenger
OPORTO - JOSE Mourinho did not waste time. He taunted Arsene Wenger's lack of Champions League success, just 24 hours after the Arsenal manager criticised Chelsea. The teams meet in the League Cup final on Sunday.The verbal war between them has... [Read more]

Khaw wants housewives, young on MediShield
HOUSEWIVES and the young are two groups that Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan wants to see brought under MediShield, the national insurance scheme. About 200,000 housewives and 400,000 people under the age of 20 are not covered. It is not because... [Read more]

Stanley Ho fights back with huge Macau casino
MACAU - BILLIONAIRE Stanley Ho launched his comeback campaign in Macau yesterday, opening a huge casino he hopes will bring punters back to his once-dominant gaming halls. Mr Ho, who for 40 years held a monopoly on gambling in Macau, has... [Read more]

'He attacked me with chair so I opened fire'
TAN Chor Jin's version of the events that took place on the morning of Feb 15 last year, when he is alleged to have pumped five bullets into the body of nightclub owner and one-time friend Lim Hock Soon, finally emerged... [Read more]

Results
BASKETBALL NBA: Toronto 119 Washington 109, Charlotte 104 New Yorks 87, Atlanta 115 Golden State 94, Orlando 98 Milwaukee 73, LA Lakers 111 Boston 98, Detroit 113 New Jersey 89, Dallas 95 Memphis 94, Philadelphia 89 New Orleans 78, Houston 112... [Read more]

Contest draws youths to total defence
A FEW months ago, 15-year-old Thakshayeni Skanthakumar thought that the Total Defence campaign was only about military stuff - soldiers, tanks and the like. But now she speaks animatedly about how it teaches Singaporeans of 'all races to come together as... [Read more]

Martial law lifted in parts of Thailand
BANGKOK - MARTIAL law was lifted in more than half of Thailand yesterday, nearly two months after the move was approved by its post-coup Cabinet.In an interview with CNN aired yesterday, army chief Sonthi Boonyarataglin revealed that the royal decree endorsing... [Read more]

Loss in local election another blow to PM Abe
TOKYO - JAPAN'S ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) yesterday lost one of two key local elections, signalling more trouble ahead for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.In Kitakyushu, a major city in the south, former Lower House lawmaker Kenji Kitahashi, backed by the... [Read more]

British Muslim groups criticised for putting their own goals before unity
LONDON - BRITISH Muslim political organisations have been criticised by the opposition Conservative Party for promoting their own goals at the expense of national unity. A report by the party's policy group said a 'significant number' of Muslim organisations concerned with... [Read more]