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ComCare has spent $68m to help 90,000 individuals, families
EIGHTEEN months after ComCare was launched to fund social assistance programmes, the scheme has delivered on its promise to deliver faster and better help to Singaporeans in need, an official report declared yesterday.So far, 90,000 individuals and families have benefited through... [Read more]

Love-sick widow, 70, on trial for stalking
TOKYO - A 70-YEAR-OLD Japanese woman has gone on trial for bombarding a 79-year-old man with 206 love letters, repeatedly cleaning his family tombstone and breaking a stalking ban.Prosecutors told a court in Ibaraki prefecture in eastern Japan that the defendant... [Read more]

Federer perfect in 10th Slam win
MELBOURNE - ROGER Federer achieved a perfect 10 at the Australian Open yesterday - and there was not a tear in sight. The champion quelled the challenge of swashbuckling Chilean Fernando Gonzalez 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 6-4 to lift Grand Slam trophy... [Read more]

Heading North
HE WAS the first person in the world to do a wheelchair marathon in the South Pole, and Olympic wheelchair athlete William Tan is now gearing up for another challenge. The neuroscientist - who lost the use of his legs from... [Read more]

Sri Lankan PM on visit
PHOTO: MICA Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake calls on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana. Mr Wickremanayake, who arrived here on Tuesday on a three-day working visit, was hosted to a lunch by Mr Lee yesterday. He also... [Read more]

I'd rather have the privilege of giving away my organs than having them taken away from me automatically
I would like to thank Dr Andy Ho 'It's time to lay to rest brain death' (ST, Feb 15) for bringing to light some facts about brain death to the general public. By these, I mean that contrary to popular belief,... [Read more]

Grit in air harmful to older women's hearts
BOSTON - THE fine grit in polluted air raises the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realised, a big US-funded study has found.The study results have, in turn, raised questions of whether US environmental standards... [Read more]

DPP's 'four heavenly kings' face graft probe
TAIPEI - FOUR leading members of Taiwan's ruling party, including Vice-President Annette Lu, will be investigated for corruption, a prosecutor's office said yesterday, a day after the head of the main opposition party was charged with graft. The prosecutor's office said... [Read more]

Another US city to slap ban on trans fat
PHILADELPHIA - PHILADELPHIA is known for its cheese steak sandwiches, but the greasy delicacy could soon be served minus its artery-clogging trans fat.The city is set to become the second large American city to ban restaurants from serving the processed substance,... [Read more]

Champions League
WednesdayBarcelona 1Liverpool 2Porto 1 Chelsea 1Inter Milan 2 Valencia 2Roma 0 Lyon 0... [Read more]

Revenue from ERP 20% lower than in previous scheme, says minister
ELECTRONIC Road Pricing was not introduced to generate revenue, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said yesterday.It actually rakes in less than the Area Licensing Scheme (ALS), the previous plan to manage peak-hour traffic.He was responding to opposition MP Low Thia Khiang (Hougang),... [Read more]