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BARTON MAY FACE POLICE, FA PROBELONDON: Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton may face police and Football Association enquiries for making abusive gestures at Portsmouth fans, the Daily Star said.However, the club insist that he did no such thing in Saturday's 1-2... [Read more]

Missing woman, 72, found
AN ELDERLY woman who went missing after a Chinese New Year lunch on Monday has been found.Police officers on a routine patrol found 72-year-old Madam Chok See Mooi wandering at the Seah Im Hawker Centre, opposite the HarbourFront building along Keppel... [Read more]

In Britain, a new, old terrorism
AT LEAST six people were injured by a series of letter bombs in Britain over the past three weeks, in what police said could be a campaign by animal rights extremists or a disgruntled motorist fed up with the country's laws... [Read more]

Indonesia's uphill fight against bird flu
OFFICIALS conducted a door-to-door sweep for backyard fowl in Jakarta on Thursday, a day after Indonesia said it would declare bird flu a national disaster.This will allow the government to dip into a special budget fund to bolster efforts to contain... [Read more]

Dubai shopping festival attracts the big spenders
DUBAI - WITH sales running into billions of dollars and prizes on offer worth millions, the annual Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) is attracting more and more businessmen and shoppers each year. Among those in town for the business opportunities at this... [Read more]

Smaller sites snapped up in new wave of collective sales
LARGE homes in prime areas may be all the rage, but some developers have quietly turned their attention to smaller sites outside the high-priced central districts. These bite-sized estates in popular residential suburbs are being swept up in a new wave... [Read more]

China's brain drain is the world's most severe
BEIJING - CHINA suffers the most severe brain drain of any country, raising fears that there may not be enough talents around to manage the world's fourth-largest economy, state media said yesterday. Out of about one million Chinese who have studied... [Read more]

Chinese picked for King sculpture
CHINESE stone carver Lei Yixin was 10 when he first read about Martin Luther King Jr's historic 'I have a dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Nearly four decades later, the master sculptor from China's Hunan province said he never dreamed... [Read more]

Bullying cases in Japan soar
TOKYO - THE number of Japanese youngsters officially punished for bullying last year rose 41 per cent over 2005 - a 20-year record high - amid heightened concern over school bullying.The National Police Agency said on Thursday there were 233 cases... [Read more]

Singapore's 'big-picture' Budget to be unveiled
WHAT IT IS SECOND Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will unveil the Budget on Thursday. It has been billed as a Budget that will tilt the balance of public spending towards helping the poor and providing for an ageing population. To pay... [Read more]

Rising prices may eclipse Sonia magic in state polls
DEHRADUN (UTTARAKHAND) - LOCAL leaders of the Indian National Congress and candidates for today's state assembly polls stand on a makeshift platform, pleading for one more opportunity 'to serve the people'. Party workers dressed in homespun and wearing the traditional Congress... [Read more]