News In Briefs

Sweet victory for the Lions against Laos
I AM writing with regard to the Asean Football Championship match between Singapore and Laos, which ...

Please advise women how to deal with MRT perverts
ON JAN 20 at about 7.55pm, my wife took a train from Bugis MRT station heading towards Jurong East M...

Over 16, 000 flee homes as floods hit again
BATU PAHAT (JOHOR) - JOHOR has been hit by another wave of floods after three straight days of rain,...

Snip by snip
PHOTO: XINHUA Miner Chen Guobin showing off his 5.5m-long paper-cut artwork, called 'Riverside Scene...

Showunmi has played with top stars in an advert
LONDON - PLAYING against Middlesbrough today in the FA Cup will normally be a special occasion for a...

Thousands march in US against Iraq war
WASHINGTON - TENS of thousands of anti-war protesters from around the country converged on the Natio...

Bangkok airport repair work causes delays
BANGKOK - SOME incoming flights to Bangkok's international airport were delayed for eight hours as p...

Martial law lifted in parts of Thailand
BANGKOK - MARTIAL law was lifted in more than half of Thailand yesterday, nearly two months after th...

United to host Reading in the fifth round
LONDON - GIANTS Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal were kept apart in the fifth round of the FA ...

Signs good for Johnson
LONDON - EVERTON'S manager David Moyes breathed a huge sigh of relief yesterday, when X-rays reveale...

Nonoi's stepfather to be tried next month for murder
THE stepfather of two-year-old Nur Asyura Mohamed Fauzi, the toddler better known as Nonoi who was f...