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Arenas earns his first All-Star start
NEW YORK - TWO seasons ago, Gilbert Arenas filled out National Basketball Association All-Star ballots, in an unsuccessful effort to earn a starting spot. Last season, when the league announced the All-Star reserves, Arenas knew his name would not be called.... [Read more]

Pioneer JC students rally peers to help boost blood bank
MOVED by a Straits Times report, a group of Pioneer Junior College (PJC) students have got more than 300 of their peers to sign up to donate blood. Students cheerfully trooped to the donation drive on Wednesday at the college. The... [Read more]

Smugglers raise a security concern for S'pore, says ICA
SMUGGLERS are trying every which way to get increasing amounts of contraband into Singapore, and that has serious security implications for the country. Right now, the items being brought in range from cigarettes to handcuffs and replica guns - plus the... [Read more]

Liverpool need to keep on winning
LIVERPOOL - IT IS no use beating Chelsea, and then losing to West Ham. Liverpool scored a morale-boosting 2-0 victory over Premiership champions Chelsea last week, and moved to within five points of the second-placed Blues. However, manager Rafael Benitez says... [Read more]

16 killed after fire breaks out on ferry
JAKARTA - A FIRE broke out on an Indonesian ferry carrying 300 passengers yesterday, killing at least 16 and sending panicked passengers jumping into sea. One women slipped beneath the waves, clutching her 18-month-old daughter. More than a dozen remained unaccounted... [Read more]

Previous bids
EMI and Warner each made offers for the other last year before abandoning the efforts in July because of concerns that a combination would not be approved by European Union regulators. The offers valued each company at about US$4.6 billion (S$7.1... [Read more]

Buyers of 10% of One Shenton units back out of deal
PROPERTY speculation may seem like a good way to make a quick buck, but not all would-be profiteers manage to pull it off.The Straits Times understands that buyers of more than 30 units at luxury condominium One Shenton in Shenton Way... [Read more]

China rolls out bullet trains but omits mention of Japan link
BEIJING - CHINA has rolled out its bullet trains, which are lightly modified versions of Japan's Shinkansen, to help ease the passenger rush before and after the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday. The bullet trains went into regular service yesterday on... [Read more]

Lions bask in the glow of instant fame
TWO days after taking Singapore into the final of the Asean Championship, the Lions are finding that fame has its privileges. As skipper Aide Iskandar and veteran right-back S. Subramani popped into a coffee-joint near their Amara Hotel base, they were... [Read more]

Case file
CHARGED WITH MAID ABUSEA 47-YEAR-OLD Malaysian woman was charged yesterday with six counts of abusing her Filipino maid. Over a five-month period between October 2005 and February last year, Aw Ai Haw allegedly used objects such as a metal spatula, a... [Read more]

Myriad of problems signing up for the mio plan
Being a SingTel subscriber for more than 10 years, I was happy to learn about the new mio plan last month. But my joy soon turned into a miserable experience even though I took the trouble to read everything about the... [Read more]