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ENGLAND TRIUMPHSYDNEY: England ended a run of nine straight losses to Australia with a 92-run win in a tri-series one-day cricket international yesterday.That kept alive their chances of leap-frogging New Zealand into the best-of-three finals.Ed Joyce belted 107 to help England... [Read more]

China state TV bans pig images in ads to avoid offending Muslims
BEIJING - CHINA'S top television station has banned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending its Muslim minorities, said an official of the broadcaster. The coming Chinese New Year starting on Feb 18 will usher in the year of... [Read more]

What it should have been
In our report, 'Non-Indonesian sand arrives as prices start to rise' on Tuesday, we reported that we spoke to ready-mix concrete supplier Supermix Concrete. This is wrong. It was Alliance Concrete and not Supermix Concrete. We are sorry for the error.... [Read more]

Tokyo unwilling to provide energy aid
TOKYO - THE six-nation accord signed in Beijing to provide energy aid to North Korea in exchange for shutting down Pyongyang's nuclear facilities has put the Tokyo government in a bind.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday that his government will not... [Read more]

Blair and Merkel to hold talks on global warming
BERLIN - BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say the moment is right to come up with new measures to combat global warming.Speaking on Tuesday after a meeting in Berlin, they vowed that the world's industrialised countries... [Read more]

Flip side of foreign students topping exams
IT IS no surprise that almost half the 25 students who scored nine A1s are foreign students, in particular those from China ('Foreign students post strong O-level showing'; ST, Feb 10). Extrapolating from this trend, we can expect a similar figure... [Read more]

How a 5-star dream turned into a 3-star nightmare
BANGKOK - STRUCTURAL engineer Tortrakul Yomnak has been spending a lot of time lately gloomily sticking his fingers into cracks in the taxiways at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport. When he isn't doing that, he chases paper trails and studies contracts to... [Read more]

S'pore sends back fugitive Taiwanese tycoon to US
TAIPEI - FUGITIVE Taiwanese tycoon Wang You-theng was sent back to the United States yesterday because of problems with his travel document hours after he arrived in Singapore en route to Myanmar. The 80-year-old businessman and his fourth wife fled Taiwan... [Read more]

Companies in brief
NO INJUNCTION FOR KOON'S EX-CHAIRMANKoon Holdings' former chairman, Mr Oh Keng Lim, has failed to obtain a court injunction to prevent the company from issuing 12 million warrants to India's Valecha Engineering even if a reverse takeover deal between Valecha and... [Read more]

Car-go lift
It was an unusual scene - an accident that seemed to give a twist to the term car-go lift. Stomp reader Yusri Salleh snapped this picture of a car that had slammed into a void deck wall at Block 108 in... [Read more]

Reyes blasts Capello's tactics and selection
MADRID - REAL Madrid's Jose Antonio Reyes has taken a swipe at coach Fabio Capello's defensive tactics, and the way he selects players out of position. The Spain winger, on loan from Arsenal, is frustrated at his lack of opportunities. Like... [Read more]