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  • K-health the new wave from S.Korea?

    MEDICAL clinics and hospitals in South Korea are on a major drive to woo foreign patients, including those from Singapore and the region.

  • Jakarta govt hits a wall with squatters

    MR KARYO moved from Semarang in Central Java to Indonesia's capital city in search of work more than a decade ago.

  • Australia back in the grip of drought

    A DEVASTATING drought has returned to vast swathes of Australia's farmland and left thousands of farmers struggling to feed the nation's cattle and sheep.

  • Glitter of hope for war-torn Afghanistan

    QARA ZAGHAN, Afghanistan (AFP) - After scrambling up a steep mountainside in north Afghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches...

  • A crying need for concerted campaign

    AT THE Nizamuddin Railway station in Delhi, young boys sit in a corner, away from prying eyes, smelling a piece of cloth laced with whitening fluid which gives...

  • Thailand's meth menace

    THE grey Honda Civic would not have raised eyebrows anywhere, but Bangkok's Metropolitan Police had a tip and were looking out for it.

  • The new face of China's drug scourge

    FOR decades, the face of a drug addict in China was that of a middle-aged man, often lowly educated and unemployed, and hooked on traditional narcotics like...

  • 'Emergency situation' in Indonesia

    IN A Jakarta club, where the local authorities admit that the drug problem is spiralling out of control, music is throbbing. Some clubbers punch their fists in...

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Opinion

I DRIVE a six-year-old Honda Civic Hybrid. Some people who see me in it have remarked that they are...
 
JAPAN'S bold economic gamble to end 20 years of growth-sapping deflation appears to be paying...
 
ASEAN leaders at their summit in Brunei last month pledged to realise the Asean Community by 2015.
 

People to Watch

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taleban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who...