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Sunday, July 1, 2007

>> SINGAPORE

•	Expats find it hard to get their children into foreign schools

•	Soccer: Australia beats S'pore 3-0

•	Joint government statement on the case of Mr Dickson Tan Yong Wen

•	Man caned 48 strokes - twice the legal limit - sues govt

•	Family of prisoner caned 3 more strokes willing to settle for $300k

>> ASIA

•	China's terracotta tomb site hides mystery building

•	Thai army detains 50 in Muslim village raid

•	China's road accidents kill 37,000 in first half

•	China's Communist Party turns 86, still going strong

•	Thai elections could be delayed to 2008

•	HK marks first decade under Chinese rule

•	Pope says China "suffocates" faith

•	US-S Korea FTA faces Congress fight

>> WORLD

•	Britain's Brown wins praise for attack response

•	Iran unhappy about Blair's Mideast envoy job

•	Aussie smokers riled by mid-winter smoking ban

•	Britain's terrorism risk "critical"

•	Fewer Americans see children as key to a good marriage

•	Al Qaeda's Iraq tactics now in UK: terrorism adviser

•	US boosts airport security

•	Police arrest 2 after London, Glasgow incidents

>> TODAY'S ASIAN NEWS HEADLINES

>>	CHINA

•	Chinese lawmakers take off suits to save energy

•	China to crack down on illegal labour

•	China oil reserves to be ready in one year

•	More help to be given to returned Chinese

>>	JAPAN

•	Office weighs less in the work-life balance

•	May industrial output dip rekindles slump fears

>>	TAIWAN

•	Gov't offers incenetive to woo foreign professionals

•	Amnesty applies to 25,670 felons

•	Taiwan welcomes use of 'Chinese Taipei'

>>	KOREA

•	Court backs suffrage for overseas Koreans

•	Professors defy government guidelines on admissions

•	Seoul to pay 85% of famers' income from free trade losses

•	Labour, regulations driving Korean firms overseas - survey

•	New rule requires netizens to confirm identities

>>	INDONESIA

•	Govt bank accounts restricted

•	Government to review cooperation with Microsoft

>>	MALAYSIA

•	High blood pressure tops list of ailments

•	Building harmony in a civil way

•	Low-cost carriers 'can succeed in long-haul mart'

>>	THAILAND

•	Golf courses are 'polluting the country'

•	PM: Thailand will drive region

•	Anger at law allowing sex attackers to marry victims

•	Deal could test relations with UK

•	University admission under fire

>>	PHILIPPINES

•	Rights watchdog decries 'dirty war'

•	Cyber training to help public-school teachers

•	President assures US official of security cooperation

•	World Bank says fiscal reform in RP has stalled

>>	BRUNEI

•	Marching on together

>>	INDIA

•	India invites US investments

•	India has 1 lakh millionaries

•	More Indians to travel abroad

>>	PAKISTAN

•	Pakistan foreign exchange reserves now $15.18 billion

•	Refrigerators and air-conditioners sale down 50 percent

•	Duty on import of 204 items raised

>>	SRI LANKA

•	Sri Lankan media rights body slam moves to bring back law that curbed critical reporting

•	Sri Lanka gilt rates up amidst heavy government borrowing

>>	BANGLADESH

•	Integrated plan needed before signing trade pacts

•	India want Bangladeshir resolve their problems: Shivshankar