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Bye to paper files - nursing students get PDAs
STUDENTS of nursing at Ngee Ann Polytechnic will be the first in Asia to have instant information at their fingertips.About 200 of them will be toting personal digital assistants (PDAs), which will enable them to access huge databases on drugs, diseases... [Read more]

A lesson in economic defence
SINGAPORE'S political leaders should seize on the ban on sand exports from Indonesia to impart an important lesson on total defence.How Singapore and the affected parties are responding to the emergency situation demonstrates the concept of economic defence.The Ministry of National... [Read more]

Passion crime brewed under Nasa's radar
HOUSTON - ASTRONAUT Lisa Nowak's attack on a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut has sent shockwaves through a tight-knit Nasa community accustomed to crew members becoming role models, not a party to love triangles. Flight engineer Nowak was... [Read more]

Britain fears serial letter-bomber at work
LONDON - BRITAIN may be in the grip of a serial letter-bomber. A wave of attacks, described by police as coordinated, is inspiring comparisons with the so-called Unabomber in the US, who waged an 18-year campaign against airlines and universities that... [Read more]

Cole's injury blights Chelsea win
LONDON - CHELSEA may yet pay the ultimate price for Jose Mourinho's paring down his squad and Roman Abramovich's refusal to let his manager buy in the transfer window. With John Terry, Khalid Boulahrouz, Arjen Robben and Joe Cole already sidelined,... [Read more]

10 days later, funds still not with CPF
RECENTLY I had a problem with my CPF time deposit.My deposit with OCBC Bank matured on Jan 13 and the funds should have been credited into my CPF investment account with DBS Bank on Jan 15, according to OCBC staff.However, when... [Read more]

Staying resilient
MS MABEL Ong, 56, worked as a seamstress for many years in garment factories until her eyesight deteriorated when she was in her mid-forties. The single woman, who lives with her mother in a three-room HDB flat in Jalan Batu, started... [Read more]

Train bomb attack fails to derail India-Pakistan talks
NEW DELHI - INDIA and Pakistan appeared to be speaking a new language yesterday as Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri arrived in New Delhi for talks, shrugging off a terrorist attack that killed more than 50 Pakistanis. Firebombs placed on the... [Read more]

Govt to pay market rate for land acquired
IN A significant departure from a decades-old practice, the Government intends to pay the prevailing market rate when it acquires land.This is a shift away from using pre-determined levels, which owners often argued were below market rates and had been a... [Read more]

US woman sets spacewalk record
AMERICAN astronaut Sunita Williams has now spent more time walking in space than any other woman, with a record of 22 hours and 27 minutes.Ms Williams, 41, broke the previous record of more than 21 hours on Sunday when she and... [Read more]

No mercy for Everton, says Crouch
LONDON - LIVERPOOL'S striker Peter Crouch is determined to put Everton in their place in today's Merseyside derby at Anfield. This season's 0-3 loss at Goodison Park is still a painful memory. 'It hurt a lot of players in the dressing... [Read more]