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Tuesday June 25, 2013 MAKKAL Osai reported that a retired army doctor was arrested on suspicion of chopping up his wife and putting her body parts inside nearly two dozen steel containers and in two iron boxes at their home in Bhubaneswar, North India, on Saturday. Police raided the house...

SINGAPORE, Jan 8 - Singapore plans to compel firms to offer re-employment to staff when they reach retirement age and introduce an annuity to help it cope with a rapidly ageing population, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday. "We are legislating not to further delay the...

AN AUXILIARY police officer who moonlighted as a car washer and aided a foreign worker to flout a work permit condition was fined a total of $7,500 on Tuesday. M. Subramaniam, 42, was a Certis Cisco lance corporal at the Istana when he obtained a car washer's licence from the Housing Board...

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BAGHDAD: Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday. Some 3,000 Christians have fled the city...

HYDERABAD, India: Rioters in southern India killed six members of a Muslim family by setting fire to their home after earlier clashes between Hindus and Muslims left four others dead and 15 injured in the same village, officials said Sunday. Tensions have been high in the village of Vatoli...

VATICAN CITY - POPE Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonisation is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence. Thousands of faithful from the homelands of the new saints, including a...

It was obvious that the jam on both sides of the Singapore-Malaysia crossings at Woodlands and Tuas was excruciating on Hari Raya Wednesday -and it need not have been so if manpower was not sorely lacking. At the Causeway checkpoint, the officer checking the boot of my car was so tired, he...

AN INDONESIAN maid at the centre of a sensational abuse trial testified yesterday that she was reduced to ferreting milk powder to quell her hunger pains. Ms Susilawati Kusnata said she lost 15kg during her four months working for Stanley Kuah Kian Chong and his family because of meagre meals...

A FORMER aide to Buddhist monk Shih Ming Yi was fined a total of $37,500 on Tuesday for having obscene films. Pang Leong Chuan, 27, a student, pleaded guilty to three charges under the Films Act. He had 84 obscene films at an upmarket condominium at The Cornwall at Cornwall Gardens, and 29...

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA jailed a prominent anti-government blogger for two years under a strict security law that can keep him in prison indefinitely for allegedly inciting racial tensions with his writings, a lawyer said on Tuesday. Online commentator Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin was already in...

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S finance minister will decide after a briefing on Monday if the ringgit will be re-pegged, to reduce the impact of the weakening US dollar on the currency, a top minister said on Sunday. Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said the issue will be raised at a...