NEW YORK – NEARLY four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released by Shape and Men’s Fitness magazines on Monday showed. Smart phones and laptops are the new toys that lead to …
CHINESE kungfu superstar Jet Li publicly confirmed on Tuesday that he had become a Singaporean citizen, saying he wanted his children to receive a bilingual education in the city-state. Li – whose film accolades include Hollywood blockbusters The Expendables and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – said his decision was also influenced by …
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MOSCOW – An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing 31 people and wounding about 130, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said the mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by …
THE following is an excerpt from the 32 hours of interviews Straits Times journalists held with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for the book Hard Truths, available in bookstores now. Q: Does your food go through a tester before you eat it? A: (long chuckle) ‘What do I need that for? Who’s going to poison …
NEW YORK – Google Inc is set to give Eric Schmidt a $100 million (S$128 million) equity award as he hands over the chief executive officer job to co-founder Larry Page. The award, which will include stock units and options will vest over four years and is Mr Schmidt’s first such award since joining the …
TOKYO – TOYOTA sold 8.42 million vehicles globally in 2010, remaining the world’s top automaker for the third year straight despite recall woes in the key North American market. General Motors also released a new tally Monday for its global 2010 sales, at 8.39 million vehicles, slightly fewer than Toyota’s number. Toyota’s global sales, including …
SEOUL – NORTH Korea this month publicly executed two of its citizens for handling propaganda leaflets floated across the border by South Korean groups, one of the activists said on Monday. An army officer who pocketed dollar bills enclosed with the leaflets was shot along with a 45-year-old woman who concealed one of the flyers, …
SINGAPORE : Singapore has slipped to third spot in the rankings for the most globalised economies in the world last year. The republic comes behind Hong Kong, which took the top spot, followed by Ireland, in the latest Ernst & Young Globalisation Index. The index measures the world’s 60 largest economies based on their degree …
SINGAPORE : National water agency PUB said road-raising works, a flood-preventive measure, for Orchard Road are eight per cent completed. It added that it is still on track to meet the completion deadline in June. It is business as usual along Orchard Road in the daytime, but when the shopping district goes to sleep, roadworks …