Japan minsiter warned over terrorrist remark

Japanese minister said that he knew an Al Qaeda member involed in the Bali BombingThe prime minster was shocked when he ehard it and said it was a totally inappropriate comment, considering both the place where he said it and the content.He ha snot reveal the indentity of his acquintance in question other than to say he met him trhough his hobby of collecting butterflies

Indon woman loss Amex case

A wealthy Indonesian woman who sued American Express to recover US$17.5million that the ban had deducted from her account due to foreign exchnage losses has lost her case in the High Court. She claimed that she did not know what she was signing when ehr son-in law, Mr Tommy Lim Thian Hong, asked her to put her name in the document in 1998. The Document turned out to be a" Third Party Liabilities agreement with Amex, under which the funds in her account were pledged to offset Mr Lim abilities to the bank.

Odex just won't quit

ANIME distributor Odex is not letting up its quest to bring illegal anime downloaders to the bookAt a close-door hearing yesterday in the High court, Justice Woo Bih Li to present further evidence to obtain the identities of illegal dowloaders. No date has been sat for hearing

100m sprint or marathon?

Singapore has to beat eight other cities to win the bid to host the inaugural Youth Olimpic in Agust,2010.The winning city, to be annouced in February, will play host to 3,500 atheletes aged 14 to 18 who will competein 26 sports. Thailand has a population of 60million, with 15 million in the 14-to18 age group. Thaliand plans to house its Youth OLmpic Village at the Thammasat University campus in Rangsit. An IOC panel will draw up a shortlist of five finalists to be anoouced on nov19.

US wildfire vicitms are pampered

Victim of us wildfire are given free shelter, free internet acess and there is buffet evreday. Everday there will be also a bow of ice cream with choclate. Critics have highlighted that southern californians have been pampered in the aftermath of the fire and the way louisiana residents were ingnored after Hurricane Katrina

Hilltop burial for "casino king"

Malysia's "casino king" Lim Goh Tong, who died last tuesday at the age of 90, was laid to rest yesterday on the jungle hill-top that he turned into a thriving gambling resort. He was ranked 204th on the Forbes list of billionaires worldwide, with his family assets valued at $6.1 billion.

30 months probation for errant 16-year-old

16-year old Nelson was sentenced to 30 months'probation for his act of theving,forgery and vandalisim. He plotted to steal cheques worth $19,305 from a postal box and to forge a cheque worth $9,215,spray painting several vehicles and pinching a box of hair dye from watson.

War on obesity wages in US classroom

Education and health officials have stepped up their fight against obesity in US schools by trying to replace greasy fast food with healthy male .They are seeing small but encouraging results. Nearly 13 million children and adolescents in the US are overweight, a particularly worrying segment in a country where 200 million people-or two third of the population are overweight or obese.

Bad air in Beijing may delay Olympic events:IOC

The pollution in Beijing is rising the likehood that some olympic evnt might be cancled. The air quality is pretty bad due to heavy traffics and factories. China will close down te factory there, and closing the road to prevent cars from coming to reduce pollution.

Sulawesi volcano erupts

Sulawesi volcano erupts on java island yesterday morning. The nearest village are 8km from the crater's mouth clear from danger zone.Nobody was killed or injured. Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any toher nation because of its location at the pacific "Ring of Fire".

Large dog:Time for a rethink

More larger dogs have been given up since heftier penalties for unlicensed dog kick in. Only dogs weighing less than 10kg and 40cm in height are allowed in HDB flats. It is an offence to abandon a pet, and those guilty could be fine dup to $10,000 .

3-D ANIMATION GOES TO SCHOOL

Come next year 2o students from 8 schools can take 3-D animation as an O-level subject-one of the three new applied subjects that will be offered in eight secondary schools. They are in additon to D&T, F&N and principle of accounts.

'Big fella' makes history

SQ380 left singapore for sydney, passnger clapped as the superjumbo disengaged from the dock on schedule at Changi Airport. More cheer broke up as the plane soared in to the sky. Many people was happy wtih the new plane. even the econmic seat is much bigger. Mr francis Wu, a student who turned 22 on the flight, was suprised by the airline crew with a white choclate cake and a song, and he said that this was the best brithday he ever had. SIA will start flying the A380 on the singapore-landon route in february, and japan come later, according to SIA executives.

Enter the Traffic Marshals

Another team of uniformed men in blue will soon be patrolling our expressway. These people on motorbikes and in patrol car will not be drawn from the Traffic Police, but rather, Traffic Marshals. Thier aim is to ensure that traffic on espressway here remains smooth flowing and to arrive within eight to 15 minutes of activation to attend to accident.

Cheap S'pore-KL fares in sight?

It may be possible, to fly from singapore to Kuala Lumpur without burning a hole in one's pocket by December.The lucrative route has long been monopolised by Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines, resulting in passenger having to pay more than $400 for a round-trip ticket on a flight that take less than 45 minutes. However AisAsia and Tiger Airways which is partly owned by SIA, could only be allowed to fly two flgihts per day onb each route but only during off-peak hours, to soften the blow for MAS.

Action Hero Governor

California Governor Arnoid Schwarzenegger's action-man leadership style during the wildfire crisis is proving to be a hit with residents, thousands of whom have begun returning to their neighbourhoods after spending most of the week in relief centres. Mr Schwarzeneggers evacuate the people quickly and send food, water and hosuing for the victims of the wildfire. He showed good leadership during the inccident and many people was happy with the way he acted.

Failure to follow proper procedures blamed for the murder to two policemen during a drug raid

Two policemen was killed during a drug raid had apparantly not followed proper procedures. There was no back up squad to cordon off the area. In the thursday night shooting, Lance Coprrals K.Jayabalan and M.Alagesan was killed by three gunmen who algihted from a vehicle just as the policemen were about to ambush the house.

Some resident unhappy with 'private' lift

some residents in Pasir Ris will have a 'private' lift , which they would share with just one neighbour, but they are not thrilled with that idea. The lift, will not lead to their flat main door, but their balcony. There are no escape route or staircase and they fear being trapped in the lift if there is a event of a fire or robbery. Others think the additional door at the balcony may also increase the risk of break in.

Sunday Times Food Tour winners will taste,$1,288 dish

10 winner had been picked to go on the sunday time food tour. They will be eating a $1,288 version of a Buddha Jump Over The Wall prepared by chinese restaurant Spring Chunn Yuan. The program for the day is a seven-course lunch at Spring Chunn Yuan, a two hour-spa, a screening of the movie Ratatoullie at Vivocity and a four-course dinner at a italian restuarant Il Lido

Student hacker may opt for jail to cut fine

Scholarship holder Zhao Ke from china is finding out the price for curiosity. For the next 14 months, the 21-year old graduate will have to pay a 15k fine for hacking into raffles junior college's computer system in March. He hack in the computer system wanting to find out how his friends fared in the A-level examination. He decided to go to jail for five weeks during his december holiday to reduce his fine aount by 5,000. Not only he had to pay a 15k fine but also stand to lose his scholarship. Curiosity really did kill the cat this time.

In Every Thought

Lesile grandfather was the most incredible person in the world. He was the only person who has Lesile respect and he treated her with respect too. Sadly in setempber, they discovered that Lesile's grandftaher had cancer, the agonizing six months of his sickness were long and cruel. Soon her grandfather died. His death told lesile many lesson, but the one so harshly instilled in her is that no one, even someone as great as him, is invincible.

Life is Short

Scott and Gabe had been snowbaording all morning. Scott was too hungry to take another run, so he decided to eat something at the lodge. Scott finished his lunch and he headed back out. On the lift he saw a big crowd, he was curious and went to check what had happen. Suddenly he saw gabe motionless, one of Gabe friend said that he had collided with a skier at full speed and the back of his head had landed on a patch of ice, the skier then disspeared, leaving Gabe on the ground. The next day, Scott went to vist Gabe. The doctor said that Gabe was brain-dead. They would be taking him off life support, and he would be officially dead within ten minutes. Just a few months prior to his accident, he told a family member that he would want all of his organs to be donated. Gabe not only still lives in the memories of his family and friends, he lives on the hearts of lives of fifty other people who are now alive and healthy because of him.

Mr.Oberly's Star

Cynthia was nine eyars old the last summer and she lived next to Mr. Oberly. My Oberly live alone with 25 other cats. One night, Mr. Oberly and Cynthia sat together, watching the night unfold. As the first satr appeared, Mr. Oberly squinted in the sky and said" One of these day, I'm going to climb the star and I'll be able to watch you grow up". Later that summer, Mr.Oberly became ill, and soon he died. Caynthia knew that he had found his star. After Mr. Oberly deaths, his cat refused to sing- except at night, after the first star lit the sky. And when the big star appeared, they sang untill their heart nearly burst.Cynthia knew that it was true : Mr.Oberly was up on his star, just as he wanted.

Granma's cloud nine

Nadine love her grandma very much, she make the best cookies, and thought her how to play many games. "Someday , she told Nadine," when she is living with the angles, she wanted Nadine to look up into those clpuds and say hi to her grandma". When her gandma died she looked at the cloud and said"I love you"

Dont forget to say i love you

One day, that her Nadine father wasn't feeling very well, Nadine Mom decided to take him to the hospital. She then realized ather had cancer. Nadine spend altmost very night at a friend's house because her mum spend altmost all her time with her dad. The day before her dad's operation, she called her dad on the phone, but did nto said that he love him because she thought he would be all right.However her father death the next day, she regret not expressing her love to her father.

An Angel in Disguse

Megan first meet Damon, when he was working at the farm beside Megan property. Despite Megan threating him very badly, Damon treated her very well, she sided with her and bought everything she want. Finally they became friends. One day, Damon had aneurysm, he also had a few strokes and could not speak, Megan wish that Damon could become like the old "Damon" with his voice. Sadly Damon Died.

I'll Never Forget him-On death and dying

Megan had a brother called Mathew, he was only four when he died of meningitis. One day Mathew was complaning about not being able to move his head. The doctor examined Mathew and diagnosed him with flu. In the middle of the night Mathew woke up and had to use the bathroom. He was so weak that he could not even walk on his own, his eyelid were stuck together, and had little purple splotches on his face and arms, he had to be carried to the bathroom. Seeing how sick he was Megan's parent drove Mathew to the hospital. Matthew died that night.

Ryan's Story-On Death and Dying

Kelli cousin was Ryan, they had a very special bond and enjoyed playing together. Then Ryan's father move to another state, though they did not get to play wtih each other, they kept in touch by phone. Sadly when Ryan was seven, he was diagnosed with leukemia.When Ryan was twelve he needed a bone marrow transplant.About a month before he had his tansplant, kelli told him that she love him. After the operation,Ryan died. Though kelli was sad,she was glad that she had worked up the courage to tell him she loved him before it was too late.

April Morning-Death and Dying

The date was Aprill19, 1995. Justin was getting ready for school like he usually did, and his mother was getting ready for work,Aound 1.30 a call from the office asking him to be checked out from school. He then realise that the building that her mom was working in had been blown up,people were coming out bleeding. Her Mom was killed in that accident.

The Reason for Living-On love

Ever since Elizabeth grandmother died, her grandfather had been depressed.Recently her gandfather got very sick, the doctor thought that his days were numbered. However he could rhadly talk after the operation. In the hospital, Elizabeth always went to visit he granfather.He was so touched that he that he said"I love you" and" you are the only reason I live" to Elizabeth. She knew that he grandfather was dying, but she felt honored that he has shared his feeling with him.She had also learned is that a simple"I love you" is really not simple.It's the reason for living.

Only love last forever-On love

Denise and ryth were throwing toys at each other, when one slipped from his brother's hand it smashed the glass dome on the cofee table, shatterng it into many pieces. Her mother heard the noise and she came flying out of the room to see what ahd happened. She started crying as the white procelain rose that their dad had given to her on her first wedding anivesary was broken. Seeing how sad she was,Denise put btoh hands on ehr shoulders and told her that all this can eb broken, except love. Her Mom higged him tightly and finally smilled.

cry when you are sad-on love

On a sunny morning in april, jonathan grandmother passed away. He wanted to cry, but he was always taught that boys should not cry.At the funeral, he hled back his tears as he did not want to be a cry baby. The next day was the actual funeral.... the last good-bye. The next morning they went to the chruch and waitied as her rgandmother coffin was taken out from the big black hearse.About halfway through the mass, the priest began telling the people how much his grandma was being loved by her family and friends. That reminded jonathan of all the good time they had together, he began to cry uncontrollably, as he just could not hold back his sadness anymore.At the point he realised that real boys show emotion, cry when you are sad and smile when you are happy. Though this was the last time he saw her, he flet that he was a better peron for letting his tears out showing everyone just how much he loved her grandmother.

MInilia mall mayhem

A powerful blast rocked a crowded shopping mall in Manilia's mall, killing at least 8 people. At least 130 people were injured in the blast. The explosion caused extension damages throughout the shopping complex, toppling roofs, destroying walls and sending debris crashing into cars.conclusion: Never go to shopping malls in layback countries

Passenger climb of roof to get stronger phone signal... and capsize ferry

At least 31 people were killed and 125 rescued after a ferry sank in indonesia's saulawesi island. Passenger clambered to the roof seeking a stronger signal to make mobile phone call.conclusion:Never take old boats to islands in indonesia that have chances of sinking

At 70, survivor runs for women

When participants of the Great Eastern women's run take to the roads on sarturday, a 70-year-old grandmtoher of seven will be among them. Madam wong will be taking part in the event not just to proof that one is never too old to do anything, but to raise funds for cervical cancer. The Run will help to raise the awareness of cervical cancer and how to prevent it.Conclusion: one is never too old to do anything

The Teacher Who Cared

It was a start of a new year, Courtini fifth grade teacher was Mrs barrow. Courtini felt no closeness to Mrs barrow and saw her as another teacher. One day, Courtini grandmother who lived with them was diagnosed with cancer, about a month later she slipped into coma and died. Losing her was unbearable for Courtini. At the funeral, Courtini was sitting there motionless as she was very sad, she looked up and saw Mrs barrow standing there. She held Courtini hands and comforted her by reminding her that now her grandma had no more pain or suffering. Courtini's mum handed her a pretty ivy plant in a pink pot. The attached card read:I'm sorry about your grandmothe.Never forget, I love you. You are like one of my children. It was from Mrs barrow. She wad touched wanted to cry,Mrs barrow was the best teacher she had ever had forever.

The act of love

Kathy hate pulling weeds, she thought it was hot and sticky espically on saturday. Sometimes kathy wondered if her dad ever like her. He would grumble if he saw a weed. Like that night, Kathy took the thrash without being told, however her dad did not realise it and was mad with her as she did not put the trash can lid tightly enough to keep their dog out. Two weeks later, on the morning of another weed picking weekend, she was sick, he took her to the doctor and the doctor said she had pnuemonia. The only thing nice was that she did not need to pick weeds. That night a nosie wake her up, it was her dad, he came up to her and put his hand against Kathy forehead. He then laid something on her nightstand and left. When he was gone, Kathy reached out to the nightstand and picked up the basket inside the basket was a cute little puppy. Her dad had never gave hug and never said, I love you.But he had just said it all.

Dusty, the wonder dog

When Mary was a kid, her parents bought her a four-month old german shepherd. Dusty doubled as a school crossing guide who would walked the kids to school. Of all the contribution Dusty made to their family, one incidents stands out far and above all others. Late one night, dusty rushed to Mary bedroom, she barked and barked again and again. Finally mary's mom woke up. Mum followed dusty and realise that the house near theirs were on fire. Her mother alerted the fire department immediatly. Soon the fireman put down the fire and saved the people,preventing their house form total ruin. Her mother refused to take credits and said that it was dusty who saved them.

Love Lies On

Laurie was a horse-lover, she asked her parents if she could go for horse riding lesson and they agreed. After a year of lesson, Laurie wanted her own horse and her parents agreed to buy her one if she earned half of the money to buy the horse herself. She worked all summer and saved one-hundred dollar. She was introduced to a woman who was selling it for two hundred dollars. When they walked up to the store, she opened the door, he was an old ginat called rusty. She felt in love with that horse and bought it immediatly. Rusty grew strong and enrgetic for his age, they won horse races, and horse showing contest and took home many blue ribbon. One day rusty was lying in the stables and he nickered softly instead of standing and bellowing. Laurie decided to call a vet, the vet examine Rusty and diagnosed Rusty with cancer. The vet decided to have him put to sleep, laurie started crying sadly. However seeing how sad she was, her father decided to allow rusty to stay with her untill he died. Rusty stayed for another year before the cancer took him. All these years later, laurie still missed him but she realized that love lives on, and that rusty will live in her heart forever.

Boby Lee

Daphne walked home with her little brother every day by the same way. As she passed the oil refinery, an old man named bobby would asked them if they wanted soda pop and said that he mean no harm, however her mother told her not to talk to strangers and she always declined his offer. Then one day, when Daphne family was taking a walked they saw that old man, he smiled as he approached her mum and they had a good chat. Daphne's parents said that it was safe to visit bobby. Everday Daphne and her brother would stopped to vist Bobby after school and he would treat them to soda and would chat with them. After a long time, a group of about fourteen kids would visit bobby daily for ice pop and gum. Her mother decided to do something nice for bobby and during fathers day she arranged for a plauge-giving ceremony .On the plauge her mother had engraved'To the neighbourhood grandfather,' and all of their name was written. Bobby was so touch that he cried. One day Boby died, he was like a granfather to Daphne,though Daphne was very sad, At least she new that Bobby was able to die knowing that somebody love him.

Mom-on family

Apryl was only two when her real mum died. After her mum died, her dad started abusing her brothers and her. They were sent away to live with relatives, Apryl was sent to live with one relative after another. Her mom's sister,Bonnie become her 'mother', and her husband, Jess became her 'father' when they take her and became her legal gurdian. She felt lucky as they also had older kids and they became her brother. Three years later, Uncle Jess died of cancer, they moved to a new house in a new town because of a job opportunity they had there. One summer they went for camping, her grandma met a man that was staying in the cabin beside theirs and she introduced him to the rest of them. His name was david and was a really nice guy. After they came back from their camping trip, mum and david keep contact with ach toher, eventually they started seeing each other, david proposed to her mum and they got married. Apryl mum was a shining example, she have learned baout strength dedication and love.

This Old Chair-On Family

Spring is here and mom wanted john to help for their annual spring cleaning. John agreed reluctantly,john's mum pointed to Pop-Pop(their grand father) chair and said that she would take it to the curb and the garbage truck is picking it up on their block. Pop-Pop chair was unsdightly, it was faded and worn and in some places even torn. As they attempted to move the chair,Pop-Pop worked his way through the door and blocked their way. Pop-Pop protested and said that they could not take his chair away. John,mums give up when they argued.John ask why wont Pop-Pop get rid of that chair. He said that he sat in this chair, with john's grandma when he marry herand the night when john father was born, he held the tiny baby when he was sitting on that chair. He said that this chair brought him many wonderful memory. John understand that the chair was like a friend to Pop-Pop and she told mum the story.Mum understand it and did not threw the chair away.

I Flushed It-ON Family

Pier's family had just gotten a little black dog was was named one eye.Being the youngest in the family has had it advanatges of course, but being the youngest also with with a fair share of trouble. Pier was often told what I couldn't do and why. Pier coudn't wait to show them that he could do things by himself. He wanted to show them what a little kid could do and decided to give the dog a Bath. He looked at the sink and thought it was too small, and decided the perfect place for a dog bath'the toliet! he took his sister shampoo and poured it into the toliet, then he put the dog in. He then pull them the lever, but the sound of the toliet make the dog crazy. He tried to escape but the toiliet was too slippery. He did not wnat to hurt the dog and so she went to look for her mom. Her mom knew what was going on and started laughing. His mum knew that he wnated to declare his indepence.Flushing the dog down the toliet bow , might not sound like a declaration of independence but for a six year- old, it was his best shot.

Forever Garett-on family

Garett had been in mia's family for a month, mia was only five and he was eight.Garett was adopted. Both Garett and mia love sport and they are good at soccer. When Garett was in high school, during one of the game he was tackled and had a hard time getting back.Garett had several large bruises on his back and they were not normal. When mia's parent took Garett for a check up he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia a diseases that when a person bone marrow is destroyed or not bale to function properly. People with this disease can bleed to death from internal hemorrhaging. The doctor told Garett that he could not play sports anymore. THEN, to the amazement he recovered, and the doctor aloowed him to play again. Several years later he had a relapse, and he spent those years fighting to live. In February 1997, the doctors ateempted a bone marrow transplant on Garett and was sucessful,but Garett had many complicaton . Garett died at the age of 24. Garett was one of the best atheletes that mia ever know, Garett was also her hero, her friend, her inspiration and her brother...forever.

Supper David

David is the baby. Ginny is the oldest, then Johnny, and then Barbara. David always smell like mustard, his favorutie sandwhich is mustard on plain hard bread. he loves wearing costume and running aroud the house naked. Once his parent even make a superman costume for him and he was so happy. Once david drove a car and Barbara started to panic luckily it crash into the tree and no one was hurt. Though david can be quite a pain sometime, Baraba loved david.

Gain and losses

For the first fiftheen years of his live, Xi Zhang was the only child in his family. He did not have any siblings, luckily he hadhis aprents who care and love him alot. One day he found out that his mother was pregnant and he was excitied and he was going to have another sibling. One morning, ehr mother went to labour, when he went to the hospital his brother have already been born. But her mother was inside the operation room, and they have problem stopping the bleeding. Seconds later lots of doctor and nurses rush in, his mother went out of surgery and her face was pale and her eyes was closed,' Mom,Mom....you called not leave us' xi zhang called her but she did not react. She then wnet to the intensive care unit, luckily his mother survive. Her mother said that she ehard him calling, till two day his brother is altmost two, and he remember that he is a really lucky persson with great parents and a wonderful little brother.

Together we can do anything

Sticking together as a family was always important to Jarod , his sister and her mum espically when their father left him. He talked to his sister,Alana, when he work and his six sister B. Thats what they called their six cow, all their name started with B. All six cow often hang out with each other and they love them too. They decided to move house as they could not afford to stay in a big house anymore and decided to sell the six cow together, and pu them in an AD on the newspaper. A guy called and told Jarod mother that he could only pay eighteen hundreed dollars for all sic cow and iwll use them for breeding as he ahd a large farm. Her mother agreed to sell him only if he would not sell the cow s seprarately or kill them for meat, he agreed. However the men cheate dhtem and auction their cow off. Her mother get the auction record and was determined to buy the cow back. However the cow was auctioned for three-thousand dollar. They did not have th emoney but Alana had an idea he took the picture of the cow and showed it to the person who bid for it and tell them the story, most people went red in the face and decided not to bid. They manage to bid back all their cow except belle the baby cow. Family needs to love and protect family, and thye were their family. Although there are dishonest people in the world, there are also many kinds of people that are willing to help you, and the best part is that togther we can do anything.

Families That care, care aboutfamilies

Rachelle did not look forward to her tenth birthday as money was scare. Rachelle complained that how she could wear the same old dress for christmas and her sister said that she could give up asking for a horse, too. Her mother said that she have been saving up, despite being so poor her mother gave lots of food to the walters, their neighbour. Chritsmas morning arrived a couple of day later , to rachelle suprise she unwrapped her present and there was a beatiful new dress inside. They did not realised that their dad have slipped outside and he rode back with her big sister new horse! She was so excitied that she jump up and down is disbelief. Rachelle told her mum how she did that and her mother said that evryone was just helping each other. Dad did some marriage counscelling and the person gave him a new dress for rachelle and Mr jones could not take care of his horse and gave it to them. Rachelle learn that chritmas was about the magic of giving.

Hey,Remember When?

This story is about a boy called Kyle remembering his childhood whith the five of them his brother Jack, her cousin, Marleigh, Weston and Micheal. Each time they would play a game called hey,' Remember when....,' and they were remember all crazy things they'v done in the past.