Oil jumps above $72 in Asia amid cold snap in US northeast, Iran ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
SINGAPORE - Oil prices jumped above $72 a barrel Monday in Asia after hitting a two-month low last week, boosted by tensions over Iran's nuclear program and a cold snap in the U.S. northeast. Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 87 cents at $72 ...
Singapore denounces pastor for ridiculing Buddhists - YAHOO!
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – Singapore has warned a Christian pastor that his online videos are offensive to Buddhists and Taoists, underlining the city-state's concerns that religion is a potential faultline for its multicultural society. Pastor ...
Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer: study - YAHOO!
WASHINGTON (AFP) – People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas , and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a new study shows. Analyses of data collected on 60,524 Singapore ...
Barclays poaches 3 bankers from UBS - Reuters UK
Vikram Malhotra, who led a team of UBS bankers in Singapore and Hong Kong serving millionaires of Indian origin, joined Barclays Wealth on Monday as head of South Asia where he will play a similar role, the British bank said in a statement. He will ...
Visitor arrivals to Singapore hit 9.7 million last year - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: The number of visitors to Singapore last year hit 9.7 million, exceeding the earlier forecast of between 9 million and 9.5 million. But it is still a year-on-year decline of 4.3%. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) gave the figures at a ...
Pancreatic Cancer: Soda Drinkers at Risk - Ivanhoe
Researchers followed over 60,000 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health study for 14 years and found 140 cases of pancreatic cancer cases in the study group. Those who drank two or more soft drinks per week had an 87 percent increased risk of ...
NYSE tapped for ASEAN trading link - BusinessWorld Online
FOUR SOUTHEAST Asian stock exchanges have tapped New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Technologies to provide the technology that will link the bourses in a trading platform. Bursa Malaysia Berhad, Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc., Singapore Exchange, Ltd ...
Samsung C&T Corporation awarded the EPC contract for Singapore's LNG ... - PennEnergy
In addition to the award of the EPC contract, Foster Wheeler Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (Foster Wheeler) has also been appointed by SLNG to be its Project Management Consultant. SLNG and Foster Wheeler will jointly manage the EPC contractor through an ...
Oil climbs above $72 in Asia as weakening US dollar offsets doubts ... - Stockhouse
SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose above US$72 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar offset concerns about the strength of the global economic recovery. Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 38 cents at $72.27 a barrel at late afternoon ...
Singapore's SingTel posts 24-per-cent rise in quarterly profit - Monsters and Critics
Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel), South-East Asia's biggest phone company, said Tuesday that net profit for its third quarter rose 24 per cent from a year ago on the back of steady growth in its home market and Australia. Net ...
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NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive
 Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.
N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
 Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500
 Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process
 Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.
Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism
 The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.
Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors
 In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.
Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone
 China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone 22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.
World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.
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