PM Goh and Keating to make Apec meet a success
SINGAPORE and Australia have expressed fresh support for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum, with both countries determined to make the group's
Author: Derwin Pereira
The Drugs Scourge
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
Africa * Weak link in international drug control efforts. * Increasing drug abuse in several countries. Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola,
Continent is weak link in anti-drug fight
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
AFRICA
AFRICA is a "weak link" in the global war against drugs.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in its report
HK a major distribution centre for designer drugs
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
From there they are moved to Tokyo, Seoul and Manila
HONGKONG has become a major distribution and financial centre for designer
Republic’s tough, well-publicised laws a strong deterrent to traffickers
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
SINGAPORE
THE small number of drug couriers arrested in Singapore showed that they were avoiding the Republic as a transit point,
Poverty a bigger threat than Khmer Rouge : Hun Sen
POVERTY is a bigger threat to Cambodia than the Khmer Rouge, Co-Premier Hun Sen said yesterday while calling on the global community
Top-level Pakistani team in S’pore for economic talks
A HIGH-LEVEL economic delegation from Pakistan arrived in Singapore yesterday to discuss possible areas of co-operation between the two countries.
The four-man delegation,
Death of a politician : Murder most foul
Derwin Pereira of The Foreign Desk wraps up a trial involving brutal murder, black magic and money that went on for 69-days
A cocktail personality of explosive emotions
NOT many people would take lightly the thought of going to the gallows.
But bomoh Mona Fandey did. Clad in a yellow long-sleeved
Murayama ‘likely to call for polls soon’
Split in shaky Social Democrat Party may lead to govt's collapse, says ex-PM Hosokawa.
JAPANESE Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama will call for elections
US forces ‘to stay in Asia, but new initiatives unlikely’
THE US will keep its military presence in Asia, but was unlikely to take the lead in pursuing initiatives in the region
And now, here’s the (good) news
1994 was not all war, death, disaster, pestilence and poverty in the world.
There was also happiness, heroism, kindness - and hope.
Today, on