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TO HELP relief efforts in Sichuan Province, transport operator ComfortDelGro has contributed a bus, three mini-buses and 35 taxis. - [Read more]

JUST a few months ago, Mrs Apiradi Tantraporn was a little-known Thai government official. Now, she is one of the worlds most important figures. - [Read more]

TIME has not been kind to many victims of the Sichuan quake. - [Read more]

ITS not chirping birds that wake them now, but pounding hammers. - [Read more]

A TWO-MINUTE video allegedly depicting trainee commandos being tortured during training has surfaced in Malaysia. - [Read more]

CAN you memorise 110110101000101011001100010111001010101? - [Read more]

NEARLY every building in the tiny rural town of Wufu, near Mianzhu city, withstood the earthquake that devastated part of Sichuan on Monday. - [Read more]

TELL Mr Wong Kwen Kee, a 71-year-old grandfather of four, that hes old, and hell challenge you: Take part in a marathon with me. - [Read more]

JUST last week, Yingxiu in Wenchuan County was known as a picturesque town along the Min river. - [Read more]

A WOMAN who was charged with glue-sniffing found herself back in the dock after the police found a Subutex pill in the back of the police patrol car she was in. - [Read more]

HER long-distance running over the years paid off for 48-year- - [Read more]

THE popular hero of Chinas earthquake rescue effort isnt a strapping firefighter or a seasoned cop - its the countrys bespectacled premier, a self-described grandpa whos been clambering over piles of rubble to rally victims in the hardest-hit areas. - [Read more]

A PASSENGER chewed out her boyfriend in an air-rage fight 10,000m over the Mediterranean - literally. - [Read more]

THE sick and injured lie on makeshift beds in the carparks and open areas of the hospital. Doctors operate on patients in outdoor tents. - [Read more]

THEY were all there, the landlords representative, the contractor, the electrician. And they all wanted one thing: To be paid. - [Read more]

IN a morgue near Dujiangyan, there are bodies everywhere. - [Read more]

HE is accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter, asking her to massage him, then proceeding to more intimate acts. - [Read more]

I DONT want the workers to go hungry. Thats hawker Ngo Hak Wees reason for allowing free refills of rice, despite prices tripling this year. - [Read more]

THE Singapore Childrens Society once ran an adoption service. - [Read more]

ALTHOUGH the death toll is estimated to reach 50,000, many victims escaped with their lives and family intact. - [Read more]