CAR showrooms have reportedly collected at least 3,000 orders over the weekend - three to four times the normal volume - and many have started raising prices.
BANGKOK: Thousands of anti-government protesters blockaded Parliament and forced the postponement of a key legislative session yesterday as they stepped up their campaign to bring down the administration of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.
THE raw numbers tell a devastating story for the shipping industry, which is being walloped by the global slowdown as shipping rates plummet precipitously.
TO PICK up coffee on my way to work one morning in September, I had to make an ATM pit stop. Easy enough. There was a bank across the subway station two blocks from my office in Washington, where I spent most of the past year. But the sidewalk outside the bank was blocked by a small crowd.
IT IS official: Singapore is in recession. As an open economy, Singapore's economic fortunes are closely intertwined with that of the wider world. When its major trading partners - America and the European Union - plunged into recession in recent weeks, Singapore followed suit.
LONDON: William Gallas will play for Arsenal against Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League at the Emirates Stadium today, but his captaincy has been passed permanently to Cesc Fabregas.
I REFER to Dr Tan Wu Meng's letter last Friday, 'Why Singapore's political system works', and the follow-ups on Saturday, 'Logic favours two-party system' and 'Governments better off with checks and balances'.
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