Animals Saved My Life

She now runs pet shop in home for troubled teens
By Liew Hanqing
April 30, 2008

Growing interest here in kosher market

More food exporters want a slice of growing global kosher market worth $815b annually
By Tessa Wong

Zimbabwe faces genocide if world does not act: Church leaders

HARARE - VIOLENCE in Zimbabwe will result in full-scale genocide if the international community does not intervene, the country's church leaders have warned.

Jade to start shipping coal in the third quarter

It stands to get 70% of profits from mine with $1.4b in reserves
By Lee Su Shyan, Assistant Money Editor

SUMATRAN VENTURE: Jade's president Dr Soh (right), with West Sumatra Governor Gumawan Fauzi (centre) and Pak Iwan Sutadi, a representative of Jade partner Dasacita, at the St Regis Hotel yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN

New donor heart, new traits?

Not true, say doctors about reports of organ-transplant patients taking on the personality of their donors
By Tiffany Fumiko Tay
Mr Sonny Graham's (left) change of heart led him to marry his donor's wife, Cheryl. -- PHOTO: AP
He had a change of heart, literally. American Sonny Graham underwent a heart transplant in 1995 and started exhibiting traits of his deceased donor soon after, before committing suicide in the same manner early this month.

Most teens value virginity

How can the trend highlighted in the article, 'Teen sex infections likely to hit new high' (The Sunday Times, April6), be checked?

I've been used, says Obama's ex-pastor

IT'S POLITICS: Reverend Jeremiah Wright (right) says he is not bothered by Mr Obama's denunciation of his fiery sermons. -- PHOTO: AP
US PRESIDENTIAL candidate Barack Obama's former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has said that people airing snippets of his fiery sermons were trying to paint him as 'some sort of fanatic'.

How can a victim be a culprit overnight?

A medical doctor turned entrepreneur, Dr Anthony Soh had kept a low profile until the recent aborted takeover of little-known Jade Technologies catapulted him into the corporate spotlight.

The 52-year-old chief executive of Jade speaks of going through the 'most challenging' period of his life now.

A world of new uncertainties

By John T. Sidel, For The Straits Times
PHOTO: REUTERS

IN THE profane world of politics, 'Knowledge Is Power' seems a bit like an empty slogan.