Her Heart May Beat The Odds

Book-binder is the longest living female heart transplant patient here
By Kua Chee Siong
June 21, 2008

A LONE slipper lies outside the gate of a one-room flat.

Ms Tan used to walk about 2km from her weekly physiotheraphy sessions at SGH to her work place at the Society for the Physically Disabled on Peng Nguan Street. In recent years, because she gets tired easily, she would do it only occasionally. She takes the bus instead.

Raising the bar

Taking over a thriving family-run wine business is no walk in the vineyard, says Clinton Ang, who is determined to push that legacy to greater heights
By Ong Bi Hui
DRINKING TO THE FUTURE: In the five years since taking over from his father, Mr Ang has transformed Hock Tong Bee into a major supplier of wines and spirits to hotels and restaurants. -- ST PHOTO: LIM CHIN PING

I Was Lost

# No flat
# No family
# No money
By Genevieve Jiang
June 17, 2008

THE day he was released from jail, he found himself homeless and without loved ones to return to.

The New Hope Shelter for Men is also seeing more older residents like Mr Wong (above). -- Pictures: KUA CHEE SIONG

Rare sighting of Indian tribe

-- PHOTO: AP
RIO DE JANEIRO - ONE of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said.

The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state, said the Brazilian government foundation, known as Funai.

Funai said it photographed 'strong and healthy' warriors (left), six huts and a large planted area. But it was not known to which these warriors belonged, the group said.

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Obama and family quit Trinity church

MR BARACK Obama has said he and his wife had resigned as members of their Chicago church in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his long-time pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and more recent fiery remarks at the church by a visiting priest.