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Kylie Minogue to perform in Singapore on June 29
The concert will be part of her "Aphrodite Live 2011 World Tour".
Looking forward to the tour, Kylie Minogue said she is delighted that she will be able to perform for her fans in South-East Asia.
The multi-million-dollar production promises to be a visually stunning show with a host of specially-designed props such as a winged horse Pegasus, a golden Chariot, five video screens and a sweeping staircase set.
She will be accompanied by a huge cast of
Thai-Cambodia fighting flares again as talks collapse
Thai and Cambodian troops clashed with heavy artillery for a sixth day on Wednesday near two disputed 12th-century Hindu temples, the Cambodian defence ministry said following a night of shelling that killed a Thai villager.Talks between Thai and Cambodian defence ministers to end Southeast Asia’s bloodiest border dispute in years were abruptly cancelled, dashing hopes of an imminent end to fighting that has killed at least
GE: SDP unveils lineup for Sembawang GRC
Dr Gomez said the team fielded in Sembawang is not an "A" team but a "people's" team.
He said the party selected candidates whom they felt can talk to and connect with residents in Sembawang.
Mr Sadasivam and Mr Luo said they are residents in the Sembawang GRC and so are able to understand the concerns of
NATO supplies halted ahead of mass protest
Pakistan suspended delivery of supplies Saturday to NATO troops in Afghanistan via its land border for three days as campaigners began a sit-in on the supply route over US drone attacks.
Supporters of cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party were gathering on the Peshawar ring road Saturday for the planned two-day sit-in aiming to block the route used by supply trucks.
The party called the demonstration to protest over US
China sovereign fund seeks new Europe investment
China Investment Corp (CIC) already has a big exposure to Europe and its investment return from the continent is not bad, its chairman Lou Jiwei told a forum on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
"From the investment perspective, (we're) not very optimistic about Europe," Lou said at the Boao Forum.
"But it doesn't mean we
US government shutdown averted
Party leaders clinched the agreement, including some $38.5 billion dollars of extra spending cuts, after a intense political bargaining, barely an hour before the federal government effectively ran out of money at midnight (0400 GMT, 12pm Singapore time).
"Some of the cuts we agreed to will be painful ... and I would not have made these cuts in better circumstances," Obama said at the White House after a long day of negotiating averted a potential political crisis
US stocks edge down after fresh Japan quake
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 100 points from the day's high shortly after a 7.1-magnitude quake near Japan's east coast prompted fears of further damage to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, infrastructure and Japan's manufacturing base.
The area is still recovering from last month's massive earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis.
US shares in Toyota, Nissan, NTT and Sony all fell sharply
Shutdown looms as Obama budget talks fail
A stern-faced Republican House of Representatives speaker John Boehner said there was "no agreement on a number, no agreement on the policy issues," after 90 minutes in the Oval Office with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
"We are not there yet," Boehner said, though adding that he believed an agreement was possible before a midnight Friday deadline at which government funding runs out and vast swathes of the bureaucracy
Hopes for deal to avoid cash crunch
BARACK Obama is struggling to avert a government shutdown tomorrow as party leaders in the US congress baulk at a compromise on federal budget spending cuts.
With time running out before government funding expires, unless congress passes a budget, Republicans and Democrats worked through the night to reach a deal.
For Romney, 2012 strategy runs through NH, Nevada
In his first presidential run in 2008, Mitt Romney sought back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire to propel him to the GOP nomination. He won neither, the two-state sprint failed and so did his candidacy.This time his strategy is more of a multi-state marathon, with economically suffering Nevada an important round in what advisers predict could be a protracted fight to be the party's 2012 nominee.
On his first trip this year to Nevada, the former Massachusetts governor toured a neighborhood north of Las Vegas
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