According to monthly data released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Wednesday, loans to non-bank customers in November slowed slightly as compared to October.
Total loans for November hit S$273 billion, a dip of one per cent compared to the previous month’s figure of S$276 billion.
According to MAS’ figures, banks remain well capitalised.
Total [...]
Opponents of new Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Wednesday they would resume protests in the New Year, a day after forcing the premier to move the venue of his first policy speech.
Thousands of red-shirted supporters of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra dispersed overnight after blockading parliament for two days to press their demands [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao called Wednesday for military exchanges with Taiwan, in another sign of rapidly improving ties between the former arch enemies.
“The two sides can pick the right time to engage in exchanges on military issues and explore setting up a military and security mechanism to build mutual trust,” Hu said.
This would help “improve [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Good afternoon, WoW Insider! I have nothing useful to say in my preface today, because I need to go put my new power supply and video card in my PC so I can [...]
Reader Paul K. sent us a query today about how to go about getting each of the champion dungeon tabards available at level 80, and since I’m about to hit level 80 (hopefully will be doing it tonight), I figured I’d do the work so the rest of you don’t have to. Wearing these tabards [...]
Welcome to Lichborne, the Death Knight column. Yes, that is yours truly in the above picture, and yes, fellow Alliance Death Knights, you can be jealous.
So here you are, a new level 80 Death Knight. You’ve made your triumphant return to Ebon Hold to train your level 80 skills and hearthed back to Dalaran, and [...]
The South West CDC has put together a S$1.5 million Interim Coping Package for Economic Downturn (iCOPE) to help residents affected by the global economic crisis.
Dr Amy Khor, the CDC’s mayor who launched the scheme on Monday, said: “Together with the national help schemes, iCope hopes to achieve the three ‘R’ objective –bringing some interim [...]
Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was heading for a landslide victory on Tuesday after unofficial results showed that she had crushed her bitter rival Khaleda Zia in national polls.
The alliance led by Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League won an easy majority in Monday’s elections, which marked the end of two years of emergency rule [...]
Chinese dairy firms whose products contained the toxic chemical melamine have agreed to pay compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill from tainted milk, state media said on Saturday.
The 22 companies will pay a lump sum to victims of the melamine scandal, which has shocked China since it erupted in September [...]
Not all of us need a speed demon-possessed laptop. True, it would be nice to have a blazing-fast Core 2 Duo machine laced with 4GB of memory and mixed with a high-end discrete graphics card. Naturally, such a system will run the bill way past the S$2,500 (US$1,840.63) mark. But if emails and surfing the [...]
Each year, Arcane Brilliance cooks up 52 columns about Mages, each one roasted at precisely the right temperature for precisely the right amount of time (usually a couple hours on Saturday morning over a soggy bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, to be honest). As we arrive at the 52nd week of 2008, Arcane Brilliance would [...]
When I look back on four years of tracking Old St. Nick on Christmas Eve, I can’t help but smile. The Santa tracker has really come a long way. I always thought NORAD’s Santa Tracker was a great holiday tradition, but I felt like it could have been even better if people could visualize exactly [...]
A day before of Christmas Eve, Yukyung had a showcase of their 1st MID Viliv S5 at the Club Mass with Intel Korea. I visited this event and had a chance to play with the S5 during the showcase.
I got my phone shipped to me by DHL at a total cost of S$800, and as a result I’m a registered Google Android developer now with a Google Dev Phone 1. It was delivered to me a couple of weeks ago.
First off, you can read about the build of the phone etc. all over [...]
Merry Christmas World of Warcraft players! No matter what you celebrate, whether it’s Festivus for the Rest of Us or full blown Christmas cheer, you can appreciate some quality holiday movies this season.
Let’s take a look at five festive holiday machinima productions over the past few years.
Of course it needs to be stipulated that there [...]
Pakistan has redeployed thousands of troops to the border with India, officials said on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of tensions with New Delhi in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned his military chiefs to review New Delhi’s “defence preparedness” while his foreign ministry advised Indians not to travel to [...]
One of our site leads, Dan O’Halloran, asked me a question that surprised me yesterday. He asked me what he was supposed to do with Honor points and where he could spend them. See, Dan isn’t a huge fan of PvP. In fact, he only happened to try out the wonderfully fun and crazy Wintergrasp [...]
An internal probe on Tuesday cleared Barack Obama and his transition team of any inappropriate contacts with the Illinois governor accused of plotting to sell off the president-elect’s Senate seat.
The report said Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel did talk to accused Governor Rod Blagojevich about who might be a good pick [...]
Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Taro Aso on Wednesday rejected calls for a snap election, pledging to focus on the economic crisis, but was immediately defied by a senior member of his own party.
Aso, who took office just three months ago, needs to hold an election by September next year, and the opposition Democratic Party [...]
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So we have a 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific downtime today. But honestly, I’m sort of hoping it’s not for patch day, because I have a Death Knight column going live later this morning that assumes testing’s going to go on for another few weeks. Besides, they just added a few new tweaks to [...]
Welcome to Lichborne, WoW Insider’s weekly Death Knight column.
Yeah, I definitely have to put out a mea culpa here. Alas, Lichborne is a little bit late again. I have a valid excuse, I swear. It involved a flaming plum pudding, a flailing geist, and a sudden snowstorm at the Shadow Vault over in Icecrown. But [...]
US officials on Friday announced a 13.4 billion dollar rescue loan for two of the Big Three automakers, requiring tough reforms, in a move aimed at staving off an economic calamity.
General Motors and Chrysler, facing a threat of imminent bankruptcy, agreed to the loan terms and will get the funds starting on December 29. GM [...]
Sentencing for the wife of former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong has been adjourned for a second time this week, to next Monday.
66-year-old On Shu Kio had earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of money laundering – that is, helping her husband to transfer about US$2.8 million from their joint account in Singapore to [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has attended a musical performance staged by a state choir, state media said on Saturday, its fourth report in four days of visits by the reportedly ailing leader.
Kim, accompanied by two generals and various party officials, attended a performance given by the State Merited Chorus and workers in Jagang Province, [...]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice predicted that North Korea would eventually agree to a written plan to ensure it is telling the truth about its past weapons-grade nuclear activities.
In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations think tank that was released on Friday, Rice said the six-party talks broke down this month when [...]
I believe there is lots of reader facing the same problem as me, being ignored by the MSN Beta!
Basically is really a “Beta” as full of bugs and keep hang and stuck!
And as you all aware that it does not show up on the “Programs and Features” in the Vista.
And if you wish to remove [...]
For nearly three decades, John Walsh’s black leather jackets and swagger have made him a crime-fighting cultural icon. But when he returned this week to the Hollywood police station, he was once again the father of a murdered child.
John and Reve Walsh turned their grief into activism on behalf of missing children and [...]
Prominent liberal groups and gay rights proponents criticized President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday for choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
Warren, one of the most influential religious leaders in the nation, has championed [...]
Thirty years ago, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping launched a series of sweeping economic reforms. The BBC’s Michael Bristow looks at how these momentous changes have affected ordinary people.
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