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Turning sewage into drinking water
HOW IS WASTE WATER RECYCLED? A combination of reverse osmosis and disinfection with ultraviolet radiation is the most common method. In reverse osmosis, water is forced through very fine membranes that filter out salts and other matter, but let water molecules... [Read more]

Qantas raises full-year earnings forecast again
SYDNEY - QANTAS Airways, target of an agreed A$11 billion (S$13.1 billion) buyout, increased its profit forecast a second time in three months on rising ticket sales and lower fuel prices.It expects earnings to rise as much as 40 per cent... [Read more]

La Liga
SaturdayReal Madrid 0 Betis 0Zaragoza 1 Villarreal 0SundayAthletic Bilbao 2 Getafe 0Deportivo La Coruna 0 Levante 0Espanyol 3 Mallorca 1Celta Vigo 1 Osasuna 0Racing Santander 4 Gimnastic 1Recreativo Huelva 1 Real Sociedad 0Valencia 2 Barcelona 1Sevilla 3 A. Madrid 1... [Read more]

Official who built China 'White House' gets life term
A CHINESE provincial Communist Party official who put up a building modelled after the White House has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery and embezzlement. Feng Liucheng was found guilty of taking bribes worth 3.7 million yuan (S$730,000) and... [Read more]

Tottenham's attacking policy pays off with last-gasp winner
LONDON - MARTIN Jol will stay true to Tottenham's attacking traditions, after his side's cavalier approach clinched a dramatic win at Everton. Spurs tasted success in the English Premiership for the first time since Boxing Day, as Jermaine Jenas' last-minute goal... [Read more]

Electronics weakness clouds exports rebound
EXPORTS of made-in-Singapore goods jumped 11.1 per cent last month over the same period last year, beating forecasts and reversing December's sharp decline of more than 14 per cent. The strong turnaround in non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) growth was more than... [Read more]

Regular MRT commuter wins trip to Australia
A REGULAR train commuter received an early hongbao when he won the first prize in the Ride SMRT, Go Places competition, simply for taking the train to work daily. Mr Wong Yeow Fan, 24, won the top prize in the December... [Read more]

TT Int'l pays $13.5m for Novena's furniture arm
HOME-GROWN TT International, which owns and distributes consumer electronics products under the Akira brand, has bought Novena Holdings' core furniture arm for $13.5 million. It plans to incorporate the business into its existing consumer electronics retail stores in Singapore and Indonesia... [Read more]

Online bomb hoax: Youth pleads guilty
A MAN who 'mooched' on a neighbour's unsecured wireless network to make a bomb hoax posting online caused alarm and got his neighbour arrested.Full-time national serviceman Lin Zhenghuang's hoax posting on Aug 1, 2005 - a day after the London subway... [Read more]

Bouquets
CELLPHONE FOUND, THANKS TO STAFF OF FAST-FOOD OUTLETON FEB 2, I left my mobile phone at McDonald's at Centrepoint after having breakfast there. I only realised this later, at the National University of Singapore campus, and had to get my husband... [Read more]

Supermart staff under probe for skiving on YouTube
LONDON - A BRITISH supermarket chain has launched a probe after video clips of people performing stunts while wearing the company uniform surfaced on the YouTube website.The videos allegedly featured Somerfield staff 'skiving' from work and showed - among other antics... [Read more]