Laleh Bijani died on Tuesday just hours after her sister Ladan died in delicate surgery aimed at separating the 29-year-old Iranian twins who born joined at the head, a nurse involved in the surgery said.
Complications slow surgery on twins
PC users were warned on Wednesday to be careful responding to online polls asking them to vote for or against the US-led war on Iraq that could be a hook to launch a new virus.
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Affluent Asian couples finding it tough to make babies will soon get help from a Singaporean ”sex guru” offering a novel program to ease a severe decline in the island’s fertility rates.
Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes sought a global commitment to force Pakistan to crackdown on terrorism on Sunday, warning that New Delhi faced ”intense” pressure to launch an attack on terrorists.
World oil prices stayed firm on Monday, hovering just below a barrel, as brokers speculated the weekend bombing in Bali would bolster international support for US President George Bush’s stance against Iraq.
Singapore network specialist Datacraft Asia Ltd is expected to post its first full-year loss on Thursday, as it takes the full force of its bad debt and restructuring charges while customer orders remain dismal.
Oil prices resumed their upward climb on Monday on reports of increased tensions in the Middle East that saw Israeli tanks roll into the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Laleh Bijani had to give up her dream of being a journalist because her twin sister, Ladan, wanted to be a lawyer.
Oil prices climbed for the fourth straight session on Monday, rising two percent as the US administration stepped up diplomatic efforts to win support at home and abroad for toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said on Tuesday it has expanded the convenience of the popular Short Message Service (SMS) to home and office phones with the advent of a new text-to-speech system.
Sales of personal computers breached the one billion mark in April, 25 years after they first hit the market, according to an industry monitor on Monday.
A ”most despicable” Singapore mother who helped in the regular rape of her nine-year-old daughter has been told she must serve-out a 36-year jail sentence and is lucky not to be jailed for life, a report said on Tuesday.