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Last Thursday's report ("Property sector 'needs govt support'") reads like a case of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas) wanting to have its cake and eat it, too. Redas president Chia Boon Kuah warned of grave consequences for the country, noting how property prices have declined amid falling sales... 

A doctor using a bicycle pump in sterilisation surgery in Orissa, India (3 December 2014) - An Indian state has halted mass sterilisations at health camps after a doctor was found using a bicycle pump to inflate women's abdomens. Dr Mahesh Chandra Rout, who used a pump on 56 women last Friday, told the BBC pumps were regularly... 

Premier Jiang Yi-huah signed the resignation order but urged the cabinet to continue working. (1 December 2014)  -  Taiwan's entire cabinet has resigned after the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) suffered its biggest ever defeat in local elections on Saturday. The KMT lost control of districts across the country, including the mayor's...