
Tiger Airways shares slump on widening losses
Tiger Airways has been hurt by growing competition in the low-cost travel market. (5 May) Shares in Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways slumped by as much as 8%, to a one-month low, after it posted widening losses. The firm saw its losses rise to $96m Singapore dollars ($76m; £45m) in the January-to-March quarter,...

SDP: Why do we do this to our children?
Ten-year-old Lysher Loh climbed over the parapet on the fifth floor of her flat and jumped to her death. Two weeks before she committed suicide, she told her maid she did not want to be reincarnated as a human being because she did not want to have to do homework ever again. The last straw came when she fared poorly in her mid-year...

Thai PM sacked after Consitutional Court ruling
Thai Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, leaves the Constitutional Court in Bangkok, Thailand on May 6, 2014. The court said the ruling invalidated Yingluck’s ministerial status, creating doubt about her caretaker government’s ability to continue until an election the Election Commission has agreed to hold July 20. (7 May)...
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