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How successful are sporting comebacks?AFTER a five-month absence to deal with his personal tribulations, Tiger Woods announced on March 16th that he would return to playing professional golf at this year's US Masters tournament in April. Sports stars have had mixed fortunes when returning to competition after a break. This ...

Singapore Press Holdings (T39.SG) among better performing blue chips as hopes for recovery in advertising expenditure, defensive qualities support, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Shares up 0.3% at $3.83, with immediate resistance tipped at current 2010 high of $3.85. DBS Vickers notes latest data show total Singapore adex for display ...

Singapore will meet or exceed a target of $25 billion a year in biomedical manufacturing output by 2015, the city-state’s Economic Development Board said at a briefing today.   {jcomments on}  

We hope that it is not going to be the Hollywood ending for Kate Winslet. Nobody could even suppose that the last year’s Academy Award winner would be able to break. Kate Winstlet was separating from her husband, director and fellow Oscar winner Sam Mendes, for nearly during seven years No official ...

Photo by Chrissy PiperLast year, Rian Johnson, director of the movies Brick and The Brothers Bloom and the video for the Mountain Goats' "Woke Up New", filmed Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle as he sat ...

Singapore’s retail sales rose for the first time in 16 months in January as motor-vehicle purchases climbed and consumers bought furniture and household goods ahead of the Lunar New Year festival. The retail sales index climbed 2.3% from a year earlier after falling a revised 4.9% in December, the ...

It was just last year when Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag decided to tie the knot. But this year, many were surprised that they already separated their ways. Not in marriage but in the show business. Since they became a couple, 5 years ago, it was Spencer Pratt who is taking ...

Sin Heng Heavy Machinery, one of the leading heavy lifting service providers in Singapore focusing on the mid-to-high lifting capacity segment, has seen its earnings impacted last year due to the economic slowdown but is now seeing a recovery in demand and buying interest, moving into the current year. Read ...

Photo by Cody Smyth -- The Strokes have announced their first American show in years. The Chicago Tribune confirms that the band will serve as headliners at this year's Lollapalooza, which goes down in Chicago's Grant Park August ...

Producers of this weekend’s 82nd Annual Oscars have defended a slight that left ’70s sex symbol Farrah Fawcett out of the annual “In Memoriam” montage — which pays tribute to Hollywood stars who have died over the past year. The Charlie’s Angels actress died in June after a nearly three ...

Last year, Chicago label Thrill Jockey tried their hand at a time-honored indie tradition, the singles club. This year, they're doing it all over again. The second Thrill Jockey 12" Singles Club will include seven ...

Overall sales were down slightly year over year; key factors were the world economic recession and, ironically, the continuing overall improvement in the quality of new-generation storage hardware and software. - Researchers IDC and Gartner both came out with their quarterly data storage markets reports March 5, and ...

After last year's game-changing So Far Gone mixtape, Toronto MC Drake is looking to cement his Next Kanye spot with his debut LP, Thank Me Later, due out on Lil Wayne's Young Money imprint. The record's first single, "Over", dropped on his blog last ...

Taylor Swift has landed five nominations at this year’’s Academy of Country Music Awards. The singer will compete for female vocalist of the year, apart from artist and composer awards for her hit ‘You Belong With Me’. Swift has also scored her first nomination for the awards” highest honour ...

Dairy Farm International Holdings, the operator of supermarkets, drugstores and convenience shops throughout Asia, said 2009 net income climbed 9% to to US$364 million ($509 million), or 27 U.S. cents a share, from US$333 million, or 25 cents a year ago. Sales including associates rose 4% to US$8 billion, the ...

Under pressure, GM is now putting up half the money needed to rescue OpelTHE mood at this week’s Geneva motor show, if not exactly upbeat, was in contrast to the fear that gripped the event last year. Europe’s car market is expected to fall in volume terms by around 10% ...

Recognizing financial improvements and expanded disclosures in its annual CSR report, CRO Magazine ranked Intel #2 on its annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List, which came out today. The List compares Russell 1000® companies' performance in environment, climate change, ...

Datapulse Technology, the total solutions provider of CD and DVD services in the Asia Pacific region, reported its second quarter and half year results for the financial year 2010. For 1H FY2010, the group — which has a June year-end — registered a 30.2% drop in revenue from $45.3 ...

Abterra, the supply chain manager of resources and minerals, managed to swing back into the black with a net profit of $13.3 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 (FY2009) largely due to a gain from the revaluation of a mining asset. Turnover of the year fell ...

China Sports International, the sports fashion footwear and apparel company based in China, reported net profit decreased by 33.7% to RMB122.6 million ($25.3 million) for the full year ended 31 December 2009 (FY09) from RMB184.9 million in FY08 as the result of lower average selling prices for footwear products....