news update - final week of March 2007

1. Playboy in Indonesia

2. FDA Tries to Thwart Web Accutane Sales

3. Unsafe Deposit: In Iraq, an Army Officer Battles to Open a Bank --- Military shifts Fight To Local Politics; Gunfire Outside Hall

4. Sanyo Ends Era of Family Rule --- President Steps Down as Owners Push to Shed Weak Businesses Faster

5. What Drove Spike in Crude?

6. Business-Investment Drop Stirs Worries

7. Business Brief -- Citigroup Inc.: Branch Openings to Help Accelerate Growth in China

8. Politics & Economics: Paris Clashes Shape France's Political Agenda --- Echoes of 2005 Suburban Unrest Sharpen Campaign's Focus on Law and Order

9. Slouching Dollar, Hidden Inflation

10. Why Private Colleges Are Surging in India

11. ProLogis Feeds Off China's Boom --- With Large Presence in Nation, REIT Pleases Wall Street

12. Politics & Economics: In Brief

13. Parents Rebel Against School Fund-Raisers --- Tired of Being Forced to Sell Wrapping Paper and Raffle Tickets, Some Opt Out While Others Devise More-Effective Alternatives

14. Finding Day Care That Helps Kids Play Well With Others

15. Does Cutting Oil Revenue Help or Hurt al Qaeda?

16. Bookshelf: Making Sense of a World Turned Upside Down

17. Reinventing the Wheel: Customizing the Sound of a Car Horn

18. Politics & Economics: Bush, Defensive on Iraq, Blames Congress

19. 5 in 10 consumer financial disputes are with life insurers

20. HDB unveils its first 'green' housing project

21. Crime Library offers hope to some people

22. MM to critics: Gauge S'pore by any yardstick of governance

23. US biologics giant to make anti-blindness drug here

24. Rejected for PSC scholarship but he's now MTI perm sec

25. Striking deals

26. Maximise Koon Seng Road's heritage potential

27. Neighbour's dog victim of hit-and-run accident

28. McDonald's will look into pricing of vegetarian meal

29. On streaming, motivating and educating students

30. 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY

31. No more increase in medical fees, please

32. Plan early to 'find the sweet spot'

33. Wheeling out a message

34. Vietnam under pressure to join anti-terror initiative

35. Kids freed as Manila hostage crisis ends

36. Leading the News: Indonesia reports three deaths from avian flu after WHO deal

37. Technology Journal: Companies tolerate ads to obtain free software --- Most users include smaller businesses; no tumbling clowns

38. Technology Journal: Microsoft-Sony games battle escalates

39. CAPITAL: Why skepticism about free trade appears to be on the rise

40. The 'Genocide Olympics'

41. Bad Chemistry

42. Bush, Democrats aim for trade compromise

43. China, Russia sign a trade deal

44. U.S. spending indicator falls

45. Fiscally Fit: Love Isn't Cheap --- Terri Decides to Replace a Trinket Whose Value Can't Be Measured

46. The Evening Wrap: Captives & Crude

47. The Afternoon Report: Terror in Tal Afar