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European aviation-safety regulators, concerned about the hazards of ice building up inside fuel systems and potentially shutting off engines during long flights, have issued mandatory safety directives to replace certain parts on hundreds of wide-body Airbus aircraft.

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Air France, taking an unusual and high-profile step to assess operational risks, has assembled a group of internationally respected aviation officials to conduct an independent safety review in the wake of...

Rejecting safety warnings from crash investigators and pilots, federal aviation regulators have decided to allow more than 130 Boeing Co...The Federal Aviation Administration's move, announced last week, caps months of debate in the international aviation community about the potential hazards...

Time magazine quoted Daniel Lian, a Southeast Asia economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore, saying that the country might have lost “as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s to corruption”. The scandals listed below are only a small...

On the heels of other successful deployments to Afghanistan, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will next month send a 13-man medical team to a field hospital in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan, for a stint until March 2010. The team will provide...

House hunters hoping for bargains still find asking prices high Flash floods, so what? Bukit Timah is still hot property The recent flash flood in Bukit Timah has not dampened the property prices in the area. Some owners of the...

Although Burma's military regime has announced no election law nor declared the date of the poll it plans to hold in 2010, preparations appear to have begun in Naypyidaw. Informed sources suggest that potential candidates for president, vice-president, commander-in-chief of...