FuN LivINg Lifestyle

It’s Day 3 of the annual MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge 2009 at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza. As at 11.50pm, only 30 contestants – 10 of whom were women – remained standing. Regional competition was down to just three men from Thailand. Some contestants were spotted encouraging one another in the wet weather yesterday, while others looked to their family members and friends for support. It remains to be seen who will drive away with the $81,000 prize. KOH MUI FONG

SINGAPORE – Malaysia Cup legend Dollah Kassim suffered a heart attack after playing in a veterans game in the Sultan of Selangor’s Cup on Oct 4, and the 60-year-old is still unconscious at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

SINGAPORE – It may have been a key ingredient in pulling Singapore out of its deepest economic slump ever, but the Government’s $20.5-billion Resilience Package would not have worked if other key stakeholders did not come together, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday.

SINGAPORE – From familiar squabbles among neighbours, to a new source of tension as more immigrants populate the heartlands – such issues will be tackled by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) as it moves beyond its main role as provider of affordable public housing.

WASHINGTON – The United States Federal Reserve is not expected to raise key interest rates this week or unwind emergency support as the world’s largest economy begins to claw out from its worst recession in more than seven decades, analysts say.

RAWALPINDI – Pakistan was hit by two separate suicide attacks yesterday, which killed 35 people and injured seven others.

President Hamid Karzai’s leadership is weak, his government corrupt, and nearly a third of the votes he won in the August election were thrown out as fakes. But in the end, the Obama administration is sticking by the Afghan President because it has few other good options.

MUCH has been written about the plight of abused maids – the latest being the reports about a woman who scalded her maid and pulled her teeth out. But what of the anguish suffered by elderly employers at the hands of maids from hell and their unscrupulous agents?