China coal trucks stuck in 120km traffic jam
The Business Times - September 02, 2010
...10,000 trucks mainly carrying coal are stuck in a 120km traffic jam in the northeastern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, in...and the neighbouring province of Hebei was now more like a car park. The jam started forming on Tuesday after traffic restrictions...

10,000 trucks stuck in jam
The Straits Times - September 02, 2010
...10,000 trucks mainly carrying coal are stuck in a 120 km traffic jam in the north-eastern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia...and the neighbouring province of Hebei was now more like a car park. The jam started forming on Tuesday after traffic restrictions...

Stagger office hours to ease traffic jams
The Straits Times - September 06, 2010
...Everyone is trying to get to work in time and leave work almost at the same time. If we can stagger our office hours, then the traffic jam will be reduced. If we encourage offices in different postal districts to stagger their opening hours by just five minutes...

India's rising car sales fuel congestion woes
The Straits Times - September 04, 2010
...brought home the message that no one escapes the country's growing traffic woes. In fact, last week's 10-day-long traffic jam in China became a cautionary tale, with newspapers here highlighting how India was headed for a similar fate. While road...

Disarm ETA permanently
The Straits Times - September 06, 2010
...provoking scorn among Spanish politicians who recalled that ETA abandoned a 'permanent ceasefire' in 2006 and bombed the car park of Madrid's airport in December of that year, killing two people. 'ETA has to renounce violence completely, forever...

In Brief
The Straits Times - September 06, 2010
...relate her ordeal in English, she said. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK New road to ease jams BEIJING: China's Transport Minister Li Shenglin has proposed building a new road near Beijing to ease bottlenecks on highways connecting the capital...

Road Safety Park now open to everyone
The Straits Times - September 04, 2010
...group for concern, gain tips on how to cross the road safely. Already, there have been 17 elderly pedestrians killed in road accidents in the first six months of this year, double the number over the same period last year. Over the whole of last year...

10 killed in truck-bus crash
The Straits Times - September 03, 2010
...report said. China's roads are among the most dangerous in the world, with traffic laws widely flouted. Almost 70,000 people died in road accidents in 2009, or around 190 fatalities a day, according to police statistics. -- AFP.

Park now open to public
The Straits Times - September 03, 2010
...opened in 1981, the 3.8-hectare facility at East Coast park (ECP) has been used largely to teach road safety to students, allowing...NParks Assistant Director (Coastal Parks) Bernard Lim said that ECP is the most popular park in Singapore, with a growing number...

7 years, 24 strokes for carjacker
The Straits Times - September 03, 2010
...three victims had followed his orders, the robbery at the car park at Potong Pasir Avenue 1 at 10pm on July 30 did not go according...moving car. Police found her white Proton Perodua Kenari in a car park in Serangoon Central at 10am the next morning. Through fingerprints...