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There were no reports of flooding on Thursday, despite rain falling in many parts of Singapore for most of the day, reported the Straits Times. But with heavy rainstorms forecast for the next few days, the authorities are bracing themselves for floods over the weekend. National water agency PUB told The Straits Times on Thursday... 

BEIJING - THE Chinese government has sacked two officials and suspended relocation work after up to 1,000 people protested in a wealthy eastern province last week, angry at compensation for land seizures, state media said. The protests lasted for four days in part of Suzhou, a manufacturing hub close to Shanghai in the eastern... 

An ‘optimum’ population', in dictionary terms, is the ‘best or most favourable’ population. But a dictionary cannot tell the whole story. Best for what purpose, and best according to which criteria? For OPT, a green think tank, an optimum population means, at its simplest, a population size which is environmentally sustainable...