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1)  Singapore: Former television presenter Shankar Aiyar is found guilty of outraging the modesty of a 30-year-old woman. District judge describes Shankar as a "hunting wolf" in "sheep's clothing". (00:03:03)

2)  Hong Kong: Canto pop singer Anita Mui lost her fight against cervical cancer and died of lung failure this morning. (00:05:29)

3)  Singapore minute: Queues formed as people lined up in the second last day for Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS). Those who do not top up their Central Provident Fund (CPF) with S$50 will miss out on S$200 worth of ERS meant to help Singaporeans offset the increase in the Goods & Services Tax (GST) (00:08:42)

4)  Singapore minute: Preparations are underway for the New Year Countdown party at Sentosa's Tanjung Beach. 15 000 people are expected to turn up. The party will last till 6am. (00:09:11)

5)  Singapore: RSS Courageous trainee officer piloting the ship said she realised a collision was imminent 30 seconds before it happened. Lieutenant Chua said that was not the reason for not alerting the commanding officer earlier. (00:09:44)

6)  China: Confusion over the status of a suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) case. Guangdong authorities say the test is positive but the country's Ministry of Health has yet to give a formal confirmation. The patient is currently quarantined in a hospital in Guangzhou. (00:14:25)

7)  Taiwan: A Taiwan researcher who contracted SARS in a lab is out of hospital. Taiwan plans to downgrade its SARS alert level but will continue fever screening of visitors till mid-February to prevent imported cases. (00:15:00)

8)  Thailand: Hundreds of Thai military officers paid respects to two soldiers killed in a car bomb attack at a coalition camp in Iraq. The bodies were brought back to Bangkok. Public sentiment is divided over deploying troops to Iraq. (00:16:30)

9)  World minute: United States (US) is getting tough on foreign airlines flying into the country by planting armed police on board international flights with potential terrorist threats. Some carriers have expressed concerned over having fire arms on board planes. (00:17:26)

10)  World minute: Chinese researches warned of the danger of using chopsticks where users are vulnerable to repetitive strained injury leading to osteoarthritis. (00:17:57)

11)  Business: Five people have fallen victim to an email scam from Nigeria. DBS Bank has to deal with the phishing scam in Hong Kong while United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Citibank have sounded similar warnings. (00:18:43)

12)  Business: StarHub is putting off its digital television launch till next year. The venture is worth S$27 million. (00:19:31)

13)  Sports: In English Premier League (EPL) action, Arsenal beat Southampton 1-0. (00:23:36)

14)  Sports: Footballer Baggio plans to retire at the end of the season. (00:24:46)

15)  Sports: In National Basketball Association (NBA) action, Detroit Pistons beat New Orleans 108-99. (00:25:23)

16)  Sports: 14 states in the United States recognized cheerleading as a sport. (00:26:20)

17)  World: Singapore looks back at the news of 2003 - United States (US) President George Bush who flew in top gun style onto USS Lincoln to tell the world the combat operations in Iraq have ended, which critics slammed as a television campaign; David Blaine being locked in a glass box for 44 days without food; a terrorist prisoner who disappeared from a top security Philippine prison where the jailbreak was as easy as unlatching a gate; massive crowds who answered calls to an anonymous email to act like lunatics in public; Prince Charles' aide who came up to deny allegations that incredulously cannot be revealed; Saddam's Information Minister's denials in bravado. Donald Rumsfeld was the winner of "foot in mouth" prize with his confusing speech. (00:27:02)