A 2.2% rally on the shares of Laiki Bank helped lift the CSE GENX to a new record close on Friday, with volume on the Bank’s shares passing above the CYP 1 mln for the first time in more than four years. Laiki Bank shares powered to a record close of CYP 2.33 on Friday

The number of group suicides organized through the Internet hit a record high 91 deaths in Japan last year, up from 55 deaths the previous year, according to a National Police Agency survey. The number of group suicides and related deaths almost tripled from 2003, the first year the agency kept records on the phenomenon.

A biometric database enabled authorities to arrest 1,600 immigration offenders at Singapore checkpoints last year, a 167% increase from 2004, officials said Wednesday. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said the system captures the biometric details of former offenders who had previously been arrested in the city-state and repatriated back to their home countries. Only

A method of compressing huge medical images so they can be transmitted accurately, quickly and inexpensively via the internet has been developed in Singapore. “This is a brand new, paradigm-shifting technology,” The Business Times quoted MatrixView Managing Director Ravindran Govindan as saying. “It manages to squeeze images to such a small size that they can