Singapore  - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit may have to be rescheduled from the February 24-26 date set in Jakarta last week, The Sunday Times reported, citing Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo.

"I thought we had settled it in Jakarta a few days ago, but now I'm told that there are some leaders who can't make it," Yeo was quoted as saying.

Singapore  - A Singapore Community Court has postponed jail sentencing on a 48-year old woman who suffers from the eating disorder bulimia, reported the Straits Times Saturday.

Yeow Cheng Chiam, who had been convicted of food theft nine times since 1986, was being given a year to see how she responds to treatment for her eating disorder.

Yeow was arrested for stealing food May 10, just two months after she was released from a five-year term of corrective training for repeat offenders, according to the daily report.

Singapore  - The World Bank and Singapore signed an agreement Thursday to set up an urban hub in the city-state to provide and facilitate advice and technical assistance to developing countries on urban management, water and resource management, city financing and urban design.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick and Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo signed the agreement, under which the two sides said they would collaborate to meet growing demand from developing countries for technical advice, especially on urban management.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police busted two drug syndicates believed to be helmed by Singaporeans with the seizure of drugs worth about 1.5 million ringgit (434,783 dollars) and the arrest of 13 suspects, news reports said Thursday.

Two raids conducted by police Tuesday night in the southern state of Johor resulted in the seizure of 26 kilograms of drugs, including ketamine; nimetazepam pills, also known as Erimin 5; methamphetamines; and ecstasy.

The suspects, including two accused Singaporean masterminds, were aged 20 to 66 and were believed to be part of the syndicates that have been in operation for the past six months, acting state police chief Hisan Tun Hamzah said.

Singapore - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Wednesday congratulated Abhisit Vejjajiva on being appointed Thailand's new prime minister, and urged the need to discuss the global financial crisis at the upcoming summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

"There is much that we need to discuss at the ASEAN summit, particularly given the financial crisis that has affected the world. I am heartened that you have said that you favour an early summit," said Lee in a congratulatory letter.

Singapore  - Singapore's non-oil exports declined 17 per cent in November from the same month a year earlier because of declining demand in Europe, the United States and China, the government's trade-promotion agency said Wednesday.

The drop was the most in six years and was greater than the 15-per-cent dip recorded in October by International Enterprise Singapore.

On a month-on-month, seasonally adjusted basis, non-oil exports declined by 2.8 per cent in November after the previous month's 7.5-per-cent decrease, the agency said.

Total exports, including oil, fell 11.8 per cent, it said.