Stressed Singaporeans crack down on thieving monkeys
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With monitor lizards, snakes, and bats prowling their parks, residents of tropical Singapore are no strangers to the occasional animal ambush.
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KUALA LUMPUR: It may be hip and a sign of the times, but the growing trend of circulating text messages on kidnap and abduction cases is making matters hard for police.  Different types of crime require different approaches.
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AMSTERDAM -- Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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Authorities in Puerto Rico are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys &#151; descendants of escaped research animals &#151; and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them.
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Breaking and entering, ransacking refrigerators, and defecating in posh homes, big monkeys are showing what can happen when civilization comes to the wild.
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An orang-utan chewed through her cage and went on a three-hour rampage at a Taiwan entertainment park until authorities subdued it with a stun gun, a park employee said on Thursday.
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GAUHATI, India - Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have attacked up to 300 children over three weeks, temple officials said Tuesday.
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People are becoming addicted to mobile phones, causing them to become stressed and irritable, psychologists say.
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Denver Zoo is taking steps to prevent a possible outbreak of plague after a monkey dies of the disease.
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Unscrupulous Filipino phone shops are cashing on recent stories about mobile phone viruses to flog worried punters services they don't need.
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The Singapore Zoo is looking for a  new home for its male polar bear and will no longer bring  animals from the North or South Poles to tropical Singapore, an  official said.
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Singapore is harnessing the power of SMS text messaging to fight an old scourge: bullying in schools.
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NEW YORK  - Zoo workers who come in close  contact with nonhuman primates, such as apes and monkeys, are  at increased risk for exposure to simian virus 40 (SV40),  suggest the results of a study of North American zoo workers.
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SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Reuters Life!) - Golden rat figurines and tasseled red lanterns are crammed into shophouse windows, and pre-recorded soundtracks of firecrackers echo off the walls.
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If there is a social problem in Singapore, expect the government to mount a campaign to fix it.
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The number of AIDS cases in Singapore has risen to record highs this year. The country wants to make it compulsory for pregnant women to have HIV/AIDS screening.
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A breed of &quot;self-radicalised individuals&quot; who absorbed militant ideas through the Internet have emerged as a new security threat to the city-state, Singapore's interior minister said in remarks published Saturday.