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Switched Thai twins to remain with parents who raised them: repor
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Switched twins not to reverse the swap

THAILAND: A hospital mix-up involving twin girls who were
separated at birth by accident 16 years ago has been resolved,
with the families agreeing not to reverse the swap, reports said
on Sunday.

In a case that has captivated the Thai media this week,
Bangkok mother Supansa Pornprakhun discovered recently that one
of the "twin" daughters she had raised was not her biological
child.

The real twin had been switched with an unrelated girl at Hua
Chiew Hospital and taken home by another family.

The mistake was uncovered when a resemblance between the
identical sisters was noticed by an acquaintance of both the
girls, who study at different private schools in the Thai
capital.

In a statement read out by a school spokeswoman, the two
families said they had agreed to continue raising their
respective children as they had done since their birth. --AFP

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Singapore converts six-lane highway into emergency runway
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S'pore converts highway into runway

SINGAPORE: Singapore's military vacuumed bits of debris from a
six-lane highway and landed more than a dozen military aircraft
on the clean stretch of road on Sunday in a test exercise.

Land-scarce Singapore has decided to make it possible for the
highway, known as Lim Chu Kang road, to be quickly converted into
an emergency runway, according to a statement from the Ministry
of Defense.

Four F-16s, four A-5s and one E-2C aircraft executed a total
of 20 takeoffs, landings and "touch-and-gos" on the road within a
span of 18 minutes, the statement said.

This is the fifth time since 1986 that Singapore has used
public roads for landing strips during military exercises. --AP