A Singapore man who may have been exposed to the SARS virus will appear in court – on a video screen – to face charges that he broke home quarantine orders, a police spokesman said today.

BEIJING’S SARS outbreak remains severe and hospitals handling the disease don’t have room for all suspected cases, the city’s new mayor said yesterday, adding that the first 195 patients were being moved into a new isolation unit.

SINGAPORE authorities said yesterday it was too early to say its outbreak of the deadly SARS virus had peaked, and braced the nation for higher unemployment as visitor arrivals plunged and a major regional airline fired staff.

If authorities in Singapore think you have been exposed to Sars, you will be ordered to stay at home, monitored with a camera and maybe tagged with an electronic wrist band.

Deaths worldwide from severe acute respiratory syndrome reached at least 100 today, as the main casualty China revealed that fatalities have been much more widespread than it had previously reported.

THE man police say confessed to carrying out the Bali nightclub bombing has admitted to being associated with al-Qaida’s South-East Asian terror chief, Indonesian police said yesterday.

Parents and government officials in Singapore are voicing concern over what they say is increasing indolence among the country’s pampered teenagers.

Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party today won the general election with 75.29% of the vote.