1.   Icelanders love to boast of how their beloved island republic marches in the front rank of modern times.

2.   Over ush is expected to decide whether to supply advanced military hardware to Taiwan, an island republic Beijing considers a renegade province.

3.   Why would they care about the higher education of a young man from an island republic in the Indian Ocean?

4.   Pfizer earlier agreed to comply with Health Ministry conditions for the sale of the drug in the tightly-regulated island republic.

5.   A growing body of recent economic data suggest the island republic may enter a recession sometime this year.

6.   A Malaysian minister also accused Singapore of excluding his country from a list of tourist destinations, an allegation rejected by the island republic.

7.   A Vietnamese crewman was killed when a Kiribati patrol ship fired on a South Korean tuna boat in waters off the central Pacific island republic, officials said Saturday.

8.   A senior North Korean official is scheduled to make a rare visit to this island republic, the Singapore government said in a statement issued Sunday.

9.   All radio broadcasters in Singapore are directly or indirectly affiliated with the government, though the British Broadcasting Corp. maintains a local transmitter in the island republic.

10.   And the crowd in this modern, urbane, staunchly capitalist island republic just loves it.