The Straits Times, 21 February 2006

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  • 651 1  - S'pore pitch to replace Asian Aerospace takes flight Alexis Hooi Exhibitors already signing up for 2008 show; more than 50% of space taken up By EVEN as the last Asian Aerospace air show here opens today, the jostling to replace the world's thirdbiggest aviation event has begun. Singapore kicked off
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  • 610 1  - Govt's $2.6 b payout: You will know how much you get late next month Lydia Lim By Senior Political Correspondent Key dates From today to April 1 Workers with no CPF to declare income for Workfare Bonus April 1 to April 25: Sign up for Progress Package May 1: Singaporeans
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  • UPFORNT
    • 1144 1  -  Leong Weng Kam By Senior Correspondent MORE THAN DYNAMIC "He is not only dynamic, he has also shown great commitment to the community. He can be just home from a business trip m Europe m the morning, and m the afternoon, he is ready
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  • IN A FLASH
    • 12 2 Prime 3-4 Asia 6-14 World 15-19 Review 20-22 FYI 23
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    • 24 2 Home Hl-H8 Forum HlO Sports Hll-Hl4 Obituaries Hl5 Money Hl6-H22 LIFE! Buzz L2,L16 Travel L6— L7 Events &TV LI 4— LI 5
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    • 43 2 Snap polls Thai Prime Minister may dissolve parliament and call a snap election if pressure on him to resign increases. PAGE 6 Japanese overture Japan makes an effort to defuse its row with China by calling for greater economic cooperation. PAGE 9
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    • 43 2 Israeli squeeze The new Palestinian government faces a cash crunch as Israel stops all transfers of tax money. PAGE 15 Mystery big winner The winner of the largest US lottery jackpot ever US$365 million has yet to collect his prize. PAGE 18
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    • 19 2 Fragile racial unity Racial unity is eluding Malaysia as society is increasingly pulled towards ethnic ties. PAGE 20
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    • 69 2 Casino ban Many gambling addicts back the Government's plan to keep casinos out of their reach. PAGEH2 PA revamping image The People's Association wants to shed its low-class and heartlander image and raise service standards. PAGE H5 Blast off from Chang i A US company, giving details of its
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    • 46 2 Reward housewives Reader urges the Government to include housewives, who work tirelessly all year round, when doling out goodies. PAGE HlO Affordable medicine Reader laments the high cost of medicine for her child, which is contrary to the Health Minister's pledge for affordable medicine. PAGEHIO
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    • 28 2 Players axed Goh Tat Chuan and Masrezwan Masturi have been dropped from the Singapore soccer team to face Iraq tomorrow because they broke the team curfew. PAGEHI2
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    • 46 2 IPO rebound The IPO market is making a turnaround and the positive sentiment is likely to continue, say managers of new listings. PAGE H22 SembLog shares up News of Australian freight firm Toll Holdings' interest m SembCorp Industries sent its share price surging. PAGE H22
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  • PRIME
    • 644 3  -  Salim Osman 40 cases of disease detected; impact on supply here 'negligible' By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta Reme Ahmad Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE yesterday suspended poultry and egg imports from Selangor because of bird flu cases m the Malaysian state. But
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    • 539 3  - Woman wins appeal to use tycoon Oei's driveway Selina Lum By A WOMAN who took a millionaire neighbour to court over the use of a driveway finally got her way yesterday. Gynaecologist Theresa Cheng-Wong went up against business tycoon Oei Hong Leong when she wanted to buy an $11.9 million
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    • 617 4  -  Karamjit Kaur In hard-hitting letter, he calls on its govt to stop protecting Qantas on transpacific route By Aviation Correspondent DONT SHY AWAY FROM COMPETITON "The management (of Qantas) could face competition with the same confidence they exude at presentations to
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    • 506 4  -  Salma Khalik By Health Correspondent PHOTO: IT STARTED out as just a pain m his left eye, but within three weeks, Jermaine Tan, 19, needed a cornea transplant to save his sight. The polytechnic student was one of 10 contact-lens
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    • 276 4 Going places I J From airports to shopping malls, Singapore architects are clinching big jobs m Asia. Read about the people who are helping to change the region's skyline. I Granny power She's 80 and still looks after disabled family Kampungl power Neighbours pitch m with foody free haircuts and
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  • ASIA
    • 695 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh He tells Cabinet he would rather dissolve Parliament than step down as Premier By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told his Cabinet he may dissolve Parliament and call a snap election if pressure on him to resign increases, his spokesman
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    • 348 6 Palace blast A trash can explodes at the Philippine presidential palace, prompting officers to boost already tight security. PAGE 14 www.nfrj sj weputthetUHin i mmm wmmm HHiH I My |Cnr JOHN TAN KW Me Jm *A^H One-stop learning, non-stop fun! School's out, holidays arc m! SAFRAToa Payoh has lined up
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  • CHINA
    • 87 8 Dogs and their owners enjoying a meal together at the Coolbaby Pet Restaurant m Beijing. This is the first restaurant designed specially for dogs m the Chinese capital. The dishes for the pets are based on nutritional science and are tailored for dogs of different
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    • 537 8 From power shortage to excess supply Reason: China's overinvestment m power plants coupled with slowing demand Beijing CHINA expects its seemingly perennial energy shortages to end this year, but it risks facing the opposite problem of having too much power generating capacity, state media and analysts said yesterday. The elimination
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    • 262 8 Shanghai WHEN a new school term starts, students get new uniforms, shoes, books and for some young students m Shanghai a new name. Parents are changing their children's names m the hope that they will enjoy good luck, improve their grades or drop bad
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 427 9 They visit Beijing for talks and back off from allegations on envoy's suicide Beijing JAPAN'S efforts to defuse its row with China inched ahead yesterday with a visiting Japanese lawmaker calling for expanded trade ties and the trade and industry minister due
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    • 226 9 Korean trio move to disputed isles Seoul A SOUTH Korean fisherman, his wife and a crew member have taken up residence on a set of desolate islets at the centre of a territorial dispute between Seoul and Tokyo, officials said yesterday. The dispute over the islands, called Dokdo m South
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    • 94 9 Ten-month-old Chinese baby Zhang Gengchun was the centre of attention m hospital recently after surviving his first month after receiving a new heart m December last year. Gengchun, who suffered from a congenital condition, was the first Chinese child less than 12 months old to undergo a
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    • 301 9 Seoul FORMER South Korean president Kirn Dae Jung has postponed a trip to Pyongyang m April to avoid any suggestion that it could influence the outcome of local elections m May, his aide said yesterday. Mr Kirn, who visited North Korea for a
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 88 9 BEIJING: A central Chinese city has become the first m the country to provide health insurance to all farmers m its district, with the model to be expanded to other regions, state press said yesterday. Under the pilot project, 4.5 million farmers m Zhengzhou, the
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      • 64 9 SEOUL: South Korea's air force yesterday said it will not permit construction of what would have been the country's tallest building because the proposed 555 m structure could interfere with flight routes. Lotte Group had been looking to build a 112-storey structure as part of the
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      • 108 9 DENPASAR: Two Australians sentenced to death for heroin trafficking on Bali and seven others handed life terms for their role m the ring have all filed appeals. Lawyer Mohammad Rifan said that he had lodged appeals for Andrew Chan, 22, and Myuran Sukumaran, 24, who
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      • 73 9 KUALA LUMPUR: Nine Indonesians were jailed for seven years for a pirate attack on a Malaysian-owned tanker, local media said yesterday. The Sessions Court on Sunday sentenced the group for attacking the Nepline Delima tanker off the northern resort island of Langkawi m the Malacca
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      • 70 9 BANGKOK: Thailand has sent its ambassador m Kenya to Nigeria to help two Thai oil workers kidnapped by militants there and is seeking assistance from the United States, Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon said yesterday. The militants have threatened a new round of attacks on
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      • 55 9 JAKARTA: An Indonesian court yesterday acquitted the former CEO and two other ex-directors of Indonesia's biggest bank m a trial that has been a key symbol of the war on graft. Chief Judge Gatot Suharnoto told the South Jakarta court that the prosecution did not
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      • 41 9 JAKARTA: A district legislator m Indonesia, infuriated by what he believed was his wife's infidelity, forced her to chop off her little finger. She complied, presenting it to him m a blood-filled cup. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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  • BIRD FLU CRISIS
    • 519 11 ALARM over rapid spread of bird flu Experts are puzzled by sudden increase m speed and spread of virus Rome THE sudden appearance of bird flu over the weekend m widely separated countries India, Egypt and France has sparked alarm about the speed at which the disease appears to be
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    • 493 11  -  P. Jayaram By India Correspondent In New Delhi CHICKEN kebabs were on the menu when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted lunch m honour of former US president Bill Clinton, who is on a personal visit to the country, to send a signal that
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    • 72 11 KATHMANDU: Nepal banned poultry imports from India yesterday after its southern neighbour reported its first outbreak of bird flu m chickens. Mr Dhana Raj Ratala, director of the Agriculture Ministry, said 24 quarantine posts on Nepal's border with India were on high alert to bar
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    • 68 11 COLOMBO: Sri Lankan health officials said yesterday the country was at high risk of a bird flu outbreak and fell short on preventive resources. Mr S.K.R. Amarasekara, chief of the animal production and health department, attributed the risk to migratory birds from western India and
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    • 59 11 LONDON: Tests for bird flu were to be carried out on nine swans m Britain yesterday as the government insisted it had contingency plans m place to deal with any outbreak. The birds were found at the weekend across England and reported by members of
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    • 89 11 DAR ES SALAAM (Tanzania): Bird flu posed a major threat to Africa's fight against Aids, the United Nations' Aids chief has said. A human outbreak of bird flu m Africa would challenge overburdened health-care systems, Mr Peter Piot of UNAids said here at the weekend. "We are
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    • 82 11 ST LOUIS (Missouri): Humans risk being overrun by diseases from the animal world, said researchers who have studied 38 such illnesses. Animals have more than 800 pathogens that can infect humans, Mr Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh told a meeting of the American Association
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 532 12  -  Ravi Velloor But signing of trade pacts is marred by Chirac's criticism of Arcelor bid By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi FRANCE and India yesterday agreed to build on their growing ties by cooperating m civilian nuclear energy, an area of vital
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    • 548 12  -  Tracy Quek By China Correspondent In Beijing VISITING Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday expressed regret to Beijing over the murder of three Chinese engineers m Pakistan, saying the killings brought shame on his country. General Musharraf, who arrived m Beijing on Sunday for
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    • 318 12 Bangalore OVER the last few years, India's information technology capital Bangalore has become notorious for its potholed roads and crumbling infrastructure. Away from the heart of the city, asphalt roads turn into muddy stretches. Huge holes make driving hazardous and damage vehicles. So when the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 638 13 High-tech gear detects sounds from school buried in mud It is unclear if the noise came from survivors or unstable mud that is shifting and settling Guinsaugon (Philippines) RESCUE workers using high-tech gear said yesterday they had detected sounds at the site of a Philippine school buried by a landslide.
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    • 473 13 Singapore sends humanitarian aid THE Singapore Government has sent humanitarian relief supplies to the Philippines m response to the devastation caused by the landslides m Southern Leyte, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said m a press statement yesterday. These supplies include medicine, food,
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    • 440 13 Guinsaugon HIS chubby frame half buried m the thick mud, Las Vegas car salesman Norman Barrister is waging a desperate personal search for 10 members of his family buried alive by a Philippine landslide. After sneaking past army rescue personnel before dawn yesterday, 35-year-old
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA/MALAYSIA
    • 507 14  -  Azhar Ghani By Indonesia Bureau Chief In lakarta INDONESIA has the resources to succeed but could speed up the process by learning from the success of countries like China, India and even Vietnam, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. Mr Lee
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    • 230 14 Penang FORMER Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denied his government had paid US$l.2 million (Ss2 million) to American lobbyist Jack Abramoff to arrange his meeting with US President George W. Bush m May 2002. Dr Mahathir said the meeting with Mr Bush
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    • 372 14 Two groups made up of military officers claim responsibility for palace explosion Manila A TRASH can exploded on the grounds of the Philippine presidential palace yesterday, causing no injuries but prompting a massive security clampdown amid intensifying rumours of a coup. The commander of
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    • 409 14 Hanoi POLICE have asked prosecutors for permission to investigate suspected fraud involving a Singaporean company that operates more than a dozen English-language schools m Vietnam, state-controlled media reported yesterday. The People's Police newspaper quoted an unidentified official from the Ministry of
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  • WORLD
    • 477 15 As Hamas faces cash crunch WE DONT NEED THE WEST "The West is always using its donations to apply pressure on the Palestinian people. We have other Arab and Islamic countries and members of the international community who are ready to stand next to the Palestinian people." MR ISMAIL HANIYEH
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    • 364 15 Muslim nations set to offer aid The OIC and Arab League plan to channel funds to Palestinians PUTRAJAYA THE Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League are drawing up plans to provide institutional and financial aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. "We will (provide funding). I have
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    • 652 16 Moscow vows to do everything possible, but Teheran takes tough line Moscow RUSSIA expressed limited hope yesterday as it began talks with Iranian officials on an offer to enrich uranium for Teheran. The talks are seen as a final opportunity for
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    • 320 16 Cairo OSAMA bin Laden vowed never to be captured alive and said the US military had become as "barbaric" as Saddam Hussein m an audiotape posted on a militant website. The tape was the same as a recording first broadcast on
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 105 16 PARIS: French police have broken up a people smuggling network that enabled some 70 illegal Chinese immigrants to reach Britain over the past few months, officials said yesterday. Seven gang members including the owners of two Chinese restaurants were arrested m Paris and Lyon, and 10
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      • 111 16 BAGHDAD: The US Ambassador to Iraq warned Iraqi politicians yesterday that they risk a loss of American support if they do not establish a genuine national unity government, saying the United States will not invest its resources m institutions run by sectarians. US
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      • 104 16 DAMASCUS: Syria lashed out at the United States on Sunday over its plans to allocate US$5 million (SsB million) to the Syrian opposition, which it announced last week. "This is meddling m Syria's internal affairs, and we reject it," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem
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      • 99 16 LAGOS: Militants holding nine foreign hostages m southern Nigeria said they attacked another oil facility yesterday and blew up a military vessel m ongoing violence that has cut about 20 per cent of crude production m Africa's oil giant. The Movement for the Emancipation
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    • 693 17 Danish leaders blame violence on extremism and lack of integration COPENHAGEN EXTREMIST FORCES BEHIND PROTESTS "It's the extremist forces that wish to keep it going. There is no doubt that all extremists will exploit the situation. Al-Qaeda, too, will use it to fan the
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    • 411 17  -  Zakir Hussain By THE Danish Ambassador to Singapore, Mr Klavs Holm, held a closed-door meeting with representatives of several Muslim organisations yesterday. During the session, both sides explained their positions on the row over the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. Mr Holm initiated the
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    • 341 17 Brussels IRANIAN Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday called for an end to the violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. "We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence," he said. His call appeared to go unheeded. In
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    • 323 17 LONDON THE reputation of David Irving, the Holocaustdenying historian, was shattered at a libel trial six years ago to the delight of those disgusted by his revisionism. But as Europe proudly flexes its freedom of speech credentials m the ongoing row over car-
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    • 393 18 One winning ticket sold at Nebraska store for record US lottery jackpot Lincoln (Nebraska) SOMEONE, somewhere holds the only winning ticket for the largest US lottery jackpot ever US$365 million (Sss9o million). But the winner is unlikely to rush forward, lottery officials
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    • 357 18  -  Roger Maynard By Australia Correspondent In Sydney A BRITISH millionaire has launched a revolutionary drugfree treatment for attention deficit disorder (ADD). Businessman Wynford Dore, who opened a Dore centre m Sydney, Australia, last week, said the treatment is based on a unique exercise technique
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 202 18 Summers' Harvard days numbered? HARVARD University president Lawrence Summers, who has clashed with faculty over his management style, may be on the way out, as the governing board of the institution considers calls for his resignation. The New York Times and Boston Globe, following a Wall Street Journal story, reported
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      • 168 18 US PRESIDENT George W. Bush had to press his deputy Dick Cheney to talk publicly about a hunting accident that caused a new White House controversy last week, Time magazine reported. He told him that it was time to end the furore over the delay m
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      • 186 18 A BRITISH resident of Hong Kong pleaded not guilty yesterday to causing a public nuisance by dressing up as Spider-Man and scaling a giant TV screen to protest against Beijing's 1989 crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrators m Tiananmen Square. A massive crowd gathered and traffic was disrupted
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    • 537 19  -  Susan Sachs Courts stop aircraft carrier Clemenceau from being sent to an Indian scrapyard By For The Straits Times In Paris ONCE an object of Gallic glory, the strange odyssey of aircraft carrier Clemenceau has become a matter of international embarrassment
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    • 191 19 St Louis (Missouri) US ASTRONOMERS have shortlisted five stars m the Milky Way as the most likely to support extraterrestrial life. They were chosen based on a number of criteria, including size, composition, age and col- our, that would make
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    • 502 15 "RISK ASSESSMENT TRAINING" SEMINAR The Workplace Safety and Health Act (WSHA) which will come into effect on 1 March 2006 is the key legal instrument impacting the principles of the new Occupational Safety Health framework. This seminar will focus on Proper Risk Assessment Training required as part of the new
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    • 386 20 THE new Budget's demonstration effect on the Government's concern about disadvantaged citizens is best appreciated m the bottom line. But for the $2.6 billion m giveaways to poorer Singaporeans and NSmen the Budget would roughly be m balance, not seriously worse than the modest surplus
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    • 1183 20  -  Wan Hamidi hamid By HE IS one of the few who can lay claim to being an active member of the prospective, but elusive, Bangsa Malaysia. Coming from rural Teluk Intan, he is fluent m Bahasa Malaysia, loves P. Ramlee songs, is married to an
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    • 879 20  -  Eileen Ng R. Sonia REACTIONS TO KHOO'S COMMENTS By Minister m the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili: I disagree with Professor Khoo's statements. The tolerance level and maturity among Malaysians have increased, although sensitivity about certain issues remains high. In a multiracial society,
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    • 1113 21  -  Richard Halloran AMERICA CHIN A TIES Increased visits between the Chinese and American militaries help both sides understand each other By For The Straits Times The writer, formerly with The New York Times as a foreign correspondent m Asia and military correspondent m Washington, writes from
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    • 1418 22 Implanting democracy m a foreign land is no guarantee of security, and may unleash revolutionary forces that prove counter to America's interests, said Republican Congressman Henry Hyde m a speech on Jan 26. He is chairman of the House International Relations Committee There is
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    • 34 1 HOME Paralysed man sues LTA Man paralysed after he cycled into a barrier on a bridge has filed a lawsuit against the Land Transport Authority. PAGE H7 THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2006
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    • 748 1  -  Lee Hui Chieh Judith Tan First test shows ReNu safe for use; firm's chief doctor flies here from US to help m probe By FACTORY samples from one batch of the contact lens solution ReNu sold to consumers here have been
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    • 476 2  -  Krist Boo Many at 'gamblers anonymous 1 meeting accept ban but say it won't stop them By GAMBLING addict John (not his real name) will be thankful if he is barred from the casinos, even if the ban is initiated by a family member.
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    • 821 2 In Las Vegas, there are no avenues for families to have their loved ones banned from casinos. Instead, the community colleagues, friends and community workers intervenes to help gambling addicts quit The executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, Ms Carol O'Hare, tells Krist 800
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    • 324 2 MS CAROL O'Hare, the jvoman leading a battle against gambling addiction m Nevada, once could not stop herself from gambling. From bars to pubs and even laundromats, the divorced mother of three was betting on video poker and any gaming machine she could find. Speaking to
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    • 755 5  -  Li Xueying It wants to be known for more than heartlander activities and aims to raise service standards By ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT "There have been a few cases when people sign up for courses and we need a minimum number to start... What
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    • 301 5 FOR two hours yesterday, nightspot Zouk was transformed into a riotous Chinese New Year scene. Better known for its wild parties for the hip and the young, Zouk sets aside one day each year to host a lunch party for poor and elderly
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    • 519 5  - Join PAP? grassroots eaders, says Kan Seng LI XUEYING THE PA is not the PAP, and grassroots leaders are under no compulsion to join the ruling party. That, m a nutshell, is Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng's response to those who see the People's Association as an appendage of
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    • 546 5  -  Bryan Lee NEW BROADBAND NETWORK By Telecoms Correspondent A SPANKING new ultra-fast national broadband network may be sweet music to the ears of Internet users but it could sound the Last Post for the cosy duopoly enjoyed by Sing Tel and Star Hub. The new
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    • ASIAN AEROSPACE 2006
      • 718 6  -  Karamjit Kaur Fares on Air India's low-cost arm likely to be 20-25% lower than market rate By Aviation Correspondent TRAVELLERS can look forward to lower fares when Air India's budget arm, Air India Express, starts flying between Singapore and Chennai soon. Jetstar Asia now
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      • 724 6  - S'pore firm makes big bang with 40mm ammo Goh Chin Lian By On show: Developed-in-S'pore defence gadgets NEW locally developed defence gadgets on display at Asian Aerospace 2006 include: Mini all-terrain vehicle: The one-man 4x4 vehicle can reach speeds of 90kmh and can be transported by planes and helicopters. It
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      • FLY PAST
        • 63 6 A WING of the Airbus 380 aircraft ruptured during a factory stress test last week but Singapore Airlines (SIA) the first carrier to fly the giant plane later this year is not concerned. SIA chief executive officer Chew Choon Seng said: "The information I have
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        • 102 6 SINGAPORE Airlines has not decided whether it will sell off its engineering and ground-han-dling subsidiaries, said chief executive officer Chew Choon Seng. Talk of a possible sale of Singapore Airport Terminal Services and SIA Engineering was sparked m December when Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said
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        • 91 6 THE International Air Transport Association (lata) has warned the global airline industry of the danger of overcapacity. New planes are more fuel-efficient and airlines need more capacity as markets such as India grow rapidly but the industry must be mindful of earlier periods when it found
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        • 53 6 A STREAM of top defence officials and air force commanders from 11 Asian countries called on Minister for Defence, Mr Teo Chee Hean, and Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Defence, Dr Ng Eng Hen, at the Defence Ministry yesterday. They are m town for
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        • 119 6 SBS bus services 9, 19 and 89 will skip bus stops m the high security area along Nicoll Drive, outside the Asian Aerospace show site, from today till Sunday. Commuters can board and alight at stops along Loyang Avenue, after Changi Golf Course, or Airline
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      • 585 6  -  David Boey By Defence Correspondent CYBER warriors battling the enemy over computer networks will be the "shock troops" of the future and they will go into action even before war is declared. Professor Lvi Pao Chuen, chief defence scientist at the Ministry
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    • CASE FILE
      • 122 7 THE Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed the appeals of two men sentenced to hang for their involvement m importing about $1.5 million worth of high-grade heroin into Singapore. Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 19, a Nigerian, wailed as he was led out of the dock. Okeke Nelson
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      • 79 7 MOHD Rizuan Ali, 34, was jailed for nine months yesterday for trying to steal a table from a rubbish collection centre last month. The nasi lemak seller wanted it to display his wares. He and two friends, Mohamad Said Johan, 17, and Juraimi
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      • 77 7 THREE Colombian men were charged yesterday with theft at the departure half of Changi Airport Terminal 1. Jose Alonso Betancurt Velasquez, 42, Luis Fernando Chapaarro, 45, and Orlando Sandoval Gonzalez, 48, are accused of stealing jewellery and a cellphone from Mr Satvinder Singh on Saturday.
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      • 44 7 A FAMILY returning from vacation found their Marsiling Road flat ransacked. They had left home last Tuesday. On Saturday, they found the living room window along the common corridor forced open. Jewellery, watches and cash worth about $5,000 were missing.
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    • 497 7  -  Selina Lum TAMPINES BICYCLE BARRIERS Claim estimates lifelong treatment to be $700,000 By A 40-YEAR-OLD father of two, paralysed from the neck down after he cycled into a barrier at a pedestrian bridge m Tampines, has filed a lawsuit against the Land Transport
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    • 452 8  -  Chua Kong Ho Sp ore Tourism Board supports $200 m project; Govt yet to grant approval By ALL-IN-ONE SPACE CENTRE TOURISTS may one day blast off into space from a launch pad at Changi if a $200 million proposal from a United States
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    • 103 8 SINGAPOREANS will have more reason to stay home come June: a new Internet TV service promises to pipe m 40 more channels, and Sing Tel might also use its broadband network to offer more pay-TV fare. In today's Digital Life, find out more about
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    • 658 8 TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTIONS PLAYING THE ELECTRONIC MAESTRO The technology that enables players to control a virtual orchestra with their motions may be used m thegames of tomorrow, by allowing them to navigate terrain and moving m 3D. This is how it is done: A music
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    • 96 8 Twelve National University of Singapore engineering undergraduates are racing for honours. They have built their own race car and plan to compete against about 140 vehicles designed by students from other universities. The race will be held m Michigan, United States m May. The Centennial 11,
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      • 244 10 Gan Siok Wah (Mdm) MY CHILD was sick, down with a bad cough, sore throat, runny nose and a slight fever on Feb 16. At 9pm, our family doctor had left so we went to another private clinic "Street 11 Clinic" at
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      • 545 10 REACTIONS TO BUDGET LIKE all Singaporeans, I read with interest how the surplus m Budget 2006 is going to be distributed. Like many, I laud the generosity of the Government m upholding the principle of embracing "the poor, the old and the vulnerable m
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      • 474 10 I REFER to the letter "mTouche wrongly charged $1 fee for SMS greeting" by the three telcos and other letters posted online on this issue. It is good to know the telecom operators have taken a serious look at this issue but why
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      • 256 10 AT ABOUT 9.20 am on Feb 13, a van arrived at the car park beside Bukit Batok nature reserve. A team of about six uniformed staff led by a plain-clothes officer rushed towards a few cars parked there. I got a shock
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      • 411 10 WE REFER to the letters "Are subsidised patients treated by specialists?" by Mr Henry Lim (ST, Feb 11) and "Doctor-patient link key to good health care" by Dr T. Thirumoorthy (ST, Feb 14). We assure the writers that our priority is to provide
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      • 120 10 I WELCOME the move to invest m our future generation with the Opportunity Fund for needy children m the Prime Minister's Budget speech. One significant reason why many needy students do not perform well m school is low basic literacy levels. These
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      • 172 10 WHILE we applaud the $2. 6 b help package announced by the Prime Minister m his Budget, there are still some grey areas where more could be done than just giving shortterm financial assistance. It has been announced that lower-income workers aged
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      • 168 10 I REFER to the requirement for the low-income payout m Budget 2006. It stated that the person eligible for the payout has to be with the current employer for at least six months. I am a mother of a 19--month-old toddler. I
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      • 815 11 SOCCER Striker says fans have not accepted him and he will make decision at end of the season Madrid JUST when it appeared that Real Madrid are back on the winning track, Ronaldo comes along to shatter the peaceful picture. On the eve or
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      • 541 11 Lisbon ROBBIE Fowler and every other Liverpool fan have taken great delight this season m taunting their Manchester United counterparts with the number five. While still a Manchester City player, Fowler chose to celebrate a goal m the Manchester derby with a five-fingered salute. He
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      • 425 11 Frankfurt COACH Felix Magath trusts the Bayern Munich medical department to perform another minor miracle by getting goalkeeper and captain Oliver Kahn fit for today's Champions League game against AC Milan. Kahn suffered a badly bruised thigh m Saturday's 1-1 league draw with Hanover 96
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      • 559 12  -  Marc Lim SOCCER Duo axed from team for not being m hotel room after curfew hour By Sports Correspondent GOH Tat Chuan and Masrezwan Masturi have been dropped from the Singapore squad ahead of tomorrow's Asian Cup qualifying round opener against Iraq. Masrezwan, who also quit
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      • 345 12  -  Marc Lim By GOH Tat Chuan and Masrezwan Masturi were wrong to break national team curfew on Sunday night. Both have acknowledged their wrongdoing. Both, rightly, had to be punished. But the manner m which the players left the Lions just before the team open
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      • 583 12 London CHELSEA versus Barcelona. Tomorrow's Champions League clash at Stamford Bridge is the match-up of the season. They are the best teams m Europe. Chelsea are a machine of ruthless efficiency, while Barcelona play attacking and creative football. The contrasting styles are likely to produce
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      • 697 12  -  Victor Ng WILD WEEKEND By TOTTENHAM Hotspur were missed m the FA Cup at the weekend, but it seems that the feeling was not mutual. There are more lofty priorities at White Hart Lane. While much of England was caught up with
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      • 140 12 CHELSEA will host Newcastle m the FA Cup quarter-finals, after the draw was made m London last night. Birmingham City will meet Liverpool. Charlton are at home to Middlesbrough. Aston Villa or Manchester City will host Bolton or West Ham. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is keen to add
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      • 394 12 Top Scorers 19 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 1 5 Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 13 Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Middlesbrough), Darren Bent (Charlton Athletic) 12 Marlon Harewood (West Ham United) 10 Hossam Ahmed Mido (Tottenham Hotspur), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) 9 Andy Cole (Manchester City}, Brian Mcßride (Fulham), Hernan
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      • 527 13  -  Alvin Foo BADMINTON Players have to train harder if Singapore are to become permanent Über Cup finalists, says SBA president By WE have progressed, but let us not get distracted by our Über Cup success. That was the caution sounded by Singapore Badminton Association
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      • 251 13 »GOLF Kuala Lumpur THAILAND'S Thongchai Jaidee made Asian golf history when he became the first player to surpass US$2 million (553.3 million) m career earnings. The former Thai paratrooper cemented his reputation as one of Asia's greatest players, taking his career haul to
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      • 297 13 Los Angeles RORY Sabbatini banished memories of a difficult last year with the third United States PGA Tour victory of his career at the Nissan Open on Sunday. The South African, who sparked controversy at last year's Booz Allen Classic by storming ahead
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      • 257 13  -  Alvin Foo COMMONWEALTH GAMES By SINGAPORE shooter Lee Wung Yew's impressive resume reads two Olympics, three Commonwealth Games, four Asian Games and 10 South-east Asia Games. Not surprisingly, he has been chosen as Singapore's flag-bearer for next month's Commonwealth Games. Said the Republic's chef
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    • 460 14 WINTER OLYMPICS But Austrian Mayer is sacked, even as lOC defends its role m raid on team camp Turin WALTER Mayer, the Austrian coach at the centre of the Winter Olympics drugs row, was released from police custody yesterday as the International Olympic Committee insisted that
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    • 71 14 Ex- Jamaican wins silver for Canada BELIEVE it, mon! A former Jamaican bobsledder is now an Olympic medallist Lascelles Brown, who pushed sleds for Jamaica from 1999 to 2004, helped Canada win a silver medal m two-man bobsledding on Sunday one month after switching nationalities. He is the second black
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    • 101 14 SPORTS WORLD MURRAY STUNS HEWITT, MAC MAKES WINNING COMEBACK SAN JOSE (California): British teenager Andrew Murray won his first title on the men's tennis tour as John McEnroe cjinched his 155 th at the SAP Open. The 18-year-old Murray, ranked 60th, beat llth-ranked LJeyton Hewitt 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3) for
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    • 224 14 CRICKET Fifth and final one-day international m Karachi: Pakistan 286-8 m 50 overs. India 287-2 m 46.5 overs. India won by eight wickets and five-match series 4-1. GOLF Nissan Open m Los Angeles, final rd: 271 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 67 65 67 72 272 Adam Scott (Aus) 68 71
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        472 14 LEONG AH SAM Age: 97 passed away peacefully on 19 Feb 2006, leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Bay Khye Hock, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Bay Peng Siang (Nancy Sim, deceased) (Bay Peng Kee, deceased) Chan Chor Huan Bay Kiat Siang Tan Poh Sim, Lucy Bay Scon Siang Ang Poh Choo Bay
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        480 14 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Tan Teng Huat Mr Tan Choon Huat on the demise of their beloved father TAN AH TECK Departed on 18 February 2006 From: The Management Staff of Wah Loon Electrical Engineering Pte Ltd With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Tan Teng Huat
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        264 15 VICTOR TEO KWEE WAI Age: 54 Passed away peacefully on 19 February 2006, dearly missed an< always remembered by loved ones. Father: (Teo Woo Seng, deceased Mother: Goh Siang Hiang Beloved wife: Peggy Soh Oi Wah Sons:Norvin Teo Hung Boon Kenneth Teo Hung Liang Goddaughter: Meredith Leong Shu Har Siblings
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        261 15 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to MR TAN TENG HUAT on the demise of his beloved father TAN AH TECK Departed on 18 February 2006 From: Your Golf Friends, Ann Tian Siong Anthony Choo Bond Lim Denis Doris White Jackson Tay Jimmy Lim Kelvin Tan Kuik Ah Han Lim Geok
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        189 15 In Loving Memory Of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat Departed 21.02.2004 Not only a Man of Success but a Man of Values Another year has passed and we still mourn your passing. You will always be our pillar of strength, our cornerstone and we will cherish your memory and celebrate
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    • 522 17 IBM set to announce new chip technology Latest technique for printing circuitry on silicon could save PC firm billions of dollars Los Angeles IBM was expected to announce yesterday that company scientists have developed a technique for printing circuitry on silicon that could make computer chips significantly more powerful while
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    • 434 17 SONY, the world's second-biggest consumer electronics maker, said a delay m sales of its Play Station 3 (PS3) video game console cannot be ruled out, after Merrill Lynch reported a postponement of as much as a year. "There is always a possibility
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    • 328 17 Oil prices ump as Nigerian attacks hit output OIL prices leapt more than US$l yesterday, after Nigerian militants crippled production and threatened more violence m the world's eighth-largest exporter. Royal Dutch Shell said on Sunday that it had shut 455,000 barrels per day (bpd) of production after rebels attacked an
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    • 31 17 Yesterday's close. 15,437.93 (-275.52 points) Japanese stocks closed 1 75 percent lower on continuing fears that foreign investors have lost interest m the market after recent gains. AFP
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    • 36 17 Yesterday's close: 1,267.54 (+0.13 points) Chinese stocks closed flat with the market unable to shake off last week's losses as strong gains m major petrochemical stocks were offset by weak power companies. AFP
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    • 32 17 Yesterday's close: 4,835.5 (+35.6 points) Australian stocks closed 0.74 percent higher as resources stocks gained ground on a rebound m metal prices and positive company earnings reports continued. AFP
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    • 35 17 Yesterday's close: 925.18 (-1.29 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.14 per cent lower because of a lack of fresh leads. The volume was 872.25 million shares worth RMI 03 billion (*****.3 million). AFP
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    • 32 17 Yesterday's close: 1,247.41 (+3.93 points) Indonesian stocks closed 0.32 percent higher, rising for the fourth straight trading day. as an extended rebound m blue chips offset broad-based selling. AFP
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    • 34 17 Yesterday's close: 734.65 (-4.7 points) Thai stocks closed 0.64 per cent lower as investors remained wary of the political uncertainty surrounding Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ahead of a weekend protest. AFP
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    • 454 18 Securities Commission validates bid by Bumiputra-Commerce as being lawful Kuala Lumpur SOUTHERN Bank, the ninth-larg-est of Malaysia's 10 banking groups, will comply with a takeover notice from bigger rival Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings after the regulator rejected a plea for invalidation. The Securities Commission asked
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    • 422 18 Foreign direct investment into China up by 1 1 Beijing FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) into China rose last month by 11 per cent from a year earlier, to U554.55 billion (557.47 billion), as efforts by overseas firms to tap the country's cheap labour and booming consumer market showed no sign
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    • 519 18 STRONG REBOUND "Japan is forecast to be the fastest-growing G-7 economy over the next two years. The biggest contribution to growth is coming from private-sector demand." MR JERRAM, chief economist for Japan at Macquarie Securities, on domestic demand powering the country's projected
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    • 131 18 London AUSTRALIA'S Macquarie Bank effectively ended its £1.5 billion (554.3 billion) takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) yesterday, saying it would not raise its offer or extend the deadline. Macquarie said following talks with LSE shareholders and user groups that it had decided
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    • 392 18 Jakarta INDONESIAN state oil firm Pertamina still wants to share operatorship of the US$2 billion (553.28 billion) Cepu oil block on a rotating basis, despite the government's wish to settle the row soon, a company official said yesterday. United States-based ExxonMobil and Pertamina
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      • 519 19 Milan ITALIAN fashion labels Giorgio Armani and Gucci are the world's most coveted brands, according to a global survey by market research company ACNielsen. One m three consumers globally said they would buy Armani or Gucci products if money was not an issue, according
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      • 550 19  - Ad agencies show off creativity in charity work Gabriel Chen When providing free or at-cost service for pet causes, many see chance to enhance portfolio By LAW firms do not have a monopoly on doing pro bono work, since advertising agencies too have developed a culture of providing free or
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      • 399 19 US online brokerage picks S'pore as Asian gateway NASDAQ-LISTED online brokerage optionsXpress Holdings has chosen Singapore as "its gateway to Asia," by launching optionsXpress Singapore, a newly-licensed subsidiary tnat will help Singapore investors tap into the online United States securities trading market. The Singapore unit, which follows the setting up
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      • 268 19 London SINGAPORE-LISTED Noble Group is suing a suspended aluminium trader for allegedly making unauthorised sales and purchases of the metal and falsifying the company's records to cover them up. Noble, a Hong Kong-based commodities trading company, is seeking unspecified damages from trader Philip Gross
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    • 365 20  -  Erica Tay It did not find any wrongdoing among local importers of Malaysian produce By CLAIMS that Malaysian rambutans are being canned here and re-exported to Hong Kong as "Singaporean lychees" have turned out to be fruitless, according to Singa- pore's produce watchdog.
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      • 118 20 SINGAPORE Reinsurance (Singße) yesterday posted a 14.1 per cent rise m net profit to $17.8 million for the year ended Dec 31, up from $15.6 million a year earlier. Revenues fell 20.7 per cent to $81.8 million from $103.1 million a year
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      • 81 20 BON VESTS Holdings yesterday posted a 5.9 per cent rise m net profits to $22.3 million for the year ended Dec 31, up from $21.1 million a year earlier. Revenues rose 5.6 per cent to $234.1 million. Earnings per share rose to
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      • 105 20 AUSGROUP CLINCHES THREE PROJECTS WORTH $82M AUSGROUP, an engineering services provider for Western Australia's oil, gas and miningrelated industries, announced yesterday that it has won three new major projects worth a total of $82.3 million. The projects will raise the group's order book m the 2006 and 2007 financial years
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      • 93 20 CHIP Eng Seng Corp's net profits rose 8 per cent to $11.3 million for the year ended Dec 31, up from $10.4 million a year ago. Revenue fell 30 per cent to $99.8 million. Earnings per share rose 0.03
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      • 79 20 AZTECH Technologies yesterday posted a 57.4 per cent jump m net profits to $10.1 million for the year ended Dec 31, up from a restated $6.4 million a year earlier. Revenues rose 17.4 per cent to $178.6 million. Earnings per share gained 0.92 cent
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      • 106 20 TPA Strategic Holdings announced yesterday that it has entered into a conditional share purchase agreement to sell its stakes m certain subsidiaries and an associate to Satair. Satair is a Denmark-based company that sells and distributes aircraft spare parts. Under the
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      • 96 20 UNITED Fiber System (Unifiber) yesterday announced that it has taken on exclusive sale and purchase deals to pave the way for its planned acquisition of Indonesian pulp mill Kiani Kei tas. Unifiber has taken on a share purchase deal, a debt instrument sale
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    • 603 20  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent A LEGAL tussle over disputed shares m Indonesia's biggest coal mine worth US$95O million (551.56 billion) pitting two high-profile Indonesian tycoons against Germany's Deutsche Bank and another tycoon got under way yesterday m the High
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    • 321 21  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent THE transport technology company Stratech Systems is being investigated over disclosures it made when it was sued by former director Christopher Millar. Stratech announced on Sunday that the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) was looking into the case m connection
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    • 308 21  -  Narendra Aggarwal By PSA Corp is outsourcing some of its information technology (IT) functions to home-grown Frontline Technologies. Mainboard-listed Frontline announced yesterday that it will acquire 100 per cent of PSA's fully owned subsidiary, Dalian BHR Consultancy Services (DBHR). Under the deal, Frontline
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    • 452 21  -  Grace Ng It chalks up $201 m gain, as it moves into higher-margin segments like routers By VENTURE Corp yesterday posted a 6.6 per cent rise m fullyear earnings, weathering stiff competition by moving into higher-margin segments such as routers and
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    • 428 21  -  Chua Kong Ho TAKING STOCK By ANYONE looking for a Budget bounce would have come away short-changed yesterday, although Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and City Developments (CDL) managed to keep things positive. It seemed as if traders had lost their appetite
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    • 207 21  -  AZRIN ASMANI WARRANT WATCH THE shock of the huge loss reported by DBS Group Holdings last week sent ripples through the warrants market yesterday with the bank's paper among the big losers. The financial group stunned the market on Friday, revealing a net loss of
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      • 504 22  -  Lee Su Shyan Positive sentiment likely to continue, say managers of new listings By Companies Correspondent 'With market conditions and economic data being favourable, there is a certain amount of buoyancy." MRMAHofCIMB-GK.onthe improved IPO debuts WHAT a difference a month
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      • 212 22 INSIDER-TRADING PENALTY THE former company secretary of GK Goh must pay a civil penalty of $130,500 after breaching insider trading rules, when she pocketed $42,000 by trading on inside information. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) imposed the penalty, without court action, on
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      • 410 22  - News of Aussie interest buoys up SembLog shares AZRIN ASMANI By SHARES m SembCorp Logistics (SembLog) surged m early trade yesterday, after news that the giant Australian freight firm Toll Holdings wants to buy a stake. The counter rose by 7 per cent at the opening bell to hit $1.84
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      • 340 22  -  Goh Eng Yeow By THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is proposing measures to slash the trading costs for dealing m blue chips and stock index warrants. Brokers, issuers and the public have been asked to respond to its consultation paper on the proposed changes by
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      • 696 48 Major winners Film: Brokeback Mountain British Film: Wallace And Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Acton Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) Actress: Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line) Supporting Acton Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) Supporting Actress: Thandie Newton (Crash) Director Lee Ang (Brokeback Mountain) Rising
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    • 711 9 Wk. 011 a 21 NEWTON/ 11 BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTEAPTS-SALE 2 HIGH FLR units. Thomson 800. 1400/ 1625 sqft. City/ reservoir view. Call now! HB *****555 THE HILLSIDE. PENTHSE (F'hold). 2800 sqft. 4+l rms. Lovely view. F/facilities. Must sell! 9387-6564 D.ll THOMSON VALE. 3+l bdrms. 1033 sq.ft. F'hold. MRT. Above S6BOK secures.
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        • 206 28 Technology news from around the world Microsoft unveiled last week multiple versions of its upcoming Office business software suite with features that aim to simplify worker collaboration and improve efficiency. The 2007 Microsoft Office, previously code-named Microsoft Office 12, is the successor to its Office
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        • 213 28 Amazon.com is preparing to take on Apple Computer m digital music by introducing its own portable music player that would be linked to an online music service. Music industry executives involved with negotiations with Amazon said that unlike Apple, which sells songs for 99
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        • 287 28 Chinese flash-memory products maker Netac says it has filed a lawsuit against United States rival PNY Technologies for alleged infringements of one of its patents m a rare instance of a Chinese company pursuing piracy charges overseas. The lawsuit, seeking unspecified "significant financial
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        • 97 28 Online DVD rental company Netflix is testing a U555.99 (559.78) subscription plan its lowest price yet as part of its strategy to meet profit and subscriber goals. Company spokesman Steve Swasey said last week that the test price, which allows subscribers to take out one
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        • 71 28 Oracle said last week it has bought communications software maker Hot Sip AB, marking the company's second acquisition m two days as it seeks to expand its business software m new directions. The messaging technology from Sweden's Hot Sip could potentially make it easier for
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        • 184 28 Dell reported last week revenue growth of 13 per cent m its fourth quarter, but analysts warned that it was not performing like the growth company of the past. Dell reported profit of US$l.Ol billion (551.65 billion), or 43 US cents a share,
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        • 110 28 A United States telecommunications satellite blasted off from a platform m the Pacific Ocean last week, Russian officials said. The Echostar X satellite, which will provide digital TV services, was successfully launched by the US-based Sea Launch company which fires commercial satellites into orbit
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      • 859 31 A new national broadband network is coming your way one that is blazing fast, super smooth and always ready. GRACE CHNG looks at the likely technologies that could power it The outdated Singapore One network that has powered the Republic into the Internet age since 1997 will
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      • 197 31 Broadband will be available m every home, office and school. Students, office workers and home users will be able to access the network anywhere, anytime and even on the go. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this when he announced the Government's intention to develop
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      • 29 34 j^^. MiCA (P) 272/06/2005 MAJj^- HER DREAMS WAKES 15IRLFROM COMA PAGE 13 do slurpifs p 9hßßHhßß^^B^El^»^^^^^^H REALLY MAKE THE VS IH^^^^HBHh^BhHI^B^HII^Eh^P BRAIN 4 FREEZE7 HH^^WlT^^^^^^^SP^ BLAGK? *****1 H^ H
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      • 455 35 No more Valentine's As I grow older, I get more irritated by how easily we've adopted Western celebrations. As if the surfeit of styrofoam snow men during Christmas isn't enough, I see more Singaporeans celebrating Thanksgiving. And don't get me started about Halloween. When I was 1 3 and my
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        117 35 Mum's hero When hawker Wan Keng Hong (far right) heard someone cry "robbery", he ran to help. It turned out to be his own mother (right). A man had snatched her 1 ,500 chain. Mr Wan and Mr Chan Peng Li, a 1 9-year-old student at Republic Polytechnic,
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      • 71 35 Scientists have found a lost world of unknown and rare animals and plants m an isolated Indonesian jungle. Among the finds: dozens of new species of frog, butterfly and plant, as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction m other places. It's m the Foja Mountains,
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      • 60 35 Other scientists at Nanyang Technological University have found a way to convert food waste such as vegetable pee!, rice and chicken bones into biogas and hydrogen. These could be alternative energy sources m a world fast running out of oil. A tonne of food waste could make
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        79 36 More JC students are shifting over to polys than vice versa. Last year, 400 moved from JC to poly, while 25 moved m the other direction. The polytechnics say they have noticed the trend m the last three years, when a poly education gained a higher profile
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      • 420 36  -  ANDREW DUFFY BY WHO WAS THE TOP SCORER THIS YEAR? Chow Wen Kin of Cedar Secondary School, with 10 A I grades. Her success was all the more extraordinary because she studied for her I Oth subject- English Literature
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      • 109 35 SUPERVISING EDITOR Bertha Henson Serene Goh TOR Robin Ganguly LiawWy-Gn, Yen Feng, Kristie Chiew, Dawn Lim, lan Poh Alison De Souza, Andrew Duffy, Ellen Whyte RED CIRCLE TEACHERS Soo Kirn Bee, Adeline Wong, Violet Yip, Michelle Kwek, Nick Chan, Jumat B. Baba, Leow Pei Ling, Ying Pik Tho, Hing Mvi
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      • 37 36 GETSTARTED Look through the classified ads and identify jobs that are related to computer technology. Create a chart showing the job, salary and responsibilities. Determine how a career m computer technology compares to jobs m other fields.
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        137 37 Foja mountains, Indonesia What was found there Have you seen the movie Jurassic Park? Well, a place like that was discovered very recently m Indonesia. There were no dinosaurs, but several animals and plants unknown to man were found there. The "lost world", is located m one
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        118 37 Mas Selamat Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted man Who he is The one-time leader of the Singapore branch of the Jemaah Islamiah (Jl) terror network, Kastari was arrested on Jan 20 m Indonesia and handed over to Singapore on Feb 3. Kastari is said to have discussed plans with
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        105 37 1 ,000,000 That is the amount of compensation (RM I million or *****,000) that 1 1 men are seeking from the Malaysian government. They were caught playing mahjong m a coffee shop m Selangor and arrested for illegal gambling on the second day of Chinese New Year.
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        127 37 Chemical spill m north-west China What happened An accident at a factory resulted m large amounts of alkaline waste water being spilled into a river on Feb 4, the latest m a spate of chemical releases to poison the country's rivers. Three of the company's four processing
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      • 55 37 8 GETSTARTED People do not often read newspaper stories aloud. Ask your students why they think this is so. Have them find a story m The Straits Times today that would be good to read aloud. They should practise reading it with great expression and then take turns reading parts
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        352 38  - INDER ESSURE KRISTIE CHIEW BY kNOw arugs DRLJf* TFST Peer pressure is... a) Doing what your parents think is best b) Always doing what your instinct tetls you to c) A group making you feel you need to do something d) Never listening to what your friends say E-mail your
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        69 38 Little puppies were turned into drug smugglers by Colombian dealers, who surgically implanted packets of liquid heroin into the animals. A veterinarian had stitched 14 packets containing 3kg of heroin -worth US$2OO,OOO (*****,000) into the bellies of six pups. The packets of heroin were also found hidden m
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      • 47 38 r Aww, come on. Try it. Don! be chicken^! a 'cage'! j jFr 00 iaii "~T§ (X^ £>$\ C^XVi s^\P >/ t /^/i j Oh I'm not. You, on the other hand, JHHHHHHHK In x^^l^l^H^HP "x I will be like one after being put... J {HPiHß^il^p 111 ifIHHFMBi 1
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        448 39  -  ELLEN WHYTE Heavy rains can cause powerful floods that kill and destroy. BY According to the National Environment Agency, this January was exceptionally wet. The western part of Singapore came off worst with areas like Tuas and Lim Chu Kang seeing 640 mm to 675 mm of rainfall,
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      • 90 39 CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 3. ditch, gully 4. avalanche of mud 5. bund 7. white water m the sky 9. a dam m a river 1 1 fog, vapour 1 3. small river 14. spell of rain 1 6. hill made of sand 1 7. wall or barrier 1 8. morning
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      • 314 40 Why does my brain feel like it is freezing when I drink something really cold? You get that feeling when you eat something too cold too fast- some people call it an "ice cream headache", others say "brain freeze". For a while it feels great who
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        81 40 The Straits Times reported last week about a new medical programme that will test to see if newborns have a certain disorder passed on from their parents. This new screening programme will see if newborns have problems breaking down fats or proteins m milk. Being able to
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      • 116 40 Frantic for something to eat that will stop the sweat without bringing on a brain freeze? Remember all those times Grandma mentioned something about taking "cooling" food m order bring down the heat m your body? What was that all about, you wonder. In traditional Chinese medicine terms,
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      12 41 Mere s what happened around the world PHOTOS: AP AFP TNP
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    • 163 41 WEIRD NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD SECOND STEAL Policemen m the town of Eschwege, Germany, were dumbstruck after a man they had just arrested for burglary walked out of the police station and drove off m one of their cars, said a Reuters report The 27-year-old, who might have pocketed
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      • 257 44 Built as a mansion for a British merchant m 1 827, the building was leased to the colonial leaders and became the seat of government for the nation. RESEARCH: SPH Information Resource Centre < FOR YOUR GRANDPARENTS... The parliament building functioned as a courthouse and a government office
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      • 471 44 GETSTARTED Using The Straits Times Digital Life technology magazine that is distributed every Tuesday, find examples on how you use electricity. Then, think of other ways to do any of the jobs mentioned m the stories without using electricity. Is it possible? Think of how important electricity is and make
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        171 46 YOU'RE INVITED! The talent page -featuring special reviews, original art and contributions from Y-O-U. Send your contributions to stdot@sph.com.sg POEM IDEAL SCHOOL By Ang Qing, 9, Primary 4, Ai Tong Primary School Schools should be a place of fun. Learning through play, Field trips to parks, restaurants,
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      • 670 47  -  TANG XIAN ZU Woman wakes up from coma and says 'I do' to top scholar. SPECIAL REPORT BY They met m a dream, fell m love and then she fell into a coma Despite this rocky start, the romance between Dv Li Niang and Liv Meng Mci,
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      • 182 47 The Peony Pavilion was written by playwright Tang Xianzu m 16th and 17th century China, during the rule of the Ming Dynasty. It was meant to be staged as an opera that is, a drama set to music and singing. With some 160 characters and numerous scenes, it was
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      • 66 47 Coma Deep and prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of being sick or hurt Rocky Full of problems Tied the knot Got married Emerged Came out; was revealed Vivid Producing powerful feelings or strong, life-like images m the mind Pavilion A decorative, roofed shelter m a park or garden Pined
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      • 381 48  -  LIN ZHAOWEI Phrases to bring out the smooth talker m you. BY THE IDIOM Butter someone up THE MEANING To praise and flatter somebody m order to get something from them. For example: The kid who keeps buttering the teacher up has been nicknamed the teacher's pet.
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      • 115 48 When you want to start discussing a subject with a group of people, you are broaching the subject with them. The phrase can be traced back to the pubs and hotels of London a few centuries ago, where people met to socialise. In order to draw the
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      • 366 49  -  SOO KIM BEE Try it the Dot way! Every week, our panel of teachers from the Red Circle brews up Dot-flavoured lessons from its vast collection of classroom recipes. This week, we help students to be discerning consumers by being more aware of the persuasive language
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      • 216 49  -  DAWN LIM BY £k M hen you pick up The Straits Times, what is yt the first thing that catches your eye when you read an article? You guessed it Headlines. Reporters must provide headlines as this forces them to answer the question what is the point of
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      • 64 49 GETSTARTED Read through The Straits Times. Do you think the headlines are effective? How have they helped to establish a central fact of the story? Can you do better? Ask a classmate or friend to cover the headline of a newspaper article. Make a headline that is attention-grabbing and can
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        93 50 Did you know that the stripes on each of the three species of zebra are like unique barcodes that identify them? This works m the same way as how our DNA makes each of us unique humans. The stripes on zebras m each species vary, m both pattern
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      • 257 50 I l" Using what you now know about different zebra stripes, figure out what species of the animal reside m the Singapore zoo. Does one species seem more common than others? Why? Is the zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Well, if you
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