The Straits Times, 14 January 2007

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  • 20 1 theSundaytimes JANUARY 14, 2007 88 pages in three parts MICA (P) 199/12/2006 ttV A Singapore Press Holdings publication OU Cents
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  • 495 1  -  Lydia Lim TOP OF THE NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CEBU SOUTH-EAST Asian leaders yesterday paved the way for a makeover of Asean, with pledges to move faster towards a single market, get tougher on terrorism and review the way it functions as a regional grouping.
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    • 36 1 £aa». I th Sunday nes R w* m% r V *&i They're greedy EiiinSlS BlVl^Ps^- I I pages 3-4 ff i b i DESIGN: MIKE M DIZON PHOTOS: SIA, WANG HUI FEN and LAU FOOK KONG
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    • 905 2 agenda INDEX ISHI9 Military action not ruled out Beckham memories A very lifestyle m^inQPPtinn The US has no immediate plan to David Beckham's move to Los 'f^^^B IMd 11 IbtJU LI Ul I home stake targets in Iran, but it will not Angeles Galaxy marks the end of |lOT 5631
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    • 709 3  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi The 35-year-old icon has been instrumental in placing SIA on the world map, but some say her image may now be dated HER makeup is immaculate, her hair neatly coiffed and she is immediately identified by the figure-hugging kebaya
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    • 907 4  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Flying the SIA brand through the years AT A time when most airline advertisements centred on displays of aircraft and their safety features, Singapore Airlines' strategy was to sell its impeccable inflight service. And nothing personified this better than
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    • 567 6  -  Ken Kwek Minister urges Inter-Racial Confidence Circles to reach out further so they will be better prepared during crises A CHINESE family quarrelled with Malay neighbours. Relations were strained. Enter Mr Abdul Mutalif Hashim, the chairman of the Chua Chu
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    • 179 6 TRAINS travelling between Bukit Batok and Bukit Gombak MRT stations had to slow down to a third of their normal speed yesterday because of a landslide at a slope next to Bukit Batok MRT station. It had been triggered by three days
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    • 411 6 A NEW subsidy scheme will help reduce the financial burden for lower-income families in their children's kindergarten fees and related transport expenses. It was launched by the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC). Called Pre-school Assistance and Support Scheme, or Pass, the
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    • 450 8 SINGAPOREANS generally have no problem working with or living next door to foreign talent and workers, but are less keen on having a romantic or familial relationship with them. The resistance is greater when the other party is a foreign
      Research, analysis and planning department, Singapore Press Holdings  -  450 words
    • 1047 8  -  Sarah Ng Sarah Ng Sunday Times poll on views of Govt's open-door policy: 9 in 10 fear foreign talent will take away their jobs MOST Singaporeans accept that foreign workers of all kinds are needed here, but are reluctant to
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    • 351 8  -  Vincent Leow SINGAPOREANS think of most foreign workers here as hardworking and honest. These were the top two traits picked by Singaporeans to describe workers, especially those from Bangladash, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. As for foreign talent from Europe, the United States and especially Japan,
      ALAN LIM  -  351 words
    • 321 8 BANGLADESHI Ziaul Karim Nazmul Hoque started out as a construction worker when he came to Singapore 10 years ago. Since then, he has risen to become the site supervisor. "Karim is my right-hand man now," said his boss, Mr Michael
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    • 340 9 CHINA workers here are a misunderstood lot, reckons 51-year- old Mr Tony Dv, who runs a local manpower agency. For example, he said, if a potential employer were to ask a Chinese national how much salary he would want, the typical reply would be:
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    • 459 9  -  Vincent Leow CHINA foreign workers here came out the worst in The Sunday Times survey. When asked to identify three traits they associated with workers from China, two of the traits picked by Singaporeans were negative. "Hardworking" was the top trait, picked by 47 per cent
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    • 297 9 UNION leader G. Muthu Kumar is used to union members going up to him to share their concerns about foreigners taking jobs from Singaporeans. These people are not only worried for themselves, but also for the job prospects of their children, he
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    • 384 10  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi High-level panel's suggestion is sound, says Tharman; details being worked out now SINGAPOREANS will soon get extra funds from the Government for higher education and details can be expected as early as in the coming Budget debate. A high-level
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    • 444 10 MINISTER Lim Boon Heng, who oversees ageing issues in the Prime Minister's Office, has raised the idea of setting up a new cooperative to help the elderly. Responding to media questions on how the upcoming Budget would help the elderly,
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    • 364 10  -  Sim Chi Yin HE CHOSE to sit in a corner of the eatery. But deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra still drew stares when he showed up at a well-known bak kut teh shop here yesterday. Bemused fellow customers watched
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    • 328 12  -  Sujin Thomas Age has not affected guitar legend as he mesmerises 10,000 during sold-out Indoor Stadium concert BRITISH guitar legend Eric Clapton gave his fans at the Singapore Indoor Stadium another reason to call him Slowhand last night. He had his audience of more than 10,000 people
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    • 936 14  -  Melissa Sim Now who is the wrongdoer? The couple in the romp or the person filming the clip on his cellphone? BACK facing the camera, the couple began indulging in a distinctly X-rated moment. Scene from an Internet voyeur site, or a cheap porn film? No, the
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    • ASEAN SUMMIT
      • 737 16  -  Lydia Lim AFP Speeding up economic integration will boost trade and investments within and into region SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CEBU ASEAN leaders yesterday agreed to fast track the setting up of a single market to 2015 as part of efforts to ensure the grouping remains
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      • 173 16 AFP CEBU ASEAN leaders yesterday formally approved a blueprint for a landmark charter aimed at reshaping the 40-year-old grouping for the 21st century. "We are committed to establish an Asean Charter as a crowning achievement of 40 years of Asean to enable Asean to meet
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      • 169 16 Reuters, AFP CEBU ASEAN yesterday remained divided over how to pressure Myanmar to democratise. Embarrassed by a US resolution against its most notorious member at the UN Security Council which was vetoed by China and Russia on Friday Asean members like Indonesia
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      • 155 16  -  Goh Sui Noi CEBU FOREIGN Minister George Yeo yesterday welcomed France's signing of a friendship treaty with Asean, and encouraged it to further enhance its engagement with the grouping. He met French Minister Delegate for European Affairs Catherine Colonna on the sidelines
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      • 397 17  -  Alastair Mclndoe Region's first legally binding anti-terrorism accord signed PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT CEBU SOUTH-EAST Asian leaders yesterday took a united stand against terrorism, agreeing to a raft of measures that commit their national security and law enforcement agencies to work closely to fight the scourge. The
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      • 184 17  -  Aaron Low CEBU FILIPINA Clarice Veloso had planned for the perfect wedding at the five-star Shangri-La's Mactan Island Resort and Spa. But her plans almost unravelled when Asean rescheduled its annual summit to be held on the same date and at the same venue
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      • 295 17  -  Alastair Mclndoe CEBU THE cross-border pollution from Indonesia's forest fires is set to be a centre-stage issue at the next Asean Summit in Singapore this November. At yesterday's gathering of Asean leaders in Cebu, Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 504 18  -  Carolyn Hong Second wave of floods hits Johor, driving 50,000 people from their homes MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR MORE than 50,000 people were moved to relief shelters in Johor yesterday, double the number on the previous day, as a second wave of floods hit the
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    • 523 18  -  Leslie Lav MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT BATU PAHAT (JOHOR) SRI MEDAN state assemblyman Ahmad Zahri Jamil only nodded faintly when an aide walked into the community centre here and told him the Chaah River was about to break its banks. "That is my indicator. If the water
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    • 446 19  -  Li Xueying SINGAPORE and Morocco can become valuable partners if they take advantage of each other's strengths, said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. Located in north-west Africa, Morocco sits next to the oil-rich Middle East and is within three hours by plane from
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    • 513 19  -  Li Xueying Companies from both sides share ideas on working together and explore business opportunities CASABLANCA(MOROCCO) IF THINGS go well, Singapore developers may soon help to build condominiums in Casablanca, while Moroccan soap and lotions may find their way into Singapore hotels. These are
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    • 871 20 AFP, AP, Reuters AP Bush throws challenge to critics and warns against cuts in funding 'To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible.' PRESIDENT BUSH (above) to lawmakers critical of his new strategy for Iraq WASHINGTON PRESIDENT George W. Bush yesterday
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    • 221 20 AFP BAGHDAD THE sons of Americans who send them here will return home in coffins, warned a spokesman for radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr as US President George W. Bush proposed to send in 20,000 troops to quell sectarian violence. "The American people
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      • 97 20 AFP WASHINGTON Governments and businesses must act now against climate change, and the United States needs a bigger public debate about its risks, the chairman of the Lloyd's insurance market said on Friday. Mr Peter Levene warned that vast storms bigger than Hurricane Katrina are likely
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      • 92 20 AP MADRID Spanish police detained Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron, who allegedly approved the shadowy right-wing death squads that ushered her nation into a bloody dictatorship, but she was later released conditionally. Police detained her in Madrid on Friday at the request of an Argentine investigative judge.
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      • 121 20 AFP BEIJING China will launch a crackdown on "vulgar" reality television shows, the state Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The move aimed to "clean up TV screens", said Mr Wang Taihua of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. "Many are low-quality, lowbrow programmes,
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    • 396 21 AP, Reuters, AFP She will also seek support from Arab states for new US strategy in Iraq JERUSALEM THE US Secretary of State kicked off a Middle East tour yesterday, to have another go at reviving the Israeli-Palestini-an peace process. The move
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    • 333 21 AP, New York Times BEAUFORT (MISSOURI) WHEN police entered an apartment on Friday looking for a 13-year-old boy who had disappeared a few days earlier, they found him and a bonus: anather teenager who had been missing for more man four years.
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    • 96 21 AP TOKYO A POWERFUL earthquake off northern Japan yesterday triggered tsunami warnings that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground. The 8.2-magnitude quake struck about 500 km east of Etorofu island, prompting officials in Japan, the United States and the Philippines to issue tsunami warnings. In
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    • 387 22 AP, Jakarta Post/Asia News Network, Bernama Meanwhile, search for missing plane's black box hampered by deep waters MAKASSAR (INDONESIA) A FISHERMAN who found the first piece of the ill-fated Adam Air plane received a cash reward of 50 million rupiah (558,500) from
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    • 189 22 Reuters JAKARTA TWO Indonesian women have died of bird flu, a Health Ministry official said yesterday, taking the overall human death toll from the disease in the country to 61. Asia is seeing a resurgence of the disease, and Japan confirmed yesterday
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    • 1252 23  -  Leong Chan Teik Conquer and capture the best returns by finding the right mix of investments for you IT'S good. It's necessary. And you have only yourself to blame if you don't practise "it" and thus suffer losses. The "it" is diversification. Few investors would disagree that
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    • 315 23  -  Terry Savage Get the knowledge needed to recognise good financial advice Personal finance columnist DO YOU have to become an investment expert in order to make smart retirement decisions? Absolutely not. But you have to know enough to ask the right questions, and to judge which investments
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    • 327 23 AFP Strong economic data propels Dow to record high NEW YORK WALL Street found its footing over the past week as a series of stronger-than-expected economic indicators helped the market pick up and return to its winning ways. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1.27 per cent for
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    • 500 24  -  Leong Sze Hian YOl ERSONAL ADVISER: FINANCE Q lAM 41 and have insurance policies, including an accident policy, investments and CPF savings. I don't know how to write a will, but would like to try doing so
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    • 559 25  -  Lorencz Tay YOUR PERSONAL ADVISER: CAREER Q I HAVE just completed a three-year term with a software company as a senior vice-president. I was instrumental in establishing sales, product development, operations and human resources, among other things. As the company was moving
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    • 311 26 MY SPACE "MY WIFE and I share a love for nature, and that became our main source of inspiration as we built and designed our home. A lot of the design elements were chosen so that we could be as close as possible to
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    • 519 27  -  Fiona Chan PROPER' Well-located leasehold properties in particular enjoy higher rental yields than freehold projects PROPERTY REPORTER CONDOMINIUMS pitched at home buyers entering the private property market are taking their turn in the spotlight after years of stagnation. Several projects aimed at this
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    • 1006 28  -  Leong Chan Teik ME MY MONEY Bouncing back IN 1989, Indonesia closed the door on exports of sawn timber and only semi-finished products could be exported. Then, Mr George Chew was a trader, buying from Indonesia and selling to various parts of
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      417 29 T.T. Durai NKF's ex-CEO The former NKF chief threw in the towel on the third day of the civil suit brought against him by the new NKF management without even testifying. The dramatic exit on Wednesday came after lawyers for the new NKF painted a picture of a man
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    • 1195 29  -  Tim Rutten LOS ANGELES TIMES The redesigned Wall Street Journal may show how print and online newspapers can complement rather than compete with each other IF YOU don't subscribe to The Wall Street Journal, but care about the future of news and newspapers, it's worth picking
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    • 566 30 Middle-income Singaporeans who gripe about rising prices in a personalised way ought to examine the inflation in concert ticket pricing. We assume these hardworking people caught in a squeeze take in the occasional performance, rock or classical. A look at the 10 most pricey concerts staged here (ST's
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    • 889 30  -  Goh Sui Noi SENIOR CORRESPONDENT DISPATCHES WHEN some delegates to the Asean summit in Cebu this week visit Bohol province as part of their post-meeting activities, they are likely to stop by the Bohol bee farm for an organic lunch. The farm, sited atop a cliff, offers a
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    • 1055 31  -  Elisabeth Rosenthal NEWYORK SHE was nominated by China to be chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has been repeatedly dubbed "the Chinese candidate". But there is little in terms of style or history that links Dr Margaret Chan, who has
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    • 1140 32  -  Nirmal Ghosh Policy flip-flops, bombings and a stock market crash have eroded public confidence in Thailand's leaders THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK IN FOUR short weeks, Thailand's mili-tary-appointed government has developed a severe credibility problem that some people are saying may be too late to fix. Policy flip-flops and
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    • 1079 33  -  Marc Lim Premiership leaders in January usually crumble at the end of the season SPORTS CORRESPONDENT THINK Manchester United are home and dry, now that they are six points clear at the top of the Premiership? Think again. If history is anything to go by,
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    • 1047 33  -  Rob Hughes HEART OF FOOTBALL THE impression abroad of English clubs buying their place at the top of the league is not wrong. But neither is it the full story. Yes, the oil billionaire Roman Abramovich has moved the goalposts by spending obscene amounts of
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    • 517 34  -  MANCHESTER Goals from Park, Carrick and Ronaldo give leaders a 3-0 victory MANCHESTER United maintained their six-point lead at the Premiership summit in impressive style. Park Ji Sung's low drive opened the scoring in the 11th minute and Michael Carrick's first
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    • 461 34  -  Jeanette Wang LIVERPOOL needed to stand tall after their double loss to Arsenal last week. And they were given the perfect lift by their tallest player, Peter Crouch, yesterday. The beanpole striker scored twice, after Craig Bellamy's opener, to make it a 3-0 win for
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    • 322 34 LONDON ARJEN Robben produced a fine display to help ensure Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho ended a tumultuous week with a 4-0 win. Despite rumours surrounding Mourinho's predicted exit, the Blues saw off a poor Wigan side with ease yesterday, the BBC reported. Lampard's free kick
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    • 395 35 Spanish giants set on replacing Capello and failed Galactico policy LONDON REAL Madrid want the dream team of Jose Mourinho and Frank Lampard. The Spanish giants have contacted Mourinho's agent Jorge Mendes about him succeeding their current coach Fabio Capello, The Sun reported yesterday. And
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    • 293 35 LONDON RAFAEL Benitez has insisted he and the Liverpool board are working together to ensure a bright future for the club. The manager is disappointed with the media coverage following his side's 3-6 League Cup defeat by Arsenal. He is frustrated
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      • 89 35 MANCHESTER United's striker Louis Saha says he is still haunted by the spirit of Ruud van Nistelrooy. The Frenchman told The Sun: "My rivalry with Ruud wasn't easy and still isn't. "Ruud has remained a legend here, and it is enough for me to have
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      • 103 35 MANCHESTER United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he has no immediate plans to recruit Henrik Larsson for the rest of the season. The loan-signing of the Swedish striker from the Swedish club Helsingborgs expires in March. Soccernet quoted Ferguson as saying: "Henrik
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    • 604 36 Real Madrid's fallen Galactico Beckham is set to shine again in a new Galaxy DID he do it for the money? A last shot at football glory? Or is it for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Whatever the reasons, David Beckham's move to join
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    • 338 36 LONDON REAL Madrid's coach Fabio Capello has said that David Beckham will not play for the club again after signing for the US outfit LA Galaxy. He said: "Beckham will train with the team, but he won't play. "He has always been a
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      • 68 36 AP KOBE Bryant, limited by a groin strain, scored 16 of his 28 points in the final seven minutes of the game. It helped the Los Angeles Lakers to a 109-106 win over the Orlando Magic on Friday. The Lakers barely avoided their first three-game losing
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      • 71 36 AP THE doping investigation against Sydney Olympics 800 m champion Nils Schumann, 1997 world women's 4x400 relay champion Grit Breuer and hurdler Ulrike Urbansky has been dropped by the German Athletics Federation due to insufficient evidence. None of the athletes tested positive, but they were named
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    • 446 36 BANGKOK ASIA were left with a mountain to climb after the second day of the Royal Trophy at the Amata Spring Country Club yesterday. They needed to put behind their disastrous opening-day performance in the foursomes, after trailing Europe V 3V2. But they failed to
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    • 683 37  -  Tay Cheng Khoon THE SPORTS EDITOR ON JAN 5, The Straits Times reported that Steven Yeo will soon take over football's hot seat from John Koh. The next day, the newspaper wrote that Goh Tat Chuan had quit as a national footballer. Yeo's first
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    • 675 37  -  Marc Lim Singapore striker goes for glory instead of passing ball in 0-0 draw SPORTS CORRESPONDENT NOH Alain Shah was charging towards goal and had just a split second to decide whether to pass the ball. He decided to go for glory, despite the tight
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      311 37  -  Bryan van der Beck Sweat gets the fit and healthy to share their secrets Text and pictures by Kenneth J. Koh, 39 Company director Height: 1.65 m Weight: 65kg Exercise regimen: I work out four times a week, and usually spend about 30 minutes on cardiovascular exercises before
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    • 89 34 Playing Today EvertOll V Reading (Live on Ch23, 9.40pm) Everton's Tim Cahill is likely to return from a lengthy knee injury, but Nuno Valente (knee) is out. Reading skipper Graeme Murty faces a late fitness test, while Bobby Convey is back from a knee injury. Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United
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  • Obituaries
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      133 38 LIM POH HONG Age: 84 Passed away peacefully on 13 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Ong Siang K.eng (deceased) Sons; Daughters-in-law: Ong Hock Siong Shirley Hoi I Ong Pang Lek Ong Chin Chin Ong Pang Sim Richard Mary Ng Ong Pang Kay Lucy Lim
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      140 38 1 7 have been crucified with Christ and Ino longer live* but Christ lives tome.1 Gaiatiam 2:20 WONG RING CHIE (Ex-Principal of River Valley High School 1965-1974) Age: 92 was called home to be with the Lord on 5 Jan 2007 in Canada. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved
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      145 38 LOH POH LAN AGE: 83 passed away peacefully on 12 Jan 2007, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: (Lee Fook Kuan, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Lee Se Kit Lee Lai Yoke Lee See San Tang Cheng Lin Lee See Yin (Ho York Hian, deceased) Daughters: Sons-in-law: Lee Seek Thou Wong Wing Kee
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      85 38 |2lj hank you Jesus. I lore You because You first loved me." jJQQi DRWUSANSAN Age: 71 Was called Home to be with the Lord on 12 January 2007. She is dearly missed by her loved ones: Husband: Raymond Kuah Leong Heng Son: lan Kuah Tzu Kee God daughter: Cheryl-Anne Goh
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      141 38 N "Surely gwxlness and mercy shaft follow me alt the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever." Psalm 23:6 MELVILL LIM UNG LIANG Age: 59 was called home to be wilh the LORD on 13 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered
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      46 38 IWe. The Family Of Tie ,atg i i I THOMAS PANG Departed on UkNßtfWfl wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends. colleagues, doctors nurses of Ward 63 SGH for your condolences. assistance, attendance, prayers donations and wreaths during our recent bereavement.
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      53 38 4 In Unr-hving Memory Of f SHAWN MICHELLE FEDRIC Departed 14.01.95 We cherish thoughts of the I happy times We shored not so long ago j Mined by: Parents: Anto Annama I Sitter: SherinAnn Loved ones. Mus w.ll be said at the Church of 1 the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
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      58 38 PREMHARI SHARMA Age: 67 was called home to he with God on 13/01/07, leaving behind loved ones beloved relatives. Wife: Veena Pan! Sharma Wake is held al Blk 935 #08-31 l.Tamplnes Street 91. Tel: *****939 Funeral prayers will be held at residence on 14/01/07 a! 3.30pm und cortege leaves al
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      46 38 I I) anbe sivam I JAYAMMAL w/o late Sadagopal Naidu Ag»:73 Departed on 12-1-07 Leaving behind:. Son: S Govmdarajoo Daughter-in-law: X Vijaya Grandchildren: Suraj, Lingesh Keerathna all Relatives Fnends. Cortege leaves today, 14-1-07. 2pm from Blk 3G,M08-14 Henderson Rd., Teh €*****56 for cremation at Mandai Crematorium,
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      137 38 -WW" HAN MINE YUAN Age: 82 passed away peacefully on 12 January 2007. Sadly missed by Wife: Ifeng Nu Kng Sons: Daughters-in-law: Han All Kuan Choo Choon Hong Han Wee Kwang Seong Fee IJngTheresa Han Swee Kwang Kang (!hu Bin Lillian Daughters: Sons-in-law: HanMayQuee We< Whec sin Han Oman Quee
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      152 38 r* "I have fought the good fight, t haiv finished the race, t have kept the faith 2 Timothy 4:7 I MICHAEL LEE THIAM HOCK Age: 69 was called home to be with the Lord on 12/01/2007, deeply missed by: Wife: Miik1 Chet? Ah Luewe Sons; Daughters-In-law: Gabriel Let? luiinnc
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      60 38 ly^The Family of the Late'^l NG SWEE HOON Called home to be with the Lord on 8 January 2007 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all pastors, relatives, friends, church members, j prayer groups, business associates i and colleagues for their kind assistance, i I attendance, condolences,
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      26 38 m I 7th Anniversary |j In Loving Memory Of ELIZABETH LEE SIEW SENG Departed 14 January 2000 Always cherished missed by Kirn Song loved ones s
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      165 38 FAN SOON LAM Age: 95 passed away peacefully on 12 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Chiam Datt Hee, deceased) Son: Daughter-in-law: Chiam Yeng Mou Q>lin Hang Ai Hung Christine Daughters: Sons-in-law: (.hiam Ai Ngoh (China) HoWah 800 (China) (Chiam Ai Thoo. deceased) Bin Chan
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      90 38 YIONG MEE LIAN Age: 68 passed away peacefully on 12 Jan 07 Always remembered by: Daughters; Sons-in-law: Tea l.ee Clhieh Kristine Teo Li Li See Boon Ping Too Lee Wei Karen Teo li Kun Rachel Tan Chee Wee David Son: Daughter- in-law: Teo Hong Da Steve Tan Ying lie Christina
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      73 38 In Everlasting M<*mnry ot VEERAPILLAI VALLIAMMAL Dupurtud 27.Q1.2(K)A The blessed memories we have of you ttv'H always cherish. You made our life tn be with love, faith charity. Amma, tiv miss you. Always rtmt'inburfd by Husband: Murug.m Vtferopillai Diiuglilcrs wis, grandchildren lovod untu. Ilialill JlKA.Lh.jrn I'i -1 i1- Will I"
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      29 38 In Loving Memory of ALViN TAN IVjMM.'U" Oil 1 .Ml Our brother who Ims fought the gootl fight, finished the race kept the faith. Sadly Missed, Loving!v Remembered byHGI2«cSHI2
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    • 985 39  -  Loh Wei Loong Manufacturers are installing software, hardware and biometric security measures to deter theft and keep data secure THE single most attractive feature of laptops and notebooks is their portability but this also means that they can be quite easily stolen. And
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    • Incoming
      • 120 39 Why it is hot: Most rechargeable batteries do not hold the charge well and hence require frequent recharging. Sanyo's Eneloop rechargeable batteries (which come in AA and AAA sizes) cut down on self-discharge i or and can have as much as 85 per cent in residual
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      • 108 39 W, hy IS hs*= c satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS) has found its way into car navigation systems and mobile phones, and now watches too. is a norma i. siz ed wristwatch with built-in GPS and is the world's smallest and lightest (64g) GPS device wea
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      • 79 39 Why it is hot: A quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) phone with a slider design, /f the Z3 follows A in the Motorola W> tradition of slim and stylish- Ii looking handsets. 1 Features include Bluetooth, 2-megapixel camera, 20MB of built-in memory plus support for up to IGB of
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    • 722 40  -  Bruce Wallace Los Angeles Times Apple's new offering is old hat to the Japanese who use their phones to do everything, from shopping to blogging TOKYO MR TOMOAKI Kurita presides over racks of cellphones lined up outside his shop on a busy sidewalk
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    • 492 40  -  Jocelyn Lee 'We are mean and we are not shy about it...You can't stop us and we're not doing anything wrong.' KESNA AND LESLY, the two girls behind the blog www.wearemean.blogspot.com STUDENT Low Wei Xiang was surfing the Internet when he spotted a
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    • 396 40  -  Sherwin Loh GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 Xbox 360 VERY beautiful things are sometimes said to be shallow and Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 is a fine example of this. This is a sequel to the
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      • 98 40  -  Debbie Swee MORE than half of US teenagers use social networking sites like MySpace, but more boys than girls are there to flirt, a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found. The national survey of 935 people aged 12
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      • 78 40 INTERNET search giant Google is the best employer in America, according to Fortune magazine's 10th annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. California-based Google ranks first largely due to amenities for staff such as dry-cleaning and automotive services, a swimming
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      • 98 40 BRITAIN'S domestic security service MIS has launched an e-mail alert service that warns people of any rise in the terrorist threat to the country. Internet users can register at the website www.mis.gov.uk to receive the automatic electronic updates, AFP reported. The current threat level
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      • 113 40 A BEIJING-BASED company duped 400,000 people by creating the character of a young female nurse to solicit text messages and collect revenue from lonely men, Reuters reported. The firm employed a team of 12 or 13 people mostly men to act as Wang Jing,
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  • stomp
    • 391 41  -  Jessica Cheam stomp to launch new weo-sharing feature soon By J HOT off the Web, Stomps latest new feature will now give Singaporeans a chance to shoot and share that is, shoot your I own do-it-yourself (DIV) video and share it with the whole of Singapore! I
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    • 383 41 STOMP might be young, but its web of influence is increasing phenomenally. And advertisers are sitting up and noticing it too. The Straits Times Interactive portal, only seven months old, is proving to be a major platform sought by big advertising players. Coffee giant Starbucks, for
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    • 311 41 A NAKED man grabbed the headlines in Stomp's citizen journalism section Nokia Singapore Seen last week. Stomp contributor Raymond Tham, 30, a business development manager, caught on camera a man in his 40s swimming nude in the waters off East Coast Park on Jan 8. As many
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      304 41 what my past relationships taught me People can come into your life and affect it in the most profound ways, shaping you, building you up, tearing you down, restoring your karmic balance, whatever. Then one day, they no longer belong there, and they'll be gone. Don't waste tears when
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  • gen y
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      699 42  -  Benson Ang Some teens are breaking the rules by selling their virtual game assets and they're making a killing TEENS in Singapore are cashing in on their gaming skills by selling assets from the cyberworld for hard cash in the real world. And the money they make
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    • 426 42 cojEfe^ Life can get overwhelming sometimes. But you don't have to suffer in silence. Write to Teen Confidential, and we will get trained counsellors to help you through your problem. Email your letters to stgeny@sph.com.sg Q /AM a junior college student
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    • 656 42 Not sure what is good English and what is not? Write to The Sunday Times and we will get master teachers to answer your queries. This is a weekly series in support of the Speak Good English Movement. *Clay can't be ealen, otherwise will strangle
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  • talk
    • 1050 43  -  Kelvin Wong THE E-MAIL INTERVIEW: 93.3FM DEEJAY DENNIS CHEW RADIO deejay Dennis Chew was once told that even if he stuck a moustache onto his face, he would still look like a boy trying to pass off as a man. That assessment came from
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    • INBOX
      • 227 43  -  Tan Wee Liang MY WIFE and I decided to do our part for the environment by collecting used plastic bottles for recycling. However, when it came to disposing of them, we could not find any recycling bins around our estate in Sengkang. After a couple
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      • 175 43  -  Sharon Tan Gek Lin (Mdm) MY FAMILY visited the new Ikea store at Tampines on Dec 30 last year. I was still nursing my then seven-week-old baby, and had expected to breastfeed her in a proper nursing room in Ikea, which we thought would be a
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      • 167 43  -  Patrick Mok Weng Meng I REFER to the article, "Ghim Moh flats to be redeveloped" (ST, Dec 9, 2006), on residents being offered new homes to be built next to a park connector along Sungei Ulu Pandan. I wonder why this 2km stretch of lush greenery,
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      • 122 43  -  Tan May Chin (Ms) ON JAN 5 at 10.23pm, I received a call from a telemarketer selling Prudential Insurance. When I asked the woman where she got my number from, as I do not have any policies or prior dealings with the company, she replied: "From
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      • 184 43  -  Chia Seok Yee (Ms) I WOULD like to highlight a problem faced by residents of blocks 166 and 167 in Bishan Street 13. Residents of these two blocks have had to put up with wasteful and unnecessary maintenance works over the years, while not getting
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      • 123 43 I REFER to the letter by Mr Tai Kok Meng, "Caged birds in flats a nuisance" (The Sunday Times, Jan 7). HDB flat owners are allowed to keep other pet animals such as fish, hamsters, and birds, which generally do not cause nuisance to
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      • 224 43  -  Ace Kindred Cheong Shiang Hoow AFTER reading the Gen V article, "Sound blaster" (The Sunday Times, Jan 7), I would like to say that it is time for Singaporeans to stop being cowards. I have witnessed many instances of inconsiderate behaviour and I have publicly shamed
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  • Page 45 Miscellaneous
    • 32 45 <bi tl What are the reasons behind the recent smashing success of Singapore's sailors? No, not just a hunger for gold medals but also a DESIGN: SALLY LAM PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
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  • lifestyle
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      • 1886 46  -  Boon Chan CHINA ACTORS China's screen sirens have long outshone the men on the international stage. Perhaps the time is ripe for the men to take their turn in the spotlight WOMEN in China, it would appear, hold up more than half the sky when it
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      • 761 47  -  Stephanie Yap Daily injections of growth hormones help some grow up to 4cm a year. But the treatment works only on those with hormone deficiency AT 1.69 m tall, Tom (not his real name), a 17-year-old junior college student, does not stand out from
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      • 1162 48  -  May Yip The megamall is packed on weekends, but it's a different story on weekdays, when many stores have more staff than shoppers ITS opening three months ago was heralded with fireworks and fanfare, but the buzz surrounding Singapore's newest mall, Vivo City, seems to
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      • 438 48 Owner Mapletree says it is taking steps to improve the mall's layout, loos and water features IMegamall labyrinth While the mall's 1.04 million sq ft size is its biggest draw, it is also a nuisance for some. "If you want to find something quick, it's a
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        523 49  -  Sujin Thomas Making beautiful music together takes on a more literal meaning with a new line of music CDs that come packed with scented condoms A NEW line in chill-out music CDs on sale here is a real hot number the tracks come with scented and flavoured
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      • 485 49 AP SEOUL They are known as the "flowers that can understand words" graceful entertainers from Korea's past who are adept at poetry, art and music, and are the peninsula's version of Japan's geishas. And they have become the new hot cultural property in 21st-century
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      • 821 50 IT'S 10 in the morning on New Year's Eve and four blurry-eyed young men are trotting out to a docked boat in their flip-flops, toting Crumpler bags. Like other pimply boys fresh out of their teens, they make fun of one another, pepper their sentences with the
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      • 1873 50  -  Tan Dawn Wei They're Singapore's newest sporting heroes. LifeStyle meets these conquering sailors and the pepple behind their success CALL them Singapore's new wave of talent. Amid the country's drive to be tops in business fields such as finance, transport, logistics and the like, five teenagers have
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      • 515 51 What do you think of Singapore's sailing heroes? Let us know at stlife@sph. com.sg A SAILOR who doesn't swim sounds like an oxymoron. But Maximilian Soh is living proof that it isn't. The 18-year-old, who recently won a gold medal for sailing the Laser Standard at
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        1003 52  -  Frankie Chee Their icecubes put the chill in your cocktails, so it's no wonder the people behind Tuck Lee Ice are pretty cool customers HERE'S the cold-hard-cash test to find out how well a nightspot is doing, find out how much ice it uses. For in every glass
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        1515 53  -  Suk-Wai WILL HUTTON Author of the hf sf sell ing THE STATE WE'RE IN THE WRITING ON THE WALL CHINA AND THE WEST IN THE 21st CENTURY 'He makes a fine point about the Chinese predilection for violence, citing instances of splitting open human heads as if they
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      • 523 53  -  Cheong Suk-Wai THE WRITING ON THE WALL: CHINA AND THE WEST IN THE 21ST CENTURY By Will Hutton Little, Brown/paperback/ 431 pages/$31.45 (with GST) from Books Kinokuniya SMASHING smack against the tidal wave of optimism about China is this hard-hitting book by Will Hutton,
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        1056 54 NYT NYT If you are injured, continue exercising through crosstraining if possible as it speeds up recovery, say doctors NEW YORK Dr James Weinstein was stretching to lift a heavy box and twisted his back. The pain was agonising. He could not sit, and when he lay down
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      • 819 55  -  Frankie Chee Professor Pang Eng Fong and his wife's bag was snatched in Barcelona. Luckily, they lost only a pair of sunglasses and a phrase book IT HAD always been Professor Pang Eng Fong's dream to visit Bhutan, which is why his 2004 trip there
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      • 1127 56  -  SumikoTan No man's an island, that's true. But the thing is, you really can't depend on others to make you happy I LOST a Mend last year. No, no, he's well, as well can be. What I mean is that I lost a friendship last year.
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