The Straits Times, 12 March 2007

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 80 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 MONDAY, MARCH 12 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Crowds snap up $48m in tech toys
    229 1  -  Serene Luo By MASSIVE traffic jams and huge crowds of bargain hunters clogged up the area around Suntec City yesterday, rushing to pick up last-minute deals at the IT Show 2007. The situation got so bad that at around 3 pm, the up-ward-riding
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    Lock icon Boom time for IT workers here
    677 1  -  Serene Luo /,PE By LABOUR markets are tightening all round, but this is an especially good time to be an information technology (IT) professional. Salaries are rising in line with the insatiable demand for such workers, who have seen their pay jump by up
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Bush's uphill battle for free trade deals
      1168 1  -  Derwin Pereira By US Bureau Chief In Washington THE clock is ticking on United States President George W. Bush's free trade agenda. In Asia, it appears that South Korea will be the last country to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon 1 in 4 teens and young adults could face mental problems
      527 3  -  Salma Khalik ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, ANOREXIA, PSYCHOSIS, PERSONALITY DISORDER... HJI, By Health Correspondent A MAJOR effort is under way to identify the symptoms of mental problems and start treatment early. This comes in the face of findings which show that
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      Lock icon Hawkers go back to class to sit for skills certificate tests
      445 3  -  T. Rajan By IN EXAM-focused Singapore, even hawkers are not spared. Never mind that some have been in the business for several decades. They have been returning to class and sitting for role-playing "tests". One, Mr Shabbir Sakkan, has
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      Lock icon How climate change will hit our daily lives
      255 4 ISLANDS THREATENED: The hardest-hit continents are likely to be Africa and Asia, with major harm also coming to small islands and some aspects of ecosystems near the Poles. North America, Europe and Australia are predicted to suffer the fewest of the harmful
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      Lock icon Asians among hardest hit by global warming: Panel
      499 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS /,K Washington ASIAN countries may take the hardest knocks as the world gets warmer. Millions worldwide could be hit by floods. Others will face severe water shortages, and polar bears may be found only in zoos. All that may come
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      16 4 Victim's widow to judge: Please be lenient She forgives man who was drinking, asleep at wheel
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Hot fight for talent as economy booms
      759 5  -  Ravi Velloor AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE INDIA /,POIE By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi MR E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corp, is a troubled man. The city's underground rail network might be a model infrastructure project noted for its efficiency
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    • JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
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        Lock icon Big rush for positions in public sector
        537 6  -  Carolyn Hong > MALAYSIA K.,E By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur A RUSH of 30,000 people sent in applications when the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan put up notices for 110 vacancies recently. "The sackfuls of applications could not fit into the post office
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        Lock icon Foreign doctors may be forced to leave
        594 6  -  Mark Joyce BRITAIN /,.,MOEC By For The Straits Times In London THOUSANDS of foreign doctors working in Britain could be forced to return home or look elsewhere for work. The doctors, mostly from South Asia, may have to relocate because of the combined
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    • CHINA
      • NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
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          Lock icon Starbucks 'taints China's culture'
          196 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Beijing A CHINESE lawmaker has revived calls for the removal of a Starbucks coffee shop from Beijing's famed Forbidden City. He says its presence is a smear on China's historical legacy, the Xinhua press agency reported yesterday. Although the sev-en-year-old cafe had its
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          Lock icon New property Bill enjoys consensus: NPC chief
          619 7  -  Tracy Quek /,.M,OE By China Correspondent In Beijing DAYS ahead of a vote on a contentious property law, China's legislative chief yesterday sought to silence critics by declaring that it "fully embodied" the will of the people. Last year, Mr Wu Bangguo had
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          Lock icon ALERT ON MILITARY LEAKS ONLINE
          101 7 REUTERS BEIJING: Chinese Internet users should keep national security in mind and not reveal military secrets through online chatrooms, e-mail or blogs, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday, citing a warning from a Member of Parliament. Mr Lin Kang, a National People's Congress deputy from
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          Lock icon CALL TO STUDY DRAGON SYMBOL
          128 7 XINHUA BEIJING: China's most revered symbol, the dragon, needs to be thoroughly studied to find out what it actually embodies, said a political adviser yesterday. The Chinese dragon, an imaginary animal whose history goes back 7,000 years, is a hybrid combination with a horse's head,
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          Lock icon CAUTION ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
          146 7 XINHUA BEIJING: China is still a developing country and should not have too many public holidays, said Professor Wu Jinglian, a famous economist and CPPCC member. "As a member of the public, I also hope there are more holidays, but too many holidays are not good
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Howard defends security pact with Japan
        568 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE /,OEJD Tokyo AUSTRALIA and Japan are expected to ink a bilateral security agreement tomorrow that has raised the hackles of China and South Korea. Australian Prime Minister John Howard arrived in Tokyo last night for a trip to seal an agreement to
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        Lock icon Japanese historian alarmed by backtracking
        312 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FIFTEEN years ago, a Japanese history professor's discovery of documents proving that the military was involved in organised sex slavery forced Tokyo into a landmark apology to the victims. Now, Professor Yoshiaki Yoshimi says he is alarmed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's apparent
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        Lock icon IAEA chief on historic trip to N. Korea
        221 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Vienna CHIEF UN nuclear inspector Mohamed Elßaradei said yesterday that his upcoming visit to North Korea was "a first step in a long journey" towards ridding the communist state of nuclear weapons. The head of the Vien-na-based International Atomic Energy
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        Lock icon Abe seeks to limit fallout on sex-slave issue
        437 8 REUTERS Tokyo PRIME Minister Shinzo Abe sought yesterday to contain fallout from his remarks about wartime sex slaves as the furore threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and US leaders. Mr Abe yesterday repeated that a 1993 government apology to the "comfort
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    • INDIA / SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Pakistan seeks new image with national gallery
        485 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE D ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN is set to open a new national art gallery here this month in a move aimed at promoting a more progressive image of the extrem-ism-hit nation. The overwhelmingly Muslim country's cultural scene in the visual arts, music
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        Lock icon Policeman kills five colleagues at Delhi bank
        321 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New Delhi AN INDIAN police officer shot dead five of his colleagues yesterday after an argument outside the bank they were guarding. Another officer was wounded in the early morning incident, said a police spokesman. He said the shooting occurred at
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        Lock icon Lawyers rally over sacking of top judge
        221 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Islamabad HUNDREDS of Pakistani lawyers rallied on Saturday to protest against the sudden suspension of the country's top judge by President Pervez Musharaff, adding they will launch a nationwide court boycott today. In Karachi, the protesters shouted slogans condemning the removal
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Thai charter council split over proposal for appointed PM
        733 10  -  Nirmal Ghosh ,LJUE By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok A BACKLASH against corrupt politics is fuelling a fierce debate in Thailand's Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) over whether the country's new charter should require an appointed prime minister. While fears of rejection in
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Detained granite vessels 'carrying sand'
        465 11  -  AZHAR GHANI .,LKOE By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta THE Indonesian navy has reportedly said that contraband sand was found underneath granite shipments on the Singapore-bound vessels that were detained last month. Leading daily Kompas reported that the vessels first appeared to be carrying granite,
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        Lock icon Khairy blasts GLC chiefs for ignoring Malay forum
        321 11 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur UMNO Youth's powerful deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin has rapped governmentlinked companies (GLCs) for not sending their captains to a major economic congress for Malay businessmen. He accused them of looking down on business initiatives to help
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        Lock icon NEW NEST FOR LEGAL EAGLES
        43 11 Kuala Lumpur's new court complex, said to be the largest in the world, will be fully operational in May. The RM29O million (Ssl2s million) landmark will house 30 courtrooms for the High Court. PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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        Lock icon Johor theme park to be revealed soon
        128 11 BERNAMA NUSAJAYA (JOHOR) DISCUSSIONS on building a theme park in southern Johor are nearing conclusion, UEM Land managing director Wan Abdullah Wan Ibra- him has said. The theme park will be situated in Nusajaya near the Second Link connecting Johor to Tuas and
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        Lock icon Coach drivers 'take drugs to stay awake'
        154 11 Kuala Lumpur SOME long-distance coach drivers are turning to synthetic drugs to keep themselves awake behind the wheel, a Malaysian official said on Saturday. This phenomenon came to light when police discovered drugs such as ice, or methamphetamine, on several long-distance coach drivers
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Taleban in new push to take Kabul
      791 15  -  Shefali Rekhi KLJOIPYG By THE anxiety in his voice is discernible. Ustaz Bouchaid, 38, monitors the Internet for postings from jihadist groups as part of his work at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies here. He, like others who monitor terrorist websites,
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      Lock icon Kidnappers put heat on Germany
      314 15 REUTERS Kabul A LITTLE-KNOWN Iraqi Islamic militant group has said it will kill a German woman and her son in 10 days' time if Berlin does not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. At the same time, a senior Taleban commander has threatened to kill an
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      Lock icon MAKING FACES
      50 16 Posters of Israelis and Palestinians are pasted up in a section of an Bm-high cement wall, which is part of the barrier Israel is building to separate the outskirts of Jerusalem from the West Bank. The images are part of an exhibit called Face to Face. PHOTO: AP
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      Lock icon Nuclear issue preventing closer links to Iran: SM
      620 16  -  Zuraidah Ibrahim ;LJJKGUI By Straits Times Political Editor In Teheran IN HIS second visit to Iran, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong is presenting Singapore as a country eager to build close links but thwarted by Iran's nuclear stand-off with the international community.
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      Lock icon Why SM Goh is in Iran
      142 16 MRGOH "I am starting my second tour to update myself on developments in the region and stay in touch with old friends. "My first visit to Iran was in 2004 when I was prime minister. Since then, Iran and the Middle East have seen
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      Lock icon Osama's followers celebrate his birthday
      458 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Cairo FOLLOWERS of Osama bin Laden posted numerous messages pledging their devotion to the world's most-wanted man in celebration of his 50th birthday even as his whereabouts remains a mystery. "Today Osama bin Laden turns 50. God protect our leader, our Sheik
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      Lock icon Al-Qaeda plotted to bring down Internet in Britain
      257 16 London SCOTLAND Yard has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been plotting to bring down the Internet in Britain, causing chaos to business and the London Stock Exchange. In a series of raids, detectives recovered computer files revealing that terrorist suspects had targeted
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      Lock icon Biofuel boom may cause rise in hunger: Experts
      582 17 REUTERS KLJIUTYG London USING plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and a moneyspinner for poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise. Fans of biofuels give the impression that people could
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      Lock icon US switches early to daylight saving time
      270 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Washington THE United States has switched to daylight saving time, or summer time, three weeks earlier than usual to cut fuel consumption and help the environment. Clocks were moved an hour forward at 2am yesterday amid concerns that the change could
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      Lock icon SKI ROUTE WITH A VIEW
      39 17 More than 9,500 crosscountry skiers raced over the frozen Lake Sils during the annual Engadin ski marathon yesterday. The 42km route took participants through some of the most spectacular scenery in Switzerland. PHOTO: REUTERS
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon FREEWAY LANDING DRILL FOR JETS
        79 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Taiwan's Defence Ministry said yesterday that it is considering a military exercise where air force jets stage landings on freeways. The drill is scheduled for May 15 on a freeway section in central Changhua county, the Chinese-lan-guage China Times said, citing the
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        Lock icon SPANIARDS RALLY AGAINST ETA KILLER
        113 17 REUTERS MADRID: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested at an opposition rally in Madrid at the weekend to vent their rage at what they say is the Spanish government's "surrender" to the Basque separatist group ETA. Angry at a government decision to grant house arrest
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        Lock icon IRAN 'SUPPORTS PEACE IN IRAQ'
        155 17 REUTERS TEHERAN: Iran declared yesterday that it backed efforts to quell violence in Iraq and hailed a regional meeting in Baghdad where its officials sat down with adversaries from the US as a "good step". "We support any efforts that will bring Iraq out of
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        Lock icon MORE TESTS FOR GARUDA BLACK BOX
        92 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY: Australian air accident investigators said yesterday they had been unable to analyse the cockpit voice recorder of the Garuda Indonesia plane that crash-landed last week and were sending it away for further tests. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said it
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      Lock icon Teenage girl used murdered mother's debit card
      469 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS JHUIY Lafayette (Colorado) FOR nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Mrs Linda Damm's body lay in the boot of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card. Three teens tried but
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon 101-year-old woman mugged in New York
        250 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS FOR a while, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan, holding the door open for an elderly neighbour. Then he turns, giving three sharp punches to the woman's head. "The next thing I knew, I had a big
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        Lock icon Man saves drowning dog using CPR
        138 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS A MAN in Omaha, Nebraska, has saved his drowning dog from death by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Recalling his Air Force training, Mr Randy Gurchin put his mouth over bulldog Lucy's nose, breathing air into her lungs and pushing on her chest. After
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        Lock icon German housewife fixes broken Barbies
        166 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WHERE do all the broken, balding Barbie dolls go? German housewife Bettina Dorfmann (right) knows. She has spent the past 12 years giving them a new lease of life from her kitchen table. Mrs Dorfmann replaces broken limbs and nylon locks lost in
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    • GLOBAL AGENDA
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        Lock icon IAEA chief to visit North Korea
        201 19 LEE TEE JONG ►>EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS UN ATOMIC watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei (right) visits North Korea tomorrow to implement a landmark agreement on dismantling the communist state's nuclear weapons programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) chief will seek to negotiate the
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        Lock icon Japan-Aussie security pact
        123 19 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart John Howard, who began a four-day visit to Japan yesterday, will sign a joint security declaration this week. The agreement will boost cooperation on peacekeeping activities, emergency relief and coun-ter-terrorism.
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        132 19 CAROLYN HONG SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS PRIME Minister Abdullah Badawi will launch a "Hadhari village" on Friday in his constituency of Kepala Batas in Penang. It will be the first of such programmes for the 219 constituencies nationwide. The "village" is essentially a week-long carnival
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      198 18 We cordially invite you and your friends to a free public lecture entitled JM "The Lord's Prayer" m Venue The Hilton Singapore' (Orchard Road), Vista Room 3rd floor W Date Monday, March A 12th 2007 Time From Bto 9pm Mrs. Fujiko Signs C.S.B. 1 Member of The Christian Science Board
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      180 19 MONDAY KUALA LUMPUR: The Supreme Council oJ Barisan National meets. Its agenda is expected tc include election preparations, although the timing is not likely to be discussed. TEHERAN: Anew note for 50,000 rials, with the image of an atomic symbol of electrons in orbit, will be in circulation. TUESDAY »ISLAMABAD:
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      373 20 L;KJ stream state schools of children with milder forms of disabilities like dyslexia and autism. The discernible shift to the state system could be accounted for partly by energetic lobbying by families and civic groups, partly by the Government putting more money and teaching resources
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      1233 20  -  Dilip Hiro »IRAN SAUDI ARABIAN RELATIONSHIP ;LKOJ By In London RECENT news from the Middle East speak of growing concern among Iran's Sunni Arab neighbours over the Shi'ite state's growing power. That story line took a new twist on March 3 when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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      792 20  -  Doug Bandow UNITED STATES-SOUTH KOREA ALLIANCE By For The Straits Times THE United States has kept troops in South Korea for more than a half century, during which the Republic of Korea has gone from an impoverished, authoritarian state to a
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      758 21  -  Alexander McCall Smith RACE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM By THE one sure way to irritate a Scotsman is to call him an Englishman. That happens to Scots all the time when they go abroad, and many feel as strongly about it as Hercule Poirot felt when
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      693 21  -  Greg Mills RWANDA AFTER THE GENOCIDE By For The Straits Times ffIIRTEEN years ago, the world failed Rwanda. The 1994 genocide which cost 800,000 tnostly-Tutsi Rwandans their lives occurred because the world did not care enough. Prance's involvement was shaped by its support
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      912 22  -  Andy Ho HEART ATTACKS By Senior Writer WHEN a person has a heart attack, you should perform CPR. Correct? Well, maybe not. In 2005, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Centre cardiologists published research that showed how, if someone were to collapse unexpectedly, he
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      764 22  -  M.P. DUNLEAVEY NEW YORK TIMES MODERN SOCIETY By HAVE often wondered how it was that the characters in Jane Austen's novels always seemed to know everyone else's income. By the time you're on the second page of Pride And Prejudice, you hear
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      33 20 Luck of the Irish? Evidence shows the English, Scottish and Irish are much of the same stock a fact that is equal part shocking and amazing. PAGE 22 PUNCHLINES llJdn I 9 p
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      540 23 Singapore today Partly cloudy, showers with thunder in the afternoon over many areas. ASIA WORLD WEATHER BEIJING SHM I 0 &^m Clear o "W JȤ SHANGHAI cWy NEW DELHI r^> yf Cloudy L^ KUNMING |pF^ TAIPEI KOLKATA T HONGKONG Willdy HANOI <^s BAY OF BENGAL SOUTH CHINA SEA AN|Lft (BlaNgl^
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      637 24  -  Khushwant Singh »KILLING AT RAFFLES CITY RESTAURANT He worked long hours and was named best supervisor by his employer last year By RESTAURANT supervisor Tan Juan Hua was a model employee committed to his job and willing to work long hours without complaint. Often the
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      552 25  -  Liaw Wy-Cin YIUKJY By BRITISH investment firm Barclays Capital wanted Ms Yu Yingxi so much that it was willing to fork out a six-figure sum to buy her out of her six-year bond with the Public Service Commission (PSC).
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      365 25  - IT jobs aplenty and the terms are good too Serene Luo By THE annual report card by the authorities on the state of the infocomm industry's manpower needs will be out later this month and it is likely to paint a happy picture for job-seekers. Figures collated from past years'
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      653 26  -  Sandra Davie JKHGIUG By haucanon L-orrespondent A LARGE number of students who qualify for junior college appears to be opting for the polytechnic route leaving average O-level scorers without a place in courses of their choice. This is the complaint
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      404 27  -  Lim Wei Chean By THE Land of Smiles remains popular with Singaporeans despite the recent spate of bad news, ranging from bomb threats in Bangkok to attacks in the southern provinces. A Straits Times check with industry players like travel agents and coach operators shows
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      135 27 Eight parents donned costumes and makeup, and pranced on stage yesterday all in an effort to win the votes of some 100 children, including their own. They were taking part in a Mandarin story-telling competition at the Woodlands Regional Library, organised by the Speak
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      631 27  -  K.C. Vijayan UHYGUY By Crime Correspondent MORE lawyers are finding themselves on the wrong side of the law and the legal community is responding to stem the tide. Complaints against lawyers resulted in 28 probes completed last year, more than twice the number a year
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      664 29  -  Serene Luo GEEKS GO GAGA OVER GIZMOS "It seems like the whole world needs a computer today." A VISITOR WHO LEFT EMPTY-HANDED IGUYT By THE loudspeakers yelled "special discount" and "best prices, buy now" phrases designed to
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      347 24 if m mm I was once called'sphere'. M m^ f m^ But now, I feel and look a lot sexier! m m mw Thanks to Jean Yip. J f Toid lost: J F f 27.7 cm A flabby waist and soft tummy used to plague Jasmine Tye. But thanks WLMA
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      27 24 Fighting for place in poly Average O-level scorers fail to get into popular polytechnic courses as students who qualify for JC opt for poly route. PAGE H3
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      222 26 ■r V i t' x ft I V/ 2 <^^kv sa^^^tl W^^i^ 03 A^-a^k^.^ Q What's new for HDB season parking holders? WM More than 400,000 of them will be issued the new HI Radio Frequency Identification Technology-enabled I discs (left) within the year. Q What are these discs? The
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      33 27 For further enquiries, please contact the National Service Affairs Department: MAJ Tan Mci Ling Tel: 6373 6236 Fax: 6373 3215 Email: Tan_Mei_Ling@defence.gov.sg Huang Ting Hsiang Tel: 6373 6235 Fax: 6373 3215 Email: HTingHsi@defence.gov.sg
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      264 28 J J y y\ I m m I I %7" .1 THLBJUU hiimp; St»H Jl M jf[!f I H_ i Ijji |j|) -^■P=w -A -J^^J^^riiS^^^^^^^rmr F CNA trusts Mitsubishi Electric programmable logic controllers (PLC) for their most important systems, such as ventilation for Southeast Asia's longest highway tunnel. Controlling the
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      488 30  -  LYN CHAN By\ SINGAPORE stores kept their doors open for late-night shoppers in January after a fivemonth pilot phase, which ended in November last year, saw good response from both retailers and consumers. The proof: The 58 retailers involved in the dry run reported increased sales
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      559 30  -  GERALDINE TAN By YOU may have seen them in The Straits Times or Lianhe Zaobao, online, while catching a bus or MRT, or the outdoors. The advertisements featuring artist Chen Wen Hsi's exquisite ink brush gibbons would no doubt have caught your attention.
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      271 30 WHILE most food beverage outlets come and go, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has proven its staying power from just one outlet at Somerset in 1977, there are now 70 KFC stores all over Singapore today. It is hard to pin down a single ingredient that contributes
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        119 30 BRAND'S latest beauty supplement is a new variant of its popular Bird's Nest. It combines Bird's Nest with Manuka Honey, a premium quality honey from New Zealand. BRAND'S 100 per cent genuine, premium grade Bird's Nest with Manuka Honey makes it the ideal supplement to maintain good health,
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        121 30 F&N Foods welcomes the Year of the Pig with the launch of the Nutrisoy Hi Calcium Reduced Sugar Red Bean Soy Milk. Each glass of this new product is packed with high amounts of calcium, protein and eight essential ammo acids, which are key to building healthy cells
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        88 30 PICK UP a new putter or driver, or even d whole new golf set and wardrobe at isetan's biannual golf sale at Shaw Centre. Offering merchandise from major golf brands at up to 80 per cent off, this is also the first time the department store has
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        111 30 GOLDHEART invites the modern day stylish woman to express herself with its new Celestial jewellery collection. Add a sparkle to your pesonality with a pair of exquisite Celestial diamond earrings in gleaming white gold accentuated by the brilliant Celestial diamonds. Prices for the stylish earrings starts from $2,178.
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        90 30 YOU too can have silky and healthy hair with a good range of hair treatment and styling products. Ginvera's White Tea Spa Total Benefits hair products, which are richly blended with white tea, ginseng, biogel and minerals, claims to nourish and protect your hair from sun damage, free
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      568 31  -  Tessa Wong KJG By AN EDITOR in The Straits Times newsroom has a crafty way of getting people to read mass e-mail, by writing "nude pictures!" in the subject line. Although slightly crude, the trick works, because people always pay attention
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      432 31  -  Jessica Lim By THE place: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The elements: mountainous, peppered with volcanoes and ruled by a sultan on the fictional island "Gourami". The mission: for Singaporean job-seekers to grapple with and overcome the elements. The Gourami Business Challenge,
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      1188 32 MY LIFE KJGHUY HOW to spend is what the youth commented on in an essay competition themed "Financing Our Future" by the Ministry of Finance. The first Budget 2007 Essay Competition ran for two months from December last year offering a top prize of $2,000,
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      447 31 W/ The Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) Skills Training Award Scheme helps low-income |S. Chinese workers who are Singaporeans or Permanent Residents to attend the following skills training courses. CERTIFICATE IN SOFT SKILLS COURSES* CARING OF INFANTS Ot CDAC is collaborating with the Singapore National W-lIXM 1W V" 1111 J-U
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      96 32 Information Open Day Saturday 17 March 2007 Peony Room, Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore 1 pm to 6pm (Presentation talk: 2pm, 3pm 4pm) Representatives from the medical schools of the National University of Ireland at Cork, Dublin, Galway and Trinity College, University of Dublin, will be pleased to meet suitably qualified applicants
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      355 33  -  Edmund Lim Wee Kiat I AM delighted the Ministry of Education (MOE) has introduced effective programmes to help preschool children who are unable to read and communicate in English ("Finding a foothold in English with Flair"; ST, March 8). MOE will also reach out
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      291 33  -  Ho Yin Fong (Ms) IN RESPONSE to the article, "Finding a foothold in English with Flair" (ST, March 8), NTUC Childcare is in tandem with the Ministry of Education's attempts to redouble its efforts to help children who struggle with English and those
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      414 33  -  Helmut Grawert Michael Ng Eon Beng LAST Thursday afternoon, I drove along Holland Road. At a traffic light, a new BMW 7 class stopped next to me. Driving it was an elegantly dressed woman. To my horror, next to her on
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      241 33  -  Richard Seah Siew Sai WHEN Fair Price Xtra hypermarket opened in Ang Mo Kio, it had a big sign in the vegetable section that said "Organic". However, only about one-quarter of the fruit and vegetables there are organic. The rest include conventional vegetables, presumably grown
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      226 33  -  June Tan Soi Muay (Mdm) DO CHILDREN gain from the subject social studies in schools? It seems to me it is a simplified version of history and geography. If it can be reexamined, I suggest "social" studies like social behaviour, sex
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      225 33  -  Alvin Sim Khim Woon I REFER to the letter, "Poly route shut for average students" (ST, March 8), and have two points to make. First, if a student knows what course he wants to pursue in tertiary education, he has should find out
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      177 33  -  Brian Stampe WHAT is the current government policy on foreign workers' accommodation? From what I recall, they are supposed to be housed in proper workers' quarters. I live in Geylang Lorong 32 and there seems to be a huge influx of foreign workers suddenly
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      208 33 SIMM W Singapore Institute of Materials Management Curtin University of Technology http://www.simm.org.sg http://www.curtin.edu.au NURTUtffNG WORLD CLASS LOGISTICS PROFESSIONALS FOR 25 YEARS BEYOND I Upgrade to a Professional Qualification in LOGISTICS, MATERIALS, PURCHASING SSi and SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Bin ny Master in Logistics Mgt i vA Hi B. Com in Int'l
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      30 33 Letters to Forum Editor Please include your full name, address and a telephone contact number. For women, indicate Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. Send your letters via e-mail to stforum@sph.com.sg
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      101 33 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.asial. com.sg/forum Access to letters online is free. Life skills more important than academic qualifications You need brains or lots of dough to pursue higher education In home schooling, the child misses out on human interaction best experienced in schools Render help
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      696 34 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ENGLISH FA CUP: CHELSEA 3 TOTTENHAM 3 JKGIYR London SALOMON Kalou smashed a spectacular late equaliser as Chelsea fought back to draw 3-3 with Tottenham in the FA Cup quarter-fi-nals yesterday. Jose Mourinho's team appeared to be heading towards the manager's first loss
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      440 34 London JOHN Terry wants to quit Chelsea after negotiations for a new contract broke down. The defender wanted a new nine-year deal at £130,000 (*****,000) a week to make him the club's most expensive player, alongside Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko. He
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      202 34 CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho has admitted that he had clashed with club owner Roman Abramovich. He said that it was over the Russian's refusal to pay for new players in the January tranfer window. He told Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha: "I admit that there
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      358 34 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Rome INTER Milan put their midweek Champions League elimination behind them by beating bitter rivals AC Milan 2-1 in the Italian Serie A yesterday. It was Ronaldo, a hate figure for Inter fans who believe he betrayed the club when he quit
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      48 34 Saturday Sampdoria 1 Cagliari 1 Yesterday Atalanta 1 Parma 1 Chievo Verona 1 Messina 1 Empoli 2 Livorno 2 Inter Milan 2 AC Milan 1 Palermo 1 Fiorentina 1 Reggina 2 Lazio 3 Siena 0 Ascoli 1 Torino 1 Catania 0 Roma v Udinese Late kick-off
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      185 34 P W D L F A Pts Inter Milan 27 23 4 0 59 22 73 AS Roma 26 16 6 4 52 21 54 Lazio 27 14 7 6 44 21 46 Palermo 28 13 7 8 42 33 46 Empoli 27 11 9 7 27 24 42
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      511 35 REUTERS SOCCER GTG London THE fixtures and injuries may be piling up for Manchester United, but at least the Treble is still on. The 2-2 draw at Middlesbrough on Saturday in the FA Cup quarter-finals has added a replay at Old Trafford on March 19.
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      95 35 ALEX Ferguson is in no mood to quit managing Manchester United. He confirmed: "I'll be here for at least another two years. "I couldn't be enjoying the job any more than I am now, with the team we have and the way we are playing."
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      167 35 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MIDDLESBROUGH captain George Boateng has risked a Football Association charge after suggesting that referee Rob Styles has singled him out for unfavourable treatment this season. Styles awarded Manchester United a second-half penalty which earned the Premiership leaders a 2-2 draw
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      250 35 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON ARSENE Wenger has been assured that his budget for summer transfers will not be affected by Arsenal's Champions League exit. The Gunners lost their last-16 clash 1-2 on aggregate to PSV Eindhoven. "lt will not affect the manager's budget
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      558 35 ASSOCIATED PRESS Madrid LIONEL Messi showed on Saturday just why he has been dubbed the new Diego Maradona. The Argentinian sealed a hat-trick in stoppage time to salvage a 3-3 Primera Liga draw for 10-man Barcelona against Real Madrid at the Nou Camp.
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      1145 36  -  Alvin Foo »GOLF Cool Chinese pips Malaysian in play-off to win Spore Masters By WHO would have thought that Liang Wenchong would be the new Clariden Leu Singapore Masters champion? Definitely not Liang, for the Chinese golfer had booked himself on a 7pm flight
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      262 36  -  Hoe Pei Shan »SILAT By TEENAGERS engaged in fights usually spell nothing but trouble. Not so for Nurindah Mursani (above), who punched and kicked her way to a World Junior Pencak Silat Championship title The 15-year-old beat Brunei's Nurul Aimi Amaliana Zainidi 4-1 in yesterday's
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      570 36  -  Jeanette Wang By THE first thing that strikes you about professional golfer lain Steel are his accents. Sometimes he sounds American, sometimes Scottish and, occasionally, he spouts something in Malay. "Ada lagi tak?" said the 35-year-old Malaysian as the interview
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      263 36 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRICKET Montego Bay (Jamaica) THE West Indies' troubled World Cup build-up suffered another blow yesterday. Skipper Brian Lara was confronted with rumours that some of his teammates had been partying hard on the eve of the nine-wicket thrashing by India in Friday's warm-up
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      595 37  -  Leonard Lim SOCCER JKHGU By AS FAR as Jekyll-and-Hyde performances go, last night's must rank high on Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin's list. The Woodlands Wellington skipper had a first half to remember and a second to forget in their 2-1 S-League win over
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      335 37 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BADMINTON BIRMINGHAM TOP seed and world champion Lin Dan blazed to his third All England badminton title in four years yesterday. He beat Chinese compatriot Chen Yu 21-13, 21-12 in the men's singles final. Lin was in supreme form before a
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      390 37  -  Chan Vi Shen SWIMMING By SINGAPORE paralympian Theresa Goh has set a second world record in less than seven months. At the Danish Open in Esbjerg yesterday morning, she smashed the women's 50-me-tres breaststroke (SB4 classification) world record with a time of
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      370 37  -  Chan Vi Shen By THEY were humbled 1-5 by Home United in their S-League debut last Sunday. But the Korean Super Reds are sticking to their aim of a top-three finish this season. Said team manager Kirn Kyoung Soo: "There is no
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        97 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS MANNHEIM (Germany): Vladimir Klitschko earned a sec-ond-round technical knock-out against Ray Austin to retain his International Boxing Federation title on Saturday. The Ukrainian has now set his sights on a bout with World Boxing Association champion Nikolai Valuev, assuming the Russian beats Ruslan Chagaev
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        161 37 REUTERS LONDON: Ireland's rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan has accused an unnamed Scotland player of deliberately choking fly-half Ronan O'Gara during his team's 19-18 Six Nations win on Saturday. O'Gara was left blue in the face after the incident, which took place with one
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      1175 37 BADMINTON All England C'ships, s-finals: Men's singles: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Bao Chunlai (Chn) 21-14 21-16, Chen Yu (Chn) bt Chen Jin (Chn) 21-18 9-21 21-13. Final: Lin bt Chen 21-13 21-12. Doubles: Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng (Chn) bt Tony Gunawan (USAJ/Candra Wijaya (Ind) 18-21 21-19 21-18, Koo Kien Keat/Tan
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      183 34 2nd CHANCE FOR KOREANS! Beaten 1-5 in opening match. Sleague Korean Reds Gombak Mon, 12/03/07 7.45pm S.League Geylang Sengkang Tue, 13/03/07 7.45pm E League Champ Derby QPR Wed, 14/03/07 3.45 am E League Champ Preston Ipswich Wed, 14/03/07 3.45 am E League Champ Sheffield Wed Colchester Wed, 14/03/07 3.45 am
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      95 37 S-League Today: Korean Super Reds v Gombak (Yishun, 7.45pm) Tomorrow: Geylang v Sengkang (Bedok, 7.45pm) Wednesday: SAFFC v Albirex Niigata (Choa Chu Kang, 7.45pm) Thursday: Balestier v Woodlands (Toa Payoh, 7.45pm) Friday: Liaoning v Home (Jalan Besar, 7.30pm) Saturday: Tampines v Young Lions (Tampines, 7.45pm) Sunday: Geylang v Korean Super
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  • OBITUARIES
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      141 38 "1 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 MOSES PEREIRA Age: 83 L passed away peacefully on 10 March 2007. Beloved Husband of Evelyn (Girlie) loved Falher of Beloved Father-in-law of Maureen Westerhout Burton Westerhout Colin Pereira Cynthia Pereira
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      102 38 PANG CHEW LIANG Age: 69 Passed away peacefully on 9 March 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife:BehAhMuay Sons: Anthony PangYong Huat Tony Pang Yong Heng Nic PangYong Hwa Daughters-in-law: Goh Guan Wang Lee Mun Sze Ho Shwu Ling Daughter: Jeaneite Pang Mvi Kiang Grandsons: Gabriel Pang
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      198 38 MARY LEONG CHOI HAR Age: 73 was called home to be with the Lord on 10 March 2007. Dearly missed and always remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Chong Tet Hsim, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chong Tzc Yong Teo Lee Keng Dr. Chong Tze Shing Tan Leh Yong Chong Zee Liang Daughters:
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      27 38 In Memory of My Beloved Wife MAYBEUNETOK "May our ashes be united someday. I love you, that's all I could say" With love forever Your Uncle Hubby
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      32 38 sth Anniversary In loving memory of Victor Ong Cheng Lock called home to be with the I nid mi 12 Mar '2oo2 Always remembered cherished try taring wife. children, daugliters-in-lau; sons-In-hue grandchildren
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      64 38 SREERAMAJAYAM IHANGARAJOO JAYARAM NAIDU (Ex SBS Bus Technician) Age: 50 passed away peacefully on 11 March 2007 leaving behind: Wife: B. Sumathi Mother: S. Suriyanarayani Father-in-law: M. Balakrishnan Sons: I. Saravanakumar Naidu J.Venugobalan Naidu Daughter: J. Bhawhani Naidu Cortege will leave Apt Blk 125 Marsiling Rise #03-166 S'porc *****5 on
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      119 38 1/ \l iralkril close to lesus, and my journey continues..." TAN HUNG TONG, HERON Age: 75 was called home to be with the Lord on 10 March 2007, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Lee Hotm Children: Spouses: Richard Tan Lydia Teo John Tan Evelyn Tan Serina Tan Ho lip Tse
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      79 38 TARUMALINGAM SUPPIAH THEVAR Age: 83 passed away peacefully on 11/03/2007 leaving behind: Sons: Daughters-in-law: Pan nee r Selvani Hlangovan Rose Clare Sclladurai Periyanaya^am Ravisandran Shccla Dcvi Itsilasunriarnm Daughters: Sons in law: Leela Devan Va.su ki Paramasivam Grandsons: Granddaughters: Manimaran Shalini Nandakumar Darshini (iopi Raj Darsmini Mv;: Sal,nanan Naresh Kumar Thiban
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      71 38 "Gone from our lives one so dear But in our liearts forever near." SUNG SIEWYIN Age: 87 passed away peacefully on 10 March 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. i Brothers, Sisters-in-law, Sister, Brother-in-law, Daughter, Grandchildren, Grandchildrcn-in-law, Nieces and Nephews. Funeral service will be held on 13/03/07
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      52 38 if With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to MR ANTHONY PANG YONG HUAT Director of: Cesium Holdings Pte Ltd UPICO Technologies Pte Ltd LI PICO Fats Oils Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd on the demise of his beloved father PANG CHEW LIANG Departed on 09 March 2007 From: Management Staff LIPICO GROUP
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      42 38 Ist Anniversary In everloving memory of ERICA CHANG KIM LOON, GERMAINE Called home to be with the Lord on 12th March 2006 Dearly missed and always remembered and loved by Hubby, Daughter, Parents, Parents in law, loved ones and friends a j
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      63 38 I Wc, the family of the late 1 S. S. Maniker Vasagem Pillai Departed on 26 February 2007 wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives and friends during our recent bereavement. Athma Shanthi Pooja will be held on Tuesday 13 March 2007 at 7.00pm at Sri
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      56 38 2ND ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory of TAN NOIHEOK Departed on 12 March 2005 In our home she is fondly remembered, Sweet memories cling to her name; Those who loved her in life sincerely, Still love her in death just the same. Always remembered by her children, children-in-law, grandchildren, grandson-in-law, great
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      147 38 We, the family of the late Thomas Caleb Tan Kirn Huat Departed on 6 March 2007 wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to relatives, friends, colleagues, pastors and members of Mennonite Church Singapore (MCS), Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church, River of Life Community Church, APMf Bethany International University (BIU) and
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      45 38 2nd Anniversary In Loving Memory Of VICTOR F. DOGGETT Departed on 12 March 2005 Time takes away the edge of grief iliat memory turns back every leaf Deeply missed by Wife: Marjorie Doggetl Son: Daughter-in-law: Nicholas Doggett Felicia Ang and all loved ones. r J
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      30 38 fig H With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to DrA.K. Mitra Family on the demise of his beloved wife DR RATNA MITRA From: DRTHAMKOKFUN Staff of O&G Centre f w
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      85 39 Where S$ stands Mar 9 %CHNG YR 2006/07 CLOSE FR Mar 8 S$ LOW S$ HIGH JS$ 1.5265 +0.01 1.6630 1.5240 iuro 2.0064 +0.06 2.0589 1.9182 2.9449 +0.21 3.0566 2.7897 1$ 1.1896 -0.28 1.2369 1.1366 ren* 1.2990 +0.68 1.4419 1.2555 lupiah *0.***** +0.01 0.***** 0.***** iaht ....4.3330 +0.29 4.3800
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      399 39  -  Arthur Poon TAKING STOCK LKHY By RELIEVED investors can expect a further recovery in the Singapore market this week, as the latest United States jobs data released last Friday was in line with expectations. US employers added 97,000 jobs to
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      7237 39 Unit Trusts Funds UNIT TRUSTS ABN Amro Asset Met (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.041/ Star Europe Bond 1.182/ Star Europe Bal 1.217/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.265/ Star Asia Bond 1.316/ Star Asia Balanced 1.095/ Star Global Technology Fund! 1' 0 207/ Hiilti St Fd 0.988/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.862/
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      452 40 FINANCIAL TIMES JJM New York UNITED States Federal Reserve governor Susan Bies said problems in the sub-prime mortgage market could escalate, unnerving investors further, as shares of troubled lender New Century Financial continued to plummet last Friday. At a risk management forum in
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      371 40 REUTERS Chicago WALL Street expects the United States Federal Reserve to keep benchmark short-term interest rates on hold for some time, according to a Reuters poll. But it leans strongly towards the central bank's next move being a rate cut. The survey, taken
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      Lock icon India's Reliance to sell 10% stake to strategic investors
      236 40 BLOOMBERG NEWS MUMBAI RELIANCE Industries, India's most valuable company, plans to sell a 10 per cent stake to financial and strategic investors, the Business Standard reported, without saying where it obtained the information. Reliance's associate firms may sell shares held by
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        98 40 ROTARY Engineering has become more attractive since the recent market selldown battered its share price by more than 10 per cent, according to OCBC Investment Research. The brokerage said Rotary should be able to add to the combined $49 million worth of
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        124 40 DBS Vickers has dramatically raised the target share price of casino operator Genting International from 62 cents to $1, based on the firm's better growth prospects. It said that Genting has "transformed itself over the last year into a global casino player, with firm
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        116 40 SMRT Corp's profit for financial years 2008 and 2009 could be hit following changes announced in the Budget, said Citigroup Investment Research. As SMRT is likely to absorb the 2 percentage point rise in the goods and services tax, Citigroup said this will more than
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      212 40 BLOOMBERG NEWS Washington US TREASURY Secretary Henry Paulson will head a panel of investors, bankers and policymakers looking at ways to shore up the competitiveness of financial services in the United States. The panel will include Mr Warren Buffett, the billionaire head
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      Lock icon Asian budget carriers 'to seize 20% of market share'
      492 41 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LKJGJ ASIA'S budget airlines are set to expand their share of the regional aviation market to 20 per cent within three years from less than 1 per cent in 2001, an industry consultancy said yesterday. The strongest growth will
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      458 41  -  Lee Su Shyan By THE charismatic former Mexican ambassador who embraced life in Singapore with a Latin passion has returned to run the new office of United States law firm Duane Morris. Mr Eduardo Ramos-Gomez left Singapore in 2001 after a
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      250 41  -  Bryan Lee By AUSTRALIAN fund management firm AMP Capital Investors has appointed local industry veteran Greg Scow as chairman of a new Asian headquarters that it is setting up in Singapore. The firm, a unit of financial services group AMP, said
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        96 41 ROBERT VAN ZWIETEN: Resigned as executive vice-president (EVP) in charge of special projects at the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Mr van Zwieten (above) plans to leave SGX on June 30. His departure follows a reorganisation of the firm's top management last December, during which he
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        47 41 LOW HUI HUA: Resigned as chief financial officer of electric motor maker Lindeteves-Jacoberg. Ms Low will leave the company at the end of May to ensure a smooth transition and handover of her duties to her successor, who has yet to be found.
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        Lock icon JISHAN APPOINTS NEW CHAIRMAN
        38 41 LIEN KAIT LONG: Appointed chairman of garment dye and printing company Jishan Holdings. Mr Lien is an independent non-executive director of the company. He took over from executive director Jin Rong Hai last Thursday.
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        51 41 STEVEN SCHNEIDER AND RANVIR DEWAN: Appointed non-executive directors of health-care services group Parkway Holdings. Both Mr Schneider and Mr Dewan joined Parkway's board of directors last Thursday. The company also announced the resignation of Mr David White as director and member of its strategic planning
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        22 41 BABCOCK BROWN NAMES DIRECTOR DANIEL BRICKMAN: Appointed director of Babcock Brown Structured Finance Management, which manages the Babcock Brown Structured Finance Fund.
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      Lock icon Some retail investors still game for trade despite recent losses
      458 42  -  Lance Ang JHGYUT By THE stock market may have picked itself up from the depths it plumbed in six unnerving days from Feb 28, when $49 billion was wiped out. However, for some retail investors who were caught napping by
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      Lock icon NUS second Asian institute to be named CFA partner
      415 42  -  Ng Sook Zhen By THE National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School has become only the second institute in Asia to be designated a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programme partner. This means the CFA Institute signifies that the NUS Business School's
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      Lock icon Investors make a beeline for STI contracts amid market volatility
      380 42  -  Arthur Poon WARRANT WATCH By WARRANT investors had a field day betting on the Straits Times Index (STI) last week after the index rebounded from six straight days of losses lasting till Monday, and headed north for the rest of
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      Lock icon Credit card bad debt sinks to 5-year low
      683 43  -  Aaron Chew KJHUIY By SINGAPOREANS are clued up on credit these days, with bad debts racked up on plastic at a five-year low despite a huge increase in the number of cards in use. Experts say the reduction in bad debt the
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      296 43 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG NEWS FUELLING BOOM IN THE NORTH Beijing CHINA plans to set up the country's third stock exchange in the booming northern city of Tianjin within the year but the project still needs Cabinet approval. The over-the-counter bourse would handle mainly
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