The Straits Times, 2 May 2007

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 22 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 281 1  -  KEN KWEK The finale of the musical, A Labour Of Love, had an unscripted twist yesterday when guest of honour Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (extreme left) went on stage and joined cast members for a five-minute boogie. He was accompanied by
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  • 640 1  -  Sue-Ann Chia Economy has been transformed but don't think the nation has arrived, he says By WAGES rose by nearly 5 per cent last year, the fastest in six years. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cited that as
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  • 327 1  -  SUE-ANN CHIA THE Government is "betting" a lucky draw will attract lowwage informal workers to join the Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme. Announcing this new scheme yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: "Singaporeans love lucky draws. So why not have a small
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1106 1  -  Ong Soh Chin By i Senior Correspondent In Almaty (Kazakhstan) APART from a few stints back home, chef Wilson Low has been a nomad for the past 18 years, working and living in faraway countries like Austria, Denmark and nyBut his most exotic posting
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 370 2 HOME SECTION ONE Mortgagee sales down Prime 2-4 The number of Asia 6-18 repossessed flats put up World 19-27 for sale by banks is Review 28-31 dropping as the economy PY| 32 improves and fewer i^fx homebuyers inflate their it*- **JIM IWU purchase price to get Home Hl-Hll bigger home
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  • PRIME
    • 625 3  -  Liaw Wy Cm rANYA FONG By &S A CAR smashed into a crowded bus stop along Penang Road last night, sending bodies hurtling onto the pavement. Five women were injured when the Toyota Vios struck the bus stop just outside the crowded
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    • 528 3  -  Interim facility will provide more specialised treatment for low- to medium-risk inmates Tracy Sua By Teh Joo Lin THE Singapore Prison Service plans to set up a secure psychiatric hospital to house mentally disabled convicts and provide them with more specialised
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    • 176 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS London BP CHIEF executive John Browne resigned yesterday, hours after a judge lifted a legal injunction preventing a newspaper from publishing details of his homosexual relationship. The company's board appointed Mr Tony Hayward as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Mr Browne
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    • 430 4 Washington TERRORIST attacks worldwide shot up 25 per cent last year, with most of the deaths occurring in the hot spots of Iraq and Afghanistan, says a United States report. In its annual global survey of terrorism, the State Department said
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    • 577 4 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG Abu Ayyub Al-Masri believed to have died in feud between militants Baghdad THE shadowy leader of AlQaeda in Iraq was killed yesterday in a feud between militants north of Baghdad, the country's Interior Ministry spokesman said. One ministry
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  • ASIA
    • 771 6  -  Lee Tee Jong He allegedly ordered mafia-style attack on several men who hurt his son in brawl By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul SOUTH Koreans are transfixed by a real-life prime-time drama involving a tycoon and his son unfolding on their
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    • CHINA
      • 555 8  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Stalled talks over lifting of travel ban blamed for drop in arrivals By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei SOME hotels built annexes, travel agencies bought coaches and retailers stocked up on merchandise last year, gearing up for an influx of
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      • 54 8 A Chinese jockey riding an ostrich during a novelty race for crowds that turned up at the Shanghai Wild Animal park yesterday. The May Day break is one of three annual "Golden Week" holidays in China. Beijing introduced the week-long holidays in 1999 in hopes of triggering
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      • 250 8 Taipei DAYS after Taiwan rejected Beijing's 2008 Olympic torch relay route, the ruling party chairman proposed yesterday two new routes that would let Taipei carry the flame without linking it to any part of China. Democratic Progressive Party chairman Yu Shyi-kun said he would
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      • 631 9 Business school graduates get multiple job offers and earn double their old salaries Beijing FOUR years into a job at a giant state-owned engineering firm in central China, Ms Jennifer Liv asked her boss for permission to return to graduate school. Her request was
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      • 247 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Addis Ababa SEVEN Chinese oil workers abducted by Ethiopian rebels are on their way home to China after they were released on Sunday, Chinese officials said. The hostages arrived in Addis Ababa on Monday aboard a military helicopter from the
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      • 377 9 Beijing RECRUITING "high-calibre" people is key to a new technolo-gy-heavy training plan adopted by China's military as it seeks to cope with the challenges of the future, state media said yesterday. The plan would ensure that the men and women commanding tomorrow's army
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      • 472 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS Some of the homeless are spending their nights at the 24-hour fast-food restaurants Hong Kong NO LONGER just a restaurant for people to munch a burger, McDonald's in Hong Kong has become a shelter for some down on their luck, a
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
        • 109 10 BEIJING: Stricter rules on airline security took effect across China yesterday as the week-long May Day holiday began. For passengers on international flights, all liquids carried in hand luggage must be held in containers with a capacity of no more than 100 millilitres. The containers should
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        • 81 10 BANGKOK: The wife of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has sued the military's top graft-buster and a newspaper for defamation. Khunying Pojaman Shinawatra filed the lawsuit over comments that compared her controversial purchase of government land in Bangkok to robbery, her lawyer said yesterday. Mr Nam Yimyaem,
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        • 107 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PALU (Indonesia): President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday pledged 27.5 billion rupiah (554.6 million) in funding for Indonesia's restive Poso, where intermittent sectarian violence has claimed hundreds of lives. He said the money has been earmarked for development of the divided district on Sulawesi island,
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        • 85 10 BLOOMBERG LONDON: British police arrested 30 suspectec animal rights extremists in raids yesterday ir Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Fifteen men and 15 women faced questioning, although three were later released. The raids followed a two-year investigatior into crimes against targets such as Huntingdor Life Sciences,
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 609 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Melamine is used in feed production to increase protein level despite ban Beijing IN THE United States, it is feared as a killer of cats and dogs and a potential threat to humans. Yet in China, the mildly toxic chemical
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      • 247 11 REUTERS Tokyo TOKYO prosecutors have appealed against last week's acquittal of the Japanese businessman accused of drugging, raping and killing British bar hostess Lucie Blackman nearly seven years ago. The prosecutors appealed to a higher court on Friday, asking for a retrial, a spokesman
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      • 367 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG ICG: Rewards and threat of sanctions needed to get N-arms scrapped Seoul STORTH Korea will scrap its tuclear weapons only if it is sffered a detailed programme of rewards linked to srogress and backed by the :hreat of sanctions for backiliding,
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      • 164 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE International Crisis Group proposes an eight-step process to get North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programme: 1. Verified freeze of the Yongbyon reactor in exchange for US$25 million (Ss3B million) in funds frozen in a Macau bank and 50,000 tonnes of fuel oil;
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 435 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS One person is hurt in the attacks claimed by a group opposed to NGOs Dhaka THREE small explosions yesterday at separate train stations across Bangladesh left one person injured in an attack claimed by a group opposing non-governmental development
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      • 724 14  -  Ravi Velloor NEWS ANALYSIS Insurgency rages on as neither the govt nor rebels are willing to budge India Bureau Chief In New Delhi AIR attacks by Tamil rebels have taken Sri Lanka's three-decade-old insurgency to new dimensions and shaken the confidence
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      • 70 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS TWO Australian men were arrested yesterday and charged with raising money for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, allegedly telling donors they were collecting funds for victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, police said. The two men, Aruran Vinayaga moorthy, 32,
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 463 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Surayud hopes to reach out to 'Americans and our allies' and counter Thaksin's propaganda Bangkok THAILAND'S military-installed government will hire an American public relations firm to improve its image abroad in the wake of a series
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      • 347 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yala THE head of the world's largest grouping of Muslim nations visited Thailand yesterday to discuss the violence in the Muslim-ma-jority south. The secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Mr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, expressed his support for
        ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: AFP  -  347 words
      • 689 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Workers rally for democracy, higher wages and better working conditions Bangkok TENS of thousands of workers took to the streets in Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila yesterday, demanding democracy, higher wages and better working conditions. About 10,000 workers
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      • 286 16 REUTERS Washington THE United States criticised Thailand on Monday for steps it took to override patents of two HIV/Aids drugs, but stopped short of threatening action at the World Trade Organisation. The US Trade Representative's office, in an annual report on
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      • 70 16 Disorder reigned at some May Day rallies yesterday. In Macau, police fired pistols (far left) to ward off protesters after more than 1,000 broke through cordons lining the route of a march. Police allegedly dragged some protesters by their hair. At the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank
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      • 355 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kuala Lumpur A TOP religious official dismissed a request from Malaysia's Chinese community to build its own mosques, fearing segregation of the country's Muslims, a report said yesterday. Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Othman, the religious adviser to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi,
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      • 487 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS Indonesia says it has postponed sending virus specimens after talks end in deadlock Jakarta INDONESIA'S health minister has accused the World Health Organisation of breaking its promise to ensure that the country's bird flu samples would not be used commercially, dragging
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      • 68 16 This bag is not the real thing. It is a copy of the iconic Birkin bag, but what a sweet one it is. The bag is one of the tasty totes in various designs that a Jakarta hotel is dishing out, complete with the buckles, locks, buttons and
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      • 303 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS Manila THE Philippine police have filed a murder complaint against a woodcarver who confessed to beating to death a Peace Corps volunteer while she was hiking alone, officials said on Monday. Juan Duntugan has admitted that he bludgeoned Julia Campbell, of Fairfax,
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      • 315 16 Bukit Mertajam (Penang) THE mother of an Indian worker who died ol abuse from his Penang employer's family had pawned her jewellery to raise enough money for him to work in Malaysia. But less than a year after Mr R. Ganesh left
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 428 17 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Violent storm tears off roofs, uproots trees and street lamps in minutes Malacca A VIOLENT storm hit parts of Malacca on Sunday night, tearing off the roofs of 100 houses and uprooting trees and street lamps all within five
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      • 179 17 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN doctors have declared neckties a health hazard and called on the Heath Ministry to stop insisting that physicians wear them. Citing studies that show ties are unhygienic and can spread infection, the Malaysian Medical Association says they are not often
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  • WORLD
    • 838 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLOUT FROM INQUIRY INTO LEBANON WAR Pressure grows after a minister quits, citing disillusionment Jerusalem ISRAELI Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation yesterday as his ruling coalition showed signs of fraying with the resignation of
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    • 335 18  -  Li Xueying By In Jerusalem VISITING Foreign Minister George Yeo and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed on Monday that there was potential to grow the business links between their two countries, when they met for talks here. They noted the synergies that businesses
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    • 476 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG Court ruling could result in general election being held sooner than slated Ankara TURKEY'S top court ruled yesterday that a first-round parliamentary vote to elect a new president was invalid, a decision that could lead the Islamist-rooted government to
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    • 493 20  -  Roger Maynard ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS The plan to bomb several targets in Sydney is similar to the plot uncovered in London By Australia Correspondent In Sydney A DAY after five Britons were convicted of plotting Al-Qaeda bomb attacks in
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    • 637 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS London CALM and unwavering, a quiet American captivated a London courtroom for over two weeks as he told how he nurtured a generation of home-grown British terrorists. Mohammed Junaid Babar, 32, the FBl's star Al-Qaeda informant, gave 17 days
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    • 531 20 London A MAN accused of being one of Al-Qaeda's leaders in Britain and who is alleged to have sent one of the July 7 suicide bombers to a terrorism training camp in Pakistan is living freely in Britain and facing no charges. According
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    • 623 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS They limit talk on climate change; cite cooperation on range of issues Washington EUROPEAN Union (EU) and US leaders finished a one-day White House summit by pointing to improved cooperation on a range of issues, while carefully avoiding major disagreements
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    • 762 22 NEW YORK TIMES Big payoff if idea of getting tiny organisms to absorb carbon dioxide works San Francisco CAN plankton help save the planet? Some Silicon Valley technocrats are betting that it just might. In an effort to ameliorate the effects
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    • 305 22 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing CHINA, poised to be the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, is going on the offensive in global warming politics. It is opposing emissions caps that are likely to shape contentious negotiations about solutions. A draft of the latest United
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    • 464 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Oslo FEWER roses on a wintry Valentine's Day, less room for kids in smaller cars and costlier holidays in the tropics: Life in Norway will become less glamorous but more climatefriendly as the country aims to be "carbon neutral"
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    • 414 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS Paris FRANCE'S presidential race has entered its last stage with conservative Nicolas Sarkozy leading Socialist Segolene Royal in polls, and both candidates turning their sights to a crucial face-to-face TV debate today. Attention yesterday however turned to far-right leader Jean-Marie Le
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    • 471 23 REUTERS Accused vice ring owner asks judge for permission to sell some of her shares Washington THE woman accused of running a prostitution ring serving Washington's elite, whose clients included at least one US government official, also appears to be something of a
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    • 621 24 They travel, play golf and can look forward to longer life expectancy London THOSE over 50 in Britain today are living lives like people half their age half a century ago, according to a new study that compared the lifestyles of the two
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      • 212 24 REUTERS MR THAKSIN Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister of Thailand ousted in a military coup last year, has been elected president of the country's professional golf association, local media reported yesterday. The billionaire telecoms baron, who has not returned to Thailand since
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      • 198 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE "SLOW motion" marathon runner Greg Billingham finished the London Marathon one week after the event started. Mr Billingham, 39, decided to "run" the 42km event at an ultra-slow pace of 4.Bkm every 10 hours, to raise money for the Children With
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      • 253 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS CHESTER Turner, described by prosecutors as possibly Los Angeles' most prolific serial killer, has been convicted of murdering 10 women and one victim's unborn foetus in the 1980s and *****. The 12-member jury had deliberated since last Thursday and made known its verdict
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      • 203 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS COPING with cancer, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow (above) has returned to work, declaring himself "unbelievably lucky and unbelievably blessed" as he prepared to undergo chemotherapy. "Anybody who does not believe that thoughts and prayers make a difference they're
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    • 531 25 Isotope Helium-3 may replace fossil fuels and end threat of global warming Moscow A NEW Cold War may be brewing over what could be a precious commodity on the moon. The Russian space agency has accused its old rival, the US National Aeronautics
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    • 528 26 REUTERS British Prime Minister will announce next week when he plans to step down Edinburgh BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair finally endorsed long-standing finance minister Gordon Brown as the nation's next leader yesterday, saying he would make a "great prime minister". In a TV
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    • 421 26  -  Goh Chin Lian By In Gabarone (Botswana] WHEN President SR Nathan visited a diamond mine here, he was struck by the fact that 95 per cent of those in charge were Botswanians rather than expatriates. This was the result of a conscious effort
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    • 444 27 LIFE has changed dramatically in the short time since e-mail hecame widespread. For the most part, e-mail has been useful. But that tiny part that hasn't been so positive rankles users mightily -for a good reason. Today, office hours often start with a tedious, routine
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    • 928 27  -  William Pesek By IT'S A question few in Tokyo want to ask: What happens if deflation returns to Japan? In reality, it is too late to ask; Asia's biggest economy already may be experiencing renewed deflation. It is not of the kind that
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    • 896 28  -  ASSAR LINDBECK By IT IS generally agreed that China's impressive economic achievements during the last three decades are largely the result of the radical reform of its economic system. While private ownership of firms hardly existed when these reforms started, private firms today account for about
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    • 1061 29  -  NUHU RIBADU By FOR the past few weeks, the world has been riveted by the difficulties of Mr Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, regarding a potential conflict of interest involving the salary of his partner, also a senior
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    • 788 30  -  Sally Satel WASHINGTON POST By IT IS a sad time for the 96,000 patients in the United States waiting for kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs: The chasm between supply and demand grows wider each year. In any 24-hour span, 18 people in need of
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    • 36 27 Give Wolfowitz his due It would be a shame to bring World Bank chief Wolfowitz's good work in Africa to a halt because he got his girlfriend a pay hike. PAGE 30 PUNCHLINES 1 doctor's^ iWAv
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    • 649 32  -  Tanya Fong liaw Vvy-Cin ACCIDENT AT PENANG ROAD A witness queries the driver of the car that hit five women at bus stop By HER first question to the driver who had ploughed his car into five women at a bus stop along Penang Road was:
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    • 209 32 Careening across three lanes, the car spins around before hitting the bus stop. This is what eyewitnesses say they saw last night: ©The car strikes @It makes a Hurtling across the road, the kerb on the 180-degree the car flattens the extreme right spin and goes
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      • 75 33 A MAN snatched a plastic bag containing $8,000 from the owner of a Serangoon Road coffee shop on Sunday night. She had just transferred the money from the cashier's till into the bag and was headed to the kitchen when the culprit came from behind
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      • 57 33 DRUG officers netted a haul of 2.lkg of cannabis, 485g of heroin, 500 Ecstasy pills and 40 Erimin-5 tablets in a raid over the weekend. The drugs have a combined street value of $206,000. An alleged drug trafficker and his two associates were arrested
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      • 173 33 A MAN who touched his niece's breast on the pretext of lifting her to take the weight off her aching feet was jailed a year and given three strokes of the cane on Monday. The incident occurred in July 2005 a month after the
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    • 614 34  -  Tan Hui Yee Improving economy and rules to persuade buyers to be prudent among key reasons By Housing Correspondent THE number of repossessed flats put up for sale by banks is dropping as the economy improves. Another reason: the crackdown on
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    • 749 35  -  Amelia Tan In July, they aim to complete route of one of world's toughest foot races By RETURNING home after work at about midnight, 53-year-old television producer Lim Nghee Huat changes out of his work clothes and into his running
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    • 170 35 Mr Lim Nghee Huat, 53 »25-30 km run one weekday every week, by repeating the route from his home in Upper Thomson to the entrance of the Upper Pierce Reservoir and back, which is a 6km circuit. »40-50 km run on Saturday taking the same route,
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      • 753 37 In his May Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted three policies which have succeeded in improving workers' lives. All were due to creative ideas, careful planning, effective implementation and attention to details. Aaron Low reports SOME 60,000 jobs will be
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      • 328 37 SINGAPORE has had some success in moving away from a system that pays higher wages based on the number of years a worker has been in the job. But more needs to be done if older workers are to remain
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      • 354 37 SOME 300,000 older, low-wage workers each got a hongbao of between $75 and $600 on May Day yesterday, thanks to the Workfare Bonus. This second tranche of the payout, part of a policy to help less-skilled workers hard hit by the
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      • 448 37  -  Ken Kwek By THE challenges that Singapore faces are no different from those of other countries, but its response and outcomes must be different. That was labour chief Lim Swee Say's message to unionists at yesterday's May Day Rally, held at the National University
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      • 83 38 Sprawled on the lawn at the Istana, National University of Singapore students Colin Teo, 21, and Li Si Ying, 20, admire some photographs they took around the well-manicured grounds. Thousands of locals and tourists took advantage of the Labour Day open house yesterday to
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      • 312 38  -  Ken Kwek By RESIDENTS were pleased when NTUC FairPrice opened its new hypermart in Ang Mo Kio. But not the shopkeepers nearby, who complained that their businesses were affected. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also an MP for Ang Mo Kio
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      • 561 39  -  Arti Mulchand PHOTO: Banyan Tree to plant trees in 8 locations and open a wildlife conservation lab at Bintan resort By EVERY year for the next 10 years, Banyan Tree Holdings will plant at least 16,000 trees in eight different locations to offset the carbon emissions
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      • 71 40 THRIVING UNDERWATER LIFE: Marine and coral life are flourishing in the waters off the resort. A wildlife conservation laboratory at the resort will tie up with researchers in the area to study the island's flora and fauna. PHOTOS: CHEW SENG KIM ONSERVATION EFFORTS: A tie-up
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      • 609 41  -  Salma Khalik Singapore-developed method of injecting drug-infused silicon shrinks tumours By Health Correspondent FOLLOWING successful early trials on liver cancer starting in 2004, a Singapore-developed treatment is now being tested in patients with pancreatic cancer. The treatment involves injecting drug-infused biodegradable silicon straight
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      • 102 41 ALWAYS wanted to take up cycling but can't share pavements with pedestrians and don't quite have the stomach to share the roads with killer machines? Adventure group Terra Outdoors wants to introduce people to the joys of cycling along park connectors in Singapore some
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      • 653 42  -  Arti Mulchand When Sindhis from around the world meet here in July, it won't be all business By SINDHIS from around the world will converge in Singapore this July, and the traditionally business-minded group will have more than just money
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    • 26 32 Death Valley mega-run In July, 2 Singaporeans will attempt one of the world's toughest foot races: The 217-km Kiehl's Badwater Ultramarathon in the US. PAGE H4
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    • 405 43  -  John Elliott RETIREMENT AGE MINISTER Lim Boon Heng has called for workers to work longer to save for old age (ST, April 30). May I suggest that much of the apparent problem of an ageing population is created by the existence of
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    • 179 43  -  Jason Chiam Chiah Sern ELECTRONIC Road Pricing (ERP) rates will go up along the Central Expressway (CTE) from Monday. It seems to me that the Land Transport Authority lacks a viable solution to the problem of congestion. Every time there is a
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    • 243 43  -  RECENT letters to the Forum have drawn attention to car insurers that took the easy way out by settling exaggerated claims to avoid costly litigation. While this commercial decision makes sense in a one-off kind of situation, it encourages such claims and could
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    • 140 43  -  Yeo Chay Hoon (Ms) OF LATE, I have observed and airborne diseases such as many people spitting. tuberculosis may be passed Spitting is a very unhy- on. gienic and dangerous habit as I recall that some two decgerms can be spread easily, ades ago, there
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    • 376 43  -  Tan Yip Meng SAMANTHA Ng Bee San's letter ("She 'left' Singapore with a clear conscience"; ST, April 26) commenting on the article, "MM: My job to look after those who built nation" (ST, April 23), left me bewildered. There is a need to differentiate between
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    • 314 43  -  Jean Clare Tan Ec Hua (Mdm) NATIONAL Day is round the corner again. Other than encouraging Singaporeans to display the Singapore Flag prominently on the balconies and windows of our highrise homes and offices, how about making available other forms of the
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    • 359 43  -  Eu Kar Mun (Miss) AS THE article, "Grade disparity in Project Work upsets students" (ST, April 26), noted, this year's Project Work results have yielded some surprises. For example, Hwa Chong Institution recorded 85 per cent As while St Andrew's Slunior College had less
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    • 202 43  -  Lee Shih Ming (Ms) MY FRIENDS and I went to St James Power Station last Friday. We ordered a bottle of gin and enjoyed the good music. However, our outing was marred when two of us decided to visit
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    • 84 43 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.asial. com.sg/forum Access to letters online is free. Nutrition maze find your own dietary therapy Transport fares look at the benefits of a flat-fare structure Call centres need to improve their service Collection rounds: SembWaste should get it right Are bio-degrad-able bags
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  • SPORTS
    • 1008 44  -  Rob Hughes > SOCCER He's one game away from the final, and a yellow card away from being suspended By PAUL Scholes needs to keep his feet on the ground, his eye on the ball, and his mouth shut in Milan tonight. He could be
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    • 210 44 Man United v San Siro Milan's players believe the roar in the 87,500-capacity San Siro stadium will intimidate United. The Red Devils have not beaten Milan away in nearly 40 years. They will hope to count on the "spirit of 1999", when they fought back from 0-2 down
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    • 314 44 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MILAN AC Milan believe two factors will decide the Champions League semi-final in their favour tonight. There is the San Siro crowd. And then there is striker Filippo Inzaghi. Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed yesterday that he will drop striker Alberto Gilardino, who
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    • 404 44 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Milan MANCHESTER United have received a huge boost with the news that Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic are expected to start against AC Milan today. The pair have been defensive rocks for the Premiership leaders all season, and United have
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    • 357 44 London CHELSEA'S superstars Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack have denied reports of rifts with the club. Reports had suggested that an angry Shevchenko had refused to travel for last night's Champions League semi-final second leg in Liverpool because manager Jose
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    • 90 44 JOHN Terry's contract negotiations with Chelsea hit a snag because he wanted the option to manage the club. "I don't know about emulating Jose Mourinho, but I'd like to manage one day," he told the BBC. He wanted a nine-year deal with the option to manage
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    • 323 45 »SOCCER London FORMER Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is in pole position to buy Manchester City after he was granted access to the Premiership club's accounts. His accountants will complete due diligence at City before advising their client, who yesterday confirmed he had made
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    • 485 45 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE Newcastle striker says he's ready to pull on national jersey London MICHAEL Owen capped his first-team return to Newcastle by admitting he would "jump at the chance" of returning to the England set-up. The striker ended his "long and lonely" spell on
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    • 88 45 READING mascot Kingsley a giant lion who wears the club's blue-and-white hooped shirt was sent off by the referee during the Premiership match against Newcastle United on Monday, because it was confusing him. "I can see where the referee was getting confused. You know he
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    • 346 45 London ROY Keane insists yo-yo club Sunderland are not just going to make up the numbers in the Premiership next season. The Black Cats clinched promotion to the top flight last weekend. It was a remarkable turnaround in fortunes, given that the club were
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    • 504 45 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London ARSENAL captain Thierry Henry has taken a cheeky swipe at bitter rivals Tottenham. He criticised their exaggerated celebrations whenever they avoid defeat in the North London derby. He was baffled when Tottenham's players and fans celebrated Jermaine Jeans' last-minute equaliser wildly during
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    • 278 45 London SAM Allardyce's departure from Bolton has not gone down well with chairman Phil Gartside. Not only did Gartside claim that the successor, Sammy Lee, was a better manager, but he also believes Allardyce was afraid of the possibility of another European campaign. One of
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      • 98 45 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Sepp Blatter, the president of Fifa, wants the 2018 World Cup to go to Asia instead of the United States or Europe. Fifa will decide later this year whether to continue its policy of rotating continents for the soccer showcase.
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      • 74 45 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NANTES: France's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Fabien Barthez has quit his club Nantes for safety reasons, following a post-match run-in with a group of disgruntled fans on Saturday. "I'm not going to play for Nantes again. I don't feel ready to live like
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    • 511 45 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London LEEDS United, the one-time Premiership champions, reached a new low this week: They made a public appeal for a financial saviour. Al-1 draw with Ipswich at Elland Road on Saturday all but doomed the side to League One football
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    • 647 46  -  Jeanette Wang BADMINTON Wong and Zhou cruise into main draw at Aviva Open Singapore By THEY had been there, done that. But yesterday, two former badminton world No ls were doing it all over again at the Aviva Open Singapore. Playing in the qualifiers
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    • 330 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRICKET Bridgetown (Barbados) AUSTRALIA'S Adam Gilchrist smashed 149 in the Cricket World Cup final against Sri Lanka on Saturday, which essentially won the trophy for his side. He later revealed the secret of his batting success a squash
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    • 384 46  -  JEANETTE WANG WOMEN'S doubles pair Vanessa Neo and Shinta Mulia Sari were the only Singaporean qualifiers to advance to the Aviva Open Singapore main draw. At the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday, the duo beat Malaysia's Ng Hui Lin and Woon Khe Wei 23-21,
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    • 310 46  -  Leonard Lim »SOCCER By SENGKANG Punggol defender Tan Sio Beng will be disciplined for his outburst during his side's 4-3 win over Phnom Penh Empire in a Singapore Cup first-round match yesterday. Before a crowd of 1,894, the 30-year-old shouted obscenities
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    • 569 46 BADMINTON Aviva Open Singapore qualifiers, men's singles: Kennevic Asuncion (Phi) bt Chew Swee Hau (Sin) 14-21 21-19 21-13, Indra Mawan (Mas) bt Febriyan Irvannaldy (Sin) 21-15 21-10, Mohd Arif (Mas) bt Erwin Djohan (Sin) 21-12 18-21 21-14, Aaron Tan (Sin) bt Tommy Sugiarto (Ina) 11-21 21-16 21-19, Alamsyah (Ina)
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    • 563 47 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL McGrady, Yao star in their 96-92 triumph over Jazz, which gives them a 3-2 series lead Houston TRACY McGrady was hitting shots and giving out assists at a record pace. Yao Ming was grabbing rebounds and dominating inside. A
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    • 46 46 TV times SOCCER: Champions League s-final 2nd leg: AC Milan vs Manchester United (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 2am). Events BADMINTON: Aviva Open Singapore (Singapore Indoor Stadium, 9am). SOCCER: Singapore Cup, preliminary rd: Balestier Khalsa v Chonburi (Toa Payoh, 7.45pm). Prime League: Home United v SAFFC (Bishan, 7pm).
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  • OBITUARIES
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      90 47 In Loving Memory Of Zoe Lim Departed 2 May 2002 "Jemember me when you are away, far into that brighter land; remember how you held my hand, and beckoned me with each new day" deeply missed by Adam, Annie, BokLiong, Brandon, Carol, Choon, Cui'e, Edvan, Edwin, Eugene, Gary, Gene, Hozay,
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      29 47 In Loving Memory Datin Chiew Swee Peow nee Au Yong Van Bth Anniversary Departed: 2nd. May 1999 You are always in our hearts Quentin, Poh Cheng Julian, Penny, Graeme
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      36 47 2 m 2nd Anniversary In Ever Loving Memory of NG CHENG BOX Departed 2 May 2005 Gone from our lives one so dear. But in our hearts forever near. Fondly remembered by family and loved ones.
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      47 47 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith". 2 Timothy 4:7 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of The Late Charlie Tay Gar Choong Departed on 30 April 2007 From The Management Staff of Singapore Discovery Centre Ltd
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      36 47 In Loving Memory of former President Wee Kirn Wee (Departed on 2 May 2005) From: Cheong Fook Mary Siew Lian T X Heng Doris Mong Kiew Tai Teng See Foong Sylvia Toh irrm Iris Seah w.
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      45 47 TriefamiCy of (ate Chow Moh Chun departed on 17th April 2007 wish to express their heartfeCt thanks and appreciation to a(( reCatives, friends, coCQagues and business associates for their care, support, assistance, attendance, condoiemces, wreaths and donations to Singapore 'Buddhist Lodge during their recent bereavement.
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      80 47 3n JZewtuf. JHenuwy Of YONG SOW YIN I Departed on 2 May 2002 Anthonys reitiunheretL by I Husband: Ling Ing Hea Sister: Peh Ah Koon Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ling Ping Boon, Steven Guo Pei Fen Ling Peng Meng Kum Ping Wei Ling Whee Yew, Kalvin Daughters: Son-in-law: Ling Li Fun Ong
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      41 47 Ist l~rlnnwersartj yn loaning JiCemoru Of KO JIE CAI Departed 2/5/2006 Not just today but everyday, we remember lhe times we shared Dearly missed always remembered by Dad, Mum, Bro, Mncipal, Teachers students ofZhonghua Sec Sch, relatives and all loved ones.
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      109 48 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director, Ms SimAi Leng, and our Group CEO, Mr Terence Tea, On the demise of their beloved father/father-in- law SimSokYew Departed on 29 April 2007 From: Management Staff Advance SCT Limited Subsidiaries: Tsing Vi Enterprises Pte Ltd SCT Technologies Pte Ltd Singapore Copper
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      124 48 "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith". 2 Timothy 4:7 JOHNSON HOW LIM MING Age: 72 was called home to be with the Lord on 30 April 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Ong Boon Eng Children:
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      129 48 Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the life, whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies." John 11:25 NGYUENGYIN Age: 95 was called home to be with the Lord on 1 May 2007, leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Loh Yoke Ming, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: David Loh Hung
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      78 48 TAY POH HONG Age: 63 passed away peacefully on 30-4-2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: How Pak Leng Son: Daughter-in-law: How Soon Peng Teo Mcc Kiang Daughter: Son-in-law: How Soon Ngoh Anna Li Pan Daniel Granddaughters: How Jing Hui Flora LiYi Jing Joy Li Yuan Sheng
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      92 48 "Iwill dwell in the house ofthe Lord Forever" Psal_m23 REVD CANON FRANK LOMAX Age: 86 was called home to be with the Lord on 1 May 2007 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Irene Lomax Son: Daughter-in-law: Michael Anthony Lomax Kathrin Lomax Daughter: Son-in-law: Clare Louise Lomax Kaller Paul Raj Kaller
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      97 48 "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want... and I will dwell in the house ofthe Lord forever." Psalm 23 NG KUM WENG TERENCE Age: 63 was called home to be with the Lord on 1 May 2007, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Christina Daughter: Son-in-law: Grace
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  • MONEY
    • 445 49 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG NEWS Manufacturing data is more upbeat, showing robust expansion in April Washington PENDING sales of existing US homes fell more than expected in March to the lowest level in four years as the decline in sub-prime lending
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    • 79 49 GOOD NEWS The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index showed surprising strength, registering 54.7 last month, above the March reading of 50.9 and Wall Street's expectation of 51. The prices paid index rose to 73 in April, compared with 65.5 the previous month. BAD NEWS The National Association
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    • 325 49 REUTERS Tokyo JAPANESE wage earners' total cash earnings fell slightly in March from a year earlier for the fourth month in a row, data showed yesterday. This cemented views that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will go slow in raising interest rates amid tame wages and
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    • 521 51 REUTERS It forecasts further widening next year but says this will be offset by reserves Washington THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast that it would have a wider income gap of US$l65 million (Ss2sl million) for fiscal year 2007 compared with the
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    • 213 51 BLOOMBERG NEWS Canberra HEALTHSCOPE, Australia's secondbiggest hospital owner, offered As2.B billion (553.5 billion) in cash and stock for Symbion Health to take advantage of increased demand for X-rays and blood tests. The bid values shares in Symbion, the nation's largest health-care company, at
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    • 322 52 REUTERS Report says it is in talks with HSBC and others in bid to recover from slump Shanghai THE Shanghai stock exchange is in talks with HSBC and other high-profile foreign firms to list in mainland China, as part of its strategy to
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    • 271 52 REUTERS Dubai DUBAI International Capital, owned by Dubai's ruler, said yesterday that it bought shares of HSBC Holdings for a fund it manages, making the fund one of the largest investors in Europe's biggest bank. Dubai International Capital did not give details of the purchase
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    • SME SPOTLIGHT
      • 213 53 SMEclinic I HAVE a business dispute with my supplier over a deal worth a few thousand dollars. What are the ways to pursue this without taking him to court? How much will these avenues cost me? The alternative to going to court is settling the
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      • 44 53 Claim amount Type of fee Fee Upto $250,000 Management fee or appointment fee Domestic case is $1,750 Arbitrator's fee Rates for arbitrators range from $300 to $800 per hour. Lawyer's fee Rates will depend on your agreement with the lawyer. SOURCE: SIAC
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      • 1062 54  -  Fiona Chan Expanding property arm helps Straits Construction weather downturn and keep all its staff By Property Reporter WHEN the Singapore construction industry went into a slump several years ago, more than 50 companies were forced to close down. However, some others, such as
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      • 308 54  -  FIONA CHAN CONTRACTORS were not the only ones that suffered during the downturn. Another company that stuck it out was Vicplas, which makes pipes and pipe fittings for the construction industry. The Sesdaq-listed firm made it big by riding on the construction boom
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    • 549 55  -  Joyce Teo It kicks off with 10-year contract to manage Amara Bela in Indonesia By Property Correspondent HOME-GROWN hotel group Amara Holdings has unveiled plans to pursue more projects overseas but says it will adopt an assetlight strategy that will not tax its balance sheet.
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    • 141 55 OVERSEAS, Amara owns the Amara Saigon Hotel in Vietnam and the Amara Signature in Shanghai, which is being built and will open by 2009. The China venture is a mixed development comprising a five-star, 400-room hotel, an office block with over 60,000 sq ft of space
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    • 517 55  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent KOON Holdings' founder and former executive chairman, Mr Oh Keng Lim, who was ousted from his position in February, has been re-elected as a director at a heated shareholders' meeting. He had been removed from his
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    • 1438 56 Asia has been a hotbed of private equity activity, with Singapore raking in the two largest deals in the region, excluding Japan. The largest was the $943 million investment in reinsurer Asia Capital Holdings by six partners, including DBS Group Holdings chairman Koh Boon Hwee
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    • 260 56  -  GABRIEL CHEN WARRANT WATCH IN ANTICIPATION of DBS Group Holdings' first-quarter results due out on Friday, investors have been snapping up covered warrants issued on the local bank, hoping that its earnings will be better than expected. On Monday, a DBS call warrant
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    • 507 57  -  Arthur Poon Capita Land, Sing Tel also among top three firms in Spore: Magazine poll By DBS Group Holdings, Capita Land and Sing Tel have been named Singapore's top three companies in terms of corporate governance. The trio were lauded for their
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    • 78 57 CHINA HONG KONG MALAYSIA SINGAPORE SOUTH KOREA Ranking Company Sector Company Sector Company Sector Company Sector Company Sector Ping An Insurance Insurance Li Fung Conglomerate Public Bank Banking Samsung Electronics Electronics Bank of Communications Banking Sun Hung Kai Properties Property BAT Malaysia Tobacco Posco Steel Datang International
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      104 57 DBS »Its "black-out" policies are more stringent than guidelines issued by SGX. »It makes corporate governance more real to staff by clarifying the procedures involved. »Its independent directors serve a fixed term totalling not more than nine years. Capita Land »Its board comprises 12 directors of whom 10 are
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    • 324 57  -  DENNIS CHAN OUTRIGHT SALE MAPLETREE Logistics Trust (MapletreeLog) is buying an industrial property in Hong Kong for HK$7BO million (Ssls2 million). The real estate investment trust's (Reit's) manager, Mapletree Logistics Trust Management, has agreed to acquire for the trust the property known as
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    • 23 57 Staying alive Straits Construction and Vicplas are two building-related firms that survived the sector downturn, thanks to their strategy to diversify. PAGE H23
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    • 111 58 MOVIES REFRESHING BARLEY TRAILER PARK CINE MAX Ken Loach's movie Watch out for Busy May and June offers food for thought Shia Laßeouf V J for movie buffs page 6 page 6 pagelO Tobey Maguire (pictured) is not m^ jjj sure if he will go on to fight fet villains
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    • 648 59 Reuters Fashionistas flocked to the launch of Kate Moss Topshop line but not everyone is a fan LONDON Hundreds of Kate Moss fans queued on Monday for an early taste of the British supermodel's first foray into fashion design at the launch of her eagerly
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    • 616 60  -  Brenda Goh Lead singer of local band The UnXpected with tough rocker persona turns pensive as she goes solo MANY fans may find the move UnXpected. Shirlyn Tan, the pint-sized lead singer of local rock band The UnXpected, has won a following with her tough rocker persona
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    • 276 60 AP ROME Does Pisa need a second Leaning Tower? Next month, more than 600 years after the city's most famous monument was built, construction starts for a modern glass and steel building that will simulate a tilt with a trick of lighting (left). But
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      • 1102 61  -  Ong Sor Fern Average ordinary guy or superstar? Artistic licence or box-office franchise? Gift or curse? Just as Spider-Man faces an identity crisis, such questions rankle Tobey Maguire as he is successfully typecast as The Webbed One IN TOKYO DRESSED somberly in muted shades deep blue
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