The Straits Times, 2 January 2008

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 92 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 2008 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Upgrading jobs – the security sector way
    627 1  - Upgrading jobs the security sector way Lynn Lee It has boosted low-paying jobs, drawing more to workforce By FHE labour movement yesteriay held up the changes in the security sector as an example 3f how low paying jobs in oth--3r parts of the economy can be revamped and upgraded. Security
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    Lock icon HAPPY 2008!
    569 1  -  Li aw Wy-Cin Ringing in the new year around the world By FROM Singapore to Sydney, and New York to Beijing, 2008 was ushered in with cheers and hope. Even in strife-torn Baghdad, people spilled out into the streets to celebrate. Hundreds of thousands of people thronged various
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Will Jakarta's anti-porn Bill protect or repress?
      924 1  -  Dcvi Asmarani By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta IT HAS been more than a year since a proposed law that threatened to arrest couples caught kissing in public was shelved amid controversy. Now it is back, revised and ready to be tabled in Parliament
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon PrimaDeli outlets reopen after nearly a month
      737 3  -  Ho Ai Li Sales at outlets dip about 10% to 200/0, but 'better than expected' By WHILE most of Singapore ivas asleep after counting iown to the new year, a :ountdown of a different >ort was taking place in a :ake shop in
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      Lock icon M'sian Health Minister admits role in sex DVDs
      506 3  -  Hazlin Hassan ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE STAR/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK, BERNAMA By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Health Minister Chua Soi Lek yesterday admitted that he was the man featured in a sex DVD after it became the talk of the
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      Lock icon US sets limits on carrying lithium batteries aboard flights
      259 4 Boston TECH-SAVVY travellers who fly with power-hungry gadgets must now grapple with new restrictions on packing loose lithium batteries. Effective yesterday, the US Transportation Department banned them from checked baggage, citing the risk of fire. "Lithium batteries are considered hazardous materials
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      Lock icon Suicides among kids and youth drop sharply
      670 4  -  Salma Khali k Greater awareness of kids' emotional distress among parents, teachers By Health Correspondent SUICIDES among young children here have dropped significantly in the past few years, with none occurring in the first 10 months of last year. In 2000 and 2001,
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      Lock icon How to spot a troubled child
      336 4 ONE sure sign that a child is troubled is when his behaviour changes, and stays changed, especially if it follows a stressful event, such as when school starts. For some children, every new school year brings a little fear. It may lead to trouble
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      192 4 SERVICED APARTMENTS Tax call brings cheer I A ruling by the Income I Tax Board of Review on rental income has raised hopes in the industry. Read about the implications in BT today. 2 1 MM Think Hearing Aids, Think Siemens Celebrate this festive season with Siemens Enjoy 50% off
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Election body set to announce date for polls today
      337 6  -  Anthony Paul By Senior Writer In Islamabad IN SEVERAL terrible days of shocks and nationwide mayhem since Ms Benazir Bhutto's assassination last Thursday, the least surprising event must be the Pakistan Election Commission's decision to postpone the elections scheduled less than
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      Lock icon Polls delay may still cost Pakistan govt
      650 6 NEWS ANALYSIS We then see her as a beautiful woman in her late teens and 20s, maturing into a handsome matron surrounded by her children. Excerpts from her speeches accompany the images. One example, often repeated: "We are prepared to risk our lives
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      Lock icon Army 'knows best', but for how long?
      757 6  -  Ravi Velloor By AT HER first meeting with her army and intelligence chiefs upon being elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1989, Ms Benazir Bhutto was clearly told by the two generals where she stood. Several critical matters, includ- ing the military nuclear
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      Lock icon Son 'hot' with the girls online
      178 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MR BILAWAL Bhutto (above), thrust into the political spotlight by his mother's assassination, can count on support from at least one source female Facebook fans who describe him as "hot". "Oh My God, he's cute," said one contributor to "Let's not assassinate
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      Lock icon Bhutto 'had proof of vote-rigging'
      137 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FORMER premier Benazir Bhutto was slain just hours before she was to go public with "proof" that Pakistani intelligence and electoral officials were planning to rig polls, an official from her party said yesterday. She was to unveil a report about an alleged
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      Lock icon India-Pakistan exchanges go on
      152 6  -  ANTHONY PAUL DESPITE the political chaos of the Bhutto assassination, there was a brief reminder in Islamabad yesterday of how at least one of South Asia's flashpoints has changed for the better. At 11am local time, Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials exchanged lists giving each
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    • CHINA
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        Lock icon Let Taiwanese decide on China ties: Chen
        591 7  -  Ong Hwee Hwee President makes clear in New Year speech he will not drop referendum By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei FAIWAN'S ties with China should be determined by the Faiwanese and not by Beiing or Washington, President Chen Shui-bian says. His comment came
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        Lock icon Renamed memorial for Chiang Kai-shek opens
        295 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Taipei TAIWAN'S Chiang Kai-shek memorial hall reopened yesterday with a new name as part of the government's efforts to downplay his controversial legacy. The building in Taipei, ordered closed six months ago for the revamp, no longer bears the name of the
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        Lock icon Strong measures will be taken to curb inflation: Hu
        296 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Beijing CHINESE President Hu Jintao has vowed to implement "forceful measures" in the new year to curb rising food prices and address a booming real estate market that has seen property prices skyrocket. Following his speeches on Monday,
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon N. Korea misses deadline on nuclear disarmament
        503 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE But US and regional powers stress overall denuclearisation is still on track Seoul NORTH Korea has failed to meet a year-end deadline to declare all its nuclear programmes under an aid-for-disarmament deal, and has instead urged the US
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        Lock icon The promise and the reward
        104 8 AGREEING last February to abandon its nuclear ambitions in return for energy aid and political concessions, Pyongyang promised it would shut down its sole functioning atomic reactor and disable it and other key facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex under watch of US experts. The
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        Lock icon SNOWED UNDER
        83 8 Heavy snow in the western part of South Korea disrupted flights and highway traffic on Monday. A resident (right) in Jangseong, 300 km southwest of Seoul, shovels snow from a greenhouse that collapsed after it was blanketed by snow. Weather officials said up to 38.7 cm of snow
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        Lock icon Environment tops Japan's G-8 agenda
        424 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Tokyo JAPAN took over the presidency of the Group of Eight (G-8) club of the world's leading economies yesterday, with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda determined to focus on climate change and environmental issues. Japan the world's second biggest economy after the United
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Tamil opposition MP shot dead in Colombo
        460 10 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE He is the third minority legislator to be killed in Sri Lanka in the past two years Colombo A PROMINENT ethnic Tamil opposition MP was shot dead during a New Year service at a Hindu temple in the Sri
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        Lock icon Militants kill 8 in attack on Indian armoury camp
        221 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Lucknow (India) SUSPECTED Islamic militants armed with assault rifles and grenades broke into a police camp in northern India yesterday, killing eight people. Officials termed the incident in the town of Rampur a "serious security lapse", with the Central
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Ban minority sect, Islamic body urges Jakarta govt
        599 11  -  Salim Osman 'Deviant' group blamed for growing unrest in the community By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta NDONESIA'S highest religious authority wants the government to ban a minori:y sect for being deviant, af:er a series of attacks against :he group's religious centres. The
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        Lock icon Java transport in chaos after floods
        331 11 REUTERS Jakarta MORE flooding on Indonesia's main island of Java has disrupted road and rail transport links between the capital and parts of the island. The floods bring the total number of dead or missing people from recent rain-relat-ed disasters to 121, officials said
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        Lock icon No cut in fuel rations, says Myanmar
        193 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS Yangon MYANMAR'S ruling military, apparently wary of igniting another outbreak of mass demonstrations, tried to quash rumours yesterday that fuel rations would be slashed in the face of rising global oil prices. A sudden hike in fuel prices in August last
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
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          Lock icon CONGRESS CHIEF SONIA HOSPITALISED
          91 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI: India's ruling Congress Party chief Sotiia Gandhi has been admitted to hospital with a chest infection, a hospital official said yesterday. Mrs Gandhi, 61, was in stable condition after checking in with mild breathing problems on Monday night, >aid Dr B.K. Rao,
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          Lock icon CHINA TO TURN KMT CAVE INTO RESORT
          104 11 OUTERS BEIJING: China is to create a tourist resort in a giant :ave used by the former Kuomintang (KMT) government as a secret aircraft factory during World War 11, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The Haikong cave, in mountains near the
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          Lock icon 'NEW YEAR' PEOPLE IN CHINA
          119 11  -  XINHUA BEIJING: Since 1949, China has seen more than five million people born on New Year's Day, with about 1,700 of them named Yuan Dan after the Chinese name for Jan 1, says the Ministry of Public Security. The term Yuan Dan is traditionally used
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          Lock icon INDIA WILL PROTECT CHRISTIANS
          163 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to protect India's Christians in a letter to the widow of an Australian missionary killed nine years ago in a sectarian attack in eastern Orissa state. Mr Graham Staines and his two young sons were burnt
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          Lock icon THAKSIN TO RETURN HOME IN APRIL'
          151 11 THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK BANGKOK: Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said that he will end his exile in April. Giving an interview to Thai TV channel TITV, Thaksin said that he would return home on Songkran Day, Thailand's traditional new year, in
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    • MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Johor's IDR taking off with 12 mega projects worth $3b
        588 12 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Investors are likely to start construction by April, says Johor Chief Minister Johor Baru TWELVE mega projects worth at least RM7 billion (Ss3 billion) are expected to kick off this year under south Johor's Iskandar Development
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        Lock icon TAKING NOTE OF A SPECIAL YEAR
        69 12 This RMSO (Ss22) note will be in circulation by the end of this month. Its issue commemorates Malaysia's 50th year of independence last year. The note has enhanced security features such as a security thread embedded in the paper. Sales of the new note
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        Lock icon Time to stop taking in foreign workers: Minister
        344 12 BERNAMA Langkawi A CABINET minister has called on Malaysia to stop taking in foreign workers until more detailed policies are introduced, as the country continues to see cases of trouble involving foreign workers. The 2.6 million foreign workers in Malaysia, said Human
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        Lock icon No more 'spiced-up' Bahasa Malaysia on RTM
        330 12 BERNAMA Kuala Lumpur RADIO Television Malaysia (RTM) has banned actors from speaking Bahasa Malaysia with a Chinese or Tamil twang in comedy programmes, sitcoms and drama series. Such accents, said Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin, are an insult to the new generation
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      33 6 Sri Lanka MP shot dead A gunman shoots an ethnic Tamil MP at a temple, in the third killing of a minority legislator in Sri Lanka in the past two years. PAGE 10
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  • WORLD
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      540 13 REUTERS Civil libertarians slam Australia's proposal to filter out Internet porn to protect kids Sydney THE Labor government in Australia plans to introduce tough new rules to protect children from Internet pornography and violence, a move which civil libertarians feel will erode the freedom of the Internet. Government
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      Lock icon In S'pore and elsewhere
      230 13 SINGAPORE'S Media Development Authority requires the three Internet Service Providers here to block about 100 websites, including those carrying pornographic and extremist content. But the block is ultimately symbolic, as it is almost impossible to control everything that is on the Internet. Other countries also try
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    • Article
      Lock icon UK airport staff call off strike over pension row
      473 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS But Virgin crew still plan to walk out after Branson turns down pay demand LONDON FEARS of chaos at airports in the United Kingdom, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Glasgow, next week have receded after a potential settlement
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      Lock icon Some SIA travellers affected
      110 14 PHOTO: SINGAPORE Airlines estimates that a small number of customers would be affected by the impending strike by Virgin Atlantic. It said that a small number of customers are booked on codeshare flights of Virgin, and since the flights affected by the industrial action are mostly
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      Lock icon Nasa releases edited airline safety report
      188 14 Washington NASA has grudgingly released an intentionallyscrambled, partly-deleted version of the safety data it gathered from interviews with airline pilots who had repeatedly complained of fatigue, problems with air traffic controllers and airport security. The move was making good on a promise to Congress
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      Lock icon SUPPORT FOR STRANDED PILGRIMS
      80 14 Palestinian Hamas security officers keeping protesters back at the Gaza-Egypt border on Monday. The demonstration was organised as a show of support for Palestinian haj pilgrims stranded in Egypt. Israel has agreed to allow 550 Palestinians who have been stranded in Egypt for roughly four months
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      Lock icon TB woman on flight: Search on for fellow travellers
      259 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco US HEALTH officials were searching for dozens of airline passengers who may have come in contact with a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India. The 30-year-old woman not identified by
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    • Article
      Lock icon No more smoke in your eyes at French cafes
      503 15  -  Susan Sachs Few grouses as smoking ban at 'convivial places' takes effect By For The Straits Times In Paris FHE smoky French cafe is no more. Its demise came on New dear's Day, as a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants,
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      Lock icon Fear of meltdown in Kenya after post-poll riots
      264 15 REUTERS PHOTO Nairobi BODIES and debris lay in Kenyan streets yesterday as riots over a disputed election killed at least 150 people in what was once Africa's most stable and prosperous democracies. Western powers yesterday pressed President Mwai Kibaki to investigate claims
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      Lock icon New peacekeeping force in Darfur
      241 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS El Fasher (Sudan) A JOINT African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping duties in war-torn Darfur on Monday, in a long-awaited step intended to be the strongest effort yet to solve one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. But many are already warning that
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      Lock icon Caesarean sections 'riskier than believed'
      464 16 Study says women who have had C-sections may lose wombs later London WOMEN who have had a Caesarean section run a much higher risk of needing a hysterectomy following the birth of their next child, according to a major study from Oxford University. The British
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      Lock icon Mother and child in 'more danger'
      100 16 PREVIOUS studies have warned of other risks involved in Caesarean sections. Another study by the same Oxford University department, but carried out in Latin America, found that the procedure carried double the risk of death and illness for both mother and baby. Last December,
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      Lock icon World's oldest orang-utan dies
      259 16 REUTERS Miami A SUMATRAN orang-utan, thought to be the world's oldest, has died, aged 55. Nonja, who was born in the wild on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in June 1952, was found dead last Saturday morning at Miami Metro Zoo. Zoo spokesman Ron Magill said
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      Lock icon Obama, Hillary eclipse $144m fund-raising mark
      453 16 WASHINGTON POST Washington DEMOCRATS Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have each surpassed the US$lOO million (Ssl44 million) fund-raising mark for their presidential campaigns by year's end, the first time two candidates have eclipsed that milestone before a single primary vote has been cast. The
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      Lock icon Iraq killings: Marine faces reduced charges
      236 16  -  Los Angeles ASSOCIATED PRESS A MARINE squad leader will be court martialled on reduced charges in the killings of 24 Iraqi men, women and children in the town of Haditha in 2005, the Marine Corps has announced. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, 27, will stand
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Freed – woman who tried to kill President Ford
        371 17 Freed woman who tried to kill President Ford REUTERS SARA Jane Moore, one of two women who tried to assassinate former US president Gerald Ford during a three-week span in 1975, has been freed on parole after almost 32 years in prison. Moore, 77, who began her sentence on Jan
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        Lock icon Runaway wife will not be prosecuted
        252 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRIMINAL charges will not be filed against an Indian-born woman whose disappearance caused the US authorities to mount a costly search using underwater divers and helicopters, the authorities said on Monday. Cook County prosecutors and police concluded that criminal charges were not
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        Lock icon 'Aussie Taleban' just wants a quiet life
        243 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FORMER Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks (right) has gone swimming, met his father and ventured out without being recognised since his release from prison four days ago, a report said yesterday. The so-called "Aussie Taleban" is being shielded by supporters and
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      Lock icon Saudis get tough with dissident blogger
      590 17 NEW YORK TIMES Popular blogger detained in first arrest of online critics in kingdom Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) SAUDI Arabia's most popular blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, has been detained for questioning the first known arrest of an online critic in the kingdom. Mr Farhan, 32, who
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      28 13 Case against C-section Women who have had a C-section are more likely to need a hysterectomy after the birth of their next child, a study reveals. PAGE 16
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      629 15 URBMI IMPROVEMENT Must-have for 2008 if Organised by: Supported by: Tsas s Institute of South Asian Studies Confederation of Indian Industry "The Politics of Change: A Ringside View" 1 by Mr N. K. Singh, 1 |J(l| Former Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, and M 1 Deputy Chairman, Bihar
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      1251 19  -  \ndy Ho INDIAN UNREST IN MALAYSIA By 1 Senior Writer JAN 23 rd is Thaipusam in Malaysia this year. Easily over a million devotees will make the pilgrimage to the temple complex at Batu Caves, a huge limestone hill north of Kuala Lumpur, to celebrate the
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      28 18 Indians in Malaysia The celebration of Thaipusam in Malaysia can be seen as an expression of Tamil identity through religious activities. PAGE 19 PUNCHLINES —I FRENCH BARS V""
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      177 22 4 ticks saves Choose Choose COOL FACT 1: The more ticks on your aircon, the GREATER your annual electrical savings rCOOL FACT 2: From Jan 2008, all aircons sold in Singapore MUST HAVE NEA-approved Energy Label COOL FACT 3: Daikin has the MOST number of inverter aircons with 4 ticks
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      630 23  -  K.C. VIJAYAN »MISSING LAWYER Lawyer may have also used part of missing $6m to pay costs of delayed property deals By Law Correspondent RUNAWAY lawyer Zulkifli Amin bolted to the Philippines on an air ticket he did not pay for. It was
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        188 24 When you're counting down, live it up. That seemed to be the spirit as Singaporeans thronged the beaches, the waterfront and the heartland to ring down the curtain on 2007. A sky set aflame with fireworks, the rapt jubilation of thousands, songs from Singapore's Asian Idol not a
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        387 24  -  Tessa Wong AFTER THE CELEBRATIONS... By REVELLERS at end-of-year countdowns are littering less and generating less rubbish, thanks to stricter enforcement and gradually changing attitudes. The amount of rubbish collected after New Year's Eve countdown festivities at Marina Bay and Orchard Road
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        275 24  -  Carolyn Quek By MORE than one in five motorists pulled over for breathalyser tests were arrested for drink driving in a six-hour Traffic Police operation early yesterday morning. Thirty-three motorists 31 of whom were men were arrested for failing the tests in
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      567 26  -  Shobana Kesava It takes only 3 hours instead of 5 days to diagnose disease caused by soil bacteria By A LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD bacterium in the soil, which killed one in three infected patients in 2004, can now be identified in mere hours
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      220 26 FOUND in soil and water, the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes melioidosis, is endemic in South-east Asia, as well as north and western Australia. In the last five years, cases have also been spotted in South America. Up to 2,000 people are
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      276 26 SHOBANA KESAVA ST FILE STRICKEN with melioidosis, 53-year-old Ananda Perera was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital with just one symptom: an uncontrollably high fever. "The doctors thought it was typhoid. I was soaked in a long bath filled with ice. The fever just
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      192 26 A NEWBORN baby usually brings joy to the parents and extended family. But when a baby is born prematurely, the start to this new life is clouded in anxiety and uncertainty. Hope need not be lost though. He can make it home and through
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      268 26 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has installed 15 new taxi stands in the Central Business District (CBD). This brings the total number of taxi stands in the CBD to 95. From March, passengers within the area can hop into a cab only from taxi
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      514 27  -  Yeo Ghim Lay Increased demand and flexible work options up their numbers to 2,700 By PETITE and rosy-cheeked, Miss Norzilla Rahim, 18, does not look like your typical security officer. But for the last four months, she has worked with security company
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      415 27  -  Theresa Tan HAINAN RAG-AND-BONE MAN WHO ADOPTED ABANDONED BABIES BY r MOVED by the selflessness of a dirt-poor Hainan rag-and-bone man who adopted 14 abandoned baby girls, readers of The Straits Times have donated about $30,000 to ease his burden. Some $28,000
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      130 23 Malting Lessons Come Alive I Calling all graduating'O' Level students! MOE, TEACH THE SUBJECTS THAT YOU together with Ngee Ann Poly, Temasek Poly, NAFA CAIIMIM/* and NIE would like to invite you to our seminars L^? ▼ED LE^VRNING on the 'O' Level Teacher Training Schemes on BK3B Saturday, 5 January
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      29 23 33 drink drivers nabbed More than one in five of the 145 motorists pulled over by police in the first hours of 2008 failed their breathalyser tests. PAGE H2
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      710 24 Public Lecture by Prof Joan Steitz I Beyond Bias and Barriers: I I Fulfilling the Potential of Women in I I Academic Science and Engineering I "Despite the increasing numbers of committee to share the findings women who choose to major in the and recommendations of this fields of science
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      474 28  -  Philip Lee Seek Kay MANY young Singaporeans, gainfully employed in a booming economy, have expressed anxiety about building a large enough nest egg for a comfortable retirement. This is rather disturbing. The reasons are not hard to trace, though, if one steps back
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      275 28  -  Ong Cheap Guan WE ARE a group of taxi drivers who attended a 5 1/2-month taxi tourist guide course conducted jointly by the Singapore Taxi Academy (STA) and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). We thank the Government for giving us a chance
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      258 28  -  Maria Loh Mun Foong (Ms) I REFER to the letter, "Given head start in life, thanks to GEP education", by Ms Aileen Tan Ai Ker (ST, Dec 29), who wrote in response to the letter, "Gifted scheme: Has it achieved its set goals?", by Mr
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      311 28  -  Vernon Lim Thean Soo I READ with pride how both Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation have made their forays into the American market by engaging in capital injection to bail out troubled banks. Indeed, this
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      173 28  -  Ong Swee Keong I REFER to the report, "2,800 motorists buy HDB family season parking tickets" (ST, Dec 30). The Housing Board was quoted as saying this scheme was started "so family members can visit one another without worrying about the cost of
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      395 28  -  Wong Wai Ching I REFER to the letter, "Disabled access: Malls face Catch-22 situation", by Mr Joseph Chin (ST, Dec 25). We agree that active cooperation with stakeholders, including mall operators, will enable us to build an environment accessible to all. It
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      264 28  -  Lam Pin Woon I REFER to the letter, "Scare tactics may not work in health drives" (ST, Dec 27), by Dr Choo Kay Wee. Dr Choo rightly highlighted that knowledge alone is not adequate to provide motivation for behaviour change. Smoking is
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      167 28  -  Pauline Kheng (Ms) I THANK Mr Krison Tan for his feedback on his visit to the Greek Masterpieces From The Louvre exhibition at the National Museum on Dec 18 ("National Museum visit spoiled by photo shoot"; ST, Dec 28). Mr Tan pointed out
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      104 28 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. S'poreans should not shun overseas postings for they are worthwhile experiences Regrettable that cabbies were not involved in discussion on fare hikes HDB property tax should be cut AVA should set hygiene standards for bakeries
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      Lock icon Eduardo shines as Arsenal open 2008 with victory
      489 29  -  Leonard Lim SOCCER By IT HAS taken awhile. But, four months after his summer move from Dinamo Zagreb, Arsenal's Eduardo da Silva looks to have finally settled into life in the English Premier League. The Brazilian-born Croat showed all the qualities of
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      695 29  -  Richard Jolly Birmingham boss fails to get the better of Ferguson as Man Utd score 1 -0 victory By ALEX Ferguson's demands merely increase with age. His current charges have to match them, while his former players are discovering they cannot halt him.
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      139 29 Irsenal 2115 5 ***** 50 Han United 2115 3 3 3811 48 Ihelsea 2113 5 3 3316 44 .iverpool 1910 7 2 3312 37 Lverton 2111 3 7 37 22 36 flan City 2010 6 4 27 22 36 'ortsmouth 21 9 7 5 31 20 34 Iston Villa
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      550 29 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London CHELSEA ensured an unhappy New Year's Day for Roy Hodgson at Craven Cottage as his first match as Fulham manager ended in a 1-2 home defeat in the West London derby yesterday. Still, for much of the first
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      352 29 CHELSEA could add Tottenham hitman Dimitar Berbatov to their strike force for £26 million (Ss7B million) despite being close to finalising a £10 million deal for Nicolas Anelka from Bolton. Berbatov had already revealed that he wanted to quit Spurs for a "big" club
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      625 30 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOCCER Benitez needs a win to keep Liverpool near top, and further his transfer policy London IT MAY only be relegation-haunted Wigan today, but Liverpool's first Premier League game of the New Year could not be more crucial. Only a win will
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      320 30 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London NEWCASTLE manager Sam Allardyce, facing a game against Manchester City today that could end his job, will defy the pressure to stand down despite growing calls for former striker Alan Shearsr to take over. Allardyce has been
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      295 30 ASSOCIATED PRESS Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL striker Adriano was unharmed after losing control of his car and crashing into three other vehicles on a Rio de Janeiro street early on Monday. The striker, who is on loan to Sau Paolo from Inter Milan
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      898 30 London NOT every Premier League manager is happy going window shopping this month. Gary Megson, Steve Bruce and Sam Allardyce are disillusioned with the transfer system in England, which allows clubs to sign players in only two periods in January and from
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      605 31  -  Leonard Lim SAILING The 420 specialists are tops in 81-strong fleet at 29er Australian C'ships By IT IS not a boat they usually sail, let alone compete in. But 420-class specialists Justin Liv and Sherman Cheng surprised even themselves on Monday, after bagging
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      491 31  -  Wang Meng Meng FLOORBALL By WHILE many Singaporeans were counting down to the New Year, some were sweating away playing floorball. Mohd Sabri Yuhari, for instance, was one of the 355 players who took turns to play in a game that
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      373 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Salt Lake City THE Portland Trail Blazers had to settle for a near-per-fect December on Monday. Their 13-game winning streak in the National Basketball Association ended with a 101-111 loss to the Utah Jazz, Portland's first defeat since
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      302 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRICKET Sydney VIRENDER Sehwag could be recalled to give India some aggression at the top of the batting order in today's second lest in Sydney, where the tourists are under pressure to prevent Australia equalling their world-record winning streak. The
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        137 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG: World No 4 Ana [vanovic believes the new surface at the Australian Open is slower but less likely to cause injuries to top tennis players. Organisers of the year's first Grand Slam tournament, scheduled for Jan 14-27, have replaced the Rebound Ace
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        41 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's cricket board chief, Jayantha Dharmadasa, resigned from his post on Monday, amid reports that former captain Arjuna Ranatunga will take over. Dharmadasa cited personal reasons for his decision, Sri Lanka Cricket said.
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      335 31 BASKETBALL NBA: Charlotte 107 Indiana 103 (OT), Orlando 112 Chicago 110 (OT), Detroit 114 Milwaukee 69, Golden State 112 Houston 95, Toronto 97 New Orleans 92, Utah 111 Portland 101, LA Clippers 91 Minnesota 82, Philadelphia 98 Seattle 90. ICE HOCKEY NHL: Boston 5 Atlanta 2, Columbus 4 Edmonton
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      1049 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE LOOKING AHEAD TO 2008: FACES TO WATCH FHE difference between very good and great is sometimes just a birdie putt here or a beautifully itruck left-footed shot there. Timing is vital, and it ooks like the timing and talent are right for these
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      85 29 Top class 420 specialists Justin Liv and Sherman Cheng win both the 29er youth and Open titles at the Australian Championships. PAGE H9 Yesterday Arsenal 2 West Ham United 0 Fulham 1 Chelsea 2 Manchester United 1 Birmingham 0 Middlesbrough 0 Everton 2 Reading 0 Portsmouth 2 Aston Villa v
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      1399 30 I 2007 CHAMPIONS SALUTED I the fourth consecutive year, Laurie Laxon has been a £s L dominant force in feature races this season. Out of the jg. £7 W'■ (fii Tk£* 25 Group races up for grabs, the Kiwi trainer came away BABk^l'^^ MvVhP^s '*^?H w'^ *nem *ne Jewe' in
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      53 31 TV times CRICKET: India Tour of Australia: 2nd Test, day 1 (Live, Chi 10, 7.30 am). SOCCER: English Premier League: Newcastle v Man City (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 3.40 am), Blackburn v Sunderland (Live, Ch2l, tomorrow, 3.55 am), Liverpool v Wigan (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 3.55 am), Bolton v Derby (Live, Ch3o3,
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      56 33 SHANMUGAM GANASON (M.S.) Ex-PUB Age: 59 passed away peacefully on 31/12/07. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Krishnaveni Sons: G. Rajan, G. Balan, G. Chandran Body is resting at Blk 700 C #14-324 AngMoKioAve6. Tel: *****527 Cortege will leave on 02/01/2008 (Wed.) at 4.30pm for Mandai Crematorium
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      13 33 GOH SWEE ENG (MOLLY) Departed on 2 Jan 1954 Dearly missed by family
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      199 33 Jesus said to her, "I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with Me." Luke 23:43 LEE GEK INN Age: 82 years has gone home to be with the LORD on 31 Dec 2007. Blessed with: (Husband: See Tiong Leng, deceased) Sister: Madam Teo Lian Tee Children: Spouses:
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      22 33 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of SUPARJO TISNASARI Departed on 2 Jan 2007 Always cherished and missed by family and loved ones
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      118 33 WAN BENG KIAP Age: 80 passed away peacefully on 1 January 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Tan Aun Soon, BBM Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tan Soo Hock Jackie Ang Siew Hui Tan Soo Chuan Jane Tan Bee Eng God-sons: God-daughters-in-law: Tan Sze Hai Ng Mci Leng Wan Leong Hai Michelle Leong
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      75 33 SUPPIAH KAMACHI Age: 84 passed away peacefully on 01/01/2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Son: Daughter-in-law: Arasapan Adiappan R. Piramavathy Grandsons: Granddaughter-in-law: A. Kumaresan J. Kumutha A. Balakrishnan A Ganesan Great Granddaughter: K. Vaidhegii and all relatives and friends. Body is resting at Singapore Casket (Ruby Room)
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      34 33 Memory wanders as shadows fell baclctothedaijs of happiness, Days beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep.
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      103 33 MDM DASS LILY (wife of the late Peter Dass) Age: 80 was called home to be with the Lord on 31 Dec 2007 leaving behind loved ones. Sons: Daughter-in-law: Peter Nathan Yvonne (Paul Lionel Dass, deceased) Peter Mariadass Daughters: Sons-in-law: Rosalind Anne (S. Emile, deceased) (Louisa, deceased) Stanley Mariadass Grandsons:
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      90 33 ERHUYCHING Age: 71 passed away peacefully on 31/12/2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Goh Eng Hai Sons: Daughters-in-law: Goh Hock Nguan Tan Mci ling, Irene Goh Hock Nam Yap Siew Chern, Katherine Daughter: Son-in-law: Goh Suan Keiang Dv Jin Gen Grandsons: Granddaughter: Goh Jun Hui, Scan
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      52 33 10TH ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory Of GOHAHHUAY Departed 2nd Jan 1998 Ten longyears have passed Yet forever in my memory you shall last. Though life goes on withoutvou, It can never Be the same as I knew. But in my heart you will always remain forever near. Always remembered by
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      93 33 Athma Shanti Pooja We, the Family of the Late AMBURAM S/O ARUMUGAM Departed on 19 December 2007 wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to our relatives and friends for their kind assistance, attendance and condolences during our recent bereavement. Karumathi Prayers will be held on 2 Jan 08
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      58 33 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Mrs Gary Ong Kian Heng on the demise of his beloved mother and her beloved mother-in-law SEAHAHTANG on 31 December 2007 From The Management Staff of Roselle Mont-Clair Furnishing Pte Ltd Refine Construction Pte Ltd Roselle Mont-Clair Furnishing (M) Sdn Bhd Roselle
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      103 33 In Loving Memory of UTHUMAN GHANI was called to the Lord's Lotus Feet on 2 January 2005 Dearest... You left behind a void that cannot be filled... A love that cannot be replaced The ones you loved so true Try hard to carry on the way We know you'd want
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      672 34 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Leading the pack Despite last year's huge gains and US economic woes, analysts are upbeat Hong Kong ASIAN stock markets gave investors a white-knuckle ride last year, but most are up sharply and analysts predict turbulent gains this year despite
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      375 34 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Paris OIL prices of near US$lOO per barrel caused alarm in consuming countries last year, and analysts forecast another tense crude market this year with triple-fig-ure records a real prospect. Despite a murky outlook for the world economy, crude prices are seen
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      568 34 AFP AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New York THE United States' housing meltdown and credit crunch, which brought an end to an investment bonanza early last year, are likely to give Wall Street a stiff hangover this year, market strategists say. A flurry of private-equity-fuelled
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      292 34 BLOOMBERG NEWS Beijing CHINA Investment Corporation (CIC), will inject US$2O billion (5528.8 billion) into China Development Bank, as the government nears the end of a decade-long reorganisation of the banking industry. The US$2OO billion wealth fund signed an agreement on Monday in Beijing
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      179 34 REUTERS New York CITIGROUP and Merrill Lynch were the world's top underwriters of stocks and bonds last year, measured by volume and reported fees, despite being at the epicentre of the global credit crisis. While Citigroup remained the top underwriter by volume for an
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      1223 35  -  Joyce Teo »SME SPOTLIGHT Star Furniture has grown from a two-man show in 1981 to a global exporter with annual sales of $46m By MANY firms have humble beginnings, but Star Furniture's was more modest than most with just $5,000 in cash, two
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      384 35 Fiona Chan By OIL-RIG builder SembCorp Marine (SembMarine) has acquired a Texas-based shipyard from its subsidiary, PPL Shipyard. SembMarine said on Monday it paid US$4 million (555.7 million) for Sabine Industries, which would be renamed SembCorp-Sabine Industries. This comprises Sabine Shipyard to be renamed
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      298 35  -  Nicholas Fang By A CASH company, which sold its engineering business last year, wants the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to extend the suspension of trading of its shares for a further nine months from yesterday. Maveric said earlier last month that it intends to
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      349 36  -  Yang Huiwen Mining, oil and property stocks mark big gains as year closes By BOURSE operator Singapore Exchange (SGX) rode the stock market boom to become last year's strongest-perform-ing stock in terms of share price gains, market data has shown. Its stock
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      298 36 HOT AND COLD Buoyant volumes helped SGX's share price gain the most in absolute terms, but Creative, struggling with falling sales, was the poorest performer in dollar values. TOP 10 NET GAINERS FOR 2007 1 2 3 Singapore Exchange Jardine Cycle Carriage Overseas Union Enterprise 7.72 7.00 4.80
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      382 36 YANG HUIWEN THE weak performance of the technology sector has emerged as a key theme among last year's worst-per-forming stocks. Creative Technology was the worst-performing stock for the year in terms of monetary change. Its share price fell $3.87 from the beginning of
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      355 36 »ISSUE OVER FAIR VALUE A KEY shareholder of China Eastern Airlines has said an offer by Singapore Airlines (SIA) for a stake in the airline does not reflect fair value. It is instead asking both parties to renew talks, Bloomberg News
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      29 36 Thriving business From a two-man show, Star Furniture has grown into a global exporter with over $46 million in sales under the management of the Koh brothers. PAGE Hl3
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      117 37 MILD AT HEART Jk EXCESS BAGGAGE LOSING BATTLE Director David Cronenberg Psyp The Darjeeling Limited is Aliens Vs Predator 2 is nothing like his gory films I t one slow ride, says Ong Sor Fern is better off as a video game page4 O^SKll^^ pages pages I I h hIX
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        1548 38  -  Tan Shzr Ec Meeting the youthful Cate Blanchett, you realise the skill involved in her playing a tired-looking Queen Bizabeth I IN LONDON IN CATE Blanchett's second attempt at playing Queen Elizabeth I, the actress bleached her eyebrows, shaved half her hair off and unsuccessfully tried to
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        107 39 AFTER getting her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Elizabeth (1998), Cate Blanchett packs the sequel with another powerful performance. A quick look at how the cast has changed as the princess became queen: Princess Friends: Quick-recruit spymaster Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush), Sir William Cecil (Richard
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        1109 40  -  Ong Sor Fern Canadian director David Cronenberg, who has made his career from bloody films, says violence is cinematic FILM CORRESPONDENT THE most shocking thing about Canadian director David Cronenberg is how mild-mannered the man is. Over the telephone from his office in Toronto,
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        472 40 > drama EASTERN PROMISES (M 18) 100 minutes/Opens tomorrow/***** Ong Sor Fern FILM CORRESPONDENT EASTERN Promises bears a lot of similarities to director David Cronenberg's last film, A History Of Violence (2005). The most obvious one is the return of Viggo Mortensen as leading man. In
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        400 41  -  Ong Sor Fern Director Wes Anderson's latest tale of eccentric characters gets derailed in exotic India > dramedy THE DARJEELING LIMITED (PG) 91 minutes/Opens tomorrow/-*HHk"f!rfr DIRECTOR Wes Anderson has a distinctive aesthetic which you either love or hate. I fall in the latter category. He
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          413 41  -  Douglas Tseng Tay Yek Keak ALIENS VS PREDATOR 2 (NCI6) 95 minutes/Now showing/***** YOU don't come to an Aliens Vs Predator (AVP, right) movie expecting greatness. How could you when your lead characters are two guys in clunky rubber suits one as the dreadlocked Predator and the other the
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          409 41  -  Tay Yek Keak Douglas Tseng RESERVATION ROAD (PG) 102 minutes/Opens tomorrow/****^ TWO afflicted fathers find their paths colliding from opposite ends of a tragedy. Mark Ruffalo is Dwight, a lawyer and divorced Dad who kills a boy in a hit-and-run accident in suburban Connecticut. Joaquin Phoenix is Ethan, a
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        84 43 I've got to a stage now where I can be fussy. I'm old enough to be fussy. I'm not working to pay the rent' Actor Michael Came (right), 74 'Many think of themselves not as businessmen but as artists if you really don't give them the money, they won't
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        461 43 George Clooney as a crusading lawyer is one of the many powerful performances in the compelling thriller > thriller MICHAEL CLAYTON (NCI6) 120 minutes/Opens tomorrow/***** Douglas Tseng BENEATH the trappings of a John Grisham thriller, Michael Clayton is an absorbing melodrama about a man who is sick
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      1377 44 AP Indian women have found a new way to help themselves and their families by becoming surrogate mothers to childless couples from around the world ANAND (India) Every night in this quiet Western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep n the spacious house they share, ascending
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      809 45 AP The godfather of soul has been dead a year but legal wrangles over his legacy still go on COLUMBIA (South Carolina) A year after music legend James Brown died, the people who surrounded him in life continue to fight over the future of his
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        412 47 SINGER Wang Lee Horn had a good reason to spend New Year's Eve in Taiwan this year. The Chinese-American took in NT5450,000 (S$20,000) performing at three countdown shows there, zipping from the cities of Taoyuan in the north to Tainan and Kaohsiung in the south
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      522 49 GLORIA CHANDY dTZ^/og The hangover from yesterday hasn't quite worn off. And here we are, on the brink of a whole New rear. I'll bet we're all thinking more or less the same thoughts: That, yes, we are definitely going to
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      441 50 Association for Music Therapy (Singapore) We would like to thank you for featuring the work of two of our members in Wong Sher Maine's feature on music therapy, "She learns from lyrics" (Mind Your Body, Dec 12). The Association for Music Therapy (Singapore) was
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      208 51 Parents whose newborn babies need intensive care are often confronted with anxiety and fear. And who better to provide support than those sharing the same experience? That's why the Early Bird Baby Club was formed in May 1997 at XX Women's and Children's
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      642 51 ST PHOTO: Born at 27 weeks and weighing 490g, tiny Liyana now eight never gave up on survival When Liyana Zainodin, now eight, was born, she could fit comfortably into her father's palm. "She was 27 weeks when she was born and she was
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      641 52 Lim Wei Kang was given a 30-per cent chance of survival. He battled belly bloat, brain bleed and bronchitis, and is now a lively eight-year-old. Looking at active and lively Lim Wei Kang, you would not be able to tell that he only had a
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      558 52 Bespectacled Claire Tan sat between her parents, smiling shyly. The nine-year-old weighed just 81 lg at birth. She was born prematurely, after a gestation period of just 28 weeks. Of course she doesn't recollect the first two months of her life, partly isolated
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      911 53  -  Dr Ang Peng Tiam for Mind Your Body The medical director of Parkway Cancer Centre has been treating cancer patients for nearly 20 years. In 1996, he was awarded Singapore's National Science Award for his outstanding contributions to medical research. He also recently
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