The Straits Times, 22 January 2008

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  • 24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 112 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 2008 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 580 1  -  Goh Eng Yeow Asian markets battered on fears of a US recession and possible writedowns by regional banks By Markets Correspondent SINGAPORE'S market yesterday suffered its worst one-day fall since the Black Monday crash in October 1987 while other Asian
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  • 405 1  -  Jeanette Wang »BID TO HOST YOUTH OLYMPICS By SINGAPORE is close to breasting the tape in the race to host the inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games. The Republic was yesterday unveiled, along with Moscow, as one of two finalists in the bid to host
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  • Article, Illustration
    93 1 SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS Commuters rushing to get onto shuttle buses after train services in the east were disrupted for seven hours yesterday morning. Services between four MRT stations were affected by a damaged maintenance train stuck on the westbound tracks between Tampines and Simei MRT stations, delaying
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  • UPFRONT
    • 959 1  -  Leslie Lopez By South-east Asia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur A PROJECT to build South-east Asia's longest bridge in Penang has stumbled over disputes between its Malaysian and Chinese contractors and a legal suit that could embarrass Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's government. Government
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    • 89 2 What's holding up the project: The state-owned concerns from Malaysia and China spearheading the project cannot agree on the design of the four-lane expressway. A small Malaysian company has filed a legal suit claiming it was a victim of a conspiracy to deprive it of a part
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 337 2 SECTION ONE HOME r' me -2"4 Crime down, phone scams up ia# ij"" 1 R 1 Q While overall crime decreased last on'oo year, phone scams increased and Review 20-22 L ime d a victim a day. hYI l6 PAGEH1 SECTION TWO p o r^ H1"Jg Out on Home Detention
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  • PRIME
    • 645 3  -  Lynn Lee Explaining the rise, minister gives the assurance that costs will remain affordable By THE cost of health care shot up last year by 6.2 per cent, a big jump over the annual average of the previous five years. The rise between 2002
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    • 534 3  -  Warren Fernandez By Deputy Editor Foreign Editor In Paris YOU cannot fax a handshake or e-mail a real-life smile, it is said, and the same goes for the world of top-level diplomacy. So, it was a day-long series of getting-to-know-you meetings
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    • 170 3 THE 2007 GCE O-level examination results will be released on Thursday. School candidates can collect their results from their schools at 2pm on that day. Private candidates will be informed of their results by post. They can also access their results on the Internet after
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    • 677 4  -  Carolyn Hong MALAYSIAN JUDGE-FIXING PROBE Lawyer repeatedly refuses to confirm if he is the man in the video trying to fix judicial appointments By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur LAWYER V.K. Lingam, the man in the centre of a judge-fixing scandal,
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    • 502 4  -  CAROLYN HONG Kuala Lumpur A BUSINESS consultant told a government inquiry yesterday that it was boredom that drove him to secretly videotape a lawyer talking on the phone about fixing judicial appointments. Mr Loh Gwo Burne, 33, said he made the recording at
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  • ASIA
    • 636 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh Parliament convenes in another new start for Thai politics By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAILAND'S new Parliament convened yesterday, marking a return to democracy for this nation of 65 million after some 16 months of military rule. Elected MPs, in their official white
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    • CHINA
      • 600 8  -  VINCE CHONG Officials hope raise will offset rising prices and stave off social unrest By Hong Kong Correspondent SOUTHERN China took steps to combat rising inflation yesterday with the manufacturing hub of Guangdong province set to raise minimum wages by 13 per cent
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      • 363 8 REUTERS Taipei TAIWAN is fast-tracking two stalled initiatives to boost economic ties with China as the ruling party seeks to revive its chances of winning the presidential election in March, local media reported yesterday. One measure would make it easier
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      • 128 8 XINHUA Guangzhou A WOMAN in southern China's Guangdong province has become the first migrant worker to occupy the post of national legislator. Ms Hu Xiaoyan was elected yesterday at the provincial people's congress. Her qualification still needs to be examined by the credentials committee of
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 691 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, XINHUA POPULATION CONTROL IN CHINA Fines to be raised for those who try to buy their way out of the ruling Beijing THE city family planning authorities in China plan to ratchet up fines for the rich and famous
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      • 72 10 Hao Haidong, football star Fined 50,000 yuan (S$10,000) in 2000 for having a second child. With an annual salary of 5 million yuan, Hao is one of the highest-paid footballers in China. Sun Nan, singer His second child was born in Hong Kong, a
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      • 218 10 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul SOUTH Korean prosecutors indicted the Chinese owners of an oil tanker and Samsung Heavy Industries yesterday, along with five crew members of the vessels involved in the country's worst-ever oil spill last month. A sea-bound crane mounted on
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 536 11  -  P. Jayaram 'New world order' should reflect Asia's economic power, he says By India Correspondent In New Delhi BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday called for radical reforms of global institutions, saying a "new world order" should reflect the shift in the balance
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      • 406 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS KOLKATA VILLAGERS in eastern India are continuing to eat chickens killed by bird flu, prompting fears that the country's worst outbreak of the virus could spread. West Bengal's Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rahman yesterday described the situation
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 390 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Development plan sets high targets for per capita income and quality of life Bandar Seri Begawan BRUNEI, which already boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in Asia, wants to vault into the world's top 10, according to
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      • 161 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS Bangkok A POPULAR new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants, who demanded yesterday that the show be cancelled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light. The Air Hostess
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      • 217 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Jakarta INDONESIA'S ailing former president Suharto has suffered a slight setback to his health, with his doctors saying yesterday that his digestive system is not functioning properly. Mr Suharto, 86, suffered multiple organ failure a week after he was rushed to Jakarta's
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 531 13 Eldest son of man says his dad converted to Islam, but other children reject claim Seremban MALAYSIAN police have seized the body of a Chinese man in the latest dispute between the Islamic authorities and family members over a disputed conversion
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      • 499 14  -  Chow Kum Hor But top coalition officials deny discussing general election By Malaysia Correspondent In Putrajaya THE chiefs of Malaysia's 14-party ruling coalition held a rare meeting yesterday, which ratcheted up election fever in the country. Those who attended said that issues on development
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      • 384 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHOTO: Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, yesterday defended the government's crackdown on dissent, including the arrest of ethnic Indian activists, saying it averted a serious threat of racial violence. He raised the spectre of the country's worst
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
        • 87 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: Fizzy soft drinks will be banned in schools here this year as part of a campaign against obesity. The Seoul education office said yesterday it would ban the sale of carbonated soft drinks ai schools and libraries following the education ministry's recommendation
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        • 101 14 REUTERS HONG KONG: A court yesterday dismissed a government request to extend the ban on a pirate radio station after it expired on Friday. The court said the pro-democracy operators of Citizens' Radio were acting to protect fundamental freedoms. The station was earlier barred from
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        • 95 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS GAUHATI (India): Four bomb blasts hit the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan just days after it announced the date of its first election. One person was reported hurt in the explosions on Sunday which rocked different parts of the country, including the capital,
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        • 118 14 REUTERS BERLIN: The foreign ministers of Germany and China have conducted two months of "secret diplomacy" to mend relations between the countries ahead of a meeting in Berlin. German weekly Der Spiegel said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had exchanged secret letters with his Chinese
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 25 6 Najib defends crackdown Malaysia's government acted against dissent and detained Indian activists to avert the threat of race riots, says DPM Najib Razak. PAGE 14
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  • WORLD
    • 693 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Young Americans' renewed interest in politics shaping presidential race Washington AMERICA'S youth are undergoing a political rebirth, with people under 30 flocking to the polls and leaving their mark on the 2008 White House race. Politicians are taking note and seeking to ride
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    • 260 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE battle for the Democratic nomination in the US presidential election is as much about "Generation X" wresting power from baby boomers as it is a battle between Mr Barack Obama (left) and Mrs Hillary Clinton, according to analysts. While the campaign
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    • 643 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Israel unmoved as power plant shuts down and food runs low Gaza City A BORDER lockdown by Israel on the Gaza Strip sparked an international outcry yesterday, as people jostled for dwindling food supplies and the territory's only power
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    • 124 16  -  LI XUEYING Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew received a crystal ornament as a token of appreciation from Riyadh's governor, Prince Salman Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (centre), at the opening of an economic forum in Riyadh on Sunday. Mr Lee, who is on a week-long visit to Saudi Arabia,
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    • 228 16 REUTERS New York A CANADIAN who admitted plotting to bomb US embassies in Singapore and the Philippines has been sentenced to life in prison after telling the court he was "brainwashed" by Al-Qae-da. Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 25, a Canadian citizen of Iraqi descent,
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    • 496 17 NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS Pregnant women who drink too much caffeine run higher risk of miscarriage, warns study New York TOO much caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage, a new study says, and the authors suggest that pregnant women may want to
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 17 AP Wooden planks piled up on a beach in Worthing, a sea resort in West Sussex, England, after a freighter sank near the coast. Timber was strewn across an 11km stretch of beach, days after the Greek-registered freighter Ice Prince sank in rough weather a week ago. Surfers
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    • 488 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS PM Rudd vows to cut govt spending among other plans to curb inflation Sydney BOOM in Asia and bust in the United States are buffeting Australia's economy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned yesterday as he outlined plans to
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    • 332 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Berlin ANTI-NOKIA anger in Germany over the closing of a factory is growing with politicians publicly ditching the firm's phones and joining calls for a national boycott in Europe's largest economy. The Finnish mobile phone giant had said last Tuesday it plans
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    • 333 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Cairo TWENTY Egyptian executives from a dozen cement companies have been charged and will be tried before a criminal court for conspiring to illegally raise the price of cement, a statement from the general prosecutor's office said. The
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 297 19 REUTERS OSCAR-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, who has made movies about US presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, will focus on the life of the current occupant of the White House for his next directing project. But the director promises that the movie, Bush,
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      • 202 19 FRANCE'S oldest man, one of the last two surviving French veterans of World War I, has died at the age of 110. Mr Louis de Cazenave, who refused a medal and spoke powerfully about the horrors of war, died at his home in the Auvergne
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 30 15 Hold that cuppa Pregnant women may want to go easy on the coffee. A new study finds that just two cups a day doubles the risk of miscarriage. PAGE 17
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  • REVIEW
    • 430 20 NOT for the first time, Malaysia is finding that pervasive foreign semi-skilled labour on which it has developed a dependency is a planning and political hot potato. Twice within the last six years, social frictions and lobbying forced the government to remove half a
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    • 961 20  -  Sandra Davie »ROLE OF TEACHERS By Education Correspondent TEACHERS change lives. We have all seen the slogan used in teacher recruitment ads. But how many of the young graduates joining the teaching service in droves have stopped to ponder the truth of the statement? I bring this up
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    • 985 20  -  Andy Ho ATTRACTING AND RETAINING TALENT By Senior Writer may be more important to the workers themselves. Imagine a company that actually takes the pain out of the mundane and quotidian but necessary things like meals and laundry for its workers. They would
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    • 1105 21  -  Anthony Paul SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN By Senior Writer In Kabul YOU could call it the talk of the town, the babble in the bazaar, the muttering in the mosque: Kabul should brace itself, say the whisperers, for more attacks in the immediate
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    • 1606 22  -  John R. Bradley BOOK REVIEW By Senior Writer Title: Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings Of Israel, Iran, And The US Author: Trita Parsi Publisher: Yale University Press, 361 pages, US$2B (Ss4o) THE relationship between Israel and Iran, most observers believe, represents a clash of ideologies
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    • 1156 23 Singapore today 'MJJIIfc Passing showers in the JL^ 0 JL~ JL~ afternoon over several areas. 77/ THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 2008 w a«a worn n W r 4THFB USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN ASIA WORLD WEATHER ¥">#"> "TY^n A V I 1 M. Emergency lines *JSJ lUUrtl
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  • HOME
    • 558 25  - Cheat chats: $4m lost to phone scammers OVERALL CRIME RATE DOWN Khushwant Singh ►>2007 CRIME FIGURES Total number of crimes dips, but phone scams, thefts targeting elderly are areas of concern By PRACTICALLY unheard of in 2006, cheating scams via phone calls claimed on average one victim a day last
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    • 459 25  -  Teh Joo Lin ST PHOTO: By THE woman walked into a Western Union outlet and started filling up a remittance form to wire $4,000 to China. She seemed to be receiving a stream of non-stop instructions on her mobile phone. Warning bells rang for
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    • 514 26  -  Maria Almenoar Residents believe there was a collision, but SMRT is still investigating By IT WAS a deafening crash that woke technical service officer Peter Foo at 3am yesterday. His first thought a plane crash. Then the ninth-floor resident at Block 162 Tampines
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    • 489 26  -  Chong Chee Kin By FORMER National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong Kun Da, now serving a 15-month jail term, has been released from prison and is on the Home Detention scheme. This means he does not need to serve out his
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    • 596 26  -  Selina Lum By WHILE his wife and three daughters were waiting for him to celebrate Father's Day, 54-year-old Eu Lim Hoklai was meeting his China lover at her Ang Mo Kio massage parlour. Eu, the boss of a
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    • CASE FILE
      • 63 26 A UNIVERSITY associate professor has been charged with stealing women's underwear at the Nanyang Technological University. Lee Wing Foon, 39, faces three charges of stealing bras and panties at NTU on Dec 20 last year. He is also accused of two counts of possessing underwear
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      • 84 26 THE Police Coast Guard fished four men aged 17 to 22 out of the sea on Sunday night. The men, believed to be Myanmar nationals, were spotted at about 9pm at sea off Sungei Buloh. They were picked up 20 minutes later and arrested. They
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      • 94 26 AN ELDERLY man who had sex with an underage girl was jailed for a year yesterday. The 67-year-old had admitted to committing the offence in a private apartment on Aug 1 last year. The victim was 14 then. The man had met her at
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      • 82 26 A WOMAN found in the Singapore River in June last year had died after consuming alcohol with drugs. Ms Faiizah Fitriyah Ibrahim, 23, had taken wine with Valium and other drugs together with her boyfriend on the night of June 27. The boyfriend then
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    • 328 28  -  Jane Ng More were able to find jobs last year compared with 2006 and pay was higher maritime grads made an average of $1,981 a month By LAST year's polytechnic graduates enjoyed good job prospects, with more finding jobs and getting higher salaries
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    • 61 28 EDWIN KOO Adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow is greeted by his children Sheng Feng, four, and Sheng En, one, after crossing the finishing line at Shangri-La Hotel to complete the World's Longest Journey On Skates. He skated 6,088 km from Hanoi to Singapore, starting last October scoring yet
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    • 285 28  -  Diana Othman »SPORE LAWYER CHARGED WITH THEFT IN HOTEL By A PARTNER at one of Singapore's biggest law firms, Rajah Tann, has flown to Hong Kong as his colleague, Choy Chee Yean, is under investigation by police there for allegedly stealing electronic
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    • 231 28 ONE hardly associates doctors, nurses and pharmacists with computer geeks. But lately, some of them have switched from caring for patients directly to helping design computer systems that run hospitals and clinics more efficiently. For instance, nurse Tan Ming Chu, 39, switched jobs and is
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    • 572 29  -  Lim Wei Chean Industry association proposes rule on stay of 7 nights or more be lifted By FOR 20 years, there has been a littleknown rule governing service apartments: Guests have to stay seven nights or more. Now, with an
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    • 214 29  -  HO Al LI FORTY students from the Singapore Management University (SMU) will get to spend a semester at an Asian university and take on community work. Likewise, 40 students from Asian universities will come to SMU and do the same. The participants,
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    • PARLIAMENT
      • 524 30  -  Grace Ng Govt doesn't comment on each deal, but it is assured that investments in subprime-hit banks are rational and within risk limits By THE decisions made by GIC and Temasek Holdings to sink huge investments into banking giants hit by the subprime
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      • 564 30  -  Jeremy Au Yong By SINGAPORE is suggesting that Asean consider enforcing its Charter even if not all members can ratify it. It is proposing an Asean-Mi-nus-X approach for adopting the Charter, which lays out how the organisation can be
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      • 514 30  -  Mya JEREMY AU YONG RIGHT up till the morning before the Asean Summit, Myanmar had not ruled out a briefing by United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari, Parliament heard yesterday. Myanmar made its stout objection to the briefing known only
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      • 384 30  -  Clarissa Oon By IT IS early days yet for international talks on a post-2012 climate change deal, but Singapore is not sitting idly by, Deputy Prime Minister S. Jayakumar said yesterday. It has laid out guiding principles, one of which is
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      • 304 30  -  Yeo Ghim Lay By NATIONAL sports associations (NSAs) in Singapore will soon have to assess the training risks for athletes using a stricter framework aimed at boosting safety standards. The change follows the deaths of five national dragon boat paddlers in Cambodia last November.
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      • 518 31  -  Tan Hui Yee Revised schemes allow for more flexibility and govt subsidies By Housing Correspondent THE Housing Board will not neglect the needs of the poor, or be rigid, as it upgrades flats under schemes which have recently been revamped. The Minister
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      • 559 31  -  TAN HUI YEE PRICEY condo-style flats will remain a small proportion of the total public housing supply with the Government pledging yesterday to continue providing affordable homes. Its assurance came as high-end flats in Boon Keng offered by private
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      • 322 31  -  Lynn Lee By TARGETED and efficient. These keywords will continue to guide the Government's approach to helping Singaporeans who grapple with the rising cost of living, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmuga- ratnam yesterday. This means that it will continue to
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      • 737 31  -  Lee Siew Hua ►>FROM THE GALLERY By Senior Political Correspondent COFFEESHOPS are rife with talk of high costs. But the strikingly muted debate in Parliament yesterday appeared to only softly echo the noisier, grittier reality outside the House. Possibly, Members of
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      • 167 31 CO-PAYMENT WOES "This amendment is like the HDB offering ice-cream to dwellers of older flats... Because of this co-payment, some may just have to watch while others are polishing off their ice-cream." MADAM CYNTHIA PHUA (ALJUNIED GRC) on poorer folk who cannot pay for upgrading NOT
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      • 785 32  -  Zakir Hussain AMENDMENT TO ORGAN TRANSPLANT ACT Publicity drive under way to explain change to those affected By Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan told the House that the change would mean about 30 more patients a year will be able
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      • 509 32 MPs who spoke yesterday highlighted their various concerns: SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES MADAM Halimah Yacob (Jurong GRC) and Dr Fatimah Lateef (Marine Parade GRC) urged hospitals to be extra-sensitive when approaching donors' grieving families. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said senior doctors who authorise
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      • 375 32  -  Ho Ai Li By WATCHING an online video of an assault on a 13-year-old girl, Dr Lily Neo felt overcome by nausea. The girl was punched and stripped by other girls, and the attack was recorded and later circulated on the Internet. Relating
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      • 405 32  -  Lee Hui Chieh CHIKUNGUNYA OUTBREAK By ONE more individual has been found to be infected with chikungunya, the mosqui-to-borne, dengue-like disease, bringing the total number infected so far to nine. Five are in the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC). The
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      • PARLIAMENT SHORTS
        • 162 32 SINGAPORE is set to play a greater role in protecting international leaders. A Bill was introduced in Parliament yesterday for Singapore to ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents. The convention, adopted by the United
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        • 164 32 THE Sungei Road market, famed for its second-hand goods and cast-offs, resembles a "slum", the area's MP said in Parliament yesterday. Ms Denise Phua (Jalan Besar GRC) blames it on illegal hawkers, who infuriate residents with their messy ways. She told The Straits Times
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        • 162 32 GIVING numbers, the Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs said yesterday that the vice situation in Geylang was under control. Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee was replying to Nominated MP Kalyani Mehta, who had raised the issue of "rampant gambling and
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  • FORUM
    • 313 33  -  Jason Chiam Chiah Sern I APPLAUD the new initiatives announced by Transport Minister Raymond Lim following the review of land transportation with regard to buses. There are positive highlights in his speech. The very fact that he acknowledges that the public-transportation system must
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    • 188 33  -  Yeo Guat Kwang IN THE letter, "Case should look into cooked-food price surge" (ST, Jan 15), the writer wrote that since the increase in GST from 5 to 7 per cent last year, prices of goods and services have skyrocketed. The prices of
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    • 330 33  -  Goh Shih Yong I REFER to the letters, "Check expiry date of dog licence" (ST, Jan 16) by Ms Adriana Chua and "Doggone it, what a difference a day makes" (ST, Jan 18) by Mr David Poh. Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA)
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    • 210 33  -  Kenneth Tan I REFER to the letter, "Hike in Sistic booking fee excessive" (ST, Jan 17), from Mr Tay Vi Cheah. We would like to assure Mr Tay that Sistic's $1 increase in booking fee for tickets costing more than
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    • 304 33  -  Ng Gek Noi (Miss) MANY years ago, when I was working in one of the Big Four banks, the management would jump at every complaint from a customer. So if an unreasonable customer made a complaint when we were not at fault,
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    • 308 33 WHILE the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)-Citigroup deal was considered to be "opportunistic and (almost) completely safe, the investment seems to be a winner in every scenario except the worst case". I agree fully with this statement which then leads
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    • 155 33 I THANK Mr Jack Ho for his feedback, "Tough lot of motorists at T3" (ST, Jan 16). We apologise for the inconvenience experienced by Mr Ho. Terminal 3 (T3) experienced heavy vehicular traffic at its carpark during the first weekend of its operational
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    • 191 33 I THANK Mr Basant Kapur for his letter, "Extend more help to poor folk and families" (ST, Jan 17). In assessing the needs of residents seeking help, factors such as sources of income, family support, and savings and expenditure patterns are important considerations.
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    • 118 33  - Agnes Kwek (Ms) family service centres and corporate bodies. For instance, Mr Wasi Rashid and his nephew are being assisted by Muis; Mr Ahmad's grandchildren and the Lee children are being assisted with a myriad of help from community organisations and funds, from the CD AC, School Pocket Money Fund
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    • 95 33 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. Paying traffic fines in Malaysia a hassle MRT woes #1: Train failed to stop at station MRT woes #2: Train doors closed on passenger Bus service 858 infested with cockroaches StarHub SMS offers 'free' service
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  • SPORTS
    • 468 34  -  Jeanette Wang By A HISTORIC double that is what Singapore is hoping to achieve in the race to host the 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Apart from hosting the first YOG, the Republic is also looking to host the inaugural Asian Youth
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    • 445 34  -  SPORTS HUB SSC chief explains that maintenance, operating expenses are also included By Leonard Lim THE $1.87 billion the Government will fork out for the new Sports Hub may sound like a hefty price tag, but it is not only to build the facility.
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    • 95 34 What Government's 1.87b covers Building expenditure (Any increase in costs will be borne by the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium) A 55,000-capacity National Stadium A 6,000-capacity indoor aquatic centre A 3,000-capacity multi-purpose arena A watersports centre Supporting leisure and commercial developments Related infrastructure, e.g. roads and landscaping Maintenance costs The Consortium
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    • 57 34 Job creation During construction: Up to 4,000. During operations: 350-400 full-time staff, 2,000-3,000 part-timers. Economic spin-offs Gives Singapore a bigger share of the Asia-Pacific sports market (expected to hit USsl7b/5524.4b next year). Intangibles A whole new range of sports activities and events will lend added vibrancy to Singapore, allowing
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    • 296 34  -  LEONARD LIM NATIONAL Sports Associations can have their say in the Sports Hub programming calendar, as the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium refines its proposal before a final contract is inked in late March. The NSAs were previously not engaged much when the three bidders
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    • 326 34  - Sports Hub architect says: Only two similarities the shape and retractable roof LEONARD LIM A SILVER-COLOURED dome-shaped stadium with a retractable roof. Sounds like Singapore's soon-to-be-built National Stadium? Not quite. Comparisons have been drawn between the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium's design for the new 55,000-seat stadium and the existing Oita
      SINGAPORE SPORTS HUB CONSORTIUM, REUTERS  -  326 words
    • 169 34 DISABILITY SPORTS THERESA Goh (below) rewrote her world record in the 50m breaststroke with a time of 52.62 seconds in the 4th Asean Para Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, yesterday. In the process, she clinched the gold for Singapore. Her previous world
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    • 584 35 BLOOMBERG »TENNIS Swiss world No.l struggles before despatching Czech 13th seed Berdych Melbourne DEFENDING champion Roger Federer and James Blake won yesterday to set up a quarter-final clash at the Australian Open. As women's eighth seed Venus Williams advanced to a meeting with No
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    • 751 35  -  Rohit Brijnath By NOVAK Djokovic is going to win the Australian Open some day. Maybe Sunday. Lleyton Hewitt is probably never going to win the Australian Open. Not this Sunday, not some day. Greatness lies before Djokovic, but behind Hewitt. Yesterday, this was
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    • 651 35 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AFTER stunning the tennis world with their dramatic on-court comebacks last year, the Williams sisters are now dominating the fashion stakes at the Australian Open. Venus has set tongues wagging with her hip-hugging "short shorts", while sister Serena's pre-tournament appearance in a bikini
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    • 426 36 REUTERS SOCCER London TOTTENHAM Hotspur and Everton must overcome physical and psychological barriers if they are to give English football a rare cup final involving none of the big four clubs. The League Cup semi-fi-nals are delicately poised. Everton need
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    • 31 36 SEMI-FINALS Second leg Today Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (first leg: 1-1) Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 3.55 am Tomorrow Everton v Chelsea (Chelsea lead 2-1) Live, Ch22, Thursday, 3.55 am
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    • 726 36 Hicks dismisses talk that he is ready to sell his stake in the club London IT WAS not the news Liverpool fans wanted to hear. Anfield's enemy No 1 and the club's American co-own-er Tom Hicks has vowed to stick around. "I've not received
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    • 520 36 "When I find out who it is, it's going to be bloody. There's going to be legs broken." GREAME MURTY (above), before he found out that teammate Stephen Hunt had hidden the jersey. Murty swopped shirts with Cristiano Ronaldo after Saturday's
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    • 389 36 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London SVEN-GORAN Eriksson admitted Manchester City were fortunate to preserve their unbeaten home record, after Darius Vassell's controversial goal gave them a 1-1 draw with West Ham. City trailed to Carlton Cole's eighth-minute goal at Eastlands on Sunday, but Vassell was
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    • 577 36 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Madrid FIRST-HALF goals from Raul Gonzalez and Ruud van Nistelrooy gave Spanish league leaders Real Madrid a hard-earned 2-0 derby victory at neighbours Atletico Madrid on Sunday. The Spanish giants now have 50 points from 20 games and retained their seven-point lead
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    • 360 37  -  Wang Meng Meng SOCCER Chinese club promises 'clean' football if they are included By YES, we are interested. That is the message from Dalian Shide. The Chinese Super League side have expressed an interest in playing in the S-League should Liaoning Guangyuan be
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    • 194 37  -  WANG MENG MENG HE dared to dream big but alas, Lionel Lewis has been unable to clinch a European move. The Singapore goalkeeper was told by Swiss Super League club Grasshopper Zurich that he would not be offered a playing contract when his one-week trial
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 75 37 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: An anti-doping expert believes that drug cheats would be caught at the Beijing Olympics. "Today, the message in anti-doping is really very strong," said Guillaume Jeannet, a Beijing-based French lawyer and former Olympics rower. "Even if you are Marion Jones, you may
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      • 63 37 DUBLIN: Terry Venables remains the favourite to be appointed the Republic of Ireland's football manager, after Gerard Houllier ruled himself out of the running. Houllier has opted to remain in his position as technical director of the French Football Federation, reported the BBC. Venables,
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    • 721 37 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Accra (Ghana) NOT everything went right as the African Nations Cup kicked off amid a riotous fanfare of colour and noise. But, most importantly for hosts Ghana, the one thing that did was the result against Guinea. Sulley Muntari was the
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    • 410 38 MOTOR RACING 9,300 corporate tickets gone; only 54 of 180 suites still available THE inaugural Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix on Sept 28 is generating great interest, judging by the 9,300-plus corporate tickets sold in under two months. The organiser is hoping for a
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    • 179 38 NIGEL Stepney, the engineer who was sacked by Ferrari for revealing confidential data to McLaren, claims he never intended his team's bitter rivals to benefit from his information. "I don't feel responsible in any way for what happened at McLaren," he told Sky Sports,
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    • 232 38 REUTERS »SOCCER Nyon (Switzerland) FIFA and Uefa have agreed to pay around US$252 million (***** million) over the next six years, to compensate clubs whose players take part in World Cups and European Championships. The deal, involving a US$llO million payment by Fifa and approximately
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    • 718 38 AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL Conference Championships American: New England 21 San Diego 12. National: New York Giants 23 Green Bay 20 (OT). BASKETBALL NBA: Phoenix 116 New Jersey 92. CRICKET First one-day international in Centurion, South Africa: West Indies 175 all out in 35.5 overs (R. Morton 41; D. Sammy
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    • 370 38 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG NEWS AMERICAN FOOTBALL New York THE unbeaten New England Patriots and the unlikely New York Giants will clash in the Super Bowl next month, after winning conference championships in freezing temperatures. The Patriots beat the San Diego Chargers 21-12 in
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG NEWS; AFP, AP  -  370 words
    • 385 38 NEW YORK TIMES »GOLF Palm Desert (California) D.J. TRAHAN overpowered the Classic Club and stunned the overnight leader, Justin Leonard, on Sunday. He shot a final-round 65 that turned a four-stroke deficit into a three-stroke victory in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
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    • 124 38 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE Philippines won the fourth edition of the Women's World Cup of golf in Sun City, South Africa, on Sunday. They won it in style, with birdies at each of the last four holes. Jennifer Rosales and Dorothy Delasin combined for a
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    • 203 38 THE inaugural HSBC Women's Champions tournament in Singapore just got more star-studded. Juli Inkster, an LPGA Tour Hall of Famer since 1999, is set to feature alongside the likes of Annika Sorenstam and Pak Se Ri at Asia's biggest women's golf event. It will
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    • 30 34 Hicks: I'm not selling Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks insists he is fully committed to the club, but it appears he may be holding out for a bigger profit. PAGE Hl2
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    • 50 37 TV times BASKETBALL: Big East Conference: Syracuse v Georgetown (Live, Ch23, Bam). SOCCER: English League Cup s-final, 2nd leg: Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 3.55 am). TENNIS: Australian Open: Men's/Women's q-finals (Live, Ch24, Bam and 4.30pm). Event HOCKEY: SHF League Girls'U-21: Theresians v Crescent A (Delta Stadium, 7pm).
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  • OBITUARIES
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      299 39 1 OBITUARY "And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son Jesus." 1 John 5:11 Dearly missed by loved ones... Wife Teo Choy Lin Son Dato 1 Victor Loong Shin Daughters Nellie Loong SuetYeng Sons-in-law: Valen Tan SweeTeik Loong Sweet
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      43 39 W/'/n deepest Sumpamu yfear/fef/ Goncfofences to Our Directors Mr Lim Kok Khee and Mdm Lee Soo Fen on the demise of their beloved mother-in-law and mother HO KOK FUNG Departed on 20 January 2008 From: The Management Staff of Build Plus Private Ltd
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      105 39 HO KOK FUNG Age: 94 passed away peacefully on 20 January 2008. She will be dearly missed by her children and grandchildren and remembered as being a wonderfully devoted, loving and doting mother and grandmother. Husband: Lee Yoke Joo, BBM (Deceased) Sons: Daughter-in-law: Lee Soo Din Ooi Get Hua Lee
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      34 39 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late I ANG BEE LIAN Departed on 20 January 2008 From: The Management Staff of Master Contract Services Pte Ltd Group of Companies I
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      46 39 We, the family of the late JOHN LIM CHAN TAI passed away on 9 Jan 2008 wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all relatives, friends, priests and brothers- sisters-in-Christ, for their visits, support, prayers, i kind assistance and condolences j during our recent bereavement. J
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      39 39 £|&r Cheruked Memory Of -t^S MRS TEO CHENG SEAH (LIMGUEHCHOO) (24.3.22 22.1.89) A very dear duter, a much-loved aunt I called to rejt with JediM 19 yeard to-day 3& Fondly remembered and muMed jJC j& by loved one*) ra»
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      60 39 THALAI THEVASAM Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of ARUMUGAM KAMALAGARAN (BALASUBRAMANIAM) Age: 53 Departed: 3 Feb 2007 Deeply missed and fondly remembered by Janari Arumugam (Mother), family, relatives friends. I Prayers will be held on 23.1.08 (Wed) from 7am I till night at Blk 181 Ang Mo KioAve 5 #03-2932.
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      112 40 RAJARATNAM RAMASON Age: 80 passed away peacefully on 20 January 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Beloved wife: Jeanne Ramason Son: Raji Ramason Daughter: Son-in-law: Dr Rani Ramason Dr Jon XC Yoong Grandson: Andrew WS Yoong Brother: Sister-in-law: Dr R Sundarason Mary Sundarason Sisters: Brothers-in-law: Mrs Ledsumi
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      72 40 JENNY KOH HENG NEE Age 62 passed away peacefully on 2.0 January 2.008 Dearly msseb avib fotibiy remenixreb by laveb ones. Husband: Tan Kirn Luan (deceased) Sons: Daughter-in-law: Tan Lock Ann, Jeffrey Tan Lock Sin, Steven Ah Eve Grandson: Ah Boy Wake is held at Blk 121 Ang Mo Kio
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      74 40 NG HOCK CHOON ROLAND Age: 51 passed away peacefully on 20 January 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by family and loved ones. Wife: Tan Lin Chen Wendy Sons: Huang Guan Sheng Huang Guan Wen Godson: Goddaughter: I Tan Wen Long Ryan Ho Pei Ling Jean Wake is held at
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      268 40 "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole lifelong." m Psalm 23 MARY TAN YONG NEO Age: 95 was called home to be with
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      211 40 j^jp "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days $3ps. H" of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. *^a Psalm 23:6 LIM AH CHOK Age: 89 Was called home to be with the Lord on 21 January 2008. Dearly missed and
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      199 40 "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23 TAN MOI CHEN Age: 72 was called home to be with the Lord on 20 January 2008 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband:
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      175 40 POH YEW BOON Age: 85 passed away peacefully on 21 Jan 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Cheong Ah Kiat Sons: Daughters-in-law: Poh Lye Huat Paul Mary Koh Poh Thiam Huat Shee Choon Yang Poh Boh Huat Goh Sally (Deceased) Poh Teng Huat Teo Wee Ling Daughters: Sons-in-law: Poh Chai
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    • 496 42 LOS ANGELES TIMES, REUTERS Lawmakers hope to trigger spending and job creation to boost economy Washington A STIMULUS package to boost the United States economy and avoid a fullfledged recession could be ready by March 1, a senior Democratic lawmaker has said. Senator
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    • 374 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing A MAJOR Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to US$22 billion (5531.6 billion) for acquisitions at a time when United States and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish
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    • 271 42 REUTERS Hong Kong BANK of China (BOC) might suffer a 2007 loss because of a big write-down on billions of dollars of United States sub-prime-related investments, a newspaper said yesterday. Quoting unidentified sources, the South China Morning Post said Chinese banking
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    • 38 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 13,325.94 (-535.35 points) "Japanese stocks closed down 3.86 per cent at a fresh two-year low on worries whether a stimulus package unveiled by the Bush administration would avert a United States recession.
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    • 36 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 23,818.86 (-1,383.01 points) Hong Kong stocks tumbled 5.49 per cent amid fears the United States economy is headed for a recession and following a plunge in mainland Chinese stocks.
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    • 36 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 4,914.44 (-266.08 points) Chinese stocks closed sharply lower, fallings.l 4 percent amid concerns that a massive forthcoming share issue by insurer Ping An Insurance could curb demand for other stocks.
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    • 32 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,580.4 (-166.9 points) Australian share prices closed down 2.9 per cent on concerns over domestic inflationary pressures and the state of the ailing United States economy.
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    • 36 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,408.6 (-30.89 points) Malaysian shares prices closed down 2.15 per cent in line with the region on concerns over the United States economy despite the announcement of a stimulus package.
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      31 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 17,605.35 (-1,408.35 points) »Indian share prices tumbled to close down 7.41 per cent, the steepest one-day fall ever as local and foreign investors dumped blue-chip firms.
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    • 30 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,485.88 (-125.25 points) »Indonesian share prices closed 4.8 per cent lower with trading affected by fears of a possible recession in the United States.
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    • 36 42 AFP Yesterday's close: 766.53 (-23.14 points) Tha i share prices closed 2.93 per cent lower amid investor uncertainty over United States President George W. Bush's package aimed at reviving the world's largest economy.
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    • 121 42 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: 2,91 7.15 Jan 21 Stock Name Close Change Stock Name Close Change Capita Land.... 5.400 -0.490 01am ...2.510 -0.320 CapitaMall 2.650 -0.200 SI A ..14.920 -0.700 CityDev ...11.020 -0.680 SGX ...8.800 -0.750 Cosco Corp... 4.630 -0.220 SIAEngg ....4.190 -0.130 DBS Grp ...17.500 -1.180 SPH
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    • 142 42 Jan 21 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2520 1.2670 Can dollar 1.3910 1.4070 Euro 2.0810 2.1040 Malaysian ringgit* ..0.4390 0.4396 NZ dollar 1.0830 1.1060 Sterling pound 2.7920 2.8240 US dollar 1.4310
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    • 586 43 REUTERS China Eastern reacts coolly to $3b offer, saying it lacks details, legal validity Hong Kong AIR China's shares in Hong Kong posted their sharpestever slide yesterday after smaller rival China Eastern called a US$2 billion (552.87 billion) acquisition bid by
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      • 215 44  -  NICHOLAS FANG PUBLIC relations veteran K. Bhavani has been named Asia's top business communicator for her contributions to the industry in Singapore and in Asia. Ms Bhavani, who heads the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS), received the accolade from Mumbai-based Association
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      • 426 44  -  Fiona Chan It beats Bates and O£tM to nab contract that is said to be worth $30m a year By CREATIVE agency BBDO Singapore has beaten two rivals to land SingTel's lucrative advertising account. The telecommunications giant picked BBDO over Bates and Ogilvy Mather
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    • 787 46  -  Christopher Tan SPLITTING THE PIE The Government is targeting a ridership of just over 10 million trips per day by 2020. That is explosive growth from the current 5.6 million. In this enlarged and liberalised market, SBST and SMRT are
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      • 61 46 RAFFLES Education intends to seek a listing of some of its China operations on the mainboard of Hong Kong's stock exchange. The move, it said yesterday, would allow these operations to focus on their growth in China. The firm has engaged ÜBS
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      • 95 46 CHIP Eng Seng has won a $188 million contract from the Housing Board (HDB) to build 1,394 flats at Queenstown. The contract includes the construction of a multi-storey carpark, linkbridges, a roof garden, an education centre and other facilities. Construction will start next
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      • 78 46 SKY China Petroleum Services said yesterday it was reviewing an offer to obtain exclusive extraction rights to an oilfield in the petroleum-rich Songliao Basin in nortn-eastern China. The initial investment in the first and smallest phase of the development will cost about US$3O
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      • 58 46 THE manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust Management is buying a warehouse in Singapore for $40 million. The vendor, Sealogistics, will lease back the property for seven years, with an option to extend the lease by up to seven more years. Mapletree has terminated the $10.4
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    • 418 46  -  Nicholas Fang By THE blurring of the traditional lines between the manufacturing and services sectors has led the Economic Development Board (EDB) to revise the performance indicators it uses to reflect investment into Singapore. EDB's assistant managing director for planning and policy,
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    • 677 47  -  Goh Eng Yeow STAKING STOCK Blue chips battered in STl's worst one-day drop since Oct 1987 as Asian bourses are sold down By Markets Correspondent THE market went into a tailspin yesterday, as successive waves of selling sent the Straits Times Index (STI)
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    • 330 47  -  Fiona Chan By Property Reporter THE wildly swinging stock market has not stopped construction firm Wee Hur from seeking a listing. Wee Hur Holdings, which is building Orange Grove Residences and Parkview Eclat in Grange Road, hopes to ride on the construction
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    • 358 47  -  LEE SU SHYAN WARRANT WATCH ONE dealer described it as a "carnage" and as often happens with dramatic market changes warrants, including index-linked contracts, were very active. Yesterday's 6 per cent plunge in the Straits Times Index took investors by surprise with
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    • 539 47  -  Lee Su Shyan By Assistant Money Editor TECITY is off-loading its longheld stake in Robinson Co because it does not see eye-to-eye with the major shareholder and no longer has any familial ties with the retailer. Tecity's decision to sell its 3.13
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    • 704 48  -  Nicholas Fang Good mix of new projects boosts data, lifts outlook for this year: EDB By SINGAPORE has smashed the record for investments in new factories, machinery and other industrial facilities having secured $16.1 billion worth of such investments last
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    • 216 48  -  JOYCE TEO »TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT THE property arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), GIC Real Estate, and a Russian company have announced a joint venture to develop a residential township north-east of Moscow. GIC Real Estate will acquire a 25 per
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      80 49 If you are a fan of manga or Japanese animation, head for Tokyo and Kyoto. There, you can visit museums devoted to the craft and check out stores selling talking Hello Kitty robots. LEE SEOK HWAI reports. pages 2&3 Scary process Playwright Zizi Azah Abdul Majid talks about
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        1239 50  -  Lee Seok Hwai Turn off your TV and enter a new realm in Japan where anime and manga keep people and cash registers singing RECENTLY, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I stared down a Gundam robot, came face to face with a talking Hello
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      • 174 51 IDo visit Tokyo Anime Centre in the Akihabara area, which has a speciality boutique selling memorabilia not available elsewhere, such as an Astro Boy hologram mirror. It also has a gallery displaying the latest cutting-edge technology, such as a touch screen with 3D maps and "bone-con-duction"
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      • 93 51 1 Don't be too boisterous in trains and buses. Many Japanese, especially Tokyoites, are known to spend an unearthly amount of time commuting five hours a day is not unheard of and sleep or read whatever they can on the road. There are broadcasts reminding people not to
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      • 572 52  -  Yeo Qianhua You can dig for gold at Las Medulas, party at Barrio Humedo and tuck into frog's legs THERE are stars and there are stars. So it helps that an astronomer can clue you in on which ones you should gawk at in the night
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      • 596 53  -  Caleb Low Express bus and tour operators are adding more buses to meet the demand during Chinese New Year IT'S rolling good times for operators of bus services to Malaysian towns. They say the bulk of tickets for trips during the week of Chinese New
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      • 170 53 FOR those who have yet to make their Chinese New Year travel plans, there's still hope of getting away. Limited places are available for ASA Holidays' six- and seven-day Taiwan and 11-day California-Las Vegas tours, both departing on Feb 6. On the itinerary for the Taiwan package, priced
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      90 54 'He's a reality check forme and I'm a fabulosity check for him' Fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons (above) on her romance with actor Djimon Hounsou 'So, it's a black man or a white woman. You know, this is the same decision Michael Jackson has to make every morning of
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    • 916 54 Actress Mia Farrow is fronting a worldwide campaign to halt the Darfur humanitarian crisis FANS remember Mia Farrow as a star from the 1960s with delicate, pixie-like features, and whose split from director Woody Allen in the 1990s made tabloid news. Now, at 62, the actress
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    • 521 55  -  Hong Xinyi M 1 SINGAPORE FRINGE FESTIVAL Playwright Zizi Azah Abdul Majid says writing her second play has been a scary process HER first play, How Did The Cat Get So Fat, was staged in 2006 and scored her a 2007 Life! Theatre Award nomination for
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    • 392 55  -  Hong Xinyi > theatre ECLIPSE The Necessary Stage and 7:84 Theatre Company National Museum Gallery Theatre Last Wednesday THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF JOSEPH FINCH Les Productions Figlio Esplanade Theatre Studio Last Friday BOTH one-man shows featuring male characters grappling with cultural and familial baggage, Eclipse and The Invisible
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    • 642 56  -  June Cheong Ralph Kirshbaum, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory's new visiting professor of music, is passionate about the cello ARTS REPORTER PLAYING the cello saved American Ralph Kirshbaum from being drafted into the Vietnam War back in 1968. The 61-year-old cellist, who was born in
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    • 218 56 AFP, Bloomberg DUBAI Dream Works, the US studio behind the hit box-office animated movie Shrek, plans to build its first theme park in the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai, the Khaleej Times newspaper reported on Sunday. The studio has signed an agreement
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      • 232 58 AP LOS ANGELES Rachel Rosales and T.K. Erwin finished first in the Last Frontier to win CBS' The Amazing Race and the reality TV show's US$l million (Ssl.4 million) prize. During the around-the-world race's final leg in Anchorage, Alaska, the couple from Huntington Beach, California, searched
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      • 254 58 HONG KONG TVB actress Angela Tong, who is well-known for her vixenish roles, was slapped thrice in the face when she was window-shopping in the busy Wan Chai area on Sunday afternoon. A 33-year-old man was arrested in a nearby street for the alleged sudden attack.
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      • 226 58 KUALA LUMPUR What a costly late-night snack it turned out to be. MediaCorp artistes Cynthia Koh and Alan Tern were hit by a car burglar last Thursday when they stopped at a nasi lemak stall here for half an hour, reported China Press
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        126 58 BIG DADDY: Sex And The City star Chris Noth and long-time girlfriend Tara Wilson had a son, Orion Christopher, last Friday... MISCARRIAGE: Singer Lily Allen, who announced her pregnancy last month, has had a miscarriage... 808 NEWHART SHOW STAR DIES: Suzanne Pleshette (left), best known for her role as
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