The Straits Times, 11 March 2008

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 118 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS > MICA (P) 115/12/2007 TUESDAY, MARCH 11 2008 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Top brass rally around Abdullah
    723 1  -  Carolyn Hong Malaysian PM sworn in; he resolves to carry out his policies, but questions remain about his leadership By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi yesterday marshalled the full support of his party and coalition partners as he was
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    Lock icon Malaysian stocks see sharpest drop in 10 years
    485 1  -  Alvin Foo By Markets Correspondent TRADING was suspended on Malaysia's stock market for an hour yesterday in a bid to impose calm after Saturday's dramatic poll results sent shares into an alarming nosedive. Panic selling drove the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI)
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Fleshing out the problem of eating meat
      804 1  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok BANGKOK-BASED Gunter Heinz has seen for himself, up close, compelling reasons to either not eat meat at all, or be very careful where you do. In an upcoming report, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) expert
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      34 1 I^^^^ U^^^^9 A family's rare gesture HOME HI Election Join BN? No way, The big swing: The NEP: what aftermath: Anwar tells what the clout do Pages 6-13 Leslie Lopez numbers tell states have?
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      253 2 Awarding n v Scholarships J S P Jain is one of India's top business school with campuses in Mumbai, Dubai and Singapore. In Singapore it is one of the very few elite schools to be granted "Institute of Higher Learning" status by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. In Dubai it
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      166 2 A Public Healthcare Educational Seminar by S3t LCi siNCiAPOiu; mi:jjk;ai. ukoli1 LASIK Forum The Lasik Surgery Clinic Date: 13 March 08 (Thurs) 7.30pm 15 March 08 (Sat) 4.00pm Agenda: 1. Common Vision Problems 2. Are You a Suitable Candidate for LASIK? 3. How LASIK is done 4. Option for Presbyopia
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      381 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Vital need for skin Asia 5"17 The skin bank here faces a shortage World 18-23 of donations. Skin donated after Review 24-26 death can help save lives, but few FYI 27 are ready to make the gesture. SECTION TWO PAGE HI Home Hl-H6 Forum H7
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon SMRT fined $387,176
      499 3  -  Christopher Tan THE CAUSE: MRT maintenance train slams into its locomotive on Jan 21 THE RESULT: Seven-hour-long service disruption along East-West Line inconveniences about 57,000 rush-hour commuters THE PENALTY: LTA fine is largest for a rail-related incident and reflects the seriousness of incident By Senior Correspondent THE
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      Lock icon Girl, 18, accused of pulling out maid's front teeth
      564 3  -  Elena Chong DIANA OTHMAN By Court Correspondent \N INDONESIAN maid had two 3f her front teeth ripped out allegedly by an 18-year-old girl who was staying with the maid's emsloyer in an Outram flat. It was a family affair at the
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      Lock icon Indonesian plane skids off runway at Batam airport
      271 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Jakarta AN INDONESIAN passenger plane carrying 174 people skidded off the runway while landing at Batam airport in heavy rain yesterday. Five people suffered head and neck injuries. The Adam Air jetliner's right wing was clipped and its hydraulic
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      Lock icon New form of deferred payment – but with a catch
      668 4  - New form of deferred payment but with a catch Fiona Chan Property developers and banks revive old scheme that involves interest absorption By Property Reporter IN A bid to tempt home buyers back into the cooling property market, banks are teaming up with developers to bring back deferred payment or
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      443 3 I SMU Business SMU Above all, it's about s?s management A Journey More Daring Professor Pang Eng Fong Mr^ L e ee an Kon g chianschoo,ofßusin e ss J^ Interactive Pedagogy *""~"SS7TV 3rd Year student At SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB), you learn business in unconventional ways.
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      638 4 UNDERSTANDING IVyiYn pi A N. I m Myopia or short-sightedness is a form of -ht refractive error that causes distant objects I to appear blurred. v m^^^^^ I Singapore has one of the highest incidences of myopia worldwide. 20% of Singaporean children at the age of M B^. /0\ CFMTDI
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      42 4 STOCK MARKETS Reality check n The US stock market does not seem to have priced in a recession. BT's market columnist looks at the danger signs for investors. Fiery en-bloc sale meeting at Bayshore Park Jeering and heckling mar event the I
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    Lock icon Embracing passion, seizing opportunities
    1039 5 A SPECIAL FEATURE BROUGHT TO YOU BY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Want to go places? Mary Lim discovers the world's within reach at NUS, thanks to abundant opportunities that connect students and alumni to global organisations JUSTIN LEE Computing graduate Justin Lee, 27, believes that entrepreneurs
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Opposition to join BN coalition? NEVER!
      752 6  -  Leslie Lopez THE ANWAR INTERVIEW Anwar rules out a unity government, saying that Urn no represents the past By South-east Asia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday rejected suggestions that his diverse group of parties, which won five states in last
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    • MALAYSIA
      • ELECTIONS AFTERMATH
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          Lock icon Two-thirds majority not vital, says Abdullah
          754 8  -  Jeremy Au Yong THE POST-MORTEM He stresses that BN is at no disadvantage since it has enough seats to form govt By In Kuala Lumpur PRIME Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday put up a brave front as Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders met for the
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          Lock icon BN loses over half of votes in peninsular Malaysia
          646 8  -  Leslie Koh ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE By BARISAN NASIONAL'S (BN) losses could not have looked sadder: Five states lost to the opposition up from one in 2004 and a staggering 28 per cent drop in the number of parliamentary seats held,
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          Lock icon BN's smaller parties can't fill Cabinet posts
          308 8  -  LESLIE KOH SOME of the smaller Chinese and Indian parties within the Barisan Nasional coalition fared so badly that they will not even be able to fill the Cabinet seats allocated to them. Malaysian Indian Congress for instance, is allowed seven government positions
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          Lock icon THE (UN) POPULAR VOTE
          85 8 Saturday's results for parliamentary seats show a big swing away from Barisan Nasional across all races. SOURCES: Figures on racial vote from independent analysts. GRAPHICS: PHOTOS: ONG KIAN MING, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, ELECTION COMMISSION Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi greeting supporters at his official residence
          ONG KIAN MING, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, ELECTION COMMISSION; MIKE M DIZON; ma AFP  -  85 words
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          Lock icon Opposition keen to dump BN policies
          695 10  -  Reme Ahmad IMPACT ON THE STATES New opposition Selangor govt free to end New Economic Policy By Assistant Foreign Editor In Kota Baru MALAYSIA'S three-party opposition coalition that is forming the state government in Selangor has raised eyebrows for declaring that it will scrap
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          Lock icon DAP to reviews $11b project in Penang
          278 10 REUTERS Penang THE opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) will review plans for a US$B billion (Ssll billion) real estate development project in the northern industrial hub of Penang, a party official said yesterday. It is the first major project the opposition wants to
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          Lock icon PAS and PKR vie for top post in Perak
          1215 10  -  Chow Kum Hor BERNAMA By Malaysia Correspondent In Penang FWO opposition parties Parti Islam SeVlalaysia (PAS) and Parti Keadilan Rakyit (PKR) are vying for the post of nenteri besar of Perak, although neither ;ommands the most seats in the state legslature.
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          Lock icon Taking aim
          455 12  -  Chow Kum Hor THE FALLOUT Mahathir's son Mukhriz calls for change and urges PM to 'do the right thing' By Malaysia Correspondent In Butterworth HUNDREDS of Umno members rushed to Butterworth yesterday after word spread that Jerlun MP Mukhriz Mahathir was about to gather grassroots leaders to demand
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          Lock icon Taking flak
          485 12  -  Carolyn Hong Abdullah's son-in-law Khairy, perceived as power behind throne, also blamed for losses By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur AS THE dust from Saturday's polls settles, attention has shifted to the Prime Minister's son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin, who has come under fire for the Barisan Nasional's poor
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          Lock icon S'pore firms hope business climate remains stable
          431 12  -  Grace Ng By Chia Van Mm SINGAPORE businessmen are holding their breath amid fears that Malaysia's business outlook could become rocky after the ruling coalition's worst election result in 50 years. Some local manufacturing companies expressed concerns that the opposition's shock victories in
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          Lock icon Opposition supporters keep celebrations short and sweet
          352 12  -  Arlina Arshad By In Kuala Lumpur MORE than 100 residents in Skudai cheered and clapped when Democratic Action Party (DAP) candidate Dr 800 Cheng Hau emerged triumphant from the vote-counting booth at Johor Baru's Tengah Municipal Council building last Saturday night. They swarmed
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          Lock icon Lessons to be learnt, say PAP MPs
          624 13  -  Peh Shing Huei REACTIONS IN SINGAPORE Shock result shows that ruling party must keep in touch with issues on the ground, they say By Kor Kian Beng THE Malaysian political shake-up is not only a wake-up call to the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN)
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          Lock icon No major impact on KL-S'pore ties, says George Yeo
          293 13  -  HO Al LI THE surprise election results in Malaysia at the weekend should not have a significant impact on ties with Singapore, Foreign Minister George Yeo said yesterday. Mr Yeo said he was surprised to see Malaysian opposition parties win control
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Election race marks political watershed
        984 14  -  Ong Hwee Hwee lyQ^QgliaaUda&lumixdlU For the first time, ideological issues are taking a back seat to the economy By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei CHANGE is in the air as Taiwanese head to the polls on March 22 to elect a new president amid a groundswell
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        Lock icon Ma maintains lead over Hsieh after TV debate
        188 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS TAIWAN presidential front runner Ma Ying-jeou has maintained his strong lead after the final TV debate before the March 22 election, according to polling numbers yesterday. Mr Ma got 49 per cent support compared to 22 per cent for
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        Lock icon Beijing 'should hand out food vouchers, not cash'
        552 15  -  VINCE CHONG Economist pans proposal to give 'red packet' to all 1.3 billion Chinese By In Beijing THE Chinese government should consider giving food vouchers instead of cash handouts to help the poor tide over current inflationary pressures, prominent economist Li Yining
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        Lock icon S. Korea to cut corporate tax to stoke growth
        260 15 BLOOMBERG, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul SOUTH Korea will cut company taxes to as low as 10 to 20 per cent by 2013 and remove limits on investment by large businesses, the finance ministry said in a report yesterday. That would
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Congress backs away from N-deal clash
        461 16  -  Ravi Velloor India's ruling party placates allies to get budget and pay hikes through By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi NDIA'S ruling Congress 3arty has stepped back from in immediate confrontation vith its communist allies over the civilian nuclear deal with the United
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        Lock icon New Delhi hit by widespread blackouts
        402 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG New Delhi TWO 12-hour-long blackouts shut factories and businesses, disrupted trains and left millions of people without electricity in and around New Delhi at the weekend. The outages on Friday and Sunday in the capital and surrounding states were blamed on
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        Lock icon Volatile Sri Lanka district holds polls
        142 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Valachchenai (Sri Lanka) SRI LANKA'S volatile eastern district of Batticaloa yesterday held local council elections for the first time in 14 years, with an armed Tamil group expected to win the vote. The government threw a security blanket over the coastal area,
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Thaksin hit with charges over lottery scheme
        582 17 IVGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Suit claims ex-PM legalised lottery by decree instead of seeking parliamentary approval Bangkok THAILAND'S military-backed investigators yesterday filed a criminal lawsuit against deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and 46 others, accusing him of wrongly legalising a lottery scheme. The Assets
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        Lock icon Yudhoyono in Iran, days after abstaining from UN vote
        281 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited Iran yesterday, days after his country abstained from voting on a United Nations resolution imposing more sanctions on Teheran for continuing with its nuclear programme. Dr Yudhoyono was slated to discuss
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      20 6 Thaksin faces new charge Thai investigators claim ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra had legalised an underground lottery without parliamentary approval. PAGE 17
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US TEXTS ADAPTED FROM S'PORE VERSIONS
      200 18 THE Primary Mathematics Standards Edition, which is for grades one to five, is adapted from the Primary Mathematics Project series co-published by Singapore's Marshall Cavendish and the Ministry of Education in 1982. Marshall Cavendish, a publishing brand under Times Publishing Group in Singapore, worked
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      645 18 LOS ANGELES TIMES US experts say Spore curriculum drills in basics and key concepts Los Angeles IN JUST one year, an elementary school in a poor district of Los Angeles increased the number of fifth-graders achieving state standards by 69 per cent simply
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      Lock icon Beep! You have an SMS message – from spammer
      526 19 Beep! You have an SMS message from spammer THE WASHINGTON POST Rising concern over marketers targeting consumers through their cellphones Washington THE spam messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes are now finding victims through a much more personal route: the cellphone. Text messages have become the latest tool for
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      Lock icon Traces of medicine in US drinking water
      209 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS Philadelphia A VAST array of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilisers and sex hormones have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. A five-month investigation by the Associated Press found that drugs had been detected
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      Lock icon Sarkozy's party loses ground in local polls
      572 21  -  Susan Sachs Early first round figures show slim margin, which opposition calls a slap for the President By For The Straits Times In Paris PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party has lost ground in the first round of municipal and regional elections. With the
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      Lock icon Spain's Socialists win second term
      225 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Madrid SPAIN'S ruling Socialists won a second term in elections at the weekend as voters brushed aside concerns over slow growth and soaring immigration, and backed its liberal social reforms. But the party of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero failed to gain
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      Lock icon Era of crusades, jihads is over: OIC summit host
      590 22 REUTERS He urges Islam and the West to consign conflicts to history and learn to coexist Dakar (Senegal) THE era of crusades and jihads is over and Muslims and Christians should strive to coexist and not allow extremists to drag the
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      Lock icon Jordan group to sue Danish papers over cartoon
      200 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS Amman (Jordan) A JORDANIAN group of Islamic activists says it will file lawsuits against 17 Danish newspapers and magazines for republishing a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in the latest move in an ongoing row over the issue. Mr Zakaria al-Sheik
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Imelda Marcos cleared of 32 charges
        195 23 REUTERS FORMER Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos (left) has been acquitted by a local court of 32 counts of illegally transferring money abroad due to insufficient evidence. "This court cannot, in all conscience, convict the accused on the basis of mere hearsay and on
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        Lock icon Abandoned girl: Dad charged in NZ
        151 23 REUTERS THE fugitive father of an abandoned toddler nicknamed "Pumpkin" by the media returned to New Zealand yesterday and was charged with the murder of his wife. Xue Nai Yin (above), who was captured in the United States last week after five months on
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        Lock icon S. Korea's first astronaut to be replaced by a woman
        218 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BIOSYSTEMS engineering student Vi So Yeon (left) has been chosen to become South Korea's first astronaut after the Russian space authorities said the man initially selected for next month's mission had breached training rules. Ms Vi, 29, will
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        Lock icon Saudi activist defies ban on women drivers
        158 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A SAUDI woman activist marked this year's International Women's Day by defying a ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom and posted a video of her act on You Tube. Ms Wajiha Huwaidar, a leading activist in a campaign to
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      23 18 Sarkozy's party slumps French President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party loses ground in local polls after a voter backlash over his leadership. PAGE 21
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      439 24 TWO new features of the land transport review published in January the Land Transport Authority (LTA) as master route planner and opening up of the bus system to more than the present two operators had a much-needed airing in Parliament last week. The questions and suggestions
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      811 24  -  Lee Kuan Yew By ON VALENTINE'S Day 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met Saudi King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud on the USS Quincy at Egypt's Great Bitter Lake along the Suez Canal. Roosevelt was on his way home from Yalta where he, Joseph
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      1002 24  -  Ignatius Low SINGAPORE'S BUDGET By Money Editor WITH Parliament's passing of the expenditure estimates for the final ministry last week, Singapore's annual Budget exercise drew to a close. It's been a memorable Budget for a few reasons. First, the Budget surplus of $6.4
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      935 25  -  Tom Plate ►>U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE By For The Straits Times ADMIRERS of Mr Barack Obama who glibly and favourably compare the Democratic candidate for the US presidency to John F. Kennedy always assume they are doing the former a favour. But there's a whole
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      1112 26  -  Nirmal Ghosh GLOBAL WARMING By INFORMATION that emerged last year set off alarm bells on global warming, but we may still be oversleeping. Some of the world's foremost climate scientists now say that global warming is far more advanced than was believed at
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      1137 27 Singapore today Showers with thunder in JL^ 0 ~JL_ afternoon over many areas. THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, MARCH 11 2008 lII lII 111 USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN ASIA WORLD WEATHER F|O TODAY i 1 Emergency lines L* IWUAI BEIJING \J Police 999 P& v J Clear Police Hotline
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      804 29  -  Judith Tan Last year, there was only one donor skin is needed in case of mass casualties from an accident or terrorist attack By WHEN three-month-old Ryan Wong died from complications following surgery for a cleft lip at the end of January, his parents, in a rare gesture,
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      549 30  -  Lee Hui Chieh Healthy layers from partly damaged corneas =16 extra donor corneas a year By PEOPLE with cornea problems need only get the damaged parts replaced now, which makes for a faster recovery than if they had conventional surgery
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      180 30 WHEN a child asks to skip school, the thing that is scaring him or her may not be happening within the school walls. The problem could be online, in blogs, social networking sites and even e-mail inboxes and messaging services. These are the popular conduits through which cy-ber-bullying
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      391 30 FROM Oct 1 this year, employers can top up the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) accounts of their employees and enjoy tax exemptions. Workers can also top up their own accounts beyond the retirement age of 62. In addition, those who did not earn
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      108 30 A lorry, a motorcycle and a pedestrian were involved in an accident at the junction of Woodlands Avenues 4 and 7 yesterday morning. Police said they received a call at around 8.35 am informing them of the accident in which the motorcyclist, a man in
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      194 30 A CUSTOMER service officer who drove a buggy rashly in Changi Airport's Terminal 2, causing his colleague to fall off the vehicle, was yesterday jailed for nine months for causing grievous hurt. Don Lim Hai Foong's abrupt left turn led to the March 26
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      319 30  -  Liaw Wy-Cin By A CLEANING company now has one fewer lorry after one of its drivers was found illegally dumping trash into an HDB bin centre. In the first move of its kind, a Singapore court last Monday ordered the white Mitsubishi seized
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      455 31  -  Diana Othman HUNT FOR MAS SELAMAT Police not ruling out abandoned backpack, food as possible leads to whereabouts of Mas Selamat By WHILE the island-wide manhunt for Mas Selamat Kastari has not turned up the terrorist leader, it has netted an unintended quarry: dozens
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      261 31  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent A 49-YEAR-OLD man was charged yesterday with three counts of giving phoney tip-offs to the police about Singapore's most-wanted fugitive, Mas Selamat Kastari. After the charges were read to him in a magistrate's court, Ng Hang Hai, a bus driver, said
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      401 32  -  Goh Chin Lian By MORE Singapore bosses now say they will employ new staff in the next three months, compared to the employers polled for the first three months of this year, according to a survey. This finding of
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      609 32  -  Lee Siew Hua LAUNCH OF MFA DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY Republic transcended its size and limits with a pragmatic approach that sees the world as it is By Senior Political Correspondent AS A small state, Singapore cannot ignore the dangers to its sovereignty and
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      240 32  -  LEESIEWHUA LESSONS and experiences of the early generations of diplomats will be captured and passed on to new officers at the Foreign Ministry through classroom teaching, storytelling and "fireside" chats at a new academy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Diplomatic Academy
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      386 32  -  Goh Sui Noi By Senior Correspondent POOR governance in Southeast Asian countries is a serious problem that is hurting their economies, a prominent Hong Kong businessman said yesterday. Mr Ronnie C. Chan of the Hang Lung Group, a property conglomerate, noted that business people weighed the
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      452 32  -  Zakir Hussain By AS IT turns 20, a council set up to encourage Malays to take part in grassroots activities is set to broaden its reach to engage Singaporeans of other races. The events the People's Association Malay Activity Coordinating Council (Mesra) has
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      740 33  -  Jessica Cheam Greater flexibility in HDB loan rules for downgraders may help, say some By THE emergence of a new scam by HDB flat sellers has prompted calls by some MPs for a review of loan rules for flat downgrading. Housing
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      267 33  -  Ho Ai Li By WHILE many East Asian leaders are armed with science degrees, those skills are not a cure-all for pressing social problems like terrorism and the growing gap between the rich and poor, Foreign Minister George Yeo said yesterday. Educators across
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      661 34  -  Yeo Ghim Lay 120 from China hired; low pay, irregular hours are major roadblocks for Singaporeans By Jamie Ec Wen Wei BUS operators are turning to China for drivers as more Singaporeans here shun the job, complaining of irregular hours
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        134 34 RESIDENTS in Clementi, Woodlands, Bedok and other areas will be interviewed in the next few weeks as part of the ninth Household Expenditure Survey. The survey, conducted by the Department of Statistics (DOS), aims to find out Singaporeans' household expenditures. The re- suits will be used
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        72 34 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng is leaving for a three-day working visit to Laos and Cambodia today. He will sign agreements with the two countries aimed at increasing mutual cooperation in combating transnational crime, said a Ministry of
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      24 29 In trouble for false tip-offs Bus driver faces imprisonment for lying repeatedly to the police about sighting JI fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari. PAGE H3
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      188 35  -  NgE-Jay ALLOW me to refer to Transport Minister Raymond Lim's point in Parliament last week about public transport. Mr Lim expects transport operators to be under pressure to step up productivity to survive competition. Yet, despite multiple increases in public transport fares since the
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      399 35  -  Koh TaiAnn WE HAVE heard a minister advise parliamentarians "to spew forth with passion your Hokkien lyrics and poetic metaphors" (the Speak Mandarin Campaign notwithstanding) to persuade constituents about the merits of recent CPF changes. I'm not sure about "spewing forth", but
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      234 35 MP's speech He was found by the Feedback Unit to be one against whom there was no official complaint. He was married and added three children to the population, which our Government says was the right number for a parent of
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      149 35  -  Raymond Koh Har Yong CONGRATULATE the Land Transport Authority JLTA) on its role in facilitating the Green Movement by introducing rebates for snvironment-friendly practices. However, I wish to highlight the administrative lag in helping consumers to enoy the rebates and encourige us
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      507 35  -  Steven Yeo I AM encouraged to see in Mr Michael Ang so much passion in sport and specifically in football ("Hockey, track, sailing hungry, but not soccer", March 5). Indeed, hosting the Youth Olympic Games will add much buzz to the
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      179 35 I GRADUATED from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Yishun in National ITE certificate (Nitec) in communication technology. I achieved a GPA score of 4.0 and was awarded a certificate of merit, a prestigious award given to ITE students who perform exceptionally
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      453 35  -  Duncan Edwards »NEW TAXI-STAND RULES IN CBD I HAVE tried the new taxi scheme for a week but, sorry, it doesn't work for me. For years, the Government has worked relentlessly, and so successfully, to make it "easier to do business here". But,
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      160 35  -  Lee Huan Ching THERE is a significant disparity between season parking fees in multi-storey or sheltered carparks and traditional unsheltered carparks. Sheltered carparks cost $90 a month, compared with $65 for surface lots. The fee difference is almost 30 per cent. Season
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      156 35  -  Thomas Mathew Koshy I REFER to last Friday's reply by Mr Lo Tak Wall of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board, "Options available for earlier CPF returns", in response to my query last Wednesday ("CPF investment funds: Move them more quickly"). Mr Lo's reply
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      205 35 I Banking Finance m:-£ i degree from i ie University of London. If Ifl (Academic direction by London School of Economics) Stansfield College Is a specialist college offering B.Sc Economics Finance only the University of London degrees and diplomas a highly mathematical degree appropriate for those in Singapore since 1993.
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      51 35 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. VEGGIE GOOD: Meals in schools GOOD BUT IMPRACTICAL: Lounge-style bus seating SPEEDY GONZALES: Cabby who didn't wait long enough HOW LONG? Two-month glitch and still counting... THEY'RE CHECKING: City Harvest Church replies CAPTAIN WHAT? Bus
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      1246 36 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOCCER Plenty to drink to, as giant-killers bring the romance back to the competition London THE weakest semi-final line-up in the 136-year history of the FA Cup? But who cares? Certainly not the fans of Barnsley, Cardiff, Portsmouth and West Bromwich Albion.
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      795 36  -  Rohit Brijnath GAME, SET AND MATCH By HE IS sports' blue-collar worker, easily recognised by a thick skin on which sit the scars of a hundred beatings. He is rarely expected to win, he is rarely focused on
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      483 36 London AVRAM Grant admits that he must win a trophy this season or he will face the axe as Chelsea's head coach. To save his job, he will have to guide the Blues to either Premier
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      450 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG NEWS SOCCER Milan LIVERPOOL will be trying to become the fourth English team to reach the Champions League quarter-finals when they face Inter Milan today. Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal have already reached the quarter-finals, joining FC
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      998 37 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The tide may have turned against Arsenal in title race, as Wenger blames a 'disastrous' field for a third straight draw London MUCH more than mere distance separates Milan from Wigan. But, right now, Arsenal's preference will be for the glamour of the Italian city
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      649 37 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Madrid BARCELONA'S title hopes are hanging by a thread, with Frank Rijkaard's team eight points behind Real Madrid after losing last Sunday. A late goal from Jon-Dahl Tomasson helped Villarreal to a 2-1 win at the Nou Camp. With 11
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      177 38 ASSOCIATED PRESS MOTOR RACING Doha THEY may have been on two wheels instead of four but this is what Singapore Formula One fans can look forward to come September. Qatar held the first night race in motor racing with the season-opening MotoGP
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      744 38  -  Leonard Lim Singapore agents feeling impact of Republic's first race But Sepang confident it will hit target of 125,000 By THE Sepang International Circuit will stage the 10th Malaysian Grand Prix on March 23, and organisers are targeting a record 50,000 foreign visitors. But, with
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        68 38 CHINESE side Dalian Shide moved off the bottom of the S-League table by beating Balestier Khalsa 2-1 at the Queenstown Stadium last night. Zhao Honglue put Dalian ahead in the 54th minute, before Kaze Giscard drew Balestier level in the 78th. Lv Peng gave
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        51 38 BLOOMBERG NEWS PARIS: Defending champions France defeated Italy 25-13 on Sunday to set up a title decider against Wales in rugby's Six Nations championship. But the French need to beat Wales by at least 20 points on Saturday to ensure they retain the
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        48 38 REUTERS THE English Football Association has charged Blackburn Rovers with misconduct after an incident involving several players in their 1-0 Premier League victory at Newcastle on March 1, the FA reported on its website. Blackburn have until March 25 to respond to the charge.
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      534 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS BADMINTON Dane beats Lv Lan to break China's hold on the All England women's singles title Birmingham DENMARK'S Tine Rasmussen claimed a second significant Chinese scalp of the week to win her first All England title on Sunday. The world No 9
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      447 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Phoenix THE Phoenix Suns picked the perfect opponents to show why they felt they needed Shaquille O'Neal. Three days past his 36th birthday, in his 10th game with Phoenix, O'Neal scored 14 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to help the Suns
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      280 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHLETICS Valencia MARIA Mutola missed out on a record eighth gold medal at the World Indoor Championships on Sunday. The Mozambican veteran middle-distance ace got boxed in like an inexperienced rookie in the 800 metres, allowing Tamsyn Lewis of Australia
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      520 40 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HOCKEY Fraternity, media heartbroken as they fail to make a Games for first time since 1928 New Delhi INDIA'S hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho resigned yesterday, after the eight-time Olympic champions failed to qualify for the Beijing Games. India crashed 0-2 to
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      644 40 ATHLETICS World Indoor C'ships in Valencia (only winners) Men's4oom: Tyler Christopher (Can) 45.675ec. 800 m: Abubaker Kaki (Sud) lmin 44.815ec. 3,000 m: Tariku Bekele (Eth) 7:48.23. 4x400m relay: USA 3:06.79. Pole vault: Yevgeniy Lukyanenko (Rus) 5.90 m. Triple jump: Phillips Idowu (Gbr) 17.75. Women's 400 m: Olesya Zykina (Rus)
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      27 36 Slow Sepang sales Malaysian GP's Singapore agents feel the impact of Republic's first race, but Sepang says it is on course to hit crowd target. PAGE HlO
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  • OBITUARIES
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      138 40 FONG POH KWAI Age: 82 passed away peacefully on 9 March 2008 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Chia Mun Kai, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chia Ngin Fei Tan Lay Keow Chia Yin Hoon (Chua Siew Hia, deceased) Chan Sau Kheng Dr. Chia Yuen Tat Dr. Ho Ling Chia Gim Pang Lor
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      117 40 am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12 LIM CHONG BENG Age: 70 was called home to be with the Lord on 9 March 2008, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Faith
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      52 40 The family of the late HAJJAH SAADIAH BTE HAJI RANDIMAN Departed on 8 March 2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to Dato Zain Bin Abdullah
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      45 40 Bth Anniversary In Dear Loving Everlasting Memory of our Beloved Mother SHRIMATICHANADEVI BRAHMA SINGH (Beloved Wife of the Late Shri Baboo Brahma Singh) DEPARTED: 11.3.2000 Fondly remembered dearly missed by your sons Brij Rai Singh Brij Mohan Singh, Daughters-in-law and Grandchildren. 0m Shanti Shanti Shanti
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      169 40 j "I have fought the good fight, I have finished i the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 JAMES TEN CHOON CHIEW Age: 43 Was called home to be with the Lord on 8 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Caroline Ten
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      43 40 Wi'/A 7)eepes/ Sumpamu Jieartfelt Goncfofences to Our Trustee and Honorary Legal Advisor, Mr Henry GS Lim on the demise of his beloved mother MDM CHAN SOON NEO Departed on 9 March 2008 From: The Management Committee, Advisors Staff of Loyang Tua Pek Kong
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      137 41 will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalm 91:2, NIV TAN MUI ENG Age: 80 Was called home to be with the Lord on 9 March 2008, dearly missed by loved ones. Husband: Tan Teow Mong (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law:
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      37 41 In Loving Memory of BLENHEIM TAN RIKAI Departed 11 March 2005 The gates to memories Never close Just as you were You'll always be A treasured part of Our memories. Mum, Pa, Sisters, God-brothers and loved ones.
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      94 41 Om Nama Shivayah ANJALAI (AYYAMMA PARTTI) W/0 LATE AY MUTHAIYAH MANDORE Age: 98 (Ex RAF Seletar) passed away peacefully on 9 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by family and loved ones. Son: Daughter-in-law: M. Karappaiah (Wadivathal, deceased) Daughters: Sons-in-law: (M. Kaliammal, deceased) (Arumugam, deceased) (M. Kannammal, deceased) (Muthiah
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      50 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the late KOH HOCK HO RICHARD Departed on 9 March 2008 From: The Management Staff of Knight Auto Precision Engineering Pte Ltd Knight Auto Precision Engineering Sdn Bhd Knight Auto Precision Engineering (Philippines) Inc Knight Auto Precision Engineering (Suzhou) Co Ltd
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      61 41 BALAKRISHNAN S/O RAMAN NAIR passed away peacefully on 10 March 2008 Your presence is ever near us, Your love remains with us yet; You were the kind of father, Your loved ones will never forget. Wake is held at Blk 210, Boon Lay Place, #17-107 Cortege will leave on 11
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      38 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director Mr Henry GS Lim on the demise of his beloved mother MDM CHAN SOON NEO on 9 March 2008 From The Board of Directors of TIONG WOON CORPORATION HOLDING LTD
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      153 41 CHENG KIAT ENG Age: 94 passed away peacefully on 9 March 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Chiam Toh Kai (Deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Grandchildren: Chiam Heng Suan Loi Chin Kioum Chiam Thyun Yuan Chiam Heng Kin Justin Chiam Chiam Heng Fong Chang Ec Chian Jordan Chiam Chiam Heng Juai Han
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      19 41 13th Anniversary In Loving Memory of ORCHARD POHWHATTCHYE Departed 11 Mar 1995 Always remembered by family and loved ones.
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      37 41 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of TAN LEE PING Departed on 11 of March 2007 Gone from our lives one so dear, But in our hearts forever near. Sadly missed always remembered by Dad, Mum, Brother Sister-in-law
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      36 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director Mr Henry GS Lim on the demise of his beloved mother MDM CHAN SOON NEO on 9 March 2008 From The Board of Directors of YONGNAM HOLDINGS LIMITED
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      135 41 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness. 2 Timothy 4:7-8 BERNICE LOW SUI CHUN Age: 82 was called home to be with the Lord on 4 March 2008 in Kuala
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        7466 42 TRANSACTION DATE: MARCH 10, 2008 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL '000 DAY HIGH LOW NET P/E M CAP SMIL 0R107 3C 26 42 141 27 195 IS 24 29 18 61 17 5 IS 43 5 26 126 34 5 16 144
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        55 42 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E $MI 620C 100C 1120C 1250C 398.3 3977.9 116 6065 Diamonds 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** 6170 SPDRS 296 6009 STI ETF 3013.7 6010 STIETFIOPV US200cd US620C US1000 US*****
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      817 43  -  Paul Krugman NEW YORK TIMES ►►COMMENTARY The financial crisis keeps returning to life even as the Fed turns pawnbroker By LAST Friday's United States jobs report which was so weak it had many economists declaring we are already in a recession was bad news.
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      37 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 12,532.13 (-250.67 points) »Japanese shares closed down almost 2 per cent, at the lowest level for 2V 2 years, on growing fears that the United States economy is in a recession.
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      35 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 22,705.05 (+203.72 points) Hong Kong shares closed 0.91 per cent higher, as investors moved into stocks that yield good dividends, amid an uncertain outlook for the broader market.
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      30 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 4,146.3 (-154.22 points) Chinese shares closed 3.59 per cent lower, as inflation concerns and recent weakness in overseas markets continued to weigh on investors.
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      35 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,180.4 (-83.6 points) Australian stocks closed down 1.6 per cent to their lowest level since October 2006, on fears about the US economy and declines in the resources sector.
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      33 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,173.22 (-123.11 points) Malaysian shares plunged 9.5 per cent, in a session marked by a one-hour trading suspension, as surprise weekend election results shook the stock market.
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      26 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 15,923.72 (-51.8 points) »Indian shares closed 0.32 per cent lower in volatile trade that saw large-scale buying by domestic mutual funds.
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      39 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,527.87 (-128.59 points) »Indonesian shares sank 4.8 per cent, pressured by losses in other markets amid rising fears the US economy may already be in recession, with the weaker rupiah further eroding sentiment.
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      35 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 806.65 (-14.92 points) Thai stocks closed 1.82 per cent lower, riding a wave of losses across Asia, as markets fell amid fears of a looming recession in the US.
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      119 43 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: 2,836.59 March 10 Stock Name Close Change CapitaLand.... ...5.710 +0.010 CapitaMall ...2.910 -0.140 CityDev .10.440 -0.360 Cosco Corp... ...3.330 -0.260 DBS Grp .16.580 -0.100 F&N ....4.510 -0.110 Gent Intl ...0.605 -0.005 HKLand ...4.210 -0.210 JSH .15.560 -0.560 Jardine C&C .18.400 -0.800 Keppel Corp Keppel
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      58 43 March 10 Star Cruises 1,013,823,000 Golden Agri 50,160,000 Global Voice 34,435,000 Synear 30,441,000 Yangzijiang 30,049,000 Jade Tech 27,696,000 Cosco Corp 26,508,000 Firstßes 26,354,000 Sing Tel 22,555,000 CoscoCorpDßeCWC-***** 20,358,000 SGX 19,286,000 STX P0 KWIOO 19,174,000 China Hongxing 19,031,000 DBS DB eCWOBO72I 18,005,000 SGX MBL eCWOBOBOB 17,417,000 CoscoCorpMßLeCWoBo7o3 16,962,000 JiutianC
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      140 43 March 10 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2820 1.2980 Can dollar 1.3950 1.4120 Euro 2.1210 2.1450 Malaysian ringgit* ..0.4329 0.4340 NZ dollar 1.0920 1.1160 Sterling pound 2.7860 2.8180 US dollar 1.3790
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      1791 43 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: MARCH 10,2008 52-WLLK ILL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY TRADED T LASI V( SALE /OLUML '000 140 35 3779 ASL Marine W*****1 40 -86 33 43 5 3 2036 AdvSCT W*****9 49 15 3657 BiosensorDBeCW*****3 3 5 -0 5 15 -5 5 455 29 5
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      458 44 REUTERS Hong Kong OPPORTUNISTIC investors are pulling back from Asian property because they see more scope for picking up distressed assets in the United States and Europe. Hedge funds have stopped dabbling in property in the region, fund managers say.
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      389 44 BLOOMBERG NEWS Funds facing margin calls as more banks worry that they may not get their money back London THE hedge fund industry is reeling from its worst crisis in a decade, as banks are now demanding more money pledged to support
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      354 44 REUTERS Beijing CHINA yesterday reported a big drop in its trade surplus for last month, as imports surged and exports to the United States sagged. But economists were wary of reading too much into the data because of distortions from the timing
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        632 45  -  Michelle Tay It rolls out various marketing strategies around the world to appeal to emotion By ALMOST 2.5 million litres that is 700 Olympic-sized pools of Coke Zero were sold worldwide within 18 months of its launch, yet truckloads will
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        322 45  -  Chua Hian Hou By ADVERTISING agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT) has wrestled the Silk Air contract from Ogilvy Mather (O&M) after a hotly contested, three-month selection process. Six agencies, including O&M, were vying for the contract with the airline, which has an annual
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      Lock icon Economists cut growth forecast for full year to 5.6%
      776 46  -  Nicholas Fang They expect US recession woes to hit the Republic, according to survey By ECONOMISTS are already counting the costs of the worsening United States economic downturn for Asian economies Singapore, in particular. Investment bank Goldman Sachs has projected that
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      429 46  -  Jessica Cheam By SINGAPORE'S urban planner is going international to market the Ophir-Rochor district touted as the nation's next development hot spot. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday that it will market a major site in this "new growth area"
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      216 46 MIDAS Holdings yesterday announced that its joint-venture company is part of a consortium that won a 1.56 billion yuan (*****.4 million) contract to supply metro train cars. The contract was awarded by a Shanghai railway company. The Midas unit, Nanjing SR Puzhen Rail Transport,
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      743 47  -  Chua Hian Hou No organisation today can afford to ignore half the population, says Sing Tel chief exec By ONE of Singapore's most powerful women, Ms Chua Sock Koong, has revealed how she once felt the sting of
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      370 47  -  Dennis Chan WARRANT WATCH By WARRANTS of oil plantation play First Resources had a dismal outing yesterday, falling by between 25 and 71 per cent as investors continued to sell the underlying stock. Registering the worst fall was a call issued
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      61 47 (0) March 10 UOB 0CBCCap3.93%Pref10 UOB DB ePW*****1 KepCorp BNPePW*****0 SIAEngg STI 3350 DBePW*****2 DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 STI 3300BNPePW*****9 CapitalanBNPePW***** SingTel StraitsAsia CENTS 1800 ***** 55 43.5 400 110 ***** 45 19.5 373 333 40.0 20 0 13.5 11.5 11.0 10.5 10.0 9.5 8.5 8.0 8.0
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      61 47 March 10 CapitalanBNPePW***** UOB DB ePW*****9 KepCorp BNPePW*****0 UOB DB ePW*****1 STI 3300BNPePW*****9 THC Edu CityDev BNPeCW*****6 Pacific HC W*****6 Megachem Global Voice CENTS 19.5 27.5 43.5 55 16 45 12 2.5 2.5 23 5.5 /o 77.3 41.0 35.9 32.5 28.0 26.8 26.3 25 0 25.0 24.3 22.2
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      59 47 (0) March 10 ASL Marine W*****1 Jardine CSC JSH CityDev SGX GLD 1OUS$ STXPOKW1OO HKLand Keppel Corp Cosco Corp UOB MBL iCW*****0 CENTS 40 1840 1556 1044 684 9658 286 421 968 333 541 86.0 80 0 77.7 36.0 32.0 30.5 30.0 29.2 27.0 26.0 23.0 68.3 4.2
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      417 47  -  Alvin Foo »TAKING STOCK By Markets Correspondent FORGET about the boom year of 2007. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) yesterday fell to its lowest close since December 2006. The cause was all too familiar: another slump on Wall
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      758 48  -  Joyce Teo It allows options for 97 condo units at Goodwood Residence to lapse By Property Correspondent A KUWAIT bank fund that agreed in December to buy 97 units at posh Goodwood Residence for $818.4 million has let the purchase
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      221 48  -  JOYCE TEO »R&D FACILITY PHARMACEUTICALS giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) yesterday opened a $116 million state-of-the-art research and development plant. The pilot plant, GSK's first in Asia and its sixth worldwide, has been built to accommodate potential new medicines now in their final development phase. Based at GSK's
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        193 51 THERE are four days left to grab All Nippon Airways' (ANA) promotional fares to the United States. Bookings for round-trip, Economy fares from $838 to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Honolulu close on Friday. The same goes for fares, from $998, to New York, Washington, DC and Chicago.
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        1605 52  -  Alison de Souza The south-western Indian state is as famous for its diverse eats as it is for its political leanings COMMUNISM does not make for great cuisine. This was my theory, after miserable meals in Cuba, Mongolia and Russia. But a trip to Kerala is making me
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      267 57  -  Chung Ming See ASKA, of J-pop duo Chage Aska fame, is looking forward to visiting the Singapore Science Centre. When not performing on stage, he is quite the science geek. "One of my private interests is playing with scientific gadgets," says the 50-year-old who was
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      177 57 AP LONDON Big-hearted musical Hairspray was head and shoulders above the competition at London's Laurence Olivier theatre awards, taking four major prizes including Best Musical. Newcomer Leanne Jones was named Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Tracy Turnblad, a teenager who dreams of dancing
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        415 88  -  Oo Gin Lee Tip: Fastest finger first THE most common way to find a phone number in your contact list is usually to open the address book and key in the name of the person you are looking for. Sony Ericsson phones
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        258 88 letter WE REFER to Oo Gin Lee's article "Why I fear the new mobile number portability" (Digital Life, March 4). Singapore was the first in the world to offer Mobile Number Portability in 1997. The "call forwarding system", in which calls to the old number get routed to
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        1121 89  -  Grace Chng Microsoft IE 8 beta is out RELEASED last week, the trial version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 will give users better protection against malware like viruses and trojans. For example, Safety Filter is a new feature which improves on the current lE's anti-phishing feature. SIGNIFICANCE: In
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        731 92 Dual-SIM card phones are catching on among those who know they exist, as THAM YUEN-C finds out LECTURER Ziggy Soh used to pack an extra sling bag along every time he flew to Beijing and Taipei for work. It was either that, or
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        496 94 Got a burning question about these phones that work twice as hard? THAM YUEN-C has the answers How are dual-SIM phones different from those that hold two SIM cards? Dual-SIM phones are also known as dual-standby phones because they allow both SIM cards to be
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        186 94  -  Tham Yuen-C BESIDES dual-SIM phones, there are also other options for those with two mobile lines or two SIM cards. These, however, will let you use only one SIM card at a time. Dual-SIM holders or adapters These are add-ons for your mobile phones, and require
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        877 98  -  STEPHANIE GWEE CYBER-BULLYING Singapore has the second highest number of cyber-bullying cases after the US, says new survey. reports FOR most primary school pupils, going to school meant having fun with their friends and mugging for exams. But for one Primary 3 pupil of an
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        318 100  -  Stephanie Gwee DO NOT try to tell normal bullying apart from cyber-bullying. That's because the tell-tale signs are the same, said consultant psychiatrist Adrian Wang. He said: "Some of the signs include being afraid to go to school, slackening academic grades, insomnia and moodiness."
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        391 100  -  Stephanie Gwee Hate e-mail YOU receive hate e-mail messages or read blog postings in which a bully insults you. In a 2007 case in Singapore, a student from an all-girls school was repeatedly taunted with vulgarities and was constantly teased by her peers. Defaced pictures of the girl
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          1283 101 00 GIN LEE and LEUNG WAI-LENG gaze into the crystal ball and see the blockbusters you will be playing in the months ahead THE good games just won't stop coming. While 2007 had a run of blockbusters like Halo 3, God of War 11,
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        493 102 You can do it all with Network Attached Storage gadgets ARE YOU the lone tech guy at home, servicing the entire family's multimedia expectations? Mum wants the photos you took of the family vacation last Christmas, your wife wants the video you
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        688 104  -  MKWong, Its key strategy to build communities of such users will help it cream some sales SUN Microsystems is more focused on open source than ever. One of its key strategies is building communities of open-source users from developers, architects and chief
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        506 105  -  Oo Gin Lee It sheds serious image and sets its sights on dynamic youth market You may not have heard of 20-year-old Portuguese design student Joao Oliveira. But you can now see his artwork brightly emblazoned on the cover of every HP Pavillion
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        601 106  -  Chester Chen, Want to know what's wrong with your PC? E-mail us at stdled@sph.com.sg Detecting Wi-Fi intrusion How can I detect other people using my wireless signals? I am using Linksys wireless router under Starhub. C.H. Wong YOU should not encounter any bandwidth leeching as long
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          159 107 consumer Sony's Alpha 350 camera Available now for $1,199, body only, and $1,399 with an 18-70 mm lens. WHILE it's more professional to compose pictures through a viewfinder, there are situations where that's just not possible like when you have to lift your camera way above
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          108 107 consumer Easysafe key Available now for $99 (two keys) at computer shops in Funan DigitaLife Mall and Sim Lim Square. IT LOOKS like a USB drive, but the Easysafe key is not for storing information. Instead, it is a handy little security device that locks up
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          120 107 consumer Palm Centro Available now for $598 IT'S a device that's really befitting of its name, the Palm Centre It fits snugly in your palm. But even though it is small, the entry-level smartphone has a full keyboard with qwerty keys and a touch screen. And it has
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          122 108 business solutions Fujitsu's MHZ 2 BT series of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) hard disk drives Available in May. Visit sg.fujitsu.com or call 6512-7555 for more details. FUJITSU has unveiled its MHZ 2 BT series Sata hard disk drives that can be used in digital
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          99 108 consumer Blackßerry Pearl 8110 smartphone Available from Sing Tel at $538 with a two-year contract. FOR those who are bent on tapping away at their phones, the Blackßerry Pearl 8110 smartphone is here. It lets you get your e-mails anywhere and anytime, and supports instant messaging clients
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          127 108 business solutions Cisco's ASR 1000 Series routers Available April in two-, four- and six-rack unit sizes, with prices starting from U5535,000 (5550,750). CISCO has launched its ASR 1000 Series routers that do more than routing. Designed for wide area networks, they also add high-perform-ance
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          125 108 business solutions RSA's Fraud Action Anti-Phishing service For more information and to register for the free trial, go to anz-sa.com.au/afcc_signup/ enfst. CONSUMERS lost US$3 billion (Ss4.l billion) to phishing attacks last year and companies lost their reputations and the trust they took years to build up. All
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          155 108 consumer Asus Lamborghini VX3 laptop The Asus-Lamborghini VX3 will be available in May, and the Asus U2E in April. Prices not available. THE lap of luxury has acquired a new meaning with the Asus Lamborghini VX3 laptop. Just like the car it is named after, the ultraportable
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          127 108 consumer MSl's P7N Diamond motherboard Available now for $579. If one is not enough, MSl's P7N Diamond motherboard accommodates more graphics cards and processors, that is. Made for computer enthusiasts, the board based on the Nvidia 780 i SLI Chipset comes with 16 quad PCI Express
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        348 109  -  Sim Cheng Kai, Super Smash Bros Brawl DON'T be fooled by Mario, Sonic and Pikachu's cutesy image these Nintendo mascots literally pack a pinch in this 2D fighting game where you can play as one of 33 characters. Other characters in Super Smash
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        440 109  -  Sherwin Loh, Conflict: Denied Ops ARMIES of the world are trained differently. Let's face it. Soldiers from the US Marines, Delta Force and the Commandos would probably have a field day proving who is better. In the world of video games, it's the
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        580 111  -  Adli Yashir, Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP LCD Price: TBA Buy online at www.dell.com.sg PUBLISHERS, take note: Using this huge, 30-inch monitor will surely help you work smarter and better. The expansive display of the Dell 3008WFP LCD meant that I could divide the screen into three equal,
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        674 114  -  r GRACE CHNG I Sound engineering feats must be backed by marketing schmooze, and that's how the wireless video phone, inPerson, should be sold SINGAPORE'S favourite IT son Sim Wong Hoo wants to build another giant market with his latest invention, a
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        863 117 'Going green and staying that way*. By Clarissa Oon (ST, Feb 9, 2008) In Denmark, drinking to the health of Mother Earth is, literally, a way of life. Customers do not trash beer and soft-drink bottles but voluntarily return them to retailers to be cleaned and reused. In
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        628 119 The five Ws and an H of hybrid cars, by Andrew duffy WHAT ARE HYBRID CARS? They are cars with two engines (a hybrid is a mix of two things, like a mule a mix of horse and donkey or even a Merlion). Hybrids are vehicles powered
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        187 121 The small country, sandwiched in between Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Thailand and Vietnam, was closed to the rest of the world till as late as 1988. Now that it has slowly opened up, life there remains laid back and slow in pace. Its culture and landscapes remain
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        136 121 G8 Meeting in July What will happen This July, leaders of the group of eight major industrial countries, Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Canada, will be gathering at Lake Toya in Japan for their annual G-8 summit. Japan, which is hosting the
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        143 121 2,000,000,000 What it is The number of plastic bags handed out by shopkeepers in China's capital Beijing in a year. However, that is about to change, as the Chinese government announced new measures in January to deal with the environmental problems related to their use. From June,
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        135 121 PHOTO: Atiq Rahman Who he is He was announced a winner of the Champion Of The Earth award on Jan 28. The award has been presented yearly by the United Nations Environment Programme to seven outstanding environmentalists from all over the world. Dr Atiq Rahman comes from
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        374 122 1 What to do when you're Everyone has days when they are sad or do not feel good about themselves. When you feel this way, here are four things to tell yourself I»M OKAY WITH WHO I AM Accept yourself for who you are that is the first
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        209 123 Step back Energizer, Japan has invented the pec-powered battery! Only available in Japan, these batteries produce electricity when a mixture of magnesium and carbon reacts with a liquid such as urine which contains many ions (electrically charged atoms). Other bodily fluids, such as tears
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        113 123 Londoners and their officials want to ban plastic bags because as many as 13 billion wind up in landfill sites each year.There they take up to 400 years to break down, a survey found. Shoppers each receive as many as 220 bags from shops every year, but recycle
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        90 123 The federal government is throwing greenbacks at Americans to get them to go green. Those who replace an old airconditioner with a more energy-efficient one could get US$lOO (Ssl4l),and anyyone who buys a hybrid car gets US$2OO cash back. Residents of Arizona are getting paid to replace grass
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        81 123 Record oil prices and global concerns over climate change have driven South Korea to alternative energy sources such as nuclear power and other forms of clean energy, including solar and hydro power With 20 reactors in the country, nuclear energy accounts for 40 per cent of total power
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        117 123 Wind farms which generate enough electricity to power some 35,000 homes a year have failed to make a significant cut in carbon gas emissions. So Japan is now looking towards the sea for more energy by planning a network of offshore wind farms to tap into the gales of
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        105 123 Gas wells will soon be dotting Manila's infamous garbage mountain at Payatas. Drilling rigs are now sinking shafts for pipes to extract methane a gas 20 times more toxic than carbon dioxide from the decomposing refuse. The gas is contaminating the groundwater and posing a fire hazard to
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        114 123 Making beer with less water is what a decade-long drought has forced brewers to resort to. Foster's Group, one of Australia's largest brewers, uses drinking water for beer and recycled water for external keg washing, vacuum pumps, cooling towers and boilers, as well as other processes. This is in
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        133 123 Imagine reducing daily energy consumption by 4,000 watts.That is what the Swiss government aims to do in hopes of turning Switzerland into a "2,000-watt society" by 2050. Using a mix of hard-nosed laws and soft, voluntary measures, the government's initiatives include charging a fee for the use of fossil
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        395 124 Choosing the right brand of chocolates or potato chips could help save rainforests and save some animal species from extinction, ellen whyte explains. JL hat do I Potato chips, T T lipstick, washing liquid, chocolate and toothpaste have in common? The answer is palm oil. Palm oil
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        606 125 Why do we need protein in our diet, and is meat the only way to get it? alison de souza explains. Protein is an important nutrient that we all need in order to live and grow. If you think of your body as a
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        81 126 Send us pictures of your school's eco-garden. The best looking gardens will be featured here and you will win a special prize. Send those pictures to stdot@sph.com.sg. Remember to include your full name, school, level, IC number and contact details. WIN A MEDIA CLUB GOODIE BAG! If your
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        308 126 The talent page featuring special reviews, original art and contributions from Y-O-U. Send your contributions to stdot@sph.com.sg POEM The Big Ocean BY GRACE LEE SHI MIN, 10, PRIMARY 4, Al TONG PRIMARY SCHOOL I sat on the golden beach, watching the soft blue waves of the ocean. There
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        638 127 HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES* Melting, shrinking ice caps to blame Anchorage, Alaska, Nov 16, 2005 Some polar bears are drowning because the Arctic ice is melting as temperatures on Earth rise the result of global warming. Four dead bears were recently found floating in the waters
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        294 128  -  MALINI NATHAN Think you know your words well? The following text has words that have been scrambled. Unscramble them to complete the passage, by 'Blindness no handicap for Taiwan's Chang'. By Wang Meng Meng (ST, Dec 4, 2007) CHANG Wen-yen is a sisclca example of the human
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        228 129  -  MALINI NATHAN Try it the Dot way! Every week, we brew up Dot-flavoured lessons from a vast collection of classroom recipes. This week, pupils learn some tips to save the environment. BY DOT TREAT Group work, two periods. DOT MISSION Going green DOT TOOLS The Straits
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        386 129  -  KIM MAX BY ARE YOU VAIN? 1. How often do you look in the mirror? a. Once in the morning. b. Every time I use the washroom. c. Every hour I keep a mirror in my bag. 2. At Halloween, your costume is a. Cute/sexy. b. Ugly witches,
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      58 124 Widespread deforestation has made Indonesia About 20 per cent of the third largest emitter of carbon in the the world's greenhouse world. The contribution comes in the form of gas emissions are near-annual forest fires on islands such as estimated to come from Sumatra and Borneo. We see the evidence
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      52 128 ART OF DESCRIPTION Scan through The Straits Times and locate as many people as you can and write their details in the appropriate categories below. NAME AND AGE OCCUPATION GENDER PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ACTIONS DNIISISy3d :«INnODN3 :]9N3IIVHD :S!IDOJ :313dWOD -Mmm SNOHIVHVW UIIVnSIA :SDII3IHIV :Q3Alild3a :9NDH3Id AIIVIN3QI33V :DISSVID :]9VSSVd QilOM Q3iaW«IDS 3HI
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