The Straits Times, 18 March 2008

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  • 668 1  -  Bryan Lee Panic strikes as Fed takes emergency measures not seen since Great Depression By Economics Correspondent FEAR gripped financial markets yesterday as Asia and Europe absorbed a double whammy of devastating news. The near collapse of Wall Street financial giant Bear
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  • 577 1  -  Yeo Ghim Lay By April Chong THE rule requiring cabs to stop only at taxi stands in the Central Business District (CBD) has been relaxed, following a barrage of complaints from cabbies, passengers and businesses in the city. The change,
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  • UPFRONT
    • 995 1  -  Carolyn Hong By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur PRIME MINISTER Abdullah Badawi is expected to unveil his new Cabinet today, and his choices especially whether he ropes in his controversial son-in-law may well decide his future. Rumours swirled over the weekend as the PM
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    • 342 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Life on the streets Asia 6-13 A group of about 50 Indians have World 14-18 made the streets in Little India their Review.. ...19-21 home after being stranded without pvi 99 jobs and money. section™ PAGEH1 Home H1-H6 Driver failed sobriety test Forum H7 A
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  • PRIME
    • 641 3  -  Chua Chin Hon Rioters and troops headed for violent showdown as deadline to surrender passes By China Bureau Chief In Beijing A WEEK-LONG confrontation between Tibetan rioters and Chinese security forces appeared headed for a potentially violent showdown after protesters ignored a government ultimatum to turn
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    • 307 3 REUTERS Hong Kong HONG KONG police are investigating the killings of four prostitutes in the past few days, sparking suggestions that a serial killer may be on the loose in this crowded city. Since Saturday, three women, all in their 30s, have been
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    • 547 4  -  Fiona Chan Only 185 out of 343 unite sold, down from 328 in January, but prices are holding steady By Property Reporter SALES of new homes slowed almost to a standstill last month, delivering another blow to the already-weak housing market here. Property developers
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    • 459 4  -  Esther Tan By Lee Pei Qi AS SOON as they hopped off the bus at Ascension Kindergarten in Potong Pasir yesterday, about 300 pupils found themselves in a long queue waiting for the onceover from thermome-ter-wielding teachers. Scenes like this played out
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  • ASIA
    • 729 6  -  Tracy Quek TIBET UNREST Officials also insist security forces had been restrained in their handling of violent rioters By China Correspondent In Beijing Beijing is also disputing the death toll from Tibet's most violent and largest protests in 20 years, claiming that it is far fewer
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    • CHINA
      • TIBET UNREST
        • 287 7 CHRONOLOGY of events, according to a Xinhua news agency report yesterday. March 10: About 300 monks from Drepung Monastery, disregarding China's laws and their monastery's regulations, plotted to rush into Lhasa to create a disturbance. After they were stopped by police on duty, they aggressively and furiously tried
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        • 401 7 CHRONOLOGY of the Lhasa riots based on information posted on the websites of the London-based Free Tibet Campaign and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, run by exiles in India. March 10: The date marks the 49th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising in 1959
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        • 496 8 China claims sovereignty over Tibet, but the allegiances of many 4|k Tibetans lie with the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Beijing .M has long questioned his claims that he does not seek independence.We trace the background of the troubled ties. Total population in the world:
          OFFICE OF TIBET; REUTERS; PHOTOS: REUTERS, INTERNET GRAPHICS: QUEK HONG SHIN  -  496 words
        • EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
          • 798 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, WASHINGTON POST Chengdu ENRAGED Tibetan youths embarked on a rampage of destruction against Chinese businesses in Lhasa that left parts of the once-fabled city in ruins, according to a tourist who witnessed the protests. Mr Juan Carlos Alonso, 46, a Spaniard who
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        • TIBET SNIPPETS
          • 193 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called yesterday on China to open talks with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, following the eruption of violence in the region. "We have really urged the Chinese over several years to find a
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          • 141 8 REUTERS HONG KONG: China put more than a dozen Hong Kong journalists on a flight out of Tibet yesterday accusing them of "illegal reporting", the Hong Kong Journalists Association said, criticising the move. Around 15 employees from at least six Hong Kong television, radio and print
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          • 109 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: China, whose rights record is already highlighted by an ongoing crackdown on protests in Tibet, will put one of its most prominent dissidents on trial today, a lawyer said. Mr Hu Jia will appear in court in a case widely seen as part
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          • 157 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: China demanded yesterday that foreign governments protect its diplomatic missions abroad after pro-Tibetan protesters broke into and smashed its embassies and consulates. "Tibetan independence forces have used acts of violence to break through police cordons in foreign countries and break into embassies and
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        • 500 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE His non-violent approach to China has failed, they say Dharamsala (India) TIBETAN spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, came in for tough criticism yesterday from prominent radical exiles demanding a review of his non-violent campaign for autonomy within China. The leader of
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        • 478 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Castries (St Lucia) MANY countries yesterday joined International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge in ruling out a Tibet-linked boycott of the August Olympic Games in Beijing. Mr Rogge has expressed concern about a Chinese government crackdown in the
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      • 650 10  -  Chua Chin Hon ►> NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS Twenty new top officials will plan policies and run 'super ministries' BY China Bureau Chief In Beijing CHINA yesterday completed its last major leadership reshuffle for the next five years, appointing 20 new top-ranking officials who
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      • 808 10  -  Cindy Sui TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION By For The Straits Times In Taipei AT A small shop steps away from Taipei's famous Shilin Night Market, locals and tourists hug green pillows shaped like Taiwan, dangle little red fortune-telling key chains and snap up lollipops
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      • REPORTERS NOTEBOOK
        • 182 10  -  GOHSUI NOI FOR a moment there, it appeared that the government had embedded a spy in the media vehicle following Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou. After a whole day of trailing Mr Ma on the stump on Sunday in southern Taiwan, a cameraman was found out
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      • 672 10  -  Goh Sui Noi By Senior Correspondent Ong Hwee Hwee Taiwan Correspondent CHINA'S crackdown on protests in Tibet has become a vital issue for Taiwan's presidential candidates who differ in how close they want to bond the island to the mainland. But,
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 393 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Hostile parliament and Musharraf on collision course over sacked judges Islamabad PAKISTAN'S new National Assembly was sworn in yesterday, setting the stage for a showdown with President Pervez Musharraf a month after his opponents swept a general election. In
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      • 340 11 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New Delhi INDIAN police arrested at least 40 people in an Dvernight crackdown on suspected drug dealers md other criminals in Goa following a rash of attacks on tourists, a top police officer said yesterday. The arrests follow the
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 485 12  -  Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta ACCIDENT-plagued low-cost carrier Adam Air is throwing in the towel on Friday as it cannot afford insurance cover even after slashing the number of flights it provides. Serious trouble was obviously brewing early yesterday,
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      • 501 12  -  Hazlin Hassan ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Swearing-in ceremony marks end of tussle with PM Abdullah over appointment By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur PERLIS Menteri Besar (MB) Md Isa Sabu was finally sworn in yesterday, putting an end to a
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      • 708 13  -  Reme Ahmad Plan to reform NEP will help all races; Malays will not be left behind By In Kuala Lumpur OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday assured Malays that their rights will not be marginalised under a proposal to reform the affirmative-action
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      • 351 13 BERNAMA Johor Baru A JOHOR Baru MP has called on the Malaysian federal and Johor state governments to forge a "smart partnership" with Singapore and use the Republic's international trade links to market the Iskandar Development Region (IDR). Datuk
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      • 741 13  -  Chow Kum Hor By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur BARELY a week in power, the Democratic Action Party has already made some embarrassing blunders in what analysts say are signs that the party is struggling to adjust from being in the
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      • 284 13  -  CHOWKUM HOR Kuala Lumpur WHILE Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) has had much more experience in government than its coalition partners, it too has made a few missteps mainly over the Islamic state issue. On Saturday, just after the opposition seized Kedah from Barisan Nasional
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  • WORLD
    • 626 14 REUTERS, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY POLLS Conservatives hold majority, but split within the President's camp could lead to conflict Teheran PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared victory in Iran's parliamentary elections, which showed conservatives holding their majority. With final results reported from all races except
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    • 97 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS THERE were 290 seats up for grabs in Iran's parliamentary election. Results so far show that: Conservatives won 113 seats. Around 70 are hardliners who support the President; the rest are his conservative critics. Reformists won 31 seats. Independents won 39 seats. Their political leanings
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    • 281 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuwait City THE ministers in Kuwait's Cabinet submitted their resignations en masse yesterday, in the latest political crisis to hit the oil-rich Gulf emirate. A report on the stateowned Kuwait TV said all 14 members of the Cabinet had submitted
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    • 598 15  -  Susan Sachs Results could have sobering effect on France's flamboyant president, say aides By For The Straits Times In Paris PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party was dealt a blow in the second round of local elections in France, losing several big cities
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    • 236 15 REUTERS Canberra AUSTRALIA'S greatest military mystery was solved yesterday as a World War II warship which went down with all 645 crew members in a fierce battle with a German vessel more than 66 years ago was discovered. A day after searchers located the wreck
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 429 17 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney was yesterday ordered to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills £24.3 million (Ss6B million) following the couple's long and acrimonious divorce battle. Mills, 40, described the divorce settlement as "incredible" and said she was
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      • 147 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS THE tough-talking mayor of Manila who earned the nickname "Dirty Harry" for his anti-crime crusades, said yesterday he won't lift a finger to help his son who was nabbed in a drug bust. The rich and powerful in the Philippines usually
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    • 608 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Violent clash is the worst incident since the nation's independence Mitrovica (Kosovo) UN POLICE were yesterday forced out of Serb areas of Kosovo's divided city of Mitrovica after coming under attack while storming a courthouse
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    • 351 18 New York WHILE the Internet has profoundly changed the way news is reported, people are not getting the variety of news they demand, a new study shows. Instead, news organisations are focusing on a narrower band of news topics. In a
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 114 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK: Female tourists visiting Phuket will be given whistles to blow in case of an emergency, two days after the murder of a Swedish woman in broad daylight. The whistles are part of a campaign to increase security on the island, one of
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      • 93 18 REUTERS INDIA: About a million people in India's north-eastern state of Mizoram are facing famine after a plague of rats ate the region's entire paddy crop, officials and aid agencies said yesterday. Hordes of rats have swept through the forests of Mizoram,
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      • 63 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: Rescuers searched yesterday for three people still missing two days after a construction crane crashed down on a Manhattan neighbourhood, killing at least four workers, injuring dozens and damaging six buildings. Two more workers and a woman
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      • 90 18 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK SHAH ALAM: A new site for the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kampung Rimba Jaya in Selangor, which was demolished in November last year, has been approved. Mayor Mazalan Md Noor told reporters that the temple would be rebuilt soon
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  • REVIEW
    • 472 19 SOME bedrock truths about Tibet get mangled anew as Chinese troops try to bring order to the Himalayan province after a week of street riots. The foremost one is that the Dalai Lama, who really is a stranger to his consecrated land after a half
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    • 1269 19 Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo addressed the Youth for Peace Interfaith Symposium on Sunday. Here is an edited excerpt of his speech IN AUGUST last year, the Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple moved to a new location in Changi. At the stroke of midnight, the
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    • 731 19  -  Salma Khali k By Health Correspondent ON THE one hand, there are people trying to persuade Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan to use family incomes to decide the level of financial aid patients get when means testing is introduced at public hospitals next year.
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    • 1009 20  -  Robert Karniol By Defence Writer IN THE politics of the Olympic movement, as elsewhere, it can often come down to timing. With Beijing excitedly preparing to host the 2008 Olympic Games in August, this simple maxim applies to how the Chinese capital
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    • 932 21  -  Janice Tay LETTER FROM KYOTO By For The Straits Times I'LL BE sleeping under snow and a grass roof tonight. I've travelled deep into the mountains of Kyoto prefecture to Kitamura, where snow falls on thatch to make a picture tourism officials dream of. Three of
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 46 19 Politics and the Olympics Timing is an important factor in the politics of the Olympics as seen in China's failed bid to host the Games in 2000. PAGE 20 Id Id d THAT DOOR LEADS TO TI 9 I THE SIDE ROAD FOR TAXIS 11 M
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    • 1301 22 Singapore today Partly cloudy, showers with M M 0 aiP^ thunder in the afternoon Smß lips Pr^^-^ aver many areas. THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, MARCH 18 2008 w a«a worn n W r 4THFB USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN ASIA WORLD WEATHER T"%#"\ "TY^n A V ~T 1 0
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  • HOME
    • 775 23  -  Theresa Tan Jobless and short of cash after being 'duped by agents', 50 workers from India have made the streets their home By Melissa Sim PENNILESS, jobless and hungry. That is the plight of a group of about 50 Indian workers who have made the
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    • 891 24  -  Elena Chong Victims recount horror accident at driver's trial; some say he had apologised By Court Correspondent A DRIVER whose car allegedly ploughed into a bus stop last year and hit six people had failed a breathalyser test moments after the crash,
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    • 397 24  -  Selina Lum By A WELL-KNOWN architectural firm has sued three interior designers for moonlighting. Ong Ong Architects argued that the three breached their employment contracts by doing so. It seeks a court order to stop them from using confidential information. It also wants to
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    • 327 24  -  Khushwant Singh By ONE of the 12 Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) members and supporters arrested during a rally outside Parliament over the weekend was charged in court yesterday. Yap Keng Ho, 46, faces two counts of participating in an assembly, without a permit, stemming from
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    • 764 26  -  Lydia Lim Three qualities shine through in Pillay's answers: resolve, hardheadedness and a firm belief in fairness, equality By Senior Political Correspondent TO HEAR Singapore Exchange chairman J.Y. Pillay tell it, he was but a lucky "plodder" among the illustrious public-sector pioneers who
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    • 557 26  - Policymaking then and now Lee Siew Hua By Senior Political Correspondent PIONEER policymakers had a bigger appetite for risk since they had few "pennies in the pocket" to lose, according to Mr J.Y. Pillay, the pioneering civil servant who helped to build up the Economic Development Board (EDB) in the
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      262 26 Joseph Yuvaraj Manuel Pi May was born in Malaysia on March 30, 1934. His father was a civil servant in then-Malaya and his mother, a teacher. Mr Pi I lay, a Sri Lankan Tamil and Catholic, married Beatrice Mary Rasammah in 1963. They have one daughter. Mr
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    • 270 26  -  Goh Chin Lian By PIONEER civil servant J.Y. Pillay is confident that Singapore's young can be entrusted with the future. But he also thinks they take Singapore's peace and prosperity too much for granted. Unlike his generation, today's young have not experienced
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    • 731 26 In Mr Pillay's own words ON LUCK AND CAREERS "I keep telling all my colleagues, you better have good luck. What Napoleon most wanted of his generals are the lucky. It's true because he assumed by the time you reach the top of the greasy
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    • 359 27  -  TANIA TAN RESEARCHERS here have struck "black gold". A team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) won a prestigious award and a $500,000 research grant yesterday for discovering a way to make ultra-thin sheets of black carbon that are just Vi.ooo
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    • 472 27  -  Alfred Siew Nokia, Sony Ericsson opening online stores; new Motorola phone can browse at Soundbuzz By Technology Correspondent SEVERAL online music services will be available here in the coming months, offering fans more ways to download and play songs on their computers, MP3 players and
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    • 148 27 GONE are the days of booking a recording studio to have a shot at fame. Now, all it takes to create chart-topping tunes is a software-laden laptop. Many local DJs and music producers are looking to software like Garageßand and Ableton Live to churn out tunes. A
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    • 145 28 THAI Prime Minister and Defence Minister Samak Sundaravej is here on a three-day official visit, starting today, at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement yesterday that the visit is part of Mr
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    • 465 28  -  Carolyn Quek All travellers, except children, subject to fingerprint scans; steps taken to ease lot of those leaving Spore By SECURITY at Singapore's checkpoints will be further tightened, with all travellers leaving the country except children subject to fingerprint scans from
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    • QUICK NEWS
      • 160 28 THE Ministry of Education will get a Second Permanent Secretary, Ms Yeoh Chee Van, from April 1. She will join the current Permanent Secretary, Mrs Tan Ching Yee, who was appointed in April last year. Ms Yeoh, 47, currently oversees defence policies, defence relations
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      • 98 28 PUMP prices have risen again. Petrol prices at Shell, Caltex and Esso stations rose by four centres a litre while diesel was up by five cents a litre. Before discounts, the 92-oc-tane grade is priced at $2,053 a litre, 95-octane at $2,086
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      • 104 28 SINGAPORE could take its visual arts exhibitions to Hong Kong. The idea came up during a discussion yesterday between Hong Kong's Home Affairs Secretary Tsang Tak-sing, and Singapore's Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang. This is Mr Tsang's first trip
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    • 708 28  -  April Chong By Yeo Ghim Lay SIX in 10 of the 353 buildings in the Central Business District (CBD) have driveways and most of the rest have a taxi stand or side road for taxis to stop at. And with another 10 taxi stands
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    • 344 28  -  Keith Lin By PUPILS in Primary 5 and 6 in Islamic schools, or madrasahs, will each receive a $300 education grant to help them prepare for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). They can use the money from the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
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    • 25 23 Bus-stop crash: Trial starts Motorist, whose vehicle ploughed into a Penang Road bus stop last year, faces four counts of causing grievous hurt. PAGE H2
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  • FORUM
    • 289 29  -  Gan Techiong ►>HUNT FOR ESCAPED DETAINEE I UNDERSTAND the urgency in re-arresting fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari, but I share the views of tens of thousands of commuters both Singaporeans and Malaysians who had to have their thumbprints scanned on leaving Singapore over the
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    • 185 29  -  Anthony Goh Jwee Kiat THE recently opened Changi Airport Terminal 3 is another testament to Singapore pride and vision for our future. I was very impressed with the minimalist design and open space concept adopted by the architects and designers. However, other than
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    • 215 29  -  Andrew Scow Chwee Guan I REFER to Saturday's report, "Crane topples onto pedestrian walkway". In the quest to complete as many construction projects as possible, contractors are likely to breach safety rules. In the latest accident, the crane crashed onto a covered pedestrian
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    • 80 29  -  Prem Singh I REFER to Saturday's report, "Court raps leaders of SICC over marital status case". The decision by Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong is not intended only for Singapore Island Country Club (SICC). It should be studied carefully by all who sit on any disciplinary
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    • 83 29  -  Shaheedu Pakri IN RESPONSE to reports of more foreign women here illegally as sex workers, it is time the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) reviewed entry requirements for foreigners entering Singapore, especially from countries whose nationals are prone to commit crimes or work illegally. The
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    • 182 29  -  Sebastian Teo Wah Ann WHEN asked whether Singapore was ready for a non-Chinese prime minister, Institute of Policy Studies chairman and Ambassador at Large Professor Tommy Koh replied last week: "Why not? After all, Singapore's first chief minister Mr David Marshall was
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    • 61 29 PAYMENT IN SINGAPORE DOLLARS, 50... MR KHOO CHEE HWEE, arguing against a petrol price hike in Singapore, despite last Thursday's record jump to US$lll (Ssls3) per barrel. The jump was attributed, he says, to the weakened greenback. If so, petrol prices should not fluctuate
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    • 118 29  -  Poh Soon Leong »NEW RULE ON TAXI STANDS IN CBD I APPLAUD the move by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to make adjustments to the new rule restricting taxis from picking up and dropping off passengers in the Central Business District (CBD). By adopting
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    • 248 29  -  Tan Suee Chieh I REFER to last Wednesday's letter, "Delay after delay in Income Shield claim" by Mr Leong Kok Choong. I am sorry for the frustration and distress caused to Mr Leong and his family over the way we handled
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    • 38 29 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. WHAT FOR?: Service charge at self-service foodcourts NO MORE: Mum-unfriendly buses YES, WE ARE: Courtesy and Singaporeans PEDESTRIANFRIENDLY: Choa Chu Kang MRT station
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  • SPORTS
    • 895 30 NEW YORK TIMES »GOLF Orlando (Florida) WHEN it came time to end it on Sunday, to catch another giant and write another page in the history of golf, Tiger Woods did what he does best. He immersed himself in the moment, evaluated the situation one
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      910 30 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS BASKETBALL Rockets' run stretches to 22 Houston TRACY McGrady had carried the Houston Rockets through their winning streak since All-Star Chinese centre Yao Ming went down with a foot injury. On Sunday, it was everyone else's turn to help him. Rafer Alston scored
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    • 207 31 ARSENAL have dropped eight points in their last four Premier League games. Their next four will be testing ones: March 23: v Chelsea (a) March 29: v Bolton (a) April 5: v Liverpool (h) April 13: v Man United (a) The
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    • 557 31 SOCCER Red Devils need all 3 points as cushion and cannot take things for granted London ONCE more, Manchester United face a lowly team, but they know better than to take things for granted. After struggling to beat Derby County on track to be
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    • 495 31 London WE ARE not giving up yet. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists his team will not throw in the towel in the Premier League title race, despite their latest setback. The Gunners have recorded their fourth consecutive draw 1-1 against Middlesbrough on Saturday, and
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    • 489 31 London CHELSEA are hitting their stride and the timing could not be better. Skipper John Terry feels that the Blues' recent fine form bodes well for their Premier League title challenge. They are on a 12-match unbeaten run and have picked up
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    • 143 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Manchester SVEN-GORAN Eriksson will meet Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra to discuss his transfer plans this week, boosted by a 2-1 win over Tottenham that kept the club's Uefa Cup hopes alive. The former Thai prime minister flew back to England from Bangkok after pleading
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    • 685 32  -  Wang Meng Meng SOCCER Tampines terminate defender's contract as he can't be registered to play in S-League By SEAD Muratovic has been given the boot for failing to clear his mandatory fitness test. Yesterday, Tampines Rovers terminated the 29-year-olds contract after he failed the S-League's
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    • 363 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Madrid ON SAMUEL Eto'o's 100 th appearance for the club, Barcelona missed a golden opportunity to make inroads on leaders Real Madrid when Almeria twice came from behind to secure a 2-2 draw on Sunday. After Real's surprise 0-1
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    • 291 32 REUTERS Milan JUVENTUS kept their Champions League dreams alive with a 1-0 victory over Napoli on Sunday. The club are looking forward to returning to Europe's premier tournament, after being banned the past two seasons for their involvement in the Italian match-fixing scandal.
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    • 454 33 REUTERS Melbourne MCLAREN are bracing for a Ferrari fightback in Malaysia on Sunday, after the Formula One champions endured their worst start to a season in 16 years. "It's not their true pace and we're under no illusions," McLaren boss Ron Dennis said, after
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    • 280 33  -  STEVE SLATER THE mayhem that made the Australian Grand Prix a two-hour long, action-packed thriller might well point the way to similar spectacular action in Singapore come September. Like Singapore, the Melbourne track is a downtown street circuit. It combines a purpose-made pit-lane and
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    • 645 33 MOTOR RACING McLaren ace elated with season opener and praises car, team strategy Melbourne IT WAS not perfect but it was his best so far. A delighted Lewis Hamilton described his victory in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix as "probably the best so far" in his
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    • 382 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRICKET Wellington ENGLAND'S two-year drought for touring Test victories ended yesterday, when they beat New Zealand by 126 runs to level the three-match cricket series 1-1. After losing the first Test in Hamilton by 189 runs, England achieved a massive turnaround in
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    • 503 34  -  Marc Lim YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES Delegation's three-day visit includes meeting key officers, discussing issues on 2010 Games By Sports Correspondent In Lausanne (Switzerland) SPONSORSHIP and education are just two of the topics a Singapore delegation is keen to learn more of, as it
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    • 453 34  -  Leonard Lim RUGBY By NATIONAL rugby captain Rong Jingxiang remembers the date Nov 10, 2005 well. It was the day that news broke of former Singapore Rugby Union employee Scan Lee's alleged embezzlement of the national sports association's coffers. Over two years on, however,
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    • 323 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS »TENNIS Indian Wells (California) IF THE tennis world's eyes are fixed on Roger Federer, ready to poke at his recent vulnerability, it appears that he has discovered the benefit of appearing to be human. People like him. Spurred on by an encouraging crowd,
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 79 34 TWO goals in eight minutes gave Tampines a mo-rale-boosting 2-1 win over Dalian Shide in an S-League soccer match last night. Lv Peng stunned the hosts at Tampines Stadium in the 37th minute. But strikes from Thai import Santi Chaiyaphuak (70th minute) and
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      • 58 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS: Indiana Pacers' Jamaal Tinsley and Marquis Daniels avoided a trial yesterday on charges stemming from a 2007 bar fight. Prosecutors agreed to drop all charges if the National Basketball Association players stay out of trouble for two years. The players also
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      • 59 34 BLOOMBERG NEWS LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee is drawing up contingency plans for endurance events, m case pollution in Beijing prevents them taking place as planned at this year s Olympic Games. Poor air quality in the Chinese capital may put athletes, including cyclists and
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      • 65 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS SEVILLE: The Real Betis fan who threw a bottle at Bilbao goalkeeper Armando Ribeiro said he was angry at the score. Carmelo Rodriguez struck Ribeiro in the face with a bottle at Saturday's Spanish League soccer match. The game was abandoned with
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    • 1061 34 BADMINTON Swiss Open in Basel, finals Men's singles: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Lee Chong Wei (Mas) 21-13 21-18. Doubles: Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae (Kor) bt Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan (Ina) 17-21 21-16 21-13. Women's singles: Xie Xingfang (Chn) bt Zhang Ning (Chn) 21-18 21-17. Doubles: Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen (Chn)
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    • 38 34 TV times CRICKET: ICL 20's Grand Championship: Ahmedabad v Mumbai (Live, Chill, 9.25pm). TENNIS: ATP Master Series Pacific Life Open: 4th rd (Live, Ch24, tomorrow, 4am). Event SOCCER: AFC Cup: Home United v Kedah (Mas) (Jalan Besar, 7.45pm).
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  • OBITUARIES
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      59 35 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of our Chairman KOH CHOON SENG Departed on 16 March 2008 From The Management Staff of Pro-Pack Materials Pte Ltd Pro-Pack Materials Vietnam Co Ltd Pro-Pack Materials Philippines Inc PT Pro-Pack Industries Pro-Pack Materials (India) Pvt Ltd Bold-Pack Industries Sdn Bhd Pro-Pack
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      138 35 CHONG HENG HIN Age: 83 was called home to be with the Lord on 17 March 2008. He will be dearly missed by his children and grandchildren and remembered as being a wonderfully devoted, kind and ever smiling father and grandfather. Wife: Wee Jock Lung Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chong Teng Kwang
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      85 35 "The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1 Anthony Kishore Wilfred was called home to be with the LORD on 16 March 2008 leaving behind: Beloved wife: Indravathy Loving Sons: Michael Matthew Relatives Friends Vigil is held at Blk 466 C, Sembawang Drive #04-345. Tel: 6752 4225
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      63 35 CHEONG AH YIN Age: 86 Passed away peacefully on 17 Mar 2008, dearly missed by loved ones. Husband: Mah Seng (deceased) Son: Mah Toong Hiong Daughter-in-law: Yap Lian Poh and all relatives. Wake is held at Blk 569 Pasir Ris St 51 Tel: 6581 4130 Cortege leaves on Friday 21
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      62 35 The Family of the Late YEO GUAT KEE Departed on 11 March 2008 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths and contributions during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Doctors, nurses and staff of
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      43 35 MDM MALKEET KAUR (1929 2007) W/0 Late Bishan Singh Vaid (Riverwalk Tandoor Kohinoor Palace- SKA) First year Barsi (prayers) will be held on Wednesday, 19 March 2008, spm-Bpm at Silat Road Temple. (Langgar Preparations from 11am). Please treat this as a personal invitation.
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      61 35 FIRST ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory Departed 18th March 2007 JOSEPHINE AGNES HARDING (NEENONIS) Those we love don't go away They walk beside us everyday Unseen, unheard but always near Still loved, still missed and very dear Fondly remembered by husband John and those who loved her Eternal rest grant unto
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      25 35 40th Anniversary In Loving Memory of C.B. JOHNS Departed 18.3.68 Gone but never forgotten, Dad te Mass 6.15pm Chinch ft Of The Holy Family IP
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      41 35 "In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." Ramans 8:37 In Loving Memory Of Long Ngan Ling, Brenda Departed: 18 March 2005 Dearly loved and remembered by: Mother, brothers, sisters, husband, sons, daughter-in-law and grandson.
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      70 35 12th Anniversary n Loving Memory 0 lAMES HEATHCLIFI ZEHNDER Safe in the arm of Jesus on 18 March 1996 In a blink of an eye It's been twelve years This time of the year Still brings back tears Fond memories prevail Of so much love given By one still dear
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      160 36 WONG JOO HENG WENG JOO JIAN Age: 75 passed away peacefully on 16 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Goh Siak Kee Sons: Daughters-in-law: Wong Teck Hiang Samuel Tong Lian Hong Sophia Wong Teck Jin Dewi Daughters: Sons-in-law: Wong Hui Choo Wong Hui Geek Serene
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      119 36 HO QUAN FONG Age: 81 passed away peacefully on 16 March 2008. Dearly missed and always remembered by loved ones. Husband: Kwan Ying Vim (Deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Kwan Soon Cheong Henry Kwan Yit Cheong Harold Tay Yoh Lan Ivy Kwan Selk Cheong Peter Ho Al Choo Susan Kwan Pui Cheong
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      173 36 X- "Jjjg (J^ £W eternal life through Jediu) Chr'ut our Lord. ROM 623 JOHN SONG KENG KIN Age: 94 was called home to be with the Lord on 17 March 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Sect Kiat Neo Magdalene (deceased) Children: Spouses: Ron Song Edmund Song Angeline Lim Phyllis
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      82 36 KWAN YEOW WAI Age: 74 passed away peacefully on 16 March 2008 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Beloved wife: Wong Yuet Lin Daughters: Son-in-law Kwan Yuen Sim Kwan Yuen Ching, Natasha Loh Kah Fook, Collis Grandchildren: Loh Shuen Xiang, Zachary Loh Ching Wei, Tianna relatives and friends.
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      194 36 "The Lord is my light and my salvation." Psalm 2 7:1 TAN GUAN SIEW $aG^ Age: 88 Was called home to be with the Lord on 16 March 2008 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Siok Bee Ting 4k jft (deceased) Children Spouses: Tan Pong Meng Yeo
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      152 36 Jesus said: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms lam going there to prepare a place for y0u....50 that you also may be where I am." John 14:1-3 EDWARD ANG BENG KIM Age: 90 was called
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      74 36 JOANNE HO YOKE ENG Age: 46 Passed away peacefully on 16 March 2008, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Vincent Oh Theng Yew I Son: Oh Hao Fang Mother: Tan Peck Moon Father-in-law: Oh Kang Lin all relatives and friends. Wake is held at Blk 166 Hougang
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      106 37 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director Mr Jeffrey Goh on the demise of his beloved mother LIM GUAT ENG Departed on 17 March 2008 From: The Management and Staff of kmL-JM The Hub's Group The Hub's Engineering Pte Ltd Hub's Jemco Engineering (India) Private Limited The Hub's
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      143 37 LIM GUAT ENG Age: 79 passed away peacefully on 17 Mar 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Goh Hway Hiong Sons: Daughters-in-law: Goh Chew Heng, Jeffrey Elizabeth Goh Goh Chew Chiang, Eddie Tan Geok Choo Goh Chew Cheng, Derek Lai Mun Yee, Connie Daughters: Sons-in-law: Goh Geek Huang Tay Siak
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  • MONEY
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    • 680 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS Speculation in futures drives up already heated market as oil nearsUSsll2 mark Washington AS OIL prices charge past US$llO a barrel, analysts say gov-ernment-run investment funds from oil-rich nations may be adding speculative heat to an already
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    • 38 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 11,787.51 (-454.09 points) Japanese share prices slumped 3.71 per cent, ending below 12,000 points for the first time since August 2005, amid worries about a surging yen and turmoil on Wall Street.
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    • 39 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 21,084.61 (-1,152.5 points) Hong Kong share prices closed down 5.2 per cent, pushed down by troubles in the United States markets, the slide of the US dollar and record high oil prices.
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    • 35 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 3,820.05 (-142.63 points) Chinese share prices closed 3.6 per cent lower, led by oil refiners and financial, as investors took their cue from a weak United States stock market.
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    • 38 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,087 (-119.9 points) Australian share prices slumped 2.3 per cent as finance sector losses triggered by concerns about the global credit crisis pushed the bourse to its lowest level in 18 months.
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    • 31 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,177.53 (-17.31 points) Malaysian share prices closed 1.5 per cent lower amid fears that the United States economy may be headed for a severe recession.
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      38 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,809.49 (-951.03 points) Indian share prices plunged 6.03 per cent on troubled United States credit markets, a weak US dollar and record high oil prices that are expected to impact local company earnings.
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    • 42 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,312.32 (-71.1 points) Indonesian share prices closed 3 per cent lower yesterday in line with weak regional markets, after the bailout of a United States bank reinforced fears that the credit crisis is far from over.
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    • 39 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 806.74 (-11.3 points) Thai share prices closed down 1.38 per cent yesterday as the emergency fire sale of United States investment bank Bear Steams heightened fears of a severe recession in the US.
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    • 117 39 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: 2,792.75 March 17 Stock Name Close Change CapitaLand 5.550 -0.210 CapitaMall 3.020 -0.060 CityDev 9.990 -0.410 Cosco Corp 2.880 -0.170 DBS Grp 16.700 -0.160 F&N 4.580 +0.030 Gent Intl 0.595 -0.015 HKLand 4.040 -0.080 JSH 15.980 +0.280 JardineC&C 16.520 -1.080 KeppelCorp 9.380 -0.270 Keppel
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    • 136 39 March 17 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT )F FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.2860 1.3020 Ian dollar 1.3840 1.4010 iuro 2.1680 2.1920 (lalaysian ringgit* ..0.4338 0.4346 <Z dollar 1.1180 1.1430 Sterling pound 2.7660 2.7980 JS dollar 1.3730 1.3890 SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO 100
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    • 815 40  -  Joyce Teo This is a marked fall from about 25 done in the same period last year By Property Correspondent SOME residential estates are still pushing for a collective sale but they face a tough market in which such transactions have
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    • 467 41  -  Nicholas Fang Improved growth in non-electronic shipments drives strong performance By AMID all the financial market gloom, there is some good news on Singapore exports. Shipments posted their fastest growth in six months in February, after strong showings by the pharmaceutical and
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    • 419 41  -  Michelle Tay By FOR shareholders of retailer Robinson Co, it was a revised offer worth waiting for. Dubai-based Al-Futtaim Group yesterday raised its offer for Singapore's oldest retailer to $7 a share up 12 per cent from the $6.25 a share
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    • 207 41 REUTERS LEHMAN Brothers and DBS Group Holdings said yesterday that they were still trading with each another, despite market rumours to the contrary. "We are doing business with DBS... They continue to deal with us and we just executed a NZ$2O million
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    • 309 41  -  Ong Bi Hui By THE term "social entrepreneur" might not ring a bell with many people, but in the business world they are gaining currency, as DBS Group Holdings will confirm. The bank has just launched a special package to cater
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      • 824 42  -  Goh Eng Yeow NEWS ANALYSIS Wrong moves made in bid to calm markets; ploy of cutting rates simply not working By Markets Correspondent THE desperate measures taken by the United States central bank to restore calm amid a growing storm
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      • 519 42  -  Goh Eng Yeow COMMENTARY By Markets Correspondent WHAT a relief. After some recent scary plunges, stock markets at home and abroad seem to have settled down and are now back to where they left off a month ago on a bull run. Or
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      • 1093 42 NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG NEWS, LOS ANGELES TIMES New York THE cash squeeze that brought Bear Steams to its knees is fanning fears that other investment banks might be vulnerable to the crisis of confidence gripping Wall Street. The crisis stems
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      • 415 42 REUTERS Hong Kong SOVEREIGN wealth funds, including Singapore's, were conspicuously absent from the last-minute deal to scoop up Bear Steams on the cheap. Given the billions of dollars these state-backed funds control, that's bad news for Western firms or any other company
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      • 628 43 2008 f Jan 7 Mr Cayne steps down as CEO under pressure and Mr Schwartz (right) takes over the post. Mid-January Financial stocks slump as economists predict the US economy will slip into recession. President George W. Bush unveils a US$l5O billion economic stimulus
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      • 323 43 REUTERS WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE FINANCIAL TIMES New York BEAR Steams chairman Jimmy Cayne was playing cards in a tournament late last week while his company's future hung in the balance, according to the Wall Street Journal. As the
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      • 368 43  -  Lee Su Shyan WARRANT WATCH By Assistant Money Editor WARRANTS on the battered Singapore Exchange (SGX) counter were in action yesterday as the shares themselves came under renewed selling pressure. The stock lost 37 cents, or 5.4 per cent, to close at
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      • 670 44  -  Alvin Foo STAKING STOCK Regional bourses bleed on panic selling by investors; ST Index loses 1.6% By Markets Correspondent IT WAS another day of panic and plunging share markets across Asia yesterday as shock waves from the Bear Steams fire
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      • 250 44  -  BRYAN LEE BEAR STEARNS FALLOUT UNCERTAINTY has gripped the Singapore arm of beleaguered United States investment bank Bear Steams being sold for a song to avoid bankruptcy. Employees at the Chevron House office were yesterday left waiting to find out their fate after
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        816 48  -  Deepika Shetty Get a taste of Pakistan at a culinary festival here next month IN A diplomatic career spanning 35 years, Pakistan's High Commissioner to Singapore Sajjad Ashraf has travelled around the world. While most of his overseas postings have lasted two to three years, he got an
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      • 621 49 AP Forget the Empire State Building check out these other buildings when you're in the Big Apple NEW YORK Everybody knows what the Empire State Building looks like. That's why Rick Bell, who heads the Center for Architecture, did not put the famous skyscraper on his list
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      107 50 1 took my time making this film, so don't fall asleep. And if you do fall asleep, try not to yawn too loud' Director Wayne Wang (above) to a San Francisco audience at a screening of A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers 1 read the Bible sometimes but it
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    • 451 50  -  Cara Van Miriah The 10-year-old music festiyal needs more funding and will return in 2010 at a new venue THE World of Music, Arts Dance (Womad) festival is taking a two-year break, due in part to financial issues. Organisers say it will return in 2010
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    • 610 50  -  Eddino Abdul Hadi Viewpoint MUSIC REPORTER RUMBLINGS in the grapevine about the Womad (World of Music, Arts and Dance) no-show this year started about a month ago. Now it's confirmed the three-day world music festival staged annually at Fort Canning Park for
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      • 431 51  -  Adeline Chia >theatre HUMAN LEFTS 3 The Fun Stage (Re) Box, Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre Last Saturday THE Human Lefts series of plays aims to take on serious issues in a light-hearted way and in this third instalment, the idea was to explore the
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      • 591 51  -  Adeline Chia NUS Arts Fest play examines the impact of stem cell research on human relationships ARTS REPORTER A PLAY about stem cell research may not sound like the makings of scintillating theatre, but this weighty topic is what The Necessary Stage is tackling with
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    • 746 52  -  Bernard Koh Nine months on, Thaddeus Cheong's family still grieves for him IT HAS been almost nine months since Raffles Junior College student Thaddeus Cheong, 17, collapsed and died of heart failure after finishing a South-east Asian Games triathlon selection race, but his family is reminded
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    • 476 52  -  Samuel Lee > concert EDDIE PALMIERI LATIN JAZZ BAND Eddie Palmieri Esplanade Concert Hall/Sunday PROGRAMMING a multiple Grammy-winning Latin jazz legend and his band as the closing gig for this year's Mosaic Music Festival ought to have been a sure-win no-brainer. After all, Eddie "Latin Sun King"
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      106 52 Jason Wong, 24, civil servant Watched: Olivia Ong "This is my first time at Mosaic. I came specially to listen to Olivia Ong. I heard about her from my brother and how she's been making waves in the jazz scene. It's great that she's performing at Mosaic
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      • 332 54  -  Douglas Tseng MEDIA CORRESPONDENT A WARD-WINNING Singapore director Royston Tan (below) has formed his own film production company. Tan, 31, tells Life! in a phone interview that his company is called lOtwentyeight. The name is a nod to the day last year when he quit
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        76 54 PHOTO: REUTERS MAKING IT RIGHT: Former United States President Bill Clinton (left) was the guest of honour at a ground-breaking ceremony to build affordable homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The homes are being built by a foundation headed by actor Brad Pitt (right). Students participating in the project have
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      • 124 54 HONG KONG They are really, really not Mr and Mrs Lai. Heavenly King Leon Lai and his girlfriend of three years, model Gaile Lai, have refuted reports that they married in the Maldives last Thursday. Gaile, 27, told newspapers on Sunday by SMS that she was
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      • 219 54  -  Douglas Tseng A DOCUMENTARY about lesbians has been cleared by the Board of Film Censors to screen in next month's 21st Singapore International Film Festival. Directed by Lim Mayling, Women Who Love Women: Conversations In Singapore has been given an R2l rating with no cuts. It
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        • 431 86 You don't need to book a recording studio to create your own music a laptop will do the trick. STEPHANIE GWEE listens in on the trend and checks out the digital DJs CROSS-FADES, beat-matches and hamster-style the stuff that disc-jockeys (DJs) use to
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          557 86 Mci Wong (right), aka The Analog Girl IF ELECTRONIC maestros Yoko Ono and Moby were to engage in a little tryst, their musical offspring would probably sound a lot like 35-year-old Mci Wong, fondly known in the music circuit as The Analog Girl. Dubbed by music critics as
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          616 88 Aldrin Quek (right) VIRTUALLY every self-professed Zoukaholic would know his name. But after leaving the club in April last year, DJ Aldrin Quek morphed into an enterprising music producer. The 37-year-old started his own music label, One With Music, and its debut album, Which One, was released last
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        • 620 88  -  Stephanie Gwee IT'S not cool to rummage through your music CDs to keep the party tunes going. Also not cool standing by the CD player to change the discs. What is cool though, is bringing the house down the entire
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        • 338 89  -  Tham Yuen-C With so many models now, only those with that extra spark can grab attention these days Music guru Sony Ericsson WB9oi Price: $728 (without mobile plan) WHEN it comes to music, there's nothing more annoying than hearing a song on
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      • 658 90 Once a frontrunner, plasma TVs could take back seat to LCD TVs soon, reports ALFRED SIEW JUST a few years ago, they sat on display shelves as the "premium" flat-screen technology that showed off images with more depth and realism. Today, however, plasma screens could
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        • 134 99 ►business Canon image Formula DR-XIOC scanner Available now at U5519,500 (5527,060). Call Canon on 6799-8888 for more information. IT CAN be time consuming scanning documents page by page, especially if you're trying to convert paper archives into digital ones, or process many forms. That's where the Canon image
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        • 82 99 consumer Sony's Blu-ray Disc ROM BDU-X1 OS drive Available for $335 through Ban Leong Technologies. MAKE your computer a Blu-ray DVD player with the Sony BDU-XIOS drive. The Blu-ray Disc (BD) ROM drive comes with CyberLink's PowerDVD BD edition software that lets you play commercial Blu-ray
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        • 857 94  -  Tao Ai Lei, a freelance writer. Printer tailored to 6DM's expanding needs LOST orders and rising costs prompted the sole distributor of drink company 6 Drunk Men (6DM) to change its printer. Mr Adrian Sim (right), its managing director said that the company's
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        • 368 96  -  Oo Gin Lee AT FIRST sight it appears that IBM is sleeping with the enemy, in embracing Linux. A move it has made since 2000, when it included Linux as of its solutions. Today, its customers can buy Linux from IBM, running on IBM servers. Yet, selling
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      • 495 103  -  Tony Lim, E-ten Glofiish XBOO Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Price: $1,088 (inclusive GST) Buy from authorised resellers The Glofiish XBOO is yet another smartphone with everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, and its maker, E-ten, has packed it with plenty of great features. Most evident is the display, which has a
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      • 401 104 Motorola Rizr Z8 Priced at $688 Get it from Singtel THE industry refers to the Motorola Rizr Z8 as a kick-slide phone. Essentially, it's a slide phone that curves when opened to take the shape of a banana. Motorola made the curvature possible with a
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      • 379 105  -  Alfred Siew Sennheiser HD 201 headphones $63.90 Available at authorised dealers The first question I asked when I picked up the HD 201, part of Sennheiser's new Gaming Line headphone range, was: "Where's the mic"? Unlike many other gaming headsets, this pair of headphones don't have a
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