The Straits Times, 8 April 2008

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 106 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 TUESDAY, APRIL 8 2008 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 570 1  -  Salma Khali k Disease heading to a peak in three years; $200k a day spent to fight spread caused by change in dominant strain By Health Correspondent SINGAPORE is spending $200,000 a day in an effort to stave off what might be its
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  • UPFRONT
    • 972 1  -  Karamjit Kaur By Aviation Correspondent WHEN one door shuts, another opens. That might be a lesson Mr Latiff Cyrano could draw from the way life has turned out. He was one of three pilots in the cockpit of SQ 006, the Singapore
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 220 1 Lets talk in jprivate New ERP gantries kick in CITY-bound motorists came up against five new road-pricing "sentinels" yesterday morning. The Electronic Road Pricing gantries were at Toa Payoh Lorong 6, Geylang Bahru, Kallang Bahru, Upper Boon Keng Road and Upper Bukit Timah Road. The Land Transport Authority said traffic
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    • 299 2 A] HOUSING > DEVELOPMENT "■J J BOARD LAND FOR SALE PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE DESIGN, BUILD SELL SCHEME f \C >{ S' ft^k I E3 Expressway rcuwH V Shoppings 5 Coniomlniuin The Housing Development Board is offering for sale a State Land Parcel Simei PHI for public housing development
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    • 323 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Seamen's pay row settled Asia 6-13 a crew of 22 Indian nationals stuck World 14-18 on a ship here since January have Review 19-21 been paid their owed wages and FYI 22 were told they would be flown SECTION TWO p°A^V^o he n6Xt tW° W6ekSHome
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  • PRIME
    • 592 3  -  Jane Ng Chan brothers among outstanding officers singled out for being crucial to education system By BROTHERS Mark, Marvin and Martin Chan had known what they would do after graduation, and that was to teach. Inspired by their own teachers, two of them even returned to
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    • 386 3  -  Judith Tan By THE illegal sexual enhancement drug Power 1 Walnut has claimed its first victim. A Chinese Singaporean man, in a coma since his hospitalisation a month ago, died last week without regaining consciousness. Health warnings have gone out in the last
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    • 734 4  -  Selina Lum She manipulated her teenage lover into killing him by toying with youth's feelings; 17-year-old faces murder rap By CAUGHT in an unhappy marriage, a young mother of two manipulated her teenage lover into killing her husband of six years, the
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  • ASIA
    • 649 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pro-Tibet activists force organisers to snuff out torch thrice in Paris Paris HUNDREDS of pro-Tibetan protesters disrupted the Paris relay of the Beijing Olympic torch yesterday, clashing with police and thrice forcing torch-bearers to extinguish the flame and take refuge on
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    • CHINA
      • 604 8  -  VINCE CHONG Beijing's first FTA with developed nation will spark wider interest By China Correspondent CHINA yesterday signed its first free trade agreement (FTA) with a developed nation a move keenly watched by countries such as Singapore and Australia which are undergoing similar
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      • 42 8 XINHUA A kite enthusiast in Jinan in eastern China's Shandong province preparing to fly his tiger-shaped kite at an annual fair in the city yesterday. Hundreds of kites in a variety of shapes and sizes were exhibited. PHOTO:
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      • 369 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Taipei TAIWAN'S incoming vice-president said yesterday that he expects to meet top Chinese leaders at an upcoming regional forum but could not confirm if that would include talks with President Hu Jintao. Mr Vincent Siew said the Boao
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      • 122 8 REUTERS Beijing A CHINESE hair salon has been shut down and fined 500,000 yuan (5599,000) for detaining two customers and charging them exorbitant fees for haircuts, a newspaper reported yesterday. Students Zhang Vi and Yuan Sha Sha had their hair cut at the
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 515 10 REUTERS, XINHUA Disgruntled over pay and routes, pilots had flown back to departure airports in protest Shanghai CHINA Eastern Airlines has grounded pilots who flew domestic flights back to their departure airports in what local media said was a strike over pay and
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      • 236 10 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul SOUTH Korea yesterday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm in the south-west, just days after reporting an outbreak at a nearby chicken farm. Quarantine workers have started culling 6,500 ducks at the Jeongeup
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      • 54 10 REUTERS A soldier looking at the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in South Korea's mountainous Gangwon province, west of Seoul, yesterday. The patrol aircraft's two pilots ejected safely, and there were no reports of casualties on the ground. The authorities are looking into the cause
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      • 198 10 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG Tokyo SUPPORT for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has plummeted to its lowest level yet, although he is closer to resolving one impasse yesterday by nominating a central bank chief acceptable to the opposition. The approval rating for Mr Fukuda's Cabinet
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 606 11  -  Ravi Velloor GEARING UP FOR ELECTIONS Move to portray Congress as dynamic; key party organisers tasked with rallying voters in home states By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi INDIAN Prime Minister Manmqhan Singh has shuffled his Cabinet ahead of national elections
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      • 239 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Colombo SRI Lankan air force jets yesterday destroyed a Tamil rebel base suspected of being used to train suicide attackers, the Defence Ministry said. The raid took place a day after a suicide bomber killed a government minister and
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
        • 107 11 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong is visiting the United States to attend the sth meeting of the Commission on Growth and Development (CGD) in Washington. A body sponsored by the World Bank and others and chaired by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Mike Spence, the
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        • 116 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: Thailand's combative Prime Minister has lashed out at a famous fortune teller for predicting his new government's downfall in another military coup. Mr Samak Sundaravej used his Sunday TV show to criticise Mr Varin Buaviratlert, whose clients are rumoured to
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        • 128 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI: Shanghai tycoon Zhang Rongkun has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a pension funds scandal which toppled the city's Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu in 2006. The People's Intermediate Court in the north-eastern city of
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 495 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS INDONESIA'S CRACKDOWN ON CORRUPTION Urgent need for new legislation to prevent more scandals, he says the bank's governor, said there was an "urgent" need for new legislation to govern the handling of major crises such as the 1998 liquidity
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      • 358 12  -  Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta AN AMERICAN expert on an-ti-trust law testified at a closed-door hearing by Indonesia's anti-monopoly watchdog yesterday in connection with the case against Temasek Holdings over its investments in the country's cellular phone business. Mr
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      • 227 12 Jakarta INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked people to switch from kerosene to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as part of efforts to save the state budget amidst surging global oil prices. People who were willing to use LPG were "heroes", the President said during
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 682 13  -  Hazlin Hassan Fears of witch-hunt after Abdullah blames poll losses on acts of sabotage By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur TOP Umno leaders yesterday cautioned against being too hasty in going after internal saboteurs after Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said he wanted to
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      • 585 13 Kuala Lumpur DEPUTY Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday thanked Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi for backing him as his political successor and promised to stay loyal. The endorsement by Datuk Seri Abdullah was made on Sunday as he launched attacks against his
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  • WORLD
    • 740 14  -  NEW YORK TIMES Globalisation can save or kill local economy, as the experience of two cities shows Holland (Michigan) FOUR years ago, a low-slung factory on the fringes of town here was stagnating and shedding workers. Then German industrial giant Siemens bought the
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    • 401 15 REUTERS Calls to shut down Vienna museum over homoerotic depictions of Biblical scenes Vienna VIENNA'S Roman Catholic Cathedral Museum is facing calls for it to be shut after staging an exhibition which included "blasphemous" homoerotic paintings of Biblical scenes. The most controversial exhibit, a
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    • 348 15 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Amsterdam A DUTCH lawmaker who sparked protests worldwide with a film criticising the Quran is entitled to express his anti-Islam views, a court ruled yesterday as it rejected a request to muzzle him. The Dutch Islamic Federation
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    • 154 15 NEW YORK TIMES Paris FRANCE has assigned 100 police officers to investigate the desecration of 148 Muslim graves in one of the country's largest war cemeteries. President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed "profound outrage" on Sunday after it was discovered that vandals had hung a pig's head
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    • 619 16 NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES-WASHINGTON POST, ASSOCIATED PRESS Mark Perm found to be pushing for free trade pact that she opposes Washington MRS Hillary Clinton shook up her campaign for the second time in as many months, demoting her chief strategist and renewing questions
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    • 336 16 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS London PRINCESS Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing their limousine into a Paris road tunnel in 1997, a jury has ruled. The coroner's jury,
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 239 17 REUTERS WHEN nine-year-old Shannon Matthews disappeared in February, her mother stood before TV cameras to appeal to the public to aid a search for her "princess". On Sunday, Karen Matthews, 32, was detained in police custody on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
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      • 240 17 REUTERS AN AUSTRALIAN man and his adult daughter went public about their relationship after having a baby together, as new revelations emerged yesterday that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth. John Deaves, 61, and his daughter Jenny,
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      • 101 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS PRINCE Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth 11, has left a London hospital after three days of treatment for a chest infection. The 86-year-old prince waved to reporters as he left King Edward VII Hospital in central London on Sunday. He is convalescing
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    • 449 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG They go around smashing windows with machetes and baseball bats Sydney FIVE teenagers brandishing baseball bats and machetes rampaged through a school in Sydney yesterday, smashing windows, terrorising students and hitting a teacher over the head. Eighteen students
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    • 505 18  -  Li Xueying ASIA-MIDDLE EAST DIALOGUE By In Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) OIL, food, people. These are the likely priorities of the next Asia-Middle East Dialogue (AMED) to be held in 2010. Thailand, which will host the gathering, sketched out its ideas
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    • 212 18  -  LI XUEYING THE global community should consider passing an international law that prohibits contempt of religion. The call was made by two speakers at a Asia-Middle East Dialogue session here on "combating defamation of religion and promoting mutual respect". It comes on
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 23 14 Hillary demotes strategist Mr Mark Perm, disliked by Mrs Hillary Clinton's fiercest loyalists, has stepped down as her chief campaign strategist. PAGE 16
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  • REVIEW
    • 456 19 DISCUSSIONS on the drain of young talent from Singapore often focus on the motivations and reasons for the exit. For a more productive discourse there ought to be a candid debate on what more could be done to make Singapore so alluring a place few
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    • 1242 19  -  Jonathan Eyal »NATO AT THE CROSSROADS By ST Europe Bureau THE true significance of a major event is seldom clear when it happens. Its historic implications become apparent only much later. This may prove to be the case with the summit of the
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    • 641 19  -  Karim Raslan »WEST JAVA POLLS By For The Straits Times In West Java INDONESIAN election rallies, and the polling that follows, are a breath of fresh air compared with the sedate style of campaigning in other parts of Asia. Indonesians believe in mixing politics
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    • 954 20 U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS Timothy Geithner, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, testified before the US Senate Banking Committee last week on the US financial crisis. Below is an excerpt of his testimony. THE intensity of the
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    • 825 20  -  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY By THE full repercussions of the financial crisis triggered by bad mortgages in the United States are still unclear. But the unforeseen effects already include a demand for greater transparency in financial markets and better regulation. One part of the financial
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    • 1076 21  -  John T. Sidel RELIGIOUS PLURALISATION By For The Straits Times IN THE profane world of politics, "Knowledge Is Power" seems a bit like an empty slogan. Indeed, for all the spread of information via the Internet and the expansion of education in Asia over the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 29 19 Evolution ahead New forms of religious knowledge will gradually create new forms of politics and new constellations of powers in the world. PAGE 21 PUNCHLINES C JUli' TEWASEK poly_B
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  • HOME
    • 733 23  -  Maria Almenoar Traffic speeds rise between 8% and 25% at five new gantry locations, says LTA By Yeo Ghim Lay REAL estate officer Leong Yoke Leng gained a few more minutes of sleep and saved money too yesterday morning, all because her
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    • 206 23  -  YEO GHIM LAY TAXI commuters may take an alternative route to avoid the new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry in Upper Bukit Timah Road, but they will end up paying $2 more in cab fares and take a longer time to get
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    • 515 24  -  Goh Chin Lian At meeting, ship owner agrees to pay wages owed; Indian crew will also be flown home By A WAGE dispute that saw a crew of 22 Indian nationals being stuck on a ship here since January has been resolved. Its Greek owner
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    • 302 24  -  Jessica Cheam By MORE condo-style Housing Board flats will soon be offered to home buyers looking to live in Singapore's east side. The HDB yesterday released a plum 181,108 sq ft site in Simei Road for tender the fifth under its Design, Build and
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    • 121 25 The first national survey of customer satisfaction was conducted from May to June last year, polling over 12,000 respondents here. About 17 per cent were tourists. Participants were asked a variety of questions, ranging from how their complaints were handled to personal expectations of customer
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    • 534 25  -  Tessa Wong That's according to the first wide-ranging survey done here in a bid to up service standards By SINGAPORE has finished behind the United States and South Korea in a comprehensive survey that examined service standards in the three countries.
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    • 568 26  -  Salma Khalik Labs to get NSI kits, in hope that it will give dengue busters more time to act By Health Correspondent SINGAPORE is stepping up its fight against dengue with cheaper, faster test kits to be used on those suspected to
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    • 349 26 RUSH-HOUR service between Yew Tee and Bukit Gombak stations was disrupted for nearly an hour yesterday morning after a man was struck and killed by an MRT train. The man, in his mid-40s, was hit at Choa Chu Kang station on the North-South
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      • 68 26 ENVIRONMENT and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim is attending a meeting in Malaysia today dealing with haze. Dr Yaacob will discuss with his counterparts from Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia how to tackle ground and forest fires in South-east Asia. Senior officials from the
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      • 62 26 A TECHNICAL fault at the Revenue House in Newton Road yesterday caused a brief power failure at the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras). The two-hour disruption, which began at 7.30 am, did not affect electronic filing of tax returns, said Iras. For enquiries,
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      • 250 26  -  Lim Wei Chean By GECKOS, clown fish and frogs are not the usual souvenirs travellers bring home after a weekend in Bangkok. But a 26-year-old Singaporean permanent resident was stopped on Sunday for attempting to smuggle 26 live fish and reptiles into the
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    • 590 27  -  Elena Chong He must undergo treatment for his sexual disorder and see a psychiatrist regularly By Court Correspondent A PROFESSOR who stole the bras and panties of three Singapore university students was yesterday placed on probation for 12 months. Lee Wing Foon,
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    • 217 27  -  Sujin Thomas By CENTRAL Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers seized a car along with drugs worth an estimated $8,350 following a two-day operation that ended yesterday. Two suspects, a 61-year-old businessman and a 41-year-old unemployed woman, were arrested. The CNB described the man as a
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    • 315 27 A TWO-DAY hearing will be held next month to decide if the defamation suits taken by the Prime Minister and Minister Mentor against the Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) magazine will go to trial. Lawyers for PM Lee Hsien Loong and MM Lee Kuan
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    • CASE FILE
      • 98 27 A 27-YEAR-OLD Malaysian cyclist iied after he was hit by a private ambulance at the slip road from the Central Expressway to Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 on Sunday. The ambulance was exiting the sxpressway at about 9am and hit the cyclist who was
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      • 133 27 FOR 10 years, Azman Bachok :onned his victims out of almost 5215,000. Yesterday, the 41-year-old unsmployed man was sent to jail for 42 months after pleading guilty to nine charges seven of cheating and one each of theft and forgery, The serial
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      • 117 27 TWO Indian nationals were sent to jail for falsely declaring their educational qualifications in their Employment Pass (EP) applications. The sentencing comes after the High Court dismissed their appeals against the penalties that were imposed by the Subordinate Courts last December. Ramasamy Alagu Pandian was
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      • 71 27 A WOMAN had over $2,000 in cash and other items stolen from her car, which was parked at Jurong Hill on Saturday evening. At about 8.30pm, she placed her handbag under the front-pas-senger seat and locked the doors to go to the restroom. When
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    • 409 28  -  Alfred Siew Extra $250 m to go to winning bidder of new tender to run telecom switches By Technology Correspondent THE Government revealed yesterday that it will spend another $250 million to help build an ultra-fast broadband network, bringing the total amount of
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    • 549 28  -  Tay Hwee Peng By UNITED STATES and North Korean nuclear envoys will hold one-on-one talks in Singapore today to try to get the deadlocked talks over Pyongyang's nuclear programme going. US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters at Changi Airport yesterday
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    • 413 28  -  Jane Ng By THE Education Ministry (MOE) promoted more than 7,500 officers this year, including its director-gen-eral and one of its youngest principals to move into the upper echelons of the civil service. Ms Seah Jiak Choo, 57, direc-tor-general of education, was moved
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    • 108 28 CHECK in at the hotel of the future. Thick curtains and clean sheets are no longer enough to please. Guests are demanding more and hotels are complying. From high-definition TVs and iPod stations to wireless Internet in every nook and cranny, hotels are trotting out all kinds of
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    • 25 23 A reality check on service Singapore scored 68.7 out of 100 for service, according to the first wide-ranging survey on customer satisfaction here. PAGE H3
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  • FORUM
    • 213 29  -  Paul Heng I REFER to last Friday's article, "Mark of a leader 'not in his top grades' Studies in corporate leadership and what distinguishes true leaders from "wannabes" confirm that successful leaders develop and hone their strengths in four key areas: Technical
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    • 332 29  -  Lina Lim (Ms) Han Yong Hoe WE REFER to last Tuesday's report, "Finding a parking lot in CBD will soon be harder", which suggests there will be a shortage of carpark lots in new office and commercial buildings because the Government is
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    • 347 29  -  Poh Wei Leong I REFER to last Saturday's article, "Jurong's massive makeover", in which Jurong is slated to be developed into a regional business hub, to be dubbed "Jurong Lake District". I applaud the Government for yet another effort to decentralise business centres so
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    • 307 29  -  Tang Mun Keong QING Ming is on and thousands of Singaporeans visit cemeteries and columbariums to pay their respects to their loved ones. This is truly commendable. Large crowds are thus expected, especially over the weekends, and I hope the authorities will
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    • 289 29  -  Philip Tan I AGREE with Mr Jeffrey Law Lee Beng ("Timely call to do more for the elderly", last Tuesday) that it is important to engage the elderly in the community. The People's Association (PA) through its network of grassroots organisations offers a comprehensive range
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    • 305 29  -  Danny Chua Hock Chye I REFER to last Tuesday's article, "s33m school for autistic kids will offer 600 places". It is an excellent move for Pathlight School to reach out to 600 students. The surging enrolment, from 41 students to 415, indicates
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    • 80 29  -  Tan Ai Ling (Ms) PLEASE refer to last Thursday's letter by Mr Elangcovan Govindaraju, "Warden rides against traffic flow". Under our standard operating procedures, parking enforcement staff must follow traffic rules and regulations. They have to park their scooter in a proper parking lot
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 46 29 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. CABLE FEE HIKE: Enough is enough COSTLIER FOOD 1: There's a bright side COSTLIER FOOD 2: Meat the main culprit CAR POLISH WOES: Shine is gone SPORE SOCCER: It's the pits
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  • SPORTS
    • 756 30  -  Terrence Voon Table tennis star Li Jiawei's response yesterday to a report that ex-fiance Ronald Susilo was mulling legal action to recover money from her: Call a press conference and offer to resolve the matter. Susilo, a national badminton player, reportedly wanted to
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    • 282 30 I WISH to express my views on the break-up and money issues as follows: It is a private matter between the two of us and I hope the comment attributed to Ronald Susilo in The Straits Times, that he also views it as a private matter
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    • 38 31 1 Wednesday: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 Champions League q-final, Ist leg IT" Saturday: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 JL English Premier League IX X X Today: Liverpool v Arsenal JL JL JL Champions League q-final, 2nd leg
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    • 834 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »SOCCER A 0-0 result against Arsenal will put Reds through, but Benitez says it's not his plan Liverpool RAFAEL Benitez has ruled out Liverpool trying to play for a goalless draw against Arsenal tonight. But he warned supporters to
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    • 346 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London NICKLAS Bendtner yesterday vowed that Arsenal will not be intimidated by the Anfield roar as they aim to keep their Champions League dream alive. Arsenal travel to Merseyside today, locked at 1-1 in their quarter-final, second leg clash. The 20-year-old striker
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    • 433 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London CHELSEA left Istanbul last week wondering how they had managed to lose to Fenerbahce, but they should recover from the setback in tonight's second-leg clash at home. For all the celebrations of the Turkish side's upset 2-1 victory, the odds
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    • 620 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS London CHELSEA face a homegrown threat in their attempt to overturn the 1-2 deficit against Fenerbahce and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. London-born winger Kazim Kazim scored the Turkish club's equaliser as a substitute in last week's quarter-final
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    • 935 32 soccer Ferdinand joins fellow defender Vidic on injury list, ahead of big games London MANCHESTER United are facing a defensive crisis which could jeopardise their Premier League and Champions League hopes. Their centre-back Rio Ferdinand left Middlesbrough on Sunday wearing a protective cast on
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    • 334 32  -  Wang Meng Meng By FIRST the Champions League. Now the Serie A? It is believed that Sing Tel has secured broadcast rights to Italy's top division, which will reinforce its fledgling mio TV service that was launched last July. A Sing Tel spokesman
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    • 354 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London CARDIFF City manager Dave Jones has vowed to punch a hole in Harry Redknapp's FA Cup soccer dream. The old rivals come face to face on May 17 when Cardiff meet Portsmouth in the final. And Jones declared, after
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    • 264 32  -  CHRISTOPHER ONG ATHLETICS LAST year, long jumper Matthew Goh managed to leap over seven metres just once: a personal best of 7.02 m. So it was a pleasant surprise when, in only his second meet this year, he not only jumped beyond that mark three
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    • 677 32  -  Steve Slater MOTOR RACING By THAT first pole position for Robert Kubica in Bahrain was no fluke. It was the result of a huge amount of hard work by the BMW team, who have refined their car's aerodynamics to transform it from a twitchy, over-sensitive
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    • 797 33  -  Rohit Brijnath GAME, SET AND MATCH By WHEN that day comes, when his shoulders are gently bent and his hair lightly streaked with the silver of age, so much we will have forgotten about Tiger Woods. Small things will have leaked
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    • 870 33 NEW YORK TIMES »GOLF Ochoa wins at Mission Hills for her first Major championship in North America Rancho Mirage (California) A RECORD 26 people waded, dived or danced into Poppies Pond on Sunday, as the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship gave way to a fiesta. The
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    • 780 33 AUSTRALIAN RULES AFL, 3rd rd: Adelaide 12.13 (85) Port Adelaide 11.13 (79), Collingwood 18.14 (122) Richmond 11.12 (78), Geelong 16.16 (112) Melbourne 12.10 (82), Sydney 13.10 (88) Brisbane 10.11 (71), Essendon 23.12 (150) Carlton 21.8(134), Fremantle 12.15(87) West Coast 10.13 (73), Hawthorn 15.12 (102) North Melbourne 13.8 (86), Western
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 55 33 TAMPINES Rovers thumped Japanese side Albirex Niigata 6-1 in an S-League soccer match at the Jurong East Stadium last night. Albirex's Tetsuya Okayama opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Tampines replied through Fahrudin Mustafic (24th, 82nd), Aliff Shafaein 27th), Takatoshi Uchida (33rd, own goal)
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      • 82 33 SINGAPORE swimmer Yip Pin Xiv rewrote the world record in the 50m backstroke (S3) with a time of lmin 00.80 sec, during the US Paralympics Swimming Trials 2008 in Minneapolis, United States. In the heats, she had already broken the record with her 1:01.55. The
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      • 50 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON: The Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets clinched National Basketball Association play-off berths on Sunday. Houston beat the Los Angeles Clippers 105-79, while the Dallas Mavericks overcame the Suns 105-98. The Suns still clinched a play-off spot when Golden State and Denver lost.
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      • 92 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Olympic records are set to tumble in Beijing after Fina insisted there is no evidence Speedo's LZR Racer suit gives swimmers an unfair advantage. Since the ultra-stream-lined Racer was launched in February, 18 of the 19 world records broken have gone to
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    • 147 34 »TENNIS Davydenko bags Florida title, with Federer and Nadal still in search of trophies this year Key Biscayne (Florida) AS THE men's tennis tour moves to clay, the top-ranked Roger Federer and No 2 Rafael Nadal have yet to win a tournament this year. The tight
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    • 489 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS He won a 12th career title and a US tournament for only the second time, and he laughed when asked if the accomplishment would make him famous. "Famous? Here? Yes, if I would like to be famous, I need to win tournaments here," he said. He
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    • 55 33 TV times BASKETBALL: NCAA Final Four: Final (Live, Ch22, 9am). SOCCER: Uefa Champions League q-finals, 2nd leg: Chelsea v Fenerbahce (Live, Ch24, tomorrow, 2.30 am), Liverpool v Arsenal (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 2.30 am). English Premier League: West Ham v Portsmouth (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 2.40 am). Event SOCCER: S-League: Geylang United
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  • OBITUARIES
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      94 34 Robin Sim Boon Woo BBM (L) Public Service Star (Bar) (Former Member of Parliament) Age: 72 Passed away peacefully on Monday, 7 April 2008 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Wife: Janet Chan Wai Ching (deceased) Sons: Daughter-in-law: Hsiung Lung Tracy Yeo Lian Kee Hsiung Piao Daughter: Ling
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      253 34 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late Comrade Robin Sim Boon Woo From: Former Parliamentary Colleagues Abbas Abu Amin Koh Lip Lin R Sinnakaruppan Ahmad Mattar Lai Tha Chai Rohan Kamis Ang Nam Piau Lav Ping Sum S Chandra Das ChaiChongYii Lav Teik Soon S Dhanabalan
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      91 34 jg B The Family Of The Late LOOI OI LIN called home to be with the Lord Jesus on 20 February 2008 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks appreciate to: The Pastors and staff and Pastoral care of Wesley Methodist Church Pastor Michael Tan The Doctors Nurses of Mt Alvernia
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      123 34 am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoeverlives and believes in me will never die." John 11:25-26 MARY LIEW YEE TIE M^&fc Age: 79 Went home to the Lord on 6 April 2008 Leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Paul Yong
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      147 34 Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr. Edwin Ng, Director of Techno Packaging Industries Pte. Ltd. Techno Packaging Industries (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Techno Packaging Industries (Wuxi) Co, Ltd. Grandeur Pack Industries Sdn. Bhd. on the demise of his beloved father NG LER PUAY Age 68 ■passed away peacefully on 6 April
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      106 34 YEO SIEW TONG Age: 83 passed away peacefully on 7 April 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Wife Sim Kwang Meng, deceased) Children: Children's Spouses: Yeo Khee Ching Yeo Khee Eng, Florence B. K. Nair Yeo Khee Leng Margaret Tham Ibrahim Abdullah Yeo Embok Kalthum Ismail Yeo
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      29 34 f 9TH ANNIVERSARY IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE LATE ONG SOON EE Departed 8 April 1999 Always cherished and remembered by Wife, Children Grandchildren and loved ones k h
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      196 35 HENGQUEEFONG Age: 96 Passed away peacefully on 6 April 2008, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Lim Hong Toon (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Lim Ah Hoo Lily Hew Lim Ah Doo Loh Pui Shih Lim Jun Xiong Steven Yip Moh Kuen Daughters: Sons-in-law: LamVuu Ha (deceased) Heng Tuong
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      121 35 NG LIN MOON Age: 91 passed away peacefully on 7 April 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Chan Mcc Kuen Sons: Daughters-in-law: (Ng Wai Meng, deceased) Ng Wai Tong Tang Wai Kheng Ng Wai Hong Ong Soo Hwa Daughters: Sons-in-law: Ng Choy Wah Lo Chee Fei
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      154 35 "The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want" Psalm 23:1 NORA KOH SEOK TIN Age: 92 was called Home to be with the Lord on 7 April 2008. She will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Lee Kwee Swee, deceased) Son: Daughter-in-law: Wellington
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      55 35 The Family of the Late TAYAHIMM, MARY Departed on 2 April 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 Reverend Timothy Chong, Mr Christian Davidson and
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      137 35 "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." TAN KIM HOCK WILLIE Age: 83 was called home to be with Lord on 6 April 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: TayCha 800 Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tan Teck
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      168 35 We, the family of the late LEONG YIN HOE Departed on 3 April 2008 wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, contributions and wreaths during our recent bereavement. All donations will be given to charity.
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      115 35 LEEBOONYONG Age: 45 passed away peacefully on 07/04/08. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Ong Lay See Mother: Toll Kirn Kee Brothers: Sisters-in-law: Lee Boon Hai Tay Hooi Ngoh Lee Boon Sun Yeong Kirn Thai Abby Lee Boon Seng Soh Wee Hong Lee Boon Ping Joan Kwek
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      90 35 YEO SENG PHUAN Age: 74 passed away peacefully on 7 Apr 2008 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Teo Sze Hong Sons: Daughters-in-law: Yeo Teck Guan Chew May Ling Yeo Teck How Ng Shueh Ching Daughters: Son-in-law: Yeo Teck Woon Yeo Teck Yong Terence Loke Grandsons: Granddaughters: Jonathan Loke Yeo Su
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      183 35 ■f fo "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever i a believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever 4j I. lives and believes in me will never die. John 11:25-26 3 JOHN CHIN KOK CHOON Age: 78 Was called home to be with the Lord
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      27 35 12th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of MANGALAMKOT KUNHIKRISHNA MENON Departed: 8 April 96 Sadly missed lovingly remembered by WifeP.Thankam Son, Daughters Sons-in-law, Grandchildren, Relatives All Loved Ones
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      34 35 T 1 1 In Memoriam 35th Anniversary M KRISHNA (KECHIK) Departed: 8/4/73 Gone from our lives one so dear. But in our hearts forever near L Fondly missed by Wife, children loved ones. A
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      25 35 13th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of I Justin Tan j HanSiah I Departed on 8 AprU 1995 Dearly missed always Remembered by family loved ones.
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  • MONEY
    • SGX SECURITIES
      • 7562 36 TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 7, 2008 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E SMIL 28 5 11C 3C 42 141 195 IS 24 61 17 5 15 43 5 126 34 5 16 144 19 4 89 1C 52 5 2C 65 48 5 184 332
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      • 1431 36 52-WEEK IEL HIGH LOW CODE SMIL COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL 0RDAY '000 HIGH NEI LOW MCAP P/E 3C 41.; 31 16.; 38 70.; 46.; ii.; 44.; 83 i;.; i; 16.; 17.1 2; 9C 43 i; 19.; 88 24.; 2.3 1 41.2 19.3 21 ii.; 21.; 4;.;
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      • 57 36 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 288 6009 STI ETF 3013.7 6010 STIETFIOPV US200cd US620C US1000 US1120C
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    • 516 37 REUTERS Financial forum's drastic idea calls for public funds to ease credit crunch Miami THE idea of using public money to buy distressed mortgages to ease a global credit crunch is receiving a cool reception from Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised
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    • 306 37 REUTERS New York YAHOO is not opposed to Microsoft's bid for the Web media company, as long as it is at the right price, Yahoo's board said yesterday in a letter to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. "We have continued to
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    • 36 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 13,450.23 (+157.01 points) »Japanese share prices closed up 1.18 per cent, recovering from early losses as investors managed to overcome jitters about a fall in United States employment, dealers said.
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    • 36 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 24,578.76 (+314.13 points) Hong Kong stocks closed up 1.29 per cent, gaining for the fourth straight session as China stocks were propelled by a surge on the Shanghai bourse.
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    • 36 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 3,599.62 (+153.37 points) Chinese shares surged to close up 4.45 per cent as gains in overseas markets as well as steel and mining stocks drove a wave of bargain hunting.
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    • 37 37 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,625 (+5.4 points) Australian shares closed up 0.1 per cent with resource sector gains on higher commodity prices offset by losses in bank stocks on worries of more bad debt.
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    • 32 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,221.07 (-0.91 point) Malaysian shares closed down 0.1 per cent in thin trade as investors remained sidelined over Wall Street's sluggish performance and domestic political uncertainty.
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      25 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 15,757.08 (+413.96 points) Indian stocks closed 2.7 per cent higher amid an Asian rally, but inflation concerns weighed on investors.
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    • 23 37 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,286.8 (+9.71 points) »Indonesian shares closed up 0.4 per cent led by coal producers in volatile trade.
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    • 21 37 AFP Friday's close: 824.8 (-1.88 points) Thai financial markets were closed for a public holiday. They reopen today.
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    • 117 37 31Q1 09 "^E ,10 I .«jZ April 7 Stock Name Close I Change CapitaLand 7.000 +0.100 01am 2.480 +0.03' CapitaMall 3.390 -0.030 SI A 16.340 +0.14' CityDev 12.480 +0.320 SGX 9.000 +0.10' Cosco Corp 3.700 +0.100 SIAEngg 3.970 +0.04' DBS Grp 19.720 -0.120 SPH 4.620 F&N
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    • 50 37 Jade Tech 166,199,000 UniFiber 153,721,000 lasper 85,908,000 China Energy 68,277,000 Synear 46,183,000 E3 Hlds 42,723,000 China Hongxing 40,742,000 Yangzijiang 37,530,000 CoscoCorpMßLeCWoBo7o3 31,009,000 Golden Agri 27,297,000 April 7 JiutianC 27,058,000 CapitalandDßeCWoBo623 20,839,000 Sing Tel 19,163,000 CoscoCorpMEßeCWoBo9lB 18,986,000 CXGInd 18,976,000 Biosensors 15,794,000 Centillion 15,154,000 Ferrochina 14,577,000 SingTeIMBLeCWDBD9O3 14,125,000 Suntecßeit 13,846,000
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    • 136 37 April 7 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT )F FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.2640 1.2790 Ian dollar 1.3620 1.3790 iuro 2.1570 2.1810 (lalaysian ringgit* ..0.4331 0.4337 <Z dollar 1.0790 1.1030 Sterling pound 2.7350 2.7660 JS dollar 1.3740 1.3900 SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO 100
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    • 1488 37 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 7,2008 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE '000 "00( 56 13 9092 Asia Env W*****4 16 -3 315 4 2878 Aztech W*****6 4 5 -0 5 5( 22 5 3 5 3666 CapitalanBNPeCW080G09 15 +1 10( 3 5 15 3762 CapitalanBNPeCW080G20 20( 30 3
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    • 711 38 COMMENTARY Economist warns: If left unchecked, inflation could lead to series of problems Tokyo FORGET Bear Steams. Ignore what Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are up to. Take your attention away from which
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    • 108 42 STOCK 1.75 billion TRADING shares worth VOLUME $1.48 billion April 7,2008 3,181.92 +26.36 UP Gainers: 400 Losers: 235 DOWN Unchanged: 951 Mid Cap 793.97 A 10.85 Health care 828.45 A 31.22 Small Cap 664.22 A 9.42 Consumer services 854.24 A 7.45 All Share 807.89 A 8.11 Telecoms
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      • 521 80 Mix: Muxtape.com REMEMBER how we used to spend hours after school sitting in front of a tape recorder, painstakingly recording several Bananarama tracks onto a single cassette tape? With Muxtape.com, you can relive a taste of the childhood nostalgia by creating your
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        925 81  -  Oo Gin Lee and Stephanie Gwee Creative backs down on Vista driver modder CREATIVE Technologies appears to have backtracked on its harsh stand against Daniel Kawakami, the Brazillian software developer who modded the drivers of Creative's sound cards to work better on Vista. About 10 days ago, Creative's
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      • 557 84 Hotels are trotting out digital attractions to woo a new generation of guests. IRENE THAM checks in on the trend NEW hotels like the St Regis and the soon-to-open Crowne Plaza Changi Airport are looking for new ways to please, and high-tech gadgetry is
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        662 84 Older hotels are modernising for 21st century guests, reports IRENE THAM YOUR minibar is running low on Coca-Co-la. One hour later, you hear the door bell ring. You answer the door and a hotel housekeeper greets you asking if you need a refill of Coca-Cola. It's not telepathy.
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      • 161 84  -  Irene Tham THE Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) is developing an all-in-one multimedia dock called the Suite Point HD to help its chain of hotels offer the next level in personalised in-room entertainment. It is essentially a connectivity panel that lets guests plug personal gizmos to the
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      • 387 85 Don't go overboard with technology as it may confuse and frustrate, says IRENE THAM DREAM, a new boutique hotel in Manhattan in the US, greets its guests with iPods in all its 200 rooms. The devices come preloaded with 2,000 songs. Another outfit, Crescent, in
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        618 86 Want to get lost in your own world? Whip out your sound-isolating ear buds and tune out. STEPHANIE GWEE listens in on the trend EVER tried plugging into your snazzy music player on an airplane? Chances are, you'll hear more noise like spoilt children wailing than the
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      • 1102 87 Get onboard musical nirvana with the latest crop of sound-isolating ear buds. STEPHANIE GWEE puts her ears to the test ShureSE3lo $489 Shure is known for its bleeding-edge stereo speaker systems, so it's no surprise that its SE3IO sound-isolating earphones can make an iPod roar. Sure, at $489,
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      • 491 87  -  Stephanie Gwee SO UNCOOL are these "head-cans" that you'll rarely find someone "chichi" sashaying down Orchard Road with them on. But some audiophiles believe that headphones provide the best sound quality as they cover your entire ear and prevent unwanted environmental noise from interfering with your tunes.
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      • 463 87  -  Stephanie Gwee SOUND-ISOLATING earphones, it seems, are made for the young. A Digital Life straw poll of 50 people, aged between 17 and 40 years old, revealed that only 16 of them knew how to wear them correctly. Out of the 16 surveyed, 11
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      • 992 88 A small but growing number of Sony PS3 users here and around the world are experiencing failures in their Blu-ray drives. SHERWIN LOH reports SONY may have won the format wars with its Blu-ray technology, but many of its Play Station 3 (PS3) game
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      • 472 89 Hotel chain Marriott International raked in $7.2b in sales through its online portal last year. 00 GIN LEE reports THERE is a digital transformation in the way travellers are booking their hotel rooms. Where in the past they would call the hotels directly or book
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      • 435 90 Associated Press Money ensures long-term survival of the non-profit group and quality content THE non-profit group behind Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia built by volunteers, is getting its largest donation ever US$3 million (Ss4 million) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award, to come
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      • 845 92  -  Chester Chen, Want to know what's wrong with your PC? E-mail us at stdled@sph.com.sg Blank screen after log-on I HAVE problems restarting my PC after scanning with Ad-Aware recently. During the log-on, the screen goes blank after the Windows logo appears although I can still hear the
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        • 105 93 consumer Sony's NWZ-AB2O Walkman music player Available in 4GB ($299) and 16GB ($459) models SONY has added a new model to its stable of Walkman music players the NWZ-AB2O which features Bluetooth technology. This means you can stream your music to Bluetooth headsets, speakers and car audio
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        • 119 93 consumer Creative's Travel Sound speakers Available at The Creative Stores at Marina Square, Plaza Singapura and International Business Park, and online store at sg.store.creative.com at $129 IT IS almost as small as the iPod nano, but Creative's TravelSound promises to be loud. With four independent micro
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        • 85 93 consumer Apple's AirPort Express Available at www.apple.com.sg/store at $148 APPLE'S AirPort Express base station now covers a wider range and is speedier too, thanks to an 802.11n update. The palm-sized base station can be plugged directly into the wall so you can share your Internet connection between
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        • 122 93 consumer Sony Ericsson's Z77oi clamshell phone Available exclusively at M 1 Shops at $498 (with a two-year mobile plan) IT'S Mi's 11th anniversary and Sony Ericsson has launched the Z77oi clamshell phone, which comes in Mi's colours, orange and black and is decorated
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        • 136 94 consumer Giorgio ArmaniSamsung phone Available at the Giorgio Armani Boutique at Hilton Hotel, Samsung Mobile World, Samsung Mobile Shop, G-Force at Raffles City and Handphone Megastore at Plaza Singapura at $1,388. PUT a consumer technology giant and a fashion house together, and you get the
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        • 141 94 consumer Star Hub's pay-per-day flat rate data roaming service Visit www.starhub.com/mobile for more information UNPREDICTABLE roaming charges will be a thing of the past for Star Hub mobile subscribers who are travelling, with the new pay-per-day flat rate data roaming service. With the service,
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        • 164 94 consumer Siemens' Gigaset SL37O cordless phone TheALl3o(s6o)and C47o(sl4B)are available now while the SL37O ($268) will be available in mid April IT LOOKS like home phones have shed their boring image. Siemens has launched the Gigaset SL37O cordless phone that comes with features usually found on
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        • 118 94 ►business Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 8.0 Available later this month. For more information, go to www.sophos.com IT'S hard to keep track of all corporate computers on a network, after all, not all employees apply security patches religiously and some even turn off firewalls. But companies
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        • 126 94 business Fujitsu's deskpower KSOY Available at $1,888. For more information, visit sg.fujitsu.com/pc YOU can make space on your office desk by packing some things away. Or you can always buy a bigger desk. Fujitsu has come up with a third so- lution to the problem: It's deskpower KSOY.
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        • 115 94 'business Kroll Ontrack's Ontrack Eraser For more information, go to www.ontrackdatarecovery.com.sg THERE are two sides to data protection: Safeguarding data and getting rid of it properly. Kroll Ontrack has launched Ontrack Eraser for the latter. The software tool wipes out everything, from files to passwords to e-mail,
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      • 637 95  -  Oo Gin Lee Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War: Soulstorm YOU must have faith. No, it's not Fright Night Part 3 but Soulstorm the third and final instalment of the hit real-time strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War. And you need
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      • 242 95 IF YOU are playing the Sisters Of Battle, you can quickly build a powerful infantry army to fight both enemy infantry and vehicles. You only need three basic units the Battle Sisters Squad, the Celestian Squad and the Missionary as well as your main heroine, the Canoness. In the
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      • 504 96 Sherwin Loh, a freelance writer Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII GOING out on a limb here, I am going to predict that anyone who considers themselves a gamer will want to take a crack at this game. This isn't because Final Fantasy VII is the prequel
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      • 325 96  -  Valentine Chua, Wipeout Pulse PERHAPS the future of transportation lies in us floating above ground at least, that's what the developers of Wipeout Pulse would have us believe. In the game, you pilot a blazing fast floating craft as it speeds around different circuits. Races have you
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      • 930 97  -  Oo Gin Lee Now you can play Starcraft and Burning Crusade on your table tops IF YOU'RE tired of waiting for PC games like Starcraft 2 and The Wrath Of The Lich King the second expansion to World Of Warcraft (WOW) to (hopefully) arrive this year,
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      • 538 98  -  Alfred Siew Sony Ericsson WB9oi $398 (with two-year subscription) Available at phone retailers WHEN Sony Ericsson launched its WBBoi Walkman phone about a year ago, the phone's slim body, metallic finish and speedy 3G downloads created quite a stir. Its successor, the new
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      • 458 98  -  Alfred Siew Audio-Technica Quiet Point ATH-ANC3 $213 Call 6749-5686 for more information IF YOU'VE been to Tokyo's electronic stores, you'll notice that Audio-Technica (A-T) earphones are common on store shelves. The Japanese headphone maker is well-respect-ed for the quality of its audio
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      • 488 99  -  Stephanie Gwee Adobe Photoshop Express Available now at http://www.photoshop.com/express FOR those who get a kick out of zapping away acne scars, or instantly reducing the thickness of their thighs by half, Adobe has launched a new plaything to help morph Ah Meng look-alikes into dashing
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      • 364 99  -  Adli Yashir, an executive Acer Ferrari 5100 Price not available Available end-April OKAY, this is a limited-edi-tion notebook, and it may have limited functionality in terms of graphics prowess and battery life. But for racing enthusiasts who also travel a lot, the Acer Ferrari is the
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      • 427 100  -  Canon HV3O Camcorder $1,999 Get it from all Canon authorised dealers THE push to High Definition (HD) is now underway, with more and more camcorders and flat screen LCD TVs having Full HD or HD-ready capabilities. The Canon HV3O camcorder is one
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      • 816 102 What does it take to succeed in the animation industry? THAM YUEN-C finds out TALK to your friends, your hairdresser and even your grandmother if you're trying to break into the animation industry. Because they might just be the ones who can help you get
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      • 641 103  -  OO GIN LEE Microsoft has denied rumours that it is incorporating Blu-ray into its Xbox but it would certainly be a good move IF YOU haven't heard by now, the rumour mill has it that Microsoft is working on incorporating a Blu-ray drive into the
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      • 690 103  -  LIM YEE HUNG By WHEN you were at the knife-edge of technology working as a reporter at Digital Life in Singapore, coming here to Britain seems like taking many steps back. Here, in the quaint little countryside town of Coventry, where you have no idea
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        573 108 The five Ws and an H of teen girls in trouble. BY ANDREW DUFFY WHO ARE THESE GIRLS? It used to be that wild girls (and boys) usually came from broken homes, where the parents were divorced or one was in prison. Nowadays, most wild girls come from
        KONG YEN LIN  -  573 words
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        349 107 A healthy mind is important for a healthy body and a bright future. Do not let drugs get in the way of it all. by Cassandra chew If you need a reason to feel good about yourself today, think about this: Among the brains of all the creatures
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      • 148 107 He travelled to Hong Kong in search of work, but was instead offered $7,000 to be a courier of heroin. Ng Teck Boon, 40, swallowed 91 packets of heroin worth $700,000 in an attempt to smuggle the drugs into Australia last year. He was given $550
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        478 109 WWW.fNFOCOMMI23.SG When your computer There are many harmful programs that can infect your computer and stop it from working properly. This week, we look at viruses, worms and Trojans Anyone with a computer, especially one that is hooked up to the Internet, can become a victim of harmful
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      689 110  -  LIN ZHAOWEI The faces, places, events and numbers of the region. BY THE BIG PLACE China What is happening there China has recently allowed foreign companies to invest in water treatment in the country, and this has drawn the attention of major water industry firms. One example is Suez
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    • THEBIGTHING
      • 460 111 At the Science Centre's annual MindFest, primary school pupils got to do some amazing things, by neubronner eugene Primary school pupils got a chance to play inventor and do all kinds of wacky things in the name of science last month. It was all part
        FRANCIS ONG  -  460 words
    • BIGBIGWORLD
      • 219 112 i 1 i Police in Wisconsin, the United States, had issued an alert about a woman suspected of using a stolen credit card at a convenience store and included surveillance video images of her on a show called Crime Stoppers. But they did not
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    • BIGOUTSIDE
      • 389 113 Rice is a big part of our daily lives, but now this important crop may be in trouble. BY ELLEN WHYTE Rice tastes delicious. We eat boiled and fried rice at meal times. We grind the grains into flour to make biscuits and pancakes. We mix
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        467 114 Our bodies need salt to work properly, but add too much and things start going wrong. alison de souza explains why Salt is a common mineral found everywhere in nature, from the sand on the beach to our very own bodies. Our bodies need a small amount
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        285 115 Hugging, shouting and sleeping that is how many youngsters viewed a happy marriage at a recent children's art competition. More than 200 children between the ages of five and 12 spent the morning of March 22 at the Jacob Ballas Children's Garden sharing their understanding of love
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      • 159 115 If you can look like one of these boys, you might just have a chance to go to the Olympics. For the first time, McDonald's is launching a global programme to send children from all over the world as McDonald's Champion Kids to
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      • 736 116 HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES* Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 3 I, 1991 A software engineer has come up with a new way for people to share information with one another, which he calls the "World Wide Web". Mr Tim Berners-Lee, who works at a physics laboratory
        ERIC ROCA  -  736 words
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      • 56 117 Teachers, if you would like a certain topic to be featured on this page, please e-mail your suggestions to mnathan@sph.com.sg Part two of the Little Red Dot's exercise on antonyms focuses on N through Z of the alphabet. Do you know the opposites for the words
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      • 274 118 Try it the Dot way! Every week, we brew up Dot-flavoured lessons from a vast collection of classroom recipes. This week, pupils learn how to eat and live healthy, by malini nathan DOT TREAT Group work, two periods. DOT MISSION Your body. DOT TOOLS The Straits
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        421 118  -  KIM MAX COPYRIGHT 2007 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE BY 1. You dance... a. Wherever and whenever you can. b. If all your friends are dancing. c. Only if pushed. 2. Are you usually the first one on the dance floor? a. Always. b. Never. c. Only if it's a
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    • CREATURESBIGANDSMALL
      • 332 119 A shaggy coat and bear-like facial features earned this animal its nickname "bearcat". But it is neither a bear nor a cat. The binturong is a civet which has the characteristic elongated body and anal scent glands that produce secretions for scent marking. In
        SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS  -  332 words
      • 70 119 Slender Loris Loris tardigradus Unlike other lorises, the Slender Loris has long, slender arms and legs. Primarily insectivorous, it may also eat shoots, fruit, leaves, flowers, eggs and small mammals, birds and reptiles. It inhabits tropical rainforests, scrub forests, semi-deciduous (where plants lose their foliage for
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