The Straits Times, 25 April 2009

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  • 19 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 S|Si A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 $I.oo** THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    • 86 1 $5.7 MILLION the new target for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund comes as more low-income families battle rising costs amid unemployment and a shrinking economy. This year's goal is its highest since its inception in 2000, and an increase of $1.3 million from last
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    • 43 1 A SEX predator who attacked children aged between nine and 14 during a 16-month crime spree paid the price yesterday. Huang Shiyou, 22, was sentenced to 32 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane. PRIME PAGE A3
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    • 52 1 PRICES of private homes fell off a cliff in the first quarter, continuing a dramatic slide that has now wiped out the gains owners have made since 2007. Values dived 14.1 per cent in the first three months this year the biggest fall on record. PRIME PAGE
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    • 62 1 RULE #1 was named Best Film at the inaugural Singapore Film Awards last night. The supernatural thriller by Singaporean writer-director Kelvin Tong beat five other contenders, including Royston Tan's 12 Lotus which nabbed Tan a Best Director award. Comedian Mark Lee's role in Money No
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    • 56 1 GOOSE will disappear off menus here in a couple of months. With the ban on imports from China and Taiwan as a result of bird flu outbreaks, restaurants here still serving it are fast running down their stocks. They say birds from Western suppliers are too
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  • 103 1 A rare genetic disorder left retired pastor Lav Chin Kwee facing certain death. His best option, a rare double transplant, was risky. Yet the 58-year-old, married to Madam Lim Foong Ngee (right) and father of (from left) Tabitha, Given and Paul, went ahead. Given is just
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  • 492 1  -  Zakir Hussain Lim Wei Chean In a sign that they are less choosy, seven in 10 employed within months By SEVEN in 10 locals who were retrenched in the third quarter of last year found new jobs by December, despite the downturn. It
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  • 431 1  -  Robin Chan Jamie Ee By and DEPUTY Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday called for the two groups at loggerheads in the ongoing Aware saga to show respect and tolerance for each other's views. He was one of three Government leaders to comment
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 45 1 '^^^ishsi Brain gain: The IS a 0 vt A" Self-help Aware founders tor MH^iT) lure of the East JH. M& groups more respond to V<3P Ml -Saturdayspecial, lf» W' important now criticisms tH# PAGES Dl-6 I I INSIGHT, PAGES A 32&34 PRIME, PAGES A 20&22
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  • prime commentary
    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 76 2 WE SAY The public knows now the motivations of the new Aware leadership, their religious leanings and a bit of what they stand for. If only they had fronted up sooner, much of the unpleasantness could have been avoided. The public will give its judgment in
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      • 21 2 COLUMNS Neil Humphreys relates, with a melodramatic touch, his recent bout of illness. LIFE! PAGE E6
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      • 17 2 Joanne Lee is a delighted owner of Amazon's electronic book reader Kindle. REVIEW PAGE A3O
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      • Article, Illustration
        29 2 www.straitstimes.com Shefali Rekhi shares her thoughts on whether Asian culture inhibits creativity. i Deepika Shetty says she doesn't have the inside scoop on Kats and Akki, really.
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    • 68 2 THE April 18 article, Who's Who, on the new executive committee of the Association of Women for Action and Research stated wrongly that Ms Jenica Chua posted a comment about homosexuality on the gay networking website Trevvy. She did not. The website picked up and
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    • 876 2  -  Chua Mui Hoong Tolerance is critical in the public sphere in a multi-religious society By SENIOR WRITER THE battle lines have been drawn. And it is not just between Aware's new executive committee and its old guard. The leading women's advocacy group saw a
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  • prime news
    • 768 3  -  Selina Lum Judge sentences him to 24 strokes as well; his victims were children By Other offenders Siddharth Mujumdar: Also known as the Yishun Terror, he molested three boys, two girls, a 40-year-old woman and exposed himself to six others when only 16.
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    • 177 3 PHOTOS: SYDNEY: Australian police yesterday released a startling X-ray photograph showing that a murdered Chinese immigrant was repeatedly shot in the head with a nail gun. The picture shows a total of 27 long nails embedded in 27-year-old Chen "Anthony" Liu's head and neck.
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    • 1222 4  -  Judith Tan The genetic abnormality affected his nerves and major organs, leading to their failure By Haifa day later, a new heart and liver APRIL 7, 2009 10.30pm: The donor's heart and liver is inspected at the National University Hospital (NUH) to make sure that
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    • 510 4  -  Fiona Chan By OUTPUT from Singapore's manufacturing sector shrank a record amount last month, dealing a setback to hopes the economy is starting to turn the corner. Factory production, which accounts for about a quarter of economic output, plunged 33.9 per cent last month
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    • 505 6  -  Boon Chan INAUGURAL SINGAPORE FILM AWARDS Kelvin Tong receives Best Film award from US actor Peter Ford By MEDIA CORRESPONDENT RULE #1 lived up to its name last night at the inaugural Singapore Film Awards. The supernatural thriller by Singaporean writer-director Kelvin Tong won the
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    • 589 8  -  Joyce Teo The first quarter sees a 14.1% fall; rents continue to slide as well, and at a faster rate By PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT PRICES of private homes fell off a cliff in the first quarter, continuing a dramatic slide that has now wiped out
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    • 518 8  -  JOYCE TEO BUYERS of resale HDB flats now tend to need much less cash upfront to secure a home and those looking at bigger flats may need none at all. Data released yesterday by the HDB showed first-quarter median cash-over-valuation levels fell
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    • 674 10  -  Yen Feng Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund ups goal to help more families in the downturn By IN LESS than a year, Mr Sz Chin Voon, 47, went from jobless to homeless. He lost his job as a coffee-shop assistant in April 2007 and,
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    • 133 10 CHEQUES can be made out to "The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund" and mailed to: The Finance Division, Singapore Press Holdings Limited, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. Please include your name, NRIC number, address and contact number on the back of the cheque. Online donations
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    • 700 11  -  Fiona Chan He takes over as non-executive chairman from July 1 By On Jan 1, 2000, Mr Lim became executive chairman and CEO of Keppel Corp, taking over from the late top civil servant Sim Kee Boon (left), who was handling the restructuring of
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    • 781 12 Concern mounts over civilians in war zone COLOMBO: Two top Indian officials met Sri Lanka's President yesterday to urge a truce in its bloody civil war as concern grew over the fate of thousands of civilians trapped in the conflict zone. According to
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    • 519 18  -  Salma Khalik Khaw: Workshop to teach the terminally ill how to commit suicide not welcome here By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT THE Health Minister has come out to say that a planned talk on euthanasia should not be allowed to go ahead here. Referring to a
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    • 548 18  -  Jalelah Abu Baker By THE mammoth task of removing the dangling part of a crane perched 36 storeys above a street in the Orchard Road area has begun, and is expected to end later today. The main contractor, Poh Lian Construction, said the
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  • prime aware saga
    • OLD GUARD RESPONDS
      • 710 19  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Founders say those who disagree with Aware's issues should form own group By I FOUNDERS and longtime members of the Association of Women for Action and Research yesterday slammed the new women in charge for the way they seized power on
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      • 594 19  -  Wong Kim Hoh By AWARE founder member Margaret Thomas wants the new executive committee of Aware to make up their minds. President Josie Lav, she pointed out, had said in a TV interview that the old Aware had diversified too much and
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      • 626 19 AW ARE'S old guard yesterday rejected the new leaders' accusation that the association had become pro-lesbian and pro-homosexual. This was their response to the allegations made on Thursday. PROMOTED A LESBIAN MOVIE Aware sponsored the screening of the lesbian-themed movie, Spider
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      • 1272 21  -  Sandra Davie Tan Dawn Wei Sexuality programme gives information 'in a non-judgmental way' By Sexual education programme's aims What it is: Aware's Comprehensive Sexual Education programme is aimed at helping young people develop a healthy and positive attitude towards sexuality and empowering them in their
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      • 523 21  -  Debbie Yong By AW ARE'S new vice-president Charlotte Wong yesterday explained why the services of Aware centre manager Schutz Lee were terminated on Thursday evening. She said Ms Lee had not been performing her duties well, had disclosed information without authorisation, and had
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      • 919 21 'FEMINIST MENTOR' OR COUP LEADER? SENIOR lawyer Thio Su Mien, 71, revealed on Wednesday that she became disturbed when she noticed what she felt was Aware's promotion of lesbianism and homosexuality. She then began urging women she knew to join Aware and
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 464 23 THE new leaders of Aware came out swinging on Thursday night, detailing their mission and what they stood for. The news conference was spiced with a star turn by Dr Thio Su Mien, a well-known lawyer and sometime academic whom the public now knows as
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    • 955 23 FINANCIAL REGULATION Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam spoke at the Singapore Corporate Awards on Thursday evening. We carry here an edited excerpt of his address. IT IS inevitable that there would be reactions to the global economic
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    • 839 23  -  Robert Skidelsky By ALL epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures the correlation of normally unconnected events that jolt humanity out of a rut. Such conjunctures create what the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swans" unpredictable events with a vast impact. A small number
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    • review.
      • 1178 25  -  Norimitsu Onishi ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN SPORE By DUAL PERSPECTIVE "Here they teach many things other than Islam. So Muslim students will have two understandings: the Muslim and the outside world." Madam Noridah Mahad, 44, a parent with a child in Madrasah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah AFTER
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      • 998 26  -  Andy Ho DAEDALUS By SENIOR WRITER AUSTRALIAN euthanasia outfit Exit International is running a right-to-die workshop here to pass on to locals some swift and painless technologies of death. This promises to reignite the debate that Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan sparked last year
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      • 1002 28  -  Joanne Lee THE DIGERATI DIARIES By STRAITSTIMES.COM EDITOR I READ a book last weekend without touching a single page a single paper page, that is. That's right, I got a Kindle! A Kindle 2 to be precise: Amazon's e-reader device that lets you buy
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      • review insight
        • 1130 30  -  Kor Kian Beng By They started out with the single goal of helping weaker students catch up with their studies. But today, the four ethnic self-help groups do more than that. They help communities in areas such as social assistance, skills training and
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        • 817 30 CDAC Age: Set up in 1992 Size of community: 2.684 million (General Household Survey 2005) Funds: $63.4 million (2007 figures) How to get help: Go to www.cdac.org.sg or contact 6841-4889 GOH CHIM KHIM, deputy executive director, Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) "WE
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        • 702 30 Eurasian Association Age: Founded in 1991. Granted status of a self-help group in 1994 Size of community: 17,000 Funds: $1.7 million (2007 figures) For help: Go to www.eurasians.org or call 6447-1578 EDWARD D'SILVA, president of the Eurasian Association (EA) WE HAVE
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        • 902 32 Mendaki Age: Set up in 1982 Size of community: 484,639 (General Household Survey 2005) Funds: $54.4 million (2007 figures) For help: Visit www.mendaki.org.sg or phone 6245-5710 E-mail, SMS your views ARE the four ethnic self-help groups doing enough to help Singaporeans cope
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        • 844 32 Sinda Age: Set up in 1991 Community size: About 309,265 people (General Household Survey 2005) Funds: $23.8 million (2008 figures) For help: Go to www.sinda.org.sg or call 6298-5911 MANOGARAN SUPPIAH, chief executive of the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) WE KNEW in the second
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    • forum.
      • 400 33 WHEELCHAIR-FRIENDLY SINGAPORE? THANK you for yesterday's article, "Getting around Singapore not easy for the disabled". Due to my mother's heart condition and her physically weakened state, she has to sit on a wheelchair when I take her out. While we count ourselves lucky to have
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      • 103 33 I REFER to yesterday's letter by Mr Teng Nee Peng, "Lifts at every floor a necessity, not luxury", in response to my interview on Wednesday, "Warning: Suicide peak ahead". Please note that I am not against having lifts on every floor. In fact, I am happy the
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      • 175 33 I REFER to Wednesday's letter by Ms Esther Chen, "Ban teen parties? Parents should set rules for kids". I agree with her suggestions to a certain extent. Parents should set rules for their children, but they should not restrain their freedom. I am a teenager
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      • 323 35 Cause for concern "How was this allowed? Did the ministry vet it?" MS NG HSUEH MEI: "I thank Dr Thio Su Mien for her remarks in yesterday's report, 'Lawyer's key role in Aware coup' for informing parents about the old guard's promotion of homosexual issues. This should be
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      • 192 35 THE TUSSLE IN AWARE THE controversy between the old and new leaders of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) is churning out much ill feeling, which does not help matters. Aware is about women. It is about gender equality and non-discrimi-nation. I will
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      • 377 35 I REFER to yesterday's reports about the press conference by the new executive committee (exco) of Aware, "Lawyer's key role in Aware coup", "New exco members tell of death threats", "Long-time member and new exco lock horns" and "Locks at Aware offices changed". My point
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      • 322 35 WRITE IN: LETTERS should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. Please e-mail your letter to stforum@sph.com.sg or fax it to 6319-8289. You may also mail
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      • 321 35 Set up own group "Resign and start an anti-lesbianism group." MR HARVEY NEO: "It is disingenuous for the new exco to accuse the old guard of being a homosexual activist organisation. The body of work done by Aware speaks for itself. Its concerns have always been diverse and
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES HOME.
    • 732 37  -  Jessica Lim Those from China and Taiwan banned due to bird flu, while poultry from the US is costly By GOOSE will disappear from dining tables in Singapore within a few months. Blame the dry-up in supply on bird flu outbreaks in two major
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    • 493 38  -  Zakir Hussain Figure shows S'poreans not bearing brunt of retrenchment By FOUR out of 10 workers laid off last year were foreigners, according to the latest figures from the Manpower Ministry (MOM). The proportion is a 10-year high, and analysts say
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    • 228 38 THERE are still plenty of jobs available in the recession, many of them at the Sentosa integrated resort, said Manpower Minister Gan Kirn Yong. During his first visit to Resorts World at Sentosa yesterday, Mr Gan received an update on the progress of the
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    • 619 38  -  Jeremy Au Yong By NON-RENEWAL "Within the unionised sector, we are seeing a very clear sign. What a growing number of employers are doing as we go through this downturn is to cease the renewal of work permits. They are not laying off
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    • 632 40  -  Melissa Sim Five cases this week involve 800 workers with cancelled permits By THE Manpower Ministry's (MOM) taskforce to detect errant employers early has turned up at least 48 companies since it was set up in January. Five of the companies came to light
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    • 110 40 Accused of rape A MAN was yesterday charged in court with raping a 48-year-old woman in a Holland Drive flat this month. The man, 27, allegedly tied up his victim with masking tape. The case will be heard again on Thursday. If found guilty, he could be jailed
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    • 85 40 IT WAS all hands on deck yesterday morning when two "casualties" of a chemical spill were rescued by fully-suited workers from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. It was all part of a drill called ChemSpill 2009, which simulated the aftermath of a collision between oil and
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    • 449 40  -  Khushwant Singh By HE STARTED off as a guard in 1995 but today Mr Mohamed Saparin Saidi has moved through the ranks to be Sentosa's operations supervisor. While overseeing daily operations and manpower planning, the 33-year-old is also planning the closed-circuit
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    • 502 40  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH List of victims A"g 2°°7 V^^L J Mugen Xie Chun Trading $23,283 $118,955 January 2007 Aug 2007 October 2008 t^MZ Ideal Accommodation King's Creameries $360 00 $48,950 $9,700 March 2007 a October 2 007 March 2008 Globaltromc Precision Ssangyong Engineering Index-Cool Marine $19,500
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    • 307 40  -  K C VIJAYAN MORE people complained against lawyers last year, but nearly half the grouses were found to be groundless after they were probed. There were 89 complaints referred by the Law Society's governing council to the inquiry panel chairman for the 12 months
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    • 389 41  -  Leow Si Wan They will represent Singapore at the world's largest annual science competition in Nevada By FANCY inhaling the gas produced by a nest of maggots instead of taking an antibiotic to fight off a bacterial infection? Three students from Hwa Chong Institution believe
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    • 320 41  -  Goh Yi Han By THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is initiating a new "think-tank" to enhance education and teaching methods at the university. Professor Tan Chor Chuan, the president of NUS, announced the launch of the new Teaching Academy at the University Awards
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    • 261 41  -  Jane Ng By IT WAS their first time taking part in the Singapore Youth Festival's Indian Dance competition but that was no hindrance to the group of all-Chinese students from Hwa Chong Institution. The team of 14 was the only other school to bag
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      • 657 43  -  Yen Feng With help, family has food now and kids go to school By a Money Fund THE STRAITS TIMES Fund-raising events WALK, ACS, WALK A GROUP of Year 5 students from the AngloChinese School (Independent) is organising a charity walk-a-thon to raise money
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      • 55 43 Ben Jerry's cool contest ICE cream chain Ben Jerry's is inviting aspiring flavour-makers to create new flavours in a contest called Do The World A Flavour. Participants may log on to Ben Jerry's website at www.benjerry.com.sg to take part. The winning flavour will be produced and launched globally next year.
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      • 249 43  -  Goh Yi Han By WHEELCHAIR-BOUND Dennis Kweh this week completed a three-day, 200 km, round-island trip in a battery-powered wheelchair for charity. The 47-year-old ended his fund-raising journey on Thursday after six battery changes and nights spent in accommodation provided by his sponsors
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      • 131 43  -  GOH YI HAN THE Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) has received a donation of $50,000 from Indian conglomerate Spice Group. The money was raised through a concert featuring prominent Bollywood stars at the Esplanade Concert Hall in January. Sinda will use the gift to
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      • 73 43 A CHARITY auction of art pieces 13 by professional Singapore artists and five by students will be held today. Organised by a group of students belonging to Raffles Institution's Humanities Initiative, the event will raise funds for the Toa Payoh Care Corner Seniors Activity Centre.
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      • 72 43 HIGH-END home and commercial appliance maker Miele will donate $30 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for each one of a particular model of its vacuum cleaners sold. This is the S 4562 Cat Dog Vacuum Cleaner, the high suction power of
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      • 153 43  -  LIM JUN YI ICE cream lovers who showed up at American ice cream maker Ben Jerry's Free Cone Day last week lapped up 50,340 free scoops. They were also told about Ben Jerry's Values-Led Sourcing (VLS) programme, which underpins the company's philosophy
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      • 105 43 THE National Arts Council will mount two free music performances under its "Arts For All" programme for the public this weekend. One will feature familiar favourites Singapura, Sunny Island and Di Tanjong Katong in jazz arrangements, and the other is a community sing-along of homegrown
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    • 520 44  -  Lee Seok Hwai Discussions held with top US, Chinese schools By SINGAPORE'S trail-blazing plan to bring top Chinese and American universities here to help run the country's new university is nearly complete, says Education Minister Ng Eng Hen. A decision on the partners in
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    • 262 44  -  Yen Feng By TODAY and tomorrow, shoppers at Orchard Road can take a break from bargain hunting to pick up a nugget or two about Buddhism. The annual two-day Vesak programme held at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza is an introduction to the 2,600-year-old
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    • 148 44 THAI Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn yesterday witnessed the signing of an agreement to promote ties between medical institutions in Singapore and Thailand. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the Sirindhorn National Medical Rehabilitation Centre and the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
    • 731 46  -  Hazlin Hassan Malaysia's Islamic political party is winning over non-Muslims who find it principled and sincere By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Mr B. Balendran is just like any other devout Hindu who celebrates Deepavali and does not eat beef. But in his free time, he attends
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      • 562 47  -  Elizabeth Looi Selection includes losers in the party's recent polls and tainted names By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday made several controversial appointments to Umno's powerful Supreme Council, a decision that could weaken Umno's image as a party
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      • 504 47  -  ELIZABETH LOOI KUALA LUMPUR: Former premier Mahathir Mohamad is not about to make a comeback at least not literally. But he has promised to keep voicing his opinions as long as he is capable of doing so, despite some worries that his views may
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      • 56 47 A crane lowering an injured wild elephant calf, which had been knocked down by a train, onto the back of a truck in the Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, on Thursday. The elephant was taken to the state ■znnlnchVal
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      • 695 48  -  Lynn Lee They say their political rivalry will not affect the running of the country By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT GFHGHGFH JAKARTA: A day after news broke that Vice-President Jusuf Kalla would compete against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the July presidential election, Indonesia's top
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      • 387 48  -  Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA: If Vice-President Jusuf Kalla wants the country's No. 1 political position, his best bet is to run with former president Megawati Sukarnoputri. Analyst Sunny Tanuwidjaja from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies told The Straits Times
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      • 742 49  -  Ravi Velloor Islamabad under global pressure to curb influence of militants, who vow total control By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF MARCH CONTINUES "This expansion has taken place over several years in small increments. All along, many of us thought that this was a one-off problem
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      • 529 50 But Pyongyang does not say when, or what charges they will face SEOUL: North Korea said yesterday two detained female American journalists will stand trial for unspecified crimes, a move seen by analysts as pressuring the United States to open direct dialogue.
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      • 492 50 WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has nominated Mr Kurt Campbell (right), an Asia scholar with an extensive resume of work in the region for many government agencies, to be US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Once
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      • 442 51 Beijing wants foreign firms to disclose source code for high-tech goods TOKYO: Japan voiced concern yesterday over a Chinese plan to order certification of high-tech information security products, which could have wide-ranging effects on trade and on foreign manufacturers in China. China
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      • 215 51 BEIJING: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will make an official visit to China next week, Beijing announced yesterday, a day after protesting against an offering given by the Japanese leader to a controversial war shrine. A one-line statement from Foreign Ministry spokesman
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      • 234 51 TAIPEI: Taiwan and China will discuss a partial free trade agreement and sign pacts this weekend to increase economic cooperation, a senior Taiwanese negotiator said yesterday. Envoys will discuss the free trade pact known as the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (Ecfa) when
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      • 801 53  -  Alastair McIndoe Illegal industry thrives amid judicial weaknesses and porous borders By PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT THE market stalls on a usually busy Saturday morning in Makati Cinema Square were empty a sure sign that there had been a tip-off about a raid on this
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      • 658 55  -  Alastair McIndoe FILIPINOS Good pay outweighs risks of being held hostage By PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT Pirate attacks off Somalia have hit seafarers far away in Asia as many sailors come from the Philippines, India and Malaysia. For many, however, the risks come with
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      • 398 55  -  Teo Cheng Wee By REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Pirate attacks off Somalia show no sign of abating despite international warships launching more patrols, according to latest figures released by the International Maritime Bureau (1MB). There were 111 attacks by Somali pirates in the
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      • 155 55  -  P. Jayaram INDIANS By INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Captain Prabhat Kumar Goyal spent 65 harrowing days in the captivity of Somali pirates before the Japanese owners of his ship paid a hefty ransom and he and his crew were released. But the ordeal has
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      • 644 55 MALAYSIANS KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's seafaring community faces a shortage of manpower, and recent reports of hijackings have raised fears that they will deter more Malaysians from taking to the high seas. In the boom years before the economic downturn, Malaysia could not supply enough seafarers
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      • 522 56 Calm returns, but pro-Thaksin group plans one-day rally in Bangkok today BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ended a 12-day state of emergency in Bangkok yesterday and sought to heal deep political rifts in the country. But anti-government "red shirt" leaders plan to hold more protests today.
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      • 490 56  -  Nirmal Ghosh By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Thailand's deepening political conflict is increasingly being shrouded in a fog of propaganda and a focal point of the murky battle is the foreign media. The government has made known its growing frustration with foreign media agencies quoting former
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      • 572 57 They are accused of coercion, assault and defamation SEOUL: South Korean police said yesterday they would charge nine people in the case of TV actress Jang Ja Yeon, who committed suicide after suggesting she had been forced to provide sexual favours to advance
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      • 537 58 COMPETITION KEEN "We're seeing particularly China come in right behind us, because countries get tired of talking to our bureaucracy and decide they're going to cut a deal with someone else." US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (above), on the growing influence of
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      • 232 58 WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama will highlight his sweeping moves to remake US domestic and foreign policy with his third prime-time televised news conference on Wednesday, his 100 th day in office. Mr Obama will command airwaves to mark the
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      • 656 59  -  Bhagyashree Garekar Funding for safety net schemes such as school feeding tripled to $18 billion By US CORRESPONDENT BARE ESSENTIALS "In London, Washington and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia and Latin America, the struggle
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      • 646 62 South Africa ruling party ANC leads in polls count and its leader is confident of victory PRETORIA: South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) yesterday cemented its lead in the parliamentary elections, setting the stage for a Jacob Zuma presidency where he will face
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      • 364 63 Scientists say this may help lower impact of cattle on environment WASHINGTON: Researchers have decoded the genome sequence of cows, which could lead to the production of better-quality milk and beef, and shed new light on bovine and human health. It took 300 scientists
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      • 233 63 PARIS: In a medical first, dialysis patients have been successfully fitted with blood vessels engineered solely from their own living tissue, according to a study published yesterday. The grafts could become a stable solution to a common problem in dialysis treatment, and
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      • 710 64  -  Aaron Low SM Goh is invited to give talks at private institution when it opens By LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE "He said Singapore had done well especially in terms of good governance...He thought Singapore could offer some lessons for good governance and he invited me
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      • 288 64  -  XINHUA OTTAWA: Suffering morning sickness during pregnancy may lead to smarter children, a new study suggests. Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk programme have discovered that nausea and vomiting during pregnancy appears to be linked to enhanced neurodevelopment of the foetus. For
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      • 608 65  -  Abraham Rabinovich President says Cairo will not put up with threats to its national security By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The state-owned Egyptian daily, Al-Gomhouria, called Nasrallah "a monkey sheikh". The newspaper said in its editorial of Nasrallah: "Every Egyptian knows you are an Iranian
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      • 259 65 BAGHDAD: The supposed leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, now said to be in custody, is a figure so shadowy that many, including the US military, have doubted he even exists. "According to our intelligence, he is Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi," Iraqi government spokesman
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    • world people
      • 365 60 ASUNCION: The clamour over Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo's (right) behaviour is getting louder, one crying baby at a time. For the third time in less than a month, a woman has claimed that the former Roman Catholic bishop fathered her child, intensifying a political scandal
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      • 183 60  -  XINHUA BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, an avid reader, has encouraged citizens to read more and be studious and selective in their reading on World Reading Day. He made the remarks when visiting a branch of the Commercial Press and the National Library in Beijing
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      • 428 61 WASHINGTON: First Dog Bo is a "kind of crazy" puppy which likes to chew on people's feet, Mrs Michelle Obama told children visiting the White House this week. The First Lady is spending a lot of time walking and training the six-month-old
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    • world in brief
      • 94 66 BEIJING: Yellow clouds of dust and sand shrouded large parts of north and north-west China yesterday, the state weather bureau reported, snarling traffic and suffocating locals. China Meteorological Administration said on its website that visibility had dropped to less than 100 m in parts of Gansu, Ningxia,
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      • 96 66 LONDON: Britain will give only 4,300 ex-Gurkhas settlement rights, the Home Office said yesterday, falling short of campaigners' demands that they be given to all Nepalese ex-soldiers who retired before 1997. The Home Ministry outlined a string of conditions, one of which must be met to secure
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      • 55 66 JAKARTA: An Islamic extremist accused of killing a Christian professor in 2004 has been arrested in Indonesia. Police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said the suspect, Amirullah, was a member of a terrorist organisation. He allegedly shot dead a professor at Sintuwu Maroso University in Poso, Central Sulawesi,
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      • 117 66 CANBERRA: A class-action claim over the wildfires that ravaged the Kinglake near Melbourne in February could be worth up to US$BOO million (Ssl.2 billion), a barrister at an insurance forum has said. Mr Tim Tobin said the claim against Singapore-owned electricity firm SP AusNet responsible for maintaining
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      • 103 66 LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fallen further behind the opposition Conservatives to trail by 18 percentage points, after his government announced a record budget deficit, an opinion poll showed yesterday. In the poll, Labour slipped four points to 27 per cent, with the Conservatives up
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      • 107 66 It's a riot of pink and white at Hitsujiyama Park in Chichibu city in Saitama prefecture, suburban Tokyo. Some 16,500 sq m of the park's grounds are covered with different varieties of moss pink, a perennial creeper that blooms in late spring and early summer.
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      • 96 66 BEIJING: The wife of prominent Chinese lawyer and activist Gao Zhisheng has appealed to the US Congress to pressure China to disclose her husband's whereabouts since his disappearance in February. Ms Geng He made the appeal in a letter released late on Thursday by the New
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        139 66 Prankster falls for his own joke BLOOMINGTON (Minnesota): Police said a 23-year-old man was in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off. Police received a call this week from a 21-year-old man who said
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES MONEY.
    • 812 67  -  Robin Chan Singapore's strategy to welcome foreign talent and business praised By Agility sets up regional base here LOGISTICS company Agility has established an Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore to boost its presence in the region. The firm will be relocating some of its functions here and
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    • 519 68  -  Jessica Cheam Award will recognise those who contribute to creation of liveable cities By WHAT does it take to become a worldclass city? Innovative planning projects, policies and solutions that display foresight and good governance, it seems. These are the qualities that Singapore
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    • 189 68 HO CHI MINH CITY: Singapore's property market is still "pretty weak" and the Government will not lift its suspension on land sales to developers until at least June, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. The city-state said last October that it will suspend its
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    • 107 69 Despite the recession, Sentosa Cove is fast taking shape as a prime residential haven. Building at the 117 ha site is on schedule, although some developers have asked for extensions. A 12-month extension has been granted to one developer. By the end of the year,
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    • 362 69  -  Dennis Chan Firm posts letter written by independent director to board after being ordered to do so By DEPUTY MONEY EDITOR THE managing director of Kian Ho Bearings has defended a decision to drop independent director Tan Lye Huat from the board
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    • 537 70 Nine members have taken steps on protectionism or are mulling idea: Zoellick WASHINGTON: World Bank president Robert Zoellick says nearly half of the Group of 20 (G-20) nations are considering or have taken measures to restrict trade in the face of
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    • 321 70 DETROIT: The United States government has directed carmaker Chrysler to prepare a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as soon as next week, sources with direct knowledge of the talks said on Thursday. The company faces a deadline of April 30 to come up with
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    • 353 70 SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China revealed yesterday that it had secretly raised its gold reserves by three-quarters since 2003, increasing its holdings to 1,054 tonnes and confirming years of speculation that it had been buying. Ms Hu Xiaolian, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange,
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    • money companies
      • 341 71 PROPERTY firm Capita Land yesterday unveiled a sharp dive in its first-quarter earnings and offered little hope for a rapid turnaround given current market conditions. It said net profit fell 82.7 per cent to $42.9 million for the three months ended March 31,
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      • 581 71  -  Gabriel Chen Higher ridership and savings from the Jobs Credit scheme helped increase earnings By HIGHER train and bus ridership drove full-year profits higher at public transport provider SMRT. Earnings rose 8.5 per cent to $162.7 million for the 12 months to March 31 while
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      • 231 71  -  YANG HUIWEN KEPPEL Land announced a cash call yesterday to raise $712.3 million to bolster its capital base and prime its war chest so it can swoop on any acquisition opportunities. The property developer about 53 per cent owned by conglomerate Keppel Corp will offer shareholders
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    • money markets
      • 540 72  -  Yang Huiwen BULLS AND BEARS Caution ahead of key Ql corporate results sees investors taking profit By THE remarkable recent local market rally seemed to run out of steam this week, with the benchmark index ending yesterday and the week in the red. The Straits
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      • 431 72  -  Chua Hian Hou By LOCAL chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is losing money again but signs of a turnaround are starting to emerge, including a surprise rebound in customer demand. Chartered, the world's No. 3 chipmaker, yesterday posted smaller losses than expected in
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      • MARKET SUMMARY
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          87 72 dfgdfgfdgdg Mid Cap 384.85 -0.14 Basic materials 189.87 2.36 Utilities 296.65 -1.08 Small Cap 315.51 2.37 Industrials 406.71 T -0.04 Financials 439.50 T -2.68 All Share 444.84 T -1.27 Consumer goods 451.17 2.26 Technology 412.17 -1.14 Fledgling 420.07 7.32 Health care 403.12 -1.32 Real estate 373.26 T -2.25 China
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        • 219 72 Yesterday's close: 8,707.99 (-139.02) »Japanese shares dropped 1.57 per cent, depressed by worries about weak corporate earnings anc' 'ne woes US automakers Chrysler and General Motors. J J^| Yesterday's close: 992-68 (+14.04) Malaysian shares closed up 1.4 per cent due to strong buying interest. Gainers outnumbered decliners by 594
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        • SINGAPORE STOCKS
          • 367 72 GLD 10US$ 8962 268.6 DBXT Nifty 10US$ 6962 259.6 IMH 2090 128.3 OCBCCap 5.1%NCPS 100 .8850 50.0 LyxorHS India 100S$ 888 28.4 Lyxor China H 100S$ 1176 26.9 Lyxor India Nifty 10 1040 25.0 DairyFarm 486 22.4 CIMBAsean40 1000S$ 543 13.4 WBL Corp 350 13.0 HKLand 251
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          • 384 72 JBS.ES.0004 913 !GX BNP eCW*****7 76 (epCorp RB ePW*****6 ...79.5 CityDey.ES.0004 583 5GX.ES.0004 596 JCBC Bk BNPeCW*****0 28 )BS DB eCW*****0 29 JCBC Bk.ES.0904 546 CapitalanBNPePW***** 16.5 (epCorp HBLePW*****2 ...33.5 !GXBNPeCW*****3 36 !GX DB eCW*****7 34 CapitalanBNPePW***** 10.5 CapitalanMBLePW***** 24.5 !GX DB eCW*****8 51.5 ;GXHBLeCW*****1 40 CapitalandDBePW*****
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        • 104 72 runLiun LiunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY ftpr 24 2009 Buying Selling dust dollar 1.0560 1.0880 Can dollar 1.2140 1.2290 Euro 1.9540 1.9770 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4157 0.4166 NZ dollar 0.8330 0.8510 Sterling pound 2.1840 2.2100 US dollar 1.4890 1.5070 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF
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        • 384 72 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 594.8 306.1 1280 183 370 1792.9 503 67.5 105.8 501 3580 1920 1834 1250 416 270 909 319 1634 962 438 201 450 346 501 473 394 309 2170 170 5606 CapitaLand 93.5 5417
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        • 639 72 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 133 132 272 157 78.5 208 243 165 65 75 190 199 314 129 138 303 765 334 372 287 170 619 565 226 87 206 90 108.3 115 36.5 327.1 147 138
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        • 197 72 T TIVfTT TRT ICTtI T ART F A PPF AR<s ON MONT* A Y<s UINII lIVU^I^ 1 ADLiE, /-VrrCii-Vn.^ \JL\ i\l\Jl\Ul\ 1 By Volume CENTS Vol Golden Agri Chart SemiCond SusGroup China Hongxing IndoAgri KencanaAgri CapitaLand RafflesEdu Gent Intl Penguin SingTel Biosensors Cosco Corp SscendaslndT Ban Joo
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  • Page 67 Miscellaneous
    • 110 67 Wm WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, YOUR SAY AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COin come? Discuss at www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE One man, 152 board seats: Investors OVERCOMING THE STORM WITH CONFIDENCE ask: Can he cope? Log on to www.straitstimes.com for Citi returns to profit in 2009. this special section, dedicated to helping local SMEs
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  • OBITUARIES
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      128 73 ONG KIM ENG Age: 79 Passed away peacefully on 23 April 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Wife: Kwek Pheng Hwa Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ong Tong Hwee Seah Hak Chuan Ong Tiong Khoon Loh Say Lee Daughters: Sons-in-law: Ong Bee Hoon Gracie Liew Khien Yoon Ong Mci Ti
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      78 73 KWOK YOKE KUEN Age: 57 passed away peacefully on 24 April 2009, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Husband: Loke Poh Keong Mother-in-law: Leong Mvi Heng Son: Loke Yeng Fai Daughters: Son-in-law: Serena Loke Yum Yee Josephine Loke Yum Ching Hiap Woon Kwong all relatives and friends Wake
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      105 73 We, the family of the late QUEK SWEE LAY PBM Departed on 18 April 2009 Wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Ministers, Members of Parliament, Eunos Grassroot Leaders, Aljunied Town Council, Lions Club of Singapore Eunos, Eunos CC Women's Executive Committee, Eunos Zone 7' Resident Committee, Singapore
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      23 73 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late MDM KWOK YOKE KUEN From: Management and Staff Ministry of Defence
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      51 73 The family of the late MDM CHEONG AH JEOK Departed on 19 April 2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, business associates and colleagues for their attendance, condolences, prayers, donations, wreaths, scrolls and kind assistance during their recent bereavement. Words cannot adequately express our sincere
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      205 73 '■P^V~ "The grace of our Lord was poured out on "^"H iL me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 1:14 MARGARET KOH HOOD CHOO Age: 84 years was called home to be with the Lord on 23 April 2009 Dearly missed and
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      97 73 NG KIAT TIN Age: 81 passed away peacefully on 24 April 2009 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Ang Ching Lan Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ng Soon Guan, Jason Gan Chai Mm, Irene Ng soon Hin, Jimmy Lee Beng Guat, Mary Ng Soon Hock Ng Soon Yong, Kenneth Daughters: Sons-in-law: Ng Mvi Kwee
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      39 73 In Loving Memory of Peter Fong Soo Yee Departed on 25/4/08 on the First Anniversary of his passing Dearly Missed, Always Treasured and Forever Remembered by All His Family 'And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest' tei
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      70 73 Ist Anniversary MDM YVARANI Departed: 6/5/2008 Months and year may pass Remembering you is easy, its the heartbreak of missing you that never go away. Deeply missed by: Parents, Grandparents, Children, Siblings, Relatives and Friends. Thevasam prayers will be held on 25/04/09 from 11am to 12.30pm at Blk 90 Redhill
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      195 73 U Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life. a He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies. I And whoever lives and believes in Me will never die." John 11:25, 26 LIM POH CHENG MARIA Age: 76 was called home to be with the Lord
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      56 73 ATHMASHANTHI POOJA KANNIAMAH nee HARI RAM SINGH Departed on 11-4-09 Sadly missed by Sons, Daughters, Sons-in-law, Daughters-in-law, Grandchildren all loved ones. KARUMATHI PRAYERS Held on 25-4-09, night at BLK 252, HOUGANG AYE 3, #02-336 Tel: *****521 (Babu) ATHMA SHANTHI POOJA Held on 26-4-09,7pm at Sri Sivan Temple, Geylang East Please
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      33 73 In Everloving lemory of Our Dem Visalatchi Shanmugam nee Raghavan Departed 25/4/1978 Though 31 years have lassed, happy memories of you always remain deep in our hearts Sadly missed by daughter loved ones
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      94 73 KONG WING HING Age: 83 passed away peacefully on 23 April 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Wife: Ng ChoyYong, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Kong Fook Kun Desmond Connie Tan Kong Fook Seng Manfred Vikki Tan Kong Fook Sun Kris Yvonne Teh Kong Fook Hoong David Daughter: Kong
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      89 73 ATHMASHANTI POOJA RETNASAMY RAJAMANI (Anthony Road Baby) Departed on 11 April 2009 (Wife of the late S. Rajamanickam) Age: 88 The family of the late Mdm Retnasamy Rajamani wish to thank all relatives and friends for their condolences, kind assistance, donations and wreaths during our recent bereavements. Karumathi Prayers will
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      164 74 Wm In Ever Loving Memory of mm Our Sweetheart, Our Beloved Daughter AMANDA YEO SHU TING 10 August 1982 25 April 2002 7th Anniversary Dearest Amanda, God is the King who prepares the mansion and invites his subjects to come in. My dear, you have accepted His invitation seven years
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      103 74 The Family of the Late Dr Lim Jen Pei Departed on 18 April 2009 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, colleagues and friends for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. We also wish to thank you for the friendship and
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      137 74 CHUA HWA LEONG HWA LEE Age: 67 passed away peacefully on 23 April 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Father: Chua Tiou Hoe (Deceased) Mother: Quek Hwee Lan Wife: Tan Chek Kheng Daughter: Chua Yen Nic (King Ming) Godson: Shawn Chua Brothers: Sisters-in-law: Chua Wah Guan Lek Siu Eng, Darrell Chua
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      143 74 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 JOHN DORAI RAJ Age: 78 "A wonderful husband, loving father and Opa." passed away peacefully on 23 April 2009. Beloved Wife: Edna Children: Spouses: Sharad Paul Mary Anne Diren Martina Monisha
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      179 74 "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 TING PEAM Age: 93 was called home to be with the Lord on 24 April 2009 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Chee Heng Chin, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chee Kok Kee Roland
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    • 181 74 Acceptance of Obituaries News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North Mondays Saturdays 8.30 am to 9.45pm Sundays 6 Public Holidays 12.30pm to 9.45pm Only death announcements con be accepted after office hours' To help us process your announcement quickly, please bring along the following: Original Death Certificate Identity Card of person
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  • Page 75 Miscellaneous
    • 454 75 Today Basketball Tomorrow NBA Athletics Play-off M^k T*, London Marathon (Live, Chll3, 3.45pm). s Ist rd, Wfr X; Game 3: Duathlon Cleveland v >w smP/^^M Raw Duathlon (Changi Coastal Road, 7.30 am). Detroit (Live, f W Ch23,7am). Cricket Jr-~ J IPL: Bangalore v Delhi (6.30pm), Punjab v Cricket 14 Rajasthan
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    • 366 82 He will keep Berbatov, who looks lazy, and let the energetic Tevez go Who's better? Minutes per goal Berbatov 273. Tevez 530. Shooting accuracy Berbatov 53.9%. Tevez 43.6%. Minutes per chance created Berbatov 39. Tevez 57. LONDON: One is the languid son of communist Bulgaria and the other
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    • 215 74 MONTPELLIER: France's Alain Bernard set a new world record for the 100 metres freestyle when he clocked 46.94 seconds in the semi-finals of the French swimming championships on Thursday. The Olympic champion became the first man to break the 47-second barrier for the blue-riband event,
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    • 635 74 BREAK YOUR LEGS "How much are those legs worth? We're going to break your legs." What an older boy allegedly told Tom Daley after cornering him British diver Tom Daley, 14, complains of bullying by fellow-students LONDON: Tom Daley takes absolutely no nonsense from the world's
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      • 109 74 BEIJING: China will return a world football title one of its high school girls' teams won, after the school's principal admitted that the team had been stacked illegally with national players. "What we have done goes against sportsmanship and has undermined the image of our city
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      • 99 74 WEST PALM BEACH (Florida): A Florida pharmacy has admitted that it had incorrectly mixed a medication given to the 21 polo horses that died at the US Open Polo Championship last Sunday, even as state and federal authorities waited for the results of a toxicology test
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      • 55 74 SACRAMENTO: The Sacramento Kings have fired coach Kenny Natt after the National Basketball Association team's worst season. The Kings finished this season with a 17-65 record. Natt, who had an 11-47 record, was named head coach in December after previous coach Reggie Theus was fired for
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      • 57 74 JEJU ISLAND (South Korea): Singapore golfer Mardan Mamat fired a two-under 70 in the second round of the Ballantine's Championship yesterday. His total of 139 puts him four strokes behind the leader, Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen, who shot a 69. Singapore's other representative, Lam Chih Bing
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    • 606 75  -  Jeanette Wang FITNESS Pelvic floor muscles are vital for athletes and health, yet overlooked By Pelvic floor exercises 1 Lie on your back. Contract your pelvic floor muscles for three seconds, then relax the muscles for three seconds. Repeat 10-15 times. Do this several times a day. It
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    • 198 75 POOR batting let Singapore down as they lost to Hong Kong by four wickets in their second Group A Asian Cricket Council Under-19 match in Kuwait on Thursday. The defeat, coming after Wednesday's opening-game loss to Malaysia, puts paid to any
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    • 281 75  -  Grace Chan NEW IN THE SHOP By I AM always seeking new heights in extreme sports such as windsurfing, triathlons and adventure racing and the Suunto t6c suits my needs well. When traversing mountainous terrain during adventure races, its built-in altimeter tells me how
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    • 148 75 SINGAPORE football international Baihakki Khaizan (right) and his wife, Suria artiste Norfasarie, welcomed their first child, Mika Bazil, at Thomson Medical Centre yesterday. The baby weighed in at a healthy 3.5 kg, prompting proud father Baihakki, who is also the captain of
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    • 406 75 Basketball NBA Play-offs Ist rd Eastern: Boston 107 Chicago 86 (Boston lead best-of-seven series 2-1). Western: Dallas 88 San Antonio 67 (Dallas lead series 2-1), Utah 88 Los Angeles 86 (LA lead series 2-1). Cricket Indian Premier League In Durban: Delhi 189-5 in 20 overs (AB de Villiers 105
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    • 706 76  -  Utah Jazz Off-form Bryant's team blow lead against Utah by slacking in 4th quarter 88 Los Angeles Lakers 86 "We're back in the series." CARLOS BOOZER, Utah Jazz SALT LAKE CITY: Two games into the National Basketball Association post-sea-son, we learnt that the Los Angeles Lakers could be
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    • 254 76  -  Jonathan Wong By GARY Neville once likened the Real Madrid side of 2003, who featured the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo and Ronaldo (the Brazilian, not Manchester United's preening Portuguese), to the Harlem Globetrotters. This, after United were torn apart 1-3 in the
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    • 540 77  -  Leonard Lim Hotel replaces Downtown East after feedback from foreign chefs de mission By ATHLETES at the inaugural Asian Youth Games (AYG) will be living the high life in a five-star hotel when they are not on the playing fields and courts. Organisers of the
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    • 375 77  -  May Chen SPORT IN SCHOOLS By LONG-SUFFERING St Joseph's Institution finally broke a 17-year barren spell in sailing when they won the Schools National B Boys' title yesterday. Since 1992, the competition has been dominated by Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Raffles Institution, while the SJI
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    • 348 77 LAST year, Amanda Lim broke two meet records the B Girls' 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the Schools National Swimming Championships. This year, she did it again, though not in the same events. She did it in the sprints.
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    • 406 77  -  Jonathan Wong By SINGAPORE will square off against Asia's elite today when they kick off their HSBC Asian Five Nations rugby campaign against South Korea. The other teams in the month-long event are defending champions Japan, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan. Singapore
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    • 356 78 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX SAKHIR (Bahrain): Williams' Nico Rosberg again proved himself the star of Formula One practice sessions by setting the fastest time britainyesterday ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. For the seventh time in 11 practice sessions this season, the German topped the time-sheets
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    • 560 78 Whitmarsh admits charges in lie-gate' affair to FIA president Mosley MANAMA (Bahrain): McLaren-Mercedes, who are facing possible expulsion from the Formula One season and even the prospect of financial meltdown, have admitted the "Lie-gate" charges against them. In an unprecedented move, team principal Martin Whitmarsh has written a
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    • 751 78  -  Steve Slater DRIVER'SSEAT By What Hamilton, arguably at the behest of Dave Ryan did, is unacceptable. It is simply called cheating. AS THE dust flies in Bahrain, McLaren are aiming for a big improvement in form. Both Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen believe that further aerodynamic
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    • 166 78 THE $168 three-day early-bird walkabout tickets for this year's Formula One Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix are sold out, just four days after going on general sale. Walkabout tickets allow fans to view the action from different parts of the circuit, compared
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    • 719 79  -  Wang Meng Meng Lions' skipper enrols in Sports and Wellness Management course By "It's high time that I started planning ahead for life after football." INDRA SAHDAN, 30, national captain FOR awhile, Tracy Wong did not know what the commotion was about. The Nanyang Polytechnic student
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    • 128 79 THE Football Association of Singapore awards study grants to Lions who have a minimum of 25 international caps. The grants can be used for courses at FAS-approved educational institutions for the players to further their studies. The grant is awarded incrementally for Lions with
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    • 94 79 Balestier Khalsa 1 Gombak United 4 GOMBAK United went joint-top of the S-League after a 4-1 thrashing of Balestier Khalsa at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Nigerian footballer Gabriel Obatola netted a hat-trick with a diving header in the 12th minute, a tap-in two minutes later and
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    • 855 80  -  Rob Hughes INGOOD CONSCIENCE By WHEN things get personal in Asian football, the top man threatens to cut down his rival, limb by limb and then at the neck. Mohamed Hammam, Asia's regional overlord, now asks where is the sense of humour?
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    • 560 80 REUTERS "We played Tuesday at Liverpool and then we play Sunday again, and nobody knows why we do not play on Saturday." ARSENE WENGER, unhappy that his team have to play Middlesbrough tomorrow instead of today Wenger unhappy with playing Boro tomorrow, with Man Utd tie ahead
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    • 440 80 "I have simple demands to be on time for training and give 100 per cent. If they do that, they'll enjoy working for me. If they don't, it'll be a very brief relationship." ROY KEANE LONDON: Roy Keane, the new Ipswich manager, has demonstrated
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    • 626 80 MADRID: It is crunch time in the Primera Liga. Barcelona have a six-point lead over Real Madrid and the two giants of Spanish football clash next weekend in the "El Clasico" at the Santiago Bernabeu. By which time, Real
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    • 876 81 English Premier League Today Bolton Wanderers v Aston Villa Live, Ch2l, 10pm Everton v Manchester City Fulham v Stoke City Hull City v Liverpool Live, Ch22, 10pm West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland West Ham United v Chelsea Live, Ch27, 10pm Manchester United v Tottenham Live, Ch27,
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    • 622 81 "Ferguson has been accustomed to playing these types of mind games for many years. Nobody has ever said anything against him, or stood up to him. It seems like he has a licence to do these sorts of things." RAFAEL BENITEZ
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    • 324 81 LONDON: Amid the disappointment at failing to return the English Premier League football title to Stamford Bridge for the third consecutive year, Chelsea might also feel a twinge of relief as they limber up for the season's final weeks. During their pursuit of leaders Manchester
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    • 259 81 LONDON: Michael Owen remains confident he can score the goals which will rescue Newcastle's season. The 29-year-old has not scored since Jan 10 and, while an ankle injury means his barren run extends to only eight games, his return to top form cannot
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    • 327 81 LONDON: Jose Mourinho believes Chelsea can see off Barcelona for a place in the Champions League final because there is "talent and passion" at his former club. And despite admitting there is no "magic formula", he has pinpointed the duels which the Blues will have to
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY.
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      • 2197 84  -  Shefali Rekhi I By ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR Raymond Ton, 34 Previous Job: Senior technology analyst, Goldman Sachs, London Current Job: Vice-president, IT infrastructure, Credit Suisse, Singapore The Change: Nearly 14 years ago, Mr Toh left to study Mechanical Engineering in Manchester. y^ He
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        • 209 85 Darren Joe, 28 Previous Job: Analyst, Global Academic and Customer Relations, Elsevier, New York Current Job: Manager, Marketing and Admissions, MBA Programme, Singapore Management University, Singapore The Change: The Princeton University graduate, whose parents migrated from China to the United States before he was born,
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        • 500 85  -  SHEFALI REKHI KORN/FERRY International's office in Singapore is used to getting surprise visitors. After all, it is one of the top executive recruiting firms in the world. But when the chief executive of a Brit-ish-based mortgage company that had been in the news turned up,
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      • 1391 86  -  Tracy Quek THE CHINA STORY After years abroad, China's best and brightest are drawn to opportunities at home By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: Mr Zhang Xiaodong remembers the shopping trip in New York that made him see his homeland, China, in a new and different
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      • 255 86 Rachel Wang, 28 Previous job: Lawyer's assistant in a big law firm in Toronto, Canada Current job: Account director at Beijing-based advertising firm, Enfatico The change: The Beijing native left China in i 1999 to study economics at the University PUflMftjn^N. °f Western Ontario, Canada. She
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      • 238 86 Joseph Chang, 36 Previous job: Deloitte Corporate Finance, senior vice-president, Los Angeles Current job: Head of Beijing office, Asia-Pacific investment banking, at Houlihan Lokey The change: After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with an economics degree in 1995, Mr Chang joined investment banking
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      • 1171 87  -  Shefali Rekhi THE INDIA STORY Thousands of Indian expats are returning and recasting India's image By ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR TENS of thousands of Indian expatriates have in recent years left behind their lives in the West to return to India. Their expertise and enterprise
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      • 546 88  -  Shefali Rekhi Silicon Valley the main draw, says Gallup CEO By ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR THE United States may be battered by a debilitating downturn and abandoned by droves of Asians headed home, but it will continue to be a magnet for the world's top
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      • 503 88 GENIUSES THRIVE IN CLUSTERS "If you look at the creation of the Internet, there are quite a few people who can honestly claim to be the father of the Internet. "But it's because each one of us can get something done. Like if I had to figure
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      • 630 90 Fifty-four projects have been awarded $36 million for biomedical research in areas ranging from diabetes to cancer. Liaw Wy-Cin highlights some of the work, which is funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). SINGAPORE scientists have joined the global race to
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      • 341 90 THE race is on to develop a drug based on a natural cancer buster in the body. And a group of Singapore scientists has just been given some firepower to do so. Dr Koichi Okumura from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, which comes
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      • 410 90 MORE tuberculosis (TB) patients are growing resistant to a key TB drug. Yet, many of them are not displaying the gene mutations commonly linked to drug resistance, so doctors do not know they have a more virulent strain of the bug until they see that
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      • 302 90 CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING drugs could one day be used as the next cancer buster, and scientists here are studying just how these drugs, known as statins, work. Professor Shazib Pervaiz, from the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, has just won a grant
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      • 797 91  -  Liaw Wy-Cin Narrow blood vessels in retina could be a sign of kidney failure By THE eyes can be a window to a person's health. Eye specialist Wong Tien Yin has found that the blood vessels in the retina the light-sensitive tissue at the
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      • 517 91 SINGAPORE'S national eye research centre wants to expand so that it can increase its number of researchers and bring its 130 staff now scattered in five locations under one roof. To do so, the Singapore Eye Research Institute (Seri) will need up to
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES Life!
    • 1016 94  -  wong ah yoke Gourmets relish the feast presented by four famous chefs from Spain The first week of this year's World Gourmet Summit, which opened on Sunday, has been mostly a Spanish affair. That is because four Spanish chefs are in town to cook up
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    • 582 95  -  huang lijie Yoshio Nogawa, who has trained many Japanese chefs here, will open a sushi eatery in Ginza area 'Some of them are so expensive and the chefs no talk, no smile, but still customers go. So sure I can win them with my jokes,
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      808 96  -  boon chan Actor Peter Fonda talks about filling the big shoes left by his father media correspondent Four decades after it was first screened, audiences still associate Easy Rider (1969) with actor Peter Fonda. Looking relaxed in a Hawaiian print shirt and sporting the obligatory celebrity shades
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    • 402 96  -  tara tan ffWEW theatre MEMBERS ONLY DBS Arts Centre, Wednesday MEMBERS ONLY When: Today, 4 Bpm Where: DBS Arts Centre Tickets: $40 to $55 from Sistic (log on to www.sistic.com.sg or call 6348-5555) French playwright Fabrice Roger-Lacan dissects the intricacies of friendship in this brooding dark
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    • 439 97  -  frankie chee Three-hall cinema will show multilingual films later this year It was a skating rink, a church and, most recently, a nightclub. But the old Rex Cinema will soon go back to its beginnings as a movie theatre. The entertainment venue in Mackenzie Road is
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      • 310 97 I refer to the story Speak Mandarin Ads Criticised (Life!, April 18). I have noticed that many advertisements here feature Caucasians rather than Singaporeans. These foreigners do not reflect Singapore. Singapore is so Westernised that even MediaCorp actors try to talk with an
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      • 52 97 I refer to the story Family Ad Sparks Online Debate (Life!, April 20). I think that the advertisement was very well done. The cast did a good job and the quality of the production was very good. It is a pity that some Singaporeans missed its message.
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    • 979 98  -  neil humphreys neil's world 2J 'You had to lose your mind every day you're on set and sometimes you didn't have enough time to get your mind back before the weekend' Actor Jamie Foxx (right) on the extremes he went to for his mentally ill
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      • 649 99  -  Christopher tan The 1.6-litre ClBO is Mercedes' smallest and possibly sweetest sedan senior correspondent MERCEDES-BENZ ClBO KOMPRESSOR BLUE EFFICIENCY Price: $138,888 with COE Engine: 1,597 cc 16-valve inline-4 Transmission: Five-speed automatic with quick shift Power: 156bhp at 5,200rpm Torque: 230Nm at 3,ooorpm 0-100kmh: 9.9 seconds Top speed: 223kmh
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      • 86 99 The turn signals on my 2003 car sometimes do not work properly. They blink a couple of times before stopping. What could be the problem? The flasher module of the car's signalling lights may be failing. A second possibility is the signal switch's contact points may be pitted.
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      • 503 100  -  lee nian tjoe i ne berman carmaKer finally unveils the Panamera at the Shanghai Auto Show in shanghai, china Porsche launched the Panamera on the 94th floor of the Shanghai Financial Centre. How they managed to haul a sm-long car that weighs 2 tonnes
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      • 141 100 Mercedes-Benz's new T7 1 *11 X fk punches in its detailed report on Singapore's favourite status symbol. SUVs for the city slicker: an oxymoron turned into a fine art. This month's group test not in time for the May issue but stay tuned.) Also, a
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        • 106 100  -  Christopher tan Here is a cool idea to launch a car: Build a 400 sq m floating exhibition platform in the shape of an iceberg. Audi has done exactly that for its new Q5 SUV (above). The exercise is rather extravagant. Audi is said to
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          85 100 Rolls-Royce Momodel Ghost (right). Up till recently, the so- 1 called "Baby Roller" has been known by its RR4 codename. The Ghost is a 6.6-litre turbo sports sedan which should arrive here in February next year. It is expected to be priced between $1 million and $1.2 million.
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        • 69 100 Jaguar will unveil an all-new XJ in July. The latest flagship, which could arrive in Singapore as early as year-end, will feature the next generation of Jaguar's aluminium body architecture. It will have new and more efficient engines, including a V 6 diesel and
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        • 46 100 Volkswagen will field two compressed natural gas-powered Sciroccos at the 24-Hour Race on Germany's Nurburgring next mO nth. The use of CNG for this endurance race is f^ZoT'o^XlnT^ 11U111 pUUlcl UU.ipU.l d-IIU Idllgc. 1116 GllglllG IS mStGQ tO 9. SIX~SpGGQ IJovj
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      • 322 101  -  tay suan chiang 28-storey Straits Trading Building has unusual trapezoidal shape When the flagship building of the Straits < Trading Company is completed in Novem- 1 ber, it will be the on- j ly new office building in Raffles Place this year. The 28-storey Straits Trading
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      • 1013 103  -  tay suan chiang Walk-in wardrobes are increasingly a must-have for HDB home owners Once, it was bathroom envy. Then, it became kitchen envy. Now, the latest trend making home-buyers go the colour of poison ivy is: walk-in wardrobe envy. Walk-in wardrobes with their expansive storage for shoes,
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      • 640 105  -  andrew tan A handy new book distils NParks' know-how in plants for hot spots such as roof gardens urban jungle Of late there have been many reports in this paper of gardens growing skywards, such as on balconies, walls and rooftops, as the demands of a
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      • 139 106 A table made of leather scraps, a waterproof sofa and a cheeky chair that takes the shape of your butt. From the utilitarian to the eco-friendly and zany, this year's 48th Milan International Furniture Fair has something for everyone looking to spruce up their homes. Six
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        92 106 It looks like an airplane seat. The new massage chair from Osim promises to lull you to sleep. The brainchild of award-winning Japanese designer Toshiyuki Kita, the uDream offers a two-in-one roller and air-system massage for the combination of a firm and gentle rub. It is supposedly a
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    • 413 109  -  sherwin loh More exhibitors at Toy, Games and Comic Convention There will be more to see at the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention in August. The organisers are doubling the floor area for this year's show to 6,110 sq m and extending it to three days
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    • 289 109 Hong Kong Hong Kong architect Gary Chang (above), 46, has only 32 sq m of floor space in the flat he has occupied since he was 14. But he has squeezed 24 rooms, including a steam room and home cinema, into it. He replaced the
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      • 163 111 The highly anticipated film X-Men Origins: Wolverine is coming to a screen near you next Wednesday. But not to The Cathay or Orchard Cineleisure, two of the most popular cineplexes in Singapore. Sources close to distributor 20th Century Fox confirmed that the film will not be shown
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