The Straits Times, 8 May 2009

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    20 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 FRIDAY, MAY 8 2009 S|Si A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    Lock icon MAS SELAMAT CAPTURED
    1353 1  -  Leslie Lopez Fugitive who escaped from Whitley detention centre last year is trackec down and captured in Johor after tip-off from Singapore; he is being held for interrogation by Malaysia By SENIOR REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT Singapore role in arrest PAGE 2: "That the Singapore and Malaysian security agencies
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  • prime commentary
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      Lock icon Mas Selamat's rearrest a lesson in patience and persistence
      957 2  -  Zuraidah Ibrahim After dismay over his escape, ties between regional agencies pay c By ASSOCIATE EDITOR TO THE paranoid, the Internal Security Department, or the ISD, is omnipresent. To many others, it is an organisation to be feared, respected and admired
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    • VIEWPOINTS
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        Lock icon Don't make sex education a casualty
        100 2 WE SAY The Education Ministry did right to review the content and process of externally generated sex education programmes, just to reassure alarmed parents. But suspension is not the same thing as rejection. It is hoped the ministry will continue to draw on the
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        Lock icon The 'new normal'
        34 2 COLUMNS When the worst of the current economic crisis is over, the world will have to reorient itself to the "new normal" lower average growth, says Kenneth Rogoff. REVIEW PAGE AlB
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        Lock icon Embracing old and new
        33 2 These days, it is worth remembering that the interplay between traditional and new media can be a source of strength for both, says Hong Xinyi. INSIGHT PAGE A 23
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        Lock icon Tackling flu better
        26 2 OUR READER SAYS Singapore should adopt an all-or-nothing strategy to fight the Influenza A virus, writes Lee Wei Ling. FORUM PAGE A 24
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        20 2 www.straitstimes.com Sherwin Loh starts to rethink his mobile phone needs while at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando.
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  • prime news
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      Lock icon Living life on the run
      1208 4  -  Leslie Koh Mas Selamat's life in last eight years marked by escape and evasion By April 2002: Singaporeans hear of Mas Selamat Kastari for the first time, when then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong reveals the JI chief's involvement in the Changi Airport attack plot. Mas
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      Lock icon Gas blasts rock Marina Bay area
      308 6  -  Carolyn Quek Teh Joo Lin By SEVERAL explosions rocked the Marina Bay area yesterday afternoon, sending a column of fire and thick black smoke billowing from the site. The blasts worried office workers and pas-sers-by, many of whom called The Straits Times. The explosions
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      Lock icon Stress over for 19 top US banks
      812 6 The top 19* NEED MORE CAPITAL Bank of America: US$34 billion (Ssso billion) Wells Fargo: US$l5 billion GMAC: US$ll.5 billion Citigroup: US$5 billion Morgan Stanley: US$l billion to US$2 billion NO NEW CAPITAL NEEDED Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase American Express Bank of New
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      Lock icon Bolt from the blue
      122 8 LIGHTNING raged over the western part of Singapore early yesterday morning, in this picture taken from the 16th floor of a Jurong East apartment block. According to the National Environment Agency website, April, May and November have the highest number of days when thunder is heard
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      Lock icon Tycoon's second marriage valid
      539 8  -  K.C. Vijayan Ruling entitles second wife to share of estate By LAW CORRESPONDENT JUST before his wife died from a terminal illness in 1994, the founder of the Singapore Crocodile Farm, Mr Tan Gna Chua, tracked down his former mistress and the son she bore him.
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      Lock icon Perak lawmakers come to blows over Speaker's seat
      698 10  -  Carolyn Hong Barisan Nasional wins control after 5-hour State Assembly brawl By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF IPOH: Chaos reigned in the Perak State Assembly yesterday as assemblymen from opposing sides scuffled, wrestled and screamed at one another to wrest control of the legislature.
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  • prime flu outbreak
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      Lock icon Three more tested for new strain of flu virus
      468 12  -  Lee Hui Chieh 29 others cleared, but a S'porean whc returns from Mexico is quarantined By THREE more people were screened for the new flu strain yesterday, and one more traveller was quarantined. The developments came even as the Health Ministry
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      Lock icon Mexico goes back to business
      339 12 MEXICO CITY: Mexicans resumed normal life yesterday after a five-day business shutdown because of the HINI flu virus and China began easing quarantine measures, even as the disease spread in Europe. Mexico raised its confirmed death toll from the HINI flu outbreak to 44 from
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      Lock icon Asian health officials meet to map response to flu threat
      533 13  -  Nirmal Ghosh Ramping up production of vaccines and antiviral drugs on the cards By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Asian health officials met yesterday in Bangkok to map a response to the Influenza A (H1N1), as a top United Nations health official
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      Lock icon More young people falling victim to the disease
      379 13 ATLANTA: People being admitted to hospital with Influenza A (H1N1) in the United States are turning out to be younger than is typical for regular flu, although it is unclear why. In Mexico, where the epidemic is believed to have started in
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; BLOOMBERG; NEW YORK TIMES; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  379 words
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Don't sacrifice sex education
      412 16 THE Education Ministry is right to suspend externally generated sex education programmes in schools, even though it had said last week that schools found the content provided by Aware to be "appropriate" for their students. More information has surfaced, thanks to the Aware issue, concerning the
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      Lock icon How the US tested the big banks
      930 16  -  Timothy Geithner By The effect of this assessment will be to help replace uncertainty with transparency. It will provide greater clarity about the resources major banks have to have to absorb future losses. It will also bring more private capital into the financial
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      Lock icon Economic growth: The 'new normal'
      859 16  - Economic growth: The 'new normal Kenneth Rogoff By MARKETS are bubbling over signs of "green shoots" in the global economy. An increasing number of investors see a strong rebound coming, first in China, then in the United States, and then in Europe and the rest of the world. Even the
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    • review
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        Lock icon Fighting 'anti-Cina' prejudice
        833 18  -  Bruce Gale MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS By SENIOR WRITER MR TEDY Jusuf, chairman of the Indone-sia-Chinese Social Association, has a vision. One day, he believes, Cina the often derogatory Bahasa Indonesia word for Chinese will be used by all Indonesians to describe citizens of
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        Lock icon Australia's build-up: Arms pacing, not arms racing
        933 19  -  William Choong FOREIGN MATTERS By SENIOR WRITER Is Australia's planned build-up a direct response to a general arms build-up in Asia that is, there is an arms race dynamic; or is the build-up a reaction to strategic uncertainty? The evidence suggests the latter
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    • review insight
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        Lock icon Opening up the classroom
        2584 20  -  Clarissa Oon By Senior Minister of State Grace Fu's experiences as private-sector boss, mother, sportswoman and culture lover have influenced her revamp of primary education in Singapore Key changes to primary education Non-academic programmes, such a; sports and the performing and visual arts, will become part
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        Lock icon 'Old' media has place in new media
        1009 21  -  Hong Xinyi NOT THE LAST WORD By These days, a book does not have to be just a book...The interplay between traditional and new media can be a source of strength for both. LAST month, some students from the Singapore Management University (SMU)
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        Lock icon Tackling it better
        370 22 FIGHTING INFLUENZA A MUCH has been said about this new variant of Influenza A (H1N1) virus. In brief, it seems to have started in Mexico but spread rapidly throughout the world, especially in the Americas. As a doctor observing how our health-care system responded to this potential
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        147 22 I WRITE this letter to congratulate the principal and teachers of Nanyang Junior College on a simple and amazing act of kindness. I visited to give a talk to students. To my surprise, there were six empty parking spaces reserved for visitors next
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        Lock icon Asean summit idea won't work
        172 22 AFTER the aborted Asean summit in Pattaya, in southern Thailand, we now read reports that the Thai government wants to reconvene the summit, this time in Phuket in mid-June. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has given assurances that security will not be compromised. While I
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        459 22 Award snub "Clarify. Otherwise, denying Liv nomination may seem a tacit effort to justify her insensitivity in Beijing." MR BRYAN TAN: "Singapore table tennis supremo Lee Bee Wah stated that to be eligible for the Coach of the Year award, the coach 'must be well respected by all the
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      158 22 CWf. More letters on ,V www.straitstimes.com trrr PHOTO: BLOOMBERG NEWS 1 MS DOLLY WONG: Time to start mask-wearing campaign 2 NATAS REPLIES: Flu-linked waivers travel agents can do only so much... 3 MR LIM WAI HOONG: Coach of Olympic medal winners didn't deserve nomination 4 MR HAN JIT KWANG: Olympic
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
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      Lock icon United against twin threats
      693 25  -  Bhagyashree Garekar US, AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Summit ends with pledge to work together against Taleban and Al-Qaeda By US CORRESPONDENT BAND OF BROTHERS "Our strategy reflects a fundamental truth. The security of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States is linked." US President Barack Obama WASHINGTON: The
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        Lock icon 'Cutting off heads is not an Islamic act'
        671 27 Refugees from Swat say the Taleban are criminals who defame the religion GOLRA (Pakistan): Mr Haji Karim and his extended family of 70 were camped in a dirt-floor stable 16km outside Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. It was as far as they could
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        Lock icon A tale of two Talebans
        412 27 VERY little separates the Taleban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most come from the same stock, have similar aims and move easily across the frontier. Who are the Pakistani Taleban? Most Pakistani Taleban fighters are ethnic Pashtuns from north-western regions on the Afghan border. They support
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        Lock icon No plans for US troops in Pakistan
        279 27 CAMP LEATHERNECK (Afghanistan): The United States has no plans to deploy ground troops to Pakistan, said Defence Secretary Robert Gates. He was speaking after arriving in Afghanistan unannounced to oversee preparations for the deployment of an extra 21,000 US soldiers. Speaking to about
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        Lock icon Month-long voting enters home stretch
        507 28  -  P. Jayaram By INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Millions of Indians in seven states voted yesterday to elect 85 Members of Parliament in the second-last phase of the month-long general election that is widely expected to result in a hung Parliament. Areas voting included the national
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        Lock icon Coalitions fraying in Indonesia
        524 28  -  Lynn Lee Wahyudi Soeriaamatdja Political parties waiting for formal legislative poll results before linking up By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENTS JAKARTA: One week before the May 16 deadline to put up candidates for the presidential polls, political parties seem no clearer about their candidates or plans. They will
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        Lock icon Jailed: Ex-Bank of China execs who stole $712m
        392 30 2 managers and their wives had fled to US in 2001 after theft in China was detected LAS VEGAS: Two former Bank of China managers and their wives have been handed lengthy jail terms here for their roles in a scam that
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; BLOOMBERG; ASSOCIATED PRESS; WWW.CHINAREVIEWNEWS.COM; WWW.DAYNEWS.COM.CN; WWW.CQKX.COM  -  392 words
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        Lock icon Has BN won the battle but lost the war?
        733 31  -  Carolyn Hong NEWS ANALYSIS Both sides equally unruly but Barisan seen as bigger loser in public perception By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF IPOH: Was anything achieved yesterday? This is the question that many are asking about the chaos that erupted in the
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        532 32  -  Tracy Quek STUDENTS KILLED IN SICHUAN QUAKE Provincial figures, almost half the estimated number reported in media, leave public puzzled By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: China disclosed yesterday, for the first time, that 5,335 students perished in last year's Sichuan earthquake, almost half the
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        482 33  -  Abraham Rabinovich Call for it to adhere to non-nuclear treaty could mean change in US policy By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES JERUSALEM: A call this week by an American official for Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) has raised fears
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        324 33 PARIS: The number of hungry people in the world could soon hit a record one billion, despite a recent drop in food prices, the United Nations (UN) food aid organisation said. Although the recent financial crisis has helped bring global food
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        1131 34  -  Bhagyashree Garekar NEWS ANALYSIS White House, Wall Street keeping their distance; no one knows what to do By US CORRESPONDENT Tough going MAJOR US newspapers that have gone primarily online only or have folded completely: Rocky Mountain News Seattle Post-Intelligencer Christian Science Monitor Detroit
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          107 35 YANGON: Police tightened security around Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday after an American man was arrested for allegedly swimming across a lake and sneaking into her lakeside home. The state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper identified the man as John William Yeattaw but gave
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          131 35 KUALA LUMPUR: More than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said yesterday. The plight of the dogs cast away by villagers on two small, uninhabited islands off Malaysia's western Selangor state ignited outrage
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          85 35 JAKARTA: Indonesia raised its alert for the Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest level after increased seismic activity in recent days and warned people not to go within 2km of the crater. The volcano, an uninhabited mountain in the Sunda Straits between Java and Sumatra, ejected
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          82 35 MANILA: Schools were closed and government agencies were put on standby yesterday as the Philippines braced itself for typhoon Chan-hom, just days after a storm here killed 27 people and displaced thousands. The typhoon was expected to smash into the northern half of the country, forecasters
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          102 35 TBILISI (Georgia): The Georgian authorities yesterday released three opposition activists whose detention sparked violent late-night clashes between police and protesters demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili. The violence, in which 22 protesters and six police officers were wounded, came the day after a brief military uprising
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          123 35 BEIJING: The US envoy for North Korea, Mr Stephen Bosworth, began a swing through Asia yesterday to seek support from regional powers to rein in North Korea, which may be preparing to rattle security with a second nuclear test. Mr Bosworth, leading a US delegation trying
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      685 37  -  Ang Yiying Many units renting out bed spaces to workers; URA investigation on By APARTMENTS at People's Park Complex in Chinatown are being partitioned to create extra rooms holding bed spaces for foreign workers, and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is on the case. The signs
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      468 38  -  Cheryl Ong Elderly woman living two floors above admitted to hospital for smoke inhalation By HOUSEWIFE Rose Ng was unable to sleep, so she decided to go for a walk near her home in Tampines early yesterday morning. But as she stepped out at
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      471 39  -  Jalelah Abu Baker By SINGAPOREANS aged 50 and above will get their own little corner of the Internet, which will be chock-full of information and games tailor-made for them. Called the I Not Old portal, it lists more than 250 upcoming activities, ranging from
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      569 39  -  Serene Luo Recession leads to cuts in sponsorship and prize money, making it tough for professional gamers By THE video-game industry is seeing a slide in sponsors for competitions, which could spell "game over" for players wanting to make a living from tournaments
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      396 41  -  Goh Chin Lian Dialogue with Manpower Minister to gather feedback on PM's May Day Rally speech By SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE plight of older workers and the unemployed featured prominently in an online dialogue with Manpower Minister Gan Kirn Yong last night. Participants suggested the
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      132 41 PRESIDENT S R Nathan officiated at the Appointment Ceremony of Aides-de-Camp (ADCs) at the Istana yesterday. A total of 98 Honorary ADCs and one full-time ADC to the President were appointed. Currently, there are three full-time ADCs serving the President's office. They attend to the general administration,
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      189 41  -  LEE HUI CHIEH BUDDHISTS, Taoists, Hindus and Muslims are joining hands once again to celebrate Buddhism's most important annual event, Vesak Day, in Little India. For the eighth year, a mix of religious groups have organised a series of events to mark
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      114 41 DO NOT free animals into nature reserves or reservoirs on Vesak Day, advises the National Parks Board and the PUB. Customarily, Buddhists release birds, insects and other animals on this day. It is a symbolic act, representing the giving of freedom to those in captivity. But while
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      527 42  -  Khushwant Singh They are the first fatalities in the Coast Guard in decades By THE inquiry into the deaths in 2007 of two Police Coast Guard (PCG) officers, who died when their vessel went over a speedboat fleeing Singapore's waters, ended yesterday.
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      531 42  -  Selina Lum By AFTER a night of heavy drinking, three Malaysians went looking for someone to rob when they ran out of alcohol. They fixed their eyes on a lone Bangladeshi worker and started bashing him with a metal rod and raining punches
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        102 42 AN UNEMPLOYED man charged a week ago with molesting a 12-year-old girl now faces eight more similar charges. Lee Fuxiang, 23, was earlier accused of pulling down the shorts and underwear of the young victim in a lift in Toa Payoh on April 6. He is now
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        68 42 A 79-YEAR-OLD woman on her way home from the market had her gold necklace snatched on Wednesday. She had just got out of the lift on the 11th floor of Block 467 North Bridge Road when a man pulled off her gold chain, which had a jade
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        59 42 A MOTORCYCLIST died after his machine collided with a lorry at the junction of Changi South Avenue 1 and Somapah Road on Tuesday morning. The motorcyclist, technician Sim Lian Heng, 59, died of multiple injuries. The male lorry driver, in his 40s, is assisting in investigations.
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      514 43  -  Khushwant Singh Ex-fugitive implicated in brothel owner's death in 1989 still faces charge of NS desertion By TERRIFIED of being implicated in the death of a brothel owner, Kalaichelvan Ramakrishnan went on the run in 1990. He was 19 at the time. Last year,
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      248 43  -  ESTHER TAN THREE men were given jail terms yesterday for insulting the modesty of three women in separate cases. Two of them Kang Joo Huat, 48, and Tang Fook Seng, 33 got four weeks each for sticking videorecording devices under
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      503 44  -  Tan Weizhen African con men prey on woman after she types in wrong online address of SPCA By A CASE OF 'TYPOSQUATTING' "Specifically, this is a form of 'typosquatting' because it banks on the user to mistype the URL of his or her intended
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      267 44  -  ESTHER TAN A 28-YEAR-OLD wholesaler was sentenced to six months' jail yesterday for having sex with an underage girl in 2006. The court heard that Tan Kwang Bin met the then 15-year-old through a phone chatline, and talked her
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      350 45  -  Tessa Wong It banks on area's popularity and lack of hotels there even as tourist arrivals are falling By AGAINST a backdrop of declining numbers of tourists to Singapore, another hotel, the Park Hotel Clarke Quay, has opened this month. Like many others braving
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      214 45 THE Marina Barrage has received the top prize at a competition organised by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. The site, opened in November last year, beat 33 other entries for the Superior Achievement Award which was conferred on Wednesday in Washington DC. The
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      205 45  -  NICHOLAS YONG A TEAM of three National University of Singapore (NUS) students has made it to the final round of an international tertiary student contest to develop innovative ideas for the aviation industry. The trio will compete for the top spot against four
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      1085 46 Ref in the spotlight: Four penalty appeals turned down WAS it a conspiracy? The theory being put forward at Stamford Bridge was that Uefa did not want an all-English final: Chelsea v Manchester United 11. But the Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo sent off Barcelona's Eric Abidal in
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      512 46 LONDON: So were Chelsea robbed, or did Barcelona deserve their place in the neutral's dream final against Manchester United? The debate split the British press, and there was one common thread. There was no excuse for the ugly tantrums that Chelsea striker Didier Drogba threw
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      987 47  -  Wang Meng Meng Hammam and Salman in bitter feud to be AFC's representative to Fifa By The AFC election At stake: A Fifa executive committee seat. Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Hammam has vowed to quit if he loses to Bahrain's Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Al-Khalifa. The vote:
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      274 47 LONDON: Arsenal's Danish international striker Nicklas Bendtner had to issue an embarrassing apology on Wednesday, for leaving a nightclub just hours after his side had been outclassed 1-3 by Manchester United in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final. The 21-year-old, capped over 20
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      292 47 LONDON: The British government is demanding a radical overhaul of English football finances to break the domination of the Big Four clubs. Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, is calling for Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool to share their winnings in Europe with
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      329 47  -  WANG MENG MENG DESPITE the AFC's stringent criteria on the proposed relocation of AFC House, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is prepared to meet the conditions. In September, the AFC invited interested member nations to submit bids to host its new headquarters. Asian
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      138 48 LONDON: Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard (above) is convinced his club will lift the Premier League football trophy, if not this season then within the next five years. The midfielder told Sky Sports: "We're so close to doing it this season, I believe we can still nick it. But
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      334 48 Basketball NBA Play-offs, Conference s-finals (best-of-seven series) Eastern: Boston 112 Orlando 94 (series tied 1-1). Western: Los Angeles 111 Houston 98 (series tied 1-1). Cricket Indian Premier League In Durban: Kolkata 154-3 in 20 overs (M. van Wyk 74, B. McCullum 35: P. Sangwan 2-29). Delhi 157-1 in 19
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      209 48 Do you have a photo of your teammates or schoolmates in action during a schools competition? Send your pictures to stsports@sph.com.sg. The best photos will be published in print and online. SPORT IN SCHOOLS ST PHOTO: ST PHOTO: ST PHOTO: ST PHOTO: Jurong Junior College's Lim Yee
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      472 48  -  May Chen Pioneer JC's Ying Kin stuns fancied opponents to capture All-events title By WHEN Ong Ying Kin of Pioneer Junior College took the Schools National A Girls' tenpin bowling All-events title at the Orchid Country Club yesterday, she stunned not only her opponents but also herself. She
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      172 48 Bowling A Boys' Overall: 1 Raffles Institution (Junior College) 17. 2 Anglo-Chinese JC 54. 3 St Andrew's JC 63. Team: 1 RI(JC) 5,106. 2 Temasek JC 4,820. 3 Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) 4,696. Doubles: 1 Gregory Gan/Jin Lav [(RI(JC)] 2,633. 2 Chua Ming Xuan/Justin Lim Zhan Ji (TJC) 2,605.
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      380 48  -  Valeric Chia By DO NOT be surprised if you spot Ryan Wee donning sunglasses during bowling competitions. The 14-year-old Singapore Sports School student is not trying to look cool. Instead, he wears them to mimic conditions during training sessions some of which are held
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      412 49 "I wasn't working as hard for my points." ANA IVANOVIC Her erratic form casts cloud over French Open title defence ROME: Ana Ivanovic's looks may have seen her beat Maria Sharapova in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2009" list, but that is not going to help
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      326 49 BELGRADE: The father of one-time tennis world No. 4 Jelena Dokic has been arrested for threatening to blow up the Australian embassy in Belgrade, after his daughter told an Australian magazine that he had physically abused her. Damir Dokic faces up to three years' jail if found
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        71 49 MANILA: The Philippine government yesterday urged the public to keep their distance from boxer Manny Pacquiao, after he ignored a call to delay his return from the United States over Influenza A (H1N1) fears. Pacquiao, who beat Britain's Ricky Hatton in Los Angeles on Saturday, insisted he
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        42 49 BEIJING: China's triple Olympic gold medallist Yang Wei has retired from gymnastics because of a left-elbow injury. He took the all-around gold and led China to the men's team title in Beijing last August. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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        77 49 VENICE: Lance Armstrong says he has received "high interest" from sponsors willing to back his cycling team if he takes over control of financially-strapped Astana. They receive most of their financial support from Kazakh state holding company Samruk-Kazyna, but the Central Asian nation's economy has
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        99 49 STRUGGLING Balestier Khalsa sprang a surprise when they drew 2-2 with Albirex Niigata in football's S-League yesterday, courtesy of Bryan Soane's last-minute equaliser. But the draw, which has now increased the club's tally to seven points, was not enough to help Balestier move away from the bottom
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      403 50 Roughed up in opener, they retaliate with in-your-face win Los Angeles Lakers 111 Houston Rockets 98 LOS ANGELES: Manhandled in their Game One humiliation at Staples Center, the Los Angeles Lakers returned the favour in Game Two of their National Basketball Association Western Conference semi-fi-nals, with an
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      223 50 BARCELONA: Ferrari have lightened Kimi Raikkonen's load by giving the Finn a new, slimmed-down car for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. Ferrari said the 2007 champion, whose last win was at the Circuit de Catalunya a year ago, would get a lighter chassis than Brazilian teammate
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      274 46 n WHAI'S UIMLIIMt ,n. MOST VIEWED, m 9 MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Paddlers are Team of the Year...but no award for coach. Ex-coach: I'm insulted. Manny Pacquiao: Monster boxer. MOST COMMENTED Ex-coach: I'm insulted. Said dawnwong: "As a people, we have much to learn from others.
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      42 46 I ■i w Hb\ LyfJH TTTTTTi nrTTT 'Jfjf. ®t« SURPRISE CHAMP PJC's Ong Ying Kin wins Schools National A Girls' bowling All-events title. Cl 2 LAKERS HIT BACK Los Angeles Lakers get physical and even up the series with Houston. Cl 4
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      22 46 ,^l^ GOOD AND Hfli NO GOOD J)r k French Open champion I Ana Ivanovic's inconsistent 1 display leads to defeat. Cl 3
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      203 47 Mft/trJ Draw No- 2429/2009 Thu, 7 May 2009 Winning No. Add. No. 05 17 29 31 42 45 10 Group 1 Prize Winning shares for Draw No. 2429/2009 Group 1 Prize: $1,586,184 each 1 Winning Share(s) Group 2 Prize: $60,480 each 6 Winning Share(s) Group 3 Prize: $1,585 each 229
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      1644 47 [~BlffSj^BfjßS!TBßßWL^^Lk«iiH 1 Friday 8 May 2009 Meeting Polytrack MICHAEL ANDREW CRAIG RACE 4: INITIATION (HORSES<4YO HAVE NOT WON IN MAXWORTHY FROST EVANS I |Y^ARS PRIOR TO NOMINATION) (WFA)-1100M TIME: 20:00 1 7 DARING TOURIST 7 DARING TOURIST 5 GOOD GENERAL INo e~?™ i° c!! 8y I!™™' Bar Rtg Wt 6
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      527 48 Today Golf Basketball Italian Open: Day 3 (Live, Ch26, 7pm). NBA play-offs 2nd rd Game 2- Live from The Players (Live, Ch26, lpm). Atlanta v Cleveland (Live, Ch24, The Players C'ship: Day 3 (Live, Ch26 Bam). Ch3o4, Sunday, 2am). Cricket 4^tfmK Motor r?cin g First Test day 3- West 4
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      40 49 Elegance is an attitude. "It's time to give a little bit of your time to others." jf.-; i V. a Stefanie Graf Andre Agassi Longines Boutiques: Wisma Atria #02-38 Tel: 6836 9659 Marina Square Shopping Mall #02-132 Tel: 6336 9495
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      179 50 f"I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes *^PH in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and a| believes in me will never die." John 11:25-26 1 advertisement. Call 1800 289 9988 to find out more. classified i LOUYBOONWAH I Was called home to be
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      24 50 §w%v% n/%i\ PARAMANANDHAM (Nee Ng Kum Har) passed away peacefully on RH—■ heldßiri6Se°n9swaPy mat Cortege leaves at 6pm for Mandai Crematorium 10May2009- I Thefamilyofthelate
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      42 50 The family of the late FOOTEOWKEI Departed 4 May 2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, "donations'a'nd wreTm?' durtagtheSrrlenf bereavement. staff of SGH&NCC, rhurrh nfNatinitv SfST P rayer W ou P)
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      20 50 6th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of RAJAMMAH NAGALINGAM Departed 8 May 2003 Dearly missed and always remembered by loved ones
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      41 50 The family of the late MaryTayAhChu Departed 2 May 2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks an d appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their receJlt bereavement. j I
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      34 50 30th Anniversary In Loving Memory of TEO CHIANG BOON 1939-1979 Beloved Husband Father D Thirty years have come and gone ut m our hearts your memory lives on e 7^zz Lucy, Swan, Leng Mm
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      41 50 I 12th Anniversary In Lov i n g Memory Of RAMAOKHNAN XVrVIVI/AJVIAIoniMrVIM VANNIAR S/O j, SINNIAH (Ex-TCS Producer) jv o y Msf todfly tef ttmef^a™^ Staruah^Setchimi family. Prayers wiU be held tonight at Ami Migu Murugan Temple, lurongE. St.2l at Bpm.
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      38 50 fej B£ f* 12th Anniversary In Loving Memory of P AIVI ATi"PT^WMAM Time changes many things. But not the memory this day brings. Fondly remembered by R. Batumalai S. Gunasegaran Ari Krishnan Subramaniam Pumi L, James Doraira] (psi
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      52 50 sTOpi^ w^' Wl± Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to our Managing Director Mr Terence Ho On the demise of his beloved mother y TV jjrHVM 117 tj JLjU U X iSUUJN WAJI Departed on 6 May 2009 From: The Management Staff of 1 H J j^fl i UTOPIA PRESS PTE
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      126 50 CHIANG SWEE RANG Age: 92 passed away peacefully on 6 May 2009, leaving behind loved ones. wife: WongAh Ying (deceased) ns: n v Daughters-in-law: Onglhchin""' Chiang Foo chien Yeo Lay Hui, LUy Chiang Fook Wah, Roy Tarn Suet Wah, Cindy Chiang Fook Choon Nua Guat Peng, Kerine Daughters: Son-in-law: Chiang
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      177 50 "The LORD'S right hand is lifted high; the LORD'S right hand has done mighty things! I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done." Psalm 118:16-17 NG GWEK KEE ABe-52 ■f*scWas caUed home to be with the Lord on 7 May 2009, dearly missed and
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      236 51 I LIMSIAMKWEE I I Chairman of SiS Group I I Age: 91 I I passed away peacefully on 7 May 2009 I Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Yeo Giak Lan (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Grandsons: Granddaughters: Lim Kiah Meng Fauzijus Tjandra Chia Lin Hsieh Stanley Lim Ec
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      97 51 AMARJIT KAUR D/O of late Gurnam Kaur (Village: Bathay Bhaini, Amritsar) Age: 63 passed away peacefully on Friday 1 May 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Son: Daughter-in-law: Gurnick Singh Rupinder Kaur brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. Sukhmani Path will be held on Sat, 9
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      49 51 We, the family of the late ENG SOO KIANG Departed on 3 May 2009 Wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all pastors, relatives, friends, colleagues, church members and prayer groups for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, J prayers, wreaths and contributions during our recent bereavement. /j|
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      76 51 iM 'He who dwells in the shelter of the Most lU High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust' Psalms 91:1&2 In Loving Memory Of 'MAMA' ALICE CHUA Called home
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      45 51 1& In Loving Memory Of MRS HARBANS SINGH Departed on 27 June 2008 First Remembrance Bhog Prayer on Sat, 9 May 2009 from 10.00 am to 11.30 am at the Central Sikh Temple, 2 Towner Road, (Off serangoon Road) Singapore. Personal invitation from family members.
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      95 51 MDM RAJAGOPAL PAPPA Age I 80 passed away peacefully on 6 May 2009, leaving behind loved ones. u..-u«-j. m n«:« n «««i m»«««»«j\ Husband: M. Rajagopal (deceased) Sons: DaughterS-in-law: Segar Nithiya Rajasegaran Doris Daughters: Sons-in-law: Jai Latchmee V.S. Balakrishnan (deceased) Grandchildren: Granddaughters-in-law: S. Chitra g- Snamini R- Dhm™*r Great-Grandchildren: S'Ganesan'
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      26 50 For the loved ones whom you remember. !".J;f "In Memoriam"* f^f r "^J 1 jjjii I i-fo^ £9^31 BMf 1 X^_ I W ATS CLASSIFIED \_i\-^
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      68 50 J9 if C/oji. in, truL elsJxx, ojL luitou. tfuiuxxa. tnJL ruuoLnt xLutela. ■ita. VVU>JiMjiM£t, CKMjeL ia. nJLXsdLcJ^JLeL. a \j Kahlil Gibran Ray tribute to a beautiful relationship with a loved one who has J passed on. Remember the little things that make memories so r^ VVXI23 precious. Keep the memories
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        505 52  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS AND BEARS But some traders warn that the rally could go into reverse suddenly By THERE was no stopping investors yesterday as they kept up their stampede into stocks, convinced that they were finally putting the two-year global financial
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          108 52 TOCK TRADING VOLUI 4.01 billion shares worth $3.26 billion P DOWN Gainers: 424 Losers: 201 Unchanged: 557 Mid Cap 457.52 A 25.78 Basic materials 223.00 A 8.36 Utilities 318.64 A 14.75 Small Cap 377.88 A 13.97 Industrials 468.70 A 5.81 Financials 560.34 A 22.31 All Share 536.59 A 17.37
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          223 52 Yesterday's close: 9,385.7 (+408.33) Japanese shares soared 4.55 per cent to a six-month high, tracking gains on Wall Street as investors here returned from the Golden Week holiday. Yesterday's close: 1,023.47 (-0.49) Malaysian shares were flat due to profit-taking in selected blue chips. Trading was heavy with a volume
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          405 52 DBXT Nifty 10US$ 7558 353.2 GLD 10USS 8975 107.4 SI A 1322 88.0 CityDev 835 85.0 DCBC Bk 5.1%NCPS 100 ...9530 80.0 SIA200 1312 72.0 Daiwa FT Shariah Jap 671 69.2 Keppel Land 278 56.0 lardine CSC 1532 48.0 Spore Land 419 37.0 Lyxor China H 10US$
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          419 52 nay/ utnib k IityDev.ES.0905 827 125.0 17.8 1BS.ES.0905 1192 92.0 8.4 J0B.ES.0g05 1454 76.0 5.5 MA.ES.0905 1300 62.0 5.0 IBS BNP eCW*****6 140 47.0 50.5 JOB BNP eCW*****1 141 42.5 43.1 1CBC Bk.ES.0905 697 36.0 5.4 JGX.ES.0905 769 35.0 4.8 (0L.ES.0905 158 29.0 22.5 !ep Corp.ES.0905 689
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          104 52 runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY May 7 2009 Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.0910 1.1240 Can dollar 1.2540 1.2690 Euro 1.9470 1.9680 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4166 0.4177 NZ dollar 0.8580 0.8770 Sterling pound 2.2150 2.2390 US dollar 1.4650 1.4810 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF
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          372 52 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 571.6 1208 183 370 1767.1 503 71.5 105.8 ■■■■I 3580 1834 1250 416 270 319 1634 917 435 201 440 330 501 473 381 "I 2088 170 5606 CapitaLand 93.5 5417 CapitaMall 405 5611
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          614 52 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 126 126 264 157 78.5 205 242 158 65 72 182 199 314 129 138 732 334 372 287 170 594 560 210 87 206 90 106.3 111 36.5 314 147 138 252
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          182 52 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS By Volume '0 CENTS Vol By Value cents °/o Value Digiland China Hongxing Golden Agri Chart SemiCond Oceanus RafflesEdu Lexicon Grp Genting SP Cosco Corp UniFiber CapitaLand NutianC HusGroup Midas IndoAgri 0.5 18 48 19.5 22 45.5 2 70.5 123 4.5
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        430 52  -  Chua Hian Hou By STARHUB, Singapore's No. 2 telecommunications company, managed to lift its first-quarter profit by 3 per cent to $82.5 million, despite cutbacks by mobile and broadband users. The rise was aided by lower corporate taxes and an uptick in the
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        551 53  -  Fiona Chan 212,000 more taxpayers will have their salary data submitted directly to Iras By Which firms? Firms with 50 to 99 employees must use the Auto-Inclusion Scheme from next year. This will add 3,800 more firms to the scheme. 212,000 more
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        360 53  -  Yang Huiwen By TTL Holdings is proceeding with its controversial proposal to issue $40 million of ze-ro-coupon convertible bonds to a fund, Fortensa Special Opportunities. This is despite fierce objections from minority shareholders concerned that the bonds, when converted to shares, will depress
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        262 53 THE sale of a New Zealand liquor chain led brewer Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) to post a 9.6 per cent increase in half-year profits to $94.5 million. APB said the Liquorland sale delivered a gain of $3.5 million for the half-year to March 31.
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      724 54  -  Lee Su Shyan US bank's units here have funds, but recovery of cash will be complex proces: By ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR LEHMAN Brothers units in Singapore may hold hundreds of millions of dollars, but people caught out with investment products linked to the failed
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      561 54 BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED reports on employment in the United States and Australia as well as heartening news on the corporate front over the past two days have added to optimism that the global economy might soon turn the corner. Last month,
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      612 55  -  Michelle Tay Projected 1.5% median salary rise is lowest in 13 years of Hay surveys By SALARIES in Singapore will tend to rise by less than the inflation rate this year so real wages will actually shrink. According to a survey by global
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      537 55  -  Gabriel Chen By THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is making it easier for banks to offer Islamic banking products an area it expects to become more popular in the post-financial-crisis world. The central bank has issued a consolidated set of
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      46 55 Sheikh Abdullah Saoud Al Thani, Governor of the Qatar Central Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore's managing director Heng Swee Keat shaking hands after signing a memorandum Of understanding yesterday to promote supervisory cooperation and technical assistance. ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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      373 55  -  GABRIEL CHEN RHB Banking Group is extending its Islamic banking services to Singapore, making the country home to its first Islamic banking unit outside of Malaysia. The bank added that it will also apply for a Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence, if one becomes
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      591 56  -  Yang Huiwen Fiona Chan STOCK MARKET RALLY Real estate big guns soar but analysts say property prices yet to stabilise By BANKS gave way to property counters yesterday as the extraordinary share market rally stayed in high gear. The property sector's big guns rocketed and helped
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      265 54 JSsSms shlisNfs Help realise her \^^^^%yfeJ§|iK dreams Like all kids, Pei Pei has big dreams for her future; but her life is tough. Her Mi mother holds down two jobs so she can provide for Pei Pei and her siblings. A i I To help lighten the load, Pei Pei
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      100 56 wm WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm Therefore, expat rentals will drop and MOST-READ ONLINE our business class will suffer." Hot-shot fund managers burnt by crisis. OVERCOMING THE STORM Visit our microsite and take our poll MOST COMMENTED on whether you think the business Singapore may be
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      82 57 Ijy sj w til v v DESIGN: TANG WEE CHEOW PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, RUBYWORKS and INDIGO BLUE ART j&sflkiVEk '■?S$ jSe^^stSl^ j3Ki M BBa BBSJsfPBt Bit HflH iBhB K«g i '> I vBB w9 yj* Yv' a! < .V.., /»W x \3 *< -Ji "'V>.\'-.■. Inside every story,
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES Life!
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      1576 58  -  boon chan With cheaper DVDs, parallel imports and changing tastes, even acclaimed Chinese films are not getting a theatrical airing media correspondent Watching films in the dark with strangers TRUE WOMEN FOR SALE (2008) This is a social drama on the flesh trade in Hong Kong.
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      497 59  -  rebecca lynne tan You could almost smell the competitiveness in the air as a group of inmates hovered over the cooking demonstration table in a prison kitchen at Changi Prison Cluster A yesterday. Twenty pairs of eyes focused intently on Shatec Institutes' senior host mentor
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      818 60  -  tara tan Teachers and arts groups say advisories should not say yes' to the page but 'no' to the stage arts reporter Giving theatregoers advisories about coarse language or mature themes in plays is useful for audiences, say teachers and drama groups. But they also say these productions
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      216 60 What's on TV that gets you talking... Jocelyn Lee KOREAN WAVE Korean actress Gu Hye Scon, female lead of idol drama Boys Over Flowers, became wildly popular in the country after the show aired. Catch her performance in these two shows this week. CHILWU, THE MIGHTY What: Set
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        129 70 Labels can be deceiving. Like when "wild child" and "enfant terrible" are applied to fashion's so-called bad boy Gareth Pugh. As it turns out, the 27--year-old British designer is more like a Prince Charming in person. Urban talks to Pugh, known for
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