The Straits Times, 6 October 2009

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    20 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 2009 S|sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    Lock icon Sunshine trio go on trial
    88 1 FOR more than a year, multi-level marketing company Sunshine Empire collected more than $180 million from tens of thousands of customers sold on the generous rebates on its lifestyle packages. The firm, however, did not have a viable business plan, the prosecution charged yesterday at
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  • INSIDE
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      Lock icon Norway best place to live
      42 1 NORWAY is the most attractive place in which to live, according to an annual UN report. Singapore is ranked 23rd in the United Nations human development index, up one notch from last year. PRIME PAGE A 5
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      Lock icon Overseas wedding shoots
      54 1 MORE couples here are going abroad for their wedding photo shoots. Even though a shoot in Europe might cost $15,000, newly-weds are prepared to save. Industry watchers put it down to low airfares, the desire for a different backdrop and the fact that people are now more
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      Lock icon Dollah still unconscious
      40 1 FORMER Malaysia Cup football star Dollah Kassim is still in critical condition at Tan Tock Seng Hospital after suffering a heart attack on Sunday. The 60-year-old remains unconscious, but his condition "has not deteriorated". SPORTS PAGE B6
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    • Article
      Lock icon CapitaLand to list malls
      61 1 PROPERTY developer Capita Land plans to list its retail arm in an initial public offering that could be worth at least $1.4 billion. Capita Land chief executive Liew Mun Leong says the decision to hive off this part of its business will allow it to accelerate
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      Lock icon Nobel medicine winners
      49 1 THE Nobel season opened yesterday with the announcement of the medicine prize. Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Jack Szostak and Carol Greider shared it for the discovery of a built-in protection device in chromosomes, a finding that sheds light on ageing, cancer and stem cells. WORLD PAGE Al7
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  • Article
    Lock icon Search efforts end, focus now on relief work
    557 1  -  Reme Ahmad Chances of finding quake survivors slim; treating wounded takes priority By ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR PADANG (West Sumatra): Indonesia yesterday called off the search for survivors in the quake-battered city of Padang, as rescuers shifted their efforts to remote mountain villages
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  • Article
    Lock icon Gangs stash illegal cigs in budget hotels
    525 1  -  Teh Joo Lin By SYNDICATES peddling contraband cigarettes have taken to using rooms in budget hotels as warehouses for their illegal stashes. They even recruit penniless foreigners to look after the goods, or to distribute them. Up until now, syndicates have been known
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      806 2  -  Karamjit Kaur Does it matter if Changi drops one or two spots? Not if it set things right By AVIATION CORRESPONDENT THREE months ago, Changi Airport slid from second to third spot in an annual ranking of airports throughout the world by research group Skytrax.
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    • VIEWPOINTS
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        Lock icon Keep Jobs Credit – but only for a little while
        93 2 Keep Jobs Credit but only for a little while WE SAY The Jobs Credit wage subsidy scheme is having its intended effect of slowing job losses while keeping weak companies going. It has inherent flaws and it can breed dependency in the private sector. But a short extension of three
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      • Article
        Lock icon The soldier-diplomat
        35 2 COLUMNS Ho Shu Huang debunks the notion that Singapore's defence policy is geared towards US protection. Instead, its many defence cooperation agreements have a diplomatic element by promoting personal interactions. REVIEW PAGE Al9
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        Lock icon A reality check
        36 2 From amateurs to professionals, it's hard to accept that the body is no longer able to do what the mind demands. Sometimes, that can have dangerous consequences, says Rohit Brijnath. SPORTS PAGE B6
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        Lock icon Avoiding doomsday
        36 2 OUR READERS SAY Tan Chak Lim and Kenny Ching say the recent bidding war between Sing Tel and Star Hub over the English Premier League is an example of negative competition. FORUM PAGE A2O
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGSS
        19 2 www.straitstimes.com P. Jayaram looks at one of the more outrageous election promises in India banning Western music.
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      Lock icon Child ordered to be returned to her mother
      939 3  -  Selina Lum Woman with a controlling nature wins back daughter "Wnrrmn AsntVi a VV Ullldll WIUI d rnnirnllinff n^tlirP iicu-uiic; willS bdCk ddUSht6r IBY MOVE WAS 'DRASTIC "The removal of a child from the parents is a very drastic remedy that should
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      Lock icon Norway is best place to live in; S'pore is at 23rd
      596 5 Most desirable countries to live in 1. Norway 2. Australia 3. Iceland 4. Canada 5. Ireland 6. Netherlands 7. Sweden 8. France 9. Switzerland 10. Japan 23. Singapore Least desirable countries to live in 173. Guinea Bissau 174. Burundi
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      Lock icon A struggle to get relief to remote villages
      905 6  -  Salim Osman "There are no medical supplies, no food, no drinks, no aid groups, no government officials nothing." Buyung, a 33-year-old standing over his unconscious mother at the hospital in Padang, referring to his home village of Tandikek, most of which lies
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      Lock icon Life begins to stir again in Padang
      848 7  -  Reme Ahmad By ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR Near busy road junctions, pushcart food vendors who scurried away last week, reappeared to jostle for space to peddle their steaming lontong, mee bakso and soto. PADANG (West Sumatra): It was the fifth day after the earth
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
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      Lock icon Indonesia's Golkar seeks new leader
      719 8  -  Lynn Lee Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja PARTIES BATTLE TO SURVIVE By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENTS Four in race but real fight likely between Welfare Minister and media magnate I JAKARTA: Indonesia's largest political party, Golkar, kicked off a four-day pow-wow last night that will end with 536 delegates with
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      Lock icon Govt stint taught me much: Bakrie
      379 8  -  LYNN LEE WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA JAKARTA: The jury is still out on Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, seen as the front-runner for the Golkar chairmanship. Mr Bakrie, 64, has been tainted by scandal ever since a stinking mudflow erupted in Sidoarjo, East
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      Lock icon Malaysia's MCA looks to settle leadership fight
      628 8  -  Teo Cheng Wee By REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) will meet on Saturday in an attempt to stop its infighting and start winning back Chinese votes. On that day, 2,400 delegates of Malaysia's second-largest political party will decide whether
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        Lock icon 2.5m homeless in flood-hit India
        536 9 5 million affected by 'worst floods in 100 years' in south India; 250 killed HYDERABAD: About 2.5 million people have crammed into temporary relief shelters after floods triggered by torrential rain swept away their homes in southern India over the last week and killed some
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        Lock icon Indonesia urged to ratify Asean haze agreement
        377 9  -  Elizabeth Looi By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia has been urged to ratify and implement an Asean agreement on transboundary haze in order to successfully tackle the perennial problem, experts at a regional haze conference said yesterday. Asean countries, except Indonesia and the
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        Lock icon Thai train derails, seven killed
        296 10 BANGKOK: Seven people, including a two-year-old girl, were killed after a train derailed during heavy rain yesterday near the popular coastal Thai city of Hua Hin. Eighty-eight passengers were hurt when six of the train's carriages jumped the tracks as it approached a station before
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        Lock icon Anti-graft watchdog's Malaysian chief quits
        336 10  -  Carolyn Hong By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: The head of the Malaysian chapter of Transparency International (TI), Datuk Paul Low, yesterday quit over his decision to publicise a global TI report that referred to a scandal in Malaysia. He had released the report which
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        Lock icon Jakarta, KL to hold history dialogue
        484 10 Historians to seek common solution to problems linked to cultural heritage dispute JAKARTA: Indonesian and Malaysian historians are holding a dialogue tomorrow on their joint history, the Antara news agency reported yesterday. It said the dialogue in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, will
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        Lock icon 400,000 newborns die in India each year: Report
        707 11 Stark infant mortality figures despite rapid economic growth; most deaths are preventable NEW DELHI: More than 400,000 Indian babies die every year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth, despite the country's recent rapid economic development, a report said yesterday.
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        Lock icon China, N. Korea pledge to shore up ties
        801 12 WORKING IN TANDEM "China and North Korea both face the important tasks of developing their economies and improving the livelihoods of their people, and we must continue strengthening friendly cooperation." Mr Wen Jiabao to Mr Kirn Yong Nam, North Korea's No. 2
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        461 12 SEOUL: North Korea is thought to have 13 types of viruses and germs that can be used in biological weapons, as well as up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korea's Defence Ministry said yesterday. In a report to Parliament, it said
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        Lock icon Ex-minister's death: More tests needed
        355 12 TOKYO: An initial autopsy found cardiovascular abnormalities and alcohol in the body of Japan's former finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, but was unable to determine the cause of death. Police will conduct further examinations, which will require a few more days, according to Jiji Press and
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        Lock icon Pakistan 'used US funds for subsidies'
        396 13 AID ABUSE Billions of dollars meant to fight militants never made it to military: Pakistani generals ISLAMABAD: The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economic
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        Lock icon Afghanistan a black hole for foreign donors
        356 13 KABUL: Eight years after the fall of the Taleban ushered in a new era for Afghanistan, the country remains a black hole for foreign aid donors who have seen little development for their money. Western governments have poured US$2O billion (5528.2 billion) into
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        Lock icon 4 killed in blast at Pakistan's UN office
        104 13 A United Nations employee, whose clothes are splattered with blood, recovering from shock after a suicide bombing at the UN World Food Programme's offices in Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday. UN Secretary-General Ban Xi Moon condemned the attack, which killed three Pakistanis and an
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    • world international
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        Lock icon Jousts on TV set to change British politics
        848 14  -  Jonathan Eyal NEWS ANALYSIS Brown puts hopes on debate to snatch victory from defeat in polls By STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's decision to accept US-style televised debates in the run-up to next year's general elections looks
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        Lock icon Chromosome findings bag trio Nobel prize
        492 17 Other awards THE schedule for the remaining Nobel Prize announcements for the year 2009: Today: Physics Tomorrow: Chemistry Thursday: Literature Friday: Peace Next Monday: Economics SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS Discoveries shed light on ageing and may help in new cancer therapy STOCKHOLM: Three Americans were
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      • INBRIEF
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          Lock icon Trapped tiger rescued
          135 17 IPOH: A 120 kg male tiger, which had its forelimb caught in a trap set by poachers, has been rescued by the Perak National Parks and Wildlife Department. Department director Shabrina Shariff said the five-year-old tiger suffered serious bone injuries. "The tiger's paw was very badly damaged
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          Lock icon Taufik Kiemas new Speaker
          128 17 JAKARTA: Indonesia's highest law-making body, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), has elected Mr Taufik Kiemas from the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle as Speaker for the 2009-2014 term, reported Antara news agency. The Democratic Party, which emerged the biggest winner in April's parliamentary polls, has appointed its
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          Lock icon No art works to China yet
          129 17 TAIPEI: Taiwan, which has borrowed a series of priceless art treasures from China, said yesterday it did not plan to return the favour for the time being, fearing that the Chinese authorities might confiscate the works. The National Palace Museum in Taipei made the
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          132 17 ATHENS: Socialist leader George Papandreou started work on putting together a Cabinet yesterday after winning a decisive mandate to battle corruption and lead Greece out of a worsening economic downturn. Appointments to the key finance, foreign and economy ministry posts were expected as early as today,
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      113 8 Jk WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm proposition that China would suffer if MOST-READ ONLINE the communists took power, as claimed Pilots fight crew in Air India in-flight by some people during the *****, was brawl. unfounded and greatly exaggerated." MOST COMMENTED ON YOUR SAY China
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Keep Jobs Credit – but only for a little while
      447 18 Keep Jobs Credit but only for a little while THE $4.5 billion Jobs Credit wage subsidy scheme was introduced in January as a counter-recession expediency to shelter companies and reduce job losses. It is an imperfect tool in that sound companies receive the same support as weaker ones, which rationally
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      Lock icon China's greenback problem
      865 18  -  Kenneth Rogoff By WHEN will China finally realise that it cannot accumulate US dollars forever? It already has more than US$2 trillion (Ss2.B trillion). Do the Chinese really want to be sitting on US$4 trillion in another five to 10 years? With the United States government staring
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      Lock icon In war on terror, the bad guys don't tire
      947 18  -  Thomas L. Friedman By In the long run, though, winning requires partnering Arab and Muslim societies to help them build thriving countries, integrated with the world economy, where young people don't grow up in a soil poisoned by religious extremists and
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    • review.
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        Lock icon Jockeying for advantage at climate summit
        849 19  -  Tilak K. Doshi ECONOMIC WATCH By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN ABOUT 60 days, representatives from over 190 countries will meet in the Danish capital of Copenhagen to hammer out a wider global pact on tackling climate change to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But
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        Lock icon Deterrence, diplomacy and the soldier-diplomat
        787 19  -  Ho Shu Huang SINGAPORE'S DEFENCE POLICY By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN AN op-ed piece in a Malaysian newspaper on Sept 15, Mr Suzalie Mohamad, a fellow at the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia, suggests Singapore's apparent military build-up is part of a larger American
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        Lock icon Heading down Yellow Brick Road to perdition
        870 19  -  Ong Soh Chin By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IT'S time to judge celebrity crimes for what they are. So late-night TV host David Letterman has confessed to having had affairs with women on his staff. And he has, by all accounts, been lauded
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        Lock icon Avoiding doomsday
        511 20 PAY TV IT IS necessary to place in context the coup by Sing Tel in wresting telecast rights of the English Premier League (EPL) from Star Hub and an apparent change by the Government in how it tries to manage the broadcast media ("SingTel clinches EPL deal", last
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        Lock icon Why it was wrong to allow competition
        193 20 THERE are two main concerns regarding SingTel's win of English Premier League football rights ("SingTel clinches EPL deal", last Friday). First, that "competition" was invoked. I am based in the United States, where the cable television landscape is truly competitive. Providers compete less
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      • 'GREEDY' DOCTORS
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          419 20 I REFER to the commentary by Ms Salma Khalik last Wednesday, "Tame doctors' greed and protect patients". We note with dismay the use of the word "greedy" to describe some members of our profession. On abuse of benzodiazepines, phentermine and Subutex, we will be the
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          Lock icon Educate public on health issues
          379 20 I REFER to the commentary by Ms Salma Khalik last Wednesday, "Tame doctors' greed and protect patients". The College of Family Physicians Singapore agrees that indiscriminate prescription of slimming medications such as phentermine is unacceptable professionally. We also wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Ministry
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        415 20 Cable TV box rent "Fair deal?" MR VICTOR HO: "SingTel's win of English Premier League soccer telecast rights will create another problem for the subscriber: the rent of the TV set-top box for which Star Hub currently charges $12 a month. This box unscrambles the TV signal to let
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      499 20 Vf**\ More letters on \l www.straitstimes.com 1 MR JOE MOREIRA: EPL rights the customer loses 2 MR HUGH HOYES-COCK: Have one agency to bid for EPL in Singapore 3 MR DANIEL TAN: Super cruise terminal is good news, but why didn't we plan one earlier? 4 MR KENNETH SENG: Positive
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES HOME.
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      Lock icon More take wedding photos abroad
      665 21  -  Leow Si Wan Lower airfares and desire for more unusual settings among reasons cited for rising trend By MORE couples are heading overseas for their wedding photo shoots. A check with 12 bridal studios and wedding photographers indicates that the numbers may have jumped by
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      Lock icon The disabled go high-tech
      764 22  -  Tan Weizhen Special devices let them lead more independent lives By Handy helpers Q iPhone The iPhone's accessibility function, a mode designed for the disabled, allows blind people to use its applications by reading out whatever they touch on its screen. These include letters, numbers and
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      Lock icon Vehicle emission test lab revs up
      577 23  -  Christopher Tan South-east Asia's first such lab, in Bukit Batok, set to test first vehicle on Oct 23 By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT GLOBAL LAB "We are targeting the international market. We cannot survive by just serving local clients." JUST eight months after the word go,
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      Lock icon Sunshine Empire 'was bound to fail'
      469 24  -  Khushwant Singh Prosecution accuses trio of pocketing money from scheme that had no way of sustaining high returns By THE two men charged with running the biggest Ponzi-like scheme in Singapore were yesterday accused of knowing that they were running a business that had
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      Lock icon Quick-thinking duo receive SCDF award
      261 24  -  MUHD NURLUQMAN INSTEAD of just calling 995 when a fire broke out on the ground floor of his housing block, a retired taxi driver confronted the blaze himself. For bringing it under control before firefighters showed up, Mr Soon Boon Lim, 74, was yesterday presented
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      Lock icon Molester dad gets 14 years, 20 strokes
      386 24  -  Elena Chong By A 49-YEAR-OLD father was rebuked by a district judge yesterday for sexually abusing two of his three daughters over a 12-year period. "What you did to your daughters is terrible and absolutely disgusting," said Judge Sarjit Singh, who sentenced the
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      Lock icon Reform Party backs man wanted in US
      225 24  -  ELENA CHONG THE Reform Party's secretary-general and a central executive committee member turned up in court yesterday to support a party member, who is wanted by the United States authorities for alleged terrorism activities and brokering an arms deal with the Tamil Tigers.
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      372 25  -  Elena Chong Man with depressive disorder gets 3 years' probation instead of jail for theft spree By COURTS CORRESPONDENT A FORMER architect who was placed on three years' probation yesterday will not be allowed to go shopping alone. Whenever Chia Leng has to buy
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        92 25 A COLLISION involving a car, a taxi and two buses occurred on Saturday night along Tampines Avenue 10. The vehicles were headed towards Kaki Bukit Avenue 1 at around 9.50pm when they collided before the junction of Tampines Road and Tampines Avenue 10. The driver of
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        73 25 A MAN who parked his car in a multi-storey carpark in Block 73, Redhill Road lost two laptop computers and mobile phones when his car was broken into on Friday. The theft is believed to have taken place between 3.30 am and 9am.The windscreen on the
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      633 26  -  Terrence Voon Former Malaysia Cup star remains unconscious after heart attack By A PAINFUL LESSON "I learnt my lesson from the last time. I even had a personal trainer working with me over the last two weeks just to make sure I was okay for
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      801 26  -  Rohit Brijnath SPORTINGLIFE By Every day, for no apparent reason, a new mutiny begins: The knees rebel, hips complain, elbows demand attention, the back sulks. Still we go on. Pain is inevitable, but we need to listen to our
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      308 27 FKH/T GAMES, THREE LOSSES... The tactics Rafael Benitez's (above) insistence on using Brazilian midfielder Lucas Leiva in a 4-2-3-1 formation that proved so successful last season is now working to the detriment of the team. Opponents, such as Tottenham, Aston Villa and Chelsea, who cut
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      722 27 LONDON: It may only be October, but Liverpool English Premier League title hopes are already starting to fade. Manager Rafael Benitez may have kept a brave face after Sunday's 0-2 loss at Chelsea, the
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      424 27 LONDON: Carlo Ancelotti has warned Manchester United that the destiny of the Premier League is in Chelsea's hands, after the Blues returned to the top of the table with a 2-0 win over Liverpool. After United dropped points with their 2-2 draw against Sunderland
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      252 27 LONDON: Alex Ferguson and Sam Allardyce could be charged with improper conduct after criticising referees during their teams' matches last weekend. The Football Association is looking into comments made by the Manchester United and Blackburn managers respectively. Ferguson slammed referee Alan Wiley's fitness
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      440 27 MADRID: Real Madrid's galacticos may have lost for the first time this season but at least the match was exciting. Real's sporting director Jorge Valdano tried to put a positive spin on the club's first defeat of the season a 1-2 loss to title rivals
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      167 27 LONDON: Fabio Capello has called up Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor for England's final two World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Belarus. Capello has opted against experimenting with his squad, which will be without Jermain Defoe and Ben Foster because of injury. Defoe hurt his hand
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        65 28 SINGAPORE and Malaysia battled to a draw in the annual three-day Carl Schubert Trophy Under-23 cricket match at Kallang on Sunday. Malaysia took an 89-run lead in the first innings and then set the hosts a target of 306 for victory when they declared their
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        49 28 LONDON: Saudi Arabian property magnate Ali Al-Faraj will be able to immediately take over at English football club Portsmouth after being approved as an owner by the Premier League. Al-Faraj is leading a consortium that is in talks with Portsmouth owner Sulaiman Al-Fahim. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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        51 28 ST ANDREWS (Scotland): Lam Chih Bing finished 69th in the Dunhill Links Championship after firing a 73 in the final round for a three-under 285 total. England's Simon Dyson won the event by three strokes after firing a 66 for a 268
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        74 28 GERALD INE Ng was Singapore's top bowler at the Hong Kong International Open last Saturday when she finished fourth in the Women's Masters step-ladder finals. She beat Indonesia's Putty Armein and Taiwan's Chien Hsiu-lan 215-167-199 in the first step-ladder final. But she lost 184-194-197 in the
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        42 28 GEYLANG United edged towards the Singapore Cup football final after beating Albirex Niigata 1-0 in the first leg of the semi-finals at Jurong East Stadium last night. Kim Jae Hong scored in the 61st minute.
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      632 28  -  Steve Slater DRIVER'SSEAT By Vettel's 10 points earned for victory has raised his championship chances from a minor mathematical probability. IT WAS the American tennis player and coach Brad Gilbert who coined the phrase "winning ugly". His philosophy was that you did
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      160 28 SUZUKA (Japan): Felipe Massa's comeback from horrific injuries is gathering pace, and the Brazilian is expected to be back in a Ferrari for testing within weeks. He has been ruled out of making a comeback at his home Grand Prix at Interlagos
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      210 28  -  Lin Xinyi By MEN'S Health is set to give endurance racing a new meaning by incorporating urban obstacles into its urbanathlon race next year. Starting at the Marina Promenade, the Men's Health Urbanathlon will feature seven obstacle stations along its 12.5 km route. The Jan 31
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      396 29 World No.l bows out early at China Open to little-known Zhang BEIJING: Dinara Safina, already under heavy criticism this year for being the world's top ranked player without any Grand Slam crowns, suffered another shock loss yesterday. The Russian was ousted in the second round of the
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      567 29 Football Dutch Eredivisie Utrecht 0 PSV Eindhoven 0, Heracles Almelo 1 Twente Enschede 3, Roda JC Kerkrade 2 Ajax Amsterdam 2, Heerenveen 1 VVV-Venlo 1. French Ligue 1 Boulogne-sur-Mer 2 Lille 3, Olympique Marseille 1 Monaco 2, Toulouse 0 FC Lorient 1. German Bundesliga Hertha Berlin 1 Hamburg SV
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      200 26 I -5jfi J^| THE WHISTLEBLOWER Nelson Piquet Jr says he is the real victim in Crashgate. OUT IN ROUND TWO Dinara Safina out of China Open after defeat by little-known Chinese. 0 WHAT'S ONLINE MOST VIEWED, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Why Starhub lost ESPN too Singapore
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      41 29 r With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director MS SHANNON NG on the demise of her beloved father NG KIEN HO Departed on 4 October 2009 From: The Management Staff of POLY VISION PTE LTD. P VISION (THAILAND) CO., LTD.
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      197 29 "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23 KOKPARKYEOW Age: 83 Was called home to be with the Lord on 5 October 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Wives: Fong Swee
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      112 29 CHANG CHUN LYE Age: 87 Passed away peacefully on 4 October 2009 I Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. I Wife: Liang Poh Keng Sons: Daughters-in-law: Cheong Yue Sang NgWeeThoh Chang Yue Shoon Cheong Yue Loon Janet Chia Sim Neo Daughters: Son-in-law: Cheong Choy Hoong, Edith Choi Mun
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      121 29 HENG DJIOE NOI Age: 104 passed away peacefully on 5 October 2009, leaving behind her loved ones. Husband: Teo Chuan Kee (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Teo Ngie Long (deceased) Tan Jauw Tjeng Teo Eng Long (deceased) Teo Yong Long (deceased) Tan Gng Long Teo Joo Long (deceased) Shen Hui Zhu Teo
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      98 29 'TheLord is my Shepherd' Psalm23:l APPASAMY SANDHANAMARI (Wife of the late Mr S. Appasamy Victoria Press) Age: 89 passed away peacefully on 4 Oct 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Sons: Daughters-in-law: A. Arputharajoo Victoria £w araJ Ihansi A. Anthonyra] Hepsyba Grandsons: Granddaughters: Clement Andre Joanne Elona Samuel Anandara] Eunice Pauline
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      65 29 THALAI THEVASAM In Loving Memory Of If UPPRAQAMV VCCIaAOAWI I Departed on 17 September 2008 your presence is ever near US, Your (ove remainsmtdusyet; (T^f^F tne fel'n« of father, Your loved ones vdCC never foraet. -1 Prayers will be held on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at Sri Arasakesari Sivan Temple25
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      32 30 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late MR LEONG HUM Departed on 2 October 2009 From BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE MANAGEMENT STAFF OF DAIKIN AIRCONDITIONING (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
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      167 30 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Clement Tan Hye San Age: 77 was called home to be with the Lord on Monday, October 5,2009. Dearly loved and cherished by: Wife: Lucy Tan Daughters: Sons-in-law: Johanna Marie Tan Gueh Ec Andrew
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      44 30 The family of the late HO LEE CHONG Departed on 30 September 2009 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates and clan associations for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths and contributions during their recent bereavement.
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      79 30 I SONG CHOR KHIM Age: 61 Passed away peacefully on 4 October 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Yeo Kah Kher Son: Yeo Kai Meng Kelvin Daughter-in-law: Ng Hui Fen Geralyn Daughters: Yeo Ming Huay Flora Yeo Meng Keow Karen and all relatives Wake is held
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      55 30 OM SAI RAM Ist Anniversary In Memory Of S.RAGHU NATHAN Departed 19 Sep 2008 Gone from our lives one so dear, But in our hearts forever near. Deeply loved always remembered by loved ones Thalai Thevasam will held Sri Sivan Temple, Geylang East on 7 Oct 09 7.30pm Please treat
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      68 30 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Directors of Leong Hum Engineering Pte Ltd Mr Patrick Leong Chee Kheong Mdm Mary Leong Wai Shiong and family on the demise of their beloved father LEONG HUM Chairman of Leong Hum Engineering Pte Ltd Departed on 2 Oct 2009 From: The Management
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      124 30 'I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.' John 11:25-26 CINDY KHOO SIAW SIANG 06 Dec 1956 04 Oct 2009 She is lovingly remembered by Husband: Patrick Koh Son: Philip Koh
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      67 30 LEE MAY LING SHARON Age: 50 passed away peacefully on 4 October 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Wong Weng Kee George Sons: Wong Wei Jie Roy Wong Wei Xiong Body is resting at Blk 173 Edgedale Plains. Cortege will leave on 8 Oct 2009 (Thursday)
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      124 30 Kgs*' have fought the good fight, I have '^hJ W finished the race, I have kept the faith." «5 2 Timothy 4:7 PHILIP CHUE KUMWAH Age: 62 Was called home to be with the Lord on 4 October 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Elizabeth Tan
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      83 30 THALAI THEVASAM IST ANNIVERSARY RENGANAIKE d/o SINNIAH departed on 19 September 2008 We cannot forget you, Our loved one so dear;. Your memory grows, Sweeter year after year. Dearly missed by: Sons: Daughter-in-law: C. Jeyaraman G. Sarojah C. Valpandi Grandson: J. Krishna Vinayak Granddaughter: Grandson-in-law: J. Sundari G. Ramesh Great
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      164 30 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.' 2 Timothy 4:7 YEO THIAN ENG Age: 71 was called Home to be with the Lord on 5 Oct 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Ng Leng Lee Son: Daughter-in-law: Raymond
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      90 30 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late BENNY ANG WEE NEE Departed 3/10/2009 From: Fellow Platoon Mates of 81mmMortar4SIR Year 1993 -1994 Tan Siong Khim Lim Long Heng Lee Boon Wee Lim Hoon Teck Han Meng Toon Chua Siow Ling Lim Yew Wah Chua Boon Yew
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      58 30 The family of the late MDM KRISHNASAMY PARVATHY (ELIZABETH) Departed 30 September 2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks j and appreciation to Dr Kong Po Mam Dr Baldev Singh, Nurses from East Shore Hospital, Staff Nurses from Assist Hospice and relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance,
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      62 30 Thalal Thevasam Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of Kudung Kalam Thevar S/o Madasamy Thevar (Samy) Departed on 18 Sept 2008 Deeply missed always remembered by Wife (Suppammah), Sons, Daughters-in-law, Grandchildren, Brothers, Sisters, relatives friends. Prayers will be held on 7 Oct 2009 (Wed) at 10am at Blk 111, S'goon North
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      678 36  -  Jessica Cheam Retail arm to be renamed Capita Malls Asia; IPO may raise $1.4 billion By PROPERTY developer Capita Land yesterday unveiled an ambitious plan to list its retail arm, which could raise an estimated US$l billion (Ssl.4 billion) via an initial
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        532 31  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS BEARS STI ends below 2,600 level; investors spooked by flood of bad news By A STEADY flow of bad news is beginning to dampen jittery retail investors' appetite for penny stocks and S-chips. While blue chips took a hit
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        440 31 NEW YORK: The service sector in the United States last month expanded for the first time since August last year, growing at a faster pace than expected to take the benchmark index to its highest since May last year, according
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          113 31 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 2.35 billion shares worth $1.58 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 89 Losers: 526 Unchanged: 624 STRAITS TIMES INDEX Mid Cap 590.61 -11.34 Basic materials 292.97 T -11.66 Utilities 461.69 T -4.55 Small Cap 507.26 T -15.18 Industrials 560.25 T -4.54 Financials 644.33 T -6.36 All Share 633.45
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          201 31 Yesterday's close: 9,674.49 (-57.38) Tokyo stocks fell 0.59 per cent on concerns over the fragility of the US recovery and lingering worries about the yen's recent strength. Yesterday's close: 1,216.45 (+10.2) Malaysian shares closed up 0.85 per cent on bargain-hunting in finance and plantation stocks. I±] Yesterday's close: 20,429.07
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          178 31 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS UGMUMg OF 1UJ Golden Agri 40.5 ChinaAniH 20.5 Vlemstar 9.5 BengKuang 33 Ezion 71.5 Senting SP R 24.5 liutianC 20 Sapphire 2 FalconEne 80.5 toterra 4.5 Dceanus 34 JniFiber 5 ChinaGaoxian 19 fine Li 73 -t.u -o.i -1.5 -3.6 -1.5 -6.8
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          104 31 runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Oct 5 2009 Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2200 1.2560 Can dollar 1.3020 1.3180 Euro 2.0530 2.0770 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4077 0.4083 NZ dollar 1.0050 1.0260 Sterling pound 2.2440 2.2690 US dollar 1.4040 1.4200 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF
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      358 32  -  Jonathan Kwok By MAINBOARD-LISTED China Auto Corporation is poised to ramp up its stake in pioneering marine technology company Neftech from 4.9 per cent to 23.9 per cent. The automotive parts supplier is to issue 475 million new shares to Neftech shareholders
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      491 32  -  Francis Chan By The company originally planned to launch a luxury condominium project on the Angullia Park site, for which it paid top dollar in 2007 during the peak of the property cycle. The global crisis, however, seemingly put paid to its plans.
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      558 34  -  Gabriel Chen Industry is confident region will generate huge growth in wealth By THE global financial crisis has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of private banking chiefs for Asia, including China and the Middle East. Banks targeting wealthy individuals are ramping up their
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      437 34  -  Esther Teo By CONCERN over China's bank lending policies and rock-bottom interest rates surfaced over a lunch hosted by Bank Julius Baer yesterday. The Swiss private bank's chief investment officer, Dr V. Anantha-Nageswaran, said China's state-directed bank lending and extremely low interest rates
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      598 35  -  Robin Chan Electronics sector falters; PMI comes very close to a contraction By MANUFACTURING'S impressive rebound over recent months lost steam last month in the wake of weak export orders and a faltering electronics sector, as the effect of stimulus packages appears to be wearing
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          272 81  -  MALINI NATHAN It's coleslaw, but with an Asian twist. Activity by Four steps in the recipe below are placed in the wrong order. (Hint: Read the start and end of the method carefully.) WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION! ALWAYS ASK A PARENT
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        195 76 ••••••••••••••••••••••••a THINK a visiting president would act as respectably as one? Think again. The late former Russian president Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during an official visit to the United States, he was found outside the White House in his underwear, trying to hail a
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        53 76  -  EISEN TEO. MALINI NATHAN Read the following news clips, then draw arrows to connect each box to the corresponding area on the map. Next, try writing headlines for the weird news items on the left. Finally, have a go at the exercises on the right. By Exercises by PHOTOS:
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          270 74  -  ELLEN WHYTE Green seaweed may seem icky and gross to some people, but ocean life cannot survive without it. By AT FIRST glance, all green seaweed looks the same. But scientists have identified about 8,000 different species. Some are microscopic; others are really big. They live in all
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      277 69 If you think you can build a mean flying machine, now is the time to do so. The SAFMC 2010 is Singapore's largest flying machine competition that will put your creativity, scientific knowledge and flying machine to the test! Open to anyone who wants to reach for the skies, SAFMC
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