The Straits Times, 2 November 2009

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    20 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 2009 S|Si A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    Lock icon No mothballing of MRT stations in future
    659 1  -  Christopher Tan By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT THE Government will in future not allow completed train stations to remain closed. Currently, there are 10 LRT stations and one MRT station which are ready but are mothballed. The MRT station is Woodleigh, on the North-East Line.
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  • INSIDE
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      Lock icon S'porean is US Sudoku ace
      60 1 MRS Tammy McLeod, 32, a Singaporean based in the United States, beat 68 contestants in a national competition to take the top prize. A Google computer programmer with a 168 IQ, she started doing the logic-based Japanese puzzles just 2V2 years ago and developed her
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      Lock icon Backing the Greenback
      58 1 THE US dollar has lost 10 per cent against the Singdollar since hitting a high of $1.55 in March. The experts expect the US dollar to weaken, sinking as low as $1.34 by the end of next year. But its demise as the main international currency is
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      Lock icon Beijing sacks minister
      38 1 CHINA has dismissed unpopular education minister Zhou Ji, 63, following widespread public dissatisfaction with the education system. The surprise move is the latest shift to roil the public education sector in China. WORLD PAGE AlO
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      Lock icon HK gets tough on refugees
      64 1 HONG KONG police arrested a boatload of illegal Afghan migrants over the weekend. The number of refugees entering Hong Kong has been rising since a court ruling allowed asylum seekers to work in the city while awaiting a decision on their immigration status. Legislators are
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      Lock icon Kidney fund's plus side
      41 1 THE moves to reimburse up to $5,000 for every live kidney donation will probably not lead to a surge of new donors but will help to remove the disincentives holding people back from donating. HOME PAGE B4
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    Lock icon Poulter wins Barclays Singapore Open
    74 1 ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN LAN Poulter won the Singapore Open by one stroke despite a roller coaster one-over 72 in the final round yesterday. The Englishman finished at 10-under 274 to beat China No. 1 Liang Wenchong. British bank Barclays also agreed to extend its
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    Lock icon PM: New slate of future leaders ready by next GE
    738 1  -  Jermy Au Yong Committed candidates including potential office holders already identified ByJ POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE ruling People's Action Party (PAP) will have the next generation of political leaders in place by the next general election in 2011 or 2012, said
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        Lock icon Greening versus warming
        76 2 WE SAY In responding to international demands to cut its per capita carbon emission, Singapore can point to the impressive strides it has made in green technology in recent years. It has rendered 250 large buildings more energy efficient since 2005 and will do the same to
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      • Article
        Lock icon A brighter future
        24 2 COLUMNS Photovoltaics have some inherent advantages over solar thermal, the other solar technology available today, says Michael Richardson. REVIEW PAGE Al9
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        Lock icon Outdated matchmaker
        18 2 Despite its efforts, the Social Development Network is desperately outdated, says Yen Feng. HOME PAGE B9
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        Lock icon Every little bit counts
        34 2 OUR READER SAYS Use less air-conditioning, eat less and drive less, but recycle more. These are what everyone can do to protect the environment, says Jeffrey Chan. FORUM PAGE A2O
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        31 2 www.straitstimes.com Oo Gin Lee says checking out his friends online isn't wrong; it's all about competition. Eve Yap comes up with her own design for a new, wrist-friendly laptop.
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      Lock icon Pressing need for new regional alliance
      943 2  -  Nirmal Ghosh Challenge for Asean will be shaping framework and remaining relevant By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT IN THE global village, Asean is like an alliance between small- and me-dium-sized families, with only tenuous links to bigger, more powerful families just over the horizon. It has
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      Lock icon PM on cost concerns, rising expectations
      527 3  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Govt aware of worries over pricier HDB flats, 'sandwiched class' By THE Government is aware of public concerns over issues such as the cost of living, pricier HDB flats and the problems faced by those described as the sandwiched class, Prime
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      Lock icon 6.39 PM
      72 3  -  Samuel He It's that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. By I PHOTOJOURNALIST A lone person
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      Lock icon Political changes will mean tougher time for PAP
      320 3  -  JEREMY AU YONG PROPOSED political changes to provide for more diverse voices in Parliament will make life harder for the ruling PAP but the move would ultimately be good for Singapore. At the PAP convention yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged
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      Lock icon Cloud seeding triggers early snowfall in China
      385 4 BEIJING: Biting cold and strong winds gripped Chinese provinces yesterday as Beijing embraced its first snowfall this winter at least two months earlier than last year. Chinese meteorologists used cloud seeding to bring the winter weather early to the capital in an effort
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; XINHUA; SIM CHI YIN  -  385 words
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      Lock icon US 'committed to Asean for long haul'
      651 4  -  Chua Chin Hon But it is too early to say if US-Asean summit will be annual affair: envoy By US BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON: The United States is committed to long-term engagement with Asean despite a plethora of geopolitical challenges demanding its attention elsewhere,
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      Lock icon Karzai's rival Abdullah pulls out of election
      462 5 KABUL: Opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah yesterday pulled out of Afghanistan's run-off presidential election, plunging the war-torn country into fresh political turmoil less than a week before the scheduled contest. After President Hamid Karzai snubbed a series of demands promoted as a bid to
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      Lock icon StarHub 'happy to host BPL'
      553 5  -  Chua Hian Hou Set-top box offer for Sing Tel pay-TV shows By STARHUB has offered to carry SingTel's pay-TV content on its set-top box, which could mean that pay-TV subscribers will not need to switch set-top boxes or get another one to watch content from
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      Lock icon How North-East Line turned around
      891 6  -  Christopher Tan Analysts predicted years of red ink, but commuter rides more than double By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT THREE years after it started running in 2003, the North-East Line became profitable. And despite initial fears that few would use it, it now has the fastest-grow-ing ridership
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      Lock icon Sail awaits at end of line extension
      331 6  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN HOLIDAY-MAKERS will be able to "ride-and-sail" when the North-South Line links up with the new international cruise centre being built in Marina South. The new cruise terminal will be able to accommodate the world's largest ships. When completed, it will be
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      Lock icon Safety doors operating at Pasir Ris MRT
      363 7  -  Chua Hian Hou Barriers will come into operation at Jurong East and Yishun by year end By THE first set of half-height platform doors to prevent commuters at above-ground stations from falling onto the MRT tracks started operations yesterday at Pasir Ris MRT
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
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      Lock icon Coping with rising tide of illegals
      544 8 IN HK: Law on refugees will be tightened HONG KONG: Marine police seized a boat smuggling in illegal Afghan migrants at the weekend the first time that nationals from the war-torn country had been caught entering the city claiming to be asylum seekers, police
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      Lock icon More beds to deal with influx
      263 8 IN AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday it would increase the number of beds at its main immigration centre to cope with an influx of boat people, amid concerns about growing numbers of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka. The Christmas Island facility, where all boat
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    • world regional
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        Lock icon 'Living funerals' staged for the terminally ill
        424 10 TAIPEI: The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all made David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite in Taiwan except that he is still alive. Mr Tseng is only 25 but wheelchair-bound and in the terminal stage of
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        Lock icon China sacks education minister
        463 10 Dismissal comes amid rising discontent with ills in the system; deputy to take over BEIJING: China's legislature has removed the country's unpopular education minister amid widespread public dissatisfaction with the education system. The standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's highest legislature, dismissed Mr
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        Lock icon Sports memoir sparks furore
        309 10 BEIJING: Mr Yuan Weimin was the toast of China's sporting scene from the early 1980s, when he coached the women's gold-medal winning volleyball team, to 2001, when the head of the Chinese Olympic committee helped bring home the biggest prize of all Beijing's selection as host
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        Lock icon Close to 4m Chinese get H1N1 jabs as virus spreads
        412 11 BEIJING: China has inoculated more than 3.78 million people against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus and distributed over 26 million doses of vaccine to ward off a serious outbreak of the disease, the government said yesterday. More than 33 million
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        Lock icon Counterfeit rupees flooding India
        522 11 130 m fake notes flow in each year; officials say Pakistan is the source NEW DELHI: When India's central bank admitted discovering 400,000 fake notes in its currency reserves, many here woke up to the scale of the country's counterfeit money problems. Worse still, the embarrassing
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        Lock icon Two held for rumours on Thai King
        203 11 BANGKOK: Thai police arrested two people at a Bangkok airport yesterday on suspicion of spreading rumours about the health of the country's 81-year-old King that triggered a slide in Thailand's stock market, police said. Thai stocks plunged a combined 7.2 per cent on
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        Lock icon Vietnam braces itself for storm
        622 12 p RE p ARE|) People were more prepared aim more Of IeSS u npw W W ™W Wnai to (JO. People did not Wait Until it was tOO late pvnriintp lo cvdCUdie and Were Qiiicklv i r moved OUt 01 harm's Way to f prnun(
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        Lock icon PM Najib defends his Cabinet picks
        533 13 Umno MP had called for resignation of 2 ministers who have lost support KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday defended his two senior Chinese ministers from criticism by an Umno politician, saying he has the right to pick his Cabinet. A veteran Umno
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        Lock icon Body odour, boring sex drive up divorce rate
        239 13 KUALA TERENGGANU: Body odour, humdrum sex and boring pyjamas are behind the high divorce rate in Terengganu and the state government is scrambling to find ways to improve sexual relations, a state official said. "I know of one case where a separation
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    • world international
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        Lock icon A surge in punditry from the think-tanks
        1060 14  -  Bhagyashree Garekar MEMO FROM WASHINGTON As US debates Afghan war, these groups are robust in trying to influence public policy or opinion By US CORRESPONDENT Top think-tanks Brookings Institution One of Washington's oldest think-tanks with an annual budget of US$6O million (SsB4 million).
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        Lock icon British uni courses to be more of an open book
        463 15 Info on drop-out rates, future earnings will help students choose course LONDON: More data on British university courses, including drop-out rates and graduates' future earnings, will be made available to school leavers in a move designed to treat them more
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        Lock icon Fire thwarts efforts to plug Aussie rig leak
        199 15 SYDNEY: The Australian safety authorities were ordered yesterday to help put out a fire on a rig that had been leaking 400 barrels of oil a day into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks. Energy Minister Martin Ferguson directed the National Offshore
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        Lock icon Clinton lauds Israel in about-turn
        522 16 She praises its PM's 'unprecedented' offer on settlement building JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "unprecedented" concessions on West Bank settlement construction in an effort to restart peace talks. Mrs Clinton's support on Saturday for the Israeli
        WASHINGTON POST; LOS ANGELES TIMES; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; REUTERS  -  522 words
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        Lock icon Ex-leaders salute people for Wall's fall
        481 16 BERLIN: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, three Cold War leaders, Mr George H. W. Bush, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev and Mr Helmut Kohl, came together to pay their respects to the ordinary people who were behind the peaceful revolution
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        Lock icon Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Pacific isle
        545 17 Island nation of Palau grants sanctuary as US moves towards closing controversial prison KOROR (Palau): Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in the Pacific island nation of Palau yesterday, the latest step in US President Barack Obama's struggle to close the
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      • INBRIEF
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          Lock icon Transsexual beauty crowned
          209 17 PATTAYA: Shimmering in a gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand. Ms Haruna Ai, 37, beat 20 other contestants at the Miss International Queen 2009 who came
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        • Article
          Lock icon Korean contingency plan
          109 17 SEOUL: The United States and its ally South Korea have drawn up a contingency plan to cope with emergencies in North Korea, including a possible regime change there, a report said yesterday. "Operational Plan 5029" was completed by Seoul and Washington recently, Yonhap news agency said, quoting
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          Lock icon Clerics for Iran schools?
          85 17 TEHERAN: Iran's government is planning to appoint a cleric in every school, a move that could radicalise education in the Islamic republic, a reformist newspaper the Hayateno reported yesterday. Currently, teachers themselves address such matters, although special teachers used to impart religious values in schools after
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          Lock icon Airline tells mum 'sorry'
          115 17 SAN JOSE (California): A spokesman for Southwest Airlines says the carrier has apologised to a mother who was kicked off a plane along with her unruly two-year-old last week. Spokesman Chris Mainz said the airline called Ms Pamela Root on Friday to apologise. He said Ms
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          Lock icon Iskandar's 2,000 cameras
          109 17 JOHOR BARU: Two thousand surveillance cameras costing RM41.4 million (Ssl7 million) will be installed at Johor's Iskandar Malaysia corridor by the end of next year, said Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. He said the installation of the cameras is aimed at turning the economic corridor in southern
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Greening versus warming
      432 18 SEEKING a responsible balance between economic growth and environmental protection is a challenge every nation has to address as the issue of climate change ranks ever higher in international agendas. Singapore can cite as one example of its contributions the impressive strides it has made and is
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      Lock icon A dream team of two for EU
      939 18  -  Timothy Garton Ash FOREIGN POLICY By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES NOW the European Union (EU) is damned if it doesn't and damned if it does. If it doesn't appoint former British prime minister Tony Blair to be president of the European Council, there
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      Lock icon Asean still the best forum for region
      871 18  -  Rodolfo Severino By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES If one were to construct a more "wieldy" mechanism, who would be in and who would be out among the current participants... what exactly would the functions of the "community" be? THE leaders of the Association
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    • review
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        Lock icon Green energy's bright future
        991 19  -  Michael Richardson SOLAR POWER By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES ASIA'S two emerging economic giants, China and India, are starting to place big bets on solar power plants as a way of generating clean and green electricity to reduce their reliance on polluting coal. Similar bets are
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        Lock icon Extremism threatens to derail India's rise
        729 19  -  Harsh V. Pant By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES RECENTLY, Maoists abducted the officer-in-charge of a police station in West Bengal and killed two of his colleagues. After 55 hours in captivity, the officer was released by Maoist leader Kishenji in the presence of the
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        890 19  -  Michael Czinkota Thomas Czinkota By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES Does it make sense to dispense knowledge in a shotgun approach (we give you everything and hope some of it helps)? How about a just-in-time approach, where you download information and instructions just when you need
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        326 20 CLIMATE CHANGE I REFER to last Friday's report, "Singapore rejects emission cuts". Even if it is economically unfeasible to cut emissions as a small country, there is still plenty residents can do to protect the environment. I have a few suggestions: Eat less. Singaporeans love to
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        254 20 disagree with parts of it but who signed it actually consider that the threat facing humanity is worse than what the IPCC report says, not milder. Dr Ho cites the petition by 9,029 scientists who say that global warming is not caused by human
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        324 20 I REFER to Ms Lynne Tan's Forum Online letter last Friday, "Not much of a gap between 'pink' and 'blue' so offer dual citizenship". One should not assess the value of citizenship versus permanent residence status by comparing benefits and obligations. If so, everyone who
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        550 20 Race participant "Athletes were hardly carving their way through virgin rainforest." MR NICK TYMMS: "Given that the North Face 100 race was conducted on marked and well-used trails, athletes were hardly carving their way through virgin rainforest. As a race participant, I
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        117 20 lAM sorry Mr Heng Cho Choon had to wait in the queue when he visited our Jurong Service Centre ("Revamp system at CPF office to avoid waste of time", last Friday). Of late, we have experienced a surge in the number of customers served at
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        212 20 SINGLISH SINGLISH may not have the longevity needed to classify it as a culture, as Mr Dudley Au pointed out in "Don't use culture as an excuse for Singlish" (Oct 23). However, it is part of a Singaporean identity, a type of code and the lingua
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        144 20 BY VIRTUE of its common usage and history, Singlish has become much more than a "substandard and undesirable variant of English" for those who associate it with the Singapore they know and grew up in. I am a Singaporean living overseas, and the over-the-top Singlish
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        324 20 Tourism advantage "Learning and communicating in dialects should be encouraged in Singapore." MR NG HONG PEOW: "The two integrated resorts will open soon and Singapore is likely to receive more Chinese tourists. When comparing Singapore to Macau, one major drawback is that younger Singaporeans cannot speak Mandarin and dialects
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      113 20 J^ A More letters on ,*3J www.straitstimes.com 1 MR DENIS DISTANT: Santa Claus look-alikes facing wrong way 2 MR PETER HENG: Wet market vendors have more incentive to serve better 3 MR FRANCIS CHENG: The many advantages of wet markets 4 MR PANAGIOTIS KARRAS: S'pore not part of developing world
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      1867 31  -  Jessica Lim Steady fall in number of those who give up subsidised rental stalls By A HARD STRUGGLE "It hurts when we struggle so hard and the first-generation hawkers have it so easy. But what can we do? We are new in the market and
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      483 33  -  Lester Kok More police checks result in 34% fewer such cases in first 9 months of 2009 By THE police crackdown on speeding has paid off: For the first time in six years, fewer people died on the roads because of speeding drivers.
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      292 34 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday opened its first convenience store, which sells all its publications in addition to food products and beverages. The new 300 sq ft store, known as "Buzz Pod", is located near a bus stop along Marine Parade Road and
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      944 34  -  Yen Feng MPs, kidney specialists and patients say it will improve lives and curb organ trading By How the fund works What can the Kidney Live Donor Support Fund be used for? Post-operation costs: These include the cost of health checks, laboratory tests, surgery,
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      560 35 Seen at NTU (above): An example of writing that lacks precision and concision and uses more words than necessary. The preposition "about" is not essential. "Moderate" should have been used as the adverb, "Moderately", to modify the adjective "well". Dr K.K. Sect is a
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        749 36  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Janil Puthucheary is impressed with party's community work By w POLITICS OF CONSENSUS "There were repeated calls for the politics of consensus. Many activists felt strongly about the need to have more consensus or buy-in within the party, be
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        185 36  -  NUR DIANAH SUHAIMI WHEN Singapore was still part of Malaysia in the early *****, Singaporean Malays stood loyally by the PAP, even as the party fought against "extremism and communalism". Even today, Malay Singaporeans' support for the PAP remains critical, said Prime Minister Lee
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        493 36  -  Cai Haoxiang By THE picture e-mailed to Mr Lim Boon Heng showed workers celebrating the completion of tunnelling work for the Circle Line in August. Sent by a member of the public, the accompanying message read: "Mr Lim, would we have our Circle Line and MRT lines
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      493 37  -  Rachel Chang PAP CONVENTION Fielding of outsiders for polls, toeing party line among issues raised By THE PAP rank-and-file engaged their leaders directly at yesterday's party convention, and activists did not hold back. Several of those who posed questions to the central executive
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      340 37  -  RACHEL CHANG AS A longtime resident of opposi-tion-held Potong Pasir constituency, PAP member A.K. Lakshmanan wondered if the ruling party had "abandoned" the constituency after losing again at the 2006 general election. The Moulmein branch member, who has lived in Potong Pasir
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      74 37 President S R Nathan presenting this year's top National Day award the Distinguished Service Order to PSA International group chairman Fock Siew Wah at the investiture of the 2009 National Day Awards at the National University of Singapore's University Cultural Centre yesterday. Mr Fock, 69,
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        692 38  -  AHMAD OSMAN Banks and supermarkets adjust timings to suit the convenience of customers BY YOU no longer have to take time off from work to carry out banking transactions and buy groceries in supermarkets, thanks to their longer operating hours. Take OCBC Bank,
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        272 38 AS THE bank that has inculcated thrift and savings among children since the *****, POSB will be producing a special supplement called the POSB Family Times which targets parents and children. It will provide parents with ideas on bonding with their children during the school
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        178 38  -  ZACKARIA ABDUL RAHIM BY BURGER King is living up to its promise "Have It Your Way" with the new Whopper Bar restaurant in Clarke Quay. Customers can have their Whopper burger with single, double or triple beef patties and 24 toppings to choose
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        137 38 IN the battle for the last bottle of Tiger Beer, two young men engaged in an arm-wrestling challenge turn into different larger-than-life characters trying to outdo each other. The commercial is part of Tiger Beer Singapore's new through-the-line campaign titled "Enjoy Winning". It is activated via television,
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        161 38 AFTER his two previous collections with Soo Kee Jewellery, designer Wykidd Song is back with his third wedding jewellery collection called We. Comprised of six wedding bands and eight wedding jewellery pieces, this wedding collection celebrates the union of two souls with the
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        358 38 West festival Go west and join in West Mall's 11th anniversary celebrations with circus acts and comedy shows. Also, with a minimum spending of $50, you can enter the Carnival of Dreams lucky draw and win prizes including mobile phone sets, holidays and a grand prize of a diamond
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        473 39  -  Yen Feng SOAPBOX Friendly tip for SDN: matchmaking should not be bureaucratic exercise By GIVEN the peaks and valleys of romance, it can be difficult for a young person to navigate matters of love. The Social Development Network (SDN), the latest incarnation of
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        784 39 MY LIFE Integrated concept offering more I WANT my wet market to be a one-stop outlet for all my daily needs not just food. My Filipino friend, Jennifer, suggested that wet markets here can adopt an integrated concept similar to Masinag Wet and Dry
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      99 31 WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE www.straitstimes.com YOUR SAY MOST-READ ONLINE Promising PAP candidates and No sex in Singapore corpse show potential office-holders have been Cabby "molested passenger" identified for the next general election, the PM has said. Join the discussion. MOST COMMENTED ON More cars, so
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      54 33 "Loan-shark runners "Street donations: receive stiff punishments" Credit card, please" O /**t SWIPE "Keeping Singapore clean: "Singapore to do its part in 40 years on" reducing carbon emissions" tfH ffi |Uf SS t a rtby...^^|j f I SYSTEM I VW^'^jgiCßr I 1 ...bahhihg cheap petrol o promotions.' I THIRD L
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      736 40  -  Leonard Lim BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN Colourful Englishman's latest appearance is as Singapore Open winner By AN ASIAN almost forced a play-off, two Ryder Cup teammates traded birdies and the outright lead, and Sentosa stayed dry for the first time in days. Liang Wenchong, lan Poulter, Graeme McDowell and
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      838 40  -  Rohit Brijnath SPORTINGLIFE I By lAN Poulter will never be what you want him to be. Yesterday he wore pink and then played golf that was anything but pretty. He showed us greatness for two days, then put on a short
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      1063 41  -  Jonathan Wong BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN Scott's furious rally of 3-under 68 falls short, but third place is still his best result since Feb By Final round 274 lan Poulter (Eng) 66 64 72 72 275 Liang Wenchong (Chn) 69 68 68 70 276 Scott Hend (Aus)
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        78 42 JONATHAN Woo of Singapore tied for eighth in the Asian Amateur Championship after a final-round one-under 71. He shot a four-day total of 285 at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China, finishing nine shots behind the winner, Han Chang Won of South Korea.
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        66 42 CLEVELAND: Shaquille O'Neal made his first free throws of the NBA season after 10 consecutive misses, as the Cleveland Cavaliers rolled to a 90-79 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Saturday. Delonte West scored 13 points all in the second half in
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        45 42 TURIN: Napoli fought back from a two-goal deficit to shock Juventus 3-2 in Serie A football on Saturday. Jesus Datolo scored one goal and set up the other two for Marek Hansik to give Napoli all three points. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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        37 42 NEW DELHI: Yuvraj Singh and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni steered India to a six-wicket victory in the third one-day cricket international against Australia on Saturday. India lead the series 2-1. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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      692 42  -  Wang Meng Meng FAS coach and former international collapses 30 minutes into match By When tragedies strike on the pitch DAVID Sivalingam's death comes just a month after another tragedy struck in a veterans' football match. On Oct 4, former Singapore striker Dollah Kassim suffered
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      168 42 MADRID: A disastrous stoppage-time own goal by Gerard Pique denied Barcelona the spoils in a 1-1 draw at Osasuna, as the La Liga football champions saw their lead over Real Madrid cut to one point. Barca looked poised to win in Pamplona
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      484 42 LONDON: The knives are out for Rafael Benitez, who refused to write off Liverpool's Premier League title chances despite losing 1-3 at Fulham their sixth loss in their past seven games. Benitez claimed fullback Philipp Degen should have been given only yellow for his
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      366 43 But English champions still struggling without Ronaldo LONDON: When Blackburn last came to Manchester United in February, they might have snatched a draw but for a brilliant Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick. On Saturday, United's increasingly rare moment of magic came from the inconsistent Dimitar Berbatov. After 55 minutes
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      83 43 MORE than 14,000 women took part in the fourth annual Great Eastern Women 10K, which was flagged off at the Padang yesterday. The largest all-women running event in Asia, comprising both the 10km run and skm Fun Run, saw participants take to the streets in Marina Bay
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      217 43 LONDON: Carlo Ancelotti was thrilled by Chelsea's response to their early-season setbacks after Saturday's 4-0 win over Bolton left them two points clear at the top of the Premier League table. Serious questions were asked after successive away losses at Wigan and Aston
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      321 44  -  Lin Xinyi By A DAY after upsetting Liv Shiwen and Ding Ning in the doubles with her partner Wang Yuegu, Singapore paddler Feng Tianwei had the chance to claim another huge scalp. But the world No. 7 could not repeat the
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      666 44 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX Results 1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger/Red Bull) lhr 34min 03.4145 ec 2 Mark Webber (Aus/Red Bull) +17.8575 ec 3 Jenson Button (Gbr/Brawn) +18.467 4 Rubens Barrichello (Bra/Brawn) +22.735 5 Nick Heidfeld (Ger/BMW Sauber) +26.253 6 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn/Toyota) +28.343 7 Jarno Trulli (Ita/Toyota)
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      229 44 DOHA: Underlining her dominance at the top of women's tennis, Serena Williams won her second career WTA Championship title yesterday with a commanding 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) victory over sister Venus. The triumph earned her a cool US$l.55 million (552.2 million). It was Serena's second
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      66 44 Singapore Slingers' centre Pathman Matialakan (third from left) challenging Alexander Hartman for the ball in the team's 96-72 win over Indonesian side Satria Muda BritAma at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday. The victory saw the Slingers maintain their unbeaten record in the Asean Basketball
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      268 44 CASARES (Spain): Golfer Ross Fisher won the battle of the World Matchplay Championship debutants, when the Briton eased to a 4 3 victory over American Anthony Kirn in the final yesterday. One up after the morning session, Fisher's putting prowess proved too good
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      112 44 "That was amazing. The legend continues with Manu. He's always doing crazy stuff." TONY PARKER of San Antonio Spurs, after teammate Manu Ginobili swatted a bat that was flying around, with his bare hand, during the 113-94 win over Sacramento Kings on Saturday PHILADELPHIA: Umpire Gerry
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      408 44 Badminton World Junior Championships In Alor Star, finals, singles: Boys Tian Houwei (Chn) bt Zainuddin Iskandar Zulkarnain (Mas) 21-12 21-17. Girls Ratchanok Intanon (Tha) bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (Tha) 21-15 21-23 21-10. Baseball MLB World Series: Philadelphia Phillies 5 New York Yankees 8 (Yankees lead best-of-seven series 2-1). Basketball NBA
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      412 45 "During the warming-up training before play, I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off." ANDRE AGASSI Former star also admits taking performance-enhancing drugs NEW YORK: Andre Agassi's admission that the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig
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      578 42 Better Than Ever coasts to the line an easy winner in the Stewards' Cup BETTER THAN EVER may have off like flies. Rock You was already withouthavingtogothroughquarantine accounted for only a small field in reaching for the oxygen mask while the again." yesterday's Group 3 Stewards' Cup Brian Dean duo
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      93 44 Today Baseball MLB World Series Game 4: New York Yankees v Philadelphia Phillies (Live, Ch23, 9am). Football S-League: Gombak v Geylang (Jurong West, 7.45pm). Tennis ATP Swiss Indoors, Basel: 3rd rd (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 1.30am). Tomorrow Baseball MLB World Series Game 5: New York Yankees v Philadelphia Phillies (Live, Ch23,
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      229 45 vs "Ghalay aaveh nanakaa, sadey utheejaahl" Those who are sent, come, O Nanak; when they are called back, they depart and go. SARJIT KAUR (w/o late Hakam Singh Gill Kaleke) Age: 82 passed away peacefully on 31 Oct 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Sons: Daughters-in-law: Mejar
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      134 45 "You are my Father, my God, the rock of my salvation!" Psalm 89:26 JOSEPH GERARD PAUL FERNANDEZ was called home to be with the Lord on 31 October 2009 Dearly missed, fondly remembered and forever loved by his wife Audrey, his daughters Angelina and Cordelia, his sons-in-law Anthony and Justin,
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      75 45 I "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" 2 Timothy 4:7 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of ER HWA SOON Entered Into Glory on 2nd November 2008 Your presence is ever near us, Your love remains with us yet; You were
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      31 45 ONG QUEE BOCK TENG HONG Special prayer for the Souls of our departed loving Parents Children: Lawrence, Freddie, Terry, Paddy, Katherine Jessie Daughters Son-in-law: Doreen, Maggie, Evelyn, Robert Grandchildren loved ones
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      147 45 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the heaven of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6 1 FRANCIS WONG POH CHONG Age: 53 was called home to be with the Lord on 31 October 2009, leaving behind loved ones. I
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      589 48 Index's sharpest spurt in 18 months points to sustained expansion BEIJING: China's vast manufacturing sector expanded last month at the fastest rate in 18 months, a survey showed yesterday, and economists said they expected the momentum to be sustained in the coming months.
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        597 25 New York Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe (right) is riding a once unthinkable trajectory of newcomer movie stardom that rivals any fairy tale. She won the title role in the new film, Precious, with no serious training. The result is that she shines in scenes with stars
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