The Straits Times, 27 November 2009

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  • 20 1 MICA (P) 094/11/2009 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 2009 S|_l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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  • INSIDE
    • 52 1 IT IS no longer enough for retailers to deliver good customer service. Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, said they should shoot for customer satisfaction, which is shaped by factors such as price, product quality and a constant drive to improve. PRIME
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    • 59 1 MEET Little Durian Star, the mascot of the Singapore Pavilion at next year's World Expo in Shanghai. Liv Lian Xiao King, as he is called in Mandarin, made his debut at a ceremony yesterday to mark the completion of the 3,000 sqm structure that will represent the
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    • 42 1 THE world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases have announced targets to cut emissions two weeks before a global summit on climate change. China's announcement yesterday comes a day after the United States' offer. WORLD PAGES C 26-27
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    • 49 1 SOUTH Korea and Japan both suffering from alarmingly low birth rates are planning new measures to encourage people to have more babies and raise population numbers. Cash incentives are among them. In addition, South Korea also plans to discourage abortions and encourage immigration. WORLD PAGES Cl-2
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    • 59 1 THE stock market rally has driven valuations to above historical levels, but analysts reckon there is more to come. The benchmark Straits Times Index hit a year high of 2,797.88 on Monday. It is ahead 4.41 per cent for this month, and poised for its
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  • 605 1  -  Rachel Chang Instead they will get a small one-off payment for support of wage restraint By APART from their regular 13th month wage supplement, civil servants will not be receiving any other bonus next month. However, they will receive a one-off payment of a quarter
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  • 156 1 WHEN she first arrived from China, Qiu Biqing's English was so weak that teachers recommended placing the 10-year-old in Primary 2. She persevered at Primary 3 instead. Since then, Biqing has mastered English and just about everything else. Yesterday, she
    JOYCE FANG; BERITA HARIAN  -  156 words
  • 579 1  -  Jessica Jaganathan By IT IS now safe for anyone above the age of 10 to be vaccinated against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus here. And as a large number of patients hospitalised for HINI are in their teens or younger,
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  • VIEW POINTS
    • 99 2 The massacre of some 60 people in a pre-election incident in the Philippines is a shocker, even for a country used to political violence. The people do not have to accept intimidation, assaults and mass killings as the inevitable opening to an election
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    • 36 2 The United States' nuclear posture in Asia depends on keeping its adversaries guessing. Japan puts regional security at risk if 11 pusnes too hard for transparency, says William Choong. REVIEW PAGE A 24
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    • 31 2 The European Union's selection of its new top two officials reflects its tendency to avoid hard choices, says Timothy Garton Ash. REVIEW PAGE A 26 OUR READERS SAY
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    • 24 2 The Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index's ranking of the CPF is worth examining, says Kwong Hui Hen. FORUM PAGE A 36
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    • Article, Illustration
      19 2 www.straitstimes.com Carolyn Hong meets three young men who started a political think-tank together, despite their differing politics.
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  • prime commentary
    • 1075 2  -  Chua Lee Hoong What's needed is to tailor teaching of Chinese to pupils' varying abilities By POLITICAL EDITOR MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent remarks on the learning and teaching of Mandarin have elicited polarised reactions. At one end are Chinese educators who fear that Mr
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  • prime news
    • 498 3  -  Mavis Toh MAIDS IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW Baby twins' mum found detergent particles mixed in by her unhappy maid By Elena Chong UNHAPPY at being scolded by her employer, a maid added powdered detergent to the milk powder of his twin
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    • 445 3  -  Sujin Thomas By AN ELDERLY woman was found dead in her Serangoon Gardens house early yesterday, and her maid has been arrested. Police are treating the case as murder. Madam Sng Gek Wah, 87, had no visible injuries except for a cut to her
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    • 273 4 MUMBAI: Candlelight vigils and prayer meetings were held across Mumbai yesterday, as the city remembered the 166 victims, including foreigners, killed by gunmen on Nov 26 last year. "We have lost a lot. We have no words to express our feelings," said one woman as
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  273 words
    • 328 4 ATLANTA: There is no evidence that the HINI flu vaccine is causing any serious side-effects, say US health officials, in their first report on the safety of the new vaccine. Since vaccinations began early last month, the US government has been tracking the safety
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    • 730 6  -  Sue-Ann Chia By SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT PRINCIPLE STILL HOLDS "We still maintain the principle that pay in civil service should be market-competitive. It has served us well so far. We've been able to attract, retain and have a good civil
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  • prime news
    • 629 10 Filipino clan leader denies he had anything to do with slaughter of at least 57 people AMPATUAN (Philippines): A politician accused of masterminding an election-linked massacre that left 57 people dead surrendered to the authorities yesterday but insisted he was innocent. Andal Ampatuan
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    • 395 10 MANILA: The massacre of more than 57 people in a Philippine village this week has revealed the friends-turned-foes saga of two powerful clans in the region. The Ampatuans and the Mangudadatus were once political allies. The Ampatuans entered Philippine politics in the
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    • 491 11 Not just about service, so Sems to focus on price and product quality too DELIVERING good customer service is no longer enough. The new target is to deliver customer satisfaction, which is shaped by factors such as price, product quality and a constant drive to
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    • 517 11 CHANGI International Airport Services (CIAS) duty manager Gopalakrishnan Menon had to literally move a mountain to help a passenger a mountain of human waste, that is. When told that the passenger had accidentally flushed her diamond ring into an aircraft toilet bowl, Mr Menon,
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    • 429 13 WASHINGTON: Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve. On Tuesday night, a glittering blonde, decked out in a red and gold sari, and her black-tuxedoed-escort swept past camera crews and reporters camped
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    • 803 13 Dubai World, owned by state, mired in $81b debt DUBAI/LONDON: Global financial markets have been rocked by the Dubai government's shock decision to ask creditor banks for a six-month delay on its massive debt repayments. Its request is a blunt acknowledgment of the severity of
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    • 518 17 Welcome respite after heavy rain left at least 48 dead near Mecca WELCOME RELIEF "God gave us a reprieve from the rainfall on the most important day of haj. It shows His immense clemency." Indonesian pilgrim Abdulwadood Asegaf MECCA (Saudi Arabia): Bright weather greeted some
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      • 395 15 IT IS a crisis that jumps from today's headlines: rising sea levels threaten to engulf Singapore and make life and economic activity intolerable for its five-million strong population. While the risk seems real if the climate change experts are to be believed, so is
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 441 21 EVEN for a country accustomed to murder as a neat way to settle political rivalry, a massacre on Monday as a ritual opening to election season in the Philippines challenges the imagination. President Gloria Arroyo is under pressure to dig out the truth,
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    • 914 21  -  William Choong FOREIGN MATTERS By SENIOR WRITER By disclosing the existence of the pact, however, the Hatoyama government risks fraying the alliance, upon which the security of Japan and the security of the Asia-Pacific depends. MOST visitors to Japan, this writer included, are usually
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    • 823 21  -  Ching Cheong By SENIOR WRITER MY 35-YEAR journalistic career has been characterised by a deep concern for the fate of communism, for China is a communist country. My first overseas assignment as a journalist was to Belgrade in 1978 to see if
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    • review
      • 1237 23  -  Timothy Garton Ash NEW APPOINTMENTS TO EU'S TOP JOBS By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES Uf I 1 INTIN and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle would command more respect on the world stage." This comment in a reader's let--M» ter to a newspaper is no doubt horribly unfair
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      • 789 25  -  Bruce Gale MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS By SENIOR WRITER TIRED of all those special offers touted by Singapore's rival mobile phone companies? Check out these jaw-dropping promotions offered to potential subscribers in Indonesia. Indosat says customers need only 1 rupiah (Sso.oool cents) to
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      • 723 25  -  Clive D.L. Wynne By THERE are about 70 million dogs living in human homes in the United States. That's 10 million more dogs than children below the age of 15. The pattern in other Western nations is similar. Roughly 40 per cent of house
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      • review insight
        • 2526 27  -  Clarissa Oon Kor Kian Beng A fresh controversy over second language policy has erupted with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's remarks that the Government had proceeded on the wrong assumptions for 30 years. Did it really go wrong? If so, how can it
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        • 268 27 1969: Second language becomes a compulsory paper in the GCE 0-level examination. 1973: Double weighting applies to second language at the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE), equal to first language. 1979: An Education Ministry report by then Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee and
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        • 820 29  -  Kor Kian Beng By IN SEPTEMBER 1989, a Singaporean mother, Mrs Pauline Tan, wrote an impassioned letter to The Straits Times, criticising the way the Chinese language was taught in schools here and the impact it had on her nine-year-old
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    • forum.
      • 317 31 MUSLIMS celebrate Hari Raya Haji today, an important Islamic celebration revolving around the theme of sacrifice. A key ritual involves the sacrifice of goats or sheep whose meat is distributed to the needy. Millions of dollars are spent on this ritual, the end
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      • 357 31 SINGPOST referred to the iconic value of postage stamps when it justified the retention of postage stamps despite the high cost ("Stamps are icons of nation's achievements, heritage", Nov 16). So it is puzzling that no postage stamp has been issued to celebrate a rare
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      • 292 31 MY SCHOOL'S media club members and I participated in The Straits Times Media Club Camp last week. It was an amazing two-day event for my students, who received first-hand knowledge from experienced staff of Singapore Press Holdings. It was an eye-opener to the workings
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      • 288 31 I REMEMBER that when I drove on expressways many years ago, most large and slow vehicles kept to the left lane. I also remember seeing Traffic Police officers on motorcycles patrolling the expressways at least once a week during peak hours. Today, it is very
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      • 409 31 I REFER to Mr Chew Chee Meng's letter, "End the delay and start building" (Nov 20). The Singapore Government is fully committed to building the Sports Hub. The Sports Hub is being developed using a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) approach, under which the successful consortium is
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      • 340 33 LEARNING CHINESE THE call to overhaul the methodology used to teach Chinese in schools is timely, seeing how the immense amount of generated angst spent studying, yet not mastering, the language has sadly led to frustration and then capitulation by many students. Through sheer
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      • 278 33 RANKING OF CPF I REFER to Wednesday's report, "Ranking of CPF flawed: Expert". I agree with the observations made by National University of Singapore's Associate Professor Chia Ngee Choon, that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) received a relatively poor score in the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index
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      • 109 33 I REFER to the letters, "Can SMRT comment if this level of service is consistent with its service level agreement with EZ-Link?" by Mr Dicky Lee (Nov 9) and "Still no word on EZ-Link Giro link-up application" by Madam Oei Khoen Hwa (Forum Online, Nov
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      • 183 33 THE Government's admission that its bilingual policy was wrongly implemented is admirable and recalls a similar acknowledgement earlier about its "Stop at Two" population policy. One would have wished that, over such a long period, someone within the Government had identified the mistakes.
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      • 284 33 LAST Saturday's Saturday Special report, "Secret lives", featured an exhibition organised by Action for Aids. It included a black-and-white photograph of the outside wall of a ward at the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC). The photo carried a caption which has caused distress among the
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      • 576 33 "The only thing that made me study Chinese was the realisation that it must be important if it mattered in PSLE." MISS YU KEXIN: "Why should less emphasis be placed on Chinese, as Mr Arthur Lim asserted yesterday ('Make mother tongue less critical in PSLE'), just because certain students
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    • 798 36  -  Amelia Tan Leow Si Wan 7 of 13 top pupils this year come from neighbourhood schools By NEIGHBOURHOOD schools have trumped their more well-regarded counterparts in producing top pupils in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Seven of the 13 best pupils this year came
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      • 599 37  -  Jennani Durai Now, the Qifa Primary pupil scores A* for English paper in PSLE By THREE years ago, Qiu Biqing barely spoke a word of English when she came here with her parents from China. Yesterday, the Qifa Primary School pupil, now
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      • 562 37  -  Leow Si Wan By IT HAPPENS each year: Complaints flood in from parents after what they view as a particularly tough PSLE paper, along with tales of sobbing children, letters to the media and much wailing online. This year was no different, as
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    • 537 40  -  Theresa Tan Gambling addicts trying to turn over a new leaf can register themselves online By GAMBLING addicts who fear that they may put themselves at risk if they enter the two upcoming casinos here can get themselves banned from them. All they have to
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    • 467 42  -  Ang Yiying Former opposition politician says he cannot live with brother's killer By FORMER opposition politician Tan Lead Shake will leave his Chi-na-born wife Wu Yunyun, who was convicted last week of killing his brother. Speaking to the press for the first time since
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    • 298 42  -  ELENA CHONG THE man tasked to look out for a six-year-old was charged in court yesterday with the murder of the very child in his care. Mohammad Johan Rashid, 31, clad in a white T-shirt and brown shorts, looked dazed and
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      • 146 42 A 25-YEAR-OLD Vietnamese man was arrested yesterday and charged in court the same day he was spotted splashing paint and writing on a wall outside an HDB unit in Henderson Crescent. A resident in the block called the police when he saw the suspect outside his unit.
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      • 125 42 A MAN who stabbed another man, dealing him life-threatening injuries, was jailed for four years yesterday. Loh Chin Shung, 52, and jobless, is out on $15,000 bail pending his appeal against the sentence. He had pleaded guilty to stabbing Mr David Thong Tuck Wai,
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      • 89 42 A MAN who allegedly tried to make it through the arrival hall of Changi Airport with two truncheons last December was charged yesterday. The case against Oh Kirn Han, 40, accused of being armed with the truncheons "without a lawful purpose" in Terminal 3, will be
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    • 729 45  -  Jessica Cheam Turnaround in property market may have hit demand, say analysts By NO NEED TO DOWNGRADE "With HDB prices still rising, and with some help from my children, I don't have to sell." Housewife Koh Gay Hua, 50, who had considered downgrading from
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    • 351 45 CLOSE to two-thirds of Punggol flats launched in the last decade have been completed so far, as the Government focuses its efforts on building up Singapore's north-east neighbourhood. There have been 27,000 Punggol flats launched since 1998, out of which 17,300 have been completed.
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    • 656 46  -  Tara Tan Number of donors also rises to 315 from 291 despite gloomy economy By ARTS REPORTER MORE than $30 million was donated to the arts last year despite the gloomy economy. It was not just corporations that dug into their pockets. Individuals
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    • 501 46  -  YEN FENG PREPARATIONS were in full swing at mosques yesterday as Muslims tended to the livestock to be sacrificed for Hari Raya Haji celebrations today. At Sengkang's Al-Mawaddah Mosque, the event is significant for being its first since the mosque opened in May. Since the
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    • 515 48  -  Jessica Jaganathan Lower cost is the key draw of hospital run by Spore group HMI By MORE Singaporeans are heading across the Causeway for medical treatment and one Singapore-owned hospital in Johor has seen its patient numbers jump fivefold. When the 218-bed Regency Specialist Hospital opened
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    • 365 48 TIRED of being a rebel without a cause, 15-year-old Hawa decided to check herself into the Muhammadiyah Welfare Home after she realised she needed help. It was a decision that paid off, eight years on. Today, she has a degree in business administration
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    • 343 49  -  Grace Chua Advanced labs at NUS High save the students trips to NUS and they can do night research By THE NUS High School for Mathematics and Science now has six laboratory facilities as good as those found in uni- versities. The new labs and
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
    • 679 51 PHOTO SOUTH KOREA: Plan to cut costs of bringing up children I By Lee Jun Bok FOR THE STRAITS TIMES SEOUL: Alarmed by the country's record low birth rate, the South Korean government plans to lower school entry age and increase education subsidies to help reduce
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      • 622 52 BEATING THE BABY BLUES TOKYO: There are many reasons why Japan's population is headed for a sharp decline, but one of them is that for working women, giving birth usually spells the death of their careers. The country's new government trying to defuse a
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      • 659 54  -  Peh Shing Huei State media urges authorities not to ease up on dragnet despite 16 match-fixing arrests By CHINA BUREAU CHIEF Matchfixing is not the only problem plaguing the sport. It is also marred by violence, with fights common on and off
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      • 468 54  -  Grace Ng By CHINA CORRESPONDENT SHANGHAI: He is five, wears a red one-piece suit emblazoned with a Merlion image, and loves durians so much he wears a spiky cap shaped like the fruit. Meet Little Durian Star, the mascot of the Singapore
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      • 655 56 New planning law in the works, but changing bad practices will be tough TAIPEI: The deaths and destruction wreaked on Taiwan by Typhoon Morakot was a disaster waiting to happen, aggravated by decades of unrestrained environmental abuse, critics say. Sixty years of intense
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      • 440 56 HONG KONG: Police are seeking the person behind a Facebook group that encouraged teenagers to commit mass suicide, a report said yesterday, after a 15-year-old member tried to kill himself. Nearly 190 people have joined the "I Have To Practise Suicide" group,
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      • 193 56 TAIPEI: Taiwan's Cabinet yesterday approved a plan to invest nearly NT$4 trillion (Ssl72 billion) in major "Love Taiwan" infrastructure projects, as part of efforts to boost the island's economy. The government would allocate NT52.79 trillion on 12 infrastructure projects, while another NT$l.2 trillion would come
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      • 633 59 Chinese eating more of bulb in belief that it will boost body's defences BEIJING: China is in the grip of a garlic frenzy, whipped up by the widespread belief that the pungent bulb could keep away the HINI flu virus. The craze has
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      • 269 59 SEOUL: A decades-old South Korean law that punished men for making false promises of marriage in order to have sex with women was struck down by the Constitutional Court yesterday. The nine-member court ruled in a 6-3 verdict that the law, enacted in 1953,
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      • 638 61  -  Carolyn Hong Experts doubt its viability, say Klang Valley water shortage forecast outdated By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF NO CLEAR ANSWERS "Will there be excess water? How will it fit into the existing framework of operators? It's a good idea to expand our expertise in groundwater and
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      • 241 61 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to introduce a 4 per cent goods and services tax (GST) in 2011, replacing current sales and services tax in a bid to diversify national revenues. The government had previously proposed to introduce a GST from the beginning of 2007
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      • 572 62  -  Teo Cheng Wee 3 camps said to agree on holding fresh polls but differ on the date By REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: A potentially divisive extraordinary general meeting of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) was abruptly called off yesterday, just two days before
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      • 390 62 KUALA LUMPUR: Four Indonesians have been arrested over the gruesome murder of an Indonesian man whose severed genitals were found next to his naked body. The man, whose identity has not been released, was found dead in a flat in the northern state
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      • 674 64 Defence urges court to bear in mind Khmer Rouge prison chiefs repeated apologies JUSTICE FOR ALL "The crimes committed by the accused at S-21 are rarely matched in modern history in terms of their combined barbarity, scope, duration, premeditation and their callousness. Not just
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      • 738 67 Move to ensure patients aware of consequences of gender swop WHY CHANGE THE LAWS? "I think a surgeon can make the decision who is a transsexual... each one (transsexual) has a very strong determination to have surgery and I don't think a psychiatrist gives them any
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      • 697 68  -  Nirmal Ghosh A fresh $121 m raised this week for Myanmar devastation but much more is needed By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: One-and-a-half years after Cyclone Nargis killed 140,000 people and displaced around three million in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, donors and coordinating agencies meeting this week
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      • 695 70  -  P. Jayaram MUMBAI ATTACKS: ONE YEAR ON Anti-terrorism parade, candlelight vigils and prayers mark tragedy By INDIA CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI: India yesterday marked the first anniversary of the terrorist rampage in this city, the nation's financial hub, with a series of ceremonies
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      • 504 70 MUMBAI: Women staff no longer greet guests with warm smiles and the traditional "namaste" at the gates of Mumbai's iconic Taj Mahal Palace Tower Hotel the way they once did. Today, men in white uniforms are there instead, making guests walk through metal detectors
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      • 362 70  -  P. JAYARAM MUMBAI: The prosecution wound up its arguments yesterday in the trial of Ajmal Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive during last year's terror attacks in the city. Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam rested his case after completing examination of the last of the
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      • 506 70  -  Carolyn Quek By THE National University of Singapore's law faculty has set up a scholarship in memory of lawyer Lo Hwei Yen, exactly one year after she was killed in last year's Mumbai terror attacks. Ms Lo, 28, who graduated from the faculty in
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      • 1008 73  -  Jonathan Eyal NEWS ANALYSIS Doubts over success as Obama is juggling too many foreign policy goal I By STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU PERFORMANCE ANXIETY? "He reminds me of a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six simultaneous games. But he hasn't completed a single
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      • 606 74 But allies reluctant to commit as Afghan war claims more casualties WASHINGTON: The United States is scrambling to coax Nato allies to send 10,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama's strategy for the region. Those countries appear willing to
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      • 557 77 Govt to use copters to herd some 6,000 thirsty animals that overran outback town ALICE SPRINGS (Australia): The Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small outback town in search of water,
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      • 610 78 Economic downturn hits foreign programmes two years after trend peaked PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island): Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of American college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an
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      • 467 79 But website operator is unfazed; says more expert contributors being sought LONDON: Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia lost 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of this year, a university study said. The figure compares with a loss of 4,900 over the same
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      • 79 79 In this image from Nasa TV, the United States' space shuttle Atlantis is seen with the earth's horizon in the background and a Soyuz spacecraft and the International Space Station in the foreground after it undocked from the orbiting laboratory on Wednesday. After seven days
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      • 400 79 MILAN: Italian prosecutors have asked a judge to hand prison sentences to three Google executives and one former executive charged in absentia with defamation and failure to comply with privacy laws. The prosecutors on Wednesday claimed that Google was negligent because it allowed a video
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      • 260 79 LOS ANGELES: An altered photograph of United States First Lady Michelle Obama, which created an international controversy because it popped up as the first result on Google image searches, has been removed by the blog site that had posted it. The blog, called
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      • 493 80 Swiss laboratory has come up with an autopsy process that uses scanners, not scalpels BERNE: A team of Swiss doctors is conducting about 100 autopsies a year without cutting open bodies, instead using devices including an optical 3-D scanner that can detect up
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      • 140 80 Surface scanner traces the body's contours A biopsy device uses a needle to extract sample cells from the body The body goes through a chamber fitted with X-ray scanners to capture the skeleton, layers of tissues and the inside of blood vessels The computer program collates the
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      • 650 81 But Palestinians say 10-month freeze not enough to restart peace negotiations A SEPARATE PEACE "At the end of the day, Netanyahu needs to make peace with us, the Palestinians, he doesn't need to make peace with Americans." Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
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      • 467 81 VIENNA: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) said yesterday that his probe of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at "a dead end" because Teheran is not cooperating. Mr Mohamed El Baradei also criticised Teheran for not
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      • 301 83 NEW DELHI: India's 74-year-old President swopped her trademark sari for military flying gear as she took off in a supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet. Mrs Pratibha Patil climbed gingerly aboard the Russian-built plane at an airfield in Maharashtra and gave a wave from the cockpit
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      • 354 83 MALAKOFF (France): A French artist has struck an unusual deal to sell his latest work: instead of paying up front, the buyer will hand over a regular fee until the artist dies. Mr Christian Boltanski said his deal with Australian professional gambler
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      • 287 83 BRUSSELS: Mr Herman van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well-known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan as a poet rather than a politician. Belgium's low-key prime minister is fond of writing haiku
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      • 345 83 ATLANTERRA (Spain): A Swiss adventurer trying to soar from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings was forced to ditch into the Atlantic after hitting turbulence and clouds so thick, he could not tell if he was flying up or down. The
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      • 652 84 Govt kicks off local debates among citizens but move raises fears amid immigrant unease PARIS: France has launched the Great Debate, leading off with a grand question: "For you, what does it mean to be French?" This is neither a pompous academic exercise in France's
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      • 44 84 It's all smiles for former conjoined Bangladeshi twins Krishna (front) and Trishna when they beat the odds and survived a landmark separation surgery. With guardian Moira Kelly, they are recuperating happily at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, photo: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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      • 291 84 ST PETERSBURG (Florida): Say thanks, it might make you feel better. Academics have long theorised that expressions of thanks promote health and happiness and give optimism and energy to the downtrodden. In recent years, researchers have tried to measure the benefits of gratitude.
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        153 75 As UN climate talks approach, we look at the damaging effects of climate change around the world PHOTOS: A fisherman sailing in the waters of the llulissat Icefjord in Greenland. The glacier has lost 94 sq km of surface area from 2001 to 2005 due to global warming,
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    • 621 76 COPENHAGEN: The world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases have announced targets to cut emissions two weeks before a high-stakes global summit on climate change. China, offering targets for the first time, said yesterday it will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions
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    • world.in brief
      • 152 86 AYUTTHAYA (Thailand): Thai police have promised to get tough with criminals who steal historic artefacts for the international market, after a spate of thefts from the old capital of Ayutthaya outraged the public in the Buddhist country. At least 20 heads of Buddha statues have recently been
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      • 96 86 SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday it would not overturn laws allowing the first same-sex civil unions, in a surprise move that enshrined gay "marriages" in the country. Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the government decided not to intervene after the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) agreed to minor changes
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      • 130 86 TOKYO: Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the new government for its plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge. In a rare joint press conference late on Wednesday and comments yesterday, they attacked a proposal to cut 26.76
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      • 79 86 TAIPEI: A daily newspaper in Taiwan has been fined for running animated news deemed too explicit for young audiences on its website. The Apple Daily was ordered to pay NT$l million (5543,000) for failing to improve its computer animation, which depicted real-life murders and rape in graphic
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      363 93 "As a team, you get what you deserve don't you? We are where we are because we deserve to be there and it's the same with Liverpool." GARY NEVILLE, the Manchester United club captain who is certain to incur the wrath of Liverpool fans by saying the Reds have
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    • 514 93  -  Lin Xinyi Gao and Wang must reach q-finals of Polish Open to figure in Pro Tour Grand Finals By "I'm a bit tired, but you can't always be at your peak for every competition. To do well even when you're not at your best that
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    • 298 93 KANPUR (India): Indian fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth grabbed six wickets on his comeback, to leave Sri Lanka facing an innings defeat in the second cricket Test yesterday. The 26-year-old captured five for 75 to help dismiss Sri Lanka for 229 in the first innings and give
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    • 197 93  -  LIN XINYI LESS than three months after breaking the 100 m breaststroke national record, Singapore's Parker Lam has done it again. The 20-year-old clocked lmin 2.655 ec at the Asian Swimming Championships in Foshan, China, yesterday to rewrite his 1:03.06 effort at the Hong Kong Open
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    • 377 95 New Jersey start NBA season with 15 consecutive losses "You're playing back-to-backs on the road, you've got the losing streak on your mind." RAFER ALSTON, on the mental and physical stress PORTLAND (Oregon): Rafer Alston lamented that it has become so bad for the New Jersey
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    • 213 95 PHILADELPHIA: Point guard Allen Iverson, a 10-time All-Star who guided Philadelphia to the 2001 NBA Finals, has announced plans to retire. The website of Stephen A. Smith, a reporter who covered Iverson in his glory days with the 76ers, on Wednesday published a statement
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    • 469 93 Today Basketball Ag\ Golf NBA: Orlando v Atlanta (Live, IfcQ World Cup: Day 3 (Live, Ch26, 11.30am). Bowling _£_V A--1 Champions Trophy: Germany v England (10am), Australia v Singapore National C'ships V'i Soutn Korea (noon)' s Pain v Netherlands (2pm) Live, Ch21. Masters finals: Youth (10am). -aim Senior (2pm). Graded
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      74 95 SARAN DORAIRAJ Age: 48 MR. DIV, loved fast bikes, a fine glass, and his music loud, fantastic chef and restaurateur, builder of homes, free spirited, fearless, selfless, uncoventional, driven, tough as nails, enterprising..... and lived life at full throttle. Passed-on 25th Nov 2009 Dearly loved and deeply missed by The
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      38 95 With deepest sympathy heartfelt condolences to The family of the late MR LIM ENG HONG Departed on 24 November 2009 From: The Management Staff of Centurion Group of Companies Mr Mrs Han Seng Juan Mr Mrs David Loh
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      49 95 w the family of the la# f?A JEOW KIM CHOON Departed on 22 November 2009 Wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates and members of Singapore Soka Association for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths and contributions during our recent bereavement.
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      46 95 In Loving Memory of Our Parents Irene Chau Chau Chun Ming nee 26 February 2005 Leong Yuen Kin 27 November 2008 To the memory of our parents whose spirit and wisdom continue to be an unfailing inspiration Deeply missed always remembered by family and loved ones
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      51 95 Though absent you are very near, still loved, still missed, and very dear. We shall grieve not, nor speak with tears, but laugh and talk as if you were beside us. Your loving friends, Beverly, Chi Wei, Clarence, Colin, Cynthia, Derek, Deric, Felicia, Isaac, Jamie, Joy, Li Suang, Lorna, Varian,
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      25 95 Ist1 st Anniversary In Loving Memory Of Lo Hwei Yen 8 January 1980 27 November 2008 Dearly missed and remembered by everyone at Stephenson Harwood
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      65 95 To my darling Yen, What was one has been ripped apart. Yet the poorer half has to continue to subsist This I know I cannot do alone So forever you will be a part of me, my heart, my soul YourStickyPu Yen's Memorial A Celebration of Love, Life and Hope
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      61 95 Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; Love leaves a memory no one can steal. In Loving Memory Of LO HWEI YEN 8 January 1980 27 November 2008 Beloved daughter and sister Taken from our loving embrace far too soon Always cherished and missed by Daddy, Mummy, Shan and
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      30 96 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late MR LIM ENG HONG Departed on 24 Nov 2009 From: Andre Tanoto and The Management Staff of Solutino Group
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      111 96 The Family of the Late VERNON CYRIL PALMER called home to be with the Lord on 20 November 2009 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to President and Mrs S R Nathan Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Mrs Lee Senior Minister Prof. S Jayakumar Deputy Prime Minister
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      79 96 "I am Resurrection and the Life, Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoevei lives and believes in Me will never die." John 11:2!: Bth Anniversary In Loving Memory Of JOSEPH ANSLEM DE MELLO Departed 27th November 2001 God took him home, it was His Will,
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      73 96 In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful The family of the late HJMOHDKHALID BIN HJ ADAM AGE: 45 Departed on 16/11/2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences and donations during their recent bereavement.
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      127 96 Ps: 34:1 'I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.' IVIAKIAIVI ALtAAINUtK Age: 92 was called home to be with the Lord on 25 November 2009. Greatly admired loved by (Husband: K. T. Alexander, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Soman Gita George Prabha Daughters:
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      54 96 In Loving Memory ALAN HUI HONG NING Its been a year since you've gone Yet your presence lingers on Be it today, tomorrow or any other day Memories of you will always stay We wipe our tears and not be sad And remember the precious time we had Dearly missed
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      74 96 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of MDM SURJIT KAUR (Village: Thathian Mahantan Walian) Not a day goes by without thinking of you. Your absence brings great pain. Your love remains with us. We miss you. Dearly missed by t. husband, children all loved ones. 1 st Barsi Path Da Bhog
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      86 96 DARMALINGA THEVAR KRISHNAN Ex-Lorry Driver of Ministry of Environment Age: 76 passed away peacefully on 26 November 2009. Deeply missed and remembered by loved ones. Wife: K. Amsavalli Children: Spouses: Vasanthakumari Thanabal Vijayalakshmi Tamilarasan Kathirvelu Kamalavalli Gomathidevi Verachelvan Grandchildren: T. Saravanan T. Lavanya T. Durga Dcvi T. Manivannan T. Sajivani
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      143 96 "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:21 NG AH CHIANG Age: 79 was called home to be with the Lord on 25 Nov 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Tay Him Chiang Sons: Daughters-in-law: Derrick Tay Poh Huat Margaret
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      103 96 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." Matts:9 ANNSOHGANNEO Age: 95 was called home to be with the Lord on 26 Nov 2009 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Robert Koh Thiam Seng, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ivan Koh Elsie Chua Michael Koh Lisa Wah Edward Koh
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      84 96 W 6TH ANNIVERSARY W JEi In Everloving Memory of Our Beloved Mother Ml! fg "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, The Lord Jehovah is my strength and song" Isaiah 12:2 QUEK GUAN LAN Departed: 27 Nov 2003 There's much sadness and sweet remembrance, There's
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      • 510 97  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS AND BEARS Fear of fallout spreads across Asia as US dollar continues to weaken By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT A FALLING greenback it slipped to a 14-year low against the Japanese yen yesterday usually lifts regional markets these days, but its relentless
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      • 419 97  -  Fiona Chan By FROZEN-FISH supplier Pacific Andes Resources Development has posted a jump in net profit of nearly a third for the six months to Sept 28, despite a slip in revenue. The improved profit due to better cost management and economies of scale
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          18 97 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.13 billion shares worth $1.39 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 158 Losers: 291 Unchanged: 883
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        • 212 97 f«HPilßH!!^^^^B=l Yesterday's close: 9,383.24 (-58.4) Tokyo stocks fell 0.6 per cent to end at a four-month low as the yen hit a 14-year high against the US dollar, hurting exporters. B^l o^o^o^o^obo^o^o^o^o^o^o^o^m^J Yesterday's close: 1,270.61 (-0.39) Malaysian shares closed flat due,!° P™kend selling and profit-taking. Losers outnumbered gainers by
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        • 404 97 GLD 10US$ ***** 122.8 DBXT DJE50 10US$ 4555 120.0 OCC 3.93% NCPS10 8300 100.0 DBKT Nifty 10US$ ***** 77.3 Lyxor LatinAmerica 1 833 40.0 DCBC Bk 5.1%NCPS 100 .***** 20.0 DCC 5.1% NCPS 100 9970 20.0 CerebosPac 372 17.0 DBXT HSTaiwan 10US$ 1591 16.6 HKLand 487 15.2
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        • 180 97 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS By Volume CENTS Vol iapMallsAsia Solden Agri ]XM Dental tahieva Renting SP SingTel iapitaLand Izion Jwiber lusGroup ring Li 1oble Grp JuntecReit JPH JSH Corp 230 50 31.5 10.5 108 295 404 76 89.5 66 62 307 130 374 24.5 0.0
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        • 104 97 runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Nov 26 2009 Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2680 1.3060 Can dollar 1.3100 1.3260 Euro 2.0740 2.0980 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4075 0.4088 NZ dollar 0.9970 1.0190 Sterling pound 2.2910 2.3180 US dollar 1.3710 1.3870 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF
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        • 367 97 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 446 244.9 1116 168 147 1532 425 120 52 I-., 3240 1856 2710 870 198 874 285 1450 308 184 399 324 376 352 232 MM MM 170 5606 CapitaLand 93.5 5417 CapitaMall 405
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        • 601 97 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 133 96 195 98 74.5 163 117 150 267 26 132 147 215 108 129 247 250 317 200 68.5 322 179 220 42.5 46.5 78 92 33.5 271 146 70 272 97
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      • 497 98  -  Lee Su Shyan Company says it has taken measures to improve corporate governance By ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR JAPAN Land says it has taken steps to improve corporate governance in the wake of the shock resignation of an independent director who cited concerns about
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      • 467 98  -  Dickson Li By A LOCAL tile supplier aims to raise $6.5 million in an initial public offering (IPO). Hafary Holdings, a family firm set up in 1980, is listing on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange. It is offering 32.5 million
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    • 743 99 Japanese government rules out intervention despite impact on major exporters TOKYO: The US dollar tumbled to a 14-year low against the yen yesterday, adding to pressure on Japan's beleaguered exporters, amid indications US interest rates will remain low and the Federal Reserve
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    • 312 99 NEW YORK: US bankruptcy filings rose 33 per cent in the third quarter to the highest number since 2005, government data showed, as rising unemployment and tight credit made it more difficult for consumers and businesses to stay current on their debts. "With
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    • 542 100  -  Fiona Chan Strong showing from electronics provides bright spark for October By ADDING to a month of dismal economic data were figures on the manufacturing and services sectors released yesterday. Manufacturing, which makes up a quarter of the economy, fared worse than expected last month,
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    • 525 100  -  Esther Teo By HELPING to steer his firm through the financial crisis brought an extra benefit for ST Engineering chief executive Tan Pheng Hock last night in the form of the Asia Talent Management of the Year award. Mr Tan, who was picked from 39
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    • 459 100  -  Esther Teo By OUTGOING Singapore Exchange (SGX) chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua has revealed that he will be heading back to his old stomping ground, Prime Partners Group. Mr Hsieh, 59, co-founded the boutique corporate finance company and was its managing
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    • 440 100 NEW YORK: AIG and its former chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg have reached an agreement to bury a longstanding and bitter legal battle, and the insurer will turn over materials the former company boss could use to write his memoir, along with
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    • 675 102  -  Yang Huiwen Banks drive market rally, but other STI component stocks need to pick up By DON'T JUST BANK ON BANKS "Banks, which had been in the forefront of the STFs breakthrough of the 2,700-2,750 resistance area, despite all their might, cannot do
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    • 120 102 <K WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE www.straitstimes.coin YOUR SAY MOST-READ ONLINE The US dollar has tumbled to a Warning on asset bubbles 14-year low against the yen, adding pressure on Japan's beleaguered MOST COMMENTED ON exporters amid indications that US Thumbs up for ending estate agents'
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      • 683 125  -  eddino abdul hadi Reuniting for the Power Of Three world tour has been a blast for jazz fusion musicians music reporter As individual musicians, jazz fusion stalwarts Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White are giants in their own musical fields. Critics and fans get excited when
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      • 497 125 Geneva Roman Polanski has been granted US$4.5 million (556.2 million) bail, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine resort chalet. The justice minister said on Wednesday that she saw
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        906 136 BWBWasian pop SEVEN DAYS Crowd Lv Team Ear Music This is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the year as it is the follow-up album by the worthy winner of the Best New Artiste and Best Composer accolades at this year's Golden Melody Awards. The good
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      • 829 137  -  yeow kai chai You get the real deal when singers Hayden Thorpe and Devendra Banhart use their falsetto sound bites Beware the deadly male falsetto that girly, scurrilous thing that unnerves. In the rock kingdom, it's much easier to swig beer, thump chests and bellow along
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      • 147 137 RADIO 91.3 FM 1. (1) One Less Lonely Girl Justin Bieber 2. (9) Bad Romance Lady Gaga 3. (2) Time For Miracles Adam Lambert 4. Art Of Love Guy Sebastian featuring Jordin Sparks 5. Fireflies Owl City 6. (3) Keep It Real Jonas Brothers 7. Fifteen Taylor Swift
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      • 884 139  -  akshita nanda Members of a cappella group Budak Pantai are anything but serious musicians so they say yuty definitely get stage fright That s part of the fun That s what makes it interesting Its sort of addicting (sic), that feeling You know you re
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      • 349 139 London Julie Andrews, the star of Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music, is returning to the London stage for the first time in 30 years with a one-off show in May, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The 74-year-old Oscar winner and five other performers
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      1204 127  -  cara van miriah Watching artists perform at a nightspot is cheaper and more intimate, and you get food and drinks too It was a Tuesday night at a Thai nightclub in Singapore. But there were no scantily clad pole dancers miming to Wondergirl's hit song Nobody, a typical
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    • 430 127 LMF CRAZY WILD TOUR CONCERT Where: Powerhouse, St James Power Station When: Dec 6, Bpm Who: LMF is a well-known Cantonese rap group in Hong Kong and its songs highlight social issues. The nine-piece group reunites for a one-night gig for the band's 10th anniversary
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    • 716 129  -  boon chan Xinya Media, a new home-grown cable content provider, has lined up plans to create programmes to reach 1.2 billion people media correspondent 'Many channels out there are very focused... For example, Phoenix carries more stories and issues related to China. I don't see anyone
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    • 610 132  -  magdalen ng Four-part reality TV show will see six celebs compete weekly in ice-skating 'Accidents are bound to happen and falling down is not a big deal. What's most important is to get up and go' Six celebrities will be treading on thin ice for a
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    • 187 132 No matter what your profession is, it is highly likely that you look forward to your lunch hour with much enthusiasm. What working stiff couldn't use a little respite from the tyranny of the boss and your inbox? But these days, lunch hour is about much more than
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      • 642 134  -  magdalen ng Telegenic Egyptologist Kara Cooney readily admits that she has a morbid fascination with funerary rituals 'I desperately want to go to Xi'an and see the terracotta warriors (above). If that is not one of the most expensive tombs in the world, I
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      • 620 135  -  foong woei wan Whether in idol dramas or thrillers, guys rule in these new shows LI \\y\J\y I I \y V V v_JI I V V v_J telemad IRIS KBS World (Star Hub Channel 173 or mio TV Channel 38), Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10pm CHINESE
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      • 341 135 Los Angeles When more than 40 former contestants from The Biggest Loser gathered on Wednesday for a reunion television special, the winner of the programme's first season, Ryan C. Benson, who lost 55.3 kg of his 150 kg starting weight, was absent. He is
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    • 525 138  -  john lui Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone examines the lives of people caught up in the mob film correspondent There is a scene in the Italian movie Gomorrah where two boys are horsing around with guns inside an abandoned villa, play-acting the final shoot-out from the mobster
      THE PICTUREHOUSE  -  525 words
    • 722 140 Restaurants with three Michelin stars: Caprice (French, new) Lung King Heen (Cantonese) Robuchon A Calera (Macau, French) Restaurants with two Michelin stars: Amber Fook Lam Moon (Wanchai, new) L'Atelier Ming Court (new) Petrus (new) Shang Palace Tang Court Tim's Kitchen (new) Zi Vat Heen (Macau)
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    • 623 141 Agence France-Presse Golden Horse accolade would make Leon Dai's work the first local film in seven years to win it Taipei Taiwanese director Leon Dai's social drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti is tipped for top honours tomorrow at the island's Golden Horse Film
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    • 602 142 bunne aireciors roray into low-budget The Lovely Bones fails to move critics 'I could have easily done another big blockbuster-effect film and that is what people were expecting me to d 0... I just like the challenge of making a smaller movie... which reduces the
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    • 368 142 London Paul McCartney said on Wednesday his music was a way of making contact with other former members of the Beatles and his late wife Linda, as he launched his new album and DVD in London. The music legend, 67, said his concerts were
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    • 188 143  -  christian seiersen An exhibition, Illuminate, will showcase the works of this year's top graduating design students What do the most creative young minds in Singapore dream of when they are studying? Find out at the exhibition Illuminate, which showcases the works of this year's top graduating students
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    • 265 143  -  Mr Micki Chua architecture Mr Micki Chua describes his architecture designs in a down-to-earth way. He says: "My designs have a local flavour blended with innovative design approaches, possibly like teh tarik ice cream." The uniquely Singaporean reference to a flavour of ice cream inspired
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    • 320 143  -  Ms Lim Si Ping graphic design At the age of 22, graphic design graduate Lim Si Ping has already had her works published worldwide. i I Her most significant achievement to date: being named one of 200 best illustrators in the world by Lurzer's Archive, an acclaimed Austrian
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      120 110  -  Rohaizatul Azhar Raimi Safari, 22, second-year sociology undergraduate at the National University of Singapore Spotted at: Kent Ridge Road Wearing: Black jacket with studded shoulder details from Zara Woman; dark blue basic T-shirt from Topman; shoes from River Island; rolled-up trousers, leather belt and printed cotton bag all
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    • 421 115  -  Rohaizatul Azhar Fashion lover Lim Hui (left) is a woman prepared to suffer for her booties. Whenever she feels like channelling the rock-chic look, which sometimes means every other day, Lim steps out in her favourite pair of Zara leather boots despite Singapore's unforgiving weather. The 24-year-old, who
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      163 120 SINGFOOD STALL 01-207 Block 504 jurong West Street 51; tel: 9815-2768 This halal Thai Chinese stall is sought after for its crispy Pumpkin Cream Sauce Prawn Roll ($l2), which are pieces of battered prawn popiah filled with pumpkin slices and cream. Owner and chef Foo Soo Heng, 42, also
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      497 120 CONCEPT STREET 07-470 Block 498 Jurong West Street 41 ;tel: 9025-6710 This seven-month-old shop is the third fashion venture by former air force technician Jimmy Lee, 33. He runs two other shops one sells shoes and the other workwear with his Thai wife in Bangkok's Century The Movie Plaza.
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