Today, 17 July 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY fresfsf share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Monday July 17, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 783 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO CJ Chan moves to give more chances to younger lawyers, tells judges not to 'talk down' derrick@newstoday.com.sg EVERYONE wants to hire a big-name litigation lawyer, but the courts will no longer wait for them to fit a case into their packed schedules. In a
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    • 626 1 -AGENCIES Group urges all sides to act to resolve crisis ST PETERSBURG The Group of Eight industrialised nations have condemned "extremists" who have triggered violence in the Middle East, calling on Hamas and Hezbollah to cease missile attacks on Israel and
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    • 758 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@newstoday.com.sg IT WOULDN'T be an exaggeration to say that Grace Padaca's is the face of hope in Philippine politics. Two years back, Ms Padaca was elected governor of Isabela province in the northern Philippines and wrested power from the Dy dynasty that
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  • hot news
    • 398 2 -AFP Many countries act to evacuate nationals as violence intensifies PAEIS Governments across the world stepped up measures yesterday to evacuate their nationals from Lebanon as the violence there intensified. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at the G8 summit of industrialised nations in St Petersburg
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    • 851 3  -  ANGELA CHARLTON Why the strange case of Zidane's head-butt has stirred up so much debate PARIS The fairy tale of Zinedine Zidane vanished in an instant of visceral rage at the World Cup final. But what followed has proved strangely more compelling more human,
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    • 511 4  -  LEE U-WEN James Gomez among those making way for fresh blood u-wen@newstoday.com.sg NEW blood has been infused into the Workers' Party (WP), with seven new faces most of them in their 30s elected into its Central Executive Committee (CEC). Stepping down are seven of the
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    • 174 4 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian minister said that the number of violent crimes especially robbery, bag snatching and rape had increased in the first five months of this year. Deputy Internal Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow said the violent crime rate had risen
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  • Singapore news
    • 507 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO SJI Int'l draws $750,000 support, prominent council members from alumni derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS not been given the official green light to operate yet But the upcoming international school of St Joseph's Institution (SJI) has already received ample support from some prominent names in its
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    • 275 6  -  -ANSL£YNG A LOUD explosion rocked the still of a Sunday afternoon at Tampines Street 21. A car bomb had just gone off in a carpark near Block 257, injuring several residents. Moments later, as officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived, mysterious fumes were
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 70 6 -AGENCIES First-time host Singapore has won five medals one gold, one silver and three bronze at the 37th International Physics Olympiad. The one-week event saw more than 400 students from around the world, solving theoretical and practical physics problems. The top award went to
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      • 116 6 -938 LIVE A teenager has fallen prey to a thief impersonating a police officer. The incident occurred on Friday at the void deck of Block 230 Pending Road. A man who looked to be in his early 20s approached the boy. He said he was a
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  • world news
    • 176 8 AGENCIES LEGASPI (Philippines) The flow of lava and rock fragments from Mayon volcano (picture) south-east of Manila has picked up, increasing the possibility of a violent eruption soon, scientists said yesterday. The 2,474 m mountain, famous for its near-perfect cone, started spilling lava and debris
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    • this quirky world
      • 70 8 Malaysia's Health Ministry is going to stop serving coffee, tea, pastries, cakes and fried chicken at its weekly meetings in order to check overeating. Instead, officials will now be offered two pieces of fruit and a glass of water, said The
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      • 39 8 An eight-year-old American boy hit two holes-in-one with the same golf ball within 20 minutes, reported ananova.com. Harrison Vonderau and his dad Dave were playing in a father-and-son tournament at a course in Ohio
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      • 56 8 Goldman Sachs Group, the blue chip investment bank, wants a Dutchman to change the name of a sex-themed website called goldmansex.com, reported Reuters. Goldman Sachs has submitted a complaint to the Netherlands' National Arbitration Forum, arguing the Internet domain name goldmansex.com would cause confusion and
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    • 181 8 -AFP HONG KONGHong Kong's political leader Donald Tsang has indicated the southern Chinese city could be fully democratic by 2012 as demanded by pro-democracy activists, the Sunday Morning Post said yesterday. The announcement from Mr Tsang is the first time the Beijing-backed
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    • 651 11  -  MARIA SIOW China's rail link to the region spells good news news@newstoday.com.sg I READ about the recent unveiling of the railway linking Tibet with China's hinterland with a sense of simultaneous relief and apprehension. Recalling the breathless days in 2001 when I witnessed the railroad
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    • 341 12 -AFP Angry at Security Council's resolution, Pyongyang may arm itself further SEOUL North Korea's foreign ministry yesterday threatened to "bolster its war deterrent" in an angry response to a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned its missile tests. The foreign ministry, in a
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 121 12 AFP The Hong Kong microbiologist who cracked the code that helped identify and control the killer Sars virus has been made a fellow of Britain's Royal Society, the world's most prestigious scientific academy. Sri Lanka-born Malik Peiris was inducted into the
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      • 63 12 -AFP The death toll from rainstorms and flooding across China in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Bilis has risen to 88. Storms hit provinces such as Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, forcing the evacuation of millions of residents. Television footage showed muddy floodwater
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      • 86 12 -AFP The east Malaysian state of Sabah, home to endangered orangutans and other species, will see fresh logging in forest reserves that will imperil countless plants and animals. Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman in March said large-scale logging would cease by the end of next
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    • 257 12 YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia) Child survivors of the Indonesian earthquake are preparing to return to school, with most set to begin the new term today in donated tents set up amid the ruins of their villages. Aid workers say attending school is essential to restore
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    • 379 13 -AFP Aseantotakea stand on Myanmar issue during foreign ministers' meeting KUALA LUMPUR Southeast Asian foreign ministers are expected to state their concerns on Myanmar's lack of democratic reform when they meet at the end of the month, a report said yesterday. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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    • 187 13 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Indonesia will meet to discuss measures to prevent burning in oil-palm plantations that have in the past blanketed the region in a smoky haze, the Sunday Star said yesterday. Malaysia's minister for plantation industries, Mr Peter Chin Fah
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  • Voices
    • 599 14  -  HO KONG LOON SINGAPOREANS love to shoot themselves in the foot I am talking about our propensity for grousing or bellyaching over just about everything. The Government is fair game. Civic and social organisations, corporations, our neighbours, the teachers, nurses, doctors and the police
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    • Are our hearts in the right place?
      • 225 14  -  I RANG IE VIDANAPATHI RAN A Letter from I REFER to the article, "Happiness is an island" (July 13). So it seems Vanuatu is the happiest country in the world. I didn't even know where the place was so I did some online research. I
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      • 61 14  -  SIMON ZEE Letter from IT has been said that "contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want but the realisation of what you already own". I think the main reason Singapore ranked low on the Happiness Index is the people here unlike those in Vanuatu
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    • 454 15  -  PORSCHE POH There is help here for mental health issues Letter from Executive Director Silver Ribbon (Singapore) I REFER to the article by Andrew Seah, "Making sense of the voices in your head" (July 5). Early identification followed by comprehensive, individualised treatment strategies that incorporate the
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    • Article, Illustration
      90 15 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give yourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. IT WAS the peak-hour rush, but this family of three -taking up five
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 86 15  -  PASHA SIRAJ In Say Again (July 14), Richard Gomez mistakenly implies that the phrase, "This door is alarmed", is incorrect or otherwise unsatisfactory when, in fact, it merely demonstrates a prevalent grammatical process in the English language. A noun "x" can frequently be turned into a verb to
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      • 87 15  -  CHUAENGHOE: It baffles me that local companies are still allowed to continue spamming. It is irritating and time costly to receive unwanted mails yet, every day, we receive such trash even from big companies. After two weeks of changing my email address, spam streams in again. One
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    • 265 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY CUP OF TEA Have you noticed that children sometimes try to be helpful, but it only makes your life more complicated? I heard a story about a mother who was sick in bed with the flu. Her darling daughter wanted so much
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    • 233 16  -  MOTIVASWANI JAMES TAN Letter from YEARS ago, we'd see commuters using a Walkman and listening to their music peacefully. Then, we came across those who turned up the volume so much that even at six feet away, you could hear the pulsating music through their earphones.
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    • 53 16 Non-smokers are always vocal about calling for smoking bans. Now with many businesses badly hit by this ban, it is the responsibility of non-smokers to generously support such business-hit areas. Reader Henry Lim Li Shun, lamenting that the July 1 smoke ban on food establishments have resulted in smoke-free
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    • 881 16 Film-maker to turn old Chinese opera story into movie with American appeal MICHAEL FU 57, cinematographer LONG before the emergence of the handycam, the digital video camera and the mobile-phone camera, the 8-mm cine-camera was an indispensable tool for the amateur film maker. In the
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    • 253 16  -  LOWENXIANG Letter from UNDER current Immigration laws, any person can apply for permanent residency (PR) as long as they are the unmarried child or spouse of a Singapore citizen, most notably Singaporean males. Many China nationals are flocking to Singapore on work permits
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    • 211 18  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Letter from THE Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS), which was introduced by the CPF Board in 1989, is a term insurance that provides CPF members and their families with a sum of $46,000 to tide them over the first few
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    • 396 18  -  UM BOON HEE Time to tread carefully, as a political battle royale is brewing in Malaysia Letter from THERE is a covert battle being waged across the Causeway by the former premier and the present Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. Like the latter, Singapore has wisely
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    • 97 18 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES 'Sir Winston, your zipper's undone!' Said someone, and it wasn't in jest Replied he, 'Oh, don't worry at all Old birds can't fly out of their nest!' MUSES Galileo took away our favoured place In the centre of God's universe Then Darwin proved we came from The
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  • Businesstoday
    • 453 20 -AFP World markets wary it may slowdown consumption PARIS -Japan's milestone decision on Friday to end its era of zero interest rates boded well economically for the Asian giant, but analysts held their breath over the risk of ripple effects on world markets. The unanimous
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    • marketwatch
      • 129 20 AFP SHARE prices are expected to trade lower this week, extending losses as record oil prices undercut the confidence that the fuel's recent price volatility is over, dealers said. For the week ending July 14, the ST Index was down 81.58 points, or 3.34 per cent, to 2,363.55. Average
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      • 36 20 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6292 0.3423 73.064 4.8926 2.3098 0.4973 B772.9 23.948 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.961 0.8353 29.176 600.17 0.7101 5.0324 1.0147 20.555
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      • 26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude US$/barrel 668.00 11.53 1,267.50 407.50 1/439.50 77.33
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    • 395 20 -DOW JONES CHICAGO The launch in two months of a trading joint venture between the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Chicago Board of Trade presents the latter with an opportunity to extend its reach into fastgrowing Asian markets. On Friday, the CBOT Holdings'
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    • 438 21 -AFP Chengdu draws global firms to country's west CHENGDU (China) Cheap labour and lower start-up costs are luring foreign companies to Chengdu, helping to revitalise an ancient city in western China determined to close the gap with the more prosperous east Chengdu, China's western cultural and
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    • 143 21 -AP ST PETERSBURG Leaders of the Group of Eight, or GB, said yesterday they were committed to transparency, competition and more investment in the energy sector in a joint statement on energy security. "We agree that development of transparent, efficient and competitive
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    • SUCCEED tHe business of learning
      • 391 22  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg FANCY your chances of becoming Singapore's first Nobel Prize winner? The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched a scholarship programme that might just be the ticket to your dreams. Last Monday, NTU officially unveiled its "C N Yang Scholars Programme", named
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      • 499 22  -  TAN HWEE HWEE U2l Global offers an MBA programme for fresh graduates hweehwee@newstoday.com.sg AMBITIOUS new graduates who can't wait to jump on the paper chase again no longer need to suppress their thirst for learning. While most Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes offered in Singapore require
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      • 632 23 Difficult decisions require dedicated time, attention in order for good results to be reaped I'M ALL for thinking things through. Half-baked ideas cause misery, loss and disastrous morale. Thinking things through is a good thing. Procrastinators don't think; they pretend to. They mutter about "not having a
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    • 1220 24 IT HAS a science fiction theme, a huge ensemble cast, a mythology that grows more complex by the hour and the distinction of being one of biggest breakout hits two years ago this month on American TV. Lost? Close but no cigar. No, the show that brought
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    • 487 26  -  EUSACHIA For this Superßand judge and talent scout, it's about nurturing musical skills elisa@newstoday.com.sg IMPARTIAL as he is, Superßand judge Billy Koh makes no secret of the fact his favourite group was Juz B. Alas, the all-Malay a cappella group was recently booted off the Mandarin
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    • 238 26  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL WHAT does a genie wish for? Why, for illegal downloading to stop, of course. Homegrown singer Genie (picture) has launched Movement Against Illegal Contentsharing (MAgIC) and, as she revealed in a recent interview, it was all thanks
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    • in cinemas
      • Article, Illustration
        309 28  -  David Chew by The Marriage of Figaro AN OPERA is a massive undertaking, from assembling the cast to building the sets to arranging the music. And holding an audience's attention for three hours is a feat in itself. But the Singapore Lyric Opera's production of Mozart's The Marriage of
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      • 340 28  -  DAVID CHEW $150,000 artwork on display in conjunction with National Day David.chew@newstoday.com.sg To help Singapore celebrate National Day, Hong Kong artist and designer Teddy Lo will offer his take the Lion City at age 41 through a Light Emitting Diode (LED) installation. Ongoing until Sept 11,
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    • eatout
      • 1088 29  -  LAUREENTOH Forget the usual French fare and relish the regional country delights f ood@newstoday.com.sg OVER lunch last week, Jean-Luc Prevost, the co-owner of Pichon was certain about two things: That the French would be taking the World Cup home he would then replace the mini Eiffel
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    • 467 33  -  CUBBYLEONG Touch rugby chief says the sport is more than just a ladies' game cubby@newstoday.com.sg TOUCH rugby is widely believed to be a game played predominantly by women. This myth was effectively dispelled over the weekend at the Federation of International Touch (FIT) Asian Club Championships
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    • 331 33  -  -DARREN LAI THEY might have received the nod from the Singapore National Olympic Council, but Singapore's bowlers are still in tenterhooks over whether they will be in the squad for December's Asian Games in Doha. Singapore Bowling Federation (SBF) president Jessie
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    • 666 34  -  CUBBY LEONG All Albirex' dead ball specialist dreams about is delivering a deadly freekick cubby@newstoday.com.sg IN THE NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League, there is a phrase that goes "Bend it like Ozaki". Eiichiro Ozaki is no David Beckham, but the Albirex Niigata captain is fast building his reputation for
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    • 886 35  -  CUBBY LEONG But Geylang hope to erase nightmare of April NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Geylang United v Balestier Khalsa cubby@newstoday.com.sg LAST Thursday, Geylang United squandered a one-goal lead against Woodlands Wellington to eventually lose 4-1 at Woodlands Stadium. That was nothing compared to the Eagles'
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    • 180 36 CUBBYLEONG NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Sporting OSAFFC 4 Sengkang 1 Young Lions 2 LEAGUE leaders Young Lions and SAFFC both recorded impressive wins over Sengkang Punggol and Sporting Afrique respectively to effectively turn this season's S-League into a two-horse race. While the Young Lions hung on for
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    • 631 36  -  JOSE RAYMOND Zhang, Dv wish to continue training on their own, cite salaries and pressure as reasons TODAY jose@newstoday.com.sg BARELY three weeks into his new two-year term as Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) president and Loh Lin Kok already has a potential hot potato on his
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    • 362 36  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg HE DESCRIBED the setting up of the headquarters of the Asean Disability Sailing Federation (ADSF) here as a "coup" for Singapore's disabled sailing community. Now, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, wants the
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    • 743 37 -AFP German puts pressure on Alonso by winning French GP for historic eighth time FORMULA 1 French Grand Prix MAGNY-COURS, France Michael Schumacher maintained his mid-season revival in the Formula 1 world championship when he drove his Ferrari to a polished victory in yesterday's French Grand Prix. The
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    • 320 38 —AFP ROME New Juventus coach Didier Deschamps (picture) admits that it is practically impossible for the Italian giants to regain their Serie A place at the first attempt following their match-fixing demotion. Juventus were relegated to Serie B, along with Fiorentina and
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    • 631 38 -AGENCIES Finally there's evidence to prove what we have been suspecting all along MILAN Since last Friday and for the next few days at least, Marco Materazzi could breathe easier. After all the furore caused by his alleged insult on Zinedine Zidane in the
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