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    27 1 TODAY jy\=OJACORP MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Monday June 4, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY Frew MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Monday June 4, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Singlish = good English? Can like that meh?
    677 1  - Singlish good English? Can like that meh? DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg IT HAS been trying to banish Singlish for the last seven years, and the Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) is familiar even to academics halfway across the globe. But last week, one of them suggested it might be
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    Lock icon GREAT WALL OPENING UP
    773 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS AGENCIES Security dialogue boosted by China's readiness to engage EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@media corp.com.sg CHINA'S new readiness to engage with countries in the region on security and defence matters has been received with optimism by participants to this year's Shangri-La Dialogue, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean
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  • hot news
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      A RULE THAT DOESN'T DRAW CLEAR LINES
      955 2  -  THOMAS KOSHY Newspaper rule does not really protect journalists, can interfere with legal rights THE newspaper report last week had an air of the romantic Reuters journalist Mia Shanley willing to defy a court order and suffer jail for contempt of court rather
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      Lock icon DCA DETAILS EXPECTED
      204 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, AGENCIES Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said yesterday he expects to iron out all outstanding details of the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Singapore over the next week. Speaking on the sidelines of the ShangriLa Dialogue security conference in Singapore, he said Jakarta was in
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      Lock icon JFK terror plot suspects caught
      467 2 -AGENCIES 3 Muslim extremists arrested for'chilling' plan to blow up airport NEW YORK United States federal authorities said a plot by a suspected Muslim terrorist cell to blow up New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, its fuel tanks and a jet-fuel artery could have
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      Security web not perfect, but will improve
      279 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT CURRENTLY takes the form of several loose networks, but a more concrete Asia-Pacific security architecture will take shape within the next two to three years, said Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday. Wrapping up the threeday Shangri-La dialogue, he also
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Record $26.2m sales at packed PC show
      439 4  -  JOSEPH YADAO CHANNEL NEWSASIA IT was the last major consumer electronics fair before next month's two-percentage point GST hike. And perhaps taking heed of that, some 907,000 bargain-hunters spent a record $26.2 million on electronic gadgets as the 17th PC show drew to
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA; DON WONG  -  439 words
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      Lock icon Caught taking Ecstasy pills to Thailand
      108 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 61-YEAR-old Singaporean has been arrested trying to smuggle drugs into Thailand. Tan Lye Huat was nabbed with nearly 10,000 Ecstasy pills at the Sadao Border Checkpoint in Thailand's southern province of Songkhla. The drugs have a street value of about $370,000
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      Lock icon Another drowning
      509 4  -  JASMINE YIN Six-year-old girl's death in hotel pool at Sentosa is the fourth such in a week jasmine@media corp.com.sg A SIX-year-old girl on a weekend family outing to Sentosa drowned in a hotel swimming pool, making it the fourth drowning in Singapore in a week. At 5.11 pm
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      Lock icon Sembawang Sers scheme completed
      313 6  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg MORE than 300 households in Sembawang have relocated to seven Housing and Development Board (HDB) replacement blocks, following the completion of the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers) there. This means nearly 75 per cent of households formerly residing at blocks 1
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      Lock icon Serial bomb-hoax caller run to ground
      341 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Man who allegedly made similar call four months ago arrested for new offences weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg HE HAD allegedly made a bomb-hoax call from a public phone in Clifford Centre four months ago, but escaped arrest On Saturday, the 43-year-old Malay man tried
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Thai protesters take to the streets
      327 8 -AFP BANGKOK At least 1,400 anti-coup demonstrators descended on Bangkok Sunday to urge a return to democracy, police and organisers said, a day after a similar rally drew record numbers. The protesters, sporting yellow banners around their heads reading "junta get out" and waving
      -AFP; AFP  -  327 words
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      Lock icon Asian powers urged to boost Straits security
      464 8 -AFP Indonesia calls on Japan, China and S Korea to chip in INDONESIA'S defence minister yesterday called on Japan, China and South Korea to help his cash-strapped nation secure the vital Malacca Straits, the busiest sea lane in the world. Mr Juwono Sudarsono
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      Lock icon Tea region in China jolted by huge quake
      287 8 -AGENCIES BEIJING A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattled a mountainous region in south-west China at dawn yesterday, killing three people and injuring about 300, officials said. Residents in Pu'er, the centre of a famous tea-producing area in Yunnan province, fled their houses in panic
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      Lock icon 14m Thais upset, more tensions ahead
      923 10 Regarding the tribunal's ruling, observers are saying there was a hint of interference from the Council for National Security, which the junta that overthrew former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is known as. What*s your take on that? The Constitutional Tribunal comprises nine members. Unlike
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MOB ATTACKS GUSMAO MOTORCADE
        64 11 -AP A mob hurled rocks at the motorcade of East Timorese independence hero Xanana Gusmao and one of his supporters was shot dead yesterday amid growing violence ahead of parliamentary elections on June 30, police said. Mr Gusmao was unhurt in the attack in the town
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        Lock icon 1,000 HURT IN G8 PROTEST
        65 11 -AFP German police said yesterday that 128 people were arrested after a violent demonstration by anti-G8 protesters in Rostock the previous day which left up to 1,000 people injured. The organisers of the protest in northern Germany, which came four days before the start of
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        Lock icon TB MAN'S FATHER-IN-LAW TO BE INVESTIGATED
        50 11 -AP Mr Robert Cooksey, the father-in-law of the man with a form of tuberculosis that sparked a global health alert, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said.
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      Lock icon Modernisation message for PAS
      375 11 -AP Traditional clerics lose key party posts to 'young Turks' KOTA BARU Traditional clerics lost a contest for crucial posts yesterday in Malaysia's biggest Islamic opposition group, paving the way for younger members to modernise the conservative party. The new appointments at Parti Islam SeMalaysia, or
      -AP; AFP  -  375 words
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      Lock icon M'sian researchers create nuttier Viagra alternative
      242 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian researchers claim they have created a nutty, healthier alternative to Viagra based on walnuts. Researcher Kirn Kah Hwi, who headed the team from the University of Malaya, said he was inspired to look into walnuts after reading about their use
      -AFP  -  242 words
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      Lock icon Iraq-type roadside bomb pops up in Afghanistan
      204 12 —AGENCIES KABUL A powerful and sophisticated type of roadside bomb prevalent in Iraq but not seen before in Afghanistan has been discovered near a university in Kabul. The bomb, known as an EFP, or explosively formed projectile, is notable for its level of
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      Lock icon A gory bid for attention
      384 12 -AP Beheadings are shock tactic of choice for extremists in South-east Asia NA PRADU (Thailand) It took two days for the Muslim assassin to calm his nerves before the slaying. Then, Mohama Waekaji said, he carried out orders from a guerrilla commander to walk to
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      Lock icon Woolmer not murdered: Report
      180 12 -AP LONDON Jamaican police will reportedly announce this week that Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered but died of natural causes. British newspaper The Daily Mail reported on Saturday that police now believe the 58-year-old Woolmer died of heart failure and are set to make
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      Lock icon An all-round environment
      399 14  -  DR KOH THIAM SENG Future Schools will develop students holistically Letter from Director, Educational Technology Ministry of Education WE THANK Mr Jason Chiam Chiah Sern ("Spare a thought for students from the low-income group") and Mr Jeffrey Goh Kwee Meng ("The great outdoors a better tool than
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      National Library will re-examine its selection processes
      209 15  -  AMY GAY Letter from Deputy Director, Corporate Communications National Library Board WE REFER to the letters by Fiona Goh Lai Kuan ("A library book that is a shocker", May 28) and Lav Chee Nien ("Not such a pretty picture for young minds", Jun
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      The rise of the ugly customer?
      281 15  -  CHANXUELI Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Chan Han Jun, "While customers have rights, why can't they be polite too?" (June 1). I agree with the writer regarding the attitude that customers give to service providers. There are so many complaints
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      243 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON PROMISE KEEPER So many men I meet have such good intentions. That's why they say yes to their wives and children so often. Unfortunately, those yes's soon become no's, plans change and other pressures take priority. And this turns many men into promise
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      Lock icon Teacher's calling to inspire the little ones
      1354 16 coffee with AMANDA LIAN 43, educator and Spirit of Enterprise 2007 nominee WHEN she left Taiwan for Singapore in 1991 with the intention of improving her English, a teaching career was probably the last thing on her mind. So little did Amanda Lian
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  • Business
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      Lock icon China plunge won't hurt much
      510 18 -AFP There will be little economic impact if Chinese stocks tank, say analysts BEIJING The spectacular run of China's stock markets has drawn a barrage of warnings that a sharp correction is imminent, but many analysts believe that a downturn will do little economic harm
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    • marketwatch
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE
        131 18 -AFP Share prices are expected to trade firmer in the week ahead as traders remain upbeat over China despite measures by Beijing to cool its market by raising taxes on stock transactions, dealers said. The ST Index closed on Friday at 3,548.32 points, up 61.69 points or 1.76 per
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        Your S$l buys
        28 18 USS 0.6531 Rupiah 5762.0 UK pound 0.3295 Baht 21.517 Yen 79.736 Peso 30.008 HKS 5.1011 AS 0.7841 RM 2.2194 Rupee 26.475 Euro 0.4856 Yuan 4.9951
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 18 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 676.90 Silver US$/oz 13.74 Platinum US$/oz 1,295.60 Rubber cents/kg 365.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 2740.00 Brent crude US$/barrel 69.61 Information provided by
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      Lock icon Hain invests $9m in Yeo Hiap Seng
      213 18 BLOOMBERG HAIN Celestial Group Inc, the biggest maker of organic groceries in the United States, has invested US$6 million ($9 million) in Singapore company Yeo Hiap Seng and created two joint ventures to expand in fast-growing countries such as China. Ham and Yeo
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      Lock icon Piling the China plate
      489 19 —AFP -AFP World Bank plans $918 m in funding this year for country BEIJING The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's private investment arm, expects to provide over US$6OO million ($918.4 million) in funding for China in fiscal 2007, Chinese state media said yesterday. This
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      Lock icon Thomson buys Xinhua Finance assets
      184 19 -DOW JONES FRESH from its £8.7 billion ($26.3 billion) bid for Reuters Group, Thomson Corp has acquired seven Asia Pacific news bureaus from Xinhua Finance, the Chinese financial news service. The acquisition, for which financial terms were not disclosed, was made through Thomson Financial, a
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      697 19 sfi RaboJet Certs Series 1 will be launched on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX) on 7™ June 2007. Linked to the share price performance of DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Capita Land Limited, Singapore Telecommunications Limited and Singapore Airlines Limited Daily lock-in feature with a maximum rate of return
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  • Succeed
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      Lock icon on the go A FRIEND TO THE LESS FORTUNATE
      391 20  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg HE USED to take home a handsome salary and had been promoted in his job at Sing Tel. But Mr Tham Chee Chung (picture) has had no regrets about giving up his investment management job six years
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      BRAINFOOD
      226 20  -  LEEU-WEN Business school 'e-zines'galore If you always wanted to know what the top brains in the world of management are up to, but lack the funds to attend a renowned business school, fret no further. Most established management programmes offer free online magazines that liberally post thought-provoking articles from
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      Persuade by being different
      550 20  -  SHERALYN TAY MY THEORY behind persuasion is this: If I tell you something, you might remember a little; but if I show you something, and you go "wow", there is an emotional connection. Persuasion is that connection whether emotionally, mentally or physiologically with an idea, through
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      48 20 A great American academic tradition. The longest-running EMBA program in Asia. Join the visiting EMBA Director, distinguished alumni, and special guests as we introduce this exciting program to the Singapore business community. (Executive MQjl Singapore Program Launch Wednesday, June 6th, 2007, 6:30-8:30 pm Singapore National Library, The Pod
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  • the business of learning
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      QUIZTIME
      195 21 RESUMES -WHAT'S THE RIGHT WAY? Q: To grab employers' attention, how advisable is it to move away from chronological resumes, to a summary of one's capabilities and character, using academic results and CCAs to support one's points? ROY QUEK A: The traditional resume is still important in job applications.
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      Lock icon CLARKE QUAY'S CROWDED BAR SCENE
      876 22  -  ZUL OTHMAN More nightspot choices with The Arena's opening will operators feel the squeeze? zul@mediacorp.com.sg FAR from spelling doom for existing live music venues in Clarke Quay, the arrival of newcomer The Arena last Friday can only be a boon for the area, said The
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      Lock icon Tribute gig for late rocker
      248 24  -  ZUL OTHMAN Singaporean bands come together for musician Wayne Seah of The Suns zul@mediacorp.com.sg A GROUP of Singaporean bands will take the stage together on June 23 to pay tribute to the late Wayne Seah, the drummer for The Suns. The 29-year-old, also known as
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      Lock icon 'Genital trap' victim sues Jackass star
      154 24 -AP LOS ANGELES An actor is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville (picture), TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Carolla, claiming he was never paid US$lO million ($l5 million) for doing a below-the-belt stunt that left him severely injured. Perry Caravello
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      The older they get...
      266 25  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL the more some of them want to Live The Dream and show what they got Juliana.rasul@media corp.com.sg APPARENTLY older doesn't necessarily mean wiser. Though judges Dick Lee and Ken Lim had predicted a burst of "mature" talent for Live The Dream MediaCorp TV
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      Lock icon Inmate to Hilton: 'Shut up and do time'
      179 25 AP LYNWOOD (California) Many women at the Los Angeles County jail where Paris Hilton (picture) is to arrive any day are already angry at the socialite, a former inmate said. Susannah Johnson, who was released on Saturday after a oneday stay at
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      694 26  -  SHERMAINEWONG Sangokushi offers a unique blend of Japanese and Taiwanese cuisines shermaine@media corp.com.sg BEFORE you mistake it as yet another attempt at fusion food, this restaurant's unique blend of Japanese and Taiwanese food is actually a bona fide cuisine called chuka, which is popular all around
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        200 27  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Whether you fancy spaghetti, baked rice or meat for your main course, you'll find it at Bistro Delifrance. An all-day dining concept restaurant. Bistro Delifrance, with 20 outlets islandwide, has 12 new entrees to whet the appetites of diners. New items include oven-baked rice
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        110 27  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Miso paste and dashi stock (fish broth) are ingredients that typically go into traditional Japanese miso soup. Now, you can get a similar taste of Japan at any KFC outlet with an order of the Miso Crunch juicy miso-marinated crispy chicken topped
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      268 30 —AGENCIES COPENHAGEN Despite wasting a three-goal lead over Denmark, Sweden still might win the game 3-0. Uefa officials must now decide the outcome of the Euro 2008 qualifier in Copenhagen between the Scandinavian neighbours, which was abandoned in the 89th minute at 3-3
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