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  • 27 1 TODAY /A=jyjj-\CoRp MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday June 13, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY Frew MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday June 13, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 743 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS not just the coming hike in fees that Star Hub Cable Vision (SCV) subscribers are up in arms over, but also the penalties they will have to pay if they cancel their contracts as a few
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  • 766 1  - T3's up, now for the tenants LEONGWEEKEAT DAI EXCLUSIVE weekeat@media corp.com.sg Will offer of slashed rentals lure airlines rooted in Changi's other terminals? THE bait would tempt any business: Move over, and you will not have to pay rent for six months. This is the proposition the Civil Aviation Authority
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    • 34 1 MARDAIM'S LOOKING FOR LOVE (FROM SPONSORS) .^^PAGE 45 THAKSIN TO HEAD HOME? HE WONT BE DETAINED: JUNTA 2 DBS'SURPRISE FEE HIKE HAS INVESTORS SEEING RED 6 BULLISH ON SINGAPORE: ECONOMISTS RAISE GROWTH FORECAST 28
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  • hot news
    • 263 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg DISGRACED former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong is set to become a wanted man after he failed to submit documents to the Official Assignee (OA) as part of his bankruptcy proceedings. The 65-year-old ex-banker
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    • 652 2 -AGENCIES Former PM may return to Thailand as he fights move to freeze assets BANGKOK With the threat of losing his family's fortune looming large, deposed Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra wants to return home to fight a move to freeze his assets. And the government has
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    • 259 2 FROM BLOG OF THE NATION'S EDITOR TULSATHIT TAPTIM Thaksin is a man who has nothing to lose now, and the only way he can salvage anything at all is for Thailand to experience a civil conflict of the grandest scale. (Normal violence or bloody clashes would
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    • 566 3  -  LINYANQIN yanqinl@media corp.com.sg IT USED to be the course of choice for bright-eyed potential scholars. But engineering has been knocked off its top spot by courses in business-related studies and the arts and social sciences. A survey of about 2,400 students had more than 40 per
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  • singapore news
    • 730 4  -  JASMINE YIN Code will be single point of reference, avoid confusion jasmine@media corp.com.sg A NEW set of guidelines has been proposed to help charitable organisations take the guesswork out of how they operate. Expected to kick in by the end of the year, the Code
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    • 232 4  - Car vandal caught on camera by victim WONG MUN WAI CHANNEL NEWSASIA munwai@mediacorp.com.sg TIRED of being a vandal's victim, a resident in Hougang decided to set up a camera to nab the culprit And it worked the person who was filmed vandalising his car later confessed to the police. Residents
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    • 349 6  -  GRACIA CHIANG DBS says costs to provide these services have gone up gracia@mediacorp.com.sg DBS has raised its e-transaction fee for initial public offering (IPO) applications, and the 100 per cent increase is making some see red. Since May 23, retail investors who applied for IPO
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    • 145 6 -AP A ZAMBIAN woman appeared in court here yesterday on the charge of trafficking more than 14 kg of marijuana at least 28 times the amount that draws a mandatory death sentence by hanging. Daka Guinea, 21, was arrested on April 9 after she was
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 115 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singaporeans who wish to receive their GST credits on July 1 have been reminded to sign up by June 15 if they are using hard copy forms, or June 25 if they are signing up via an ATM. They can also register via
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      • 81 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Indonesia yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to boost the safety of ferry services between the two countries. The agreement will see both sides sharing electronic navigational charts for key routes between Singapore and the islands of Batam, Bintan and
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      • 61 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Manpower Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen is leading a tripartite delegation to the 96th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland from June 12 to 14. The three-day conference will discuss issues such as discrimination at the workplace and
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      • 70 6 938 LIVE A record 41 digital multimedia firms demonstrating the latest made-by- Singapore technologies will take centre stage at the Singapore Pavilion next week. On-the-move TV services, Internet Protocol TV as well as High Definition TV are some of the hightech TV services on
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      • 70 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The MediaCorp group is stepping up efforts to entrench its presence in China. In the pipeline are the Bth International Inter-Varsity Debate a collaboration with China's national broadcaster CCTV and a modern drama serial featuring talents from Singapore and China. The
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    • 174 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG A CHINESE national has been sentenced to three years behind bars for his role in a pickpocket gang preying on Japanese tourists at Sentosa's Underwater World. Yesterday, Qin Jian (picture), a 38-year-old farmer from Guang Xi, pleaded guilty to
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    • 785 8  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE Don't be complacent about money-supply, too CHEAP money is fast becoming an expensive habit for Asia. Easy liquidity has already pushed some asset prices out of kilter. Chinese stock markets are clearly overheated. And while the fallout from a collapse in share prices in Shanghai
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    • 384 10 —AGENCIES Extremists attacking, hijacking ships are a cause for concern, says police chief KUALA LUMPUR The Malacca Strait remains vulnerable to a terrorist strike that would send political and economic Shockwaves worldwide, Malaysia's InspectorGeneral of Police Musa Hassan warned yesterday. Forms of maritime
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    • 222 10 -AGENCIES BANGKOK- Thailand's largest energy utility said yesterday that it will invest US$6 billion ($9.2 billion) to build the country's first nuclear power plant, which is expected to start operations in 2020. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to build two nuclear plants
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    • 191 10 -CNA ST PETERSBURG (Russia) Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has urged Russia to increase trade with Asia. Wrapping up his eight-day trip there, during which he visited three cities, Mr Lee shared his views on the future of Asia-Russia relations and the global economy. Asked
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  • world news
    • 215 11 -THE GUARDIAN TEHRAN He called for Israel's elimination, dismissed the Holocaust as a "myth" and stridently advocated Iran's nuclear rights. Now, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered his fiery speeches to be saved for commercial publication. He has appointed a 15-member advisory council
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    • 359 11 —AFP Event to promote religious tolerance chaired by Gus Dur, religious leaders JIMBARAN Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, hosted a conference yesterday aiming to promote religious tolerance and affirming the reality of the Holocaust The event attended by rabbis, Holocaust witnesses and Muslim
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    • 313 12 —AFP Authorities may change law to add variety, lessen confusion BEIJING With about 1.3 billion people sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to end the confusion, state media reported yesterday. Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed to take
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    • 292 12 —AGENCIES KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer (picture) was not murdered but died of natural causes, Jamaican police said yesterday, reversing their original assessment of his death at the World Cup in March. "The Jamaica Constabulary Force OCF) has conducted a thoroughly professional investigation
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 117 13 -AFP Five Malaysians have been quarantined with suspected bird flu following an outbreak of the deadly HSNI strain of the virus last week the country's health minister said yesterday. A 11-year-old boy was placed in isolation at Sungai Buloh Hospital in
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      • 141 13 —ap Atop Chinese union official yesterday blamed foreign businesses for alleged labour abuse including child labour abuse in the production of official Olympic-licensed products in southern China. "We welcome foreign companies that respect Chinese laws and look after their workers," Mr Xie Liangmin,
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      • 103 13 —AP Premier Wen Jiabao has ordered a formal probe into the algae growth smothering one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats to the country's water bodies. Citing pollution as the main cause, Mr Wen said Taihu lake's
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    • 224 13 —AFP WASHINGTON The Bush administration yesterday added seven nations, including several key US allies in the Middle East, to its annual human trafficking blacklist These countries now face possible sanctions, including a withdrawal of non-humanitarian, non-trade related aid, for not doing enough to
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    • 409 14 —AFP Rivals Hamas and Fatah launch mortar attacks on the homes of President, PM GAZA CITY Gun battles rocked Gaza yesterday, killing 18 people in 24 hours as mortar shells slammed into the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and the seafront compound of President Mahmud
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    • 276 14 -AFP WASHINGTON Russia has agreed to help the United States break the impasse over a long-running banking dispute blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament, the US Treasury said yesterday. Moscow reportedly granted a US request for a private Russian bank to
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    • 254 16 -AP New move by Apple to push wider Macintosh use SAN FRANCISCO Apple has launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs, pitting it against Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. The free downloadable program is Apple's latest move to expand
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    • 141 16 -AFP LONDON British police plan to post pictures of Madeleine McCann (picture), the British girl who vanished in Portugal nearly six weeks ago, in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world built by online users. Investigators are in talks with Second Life to display
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  • Voices
    • Clear signals on cable TV fee hike
      • 376 18  -  VINCENT TAN Letter from AFTER reading the report, "We have no choice, says SCV" (June 12), I think Star Hub's reasons are fair from a business operations perspective. If the statement in the report by Star Hub's senior vice-president of cable,
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      • 244 18  -  RAYMOND TEO Letter from IS THERE any law to protect consumers from unfair terms and conditions when they sign up for a plan under a monopoly? I refer to item 15b of Star Hub Cable Vision's (SCV) general terms and conditions, which states, under
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      • 93 18  -  LEONG KUM CHUEN Letter from STARHUB Cable Vision is raising charges for its basic and sports groups in July and October respectively. I find it hard to accept that as consumers, we do not have any choice at all given that it
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    • 369 20  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from Increase in postage is disproportionate to the increase in GST I REFER to the announcement made by Singapore Post (Sing Post) that postage rates for domestic mail will increase with effect from July 1 from 25 to 26
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    • 245 22  -  WOUTER MAES Letter from IN LIGHT of the recent dengue outbreak in Singapore, I offer my whole-hearted thanks to the National Environment Agency (NEA) and its officers for going above and beyond the call of duty while conducting checks for mosquito-breeding sites with
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    • 424 22  -  HO KONG LOON Letter from Many of the rules at banks do not benefit the small depositor MY MOTHER squirreled away a tiny nest egg over decades. She put her money in a few fixed-term deposits, each lot paying 0.925 per cent interest per annum. Recently, she
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    • 241 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON .....BY POOR PAUL GETTY American educator William Lyon Phelps once said: "Every man who is happily married is a successful man, even if he has failed in everything else." I certainly agree. For many years, I lived a short drive from the J
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    • 293 24  -  EETECKSIEW Letter from Vehicles parked along road cause inconvenience to other road users I USE Balestier Road almost daily to commute from office to home. Driving along the stretch before reaching the slip road to the Central Expressway (CTE) towards the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE)
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    • 259 24  -  THOMAS LEEZHIZHI Letter from I REFER to the Land Transport Authority's reply (June 12) on the issue of motorists stopping by the side of the road to post a letter. I think placing post boxes along the roads should be reviewed.
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    • 471 25  - Job enlargement or cost savings RICK LIM SAY KIONG Letter from I REFER to the article, "Going home, just to sleep" (June 12) by Mr Gilbert Goh, in which he highlighted an emerging trend in the lifestyle of many professionals. That is, an increasing number of our workers are spending
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    • 232 25  -  JOAN LEW Letter from MY 84-year-old grandmother, Madam Tan Jok Lan, passed away last week after battling multiple medical complications as an intensive care unit and "dangerously ill" patient for 84 days. She had spent her final and happiest 30 days at
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  • Business
    • 468 28  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp.com.sg Private economists raise growth forecast to 6% despite fears over bird flu, China economy BUOYED by the financial services and construction sectors, Singapore's economy is expected to grow 6 per cent this year, according to a survey of 16 private sector economists
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    • 217 28 -DOW JONES -938UVE BLOOMBERG Soft drinks conglomerate Fraser Neave said its Frasers Property unit bought a Sydney site for As2oB million ($320 million) from Foster's Group. Fraser Neave will develop the 5.7-ha site for residential and commercial use, with an end-value of As 2 billion. Construction is expected to
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    • 510 29  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg Republic places 6th in index on top 50 commerce cities DESPITE coming out tops in several categories, Singapore was edged out by Hong Kong in an index that ranks cities on how they fare in commerce. In an inaugural ranking of 50 top
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    • 135 29 CHANNEL NEWSASIA HONG Leong Finance is taking over the portfolio of 10,300 hire purchase accounts from the Singapore branch of a foreign bank for $405 million. The price was based on the estimated amount receivable of the hire purchase agreements, which are mainly
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    • 206 30 BLOOMBERG Hotelier partners upscale goods maker to build spas HILTON Hotels Corp, the United States' second- largest hotel company, formed a partnership with LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton to create or upgrade 135 spas that offer luxury treatment in its upscale hotels. Hilton will invest
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    • 94 30 938 LIVE Asia's first organic waste treatment plant is set to start trial operations in Singapore next month. Under phase one, the $60-million facility, located in Tuas, will process up to 300 tonnes of food waste a day. It will
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      • 108 30 -AFP Share prices closed 0.45 percent higher yesterday in cautious trading after a lacklustre performance on Wall Street, dealers said. They said speculative trade in selected blue chips underpinned the index's modest rise. The ST Index closed up 16.08 points at 3,561.54 on a volume of 3.03 billion shares
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      52 31 THROUGH THE VOICES OF BOLLYWOOD: Yash Raj Films chairman Yash Chopra (left) gestures as Wart Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook looks on in Mumbai, India yesterday. Walt Disney Co has tied up with India's Yash Raj Films to make a series of Indian-style animated feature films with voices of Bollywood
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    • 327 31 —AFP Beijing warns it will not tolerate US Bill aimed at hitting Chinese goods BEIJING China has warned of a counter response if the United States Congress adopts a Bill on Beijing's foreign exchange regime that could lead to higher American tariffs on Chinese imports. "China
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    • 173 31 -938 LIVE THE national carrier of the United Arab Emirates Etihad Airways will start three-weekly non-stop flights between Singapore and Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, on Sept 27. The announcement comes a day after the launch of the Abu Dhabi-Singapore Business Forum, formed
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    • 173 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CAPITALAND is buying Char Yong Gardens at Orchard Road through a collective sale for $420 million its sixth such purchase since 2005. The amount includes a $47 million development charge. The 93,000 square foot freehold site has a gross plot ratio of 2.8.
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    • 346 32 -AGENCIES Soaring food prices take May inflation to 2-year high BEIJING Inflation in China rose to its highest level in more than two years in May, driven by soaring prices for pork and other foods, according to government figures released yesterday. Consumer prices last month
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      • 263 39  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL HERE'S some of the most expensive and eye-popping video art you will ever see. Matthew Barney's (picture) The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five surreal films, are being presented as part of the National Museum's Alternate Visions cinema programme until Saturday.
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    • 262 42 LONDON Didier Drogba (picture) has admitted he is considering a move from Chelsea. The 29-year-old striker has been at Stamford Bridge for three seasons and would like to play in Italy or Spain before he retires. "I'm at the last big turning point of my
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    • 231 42 -AFP LONDON Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce yesterday slammed Manchester City over the cash dispute which is delaying the £5.5 million ($16.7 million) transfer of midfielder Joey Barton (picture). Barton agreed his move to St James' Park last week, but a row over a £300,000 pay-off to which he
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      • 441 44  -  LING SEOWKANG Letter from It was one of the most significant moments of my growing-up days. The memories I have of the National Stadium will stay with me forever. A Victoria School boy, I had represented my school since Secondary 2 in track and field,
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