Today, 18 April 2008

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    26 1 TODAY /AediaCorp we set you thinking MICA(P) 132/10/2007 Friday April 18, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp Friday April 18, 2008 todayonline.com we set you thinking MICA(P) 132/10/2007
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    Fortifying the honeypot against attacks in cyberspace
    811 1  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg IT IS an invisible threat that could immobilise or disrupt the Government, the private sector and you. Cyber menaces may not be as tangible to ordinary Singaporeans as, say, the threat of a terrorist attack for which authorities have
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    Lock icon Still friends, no matter what
    843 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI —AGENCIES PM 'positive' on M'sian rail link, Pedra Branca ruling won't affect ties: George Yeo nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AS MALAYSIA'S political landscape continues to feel the ripples from last month's elections, its newly-appointed Foreign Minister has assured Singaporeans those wondering about the polls' possible impact on
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      41 1 WE PAID PRICE FOR DESTROYING TEMPLES SAMY VELLU ON INDIAN SWING VOTE WORLD PAGE 20 VIRGIN, 14, FOR SALE PROSTITUTION A CUSTOM FOR SOME TRIBES IN INDIA WORLD PAGE 25 RACE TO THE PARTY CLUBS JOIN IN THE Fl FRENZY H
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      Elderly to get extra Medisave top-up
      453 2  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg ELDERLY citizens above the age of 80 will enjoy an additional top-up to their Medisave, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced yesterday. He was speaking in the last of three public consultation sessions on changes to the MediShield scheme, which will
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      Lock icon Sharp drop in Q1 new home sales
      636 3  -  TAN HUI LENG But don't expect prices to fall, say analysts huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IN ANOTHER sign of a lull in the private residential property market, developers managed to sell only 795 new homes in the first three months of this year a hefty 46
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      202 2 SSHr y For a well-ro WST mix in the Jazz up your bedroom by celebrating your personal style. At IKEA, you can choose from a wide range of furnishings like curtains, mattresses, bedlinen and furniture to create the bedroom you want. Along with affordable prices and good M SAXAN bath
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      166 3 unded nightlife, right circles. IN function, there's also our 100-Day Return Policy which offers g you more reasons to sleep easy. So visit your IKEA store during g Bedroom Weeks from now till 27 April and keep your sanctuary Jji in perfect balance. m 4*^\ ALVINE VAXT g *»SsJ cushion
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      30 3 YOUNG JOURNALIST m rOF THE YEAR T" j LOH CHEE KONG TAKES A CLOSE, 1 HARD LOOK AT HIS PROFESSION J AN XTRA PERSPECTIVE, 1 IN YOUR WEEKEND TODAY J
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      Drive on to ensure jobs for the elderly
      422 4  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg WITH four years to go before legislation makes itmandatory, aframework is in place to drive the re-em-ployment of mature workers. "This year, we have come up with advisory notes you can take it or leave it; nothing will happen
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      OTHER PRESSING ISSUES
      219 4 EX-OFFENDERS A representative from a cooperative for ex-offenders felt that while there are moves to help "disadvantaged groups" find jobs, ex-offenders are overlooked-some 10,000 to 11,000 enter the workforce each year. Mr Lim Swee Say offered the services of the Employment and Employability Institute to help them
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      Revving up for the Formula 1 party
      670 6  -  ASIFANSAR But some nightspots are putting the brakes on sales expectations asif@media corp.com.sg IT IS all systems go for Singapore's inaugural Formula 1 (Fl) race, but most major clubs and bar operators are cautious in forecasting revenue growth. Some say that sales will
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      126 8  - CAREFUL, HE'S CONTAGIOUS: He infects those around him, and in this case, if s a good thing. Manager Andy Goh, 35, was yesterday crowned Singapore's Happiest Person. He is shown here receiving his prize from social worker and supercentenarian Teresa Hsu (seated) while her friend Sharana Rao applauds. Being happy,
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      Teaching kids to hang tough
      465 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@media corp.com.sg WITH record numbers of young people seeking help for mental problems, teaching positive thinking and resilience has never seemed more crucial. And hatching programmes to do just that are schools in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are waking up
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      MORE PAY MAY NOT MAKE YOU HAPPIER
      146 8  -  Can money buy happiness? Perhaps so, but if higher salaries are the only incentive, it could backfire on employers. They should also consider employees' long-term aspirations and look to improve relationships in the workplace, Singapore Management University professor David Chan said atthe New
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      Lock icon More space for art
      497 12  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Artists could get more help under NAC's plans for new grant weekeat@media corp.com.sg EVEN as one artist in the spotlight moved out of his subsidised studio yesterday, more space for art practitioners could be in the pipeline. The National Arts Council (NAC) said
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      Black Knights take to the Bangkok sky
      151 12  -  ■TEOXUANWEI AFTER a seven-year hiatus, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) aerobatics team, the Black Knights, will take to the skies again for the second time this year in Bangkok. The Black Knights will perform in an aerial display at the Don
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      Lock icon They tried to sneak in under car floorboards
      254 14 DESPERATE to work in Singapore, three women from China, barred from entry here because of previous convictions for overstaying, tried to sneak back in on Wednesday. But they were foiled by eagle-eyed Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at the Woodlands Checkpoint
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      Lock icon Two Italian men
      447 14  -  LEONGWEEKEAT One faces tax evasion charges; the other, drink-driving weekeat@media corp.com.sg TWO Italians a major supplier of wines and spirits and a top restaurateur were in court yesterday after allegedly running afoul of tax laws and traffic regulations respectively. Giorgio Ferrari, 39, the boss of a liquor
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        Lock icon IT'S MANSLAUGHTER, SO INDON MAID ESCAPES HANGING
        133 15 -938LIVE An Indonesian maid will escape the gallows after an initial charge of murdering her elderly employer was reduced to manslaughter. In yesterday's preliminary inquiry to determine if there was enough evidence for a trial to proceed, the prosecution told the court it
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        MM TO REPRESENT SINGAPORE AT OLYMPICS OPENING
        80 15 Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will represent Singapore at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug 8. He will then return to Singapore for the National Day celebrations on Aug 9. After National Day, President S R Nathan will
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      HDB draws curtains on bi-monthly flat sales
      224 15 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) received 5,700 applications for 490 flats in its final bi-monthly sale of four-room and larger units that closed on Wednesday. Bi-monthly sale exercises attract more applicants and a higher take-up rate, as the flats on offer are
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      Helping the small guys seal a better deal
      542 16  -  UNYANQIN Temasek Foundation centre to provide training for officials and SME chiefs yanqin@media corp.com.sg WHEN it comes to having their interests represented at international trade forums, developing countries often find the odds stacked against them. Lacking the manpower with the necessary negotiation
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      74 16 BACK IN ACTION: Veteran pojitician Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, secretary-general of the proposed Reform Party, leaving the Registry of Societies at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority yesterday morning after filing application papers. With him are his party colleagues (from left) Mr Edmund Ng, Ms Lui SookFun and Mr NgTeckSiong. Mr Jeyaretnam
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      ARE STORE MINISTERS POPULIST?
      585 18 A minister should not be a Mr Nice Guy. And being a minister entails much more than just kissing babies. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently spoke about his hunt for Cabinet talent in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao. Below are excerpts. In the past, the
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      Lock icon ´THERE ARE NOT MANY PEOPLE LIKENG NG ENG HEN´
      941 18 The Government is seeking first-class talent from the top 1 per cent, but most people wonder why the Government cannot accept the next best talent for example, talent from the top 5 per cent. What is your view? In reality, it
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      Lock icon Foreign Minister changes tack on Pak Lah
      376 20  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg JUST FOUR days ago, he had backed a call by grassroots leaders in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) for Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi to disclose more details about his succession plan. But yesterday, Malaysia's newlyappointed Foreign Minister Dr Rais
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      Lock icon 'We paid the price for destroying temples'
      371 20 \1 we had jagajaga (looked after) the temples, we would have won the Indian vote. MIC president SamyVellu BN's insensitivity cost it Indian support: Samy Vellu KUALA LUMPUR One of the leaders within Malaysia's ruling coalition has openly criticised Mr Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's
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      Lock icon Why Tamil daily's permit wasn't extended
      295 20 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Home Minister yesterday said he decided to stop a leading Tamil-language daily newspaper from being published because it had violated guidelines on racial harmony. Makkal Osai's general manager, Mr S M Periasamy, on Wednesday said the daily received a letter
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      Lock icon During surgery, they laughed, cheered, shot videos
      245 22 -AGENCIES MANILA Staff at a Philippine government hospital are under investigation after a former patient threatened a lawsuit over a YouTube video of his rectal surgery, officials said yesterday. The video clip showed hospital staff laughing and cheering as a spray canister was
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      Lock icon Carrying a torch for Tibet
      302 22 -AFP Thousands in India stage rival relay led by Tibetan monks NEW DELHI More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in the Indian capital yesterday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short, high-security jog in the city.
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      Lock icon For sale in India: 14-year-old virgin
      882 25 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BHARATPUR (India) Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention. A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, at a
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      Lock icon Think big, Aussies
      326 26 ■AFP PMRuddto tap country's brightest brains SYDNEY Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this weekend will hold a summit of top Australians, including Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett, to seek "big ideas" for the future. He says the Canberra meeting of Australia's "best and brightest", dubbed the 2020 Summit, is
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      Lock icon Samsung chief charged with tax evasion
      312 26 -AP SEOUL Special prosecutors said yesterday they had indicted Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun Hee on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust, though they cleared the conglomerate of allegations it kept a slush fund for bribery. The announcement concludes a threemonth probe
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      Lock icon Bush green talk just hot air?
      392 29 -AFP His speech an attempt to push culpability to next US President: Official WASHINGTON If the White House billed President George W Bush's environmental speech as a major effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, both critics and supporters saw it as an effort to
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        Lock icon SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO BAN PLASTIC BAGS
        123 29 ■AFP South Australia state said yesterday that it would ban plastic bags from next year after a meeting of environment ministers failed to agree on a national programme that addresses the issue. The state announced that it would carry the programme out alone after
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        Lock icon CAMBODIAN MAN GUILTY IN FAILED COUP
        128 29 I I -AFP A Cambodian man was found guilty by a United States jury on Wednesday of instigating a failed coup attempt in his native country in November 2000. He now faces a possible life sentence. Chhun Yasith, 52, an accountant who had arrived
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      Women's chance to be financially savvy
      195 30  -  HARRY CHIA Letter from I REFER to the report, "Making the future safer for women" (April 17). Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Lim Hwee Hua's advice that "women must take it upon themselves to ensure they have sufficient personal savings for
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      How to silence varsity application gripes
      137 30  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from IN THE name of objectivity and transparency, I urge the local universities to take the following steps to pre-empt the anguished chorus of complaints from Singaporeans who fail to get places at these institutions: First, put up on their
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      Lock icon Time to act against rogue housing agents
      311 30  -  RAYMOND NG Letter from COMPLAINTS against real estate agents are rising. According to the latest statistics, more than 1,000 reports have been lodged with the Consumers Association of Singapore and the Inland Revenue Authority. I am puzzled why little has been done to
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      Lock icon The library, my missing books and goodwill
      762 32  -  Tabitha Wang BUDGET TAITAI news@newstoday.com.sg I KNEW Singapore had begun a new chapter in customer service the day my library books went missing. I was trying to borrow a book from the National Library, but the machine insisted I was over my limit
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      195 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON CREATIVE WAYS TO INJECT ROMANCE INTO YOUR MARRIAGE Are you tired of that same old dinner and a movie? Are you sick of watching mindless television or yet another boring soccer game? Maybe it's time to come up with some creative ways to
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      isay LEARNING SHOULD BE CHILD'S PLAY
      519 34  -  CHENJUNYI I COMMEND Crispina Robert for not cramming her child's schedules with tuition classes in "The modern parent trap" (April 11-12), and encourage her to allow her child to develop at a pace that suits him. I, too, am resisting the same pressures of
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      356 50 -AP ROCKER Bruce Springsteen, renowned for his gritty parables of American workingclass life, on Wednesday defended Democrat White House hopeful Barack Obama as the latter fights charges of elitism. Springsteen, also popularly known as The Boss, wrote in a message to fans that the Illinois
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      317 55 -AFP WELLINGTON Lack of game time, weak opposition and poor refereeing were all to blame for the All Blacks' failure to win the rugby World Cup last year, according to an independent review released yesterday. The 47-page review, commissioned by the New
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      289 58  -  PAUL GREEN BALESTIER Khalsa coach Nasaruddin Jalil says his side are in no mood to be trampled on in front of a live TV audience tonight Bottom club Balestier take on title challengers Super Reds at Jalan Besar Stadium in an NTUC Income-Yeo's
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      191 59  -  —TANYO-HINN IN A first for a Singapore race, runners will get to wear their preferred number on their bib at the adidas Sundown Marathon on May 31. Yesterday, event organisers HiVelocity teamed up with Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck
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      222 60 AGENCIES LONDON Avram Grant played the disciplinary card when he hitTal Ben Haim (picture) with an £80,000 ($214,000) fine for the defender's outburst on Wednesday. In an interview with The Sun, the former Bolton player claimed he would never have signed for Chelsea
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      636 61 -AGENCIES LONDON Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has described Rick Parry's (picture) time as chief executive as a "disaster" during which the club has failed to keep up with Europe's leading clubs. "Look at what's happened under Rick. It has been a disaster," said Hicks,
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