Today, 2 July 2008

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    27 1 TODAY fA=DIA.CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday July 2, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday July 2, 2008 todayonline.com I
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    Brake on home prices
    776 1  -  CHEOWXINYI Slowdown in private market spells end of en bloc fever cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg IT ROSE to fever pitch just 12 months ago, but as the latest property market figures roll in, the en bloc charge could be all but over for property owners and developers alike.
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    New ad guidelines: Stick to facts, leave out the naughty
    584 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WE MAY be able to agree on the importance of a condom as protection, but Singaporeans seem less ready to talk in public about its naughtier connotations. That is, going by feedback and the resulting new guidelines on
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      Get cash for Parf from Sept
      558 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Flexibility for drivers who want to give up cars weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg DRIVERS squeezed by rising fuel prices and Electronic Road Pricing charges have been offered a carrot to give up their cars and switch to public transport: Come September, those who de-register
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      Lock icon PRs help drive flat resale prices
      598 3  -  TAN HUI LENG HDB upgraders'demand for condos outside central region could also rise huileng@media corp.com.sg AS SOARING rental rates add to their cost burden, more Permanent Residents (PRs) are snapping up Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats. "Two years ago, you would pay
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      Cycling on footpaths: Tampines extends trial
      522 4  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Efforts to be stepped up to educate foreign workers, students on safe cycling chaichin@media corp.com.sg THEY ride their bicycles at high speeds on footpaths, endangering and annoying the pedestrians in Tampines. For this and other unsavoury cycling habits, foreign workers and
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      Convicted, but now blaming his ex-lawyer
      338 6  -  TEO XUANWEI Former ICA officer lodges appeal against two-year sentence xuanwei@media corp.com.sg A FORMER immigration officer convicted of abetting and harbouring an illegal immigrant, now claims that he is innocent, and has accused his former lawyer of advising him to plead guilty as the
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      Lock icon Ripples but Yaw retains post
      292 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT ZULOTHMAN EVEN as discontent over his re-appointment surfaced online, Workers' Party member Yaw Shin Leong retained his post last night as organising secretary in the party's Central Executive Committee. Mr Yaw, 32, who made headlines in May after blogging that he voted
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      Sizzling hot, but not for all
      365 7  -  SHERALYNTAY Employment prospects have improved for poly grads but some are more sought after sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE labour market may be sizzling hot, but not all polytechnic students are benefiting. While the job market has improved for polytechnic graduates as a group, a comparison
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      EMPLOYMENT JUMP FOR ITE GRADS
      228 7 They are the "doers" and "operations specialists" and in a job market scrambling for specialised skills, students from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) are making their mark with their range of technical expertise. Over a year, the employment rate for ITE graduates went from
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      Lock icon Love Guru gets NC-16 rating
      318 7  -  MAYO MARTIN IT FEATURES Hollywood actress Jessica Alba in a Bollywood dance sequence and two elephants copulating during a hockey match. But the upcoming Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru is no laughing matter to a wellknown Hindu leader in the United States, who said
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      Lock icon Calling all social entrepreneurs ...
      488 8  - Calling all social entrepreneurs NAZRYBAHRAWI Talent drought prompts SYAto cast net wider in quest for young businessmen nazry@media corp.com.sg IT HAS been an area of focus in recent years, but entrepreneurial achievement among the youth still seems elusive, if the annual Singapore Youth Awards (SYA) is anything to go by.
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      Lock icon HE PROFILES THE PERSONALITIES' OF TUMOURS
      221 8 This year's SYA winner for Science and Technology fancies himself a "profiler" of sorts, though his forte is not categorising the human psyche. DrTan Min-Han, 33, is one of the world's first two researchers to categorise kidney cancer. The other is his American scientist
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      Lock icon 'I have evidence, alibi'
      469 10  -  JESSINTATAN AGENCIES Former Deputy Premier demands an end to sodomy'conspiracy' KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday demanded that the government quash sodomy accusations against him, saying he was the victim of a "conspiracy" to prevent him from seizing power. The former Deputy Premier, who
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      Lock icon Jordan charges Dutch MP with blasphemy
      227 10 AFP AMMAN A Jordanian prosecutor charged far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders yesterday with blasphemy and violation of publishing laws over his film that was judged anti-Islamic. Jordan's publishing laws ban insults against Islam and religions. The charges also include defamation and violation of online
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      Lock icon M'sian DPM's wife denies hand in murder
      309 12 AP KUALA LUMPUR The wife of Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister says she will not sue Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin for alleging her involvement in the murder of a Mongolian woman. "I have nothing to say. I have given my statement to
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      Lock icon China quake unusual: Scientists
      214 12 AFP WASHINGTON The devastating earthquake in China was the unexpected result of a seismological oddity and is likely to occur in the area only about once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, United States geoscientists said on Monday. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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      Lock icon UN's Ban Ki-moon hopes China, Tibet talks bear fruit
      224 12 AFP BEIJING United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said yesterday he hoped talks between envoys of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese authorities would be successful, as he began a three-day visit to China. "I sincerely hope that the dialogue initiated by
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      Lock icon 11 years after handover, a continued call for suffrage
      254 14 AP HONG KONG The flags of China and Hong Kong were raised together yesterday ahead of an annual street protest calling for democracy as the territory marked the 11th anniversary of its return to China. A few hundred local leaders and
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      Lock icon Taiwan assures Chinese tourists
      275 14 AP It will help incoming visitors avoid confrontations with Falungong TAIPEI Chinese tourists arriving in Taiwan this week may come face to face with followers of Beijing-banned spiritual group Falungong, but tourism authorities will try to prevent possible confrontations. Tourism Bureau official Chang Shi-chung said Taiwanese
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      Lock icon The great leap
      180 16 AFP For $3.1 m, couples can now say 'I do' on the moon TOKYO A Japanese firm began accepting reservations yesterday for couples who really want to make the big leap by blasting into space to exchange their wedding vows. Each couple will spend 240 million yen
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      Lock icon Smoking ban kicks off in Dutch cafes
      133 16 AFP THE HAGUE A smoking ban went into effect yesterday in cafes, restaurants and bars across the Netherlands, as the country joins a growing list of European countries to tighten rules on tobacco use in public places. Smoking marijuana in the Netherlands' infamous
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      Lock icon Bill, Obama bury the hatchet
      236 18 AFP amencavotes WASHINGTON White House hopeful Barack Obama held a long-awaited telephone chat with former United States President Bill Clinton on Monday, further easing bruised feelings over the rancorous Democratic nominating duel. The call came days after Mr Obama and Ms Hillary Clinton appeared together
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      Lock icon Burglars get away with Archbishop's rings, crosses
      117 18 AP MINNEAPOLIS Burglars robbed the home of the leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, getting away with valuable rings and crosses. The thief or thieves climbed onto a first-floor roof, then broke into a secondstory window of Archbishop
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      Lock icon China detains dissidents
      306 18 AP They were set to meet with visiting US Congressmen BEIJING The police in Beijing blocked Chinese dissident lawyers from attending a meeting with a pair of visiting United States Congressmen, the lawmakers and a human rights group said yesterday. Mr Chris Smith of New Jersey and
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      136 18 ■^IQlß^di a serious education INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE TOT 3 S6TIOUS CdTeer The global leader in game development is opening its first international branch campus in Singapore. DigiPen Singapore will offer two degree programs: Bachelor of Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation Bachelor of Fine Arts in Production Animation Now accepting
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      isay ERP WOES: IT'S IN THE EXECUTION
      739 20  -  LEE CHIU SAN I REFER to "Will ERP mean 'every road pay'?" Gune 30). While Conrad Raj himself does not, and perhaps does not intend, to own a car, there is no denying that car ownership is one of the aspirations of most
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      Lock icon Use ERP fees to subsidise fares
      452 21  -  KELVIN KWAN CHEE HONG Letter from I refer to "Will ERP mean 'every road pay'?" (June 30). I applaud the Government for using the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) and fuel taxes to control the use of vehicles and prevent road congestion. But let us
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      168 21  -  DR BILL MAIER BY LIVING LONG AND SMARTER Science may be able to help you live longer, but quality of life during those years is entirely up to you. Thanks to medical advances, you and I may live well into our eighties or nineties even longer.
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      Lock icon Spring's Bt Merah HQ for sale
      193 22 SPRING Singapore is putting its headquarters up for sale ahead of a possible move to the second phase of Fusionopolis at One North. The Government's enterprise development agency hopes to then lease half of the building's units back for the next two years for
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      E&Y becomes an LLP
      439 22  -  CONRAD RAJ Shake-up at another of the Big-Four audit firms EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg ERNST and Young (E&Y) has become the second of the so-called "Big Four" audit firms in Singapore, after Deloitte and Touche, to convert into a limited liability partnership. It is now called Ernst
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      Arcapita buys into trust
      127 23 A BAHRAINI bank is buying into a trust set by Mapletree Investments to hold $1.71 billion worth of industrial properties recently divested by JTC Arcapita Bank will hold a 56.6-per-cent stake in the trust, known as the Mapletree Investment Trust Mapletree is not disclosing how much
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      Why it will always be cool at Sentosa Resort
      385 23  -  ESTHER FUNG Spore-designed energy-efficient device cools air to 25 degrees Celcius esther@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the Sentosa integrated resort opens in a few years' time, visitors may enjoy aircon temperatures even as they queue outdoors. This is thanks to a new Singapore-designed device
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      SembCorp announces more orders
      162 23 In just two days, SembCorp Marine has announced orders for over US$l billion in offshore oil drilling facilities. The latest orders bring total contracts secured to date this year at $3.3 billion with its order book now swelling to $9.5 billion. On Monday, its wholly-owned subsidiary
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        F&N TO BE SPLIT INTO FOUR ENTITIES?
        569 24  -  CONRAD RAJ Move seen following company's appointment of four division chiefs EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg NOW that home-grown mini-con-glomerate Fraser and Neave (F&N) has decided on a quartet of chief executives to head the various divisions under the group, will it mean that eventually,
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        Lock icon Eurozone interest rates look set to rise
        260 25 AGENCIES ECB likely to tighten monetary policy to fight inflation EUROZONE borrowing costs are set to rise when the European Central Bank (ECB) convenes tomorrow, seeking to tame the inflation monster before turning its attention to slumping growth. With record 3.7-per-cent eurozone inflation
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        Lock icon Dow in bear market territory
        195 25 AGENCIES US stocks dropped in early afternoon trade in New York yesterday, sending the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bear market, as rising energy costs undermined the outlook for corporate profits. The Dow was down 153.23 points, or 1.35 per cent, to 11,196.78
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          Lock icon KEPPEL UNIT TEC ENTERS INTO JOINT VENTURE
          104 25 DOW JONES Keppel Corp said unit Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment Holdings has entered into a joint venture agreement with China's Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co to develop an Eco-city project in China. In a filing with the Singapore Exchange, Keppel said the
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          SWEET DEAL FOR WILMAR AND OLAM
          106 25 Singapore-listed commodities firms Wilmar International and 01am International are teaming up to jointly buy a stake in Pure Circle for U*****.2 million ($144.6 million). Olam Wilmar Investment Holdings, an equal joint venture between Olam and Wilmar, have agreed to buy a 20-per-cent stake in
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      IT TAKES WILL POWER
      1096 26 DAYEXCLUSIVE SAVING the day comes easy for Hollywood superstar Will Smith. After all, he has previously "saved" the world from evil aliens, robots and an assortment of bad guys. But this time around, the 39-year-old actor of blockbusters such as Independence Day, and the Men In
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      Lock icon Are the rumours of a split 'total fiction'?
      374 28 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH GUY Ritchie's mother has denied rumours that her son and Madonna are planning to split, claiming reports of meetings with highpowered divorce lawyers as "total fiction". "There's no conversation about divorce because there is no divorce," Lady Amber Leighton
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      Lock icon The royal treatment
      543 28  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Princess makes directorial debut with her own script christophertoh@media corp.com.sg SHE'S already been lauded as a philanthropist, TV star, and an author, but Princess Übolratana (picture), the eldest daughter of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, can now add "film-maker" to her list of credits. The princess
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