Today, 4 August 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday August 4, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • IN OUR MORNING PAPER
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      CABBIES'WOES
      176 1 Cabbies may say assaults against them are rare, but they are on the rise, according to the largest taxi operator here. ComfortDelGro which has 15,000 of the 24,000 taxis on the roads here told Today that assaults against the company's drivers have more than doubled from a year ago.
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      M'SIAN POLITICS
      120 1 KUALA LUMPUR Declaring that Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim speaks well and is capable of swaying the electorate, a second United Malays National Organisation (Umno) leader has come out to suggest that ruling coalition Barisan Nasional not contest the impending Permatang Pauh by-election. This came just hours after
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      Lock icon From villain to hero
      525 1 FOOTBALL FRIENDLES All is forgiven as Adebayor delivers winner against Real LONDON Emmanuel Adebayor was back in favour at Arsenal as his penalty gave the Gunners a 1 -0 win over Real Madrid in the Emirates Cup yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Adebayor's second-half strike couldn't
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      Lock icon Seville win Railways tournament
      182 1 AFP MOSCOW Spanish first division side Seville won the pre-season Railway Cup tournament yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), beating hosts Lokomotiv Moscow 3-0 in the final. Goals from Christian Ndri Romaric (fourth minute), Arouna Kone (23rd) and Ernesto Chevanton (82nd) gave the Spaniards the title. Earlier
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      Lock icon Bent on fire
      91 1 AFP ROTTERDAM A fired-up Darren Bent made it 10 goals in pre-season games as he struck the opener in Tottenham's 3-0 win over Germany's Borussia Dortmund in Rotterdam yesterday to help the Londoners bag the Feyenoord Jubileum Tournament. Bent was on target with a close-range strike after
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      Lock icon Shin lifts British Open as Asians roar
      478 2 AP SUNNINGDALE, England What was billed as Annika Sorenstam's farewell to the Majors turned into yet another showcase for the young stars from Asia. Hours after Sorenstam walked up the 18th at the Women's British Open to a standing ovation and closed her
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      Lock icon The new Henry?
      629 2 FOOTBALL FRIENDLIES Walcott, wearing No 14, has a big role to play with Arsenal this season LONDON He wore an Arsenal shirt with No 14 on the back, switched positions constantly and terrorised the opposition defence with his blistering pace. Theo Walcott looked a lot like Thierry
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      Lock icon No significant impact despite cases
      212 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE spectre of recent chikungunya infections at Kranji Way does not seem to have cast a shroud over businesses there. Three chikungunya cases involving two foreign workers and a delivery driver were reported in the area on Saturday. Only one farm operator told
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      Early testing helps
      599 3  -  SHERALYNTAY EDUCATION Awareness vp but the Vast majority' not getting treatment: Dyslexia group news@newstoday.com. sg WORDS made no sense to her and she grew up thinking she was slow and stupid. But Ms Wahida Remahl got the help she needed for her dyslexia when she was about
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      Lock icon Flare-up over second border ruin
      348 4 AGENCIES BANGKOK Officials from Thailand and Cambodia traded claims yesterday overa second disputed Khmer ruin on their border, as the two nations remained at loggerheads in another territorial dispute. The Ta Muen Thorn ruin sits on one of many disputed areas along the border, and
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      Lock icon FIRE FURY
      94 4 Fanned by strong winds, the fire at a factory in Sungei Kadut Street 1 blazed for almost four hours before it was brought under control at 7.30pm yesterday. It is believed the factory deals largely with timber. A spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it
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      Mall to look forward to
      653 4  -  LINYANQIN EDUCATION SOFTWARE Edumall 2.0 aims to be more than just a portal for teachers to get notes yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg PRIMARY school teacher Eugene Ng thinks that a lot of time would be saved in class if he did not have to filter out all the
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      Lock icon Help me help you: Vivian
      393 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN NATIONAL DAY DINNER We must vmake sure there is no hunger in Cashew': MP chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg NO RESIDENT will go hungry, no one will lack proper healthcare, no child will go without school books or pocket money. That was the message Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister
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      Lock icon Temple stampede leaves 145 dead
      169 6 AFP SHIMLA, India A stampede at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India killed 145 people yesterday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Most people died of suffocation, and about 30 of the dead were children, officials said. The accident took place at
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      Lock icon S'poreans still upbeat on travel
      107 6 938 LIVE THE uncertain economic outlook has not affected Singaporeans' year-end travel plans. This is judging by the 65,000 visitors who made their way to the Natas travel fair at Singapore Expo, a 14-per-cent increase over last year. The fair, which ended at 9pm yesterday,
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    • S'PORE ROUNDUP
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        APPEAL FOR WITNESSES
        123 8 Cash, mobile phone top-up cards and cigarettes amounting to $i,ooo went missing after a shop at Ang Mo Kio Avenue l was broken into yesterday. The break-in was discovered when one of the workers reported for work at 5.45 am and found window panes at the rear
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        Lock icon LEE YI SHYAN AT APEC MEET
        119 8 938 LIVE Minister of State (Trade and Industry) LeeYi Shyan is in Melbourne, Australia to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Structural Reform Ministerial Meeting. Ministers and representatives from the 21 Apec member economies will discuss how government policies and regulations can be improved
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      Crime watch, student style
      633 8  -  ONG DAI LIN NEIGHBOURHOOD SAFETY 250 volunteers from 10 schools went door to door yesterday to spread message dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TEO Shu Li was having lunch when he overheard how students at the next table had their handphones stolen while playing basketball at a neighbourhood court. It
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      267 8 OPPORTUNITY IN ADVERSITY Professional Forex Trader Clarence Chee, the developer of the m Dynamite Forex System and the Profit in Pivot System (PIPS), started T3B Forex Club has been coaching a growing group of i»: successful retail investors privately on how to profit consistently from the forex market. Come hear
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon A day of reckoning?
      445 10 AGENCIES MYANMAR 8.8.88 ANNIVERSARY Troops are on standby to quell protesters on the anniversary of the 1988 uprising YANGON Thousands of heavilyarmed Myanmarese security forces personnel have been moved to the outskirts of Yangon days before the 20th anniversary of an uprising which came close to
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      Lock icon WATCH THAT FLAME
      50 10 AFP A Chinese torchbearer does a somersault during the first leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay in Guanguan, Sichuan province yesterday. The rest of the torch relay in quake-hit Sichuan has been postponed until just before the Games, as the local authorities focus on reconstruction efforts.
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      Lock icon Indonesian forest fires spark haze fears in Malaysia
      246 10 .AFP KUALA LUMPUR The growing number of forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island has triggered warning bells that hazy skies could return to neighbouring Malaysia, environmental officials said yesterday. Forest fires from Indonesia caused by traditional farming methods have been blamed for
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      Lock icon All off the mountain
      380 12 AGENCIES DIVIDED KOREA Pyongyang to expel southerners at resort where tourist was shot SEOUL North Korea yesterday said it will expel "unnecessary" South Korean staff from a Seoul-run mountain resort in the communist state, a further sign of fraying ties between the two Koreas. The move
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        49 12 I. AFP A group of Chinese couples taking part in a 'kissing contest' at a shopping mall in Zhengzhou, in central China's Henan province on Saturday. The winning couple locked lips for three hours and 15 minutes to capture the top prize, a diamond ring worth 8,888 yuan ($1,600]
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        Lock icon 7 BOMBS HIT SOUTHERN THAI TOURIST TOWNS
        114 12 AFP Seven small bombs exploded at shops and restaurants in southern Thailand's tourist hubs injuring two people, officials said yesterday. Two bombs hit HatYai and five exploded in Songkhla town within hours of each other on Saturday. The bombs hit 7-Eleven convenience stores,
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        PRESIDENT MUGABE SEEKS MEDICAL ATTENTION IN S'PORE
        109 12 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived in Singapore over the weekend to receive medical attention for an undisclosed ailment, the country's media have reported. The Zimbabwe Times, citing informed sources, said the President left the capital Harare on Friday evening without being accompanied by
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      Lock icon President Lee denies involvement in fraud
      188 12 AFP SEOUL South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's office yesterday denied any involvement in a fraud case related to the nomination of candidates for Parliamentary elections after his wife's cousin was arrested. The First Lady's 74-year-old cousin Kirn Ok Hee is accused of receiving
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      Lock icon Milf in KL to sign pact with Manila
      164 12 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines will sign a pact with Manila tomorrow giving them an expanded autonomous region, the Malaysian Prime Minister's department said. Amid opposition to the government's agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), the
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      Lock icon Beat the jam with IT
      355 14 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH TRAFFIC WOES New technology will allow on-board computers in cars to communicate with each other LONDON Cars that warn motorists about accidents before they happen and "intelligent" roads that direct drivers to empty parking spaces are being developed in Britain. Traffic authorities and vehicle
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      Lock icon Just three debates, says Obama
      225 14 AP WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from Republican rival John McCain's challenge for a series of debates, agreeing only to the standard three in autumn. Mr Obama's reversal on town hall debates is part of a play-it-safe strategy he has
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      Lock icon Will subsidies help in the face of fee hikes?
      387 16  -  Leong Sze Hian BIRTHRATE BOOSTERS Also, income ceilings mean low-income mothers may refrain from taking up jobs Letter from I REFER to "More profit versus better quality" (July 31) and media reports of the debate in Parliament on whether birthrates will
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      Profit-driven childcare is not helping parents
      274 16  -  Tan Chor Hoon Letter from I REFER to More profits versus better quality" (July 31). Both my children went through full-day childcare from the age of 18 months until they were admitted to Primary 1. In the course of four years, I changed childcare
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      192 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY BLENDED FAMILIES Here is some advice today to those who are planning to remarry. When children are involved, this is called a blended family, and it poses some very unique and unsettling challenges. I can tell you that the Brady Bunch is
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      Lock icon I SAY COURTESY IS FROM WITHIN ...
      502 18  - I SAY COURTESY IS FROM WITHIN Subana Hall Prompting people with campaigns and rules can only achieve so much MEDIACORP'S Class 95 presenters have worked very hard at trying to pin down the good and the ugly Singaporean. In a contest which ended recently, they roped in Singaporeans to record
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      Library staff more customer-focused now
      117 18  -  Veronica Boudville Letter from Deputy Director Public Library Services National Library Board WE THANK Ms Wong Liang Ming for her feedback on "Senior library officer-in-charge had no authority to be compassionate?" (July 29) and would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to Ms Wong
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      Lock icon Channel surf China
      942 20  -  KARMAN TSE EYE ON BEIJING 2008 Couldn't make it to Beijing? Well, you can still catch the action on TV plus@newstoday.com.sg AS YOU countdown to Aug 8, take a taste of China host of this year's Olympic games through terracotta warriors, great military leaders, and a legendary
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      141 20 READ: CHINESE COOKING FOR DUMMIES BY MARTIN VAN "If your idea of Chinese cooking is egg rolls, wonton soup and fortune cookies, you're about to get quite a wakeup call," warnsYan in the foreword. Perfect for people yellow on the outside, white on the inside, who need to
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      Sun's still shining
      121 22 IT LOOKS like Stefanie Sun is still Singapore's favourite girl. The pop star beat Tanya Chua, J J Lin and Electrico to win the Favourite Artist of Singapore awards at the MTV Asia Awards on Saturday. Held at The Arena of Stars in Genting, Malaysia, the sixth
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      Lock icon His 20-hour path to Hollywood
      226 23  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE MARATHON All because he stayed awake through g films genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg A GREAT tradition for movie-lovers, dating couples and bored teens, the movie marathon is a cherished institution throughout the world. In the case of trader Yeo Aik Guan (picture), it's a
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      19 23 r NADAL'S CORONATION DELAYED. Spaniard loses in Cincinatti, but will still take No.i spot in two weeks. 31 A
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      989 26  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUILD-UP Singapore chase history, and it's fitting Tan and Ang are united on the big stage again sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg HE WAS bright-eyed and cheery yesterday, there was already a bounce in his step shortly after arriving in Beijing. Maybe
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      538 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG BEIJING BUILD-UP The fun can wait, as Singapore's Olympic squad focus on the challenge ahead linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S every athlete's dream to be at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. But not, it seems, Singapore's Olympic sailors, based in Qingdao, some
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      210 27 AFP BEIJING Swimming legend Grant Hackett (picture) arrived in the Chinese capital yesterday at the head of Australia's 42-strong swimming team, and the 28-year-old said he is ready to try and grab an unprecedented third 1500 m freestyle Olympic title. "I am confident I can get the best
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      159 27 AFP BEIJING Greek sprinter Ekaterina Thanou rocked the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens after she missed a dope test on the eve of the opening ceremony, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) members are likely to show little sympathy for her come Thursday. The sprinter
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      249 28 AFP KINGSTON -Jamaica's 100 m world record holder Usain Bolt will attempt the 100 m and 200 m double at the Beijing Olympics, the sprinter's agent said yesterday. "He is going to double up, that's certain." said Norman Peart. "I have just
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      274 28 AFP BEIJING The Chinese capital basked under another blue sky yesterday, five days before the Games' opening ceremony, but forecasters warned of storms ahead. Worries that Beijing's normal blanket of heavy smog would disrupt endurance events dissipated with the third consecutive
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      605 29 AFP BUDAPEST Heikki Kovalainen secured his maiden Formula 1 victory in dramatic circumstances yesterday, while his McLaren Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton kept his lead in this year's drivers' world championship. In an amazing and dramatic race of unpredictable twists and turns, the 26--year-old Kovalainen took
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      375 29  -  SHAMIR OSMAN IN KHON KAEN, THAILAND shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THE majority of Singapore Sports School's student-athletes arrived home yesterday from the 11th Thailand Sports School Games in Khon Kaen, with broad smiles on their faces and 58 gold, 32 silver and 22 bronze medals around
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      211 29 THE Young Lions and Tampines Rovers played out a 0-0 draw in last night's NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 match. It was Khairul Amri's first game at the Jalan Besar Stadium since he left the Young Lions a month ago, but there was no happy homecoming as
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      286 30 AP BIRMINGHAM (England) Martin O'Neill has conceded that Gareth Barry's (picture) longrunning proposed move from Aston Villa to Liverpool could still be on, despite the Reds missing an agreed deadline to complete the signing last week. O'Neill said on Saturday
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        132 30 AGENCIES Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has insisted that he is "not at all disappointed" by Frank Lampard's decision to stay at Chelsea. Lampard was Inter's top priority in the transfer market this summer, with coach Jose Mourinho hoping to be reunited with the
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        188 30 AGENCIES Emmanual Adebayor was booed, Theo Walcott looked sharp and Arsenal huffed and puffed before a first-half David Trezeguet goal gave Juventus a 1-0 victory on Saturday in the clubs' opening match of the four-club Emirates Cup. Manager ArseneWenger chose to field an
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      497 30 THEOBSERVER PREMIERSHIP PRE-SEASON United's strike force problem highlighted in Solskjaer's testimonial MANCHESTER Manchester United said their formal farewells to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Old Trafford on Saturday night. The former United striker turned out for his testimonial against Espanyol, which the Red Devils won 1-0, as his
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      497 31 TENNIS Cool Brit refuses to wilt as he lifts Cincinnati title MASON, Ohio One point away from his first Masters series championship, Andy Murray let the moment get to him. Britain's top player wasted four match points with an uncharacteristic show of sloppiness in the second set.
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      233 31 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will not allow any foreigners to ply their trade in the domestic league from next season in a drastic attempt to improve the quality of young homegrown players, it was reported yesterday. "The council felt that with the presence of
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      490 31  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 SAFFC v Gombak United Choa Chu Kang Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg LEAGUE leaders SAFFC are still smarting from their 2-1 loss to Home United last Friday, allowing the Protectors to close the gap at the top to
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      251 34 AFP TOKYO The pre-tax profit of major Japanese companies fell 15 per cent year-on-year in the April to June quarter, weighed down by the United States economic slowdown and price hikes, a newspaper survey showed yesterday. It is the second consecutive quarter
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      243 36 BLOOMBERG HANGZHOU Alibaba.com, the closely-held Chinese Internet company whose biggest shareholder is Yahoo, is ready for a possible purchase of the United States company's stake in it if the shares are offered. "We are very well-prepared," Alibaba chairman Jack Ma said over the weekend at a
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      755 38 AFP PARIS Any new attempt to grasp the grail of a world trade pact will probably have to wait until next year, after elections in the United States and India, despite some calls for more talks now, economists say. The head of the World Trade
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      134 38 AFP SINGAPORE shares are expected to be subdued this week, with the ailing United States economy seen as weighing down on investor enthusiasm. According to analysts, comments by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that the US faces recession risks compounded worries over
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