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    20 1 TODAY Friday August 8, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday August 8 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon A nation celebrates
    707 1  -  LEONARD THOMAS IN BEIJING AGENCIES OLYMPIC FEVER sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg SEVEN years after China was awarded the Olympic Games, the one-time "sick man of Asia"-turned-economic darling is finally ready to show the world it can also host a spectacular sports fiesta. When the opening ceremony starts at
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    Lock icon New video threat against the Games
    173 1 AGENCIES URUMQI (China) A group that monitors extremist websites says a Chinese Islamic group has posted a new video that shows a burning Olympics logo and an explosion over a venue for the Beijing Games. The video, reported yesterday by the United States-based Intel
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      Lessons in love for teens
      587 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT COMING SOON TO ALL JCS Efforts are being made to educate youngsters on relationships weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg LOVE, dating and marriage could soon be appearing in the classrooms of all 16 Junior Colleges (JCs) here, and perhaps, at the polytechnics too. The Social Development Unit (SDU)
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      Right to stay not a matter of entitlement
      589 3  -  ANSLEYNG MYANMAR NATIONALS MHA statement on eight facing immigration issues ansley@mediacorp.com.sg HIS TUITION fees at the National University of Singapore were subsidised by the Government and last month Mr Maung Soe Thiha completed his mechancial engineering course here. He is supposed to
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      Lock icon YOG move will save millions of dollars: Mah
      258 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday the decision to move the Youth Olympic Village to Nanyang Technological University will save a few hundred million dollars. Construction of the National University of Singapore's $500-mil-lion University Town, the original venue,
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      Lock icon Economic growth may remain weak: Tharman
      234 4 NEWSASIA WITH Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expected to update the official growth forecast tonight during his National Day message, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday cautioned Singaporeans that the country's economic growth may remain weak for some time. Speaking at ST Aerospace's National Day
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      Balance is crucial...
      564 4  -  ANSLEY NG HOMETEAM Officers have to make judgments rather than follow rules blindly ansley@mediacorp.com. sg GIVEN the intense public scrutiny in recent months, some of the officers of the Home Team have become concerned about detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) and harsh penalties if they were to
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      Lock icon SHARE YOUR NDP WITH US
      89 6 Taking your camera to this year's National Day Parade? Share your best shots with Today's readers. We welcome all photos, especially those that are dramatic, funny but certainly unique and unusual. It could be a shot of the event, your family or the audience, but
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      CATCH THE PARADE WITH MEDIACORP
      181 6 If you did not get tickets to the National Day Parade, you can turn to MediaCorp'sTV, radio and online platforms. For the first time, viewers in Asia and Singapore will be able to catch the National Day Parade "live" on Channel News Asia International from
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      Debate over clip
      490 6  -  ALICIA WONG NATIONAL DAYTRIBUTE Video aims to help youth appreciate hardships of elders alicia@mediacorp.com.sg A FIVE minute tribute music video telling the story of Singapore's past and created by a Singaporean in his 60s has created quite a buzz on You Tube, days before Singapore celebrates its
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      Radiation-leaking US nuclear sub had called at S'pore
      248 8 TWO years ago, the USS Houston, a nuclear-powered submarine, made a port call in Singapore for five days, docking at Changi Naval Base. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) was informed by the United States Navy that the vessel has been found
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      First fatality in seven years
      331 8  -  TAN HUI LENG HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE 3-year-old boy dies from HFMD huileng@mediacorp.com.sg HAND, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is suspected to have claimed its first life here in seven years, after a three-year-old patient died two days ago. The Malay boy had developed
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      Lock icon Bright minds, civic souls
      650 10  -  ESTHER NG PRESIDENT'S SCHOLARS They do their bit for society and are now heading overseas to pursue their dreams estherng@mediacorp.com.sg AT A hawker centre last year, Mr Daniel Ong bumped into an old schoolmate who was selling bak chor mcc. Mr Ong greeted him but the
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      FIRE IN HER BELLY
      254 10  -  One would have expected last year's Angus Ross Prizewinner, Ms Amanda Chong, to study literature or humanities. After all, she was Foyle Young Poet of theYear in 2005 and overall winner of Commonwealth Essay Competition in 2004. Instead, Ms Chong, 19, has decided to read law
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    • UPCOMING GADGETS TO ENHANCE ELDERLY LIVING AND SAFETY
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        HEALTH MONITORING DEVICE
        67 12 Elderly folk want to stay intheir own home and not arrange their everyday lives around visits to the doctor or hospital. So, Corventis has come up with the Remote Patient Management System, a small device that older patients can wear to monitor multiple health parameters. The device
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        3-IN-1 CONVENIENCE DEVICE
        92 12 A product by Eubiq and Temasek Polytechnic's >6o Design Centre seeks to combine the functions of a night lamp, motion sensor and communicator unit. Designed as an electric power outlet, it is laid onto a track that the elderly can place anywhere in the house that is
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        ONE-TOUCH ALERT SYSTEM
        76 12 The ADT Care Alert system by ADT Security Services allows the elderly to seek help by just pushing a button on a wireless waterproof pendant, which can be worn as a necklace or wristband. A signal is then sent to the ADT 24/7 Central Monitoring Station. A
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      Lock icon A robot to care for the elderly
      464 12  -  ONG DAI LIN GERIATRIC TECHNOLOGY dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THIS furry robot can remind you in to take your medicine, even in different languages and dialects such as Hokkien and Cantonese. It allows you to chat with your loved ones and see them via its touch-screen.
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      Drive, run through full KPE, before it opens
      247 14 NEXT month, you can drive, run, walk or even help break a world record, at the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) before its full opening on Sept 20. As a lead-up, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be holding two events to familiarise
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      Lock icon Up there with the worlds best
      511 14  -  NEOCHAICHIN NUS HIGH SCHOOL No secret formula, just a flexible approach to score in maths and science chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S been less than four years since its opening, but students from the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science (NUSHS) are already up there with
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      Lock icon S'POREANS PRAGMATIC? NOT ALWAYS
      702 16  -  ADRIAN TAN NEWS COMMENT Many examples show that ethical principles precede commercial concerns IT IS a foreign journalistic cliche that Singapore is pragmatic. And they cannot be blamed because Singaporeans often call ourselves pragmatic, and are proud of it. But are we deluding ourselves? "Pragmatism" is
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'Don t link by-election to court case': Minister
      625 18 AGENCIES ANWAR IBRAHIM CASE Anwar posts bail, will campaign in Permatang Pauh by-election KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian minister has urged the media not to link the Aug 26 by-election in Penang with the sodomy charge against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim since they
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      Lock icon Worldwide protests on eve
      466 21 .AFP BEIJING OLYMPICS About 1,500 Tibetans gathered in Nepal, with nuns and monks praying BERLIN Critics of China's human rights record made sure they were not forgotten yesterday, a day before the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics, with protests all over the world and in
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      Lock icon China deserves gold medal for Olympics preparation: Sarkozy
      220 21 AFP PARIS President Nicolas Sarkozy praised China's preparations for the Olympic Games on Wednesday as his office made clear he will not see the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan leader-in-exile visits France next week. "To prepare for the Olympic Games, China has
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      Lock icon IT'S NOT MY BEIJING
      663 23  -  ANITA CHANG AP NEWS COMMENT Where's the charm and the chaos gone? IT ALL began when my newsroom colleague Steve's favourite noodle lady was forced to close down. Soon after, the ice pop lady was gone. Then, a few weeks ago, the shabby apartment complex across
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      Lock icon Don't interfere in our internal affairs: China tells Bush
      368 24 AP BANGKOK China rejected United States President George W Bush's criticism yesterday of its human rights record and restrictions on religion, diplomatically telling him to stay out of its affairs even as he flew to Beijing to attend the Olympics. In
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      Lock icon Musharraf to be impeached
      467 24 AFP TURMOIL BREWING Pakistan president cancels trip to attend Olympics opening in Beijing ISLAMABAD Pakistan faced fresh political turmoil yesterday after officials said the ruling coalition had agreed to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, a vital United States ally in the "war on terror". The agreement came
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        13 INDONESIANS HOSPITALISED WITH BIRD FLU SYMPTOMS
        86 26 Health workers rushed to a village in western Indonesia to test for bird flu yesterday after 13 people were hospitalised in the past week with symptoms of the disease, a government official said. Chickens had started dying in Air Batu, their village on
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        Lock icon STRONG QUAKE HITS EASTERN INDONESIA
        65 26 AP A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia's eastern Sumbawa island early yesterday, damaging around 1,200 buildings and injuring at least five people, officials said. The magnitude 5.7 quake struck at 6:41 am local time just off the coast of Sumbawa island, about 1,000 kilometres east of
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      Lock icon Malaysia wants its own home managers
      239 26 AFP KUALA LUMPUR In a government programme aimed at reducing the country's dependency on foreign workers, Malaysian women will be encouraged to train as domestic helpers, reports said yesterday. Women and Community Development Minister Ng Yen Yen said the programme will give instruction in
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      Lock icon Rivals give inflation a sound airing
      459 26 AP US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN But really, it's all about reducing petrol prices WASHINGTON Automobile tyre pressure has become an unlikely issue in the United States presidential campaign, as Mr John McCain mocked Mr Barack Obama's recommendation that drivers keep their tyres well-inflated. And then
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        MALAYSIAN BLOGGER ARRESTED FOR SEDITION
        93 28 Blogger Bakaq, also known as "Penarik Beca", has been arrested by Malaysia's Federal Commercial Crimes Investigation Department under the Sedition Act, the NewStraitsTimes reported yesterday. He was detained after four policemen in plain clothes raided his home late on Wednesday. Mr Bakaq, whose real name
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        OIL SPILL OFF SARAWAK
        99 28 Oil trapped in a pipeline has leaked into the South China Sea off Sarawak, an oil company said yesterday. Petronas Carigali added that it has suspended decommissioning works on a network of disused pipelines off the city of Miri in northern Sarawak after detecting leakage along
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      Lock icon Secretly marking the uprising
      328 28 AFP MYANMAR PROTESTS Students try to find ways of commemorating anniversary YANGON Myanmar students say they are secretly coordinating through the Internet to find ways to commemorate a deadly crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising that began 20 years ago on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people
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      Lock icon Exiled lawmaker urges Philippine action against junta
      360 28 AFP I MANILA A prominent exiled Myanmar opposition lawmaker Thursday called on the Philippines to take a more prominent role in pushing for genuine democratic changes in the isolated state. Mr Khun Myint Tun, a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League
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        Lock icon ASEAN-INDIA FTATALKS ENDED
        106 30 AFP Difficult negotiations over an Asean-lndia free trade deal have been concluded and the last obstacles overcome, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) secre-tary-general Surin Pitsuwan said yesterday. "They have been concluded but not signed. They have just finished the negotiations," Mr Surin said, without elaborating. The
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        Lock icon JAPAN ACCEPTS FOREIGN NURSES
        98 30 AP Japan accepted more than 200 Indonesian nurses into the country yesterday-an unprecedented move as Tokyo struggles to quell a labour shortage triggered by sinking fertility rates. Yesterday's arrivals constitute an exception allowed under a bilateral economic agreement signed with Jakarta in April, and signals a
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      Lock icon Oil stockpiling
      321 30 ASEAN ENERGY SUMMIT Civilian nuclear energy a possibility BANGKOK —Asean energy ministers will join their peers from Japan, South Korea and China to set up an oil stockpiling working group, Reuters reported yesterday, citing a draft of a jointministerial statement. The grouping, known as Asean+3, will also move
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      26 21 OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY Brought to you by Nikon Send us your captions for the Nikon Olympics Best Caption Contest now! Email your entries X.onikonolympics@newstoday.com.sg
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      27 26 NIXON DIGITAL CAMERAS UP FOR GRABS! Join the Nikon Olympics Best Caption contest from 8 to 24 August 2008. For more information, please turn to page 30.
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      379 32  -  Sam Yap PRIVATE CHILDCARE CENTRES Operators have gone the extra mile to serve families Letter from Chairman, Association of Private Childcare Organisations I REFER to'Trofit-driven childcare is not helping parents" (Aug4). I believe that operators of childcare centres, whether government-run or privatelyowned, are passionate about this
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      273 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY LONERS WHO NEED HELP I once served as a counsellor at a secondary school, and one afternoon, I saw a student, whose name was Manny, in the hall crying uncontrollably. I invited him into my office where he told me what was
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      305 34  -  Heng Kai Le 21ST CENTURY PEDAGOGY MOE #s Infocomm master plan should extend to the teaching of the language Letter from I REFER to "High tech at the heart of teaching" (Aug 6). I am heartened at the Ministry of Education's (MOE) timely initiative to
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      102 34  -  Ooi Hui Mci Letter from Director (Corporate Communications) for Chief Executive Director, People's Association IN "STAND still, please..." (Aug 5) Mr Lionel De Souza is absolutely correct that the National Anthem must be accorded due dignity and decorum. Through the annual
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      825 36  -  DAVE BARRY IN BEIJING TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES DAVE BARRY AT THE OLYMPICS news@newstoday.com.sg IN ANCIENT times, a Westerner had to journey for months, even years, to reach China. Today, thanks to modern air travel, it takes much longer. I estimate that the plane I
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      897 40  -  MAY SEAH NATIONAL DAY 2008 It's the island's 43rd birthday. Sounds like reason enough to party... may@mediacorp.com.sg WATCHING the National Day Parade on Aug 9 is a grand Singaporean tradition. But don't let that stop you from expressing your love for Singapore in the all-night parade that
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      121 42 READ SINGAPORE SLING WITH A SWING BY JONATHAN MALATHRONAS: In this travel book, Malathronas explores not only the Raffles Hotel and its alcoholic offerings, but also the side of life we don't usually put in our tourist brochures, like old brothels, opium dens,
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      662 44  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg Your dictionary can't help you-hip-hop is a language of its own IDONT understand hip-hop. I really don't. It's not that I'm being elitist with my snooty musical taste or anything trust me, I've got Pat Benatar on my iPod I just really
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        95 44 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Scarlett Johansson has described heron-screen kiss with Penelope Cruz as "the least sexy thing you can ever imagine". The pair star in the new Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona along with Oscar winner Javier Bardem. Johansson said at the premiere in Los Angeles:
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      277 46 AP HEATH LEDGER No viable target, say prosecutors FEDERAL prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger (picture) obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his death this year, a United States law enforcement official said on Wednesday. Prosecutors in the attorney's
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      493 48  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORETHEATRE FESTIVAL Two plays, about moon goddesses and a stripper from the #sos give femininity an apt airing mayo@mediacorp.com.sg AT THIS year's OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival, there are a bunch of plays on Sir Stamford Raffles; a sultan's heir, and the zany adventures of NS men.
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        112 48 Doctors in Memphis spent four-and-a-half hours operating on Dark Knight star Morgan Freeman to repair nerve damage in his left arm and hand following his car accident on Sunday night. He is expected to leave hospital later this week but full recovery could take
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        110 48 AP Nicole Kidman appealed to the Sydney media yesterday for "a little space" as she travels around Sydney with her 4-week-old daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. The Oscar-winning actress and her singer husband Keith Urban arrived in her hometown from the United States on
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      507 52  -  LOW LIN FHOONG BEIJING BUILD-UP Good draw for women's table tennis team bodes well for Singapore's medal quest linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore women's table tennis team start their Olympic campaign next Wednesday, and already the trio of Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei are
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      293 52 AFP BEIJING Barcelona finally allowed Lionel Messi to play in the Olympic Games yesterday, and the superstar celebrated by grabbing the opening goal in Argentina's 2-1 win over the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast equalised early in the second half through Sekou Cisse, before Argentine
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        99 54 Roger Federer's preparations to try and win gold in thetennistournament in Beijing have run into a hurdle more difficult than Rafael Nadal's forehand an army of fans among his fellow athletes. The Swiss, who turns 27 today and will carry his country's flag at tonight's opening
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        75 54 Slender blonde Kyla Bremner (picture) may not look like a handful, but don't let your eyes deceive you. The Australian, who is a doctor by day but a wrestler in her spare time, will be making her debut here in the 48kg class, the
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        148 54 North and South Korea have failed to reach an agreement to allow their athletes to march as one unified team at tonight's opening ceremony, lOC president Jacques Rogge said yesterday. The International Olympic Committee had been hoping the two Koreas would march together in a joint
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        52 54 AGENCIES The International Olympic Committee (IOC) shrugged off smog and political protests yesterday to take time out to elect Scan Connery as their favourite James Bond. The Scotsman trumped the opposition of Timothy Dalton, the present incumbent Daniel Craig and Roger Moore by a majority of
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      803 54  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ Federer has one thing on his mind an Olympic gold sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg HE SAID he was used to the flashes and the hundreds of eyes and digital cameras trained on him, but this time it
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      64 56 AFP Australian diver Sharleen Stratton limbers up on the edge of the 3-meter springboard at the National Aquatics Center, which is also known as the Water Cube, where both the swimming events and the diving competition will be held from tomorrow. Swimming wraps up on Aug
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      719 56  -  LEONARD THOMAS The build-up has been rocky, but sport is finally set to take centrestage in Beijing sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.se fc THE traffic's hardly been noticeable here in Beijing. The move to ban cars and lorries ahead of the Olympics has ensured
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      367 58 AFP BEIJING BUILD-UP World record could be in the offing as Kitajima braces for battle with Hansen BEIJING Double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima is ready to defend his 100 m gold against rival Brendan Hansen, even if it takes a world record to
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      165 58 AFP BEIJING Indonesia's talent spotters knew they had hit weightlifting pay dirt when they first set eyes on Eko Irawan as a 12-year-old (picture) kicking a football in an impoverished village in Sumatra. "I immediately realised his potential when I saw him," said Lucman, coach of
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      165 60 OVERHEARD THE OLYMPICS This is the Olympic Games. You have to be ready to swim morning, night or midday... I will do what I have to do. I will be ready. American swim sensation Michael Phelps All I'm worried about are the kids dying in Darfur. The kids don't have
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      589 60 BLOOMBERG OLYMPIC ROMANCE Athletes ready to swing once the rigours of competition come to an end BEIJING The International Olympic Committee ought to seriously consider adding hanky-panky as an official sport. No argument from Kid Dynamite, who's ready to explode. "I'm constantly like, 'Wow, she's nice, I'd
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      274 60 AFP BEIJING Any misconceptions about women's basketball have been crushed by Australian superstar Lauren Jackson who has warned of black eyes, broken noses and split lips when the Olympic competition starts. The Opals have lost in the gold medal play-off
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      219 62 THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER After months of speculation, Cristiano Ronaldo (picture) on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) confirmed he will definitely be playing at Manchester United next season. "I can confirm that I'll be playing for Manchester United next season," said the
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      473 62 OLYMPIC FOOTBALL Dunga #s men made to huff and puff by brave Belgians SHENYANG (China) They were big on names and even bigger on reputation, but Brazil cut no ice with their opponents for most of the game before eking out a 1 -0
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      165 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SUZUKI Motor Corporation are the new title sponsors for the biennial Asean Football Championship, which will now be known as the AFF Suzuki Cup. World Sport Group, the exclusive marketing partners of the Asean Football Federation (AFF), declined to reveal the value and
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      759 63  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Tigers are thinking about their young players' future beyond football NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Balestier Khalsa v Gombak United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com. sg THEY are noted for having some of the youngest players in the NTUC Income-Yeo's
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      242 63  -  MILTON TAN FORMER Geylang United assistant coach Darren Stewart (picture) has joined the coaching staff of Gombak United, who visit Balestier Khalsa in tonight's NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 match. Shasi Kumar remains the Bulls' acting head coach. "Darren is new to the team so
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      57 60 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam MLB Yankees v Rangers, Ch 23 12.35pm Cricket Idea Cup: Sri Lanka v India, Ch 111 5.55pm Cricket England v South Africa, Ch 120 TOMORROW 12.30 am Football Friendly: Inter Milan vSevilla, Ch 27 2.45 am Football Friendly: Ajaxv Arsenal, Ch 27 6.35am-ii.3spm Sports Zone
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      305 64  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN WORLD CYBER GAMES 2008 The third Asian WGC has a distinctly racy theme hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE the world's best athletes converge in Beijing for Olympic glory, Asia will see its best gamers compete in Singapore for their own trophies. The World Cyber Games (WGC) 2008 Asian
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      265 64 IN A world first, and in a bid to ramp up membership numbers, Microsoft Singapore is putting a face local blogger and gamer Shen Qiaoyun (picture), who goes by the online moniker of Sheylara to the Xbox LIVE online gaming service here. Apart from
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        206 64  -  ARIELTAM The nice folks at Philips just sent us their latest inear headphones, and aside from the pair's unwieldy name, they rock. Philips says that "extensive research has been done on the curvature of human ears to design a product that fits flawlessly and
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      495 64  -  JOSEPHYADAO REVIEW BEIJING 2008 joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg SIXTEEN years after Olympic Gold for the Sega Megadrive debuted, Sega makes a return with Beijing2ooB, the official video game of the 2008 Olympic Games that start today. There's a feeling of deja vu when you fire Beijing2ooB up on
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      VERDICT
      37 64 The Olympic motto reads Citius, Altius, Fortius, meaning faster, higher, stronger. But the game fails to inspire couch potato athletes, who won't be doing the Olympic spirit justice. Let's leave the Games to the real athletes.
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      721 66 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP ONLINE Singapore's leading media company embraces Web 2.0 IMAGINE going house hunting in cyberspace and being able to pinpoint exactly which schools are near your dream home. Or being able to create a personalised news bulletin, so that you can watch the news reports
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      457 66  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg WITH a fresh injection of US$2O million ($27.7 million) in funding and a new chief executive, Friendsteris setting its sights on growing its Asian operations. "Social networking in Asia is growing at an amazing rate and Friendster is in
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    336 69 BLOOMBERG THE Bank of Korea unexpectedly raised its benchmark interest rate to an eight-year high of 5.25 per cent, saying the fastest inflation in a decade poses a greater threat than slowing economic growth. Central bank Governor Lee Seong Tae boosted
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    229 69 AFP FOREX RESERVES China updates rules to monitor inflows CHINA has updated key foreign exchange rules for the first time in 11 years, hoping to step up monitoring of fund flows and limit the growth of its massive foreign exchange reserves, the government said. The rules
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    310 70 CEO'S SURPRISE DEPARTURE 'Retirement' of Cosco chairman catches many off-guard, including him SHARES in Cosco Singapore fell by the largest amount in four months yesterday after saying that its president, Mr Ji Hai Sheng, was leaving, less than three weeks after its chairman moved on. His departure, described
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      130 73 AGENCIES Fraser Neave said third-quarter profits rose 14 per cent, boosted by its real estate business and sales of food and drinks. The conglomerate said net income rose to $110.3 million despite sales falling 7.5 per cent to $1.2 billion. "Properties benefited from healthy margins from previously
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      68 73 The former secretary-general of Singapore Manufacturers' Federation (SMa), MrChuaChewYong, has been redeployed as special adviser to the trade body's new president. This comes less than two months after a heated exchange at the group's AGM when 68-year-old Mr Chua was upset that his tenure was in doubt.
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    595 73 SHIPPING NEWS Margins impacted as bunker fuel costs skyrocket 62% NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) shares sunk to their lowest level in more than a year yesterday after the container-shipping company posted its first profit fall in five quarters because of higher fuel costs. The stock fell
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    335 74  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corp (OCBC) said yesterday it plans to make another offering of up to $1.5 billion in preferred shares. The announcement, coming just a month after it sold $1 billion worth of similar securities, drew a flurry of questions
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    411 74  -  ESTHER FUNG SINGAPORE'S BIGGEST LENDER DBS to refocus efforts on home market: CEO esther@mediacorp.com.sg DBS Group chief executive Richard Stanley (picture) created quite a stir with his candour yesterday when he said the bank had neglected its subsidiary POSB. After 99 days at the helm of
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    360 75  -  CHEOWXINYI CEO PROFILE SGX boss looks back at key achievements cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IT STARTED out as four different "fiefdoms", but the Singapore Exchange has come together as one. That, to chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua, is one of his biggest contributions to the company during his five
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    309 76 S'POREAIRLINES $15.18 I Buy CLSA sets a $19.00 price target, saying SIA should weather the current slowdown with its superior profitability and strong balance sheet. It says SIA is well placed to cope with rising fuel costs and estimates the airline can maintain FY2009 profitability until oil prices
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    459 76  -  BARRY PORTER OLD WORLD, NEW CONCEPT BANK PROFITS business editor barryporter@mediacorp.com.sg DBS Group and OCBC have reported continued earnings growth from key lending operations, but both warn they expect loan growth to ease in coming months. While DBS posted a 20-per-cent on-year rise in customer loans,
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    323 76  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg BUDGET carrier Tiger Airways booked its first profit ever, earning $37.8 million in the financial year ended March despite soaring oil prices. The gains, which were a turnaround from a loss of $14 million in the previous year, fulfilled Tiger's promise to become
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    341 76  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE a difficult year, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is rewarding shareholders with their highest dividend payout since listing. It has declared a full-year dividend of 38 cents per share after posting a $478-million profit for the 12 months to end-June, up 13.4 per cent
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