The Straits Times, 5 November 2008

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    18 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 115/12/2007 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 2008 «jp* AN SPH PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Petrol station war
      40 1 SHELL has triggered a mini pump price war when it cut petrol prices by 6 cents following its rivals' 5-cent cut. In response, the other companies cut their prices further to match Shell's rates. HOME, PAGE B3
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      Lock icon He's off trafficking charge
      52 1 THE drug trafficking charge against Australian journalist Peter Gerard Lloyd has been dropped by the prosecution. Lloyd's lawyer said his client would plead guilty to four remaining charges of drug possession, drug consumption and carrying drug paraphernalia at the next court hearing on Dec 2. HOME
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      Lock icon Curbs on cluster homes
      53 1 FEWER cluster homes may be built after the URA says it is reinstating a rule capping the number of units allowed in strata landed housing developments. Such estates have become dense and congested as developers tried to cram as many units as possible onto a plot.
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      Lock icon Indonesia on terror alert
      56 1 INDONESIA remained on heightened security alert yesterday ahead of the imminent execution of the Bali bombers. A group of extremists had vowed publicly to retaliate against their execution while police were investigating threats to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and to blow up the United States
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      Lock icon 71 hurt in Thai blast
      59 1 SUSPECTED Muslim insurgents detonated two bombs at a tea stall and shopping area in southern Thailand which police said left one person dead and at least 71 others wounded. It was the largest attack in several months in Thailand's restive south, which has been gripped
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    Lock icon Americans out in force for historic vote
    881 1  -  Bhagyashree Garekar By US CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON: Tens of millions of Americans flocked to the polls yesterday, in some cases lining up before dawn to choose their next leader in the historic election. Front-running Democrat Barack Obama was seeking to become the first black
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    Lock icon KL unveils $3b plan to jumpstart economy
    536 1  -  Hazlin Hassan Money will be spent on low-cost housing, public transport and facilities By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's government yesterday announced a RM7 billion (552.93 billion) stimulus package, as it scrambles to deal with the fallout from the global economic meltdown. Deputy
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      Lock icon China's Internet Zorros
      909 2  -  Sim Chi Yin They hunt down and expose those they see as perpetrators of injustice By CHINA CORRESPONDENT IN BEIJING YOU could call it the "People's War" version 2.0. That clarion call to mass mobilisation Mao Zedong used in revolutionary China has found a modern-day, cyber cousin
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      254 2 A Public Healthcare Educational Seminar by the Singapore Medical Group LASIK Forum The Lasik Surgery Clinic Dates: 6 November 2008 (Thurs) 7pm The Lasik Surgery Oinic 7 November 2008 (Fri) 7pm Campaigns Against; %®<m ViM§!Hj 8 November 2008 (Sat) 4pm The Lasik Surgery Oinic (LSC) launches a national appeal to
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      185 2 VIEWPOINTS WE SAY Keep testing for alternative-energy options Could nuclear energy be an option in Singapore? It's one of several alternative-energy sources. Some, like solar, can be tested out more broadly to determine if they are feasible. EDITORIAL PAGE A24 COLUMNS Asian opportunity The current crisis is a 0 chance
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      Lock icon RSAF's next fighter
      137 3 THE first of 24 Boeing F-15SG advanced fighter planes for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) was rolled out at the Boeing Aircraft Delivery Service Centre in St Louis, Missouri, on Monday. The aircraft is currently undergoing test flights before delivery next year. While the first
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      Lock icon Doctors upset by Parkway's plans
      687 3  -  Salma Khalik Private specialists fear 'takeover' by medical group By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT SOME doctors operating in Parkway's hospitals and medical centres are up in arms over their landlord's move to change the terms of their relationship. They are unhappy that the hospital group wants to
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      Lock icon DBS rapped for slow response
      819 4  -  Fiona Chan Francis Chan HIGH NOTES 5 COMPLAINTS Some investors are unhappy that bank takes weeks to reply By A "DISTURBING" number of High Notes 5 investors have yet to receive any reply from DBS Bank after filing complaints that they were mis-sold the notes,
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      Lock icon AG asks for deterrent fine for newspaper
      997 5  -  Zakir Hussain Heavy penalty needed to discourage more similar attacks By ATTORNEY-GENERAL Walter Woon yesterday asked the High Court to impose a "substantial fine" on the publisher of the Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJA) for contempt of court. This was necessary to send
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  • prime- us election
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      Lock icon All eyes on Ohio for early bellwether
      666 6  -  Li XUEYING Uphill task for McCain as no one's taken main prize without this state By POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT LAKE COUNTY (Ohio): For the last 30 years, the results from Lake County, Painesville, have mirrored the overall choice of voters in Ohio, itself a
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      Lock icon Bush stays out of McCain's way
      526 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: Where is President George W. Bush? The unpopular President has stayed off the campaign trail in the race to succeed him, which is just fine with Mr John McCain's people. With a mere 26 per cent approval rating, Mr Bush was
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      Lock icon Obama mourns granny's death on election eve
      509 6 REUTERS, NEW YORK TIMES CHARLOTTE (North Carolina): Madelyn Dunham, who watched from afar as her grandson rapidly ascended the ranks of American politics, did not live to see whether he was elected President. Mrs Dunham, 86, Senator Barack Obama's grandmother, died on Sunday
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      Lock icon Glitches spark long queues
      322 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS But voters appear happy and patient as they wait to cast ballot LONG lines and malfunctioning machines greeted election officials yesterday as polling stations across the country were deluged by people wanting to vote. In the East, electronic machine glitches forced some New Jersey
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      Lock icon Palin casts her vote before dawn
      222 7 WASILLA (Alaska): Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palm said she was humbled to be able to vote, as she cast her ballot before the sun rose in her hometown. Putting up a confident front, she said outside the polling station: "Tomorrow, I hope, I pray,
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      Lock icon Helping the dying with living
      1548 8  -  Radha Basu THE ST INTERVIEW Instead of discussing euthanasia, the focus should be on helping terminally ill live with less pain, says expert By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT EUTHANASIA is the wrong conversation to have in a nation concerned with dying with dignity. The focus instead should
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      Lock icon The doc, the ambulance driver
      438 8  -  RADHA BASU DR ROSALIE SHAW has spent a lifetime defying stereotypes. She became a doctor at 39, attending Monash University with classmates 15 years her junior. As a home-hospice doctor in Singapore, the tall, blonde Australian spent years driving around Housing Board heartlands in an
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      Lock icon Extremists vow revenge for execution
      731 10  -  Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja Hardliners to retaliate if sentences on Bali bombers are carried out By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT TENGGULUN (East Java): Islamic extremists wearing skullcaps yesterday descended on the village of two of the three men responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, threatening retaliation if the government
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      Lock icon 3 firing squads at different spots in jungle?
      322 10 CILACAP: As Indonesia prepares for the execution of the three Bali bombers, some details have emerged about how the shooting could take place on the high-se-curity prison island of Nusakambangan. The three men, reported British tabloid Daily Mail recently, will be tied
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        Lock icon Taiwan and China ink four deals
        931 12  -  Ho Ai Li AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Besides boosting economic ties, cross-strait talks see mutual goodwill flourishing By TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT TAIPEI: Taiwan and China yesterday inked four pacts which will bind the former foes closer economically, including an agreement to launch daily passenger flights and shorten
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        Lock icon Restive Thai south hit by 3 bombs
        566 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Blasts, seen as retaliation against security forces, come after new PM's visit to area NARATHIWAT (Thailand): Three bombs ripped through a busy market and tea shop in southern Thailand yesterday, in the largest attack in
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        Lock icon Philippine ferry accident kills 39
        204 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MANILA: Thirty-nine people died yesterday when a ferry capsized in the central Philippines, the local police chief said. The ferry, with 119 people on board, was overturned by a freak wind off the island of Masbate, according to Senior Superintendent Ruben Sindac. Emergency
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        Lock icon Tokyo repairs harm caused by general
        670 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS But sacked air force chief stands by view that Japan was not aggressor during WWII TOKYO: The Japanese government fought off criticism yesterday over the appointment of a general fired last week for saying Japan was not an aggressor during World
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        Lock icon North Korea building base for advanced missiles: Seoul
        398 14 SEOUL: A new North Korean missile launch site under construction is designed to fire rockets even more advanced than those already capable of reaching the western United States, South Korea says. Defence Minister Lee Sang Hee told Parliament yesterday that construction of
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        Lock icon Japanese 'soy sauce, coffee tainted'
        256 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS BEIJING: China says it has found dangerous substances in imported Japanese soy sauce and coffee, in the latest food-safety salvo between the two countries. Inspectors in the northern city of Tianjin discovered Japanese soy sauce contained arsenic levels five times higher than
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        Lock icon China: Long-term leases for farmers
        443 15 REUTERS Time limit scrapped to ensure stability, boost production BEIJING: New land-use licences issued to Chinese farmers will no longer specify a time limit on their right to contract the land from the state, an Agricultural Ministry official said yesterday. The removal of the time
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        Lock icon Fifth monarch officially takes over tomorrow
        631 16  -  Anthony Paul CORONATION IN BHUTAN The world's youngest ruler at 28, he has been performing all kingly roles since last year By SENIOR WRITER THIMPHU (Bhutan): To most of the world, tomorrow will likely be a day on which to ponder a transition of
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        Lock icon New king much like his dad
        859 17  -  Ravi Velloor CORONATION IN BHUTAN He shares his father's austere aloofness but is a modern man schooled abroad By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF HIS grandfather opened Bhutan to the world; his father preserved its independence. Now, at 28, the man who this week takes
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        Lock icon S'pore, Kuwait ink open skies agreement
        687 18  -  Goh Chin Lian Other pacts on e-govt and foreign ministry cooperation also signed By KUWAIT CITY: An open skies agreement between Singapore and Kuwait signed yesterday will allow passenger and freight carriers of both countries to operate any number of air services between them
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        Lock icon Another BBC presenter riles public
        276 18 REUTERS LONDON: More than 500 viewers have called the BBC to complain about a joke about murdering prostitutes made by presenter Jeremy Clarkson on the motoring programme Top Gear, the publicly funded broadcaster said yesterday. Mr Clarkson, 48, was shown driving an articulated truck during
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        Lock icon Ahmadinejad hurt by sacking of key minister
        413 19 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Interior Minister impeached over fake degree; President weakened ahead of 2009 polls TEHERAN: Iran's Parliament sacked the country's Interior Minister yesterday in a blow to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of next year's presidential election. MPs voted overwhelmingly to remove Mr
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        Lock icon Osama's son seeks asylum in Spain
        234 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MADRID: One of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's sons has asked for political asylum in Spain, an Interior Ministry spokesman said yesterday, confirming a report in the country's top-selling daily newspaper El Pais. Mr Omar bin Laden, who has urged his father
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        Lock icon Future biofuel could be growing on trees
        502 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Fungus found to produce an important mix of fuel substances PARIS: A reddish microbe found inside a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so
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        Lock icon Mammoth step in resurrecting extinct species
        220 20 REUTERS WASHINGTON: Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years, and said it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. Mouse cloning expert Teruhiko Wakayama and his colleagues at Japan's
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        Lock icon Bin London vs bin Laden
        315 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Look out, Osama bin Laden. Central London's financial district will begin installing bomb-proof recycling bins next year, the company responsible for the product said. The bins, which cost around £30,000 (5572,000) each to produce and install, will also feature news and weather
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        Lock icon Don't cry for the 'City boys'
        803 21  -  Jonathan Eyal MEMO FROM LONDON Ordinary Britons also badly hit by first big slump in 3 decades By STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU IT COST more than £1.6 billion (Ss4 billion) and took years to build. But the result is impressive: The Westfield shopping mall,
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        Lock icon Dubai Mall opens but shoppers may not open purses
        563 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DUBAI: The vast Dubai Mall is open for business at last, but the success of the US$2O billion (Ss3o billion) project is far from assured amid the economic crisis. The mall, which opened yesterday, is one of the world's
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        Lock icon EU may lift liquids ban
        95 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS: The limits on the amount of liquids allowed on flights from European Union airports will be lifted in 2010, provided new scanners are in place to distinguish liquid explosives from harmless substances. The new technology that can tell the difference is being
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        Lock icon Osama's 'aide' convicted
        92 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: A Yemeni man, an alleged aide and media secretary of AlQaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been convicted by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay and has been sentenced to life in prison. Commander Jeffrey Gordon of the US Defence Department said it was
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        117 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA ANA (California): A southern California county will allow jailed Muslim women to wear headscarves after settling a lawsuit with a woman who claims that deputies violated her religious freedom by making her remove her hijab. The settlement agreement specifies that Muslim women
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        Lock icon Another day, another death in drug war
        68 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Mexican police retrieving the body of a man from a lake on Monday. Drug-related gangland killings around Mexico have soared this year, leaving an unprecedented 4,060 people dead as cartels lash out at President Felipe Calderon's army-led crackdown and start new
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        Lock icon It's Fossett, DNA shows
        81 23 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO: US investigators have confirmed, via DNA tests, that the bones found near the wreckage of a plane in California's Sierra Nevada mountains belong to missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Mr Fossett went missing after taking off in a Bellanca BKCAB aircraft from an airstrip
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        Lock icon Copter deal: KL cleared
        89 23 KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian parliamentary panel has cleared the government of any wrongdoing in an aborted deal to buy European military helicopters, an official said yesterday. The Public Accounts Committee, composed of government and opposition lawmakers, said the RMI.6 billion (550.67 billion) deal to buy 12
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        Lock icon Chongqing cabbies strike
        86 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: A strike by taxi drivers in China's fourth-largest city Chongqing continued for a second day yesterday despite pledges by the local authorities to resolve complaints over high fees and fuel shortages. State media reported about 800 of the 9,000 taxis were back on the
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        Lock icon Oh shoot, spring's sprung a stinker
        168 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS SLICEOFLIFE ANTWERP: One man's art project is proving to be a stinker. An installation by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at Antwerp's MuHKA contemporary art museum is challenging the nose as well as the eyes. Called Spring Is On Its Way, it
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      453 24 A GROUP of energy experts has provided ideas for Singapore's future power generation strategy that the Government will be putting to the test. Suggestions offered by the International Advisory Panel on Energy include electric transportation and a smart power grid. Another idea is nuclear
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      939 24  -  Simon Tay THINK-TANK I By I FOR THE STRAITS TIMES AS CHRISTMAS approaches, predictions are for quiet American malls as consumer confidence ebbs in the wake of the unfolding global financial crisis. Across the Pacific, Chinese toy factories are laying off workers. Just months ago, analysts
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      854 24  -  Lan Bremmer Scan West TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES By W HO IS more likely to pursue an active free-trade agenda: President Barack Obama or president John McCain? Observers might wrongly believe that the president solely determines US trade policy and on that basis, Mr McCain is
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        840 25  -  Teo Yee Chin PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL PLANNING By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES HOW we behave is shaped by the physical environment we inhabit. Now that the furore over the siting of a foreign workers' dormitory in Serangoon Gardens is dying down, we can review the
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          880 25  -  Michael Richardson By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES AS COUNTRIES follow companies as victims of the global credit crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reemerged as an important stabiliser of the financial system. In the Asian crisis of 1997 to 1998, the IMF
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          731 25  -  Khalid Malik Khalil Hamdani By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES THE financial crisis is pushing the world into recession. The United States is in the midst of one, and Europe, Japan and other advanced economies are slowing to a standstill. But with crisis come some opportunities,
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        338 26  -  Dr Christine Chen THIS is in response to Mrs K.H. Veena's letter "Pay more to qualified preschool teachers" (Oct 27), in which she implores the Government to look into the salary of preschool teachers. I would like to appeal to all preschool teachers to work
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        295 26  -  Wong Siew Hoong PRIMARY ONE EXAMINATIONS MR TAN Sze-Tong questioned the rationale behind his daughter having to sit for open-book exams in Social Education, Music and Art in her Primary 1 year-end examinations, and suggested that the school replace them with continual assessment
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        285 26  -  Dr Beh Suan Tiong I REFER to the article, "Go public when cord blood banking" (Oct 25). Cord blood banking, as rightly mentioned by the writer, has proven clinical utility. To date, more than 8,000 transplants have been made possible using cord-blood stem
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        394 26  -  Dr Low Lip Ping Prof V. Anantharaman WE REFER to Mr Jim Simon's letter on Monday, "More heart defibrillators will save lives". The Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF) and the National Resuscitation Council (NRC) agree with Mr Simon that Automated External defibrillators (AEDs) can improve
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        380 27  -  Low Kok Soon I REFER to the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) introduction of a skm bus lane from Bukit Panjang to Upper Bukit Timah on Oct 28. This stretch was already congested during peak hours, which was why Electronic Road Pricing (ERP)
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        421 27  -  Looi Teik Soon COUNCIL REBUTS MP LEE BEE WAH IN LAST Friday's article, ("After the table tennis storm, an awakening"), Member of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC Lee Bee Wah, cited the Public Transport Council's (PTC) rejection of SMRT's application last year to
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      791 29  -  Yeo Ghim Lay PARIS' POPULAR PUBLIC BIKES... LTA hopes to get private vendors to operate an islandwide bicycle rental system By THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is thinking of setting up bicycle kiosks at MRT stations to get more people to take to two-wheelers. These kiosks, if
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      458 30  -  Karamjit Kaur T3 expenses erode profit; challenges ahead, analysts say By AVIATION CORRESPONDENT DESPITE a record number of passengers and flights, operating profits at Changi Airport dipped almost 14 per cent for the financial year ended March 2008, their second consecutive annual drop.
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      656 31  -  Christopher Tan Diesel also down as mini war sees prices cut for 12th time since July By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT PUMP prices dipped yesterday the 12th time since July in a mini price war triggered by oil giant Shell's move to bring prices six cents down
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      269 31  -  Nicholas Yong By SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has cut passenger fuel surcharges for the second time in two months, as fears of a global recession continue to drive down the price of oil on the world's markets. But in a departure from the norm, the carrier
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        983 32  -  SUE-ANN CHIA The right to criticise court judgments is no licence to attack judiciary as well By GO AHEAD, criticise court judgments. But stop short of attacking the judiciary as there is a limit to freedom of speech, said Attorney-General Walter Woon
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        431 32  -  Aaron Low By IT WOULD be naive to think of newspapers as doing a service to the world when the fact is that they exist to make money. They take positions so they can please their readers, who in turn attract advertising revenue,
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        819 32  -  Jeremy Au Yong KANGAROO COURT T-SHIRT CASE Free media advocate? Gopalan Nair (right) is a one-time Workers' Party election candidate who took up United States citizenship in 2005. The Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJA) described him as an "online advocate for media
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        954 33  -  Aaron Low Attorney-General must prove there was contempt, says WSJA's defence By THE Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJA) did not say that the courts here lack independence or are biased. Instead, the Dow Jones newspaper is doing nothing more than criticising the
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        393 33 What's the case about? The Attorney-General's Chambers started contempt of court proceedings against Dow Jones Publishing and two editors of the Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJA) on Sept 11. It alleged that three articles the WSJA had published in June and July "impugn the impartiality, integrity and
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        1134 35  -  Kor Kian Beng Republic must take the problem seriously as its eco-friendly reputation is at stake: MM Lee By THE stakes are high for Singapore in its efforts to stay clean and green. With its small size, the island-state may not be
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        384 35  -  KOR KIAN BENG NUCLEAR energy is the best alternative to fossil fuels, but the problem for Singapore is the country is too small to safely house a nuclear power plant. More than other options such as wind, wave and solar energy, nuclear energy is
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        589 35  -  Clarissa Oon By CHINA, believed to be the world's biggest carbon emitter, is showing the first stirrings of a "green movement", Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Singling out China and India as two populous countries key to resolving the climate change
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        292 35  -  Tania Tan By SINGAPORE'S first business park devoted to companies that focus on environmentally friendly technology has been given the green light, officials revealed yesterday. The 55ha plot in Jalan Bahar in the north-west could eventually house companies that specialise in industries like
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        320 35  -  Shobana Kesava By: SINGAPORE'S only plant which converts food waste into an energy source may soon be able to put wood, foam and plastics through the system, using new British technology. lUT Global turns organic waste into compost, methane and energy. With Refgas
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      487 38  -  Jane Ng Lecturers who opt for cut in leave will be given compensation By LECTURERS at polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will soon be given a choice: money or vacation. Poly lecturers can choose to take a 14-day cut in
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      326 39  -  Carolyn Quek Police arrest flatmate of stabbed youth; both young men from China By BARELY a day after an 18-year-old China national moved into a flat in Jurong West, he was found dead. On Monday, the teen's landlady found him lying face up,
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      310 40  -  Sujin Thomas AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST IN DRUG CASE Lloyd to plead guilty to 4 other charges, including possession By THE prosecution has dropped the drug trafficking charge against Australian journalist Peter Gerard Lloyd, saving him from the possibility of caning and a maximum 20-year jail term. Lloyd's
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        87 40 SEVEN mata puteh birds and their cages amounting to $5,000 were stolen from a 38-year-old contractor between 7pm on Sunday and 4.30pm on Monday. He had kept them in a rental unit at Block 5 in Jalan Minyak which he used as storage space
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        88 40 A 37-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for a week yesterday for using his cellphone to take a photo of a woman from under her skirt. Lim Eng Koon pleaded for a fine but was told by District Judge Wong Pek that offenders in such cases were usually
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      365 41  -  Sujin Thomas COMPUTER BREACH He used prison's computer to illegally obtain information By A FORMER officer of the Queenstown Remand Prison was jailed yesterday for accessing the facility's computer records illegally to get personal information on a former inmate for a friend. Luke Teo Qing
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      148 41  -  ELENA CHONG A FORMER clerk who illegally accessed information on insurance policyholders was fined $12,000 on Monday. Helen Foo Mci Hwa (right), 41, admitted to three charges of mining information on 156 policyholders from her workstation without clearance from The Asia Insurance Company, her
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      597 42  -  Teh Joo Lin A boost to AIR POWER Teh Joo Lin looks at how the addition of the F-15 to the Republic of Singapore Air Force's arsenal will complement the other aerial assets in a possible battle scenario All 24 jets will be handed
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      82 29 fll WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, YOUR SAY AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm get a cut in their annual leave, with MOST-READ ONLINE two months' compensation and a Mother, daughter jailed for maid one-off 6 per cent increment in salary, abuse. Is this fair? More Singaporeans to lose jobs: Gan Kirn Yong. Couple
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      390 31 ns BEST-SELLING FINANCIAL EDUCATION IN SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR JAKARTA j■w»j v r Rf a JIT J jf i£^ t>tM^mmm *i '0 01 l^mmTT^"***™*^'!^^'} It is a very familiar story about almost everyone that has ventured into the world of Trading and Investing. It always begins with luck, evolves into greed,
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      235 34 Our heartiest Congratulations To Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah Sunway Group Founder And Chairman On His Appointment As An Honorary Officer Of The Order Of Australia (AO) (The Highest Award Conferred On Non-Citizens) By The Prime Minister Of Australia The Right honourable Kevin Rudd On lOth July 2008 For service
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      304 42 Research Public Forum S Healthcare Cmu P in Conjunction with NHG Annual Scientific Congress 2008 m9l RESEARCH ETHICS II VOLUNTEERING FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH Creating Hope, Making a Difference 8 November 2008 (Saturday) 1 4.00pm to 6.00pm jiu^uL Theatre Level 2, Suntec Singapore convention centre JTsf^fa New medical treatments are constantly
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      562 43 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Wenger's young squad lack spine to mount a credible challenge LONDON: Arsene Wenger fears Arsenal's exhausted stars could pay the price for their fatigue both mental and physical in today's Champions League football clash against Fenerbahce after a chastening two weeks. But
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      140 43 THE TIMES, LONDON CHELSEA manager Luiz Felipe Scolari is so confident his side will reach the Champions League final for a second straight season that he has told the football club to reserve rooms in the Cavalieri Hilton in Rome for the last week
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      316 44 ST GRAPHICS race by race March 16: Australian GP Lewis Hamilton: Ist (10) Kimi Raikkonen: Bth (1) Felipe Massa: DNF (0) Robert Kubica: DNF (0) March 23: Malaysian GP Hamilton: sth (14) Raikkonen: Ist (11) Kubica: 2nd (8) Massa: DNF (0) April 6: Bahrain GP Raikkonen:
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      884 44  -  Leonard Lim Errors in strategy, pit stops and poor reliability let the Brazilian down By FOR the second year in a row, the Formula One drivers' championship was decided by a single point, and in the last race of the season. But, as McLaren's Lewis
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      186 44 REUTERS SAO PAULO: Lewis Hamilton's Formula One title is only on loan, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said on Monday, after the Brazilian Grand Prix. "I would like to send my congratulations to Lewis Hamilton, the youngest ever world champion in the history
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      677 45 Briton warns rivals he will learn from mistakes and grow as a driver SAO PAULO: In an ominous warning for his rivals, Formula One's youngest and newest champion Lewis Hamilton declared there was room for improvement next season. "Each year, I will get stronger," the 23-year-old
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      244 45 ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO: German Formula One driver Timo Glock reacted with astonishment, when he was confronted with suggestions that he slowed down to hand McLaren's Lewis Hamilton the drivers' world title in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix. The Toyota was even taunted by some
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      296 45 LEWIS Hamilton, the youngest world champion in the history of Formula One, could well be on the road to becoming a US$l billion (551.46 billion) sportsman. Having conquered the sport by the tender age of 23 and in only his second season, he could
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      683 46  -  Wang Meng Meng Super Reds could be dismantled even if they win S-League title By THE Super Reds, who could be the first foreign football club to lift the S-League title, could be dismantled once the season ends in two weeks. The funding it takes to
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        76 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: Rafael Nadal pulled out of the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai on Monday, citing fatigue after a long season and the need to prepare for the Davis Cup final. The world's top tennis player described his withdrawal as "one of
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        43 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros continues to make progress following surgery on a cancerous brain tumour. The 53-year-old, five-time Major champion is conscious, breathing unaided and able to talk to relatives, La Paz hospital said on Monday.
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        68 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: Two runners died after completing Sunday's New York City Marathon. Brazilian Carlos Jose Gomes, 58, died in a Manhattan hospital of a heart attack. He had complained of feeling unwell right after the race. The identity and cause of
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        59 46 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Italian footballer Marco Materazzi won "substantial" damages from British tabloid Daily Mail over claims he used racist abuse to goad France's Zinedine Zidane into head-butting him during the 2006 World Cup final. The tabloid claimed the defender had called his opponent, whose
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        53 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: Viewed won the A 55.5 million (555.51 million) Melbourne Cup over 3,200 m at Flemington yesterday. It won in a photo finish from English galloper Bauer to give legendary Australian trainer Bart Cummings his 12th triumph in Australia's pinnacle horse race. C'est La
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      470 46  -  Leonard Lim By MARDAN Mamat returns to the scene of his greatest triumph at Laguna National Golf and Country Club this week in a warm-up to the Singapore Open. Singapore's top golfer tees off today in the Mercedes-Benz Masters,
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      264 46  -  Terrence Voon By AFTER walking out on the Singapore team seven months ago, Zhang Beiwen is now back in the national badminton fold. The 18-year-old, who came here in 2003 under the Foreign Sports Talent (FST) scheme, was part of the Singapore side that
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      44 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola criticised winger Lionel Messi for spitting at fellow-footballer Sergio "Duda" Barbosa during Barca's 4-1 Spanish Primera Liga win over Malaga on Saturday. "It's not right for these things to happen," Guardiola said. PHOTO: REUTERS
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      69 46 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Newcastle's Joey Barton could faced fresh disciplinary action after he was caught up in a new controversy. During Monday's 2-0 win over Aston Villa, a result that lifted Newcastle off the bottom of the Premier League table, the footballer appeared to flick a hand
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      65 46 "The bus driver called 911 because my eyes were open. He said, 'We thought you were dead'. Anybody who knows me, when I'm tired, I sleep with my eyes open." Golfer John Daly, who was forced to spend a night in jail to sober up on Oct 26. The American
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      38 46 Basketball NBA Detroit 101 Charlotte 83, Orlando 96 Chicago 93, Philadelphia 125 Sacramento 91, Memphis 90 Golden State 79, Cleveland 100 Dallas 81, Utah 89 LA Clippers 73. Football English Premier League Newcastle 2 Aston Villa 0.
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      605 47 Detroit acquire Iverson in bid to boost their play-off chances CHARLOTTE: For the last five years, the Detroit Pistons were reliably good, occasionally great and as stable as any team in the National Basketball Association. But stability eventually lost its lustre and on Monday, the Pistons
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      58 43 A U^RRi-^RiRRRRRI^iRRRaI Wm ~*mar -'J if AM uuPtvJ^uuuH HELPING HAND Ferrari played a big part in helping Hamilton become Fl champion. 816 kSkmam^Mmmm jIUI ml *P]Ujl Uli uUU^Uju GOING LOCAL? Title contenders Super Reds could suffer from the economic crisis. 818 i 4MM BLOCKBUSTER TRADE Allen Iverson heads to the
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      20 43 WHAT'S PAST y^\ IS PAST Mardan Mamat looks for a \V reversal of fortune at the fp|lf| Singapore Open. 818
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      259 46 Today Basketball Singapore Challenge Series: Spore Slingers v Malaysia All-Stars (Indoor Stadium, 7.40pm). Football S-League: Super Reds v SAFFC (Yishun, 7.30pm: Live, Chs, 7.30pm). AFC Champions League final, Ist Leg: Gamba Osaka v Adelaide United (Live, Ch24, 5.55pm). Uefa Champions League: Celtic v Manchester United (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 2am), Real
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      139 47 C. H. M. SIMON Age: 77 Granted eternal rest with the Lord on 4th November 2008 So many hearts bleed today At your sudden passing away Your loving way, your hearty laughter You taught us well how to live life Though we grief... though we must part, We know Jesus
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      29 47 4th Anniversary In loving memory of Joaquim Thomas Dantas Departed sth Nov 04 Thanks for everything, Daddy Dearly missed fondly remembered by Sorrowful wife, Children, grandchildren all loved ones
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      54 47 •> t$ ®> STH ANNIVERSARY IN LOVING MEMORY OF A. S. RAM SINGH SANGHAR Village: Gholia Khurd j Akand Path Prayers will be held on (Fri) 7 till (Sun) 9 November 2008 from 9am 11am at Khalsa Dharmak Sabha 18 Niven Road. Please treat this as a personal invitation. W.S.
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      87 47 GOH ENG CHAANG Age 72 passed away peacefully on 3 November 2008. Dearly missed fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Lim Pit Geok Son: Daughter-In-Law: Goh Swee Hong Ling Yann Ching, Germaine Daughters: Son-In-Law: Goh Hui Hoon Gan Hsia Kang, Gavin Goh Hui Ming Grandsons: fGoh Wee Han 'Gan Chiu
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      116 47 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil, for You are with me.' Psalm 23:4 CHAN CHEE HEAN rv> <c£ 3?: Age: 73 passed away peacefully on 3 November 2008. Dearly missed and always remembered by loved ones. Son: Daughter-in-law: Chan
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      37 47 The Family Of The Late LEE LAI KIM departed on 31.10.2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      27 47 3rd ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory of JEESEKTONG Departed 5-11-2005 Time changes many things hut not the memory this day brings. Dearly missed by family and loved ones.
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      116 47 "Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6 TAN KOK LEONG Age: 72 was called home to be with the Lord on 4 November2ooB. n Safe in the arms of Jesus forever.
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      27 47 3rd Anniversary In Loving Remembrance Of KOHENGKWANG Departed 5 Nov 2005 Always In Our Thoughts Forever In Our Hearts Fondly remembered cherished by family and laved one
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      80 47 Because love never dies. It has been said that love knows not its own depth until tne hour 01 separation. But there are ways to hold on to the precious memory ol the one youve lost, with a significant piece ol jewellery, a lovingly preserved flower or a bundle ol
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      491 48  -  Alvin Foo BULLS AND BEARS Prospects also dashed by Sing Tel warning on 2nd-quarter earnings By MARKETS CORRESPONDENT AFTER four advances in five sessions that lifted the Straits Times Index (STI) 12 per cent higher last week, it was no surprise that investors took
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      312 48  -  Dennis Chan By DEPUTY MONEY EDITOR SEMBCORP Marine has turned in yet another record quarter, confounding naysayers who had predicted the group will suffer from the global credit freeze and drop in crude oil prices. The rig builder yesterday said its net profit for the
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        20 48 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 2.03 billion shares worth $1.22 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 316 Losers: 194 Unchanged: 819
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        86 48 Mid Cap 377.94 A 4.94 Small Cap 313.08 A 8.16 All Share 440.68 -8.25 Fledgling 401.61 A 3.36 China 178.73 10.97 China Top 177.12 12.73 Oil and gas 240.28 15.27 Basic materials 232.91 2.44 Industrials 392.71 T -1.07 Consumer goods 337.08 -9.51 Health care 451.58 12.38 Consumer
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        31 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 9,114.60 (+537.62) Japanese shares jumped over 6 per cent, lifted by a weaker yen and reports of a possible takeover of Sanyo by Panasonic.
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        29 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 905.58 (+6.23) Malaysian shares closed 0.7 per cent higher, recovering from earlier falls as investors took profits after two days of gains.
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        29 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 14,384.34 (+39.97) Hong Kong shares closed 0.28 per cent higher as investors stood on the sidelines ahead of the US election.
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        28 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 1,153.35 (+24.27) South Korean shares closed 2.2 per cent up, a day after Seoul announced a major package to rouse the economy.
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        26 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 1,706.70 (-13.07) Chinese shares closed down 0.76 per cent as pessimism over the domestic economy dragged local bourses down.
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        25 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 10,631.12 (+293.44) Indian shares rose 2.84 per cent after the finance minister said state-run banks would provide more credit.
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        27 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 4,215.1 (-6.40) Australian shares closed 0.2 per cent lower, after regaining early losses, due to a larger-than-expected interest rate cut.
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        29 48 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 457.62 (+8.43) Thai shares closed 1.88 per cent higher due to bargain hunting and news of US and Australian interest rate cuts.
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          117 48 (0) Nov 4 CENTS OCBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 ...7800 300.0 OOB 5.05%NCPS 100 8800 230.0 OCBC Bk5.1%NCPS 100 ...8710 190.0 OCBCCap 5.1%NCPS 100 .8340 140.0 DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 9570 100.0 Venture Corp 635 75.0 Lyxor India Nifty 10 956 66.0 SIA200 1212 32.0 Great Eastern 948
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          93 48 (0) Nov 4 CENTS JHH lardine C8C JSH GLD 100S$ OOB Portek DBS Grp SingTel Keppel Corp 01am SingTel 10 SingTel 100 SGX Wilmar OCBC Bk Ascendasreit CityDev CapitaLand CapitaMall CapitaComm 2280 -100.6 -2.9 1000 -70.0 -6.5 1180 -59.2 -3.3 7226 -50.3 -0.5 1334 -36.0 -2.6 20 -33.0
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          93 48 Nov 4 CENTS Hoe Leong Sapphire THC Edu Advanced System Lexicon Grp HDR AdvanceSCT LottVis Anwell ITE Elec Late Corp Autron HLH Grp Reyoung VGO Corp Vashion ChinaEnergy ChinaJishan Oniontech Alantac 12.5 108.3 1 100.0 9 63.6 1.5 50.0 1.5 50.0 1.5 50.0 9.5 46.2 5 42.9 3.5
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          93 48 Nov 4 CENTS Portek Esmart TT Intl China Haida SNF Corp LantroVis Sky One Hartawan Radiance Samko Eagle Brand Reyphon Nico Steel Hongwei Ouhua C20 Hldgs Devotion IPCOIntl NEL Grp Techcomp 20 -62.3 -33.0 3.5 -41.7 -2.5 3.5 -41.7 -2.5 5.5 -38.9 -3.5 3.5 -36.4 -2.0 1.5 -25.0
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          106 48 (0) Nov 4 CENTS STI 3000SGAePW*****0 225 DBS RB ePW*****8 73.5 SingTel DBePW*****3 50.5 DBS BNP ePW*****2 63 STI2350BNPePW*****0 108 SingTel RBePW*****3 54.5 STI 1950 DBePW*****2 54 STI 2050BNPePW*****9 42 OOB BNP eCW*****6 54 OOB HBL eCW*****4 21 CoscoCorpBNPeCW***** 19 STI 2200BNPePW*****6 61 STI 1800BNPePW*****0 35 STI 2200BNPeCW*****6
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          108 48 Nov 4 CENTS STI 2350BNPeCW*****0 3.5 75.0 1.5 STI 3000SGAePW*****0 225 63.0 87.0 NohleGrpDBeCW*****3 1.5 50.0 0.5 VongnamW*****4 1.5 50.0 0.5 SGX BNP eCW*****9 4.5 28.6 1.0 SingTel DBePW*****3 50.5 26.3 10.5 DBS RB ePW*****8 73.5 24.6 14.5 DBS BNP ePW*****2 63 17.8 9.5 STI 2200BNPeCW*****6 ...13.5 17.4
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          101 48 (0) Nov 4 CENTS SGXSGAePW*****1 38 -23.0 -37.7 OCBC BkSGAePW*****4 99 -19.0 -16.1 DBS HBL ePW*****2 113 -11.0 -8.9 STI2500BNPePW*****7 129 -8.0 -5.8 SingTel DBeCW*****0 22.5 -6.5 -22.4 SingTel BNPeCW*****3 19.5 -6.0 -23.5 SingTelHBLeCW*****2 20 -6.0 -23.1 SingTelHBLiCW*****0 16 -6.0 -27.3 CapitalandRBeCW***** 44 -5.5 -11.1 SGX HBL iCW*****3
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      178 48 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS By Volume cents vol Golden Agri 21.5 -0.5 -2.3 199,575,000 China Hongxing 23 3.0 15.0 76,613,000 lade Tech 2.5 0.0 0.0 72,178,000 Cosco Corp 87 5.0 6.1 63,567,000 SingTel 230 -21.0 -8.4 53,143,000 Yangzijiang 38.5 5.0 14.9 50,666,000 IES 13.5 2.0
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      104 48 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Nov4 2008 Buying Selling Aust dollar 0.9910 1.0430 Can dollar 1.2490 1.2630 Euro 1.8610 1.8820 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4184 0.4194 NZ dollar 0.8670 0.8870 Sterling pound 2.3260 2.3530 US dollar 1.4720 1.4890 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF FOREIGN
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      401 48 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +OR■VOL '000 DAY HIGH LOW GROSS YIELD NET M CAP P/E $MIL 790 375 1520 770 2180 610 72.5 123 525 3580 1920 2236 1460 840 515 270 909 329.7 1980 1570 490 482 386 610
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      648 48 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R■V0L '000 DAY HIGH LOW GROSS YIELD NET M CAP P/E $MIL 166 272 212 256 264 438 112 130 241 269 200 191 365 388 195 10 595 398 780 430 372 317 194
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      440 49  -  Elizabeth Wilmot By] THERE will be tough times ahead but Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering said it has braced itself to deal with whatever comes its way. Even the recent bankruptcy of two clients has not thrown chief executive Tan Pheng Hock off course.
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      574 49  -  Yang Huiwen Accused of penning poison letters, he is voted out during AGM By E3 HOLDINGS founder Liau Beng Chye was ousted from the firm's board at a tense annual general meeting (AGM) yesterday in the wake of allegations that he had penned poison letters. Some
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      488 50 REUTERS Britain and euro zone likely to cut rates tomorrow as recession bites SYDNEY: Australia cut interest rates more than expected yesterday, presaging likely cuts in Europe later this week in the face of evidence that the global financial crisis has already pushed much of
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      456 50  -  Chua Hian Hou By SINGTEL shares slumped more than 9 per cent yesterday before recovering slightly after the telco announced a hit to earnings for the quarter ended Sept 30. Two factors will drag down profits heavy subsidies for the Apple iPhone 3G handsets
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      292 50 BLOOMBERG MUMBAI: Temasek Holdings will sell its Indian mutual fund venture to Religare Enterprises. Lotus India Asset Management is a joint venture between Temasek's unit, Fullerton Fund Management Group, and Sabre Capital Worldwide. Religare set up its own mutual fund business in January
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      Lock icon Banks should peg pay to risks: PwC
      449 52  -  Fiona Chan Reward structures need reform but no one wants to be first mover By THE days of high bonuses for bank executives are not necessarily over just because of the financial crisis, said PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). But the accounting firm believes pay packages
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      428 52 REUTERS ZURICH: Swiss bank ÜBS said yesterday that a government bailout is helping to stem client outflows, but it expected factors that helped it record a small profit to reverse in the fourth quarter. ÜBS, one of the European banks hit hardest
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      Lock icon RBS expects more write-downs as bad debts rise
      259 52 REUTERS LONDON: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a smaller-than-expected writedown of £206 million (Ss4B3 million) on toxic assets in the third quarter but said it faces more this quarter and bad debts are rising sharply. RBS, which is taking £20
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      Lock icon Hone competitive edge during crisis, S'pore firms urged
      682 53  -  Jessica Cheam Trade Minister outlines three growth strategies for firms to ride out economic downturn By SINGAPORE companies must take advantage of this period of financial gloom in the global economy and strengthen their competitiveness, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng
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        Lock icon Wheelock lifts deemed stake
        115 53 WHEELOCK Properties has raised its deemed stake in SC Global Developments to 16.05 per cent, via an open market purchase made last week, SC Global announced yesterday. In June last year, Wheelock bought a 10 per cent stake in SC Global at $6 per share. SC
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        127 53 WATER treatment company Hyflux has reported a 159 per cent surge in thirdquarter net profits to $17.3 million, on the back of record quarterly revenue. Revenue swelled by 177 per cent to $177.4 million for the three months ended Sept 30, the highest per quarter revenue
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        Lock icon $2.8b to take PCCW private
        113 53 BLOOMBERG PCCW said its chairman Richard Li and China Network Communications (Netcom) have offered to take Hong Kong's biggest phone carrier private for as much as HK$l4.9 billion (Ss2.B billion). Mr Li's Singapore-listed Pacific Century Regional Developments and China Netcom are PCCW's two biggest shareholders.
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      Lock icon Autodesk opens new R&D hub
      385 54  -  Chua Hian Hou By SOFTWARE maker Autodesk has bold expansion plans for its new research and development (R&D) centre at Fusionopolis, which is already one of Singapore's biggest software development hubs. The United States-based firm already employs 140 staff at the 55,000 sq ft site,
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      Lock icon Factory output dives to a seven-year low
      419 54  -  Robin Chan Manufacturing sector's sharp drop in orders suggests a deeper-than-expected slump By THE manufacturing sector is well into the doldrums as the fourth quarter kicks off with factory output here crashing to a seven-year low. October's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which indicates
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      445 55  -  Gabriel Chen LIA chief says sum is 'smoothed' over plan's life, so changes gradual By NEW Life Insurance Association (LIA) president Darren Thomson has said reversionary bonuses due early next year will not necessarily plunge despite the global financial bedlam. The bonus, which stems from
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      Lock icon Wafer maker upbeat over wireless demand
      278 55  -  Elizabeth Wilmot By THE boss of a Singapore-based technology firm that makes semiconductor products for the wireless industry is confident demand will keep growing, in spite of the uncertain economic outlook. Dr Drew Nelson, chief executive of IQE, told a gathering yesterday that the
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      Lock icon Citi launches special home loan for rich
      328 55  -  Joyce Teo By PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT WELL-HEELED banking customers, with properties in Singapore and abroad, are being offered a first-of-its-kind product by Citibank Singapore. The product, launched yesterday, allows these affluent types to consolidate their mortgage financing on residential properties held here and abroad
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        Lock icon Debunking the megapixel myth
        648 100 It's not the number of megapixels but the size of your camera's sensor that counts MEGAPIXELS do not really matter anymore. That might sound strange at first as most people regard megapixel-count as the main indicator of their camera's picture-taking quality. Let me explain. Megapixels are
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        227 101 A MAN in Beijing is taking software giant Microsoft to court for a program that blacks out the desktop window if pirated software is detected. The man in the spotlight, who is known only as Liv, is not seeking damages he just wants Microsoft to remove a
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        160 101 ADDING to its green cred, computer giant Dell has developed a desktop computer that is clad with bamboo (above). It took three years and 25 prototypes before a way could be found to twist bamboo into a natural fibre exterior for a desktop. Called the Studio
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        155 101 A COMPUTER program is now available that can accurately estimate a person's body shape just from digital images or video. Currently, body scanning technology requires a person to be naked and stand still for a 3D model of the body to be produced. This new program
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        115 101 WAITING minutes for your computer to boot up is a common experience. It is frustrating. PC makers are listening to consumer rants: Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo will be offering machines that allow access to simple functions like e-mail and a Web browser in half a
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        205 102 AFTER two years of negotiations, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have finally agreed for Google Book Search an online full text search of digitally-archived books to have access to more than millions of books that the authors and publishers represent. This
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        139 102 GOOGLE, Microsoft and Yahoo have introduced guidelines that are supposed to better protect online free speech and privacy. Called the Global Network Initiative, the code of conduct was drawn up together with other human rights groups. It calls for Internet and communications companies to
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        191 102 COMPUTER makers last week recalled 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corporation, sparked by overheating fears. The Sony 2.15 Ah lithium-ion cell batteries, made in Japan and sold around the world, are used in laptops by Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba. Sixty-five thousand of the batteries
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        199 102  -  Tan Chong Yaw Tham Yuen-C MUSIC lovers might soon be' getting memory cards instead of CDs. Sandisk has started selling slot Music albums microSD cards preloaded with MP3 music in the United States. Each fingernail-sized, IGB card will hold one album, just like traditional music CDs.
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        333 102  -  Tan Chong Yaw Video back-up the easy way Mini-DV tapes how you loathe them. Sure, these matchbox-sized storage devices offer the best video quality. They are prone to failure, like when they get gunky What do you do if you I have a truckload of them?
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      656 103 Next-generation HDWs from Samsung offer more fun and games, and a whole new way of looking at entertainment and interactivity right out of the box. BILLY TEO and his family give it a try The impressive 46-inch Samsung Series 8 LCD TV in
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        104 104 Monitor your saving NEC MultiSync EA22IWM $529, from major electronics stores SAVING money is one of the top concerns of small businesses and the NEC MultiSync EA22IWM monitor helps with that goal. A setting for the widescreen monitor reduces its power consumption by at least 20 per cent.
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        61 104 Hot shot Sony Ericsson C 905 Cyber-shot $938, from authorised retailers CAMERAS in phones are no longer just an afterthought. The one in Sony Ericsson's C 905 Cyber-shot phone (right) shoots at a resolution of 8.1 megapixels, has a retractable lens cover and even an image stabiliser. The
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        98 104 Motorola Aura $2,934, out in December at hello! shops and Sing Tel authorised retailers WITH 700 parts, a screen coated with top-grade 62-carat sapphire and a window at the back that lets you see the workings of its innards, the Motorola Aura (right) seems more a timepiece than
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        69 104 Remember more San Disk 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro 16GB microSDHC ($139) and Memory Stick Micro ($185), from major electronics stores GIVE your phone a mega memory boost with Sandisk's 16GB micro SDHC flash memory cards. They are the world's largest capacity cards available for phones right
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        93 104 Connect and share Aztech DSLIOISEN modem router $159, from Challenger, Courts and Harvey Norman and shops in Funan DigitaLife Mall and Sim Lim Square GET on the Internet and share that connection with just one device the Aztech DSLIOISEN. It combines a DSL modem and an 802.11n four-port
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        174 104 Tidy up Atempo Digital Archive 2.0 From $26,699, available now for Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX. For more information, call Alpsoft on 6273-2018 or go to www.alpsoft-tech.com JUST like clothes in a cupboard, files and e-mail messages can pile up and clog up computers and servers if they are
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        272 104  -  Mike Sargent BlackBerry Bold From $438 with 2-year plan I've never really been a BlackBerry fan, although my last two jobs made having one of these devices a necessity. My first BlackBerry was rather large, the display faint and pretty much useless in bright sunlight. The battery life was
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            180 106 It was a close fight last year when the Wii tipped the original iPhone to win the DL Product of the Year by a single vote. This year, the new iPhone won hands down. Deservingly so. The 3G offers faster speeds both in
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            112 106 A classic case of going back to basics is what did it for the Nokia E7l. With the market inundated by cellphones, the E7l stands on higher ground for making itself less smartphone and just, well, more phone. Forget the chunky blocks packed in with
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            Lock icon Best entertainment: Guitar Hero World Tour
            106 106 The Guitar Hero 3 music game was a huge success last year. It appealed to both serious gamers, who thrived on the hardcore technical skills required in the expert level, to casual gamers, who just wanted to have a blast rocking to their favourite
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            95 106 Well-known for its free roaming, open-ended gameplay as well as its excessive violence and mature themes, the Grand Theft Auto franchise is a mixture of action, role-playing, driving, shooting and adventure action all rolled into one. Grand Theft Auto 4 is the first
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            85 106 We've heard of super slim mobile phones and tiny gadgets but a razor thin laptop? Applaud the Macbook Air, which Steve Jobs launched in January at the annual Mac World conference in San Francisco. A work of art, the Macbook Air comes with a shimmering metallic chasis
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            Lock icon Best digital camera: Panasonic Lumix LX3
            85 106 All hail the prosumer LX3 camera: it yields picture quality you can alrr"->st pass off as those from entry-level DSLR cameras. It does it in a single kit there is no hassle of switching lenses and lugging around what is akin to the weight
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            81 106 The concept of exercise may be foreign to those who breathe sedentary air like gamers and cubicle slaves but Wii Fit, with its unique balance board game control, puts the word fun into sweaty workouts. With the Wii Fit, you can now swing your hips to
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            64 106 Compact cameras with 10 megapixels are the rage these days. What sets the Fujifilm FinePix JISOW apart is its $299 price tag just half of the hordes of rivals in its ilk. With a large 3-inch LCD screen, a long telephoto lens and five
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        667 107 A Solid Foundation for New Possibilities It is more powerful and, hey, it even has a touchscreen function. SHERWIN LOH gets a preview of Windows 7 in Los Angeles IT IS faster, able to handle multi-touch screens, has a more intuitive user-interface, requires less
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        676 107 SHERWIN LOH tries the pre-beta test copy and finds a few similarities to Windows Vista IF IT wasn't for the title that flashed "Windows 7" after the system start-up, I could easily have mistaken Microsoft's upcoming operating system for a Vista revision. The layout and look remains
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        505 108 Microsoft taps into cloud computing and pushes out Windows Azure for businesses, as SHERWIN LOH finds out in Los Angeles SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is taking the next leap onto the virtual "cloud", by offering online services with an accompanying online operating system, Windows
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        508 109  -  Lim Yee Hung, a freelance writer studying in Britain A Japanese toy maker has breathed new life into outmoded transformer robots by incorporating today's technology to create a new line of gizmos YOU have to pity Soundwave. One of the Decepticons, the bad guys in the 1984 Transformers
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        694 110 Relying on just anti-virus software is not enough, as cyber criminals get more innovative, says SHERWIN LOH BEWARE of any program that calls itself Antivirus 2009. It will be like inviting the proverbial fox to guard the chickens. This rogue anti-virus program, once installed, will flood
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        612 111 Students at the United World College are benefiting from having wireless Internet access on campus THREE years ago, when teachers at United World College (UWC) wanted students to use the Internet during lessons, the students would have to troop down to one of the school's
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        534 112 A new search tool for system log files is helping IT managers troubleshoot problems in seconds instead of hours. IRENE THAM takes a closer look IMAGINE looking for information on the Internet without search engines. That has been the world of IT managers as they
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        412 112  -  Irene Tham A WEBSITE outage in 2004 was to Michael Baum what a falling apple was to Isaac Newton. The eureka moment led 45-year-old Michael to co-found Splunk, his sixth Silicon Valley start-up in 25 years. In 2004, when he was vice-president of e-commerce services at Yahoo,
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        468 113  -  Yap Hui Bin, Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway Jfljlk $69.90 jUUplatA Squad-based BMrn shooter W Xbox 360 BROTHERS In Arms: Hell's Highway (BIAHH) parachutes you deep into World War II (WWII) in Eindhoven, Netherlands. You play Staff Sergeant Matt Baker of the 101 st Airborne
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        471 113  -  Oo Gin Lee Wii Music THE Wii Music game lets you transform your entire family into a sensational band even if none of them knows a single note. Simply execute the instrument controls using the Wii-mote, Nunchak and the Wii balance board (for drums only) to the
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        360 114  -  Sherwin Loh Faceßreaker lltfJUipA $71.90 L^~fL r• ~M Sports boxing W PS3 (platform) THIS is a punch in the face that few will see coming, but Faceßreaker is not a boxing game. It is not even a fighting game, even if it does involve some slick moves
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        410 114  -  Valentine Chua, Raiden IV I REMEMBER games from the 1942 series, in which you play a fighter plane set in World War 11, from the top-down perspective. Scrolling shooters were popular years ago but declined rapidly in popularity in the arcades, eventually becoming a niche market. Raiden
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        249 114  -  Eugene Neubronner, a Castle Crashers i $24.75 CTfjT^^ Platformer W ii Xbox 360 Arcade mmWm^ (platform) BRAWLER games, which require you to pick a character and run through a punishing gauntlet of enemies, have been a favourite of folks who play mainly in arcades. Castle Crashers aims
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        436 115  -  Alfred Siew, Silverstone Raven mouse $139, from computer retailers THIS mouse has everything packed in, yet probably disappoints in the most important department comfort. The first gaming mouse from Silverstone, loved by PC buffs for its famed aluminium cases, looks the part when you pull it out
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        399 115  -  Stephanie Gwee, AVLabs AVL34O MYTube iPod video speakers $369, from authorised dealers WANT to juice up your living room music scene? Speaker maker AVLabs believes it has just the thing. The brand new AVLabs video speaker sports a glossy tuxedo-black suit that will spiff up any
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        375 115  -  Stephanie Gwee Altec Lansing T612 $329, from authorised dealers THE Apple iPhone may reign over all other mobile phones and its BGB storage space might even double as your trusty music player. However, its wimpy built-in speaker does little justice to Coldplay's Violet Hills at top volume.
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        424 115  -  Chester Chen, Gigabyte M 912 Netbook (left) $1,149.00 Available from Multiquest and Storage Studio at Sim Lim Square THE first thing you will come to realise with Gigabyte's M 912 Netbook is that it is a bit plump. I say plump because the weight at I.3kg puts
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        472 115  -  Aaron Tan, Casio Exilim EX-FH2O $999, from authorised retailers ENDOWED with a svelte body and speedy mechanics, the Casio Exilim EX-FH2O is one camera aiming for the consumer in love with speed and style. It is the successor to the 6-megapixel Casio Exilim EX-Fl, which
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        608 116 Want to know what's wrong with your PC? E-mail us at stdled@sph.com.sg Software compatibility on Vista I am using a desktop at home but would like to purchase a laptop for work mobility. What must I do to ensure that the current Microsoft (MS) Office 2003 data stored
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        970 117 Giving away software for free can be a business model that works. THAM YUEN-C finds out WHILE most people would think Microsoft when asked to name Red Hat's biggest competitor, the open source software company's chief executive officer begs to differ. "It's always fun to twist the lion's
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      14 119 DL!s annual Tech Buyer's Guide salutes the best gizmos where price meets performance
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        515 120 Want to make sure the gadget you are planning to buy is worth every cent for the features it offers? Look no further, 00 GIN LEE reports WHEN I think of the paper losses I made on my Australian dollars I bought them at $1.36
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        382 122 For you party animals, TAN CHONG YAW susses out five 10-megapixel compacts that bring out your social mojo YOU want a compact camera so nifty you would grab it without hesitation for a party. Or, for a pack-light overnight trip. It must also be a compact with a
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        469 124 Wide-angle lens Put yourself and at least two friends with your heads close together. The compact held at arm's length should be able to snap all three of you without slicing off body parts. For that, a lens of 28mm or wider (35 equivalent) is needed. The Panasonic
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