The New Paper, 8 September 2009

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1 48 The New Paper

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      873 2/3  -  Witness on feelings about death pact: REPORTS: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg HE WAS their leader and he told them that they had an important mission. World War III was coming and their task was to destroy demons and save the world. But in order to do so, they had
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    • 445 2/3 THEeightboys, includingKu Witaya’s younger brother, had made a pact to hold hands and jump off the roof of the block. And the consequences would have been unimaginable– ifthe doorhad not been locked. When the boys, aged 12 to 17 at the
      TNP PICTURES: GAVIN FOO  -  445 words
    • 16 2/3 Samaritans of Singapore: 1800-221 4444(24 hours) Comcare Helpline: 1800-222 0000 Touchline: 1800-377 2252
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    • 284 4  -  REPORTS:TAYSHI’AN REPORTS:TAYSHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg WHAT By the end of next year, expect all Singapore credit cards to be embedded with microchips called EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa standard) to prevent counterfeiting. Only just over half of Singapore credit cards have this chip now. PASSWORD
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    • MAKING CREDIT CARDS MORE SECURE
      • 241 4 PROBLEM:Traditionalcredit cardswith magnetic stripes are prone to being copied with skimming devices, which can even be bought through the Internet. Once the devices copy your data, a clone card can be created. SOLUTION: EMV chip cards, which store encrypted data and are much more difficult to copythan “magstripe”
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      • 80 4 PROBLEM: Fraudsters getting hold of your credit card details (like your name, card number and expiry date), and using them to make transactions where the physical card is not needed, for example, for Internet purchases. SOLUTION: One-time password via SMS or security token (see report at
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      • 194 4 PROBLEM: Thieves who steal credit cards from the customer, or through the mail. POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Some countries, like the UK and France, have moved to the chip-and-PIN system, where instead of a signature, card holders authenticate the transaction by using a PIN, like for ATM cards.
        TNP ILLUSTRATION: FADZIL HAMZAH  -  194 words
    • 579 5  -  EX-LOVERS IN COURT TUSSLE OVER COMPANY SHARES REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg IT had been two years since they broke up. But Mr Lim Chee Twang remained on such good terms with his ex-girlfriend that he even accompanied her to car showrooms
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    • 71 6 ACCIDENT: A woman was trapped after her car flipped over in Geylang yesterday morning. The driver said she lost control of her car after it brushed against another vehicle, reported Lianhe Wanbao. Her car hit the railing and the red car in the picture below before flipping over. A passer-by
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    • 311 6 Biggest privatisation deal this year HOME-GROWN chip-maker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is to be acquired by an investment firm owned by the Abu Dhabi government. Chartered, which operates six chip-making facilities here employing more than 6,000 workers, announced yesterday that the Advanced Technology Investment
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    • 104 6 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday it will “significantly expand” its contribution to the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to US$2 billion ($3 billion) from US$0.5 billion currently. This comes after G-20 leaders said in April that it is tripling
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    • 96 6 POLICYHOLDERS are now allowed to name beneficiaries and change them when the need arises under a new nomination framework. The Insurance Nomination law provides policyholders of life, acci- dent and health policies to either make a trust nomination or a revocable nomination. With a
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    • 97 6 TWO weeks after pump prices crept back up to pre-crisis levels, they dipped again yesterday. Four oil companies Caltex, Shell, Singapore Petroleum Co and ExxonMobil lowered pump rates by six cents a litre across the board. With the cut, a litre of 98, 95
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    • 665 7  -  But executive committee pushes for co-education and merger with VJC Nurul Asyikin Mohd Nasir newsroom intern THEY have been labelled as “stubborn andindenial”. Stubborn because they have refused to compromise on their stand, and in denial because they believe there is no need for
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    • 800 8 / 9  -  NigerianplayboymarriesS’porewomanthen abandons h er after she h elps him traffic drugs REPORT: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg RUTHLESS.He seduced her, married her and recruitedher to behisdrugmule. Itwasacold andcalculated strategy. Even after she bore him a child, he heartlessly abandoned them the moment hesensed trouble. In March,
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    • 252 8 / 9 THIS year alone, 13 Singaporean women drug mules have been caught, compared with only eight between 2003 and 2007. CNBsaid thatthe arrestedwomen– 10 Malays,two Chineseand oneIndian– were aged between 19 and 48. Other countries are facing the same problem. (See report below.) Superintendent
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    • 428 8 / 9  -  REPORT: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg THE number of women being used as drug mules has gone up in the last 10 years, said Dr Thomas Pietschmann, a researcher with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “It’snot amajortrend butthe reasons are quite obvious.
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    • 423 8 / 9  -  Manargueswithcopsaftergirlfriend’scaraccident REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg HIS girlfriend called him in the wee hours of the morning with bad news. She had just had an accident with his car. After he rushed to the scene at Aljunied Crescent around 3.30am on
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    • 752 10 / 11  -  AndtheseA*Starscholarsprovescientifictypes don’talwayscomenerdyanddorky REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg THEworldofR&DinSingaporeissafe.In the hands of young people like these A*Star scholars, science research can develop only by theproverbialleapsandbounds. Butwhenitcomestopolitics,don’tcountonthem– not one of the six is remotely interested in entering Parliament. Evelyn Thangaraj, 19, said, “The closest I’ll ever
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    • 53 8 / 9 PLUS UP FOR GRABS THIS WEEK BLOOD TALES The cast of local movie Blood Ties spook us with their on-set ghost stories ONLY IN YOUR FREE MOVIE PULLOUT ON THURSDAY Movie premiums for Aliens In The Attic and 9 as well as tickets to Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and Judd
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    • 222 12 AFTER COW-HEAD PROTEST... ANEW site has been identified for the relocation of a 150-year-old Hindu temple, a Malaysian state government has announced. The Selangor government, together with the Shah Alam City Council and Selangor State Development Corporation, identified the site after a controversy
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    • 98 12 AFP LEADING central bank governors have agreed on a set of measures to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the banking industry in the wake of the financial crisis. The measures should “substan- tially reduce the probability and severity of economic and financial
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    • 90 12 AFP MALAYSIA’S exports slumped 22.8 per cent in July from a year earlier, official data released yesterday showed. The trade ministry said the steep decline came as demand fell among key trading partners, especially for electrical and electronic products which account for one-thirdof Malaysia’stotalexports.
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    • 102 12 AFP THE Communist Party head of China’s Xinjiang region said the ernmentwouldsend7,000“harmo-ny-makers” to the capital, Urumqi, to ease tension there. The city’s party chief and the region’s top police official were dismissed after protests left four people dead and 14 in hospital,
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    • 91 12 AP FORMER Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat is among those who should be criminally edfortheirrolesinlastyear’scrackdown on anti-government protesters, a state commission said. The October riot outside Parliament, where two protesters were killed and more than 500 injured, was the bloodiest event in a
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    • 38 12 ONTHESHORTLIST:Khagendra Thapa Magar (centre) at a function in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Magar, who is 50.8cm tall and weighs 4.5kg, willbedeclaredtheworld’sshortest person by the Guinness World Records when he turns 18 next month. PICTURE: REUTERS
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    • 154 13 YOU probably would not have recognised Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher if you happened to be in Malibu, California. The reason: She was not decked out in a sexy dress but in Lycra. Add to that a baseball cap and sunglasses and what you see
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    • 578 13 Tycoon claims he lost money in property deals butwillstillsupportwifehe’sdivorcingandkids HERweeklyshoppingusedtobedeliveredtoher80hamansion,byluxurydepartmentstoreHar-rods. Now, Mrs Michelle Young stands in line at local shops and often has to dig into her purse to find the moneytopayforhergroceries. Her husband’s vast fortune is gone. Tycoon Scot YoungclaimshelostmillionsinRussianpropertydeals and
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    • 772 14 In this hard-hitting commentary, the Washington Post’sCharles Krauthammergiveshistakeon why US President Barack Obama is losing popularity. The article has been edited for length WHAT happened to US President Barack Obama (above)? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What
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    • 329 15 A CONTROVERSY has erupted in Brazil, all because of a kiss. An Italian tourist, 48, was held after kissing his daughter, 8, in public. Seems innocent? Not according to witnesses who complained to police about seeing him allegedly touching the girl in an intimate way,
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    • 184 15 WHO’Slaughing now? A form teacher in a well-known English language school in Taiwan ordered a student who made fun of him to stand and laugh for one hour, said an unhappy parent. Even though the boy, whose age was not mentioned in the
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    • 13 12 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Cloudy High34˚,Low25˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low26˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High29˚,Low27˚
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      38 16 FROM READER ABDUL FATTAH FORBIDDEN FRUIT: It was hard not to spot, or rather, smell the durians this commuter was travelling with on the MRT train. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 211 16 FROM READER AHMAD HIDAYAT ARIFF B K TEENS POSE FOR OFFENSIVE PHOTOS AT GRAVE IAM writing about the report “Grave insult”(TheNewPaper,4Sep). Firstly, being a teen myself, I find this kind of act extremely disappointing. Still, I hope the family members are not
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    • 50 16 Comments on PKMS incident last week: “Fora momentafter Iread aboutthis,I thought this happened overseas. Then when I read on, I realisedit was Singapore.It’s such an embarrassment!” Milady76 “Guys,come on.Itis justa politicalpartyhaving an internal scuffle. What is the big deal? Let themsettletheir differences.Don’t givethem thespotlightand free publicity.” jimmy_wan
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      655 17  -  Heavenly King Jacky Cheung wo uld ra th er his girls follow their hearts than be unhappy in their careers REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg HE MAY be known across Asia as Cantopop’s God of Songs, but don’t assume his children have inherited his musical genes. In a
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    • 363 19  -  Model-turned-actress Maggie Tan even had to lie in a coffin REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg ITWAShardlyacomfortableroletoplay.The character was to be murdered, disfigured and raped.Thescriptalsorequiredtheactresstolieina coffin. ButmodelMaggieTan,21,didnothesitatetoaccept theroleinthelocalmovieBloodTies. Itisherfirstactingrole. Previously, the leggy beauty had done print and TV commercials,hawkingeverythingfrommake-uptoyo-ghurt. She also played a young bride
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      • 98 20/21 THIS month, Sushi Tei will be celebrating its 15th anniversary by giving to charity. Whenyouorderanyofthefive items in its Anniversary Menu, the Children’sCancerFoundationand the Home Nursing Foundation will get 100 per cent of the net sales proceeds.The best of the lot is the Beauty Roll ($14, left),
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      • 779 22  - Wining, dining a splash of tea In Chengdu, a fine-dining meal is not complete without shots ofliquor and lots of chilli K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg THE MEAL began with a shot glass of Jian Nan Chunor“bladeofthesouthernspring”. It was so cold, so potent, like a blast of icy fire down my
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  • Sports
    • 342 48  -  ERNEST LUIS inspiration npsports@sph.com.sg inspiration JERMAIN Defoe is looking for inspiration. His model the “King of Bouncing Back” himself David Beckham. On England’s road to next year’s World Cup, Defoe has now emerged as a striker in the scoring form of his life, hoping to be part of
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      • 788 37 RACE 1 When questioned regarding the performance of ROYAL PARADE, trainer SB Tan said that he had kept the horse fresh and that the horse ran in a weak race. RACE 2 At about the 150m, BLUE RANCHO shifted out, carrying BETTER TIMES
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    • 391 38 MAD ABOUT GOLF AFP THONGCHAI Jaidee moved a step closer to securing an unprecedented third Asian Tour Order of Merit title after his sterling fifth-placed finish at the Omega European Masters on Sunday. The Thai star took his season’s winnings to US$870,517 ($1.3m) and widened
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    • 271 38 Reuters A WEEK honing his game at the Boston TPC helped Retief Goosen join Americans Steve Stricker and Sean O’Hair in a share for the lead after the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Sunday. World No. 1 Tiger Woods, who did not
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    • 122 38 AFP SUZANN Pettersen captured her first win of 2009 and sixth LPGA Tour victory by shooting a one-under 70 in the final round of the Canadian Women’s Open in Calgary yesterday morning. Norway’s Pettersen finished with a 15-under 269 total to place five strokes ahead of five others,
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    • 399 38 US OPEN TENNIS Reuters MORE than 23,000 pairs of eyes in Arthur Ashe Stadium zoomed in on Rafael Nadal’s stomach yesterday morning as he lay flat on his back with his canary yellow shirt pulled up to his chest. With a white towel covering his face,
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        157 39 Reuters KIM CLIJSTERS would do well not to think of a possible semi-final against defending champion and tournament favourite Serena Williams. This is because her next opponent in the quarter-finals is China’s Li Na, a player who has given the Belgian problems in the past. Clijsters
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      • 740 44/45 From the instances that have occurred from as early as 2004,Rooney’sdeclarationisnonsense,saysDAVIDLEE COMMENT WAYNE Rooney is many things to many people fiery striker, club talisman, England’s great hope, balding man-child etc... But perhaps not content with his bulging portfolio, the Manchester United forward has just landed himself
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      • 778 44/45 GARYLIM thinks English players who think that their compatriotsdon’tdivearejust hypocrites COMMENT IT IRKS to the hilt when English players say they don’t dive. What are they? Saints? So, when Johnny Foreigner takes a tumble at the presence of an imaginary outstretched leg, he’sacheat. If an English
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        458 46 The penalty that Wayne Rooneywon to give England the lead against Slovenia on Sunday has become the subject of much debate. Here’sasampleofthereactions. “Watchingagame with Sir Bobby Robson some years ago, I recall him being appalled at a player receiving a yellow card for diving.‘It wasn’t a foul,
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      • 533 41  -  JOE MORRISON npsports@sph.com.sg MY BELOVED football club is up for sale which leaves me in a pickle at the moment. I would like to buy it myself but alas I don’thavethemoneyanddespitemyplea to StarHub to increase your subscriptions to $6,784 a month per
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      • 169 41 PA Sport THE MANCHESTER United Supporters Trust have launched an ambitious project aimed at maximising business opportunities among Red Devils fans. Reds In Business promises “90 minutes of business networking, 90 minutes of social and 90 minutes of football”, in addition to the appearance of
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    • 553 42 WE HAVE no clue what coach Raymond Domenech wants. So said one of France’s biggest stars, Thierry Henry. The former world champions are on the verge of elimination, no thanks to the results under Domenech. Henry was quoted in the
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      • 497 43 LIM SAYHENG scours the Internet for reactionstotheweekend’sinternational matches WHATTHEY’RESAYINGONLINE ENGLAND 2 SLOVENIA 1 AGAINST the top teams at international level you are not going to get that many chances. Rooney misses too many chances so he needs a more clinical striker alongside him. Rooney has
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      • 185 43 ARGENTINA 1 BRAZIL 3 DUNGA is an excellent coach and sees the game like few people can. Ronaldinho has no place at all in the team. Elano plays for the simple reason that he can also defend and helps congest the middle, plus he has the
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        111 47 LIVE TELECASTS WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Thursday: BELARUS v UKRAINE Ch 27,12.55am GERMANY v AZERBAIJAN Ch 119 (FC 2), 2.45am HUNGARY v PORTUGAL Ch 120 (FC 3), 2.45am ITALY v BULGARIA Ch 21,2.45am ENGLAND v CROATIA Ch 24,2.55am Steven Gerrard (right) wants to avenge the 3-2 defeat by Croatia two
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      • 99 47 ESPN STAR Sports has re-branded and launched a new on-air presentation on all its networks. STAR Sports (Ch 24) has been re-branded with a new “circle” logo, and both ESPN (Ch 23) and STAR Sports have a new presentation, which includes bold colours and
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