The Straits Times, 19 January 2006

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  • 23 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 1 12 PXGES^TNFIVE PARTS MICA(P) 093/03/2005 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 2006 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 527 1  -  Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent FEW would have said it was possible last year, but car COE prices m all categories have now fallen below $10,000. One month ago, Certificate of Entitlements (COEs) for cars above 1,600 cc plunged to $9,001. At
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  • 723 1  -  Kwan Weng Kin 'Livedoor shoek 1 spooks investors; $486 b m shareholder value wiped out By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo FRESH allegations that one of Japan's high-profile Internet firms had cooked its books sparked an avalanche of sell orders on Tokyo's stock market yesterday,
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  • 178 1  - ST Index sheds 1 7 points THE nosedive m Japanese stock prices yesterday spilled over to drag down most bourses around Asia, including Singapore's. The Straits Times Index was down 17.66 points, or 0.74 per cent, to 2,359.3 at the close. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index fell 94.99
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1139 1  -  Zuraidah Ibrahim By Political Editor CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Need to prepare for a safe haj THREE hours after 364 people perished m the pandemonium while performing their haj rites last week, an entourage of 127 Singaporean pilgrims went to the
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    • 587 2 SECTION ONE GPs are trusted Prime 3-4 Doctor-hopping is not as Asia 6-19 widespread here as World 20-28 commonly believed. Review::.:::::::::: 29.31 surve^SECTION TWO Praise from scientists Home Hl-H6 £ir David Lane and his Forum H7 wife Birgitte, both Sports HB-Hll *?entists, say that hk UIO Singapore is moving UDituanes
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  • PRIME
    • 491 3  -  Nirmal Ghosh RAPE AND MURDER OF BRITISH TOURIST Brutality of crime on Koh Samui shocked society, says judge By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok DETERRENT SENTENCE "To prevent others from committing similar acts, the court rules that the two defendants be sentenced to death." IN A speedy trial
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    • 568 3  - Former TV actress gets jail for maid abuse Chong Chee Kin By FORMER television actress Gao Man Hua was jailed for eight weeks yesterday for abusing her maid m November 2004, but insisted she was not a bad employer. Gao, who made a name for herself by getting involved m
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    • 439 4  -  Krist Boo Sonia Tan Number of visitors, amount they spent and length of stay set new benchmarks By Bumper 2005 Tourist arrivals: 8.94 million (8.3 million m 2004) Tourist spending: $10.8 billion ($9.6 billion m 2004) From January to November 2005 Hotel occupancy: 84 per
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    • 269 4 THE blood bank needs donors urgently as its stocks run dangerously low. The bank currently has 500 units of blood left, enough for only 24 hours. Fewer than the expected number of donors have come forward to donate blood due to the
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    • 116 4 A section of the Kal-lang-Paya Lebar Expressway was filled with smoke yesterday to test the tunnel's ventilation and safety systems. The test allowed Land Transport Authority engineers to see if the smoke was channelled properly away from the tunnel escape route into a massive chimney known as
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    • 459 4  -  Krist Boo By THE Singapore Tourism Board has rejected suggestions that it imposed new requirements on casino bidders, a reason cited by property developer City Developments for its withdrawal from the race this week. STB said m an e-mail on Tuesday that
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    • 36 4 The bets are on <' C* j» Singapore tech stocks were notable laggards last year. But some market players are now taking a different view of the sector. China woman child roam streets here looking for him
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  • ASIA
    • 739 6  -  Chua Chin Hon Officials promise rigorous vetting process for doling out funds By China Bureau Chief In Beijing Key areas of focus PRIORITIES of the Beijing Declaration on bird fluj ►> Developing national action plans within the framework of the strategies
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    • 429 6 Rome WITH outbreaks of bird flu m Turkey, European countries should increase checks of airline passengers and their belongings to prevent the disease from spreading, says a United Nations official. "Europe m particular ought to step up m this type
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    • 791 6 UN System Coordinator: This is scary DAVID NABARRO WHO HE IS: Senior UN System Coordinator, Avian and Human Influenza WHAT HE DOES: The 56-year-old British physician launched the UN's efforts to counter a human flu pandemic late last year with a grave warning: A pandemic could sweep the
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    • BIRD FLU
      • 494 7 But new reports say Tamiflu, Relenza are not effective against bird flu SINGAPORE is expanding its stock of antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza even as latest reports show that neither is effective against bird flu. The Health Ministry expects to double its Tamiflu stock
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      • 483 7  -  Radha Basu By SINGAPORE-BASED medical diagnostics company Veredus Laboratories says it has come up with a bird flu test kit which can detect the disease m its very early stages when patients show no symptoms Sut are infectious. It says
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      • 126 7 BAGHDAD: Iraq was testing for the human strain of the deadly bird flu virus for the first time yesterday after a 14-year-old girl died of a fever m the Kurdish region close to the Turkish and Iranian borders. Health officials said Tijan Abdel-Qader, who died
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      • 121 7 BEIJING: A 35 -year-old woman m south-west China has died of bird flu, the sixth fatal victim of the HSNI virus m the country, the Health Ministry said yesterday. The woman, suraamed Wei, died m Sichuan province on Jan 11, the ministry said m
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      • 151 7 JAKARTA: An Indonesian man whose two children died of suspected bird flu has been hospitalised with symptoms of the virus, a Health Ministry official said yesterday. The 43-year-old was rushed to the Hasan Sadikin hospital m Bandung, West Java, yesterday with high fever and breathing
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      • 118 7 ANKARA: Turkey announced on Tuesday that another child had been diagnosed with bird flu, raising the number of human cases m the country to 21, including four teenagers already dead and a boy m worsening health. The Health Ministry identified the new case of
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    • 483 8 Official Opening of .^pS;iS^^fe^ c v- 19th January 2006 ESfe Guest- of -Honour ntrfjj^y^^^^P^ Vivian Balakrishnan gdjjoi tK* Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and _^_^_^T^^^^Jl tS^ Second Minister for Trade and Industry LL-^_-_i_l iii l I "^B I I f H I I S __P l i JH_H_
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  • CHINA
    • 393 9  - Tiananmen activists allowed to visit Zhao Ziyang' s home Chua Chin Hon By China Bureau Chief In Beijing IN A surprising turn of events on Tuesday, the first anniversary of the death of former Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, three prominent Tiananmen activists were allowed to pay their respects at
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    • 92 9 The Yellow River's waters have frozen and mounds of ice cover the courtyard of a restaurant near Hukou waterfall m northwestern China's Shaanxi province. The scenic tourist zone has been closed for 20 days and will only reopen to visitors at the end of March. China's second-longest
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    • 563 9  - China' s tsunami aid totals record $135 m Tracy Quek But it is less than donations by advanced nations; observers say Beijing can afford to give more By China Correspondent In Beijing CHINA last year made its largest humanitarian aid contribution ever, donating some 681 million yuan (Ssl3s million) m
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 564 11 THE LI VEDOOR SHOCK Bourse's early closing, disappointing results for Intel and Yahoo also spook punters Tokyo INVESTORS' panic selling, sparked largely by the so-called "Livedoor shock", yesterday made victims of a long list of In-ternet-related, technology and blue-chip stocks. The sheer
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    • 219 11 AN INVESTIGATION into Japanese Internet firm Livedoor may have put an end to the musical ambitions of its flamboyant president, Mr Takafumi Horie. The prospect that the T-shirt-clad entrepreneur may have to face the music from prosecutors looking into possible securities law violations means his
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    • 533 11 Tokyo About Livedoor It began m 1996 as Edge Corp, and was renamed after it acquired Internet provider Livedoor m 2002. It runs a very popular portal but has also diversified into DVD rentals and Internet telephony. Its main revenue is said
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    • 539 12  -  Lee Tee Jong Pledge comes as China, N. Korea confirm reclusive leader's visit By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul NORTH Korean leader Kirn Jong II focused on the sixway nuclear talks during his China visit as both countries yesterday finally confirmed his week-long trip.
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    • 148 12 LDP to push for changes to pacifist Constitution Tokyo JAPAN'S ruling party yesterday vowed to push forward proposed changes to the pacifist Constitution this year to give the country a military m name for the first time since World War 11. Premier Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), holding its
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 117 12 TAIPEI: Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian yesterday accepted an invitation from Libya to visit the African country m a move that is certain to upset China, which has diplomatic ties with Tripoli. The invitation was extended by Mr Seif AlIslam Gaddafi on behalf of his father,
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      • 96 12 BEIJING: Dozens of "energy police" will be deployed m Beijing to keep tabs on wasteful retailers and offices, a newspaper reported yesterday. Fines will be imposed on stores with temperatures set too cold during winter, as well as office complexes with lights switched on m
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      • 80 12 BANGKOK: The Thai Airways catering centre at the new Bangkok airport was damaged by a fire yesterday, officials said. The fire affected only "part of the airline food preparation department", said an airline spokesman. The blaze began m the three-storey building, which was 90 per
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      • 90 12 KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian minister and other critics have spoken up against the formation of a volunteer religious police force to deter so-called indecent behaviour among Muslims. Minister for Parliament Nazri Aziz said the Islamic Council Volunteer Squad "should not be m existence", and that the
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      • 90 12 KUALA LUMPUR: Budget carrier Air Asia tied up with a global travel distributor yesterday to sell its tickets for the first time through travel agents. The five-year-old Malaysian airline sells tickets directly to passengers via telephone reservations and Internet bookings. But the pact with US-based
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      • 78 12 KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Cabinet yesterday agreed to make public a special commission's report on a nude ear-squat incident. The Prime Minister's Office yesterday said the findings will be distributed to Members of Parliament and published as a public document. It said the Cabinet has noted
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 612 13 Otherwise it will take a decade to match China's per capita income now: Minister Tokyo INDIA needs another decade for its people's incomes to match those now m China, but it can speed up the process by weaning its massive farm population off
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    • 145 13  -  RAVI VELLOOR Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong was hosted to lunch by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday at Dr Singh's residence m New Delhi. Dr Singh had flown back to the Indian capital from a tour of the north-eastern state of Assam to meet Mr
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    • 317 13 Seizure of arms cache may have foiled terror strike Jammu (India) SECURITY forces have seized two weapons caches m India's portion of Kashmir, a haul that may have helped foil a terror strike ahead of India's Republic Day, the army said yesterday. Acting on intelligence, the army and police found
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    • 177 13 New Delhi INDIA told Pakistan to do more to end what it called terrorism m its northern state of Jammu and Kashmir at the end of two-day talks between foreign secretaries of the two countries yesterday. "It was conveyed m a friendly and frank
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 588 14  - Manhunt in Manila after jailbreak by 4 coup leaders Luz Baguioro Red faces m the military over second daring escape m just two months By Philippines Correspondent In Manila Previous escapes Dec 14, 2005: Marine captain Nicanor Faeldon fled after his security escorts allowed him to leave the courtroom to
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    • 360 14 Surat Thani (Thailand) A SWEDISH woman told police she had been raped by two Thai men m Koh Samui yesterday the same day that two local fishermen who raped and killed a British tourist on the same island were sentenced to death. The
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    • 247 14 Jakarta A LAW that bans any attempt to convert children to another religion will stay, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has ruled. The 2002 law was used to convict three Christian women who had invited Muslim youths to Sunday school. A nine-judge panel rejected an
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 333 19 Kuala Lumpur AN ELDERLY tycoon has sued his wife and four children for the control of a RMIOO million (5543.4 million) business, saying they drugged him before making him sign over the assets. Mr Loh Kirn Foh, 92, the founder of Lohman
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    • 521 19  -  Leslie Lau Pirated DVDs and equipment worth $1 6m seized m pre-CNY raids By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur OPERATION Big Broom, a massive sweep against movie pirates ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays, has led to the arrest of over 30 people and the
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    • 207 19 Kuala Lumpur A COURT has told a disgruntled car owner that he cannot chronicle the alleged defects of his Malaysian-made Perodua and his tirade against the carmaker on a personal website. In the first case of its kind m Malaysia, the Appeals Court on
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    • 170 19 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S opposition demanded yesterday that two top government officials explain their faulty claims that 130 Thai Muslims sheltering m the country had been sent home. Their comments had made the country a "laughing stock m Bangkok", it said. Law Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad
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  • WORLD
    • 944 20 Work starts on 4 -storey bridge in Mina HAJ STAMPEDE The $2.9 b project includes a system to warn of overcrowding Jeddah Averting another disaster THE Saudi authorities are taking steps to avert another stampede disaster during the annual haj pilgrimage. Building a new bridge The authorities will: Broaden bridge
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    • 563 22 Austria to chart new 'road map' for EU New president sees constitutional reform at heart of plan to revive bloc Strasbourg CHANCELLOR Wolfgang Schuessel of Austria vowed yesterday to draft a new "road map" for the embattled 25-nation European Union and take its institutional reform forward as the bloc struggles
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 106 22 WASHINGTON: The US military is investigating whether there is a common pattern m the loss of three helicopters over the past 10 days m Iraq that points to a new threat, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday. The head of the army's aviation centre has
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      • 126 22 CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida): An unmanned space mission set to lift off yesterday on a nineyear voyage to Pluto has been called off. Bad weather forced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) to cancel the launch. The launch of the New Horizons probe was scrubbed
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      • 109 22 JERUSALEM: Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert filled out his Cabinet yesterday, appointing members from his centrist Kadima party to top posts two weeks after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a stroke. In the most high-profile appointment, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, seen as a
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      • 105 22 LONDON: Two workers' unions threatened yesterday to stage a coordinated strike on the London Underground which could cause chaos for millions of commuters. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union and rail union Aslef said they would ballot their members over a strike following
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      • 130 22 PORTLAND: A US Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday may help turn a provincial law that allows euthanasia or assisted suicide into a national model. The 6-3 ruling which affirms that US states have the authority to regulate medical treatment of the terminally ill was
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    • 692 24  - A nuclear- equipped Iran will fire global arms race William Choong NEWS ANALYSIS Other perils include bids by US, Israel to reassert dominance m M-E By For The Straits Times In Canberra IF IRAN manages to defeat the world's efforts to stop it from producing a nuclear bomb, the knock-on
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    • 102 24 TEHERAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah AH Khamenei yesterday said the world could not deflect the country from "scientific developments". State television quoted him as saying: "The Islamic Republic, based on its principles, without being scared of the fuss created, will continue on its path of
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    • 69 24 MOSCOW: Senior Israeli security experts met Russian officials yesterday to discuss Iran's nuclear programme. The Israeli delegation, led by national security adviser Giora Eiland, held talks with Mr Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom, Interfax news agency reported. An Israeli
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    • 62 24 TEHERAN: Iran has signed a deal worth up to US$35 million (5557.5 million) with China Oilfield Services to drill m the Caspian Sea, said an executive of the North Drilling Co. The Chinese company will be paid to drill m the 700 m deep
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    • 100 24 BERLIN: Germany's Foreign Minister was heading to Cairo yesterday on the heels of a visit by US Vice-President Dick Cheney focused on Iran's nuclear programme. Though Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier's agenda has not been released, he is expected to bring up Iran's nuclear programme and the
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    • 277 24 Vienna IRAN'S top negotiator Ali Larijani met the UN nuclear chief secretly to lobby for help m avoiding measures over its nuclear programme, diplomats say. Mr Larijani met Mr Mohamed Elßaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) m Vienna on Sunday, the
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    • 870 25 Cabinet revolt likely as British PM moves to give security services more powers LONDON Big Brother Britain »CCTV Britain has a fifth of the world's CCTV cameras, and the average person is caught on film 300 times a day. Four million cameras
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    • 401 25 London BRITISH police have foiled a plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair's five-year-old son Leo. The Sun newspaper, citing an unnamed security source, said yesterday that fringe elements of a group which campaigns for the rights of divorced fathers had planned to snatch
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 374 28 Man gets back car after 40 years THE last time Mr Alan Poster saw his dream car, he was young and it was blue. Nearly four decades later, he is a little greyer and the car has turned silver. But it was love at first sight all over again as
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      • 111 28 SCIENTISTS may have found Ireland's most fertile male, whose descendants include over three million men worldwide. The scientists from Trinity College Dublin discovered that as many as one m 12 Irishmen could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a fifth-century
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      • 123 28 Uncle Tom's Cabin sold for 1.6 m THE original home of Josiah Henson, the model for Uncle Tom m Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 story of African-American slavery,' has been sold for US$l million (Ssl.6 million). The rustic log cabin m Bethesda, Maryland, was sold to a suburban Washington county, local
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      • 138 28 THE second wife of famed Chinese artist Chen Yifei is suing his family for the right to sell off a portion of his property, a newspaper reported yesterday. Chen left a multimillion-dollar fortune when he died suddenly last April at age 59, setting off
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    • 426 29 IRAN'S decision to break the seals at its main uranium enrichment facility, and to resume research on processing nuclear fuel, is unacceptable. The world's major powers must act m concert to bring Teheran to heel. The European Union and the United States have both urged
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    • 1228 29  -  Ong Soh Chin By Senior Writer NEED FOR BALANCE The expansion of the information highway is as inevitable as death and taxes. The sooner its users learn to strike a fine balance between vigilance and openness, the better. THAT cyberspace is free country is
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    • 799 29  -  Thomas L. Friedman By In Richardson (Texas) WHEN it comes to energy and the American people, Mr George W. Bush and Mr Dick Cheney are guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations. No one has lower expectations for the American people than a
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    • 1258 30  -  Amitav Acharya By For The Straits Times MOST analyses of Singapore's foreign policy rely heavily on concepts that speak to its size ("small state"), vulnerability ("survival"), and realpolitik mindset ("balance" or "balance of power"). To quote the late Professor Michael Leifer's book on the subject:
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    • 894 31  - Govts still have role in pensions J. Bradford DeLong By GUARDIAN OF ASSETS Workers and other asset holders place a very high value on safety, security and predictability, so a defined-benefit pension plan is extremely valuable. But m today's world, only national governments are large enough to be able to
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    • 221 29 Securing pensions With private firms backing away from defined-benefit pension plans, it is more vital now that governments offer them. PAGE 3I bTHE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1 000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http:/ /straitstimes.asial .com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice-President
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    • 8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2006
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    • 658 1  -  Daryl Loo Industrial accidents up by over 100 despite more safety checks; but fatality cases down By NO EXCUSES WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY "Employers will say things like they have very tight deadlines, or they have shortage of manpower." MOM INSPECTOR SEBASTIAN TAN,
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    • 406 2  - Here are their wishes for next Budget Erica Tay By TAX us less during lean years and help us cope with rising business costs, please. That was the call made by the local business community during a feedback session to sound out what they want from the upcoming Budget, expected
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    • 642 2  -  Lee Hui Chieh LIM SIAO JING •> SPH SURVEY ON HEALTH CARE Many trust family doctors to treat chronic illnesses, except life-threatening ones By DOCTOR-HOPPING is not as widespread here as commonly believed, going by a recent Singapore Press Holdings (SPH)
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    • 228 2 HOSPITALS have recently started a slew of chronic care programmes that rope m general practitioners (GPs) to take care of patients who are m stable condition. These programmes track the patients' progress under the GPs' care, allow patients access to hospital nurses for
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    • 391 2 MR JOHNNY Kao was assembling office furniture when he felt a tightening m his chest, followed by a shortness of breath. He was experiencing his first heart attack. "It felt like a thousand arrows shooting at my heart," said Mr Kao, describing
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    • 549 3  -  Chang Ai-Lien But Sir David Lane and wife uncertain if they will stay on after sabbatical By Science Correspondent THEY have nothing but praise for the way Singapore has built up its biomedical research capabilities. But Sir David Lane and his wife, Professor
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    • 442 3 SCOTLAND'S University of Dundee and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) yesterday signed a Memorandum Of Understanding to train PhD students m the biomedical sciences. The agreement will see PhD students spending about two years at A'Star's research institute and
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    • 327 3 WORKING m tandem, A*Star institutes at the research centre Biopolis have been making waves with their work on the key tumour suppressor gene p53, the most studied gene m the world. They have discovered that it is not only associated with
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    • 435 4  -  Goh Chin Lian By BUDGET airlines like Tiger Airways and Jetstar Asia wanting to fly to key cities m Indonesia will have to wait longer. There are no immediate plans to" open airports m Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan and Denpasar to foreign budget
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    • 494 4  -  Karamjit Kaur SIA-backed Tiger Airways ditches sister firm Sats r inks deal with Swissport By Aviation Correspondent TIGER Airways, the budgef airline backed by Singapore Airlines (SI A), pulled a surprise by dumping SIA subsidiary Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) and awarding its
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    • 553 4  -  KARAMJIT KAUR SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will continue to be among the world's top carriers as long as it continues to focus on its strengths, according to a new book launched yesterday. Written by three academics two from the National University
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    • 330 4  - Bid to defraud: architect to co-pay $lm K.C. VIJAYAN By Crime Correspondent TOP architect Timothy Scow and two others were ordered to pay about $1 million claimed by a designer for work done for his firm as well as for a judgment made against him seven years ago. The High
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    • 179 4 SIM Lian Land has been chosen to spearhead Singapore's first privately developed public housing. The HDB awarded the company a site to develop its pilot Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) flats. Sim Lian Land had submitted the highest tender bid
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    • 501 5  -  Zakir Hussain He wants to learn from Spores experience m communal harmony By EACH time there is an explosion on the streets of Israel, Ambassador Ali Yahya feels uneasy. Relations between Arabs and Jews freeze, suspicions heighten and it takes montns before feelings
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    • 120 5 Visiting Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Ignacio Walker met his Singapore counterpart, Mr George Yeo, yesterday for talks that included ways to work towards closer bilateral relations. Their meeting, on the second day of Mr Walker's two-day visit here, also covered topics such as regional cooperation and
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    • 333 5  -  By Vivi Zainol SINGAPORE is hoping to capture a bigger share of the lucrative Middle East trade by expanding its local halal food industry. The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) is working with the Economic Development Board, International Enterprise (IE) Singapore
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    • 476 6  -  Maria Almenoar Revamped support programme with five pupils to a teacher will help such kids catch up By SOME children entering Primary 1 cannot read even simple words like "cat" and "dog", while their classmates are able to construct entire
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    • 93 6 Long Service Medals for MOE officers A TOTAL of 428 officers from the Education Ministry (MOE) were yesterday awarded Long Service Medals. The officers from schools, MOE's headquarters and its statutory boards received their medals from Minister of State for Education and Manpower Gan Kirn Yong at the Grand Copthorne
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    • 368 6 GREAT HELP "It is a great resource for students and teachers, and very useful as an adaptation to existing lesson plans of teachers." MRS PATRICIA KHOR, level head of the General Paper department at Pioneer Junior College STUDENTS sweating over their General Paper exam
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    • 334 6 They did it lobsters bred in captivity EVERY other morning for the past two months, poly student Dilys Zhang washed and shelled mussels and, using tongs, fed them one at a time to lobsters m tanks. Miss Zhang, 18, is part of a group of 10 students and an adviser
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    • FORUM
      • 365 7 I REFER to the letters on politics m Singapore and the openness of Singapore society (ST, Jan 14). I take issue, m particular, with the views expressed by Mr Kenneth Tan Kok Chye ("Voting gives sense of ownership"). Firstly, he
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      • 332 7 I REFER to the letters, "Govt all for contests among serious candidates" by Mr Chen Hwai Liang, Press Secretary to Prime Minister, and "No such thing as a level playing field m politics" by Mr Anthony Oei (ST, Jan 14). I agree that
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      • 256 7 I REFER to the article, "Labour chief's call: Cut ElderShield premiums" (ST, Jan 18). After the opening of the Regional Seminar on Social Security on Tuesday, The Straits Times reporter asked National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) SecretaryGeneral Lim Boon Heng what
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        • 68 7 IT IS time to change all cred-it-card transactions to the "Chip Pin" system used m Britain. No more signing required; all the user has to do is key m his personal identification number. Transactions made over the phone require the mailing address of the credit
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        • 60 7 I AM delighted to learn that a feedback group on health matters has suggested the use of Medisave for costly outpatient treatment for chronic illnesses. I have female patients who had their face "rejuvenated" at XX Hospital using laser and intense pulsed light and the
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        • 33 7 IS THERE any regulatory body looking into the quality of pet food sold here? There were times when I found pet food infested with bugs. Edwin Teo SerHui
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      • 320 7 THERE have been numerous articles m the media proclaiming the progress that Singapore has made towards becoming a more open and inclusive society. However, as People's Action Party politicians continue to point out the need for certain controls over how "open" society
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      • 133 7 WHEN I heard American billionaire George Soros' discussion about "open societies", I was curious to know about his philosophical point of view. Does he really think that Singapore, a very young nation, can have the same level of freedom of expression as the United
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      • ISSUE OF DRAFT DODGERS
        • 106 7 INCREASING the punishment for dodging national service may have unintended consequences. Globally minded Singaporeans working abroad will be more tempted to register newborn boys as foreign citizens. Already parents have to post bonds with the Government for teenage sons to live or study
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        • 99 7 MINDEF should seriously consider allowing non-com-bat service for national-ser-vice defaulters who art past NS age. Not all full-time NS personnel are engaged m combat service; for example, some serve m clerical positions. As a Singaporean and one who had volunteered and served m
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        • 173 7 National service a universal obligation I REFER to Mr Pavin Limanont's letter, "Let those who intend to emigrate opt out of NS" (ST, Jan 18). All male Singaporeans are liable for national service (NS). This universal obligation to serve, including the appropriate way to deal with those who default, was
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      • 354 7 I REFER to the article, "Insurance policyholders may soon get to alter beneficiaries" (ST, Dec 8), and the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board's letter, "CPF nomination acts like a will, is cost-free" (ST, Nov 11). The proposed change will allow CPF members
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      • 237 8  -  ALVIN FOO SPORTS IN SCHOOLS NO FORMULAS, no templates, no racial quotas. Instead, what is needed to promote multi-racialism m schools via sports or co-curric-ular activities (CCAs) is an "intelligent eye within the school" and a quiet approach, said Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday.
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      • 309 8 ATHLETICS THE Singapore Athletic Association has formed an independent three-man disciplinary committee to investigate the 4x400-metre relay fiasco at the Singapore Open last September. It comprises lawyers Jeffrey Beh and Mohamed Muzammil and Singapore Sports Council official Mahipal Singh. Their task: To determine
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      • 823 8  -  Alvin Foo Education Minister wants schools to initiate COE, not Government By East Zone COE (Sports) Venue: Anglican High School Who's eligible: Students and teachers from East Zone schools Frequency: Once a week (Wednesdays) Eight other zonal COEs m the East Zone: Science and
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      • 467 8  -  Lin Xinyi By PAST and present national athletes gave the newly opened East Zone Centre of Excellence (Sports) at Anglican High a vote of confidence yesterday. So, too, principals and parents of the athletes. The COE, which is open to all students and
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      • 683 9 SOCCER His hat-trick helps the Championship side erase 0-2 deficit and beat West Brom London IF THIS was an audition for the Premiership, Reading passed m style. Fielding an under-strength side, the Championship club gave topflight West Bromwich Albion a twogoal start, then
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      • 623 9 Liverpool Mourinho. the mystic DIDIER Drogba has claimed that Jose Mourinho's "mystical" powers will make the Chelsea manager the new Muhammad Ali otworld sport. The Ivory Coast striker told The Minor: "He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved
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      • 399 9 London EVERTON manager David Moyes is ready to gamble on Tim Cahill, the midfielder who may be asked to play as striker. The club's forward options were diminished on Tuesday when Marcus Bent completed his £2.5 million (557.4 million) transfer to Charlton Athletic. That is
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      • 281 9 Depleted Wigan through London PAUL Jewell said that Leeds United's refusal to push back their FA Cup third-round replay by 24 hours focused the minds of his Wigan side before their 4-2 penalty shoot-out victory at Elland Road. His men thrice squandered a lead m a match that finished 3-3
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      • 753 10  - FA to blame for pandering to Eriksson Abdul Hafiz FAIR GAME After coach's latest foul-up f there are those who want to see action taken against him now By HOW the FA would love to gargle with Listerine and wash out the foul taste of Sven-Goran Eriksson. Too bad it
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      • 214 10 SOCCER Beijing CHINA'S top football official has vowed to shut down the domestic Super League if rampant match-fixing, gambling and bribery continues, state press said yesterday. "If order cannot be maintained, then we will stop play," head of the China Football Association, Xie Yalong,
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      • 243 10 Hanoi A SENIOR Vietnamese official spent US$l.B million (552.95 million) gambling on European football matches and the police are investigating whether the money came from government funds. Bui Tien Dung, general director of an infrastructure division under the Ministry of Transport, placed a series
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      • 714 10 London Arsenal will be richer next season ARSENAL'S managing director Keith Edelman says the club will enjoy the world's biggest gate receipts when their new Emirates Stadium opens next season. "That's because we'll have 60,000 fans, and we've got higher priced
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      • 335 10  -  Nicholas Fang SWIMMING By SINGAPORE swimmers will be aiming to peak for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games m March despite having the 7th Asian Swimming Championships right m their own backyard just a week before. The Asian Swimming Championships from March 5 to 10
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      • 717 11 TENNIS Melbourne Sharapova and Roddick? THERE may be a budding romance between tennis superstars Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick. The Melbourne Herald-Sun reported that the pair have been spending a lot of time together. She left the IMG player party early Sunday night to
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      • 456 11  -  Chan Vi Shen BADMINTON Ex-Indonesian national coach's appointment ends two-year search for Mulyo's replacement By THE Singapore Badminton Association has ended its two-year search for a men's singles coach with the appointment of Indonesia's former national coach Asep Suharno on Monday. The 37-year-old
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      • 238 11 Birmingham TOP seed Lin Dan of China had to battle for 80 minutes to secure his second-round spot at the All-England Championships yesterday. He was taken to the rubber by South Korean Jang Young Soo before winning 15-5, 9-15, 15-9. Compatriot Chen Hong, the
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      • 148 11 Miami FORMER tennis player Roscoe Tanner has been sentenced to two years m jail for violating his probation after a theft conviction. Tanner, 54, was sentenced to 10 years probation m 2003 for trying to pay for a boat with a worthless cheque. The American was
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      • 307 11 BASKETBALL Salt Lake City ANDREI Kirilenko spent much of the fourth quarter chasing his first career tri-ple-double and the first for the Utah Jazz since 1999. When he finally got it, Kirilenko celebrated with a quick fist pump. He finished with 18 points, 16 rebounds and
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      • HOME SPORTS
        • 104 11 SINGAPORE'S netballers completed their Australian tour with a 40-46 loss m their final game against the New South Wales Sports Institute m Sydney yesterday. The Singaporeans lost all four games m the six-day tour, two against New South Wales Sports Institute and two against New
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        • 88 11 SINGAPORE boat Team F5/Foxy Lady leads the competitive A Class of the Singapore Straits Regatta, which kicked off yesterday m the waters off Raffles Marina, Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, Riau Yacht Club and SAF Yacht Club. The boat, skippered by Bill Bremner, was second m
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      • 697 11 BADMINTON All-England Championships, Men's rd 1: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Jang Young Soo (Kor) 15-5 9-15 15-9. Bao Chunlai (Chn) bt John Moody (Nzl) 15-9 15-11, Chen Jin (Chn) bt Hafiz Hashim 17-14 15-5, Wong Choong Harm (Mas) bt Arvmd Bhat (Ind) 15-9 15-9, Shon Seung Mo (Kor) bt
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      • 441 12 McLaren have no respect for F1 MOTOR RACING Renault boss Briatore blasts rivals for the way they handled champion Alonso's switch Paris RENAULT boss Flavio Briatore said McLarenMercedes showed no respect m announcing the shock move of Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso from their team for 2007. "There was
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 79 12 DAKAR: Bolton Wanderers soccer striker El Hadji Diouf was fined US$9lB (551,505) by a Senegalese court on Tuesday for pushing the exwife of a teammate during a quarrel. Aichatou Ba, former wife of Diouf's Bolton colleague Khali lou Fadiga, had accused the Senegal striker of beating
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        • 74 12 STOCKHOLM: Saudi Arabia has backed down on barring women from attending an international football match against Sweden m Riyadh this week after its decision caused an uproar m the Scandinavian country. When questioned about the match m Parliament on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Lai la
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        • 48 12 HONOLULU: Three days after she missed the cut m golf's Sony Open, 16-year-old Michelle Wie made it through a test that really mattered. She passed her driving test on Tuesday. Her father B.J. Wie said: "She is a very happy girl." ASSOCIATED PRESS
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        1112 12 MDM CHAN SWEE LAN ft** passed away peacefully on 17.01.2006. Age: 83 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Leong Wing Siak, deceased) Sons: Daughter-in-law: Leone Chung Meng, David Ho Chwee Lin, William Ng Wee Daughters: Sons-in-law. (Leong Scow Kheng, (Tang Kok Choy, Shirley, deceased) James, deceased) Leong
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      • 540 14 IBM only one to top market forecasts; Asian tech stocks bear brunt of sell-down San Francisco WEAK SALES Intel, headed by Mr Otellini (left), forecast first-quarter revenue that was below Wall Street targets and said it had lost some of the market
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      • 307 14 New York GOOGLE is continuing to expand its advertising reach beyond the online world, agreeing to buy a company that automatically connects advertisers with radio stations. Google's purchase of dMarc Broadcasting, which could top US$l.2 billion (Ss2 billion), would be its
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      • 39 14 Yesterdays close: 15,481.21 (-94.99 points) Hong Kong stocks ended 0.61 percent lower, pressured by losses on Wall Street and m Tokyo that investors took as an excuse to lock m profits from recent gains. REUTERS
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      • 36 14 Yesterday's close. 15,341.18 (-464.77 points) A stampede of sell orders forced the world's secondbiggest exchange to shut down as investors fled, spooked by the fallout from a probe into Internet firm Livedoor. REUTERS
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      • 37 14 Yesterday's close 4,786.9 (-79.2 points) >» Australian stocks finished 1.63 percent weaker, as a massive sell off m Tokyo sparked heavy losses m the region, with local investors taking profits after a record-breaking run. AFP
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      • 32 14 Yesterday's close: 1,233.35 (+24.91 points) Chinese share prices closed broadly higher, adding 1.98 per cent on inflows of fresh capital with heavyweight telecoms and banking issues driven up. AFP
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      • 37 14 Yesterday's close. 901.32 (-6.2 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.68 per cent lower, m line with the region, after the Japanese market tumbled. Volume was 599.25 million shares, worth RM729.27 million (Ss3 l7 million). AFP
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      • 34 14 Yesterday's close: 1,193.19 (-19.67 points) Indonesian stocks finished 1.62 per cent weaker, as a sharp drop m Tokyo's Nikkei average and rising oil prices sparked extended profit-taking m blue chips. AFP
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      • 131 14 Hong Kong CHINA'S Internet users prefer Google, the US online search company, to its homegrown rival Baidu.com, according to a survey unveiled yesterday. Online business consultancy Keynote Systems said its survey, which had hundreds of users separately try a number of searches using each
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      • 378 15 London IT WAS a phrase short of an exhortation against "irrational exuberance", but a warning by Bank of England governor Mervyn King about asset price inflation has nonetheless raised a few eyebrows. In a speech to a provincial business group on Monday, the
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      • 381 15 Demand set to rise; world has limited ability to pump extra oil, warns lEA Militants m Nigeria's oil-rich delta have threatened to stage more attacks and use more aggressive tactics against oil workers. OIL climbed to its highest level m
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      • 510 16 Aussie regulator blocks logistics takeover This thwarts Toll's hostile $5.7 b bid to acquire rival Patrick, to create the world's fourth-biggest transport group Sydney IN A surprise move, Australia's competition watchdog has blocked Toll Holdings' A54.6 billion (555.7 billion) takeover bid for domestic rival Patrick Corp, thwarting a hostile move
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      • 245 16 New York THE seven- week bidding war for Guidant, the medical device maker, took yet another unexpected twist on Tuesday as Boston Scientific, with financial help from Abbott Laboratories, made a bold US$27 billion (Ss44 billion) bid. The offer, at US$BO a share, proved
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      • 454 17 It could not agree on terms with Bank Mandiri, leaving Unifiber m running Jakarta Mr Putra Sampoerna's family rejected a request by creditor Bank Mandiri to reconsider its decision INDONESIA'S Sampoerna family withdrew its bid to buy Kiani Kertas because it could
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      • 126 17 Bangkok THAILAND'S Shin Corp is expected to file a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand tomorrow to announce its stake sale to Temasek Holdings, reported Dow Jones (DJ) Newswires, quoting a Thai newspaper. The Prachachat Business newspaper, quoting sources close to Thai
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      • 382 18  - Amberville sold en bloc for $183 m Joyce Teo By Property Correspondent AMBERVILLE was snapped up yesterday for the bumper price of $183 million and m the process became the first former HUDC estate to be sold collectively. Its 168 owners have plenty to celebrate. The price exceeded their reserve
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      • 399 18  -  Erica Tay By SINGAPORE'S maze-like industrial plants are the last place you would expect to find glamorous TV stars until now. Actress Fiona Xie, actor Ix Shen and other "hip" artistes can be seen traipsing around aircraft hangars and petrochemical plants, all
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      • 388 19  -  Gabriel Chen By MOBILE operator Ml signed up a raft of new subscribers over 2005 to help drive its fullyear net profit up 4.6 per cent to $161 million. Operating revenues rose 3.6 per cent to $773.8 million, while investors can cheer
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      • 322 19  -  Lee Su Shyan By THE former managers of two Nokia cellphone customer centres, run by scandal-hit Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS), yesterday became the first two to be punished m the courts out of 12 people charged. ACCS hit the headlines
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      • 423 19  -  GOH ENG Yeow TAKING STOCK By HOPES of a pre-Chinese New Year rally have all but evaporated as a "perfect storm" struck yesterday and sent investors scurrying for cover. A rise m crude oil futures and disappointing results from technology giants Intel and
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    • 8 1 Life! THE STRAITS TIMES Thursday January 19 2006
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      • 266 2 DOGS are said to be a man's best friend, and Singapore celebrities can go barking mad over their canine pals. For example, actor Thomas Ong does not remember his mother's birthday but organises birthday parties for his schnauzer, Toto, while Singapore Idol finalist Maia Lee bathes,
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      • 268 2 HONG KONG Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai will play the late Beijing opera star Mci Lanfang m an upcoming movie directed by Stanley Kwan, a news report said on Wednesday. "This is a new challenge for Leung. He has won
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      • 100 2 TAIPEI Taiwanese TV funny girl Dee Hsu is now a mother. The host of Mr Con And Ms Csi gave birth to a girl on Monday. Her husband of four months, businessman Mike Hsu, and her elder sister, actress Barbie Hsu, were both by her
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      • 108 2 BERLIN The jury of next month's Berlin Film Festival will include a Korean actress, a Bollywood producer and the husband of Iceland's pop pixie Bjork. organisers said. The 56th Berlinale, which had named British actress Charlotte Rampling as jury chairman, said South Korea's Lee Young Ac
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      • 79 2 TAIWAN'S Queen Of Hats is returning to Singapore for a concert. In 2004, singer Fong Fei-fei performed at a sold-out concert m celebration of her 35 years m show business. On April 8, the diva will be back at the Singapore Indoor Stadium singing
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      • 94 2 SHANGHAI Hollywood's Memoirs Of A Geisha has China censors stumped, with officials and state press saying the film may be banned due to concerns that it could rouse anti-Japanese sentiments. State newspapers said the movie was scheduled for general release today but had now been scrapped.
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      • 99 2 LOS ANGELES An online casino has a piece of Captain Kirk. Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for U5525,000 (S$40,800), with the money going to a housing charity. He reached an agreement on Monday to sell the stone to Golden Palace.com, known for
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    • 245 3 WHEN the original deadline came and went on Monday, only 19 nominations had been received for this year's Cultural Medallion and Young Artist Awards. In the hope of netting more nominations, the National Arts Council (NAC) has extended the deadline by a week, that is, from
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      • 594 6  -  Clara Chow Han Sai Por shows her dark side m her latest exhibition ART OASIS Han Sai Por Sculpture Square ARTS CORRESPONDENT SINGAPOREAN sculptor Han Sai Por's latest solo exhibition at Sculpture Square may bear the calm title of Oasis, but there is something vaguely troubling
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      • 384 6  -  June Cheong ARTS REPORTER NINE- YEAR-OLD Kasturi Gnanachejaran has plucked at the veena for only seven months, but is already giving her first public performance on the ancient Indian stringed instrument on Sunday. The giggly Primary 4 student of St Margaret's says m a hush-hush manner:
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    • 682 10 KELLOCK LODGE <f> River Valley. 2 rms with attached bath. 900 sqft. F/furn. Aircon. Pool/ sauna. High fir. $2K. Francis *****822 CAIRNHILL PLAZA. 3BED 3-bath. Huge living. Fully renovated furn. High fir. View of Orchard. MRT/ amenities. 9088-8817 isHi VALLEY PK 3 bdrms. 1356 sq.ft. Pool facing. Nicely furn. Near
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    • 923 10 ■k DO9- 10 ORCHARD/ L^J TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-RENT GRANGEFORD NEWLY RENOVATED 1750 sqft. Face greenery. 3+l rms. $5.2 K. Agt 9636-3072 D.lO TESSARINA. 2+l. 1033 sq.ft High fir. Tastefully furn. Full facilities. Avail mid Jan. 9748 1068 D.9 FURAMA TWR. Near MRT. 2 bdrms. Nice view. S/pool. Well Furn. $2500.
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    • 537 10 Wk Dl2-14BALESTIER/ LLLJ MACPHERSON/GEYLANG WW PTEAPTS-RENT D.12 MOONSTONE APTS 21 3 bdrm apt, unfurn, convenient. Rent from $1200. Tel: 6337-2165 D.14 ATHENA VILLE, Lorong 29 Geylang, brand new 2/ 3 hdrm apt. unfurn. Tel: 6337-2165 B)Dj5-1 6 EAST COAST •2/3+ l rms (947 1 582 sq ft) Walking distance to
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    • 936 13 ©HDB APTS FOR SALE (ANGMOKIO) 4'NG'+l Blk 131. High fir. Unblocked. Cosy. Windy. 100% renovated. Near amenities/ MRT/ Sch SSS neg. Call Derwin *****577 CHEAP BELOW VALUE Ist owner #15 Point Blk 552. Suntec view. Near MRT. S32OK up! 9857-6686 NEW LIST! 3 'NG' Blk 112 AMK Aye 4. Mid
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      • 463 2 JNDEX MUST LOVE DOGS .^tffJJN^^ 7 The Chinese Year of the Dog is coming up. Find out what Singapore celebrities have to say about their pet pooches. Mak Mun San, Benson Ang and Ong Su Bin report CAR BRANDS GEAR UP FOR FASHION 1 6 Can't afford the car? Wear
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    • 202 5  -  Benson Ang These people were spotted at The Sky Symphony Countdown: Canon Countdown Party on New Years Eve. Who: Derrick Wong, 22, NUS undergraduate Wearing: My black shirt ($7O) is from Topman and my white T-shirt belongs to my brother. My shoes ($2O) were bought torn a roadside
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      208 6 WHAT HE WANTS 1 You can't tee-off in the office but you can wear golf bails on your wrist. Silver-plated golf ball cuff links, $28, from I.Con, 1 77 Toa Payoh Central 01 -1 20 and Isetan Scotts, Level 4. 2 Italian watchmaker Police's sporty Navy chronograph is perfect for
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      • 385 8 Actor Thomas Ong's salt and pepper male miniature schnauzer has been with him since 2002. But Ong, 37, who also runs Lin^ Station, a gift store m Chinatown Point, admits he is not a very good Daddy to the three-year-old canine because of his frequent work
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      • 382 10 FM93.3 Radio DJ Urn Pei Fen, 24, has a black and white shih tzu, Yuan Yuan. And he looks just like its name (Yuan means "round" m Chinese). The two-year-old male canine is "a very greedy dog. He eats everything from apples and carrots
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      • 226 10 MediaCorp artiste Huang Hui, 26, has a Pekinese, Bobby, 15. Born on Valentine's Day, he was given to her by her father's friend. Similarities between her and her dog: We're both very independent and we like to do things our wa^" cioesn/t like ne won't do
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      286 11 HAUTE DOG V A /I I II I Why should you be the only one getting I IT new threads this new year? ONG SU BIN shows you how to dress up your doggie aris Hilton does it. So does MediaCorp J artiste Huang Hui. Celebrities have taken to ■—S
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        187 21  - RADISH HUE Tan Hsueh Yun 11 N Vw/OI I tis quite possible to make a light lunch out be perfectly content Just looking at it makes me hungry the snowy white savoury cake is studded on the inside with dried shrimps and pieces of lap chopped fresh chillies and spring
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        134 21 long, snaking lines for bak kwa at Lim Chee Guan m Chinatown m horror. But here's a classier, less strenuous alternative. Get one of these gorgeous boxes of what Tung Lok calls jerky and we call bak kwa and stay cool and collected this Chinese New Year. They
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