The Straits Times, 13 December 2006

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  • 27 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 3 P KGES l\ FIX E PARTS MICA (P) 219/03/2006 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 2006 ••T A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 498 1  -  Lynn Lee Suspension of fee hikes underscores its pledge to offset burden of higher GST B\ cb and aeivkes tax v n Singaporean famnI not worry about having to r their children's es Jso not have to pay mor. if F\ and radio
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  • 109 1 GOVERNMENT tees will be g yew when the S I bike kicks m. For a typical tamily. the H fee BSt includes": OB carpark charges fox primary and schools. Millennia junior colleges and Stitutt A Technical .:u>n Radio TV licences ition fees tor birth certilicates and
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  • 530 1  -  Ben Nadarajan Khushwant Singh By TWO kidnapped Singaporeans, held captive m a tiny room m a Johor forest for four days, were freed on Sunday night after their families coughed up RM2.5 million (Ssl.oB million) m ransom. Malaysian police are now on
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  • UPFRONT
    • 919 1  - Historic buildings no bar to progress Kannan Chandran By THE recent rush to snap up units at the Grand Duchess at St Patrick's condominium m Katong made Dr Kelvin Tan smile. The president of the Singapore Heritage Society is convinced that the property's refurbished colonial villas, previously owned by the
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  • UPFRONT
    • IN A FLASH
      • 12 2 Prime 2-4 Asia 6-15 World 18-25 Review 26-28 FYI 29
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      • 19 2 Home Hl-H8 Forum H9 Sports HlO-Hl5 Obituaries Hl5-Hl6 Money Hl7-H24 LIFE! Movies L2-L5 Events TV L 9
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      • 18 2 Haze deal stalled Indonesia's plans to ratify the Asean haze deal is mired m parliamentary red tape.
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      • 22 2 Gaza tensions Rival Palestinian factions clash, a day after gunmen killed three young children of a senior Fatah official. PAGE 18
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      • 40 2 Aeeh's transition Aceh's transition after the peace agreement has been encouraging, marked by its first direct election. But nothing can be assumed. The peace has to be worked at by both the province and the central government. PAGE 26
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      • 21 2 Dirty bomb fears The death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has raised security fears about radiological terrorism. PAGE 28
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      • 30 2 Penal Code feedback Feedback from more than 250 people on proposed changes to the Penal Code is focused on sex laws involving marital rape and gay sex. PAGE H2
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      • 18 2 Back to basics Chelsea may go back to its 4-3-3 line-up which worked against Arsenal. PAGE Hl4
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      • 16 2 Changi's Mid-East win Changi Airports bags a deal to manage Abu Dhabi Airport PAGE H24
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      • 196 2 The Review article. "The bait has been cast.. .Will the Middle East bite?", by Karyn Wang (ST, Dec 9), stated that: "At the institutional level. Singapore and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are set to initiate negotiations for a free trade agreement, while free trade
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  • PRIME
    • 504 3  -  Tisch School of the Arts will offer master's program nie m film production ft Sandra Davie Education Correspondent THE wo: Id famous Tisch School oi (shas decided to open i cams gapore, pu>hing the coun--sg] I Status 89 an education centre a
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    • 349 3 GOLD NO. 7 SINGAPORE'S sailors continued to plunder Asian Games gold medals by hauling m another yesterday. They won their fourth gold when Maximilian Soh, 18, clinched the Laser class. And the good news is that there could be
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    • 18 3 PARLIAMENT will sit on Mon day, Jan 22 at 1.30pm, the Clerk of Parliament announced yesterday.
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    • 181 5 Mi mphis Pennbsseb) H "lizzie" Bolden, sed .m the world's oldH person, has died a] the age oi 116. The administTatoi ol the Memphis nursing home where she d\t\\ on Monday. Ms Bokten was born on Aug coitfing to the Geronirch Group, a Los
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    • 579 5 Prominent clerics call for worldwide Sunni backing against majority Shi'ites m divided Iraq Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) A GROUP of more than 30 prominent clerics from Saudi Arabia has called on Sunni Muslims worldwide to mobilise themselves against the Shi'ites m Iraq, which
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  • ASIA
    • 657 6  -  Devi Asmarani Parliament sets up team to study pact, which could delay its ratification By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta INDONESIA'S plans to ratify the Asean haze agreement have become caught m a parliamentary maze. Officials, however, are pledging that they will keep up
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    • 567 6 Lark XI polls unlikely' Malaysian PM Abdullah Badawi says he probably will not hold an election before 2006 as lie needs more time to fight graft, PAGE 15 '|ultuic.i..HtlHncu V I %0 WmWto^& Built-in Hob m With our WIDEST selection of cut-out sizes, 9 were sure c y° ur 'd
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  • CHINA
    • 659 7 two sides spar as ley prepare to begin their first strategic economic dialogue Beijing efim I'S-Chinastra-rauc dialogue which kicks oft tomorrow, both countries putting their own spin on their fraught trade tics American officials ha\e anking up the pressure on
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    • 307 7 Brussels THE European Union has elevated its "maturing" relations with China to a strategic partnership, say ing that China's phenomenal economic growth is driving a revamp of trade and other relations Foreign ministers of the bloc issued a declaration on Monday raising relations with
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    • 274 8 sm \m.h.\i FIRE-BRE \THINC. monster m natural sj mbol ol harmor nesc culture mavens. b) the Western lm--4 the (bason as a terrifying earning monster, Vpnc China to seek a less mdatmg national symbol. .;!1 has provoked ad©- the issue. latest brouhaha arose newspaper,
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    • 616 8  - Rising number of elderly worries China Chua Chin Hon Study warns of crisis when the number of dependants exceeds the working population By China Bureau Chief In Beijing CHINA has about 25 years to address an impending demographic crisis fuelled by over-pop-ulation and an expected peak m the number of
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 493 9  -  Kwan Weng Kin PM Singh's visit will help two nations to forge closer political and economic ties By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Japan this week at a time when both countries find themselves more
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    • 173 9 N. Korea confirms it will attend six- party talks s t oui :TH Korean ofi iaJ yesterday confirmed is country pationin the six-party talks dim leai weapons pro--5 a itious o\ a the prospects. i \lvoiil: Gil, an Stei foi North Koo the I I Nations, did not give yiog
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    • 236 9 Hi IJING b lanketed Beijing and other part* China yesterday, worsening mt pollution m the capital and disrupting air and hi^hw a\ travel across the region Be. ng pollution index reached hazardous levels :.akmg it the city's most polluts the Xinhua news
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    • 247 10 China to install liquid scanners at all airports Beijing CHINA will introduce special machines at its 147 civil airports to spot liquid explosives, part of measures to protect travellers during the 2008 Olympics from terror attacks. Described by its Chinese maker Nuctech as the world's most sophisticated scanners, the newly
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    • 600 10  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Failure by Ma's party to capture Kaohsiung m mayoral polls casts doubt on leadership By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei FOR a long while, it seemed that nothing could stop the march of Taiwan opposition chief Ma Ying-jeou to the island's presided
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 581 11  -  Ravi Velloor It says Washington has agreed not to add conditions >eyond those known Bi Bureau t-" :.v Mem Db hi government sought to tka ot '.he nuclear coition deal taking shape with Si Ites, saving it had assurances it would acid no
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    • 213 11 Mumbai FHh police force m India's largest city. Mumtaa 50 many two-tim-mg officers that the) h asked to nomiM fa tarmlv should inherit t: cii pension if they die m the line oJ dutas been observed that settlement of dues gets delayed due to policemen
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  • SOUTH EAST ASIA
    • 132 12 Prince Norodom stripped of parliament seat hi\oM Penh CAMBODIA'S parliament yesterday ped Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the i.ier ot the kingdom's royalist par- -.if The mo\ c came two months after the royalist l-'uncmpec kicked out the prince, who baa beea hounded by allegations of adultery lot months. I as later
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    • 558 12  - Ex-rebels set to be winners in Aceh elections Azhar Ghani NEWS ANALYSIS Their strong showing bode> well for their chances m the 2009 legislative polls BY Indonesia Bureau Chief In Ban da Aci h HAVING traded bullets for ballots, the formei separatist rebels of Indonesia's once war-lorn Aceh province look
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    • 80 12 Bangkok A FORMER maid of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party leader confessed to stealing about U5525,000 (5538,500) from him, which she spent on luxury goods, police said yesterday Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva reported to police last month that money was mysteriously onppeai ing from his bank account.
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    • 526 14  -  Alastair Mclndoe Church plays major role m blocking lawmakers' demand for charter change By Philippines Correspondent In Manila WRONG TIME FOR CHANGE "There are more pressing matters like poverty." MONSIGNOR PEDRO QUITORIO, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines spokesman THE Catholic Church m the
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 116 14 BANGKOK: Geologists have discovered lour mud volcanoes off Thailand's Andaman coast. raising the possibility of an oil deposit m the kingdom, a Thai scientist said yesterday The mud volcanoes the first of then kind discovered m Thailand were found during I joint survey by Bangkok's
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      • 111 14 BEIJING: China's government is drafting rules to promote official transparency, including releasing currently confidential commercial information. Proposed freedom-of-information regulations will fully ensure citizens' right to know under the precondition of protecting state secrets", the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. It did not say when
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      • 99 14 BEIJING: China's Communist Party has ex pelled the sacked vice-mayor of Beijing who oversaw Olympic construction projects and handed him over to prosecutors on bribery and other charges, state television said yesterday Liv Zhinua, who was fired suddenly m June for unspecified corrupt acts, "took several
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      • 102 14 COLOMBO: The situation m Sn Lanka's volatile east is "alarming", European monitors overseeing the country's fragile truce said yesterday and called for an immediate end to the violence "The violence does not only put the ceasefire agreement into great danger, out jeopardises the lives of
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 663 15 Premier wants more time to fight corruption and shore up support KU \L\ 1 UMPUF VYSI Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said be probably will not bold an J B giving li more time to battle corruption and mustei support i Darul 67, said
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    • 145 15 ku \i Lumpur V: R Malaysian prime minister Mahathir amad is lo meet his old foe, US billionaire and philanthropist George Soros, who will visit the country this week Tun I Mahathir, who m 1997 referred to Mr S sasa noran", blamed him for
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    • 95 15 Kuala Lumpur MA] SIA'S a c .ommercial satellite operalauncheu its third satellite yesterday m what a ledared was *i landmark effort mtry's communications reach. Deputy Prime Ministei Najib Razak and other dig watched a live video feed of a the Measat-3 satellite blasting DD
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    • 77 15 In a send-off steeped m colour and tradition, Malaysia's 12th king, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, bids goodbye to officials at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport before boarding a flight to Perlis, his home state. Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin stepped down yesterday after a five-year reign as king. The country
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  • WORLD
    • 569 18 Killing of Fatah official's sons could ignite Gaza civil war The attack came just a day after gunmen shot at a convoy of a Hamas minister, who escaped harm FATAH'S WARNING "If the criminals are not brought to justice, then Fatah will deal with the situation." FATAH MP MOHAMMED DAHLAN
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    • 239 18 WHILE Monday's killings were the first to target children, Gaza is plagued by political assassinations amid the Hamas-Fatah power struggle. Here are some of the more prominent murders and attempted assassinations of recent months: Nov 22: Mr Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a
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    • 486 19  - Annan slams US military action in Iraq Betsy Pisik He says the US has undermined its credibility and needs to observe international norms By .v Straits Tirtw\ i S Bureau I\ New York NTTED Nations Secretary-General Kofi An•..cised the US government's military Iraq, telling an audience of American tsthai Washington
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    • 194 19 Washington •1 srisal, Saudi Arabia's Ambasted States, has left Washington lbruptly. s fficials and foreign envoys. Tne\ said I informed US Secretary of Coodoleezza Rice ana his staff that he lea^ ing p° st aftei only 15 months If BTted .uthDut the
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    • 343 19 Baghdad A BOMB exploded yesterday outside Iraq's famed golden-domed Shi'ite mosque m Samarra, site of a February bomb attack that sparked nationwide civil strife. The bomb, found outside the mosque entrance m a routine police patrol, went off while a US army bomb
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    • 544 20 But Israeli PM's office denies his comment confirms nation has nukes It RUSALEM THE Israeli media las played b) Kraeh Prime id Olmert on the subject of nuclear jMBMB, saving that tor the first time an Israeli premie] baa abandoned thep ambiguity and
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    • 387 20 Small N-war 'could destroy environment' San Francisco SOME of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear wai would devastate the global environment Using modern climate and population models, researchers estimated that
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    • 197 20 Brussels EUROPEAN Union foreign ministers have agreed on a partial freeze of Turkey's EU membership talks m a move to penalise Ankara for not normalising trade with Cyprus. But they also stressed there should be no breakdown m talks with the EU's biggest and
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    • 431 21 They heckle Iranian leader at university before being silenced by his supporters IEHERAN1 EHERAN DR \\i rtudwrti have staged a rare p ttesi against President Mahmoad Ahmadinejad. calling dictator" and burning his photon "aph aa he delivered a speech at their uni\ ersitv on Monday
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    • 348 22 Scientists say global warming may cause ice to start melting 4 times faster soon Toronto GLOBAL warming could leave the Arctic without ice during the summer by as early as 2040, according to a team of US and Canadian scientists.
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 124 22 SANTIAGO: Ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was set to be cremated yesterday after a funeral at the military college m Santiago where he began a career that made him infamous Some 3,000 relatives, friends and top Chilean military officers were expected to pack a patio on
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      • 72 22 KANDAHAR: A suicide bomber blew himseli up at the governor's compound m Afghanistan's Helmand province yesterday, killing eight people, including a district chief, officials said. Governor Mohammed Daud was inside his office m the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah at the time of the
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      • 91 22 CEUTA: Spanish police have arrested 11 suspected Islamic militants m a raid on a poor neighbourhood m Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, the government said yesterday. The detainees included two brothers of Hamed Abderrahaman Ahmed, a Spaniard who spent two years m US detention m
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      • 103 22 VENT A DE BRAVO: Mexico's newly sworn-in President has sent more than 6,500 soldiers, sailors and federal police to violence-plagued Michoacan state to crack down on drug turf wars that have left hundreds dead. Mr Felipe Calderon took office on Dec 1 pledging a "battle"
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      • 115 22 MOSCOW: Russia's Prime Minister has described the influx of illegal immigrants as a threat to the country's national security. "The problem of illegal migrants m our country causes serious concern, or to be more precise, causes a threat to national security." Prime Minister Mikhail
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    • 427 23 media > calling the the "Suffolk md, according to one media report, he or she may hai c been on the irl since L 992 Beside?* the five luswkh, police tokmgmto five the Easl An^fia dating to l^ g 2 to the\ could all
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    • 350 23 Moscow INVESTIGATORS here have questioned a key witness m the radioactive poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, as four more possible victims of contamination were hospitalised for tests this time m Germany. The latest potential victims of radioactive polonium-210 were
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    • 481 23 'olice believe the killer is targeting prostitutes after Finding bodies of five women London BRITISH police tear that a serial killer is on the loose following the discovery of the corpses of a omen m recent days. tectives believe their murderer is a serial
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    • 149 24 Canberra BUSHFIRES burned across four Australian states yesterday, destroying houses and blackening an area larger than Luxembourg, with one major fire front stretching 250 km. A fire on the southern island state of Tasmania struck the east coast town of Scamander, destroying 18 houses,
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    • 621 24  -  Roger Maynard Australian PM makes call as he defends a new citizenship test for immigrant By Australia Correspondent In Sydney A DAY after announcing a new language and cultural test for migrants who wish to become citizens, Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday flagged
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    • 445 25 VNII 1 Kerner's parents i the experimental brain was risky, but without it the six-year-old would suretie Last month m Portland. Orcton tor the first time Qted stem cells from led foetuses into hi> head -aerate bid to reverse. leas! slow, a rare BtnCtk
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    • 160 25 tenoi Roberto Abgna >tormed off s( iftei be was booed m the middle of a pi ance ai Milan's La Scab opera boose. His c\u on Sunday forced a ooshnnek SS I Stitute to replace him and drew critkisin brom organisers. There ha-
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    • 401 26 An transition from maverick provi responsible stakerin the Indonesian repubchedanother milestone with Montirect local elections. The good cent m trouble-free provincial governor, spoke of tl mciliatory spirit which ncu tsiblek n-'s peace deal heD the central government and the Free Aceh Mo\ ement (GAM) to end
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    • 1953 26  -  John R. Bradley By Senior Writer In Cairo The shadow of the law UNLIKE its relationship with state-affiliated newspapers, the government does not have the power to assign and remove the editors m charge of independent publications but it does control the licensing process, and
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    • 1261 27  -  Edmund W. Sim Bi For The Straits Times I European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has initiated two policy thai signal a potential shift m its trade aa ipeD as illuminate the major disagreeBrussels over how to deal with
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    • 1696 28  -  Michael Richardson By F or The Straits Times AS BRITISH investigators follow the murky trail linking the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko to the deadly poison polonium-210, renewed international scrutiny is being focused on the black market trade m radioactive materials. In
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  • SPORTS HOME
    • 16 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 2006 SPORTS THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 2006
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    • 561 1  -  JOHOR CRIME, SINGAPOREAN VICTIM #1 That could be a reason culprits have escaped arrest, a retired cop suggested H\ Khumiwant Singh Tracy Sua ,v SOI he kidnappers of two gaporeans remain at large could be that Malaysian police have been informed
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    • 316 1  -  TEH JOO LIN JOHOR CRIME, SINGAPOREAN VICTIM #2 A SINGAPOREAN man on his way to a money changer m Johor suffered severe cuts when he was attacked by two parang-wielding men m a carpark early on Monday afternoon. He was with a Malaysian couple
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    • HOME
      • 795 2  -  Ben Nadarajan PROPOSED PENAL CODE CHANGES Marital rape law reforms inadequate, say some, continued outlawing of gay sex also questioned B\ PROTECTING WIVES ONE of the main contentions was the "inadequate" changes to marital rape laws. Currently, a husband cannot be charged with raping his
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      • 458 2  -  K.C. VIJAYAN By A LAWYER has called for more adult offenders to be considered for probation rather than being sent to jail. Writing m the latest issue of the Law Gazette, former deputy public prosecutor Thomas Koshy suggested that probation be made available for selected offences
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      • 492 3  -  Tania Tan KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA: SPREAD OF BIRD FLU VIRUS 3ne expert believes so r saying it is a 'statistical probability 1 but there is no need to panic H\ IST-SPR] VDING version of the HSNI bird tlu virna aMe to mmp fm human to human ahead)
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      • 192 3 WHILK birds may be commonly seen as a dangerous problem regarding bird flu, their mammalian counterparts are playing a crucial role m the solution. Scientists aiound the world are finding tests performed on animal models invaluable, said Dr Ron A.M. Fouchier of
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      • 310 3  -  Judith Tan 1^ S Pgapore Heart Foundation (SHF) is set- series oi awareness programmes to adesa a disturbing lack ol understanding about roMems, particularly among older peo- s\\\ survey ol 2.5 C >4 people aged 21 and carried out IB September, found wide-
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      • 108 3 ASTHMA is a chronic disease that at fects the airways, causing the inside walls to be inflamed. Sufferers wheeze, cough and have trouble breathing. Some 300 million people sutki from asthma. And like other chronic conditions, it cannot be cured Managed properly, asthma can be
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      • 567 4  -  Selina Lum In dispute are two semi-detached houses and Hougang apartment By YET another case of family fighting m court over assets has surfaced. In the latest case, two brothers are locked m a string of legal spats with their stepmother, the third wife
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      • CASE FILE
        • 51 4 THE proprietor of a coffee shop at Syed Alwi Road discovered on Sunday morning that $17,000 he had locked m a drawer after midnight had been stolen. The metal lock had been tampered with and police believe the thief had entered through a hole m the
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        • 81 4 POLICE are seeking relatives of three elderly residents of homes for the aged, who have died. Madam Eugene Heng Cheng Keow, 84, a resident of Tan Pei Social Service Home, died on Nov 24 at Changi General Hospital. On Dec 4, Madam Wong Kirn Lvi, 65, of the
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        • 56 4 A DELIVERY rider m his early 30s suf fered severe head injuries when his motorcycle was involved m an accident with a taxi at Bpm on Monday along Jurong East Avenue 1 near the T-junction with Jurong East Street 21. Anyone with information on the moddent should
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        • 72 4 A TRAINER was jailed for nine months yesterday for using a hot welding iron to hit two trainees and a metal rod to hit two others. Ramalingam Chidambaranathan, 28. was attached to Oceanus Engineering Services at Kian Teck Drive when he assaulted his victims all foreign
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      • 270 5  - Did closed manhole cause engineer to suffocate? CHONG CHEE KIN BARGE DEATH into the death ol -vcar-old marim engineei suffocated inside a as stop) ias I until i tor yesaboul th;r »ne m.n :i.n c to the where -,::ig Mr Joseph Ho Swe« Hee's ttmd on Sept 2^ sideast tank
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      • 365 5  -  Krist Boo By FOREIGN students will have to pay higher school tees from next year, but the increase will be moderate and gradual Much oi the rise will be effective only m 2008 allowing the students enough time to decide whether they
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      • 488 5  -  Chong Chee Kin Woman is accused of damaging repo man's car after he tried to repossess hers By THE repo man wanted to take away Wong Nguek Chin's car, but she was having none of it. The 45 -year-old clambered onto the
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      • 216 6 Tiro and a half years ago, the much-hyped roof garden on the multi-storey carpark at EdgeHeld Plains was resplendent with flowers ana neatly trimmed plants oeft). But it all soon went to seed and today, all that is left are sacks of grass and dead
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      • 425 6  -  Elena Chong Last of 4 teens who helped cig smugglers put m Boys' Horn- By THE last of four teenagers who helped move $1.35 million m contraband cigarettes oui ol i container had his day m court yesterday md was told he would be placed m the
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      • 268 6  -  ELENA CHONG A MAGISTRATE told a Secondary 3 Express Stream teenager, who had molested young girls and exposed himself to a woman, that she was giving him a chance to redeem himself Juvenile Court Magistrate Wong Li Tein. m placing the 15-year-old
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      • 439 7  -  Krist Boo Food from the Heart's annual giveaway is bigger, with 10,000 toys collected B\ IT LOST u> chiet executive recently due -uiatuHiv hut that hiccup has not stopped hiH)d from the Heart from giv- stmas yesterday brought toys, chocolates and candy to
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      • 76 7 Granddad reported missing POLICE are trying to locate ;j 56-year-old man who has been reported missing while holidaying on Sentosa. The Malaysian was last seen by his wife at Rasa Sentosa Resort at about 7.15pm on Sunday. They were on holiday with their grandchild. Mr Voon Tnian. who suifers from
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      • 228 7  -  Yap Su-Yin K\ the now school year begins next month, tanao Abdul Malik, 32, will be on hand to his >i\ -year-old son settle into Primary 1. He will be one ofl the tew fathers rather than mothers accompanying
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      • 162 7  -  Jessica Cheam Hv LJNI N is. sa\ cs most of the money she urn a.'- km.; part-time at a convenience store. 'v b not well-to-do and she will d the castl next yeai when she enrols at the Institute >>t Technical Education. pite this,
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      • 539 8  -  Tan Hui Yee Spartan reclaimed 1 km strip on island is given 'natural and wild' look By TAKE a bare reclaimed beach, throw m 1,000 swaying coconut trees, clever landscaping work, and nine months later, Lazarus Island has that lush, tropical look.
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    • FORUM
      • 385 9 ER to the Review arti- bdi or tolerance and a big help: g small powiV Catherine Lim. frustrating reading her oft-iepeated thesis ol an "Great Divide". led :n 1994, 01 "dis- ireen the PAP and the people that therefore necessitates the Government to impose
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      • 173 9 RELATIVE was diaga :ih king cancer at a KOVemment hospital recentA CT scan was done but j cancel could not ieiliuned tor certain. A -v.i p. would give a more accurate assessment of the nut such a scan has paid tor m cash,
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      • 117 9 Why aren't mortgage rates following Sibor down? ree-month Singapore Interbank Ottered S bor) has eased af--1 '.ear high. hen the Sibor is going up. banks often, send their clients tl saying that m■tes on their home would have to be I i thai the sfnor has dropped. I am interested
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      • 391 9 >NING the legality of ralia's introduction ol a sys- ■:.-<>:'. pilotage m the 51 a A thie.it to transit Ita 8) Professor Robert Beckmao o* ci looks the key that the only navigable chanthrough the sti ocean-go-■ips is through internal waters lia Thi^ the
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      • 84 9 Will Sentosa get grand entrance? I READ with amazement the attractions that the Genting consortium has planned for the Sentosa integrated resort. I recalled that m my trips to similar attractions m the US, the roads leading to such places were wide, open and spacious. However, even with Vivo City
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      • 277 9 THE Insight article, "Meet the training GURUS Where E squared I adds up for him" (ST, Dec 8), suggested "tension between the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), a rivalry that some observers say exists as both are
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      • 416 9 I THANK Mr Wang Tiancheng for his letter, "Bar charity staff related to boss from high posts" (ST, Dec 9). Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society (THKMS) CEO Dr Lee Ngak Siang's total pay is $7,100 per month $2,100 from the Moral
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      • 292 9 I THANK Mr Chan Chee Seng for the letter, "CDC could've made boss' hiring search easier" (ST, Dec 8). Mr Chan was referred to the South West Community Development Council (CDC) on Nov 16 for a supervisory vacancy that his company would like
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      • 126 9 For more readers' views, log on to http^/www. straitstimes.asiai. com.sg/forum Access to letters online is free. Recruiting volunteers to do charity work is uphill task. Don't make it harder Cylinder-gas prices have not been reduced despite fall m oil prices. Case shouid act on it Family outing at
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    • ASIAN GAMES 2006 DEC 1-15
      • 707 10  -  March Lim SAILING eenager emerges from teammate loh's shadow to win gold No 7 for Spore By Correspondent 1\ Doha le thrust upon him at st be last minute But since taking over from Koh Seng l.eong m the Laser SS Bt two months
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      • 452 10  - Sailors may get $2.5 in windfall biggest sum received for a sport March Lim B\ h)\i.\ UXd nearly 52.5 million is tikety to greet the ■sailors at the end vi the sailing competition today. Their strong showing at the Dor ka Games has al■v given Singapore two and Lasei 4.7),
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      • 548 10  -  Chan Yi Shen By In Doha SINGAPORE'S Sportsman of the Year, Goh Qiu Bin, is on course for wushu's first medal at the Asian Games. He is third out of 17 competitors after the first of the taijiquan's two events. Yesterday, he scored
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      • 569 11  - Liu makes his mark Chan Vi Shen hfghgfhgfhgfh China's 1 10 m hurdles world record-holder clocks 13.1 ssec to erase own Games mark :•;> 1\ Doha FORGI the LOO metres or the 200 metres many, the main event of the ones 1 athletics competition nefl 1 10 m hurdler thanks
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      • 565 11  -  Chan Yi Shen By 1\ Doha NG Vr'Oßhs 132 athletes only ones flying ig m Doha. 50 Singapore■bo doing their bit at the Asian Games Though the Republic has no representative m boxing. former South-east Asian Peninsular Games champion \^d'.:! kadir is among
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      • 475 11 ARCHERY Men s Olympic individual, final. WakiBronze: Kuo nal Su-.o9-100. ATHLETICS Finals, men's ')0n riurdles. 1 2 Dong- 3 M :>ato Naito 5.000 m: 1 James 38.90 2 Jawher (Brn) 3 Zaman 4xtOOm 1 Thai- 2 3 China -i*4oom 1 Saudi Arabia 6.65 3 Sn LanJavelin: 1 Park Jae
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      • 600 12 Thai Olympic champ, back after a two-year hiatus, defeats South Korean easily for gold Doha s Olympic champion IS BiHinuinuiong revived his cain style yesterday, when he claimed the A^an Games light-wel-terweight ti: won me gold with a 22-11 points victan (Her South Korea's Myong floon
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      • 325 12 SOCCER Don IRAQ readied their first mes football final m a shock 1-0 win S tit Korea yesterday pa had endured a Ie build-up to the Gar i one member o4 leration mur- ben coach receiv- eats. I meet the winners
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      • 527 12 I toH !H Korea, all able-bodied men q ected it m 2ft months oi mai I m the military. 5 way i inning a gold sian Gan M Nicol the British Open the most prestigious toui ment title m squash, the
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      • 439 12 tennis Doha INDIAN tennis star Sania Mirza stunned Chinese top seed Li Na 6-2, 6-2 yesterday to secure her place m the Asian Games women's singles final. She plays China's second seed Zheng Jie, who downed Japan's Aiko Nakamura 6-3, 6-2, m today's final.
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      • GAMES BRIEFS
        • 113 12 HAYA Sam'ir Jumaa has been disqualified from the women's karate individual kata for being underage. The United Arab Emirates teenager turned 13 last month, but Asian Games rules, set by the Asian Karate Federation, say competitors must be aged 16 or over. The discrepancy
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        • 122 12 FIVE-TIME champions South Korea branded the handball competition an "embarrassment" after their controversial loss to Qatar m the men's semi-finals on Monday The Koreans were forced to play shorthanded for most of the night after the games two Kuwaiti referees hit them with a string of
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        • 107 12 SRI Lanka's only medallist, sprinter Susanthika Jayasnshe, has slammed her country^ sports administrators. The women's 100 metres silver medallist said: "Sports officials have not done enough. Athletes are malnourished and there is no attempt to improve their standard Jayasinghe, 31, a former World Championships
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        • 76 12 CHINA finished one-two m the men's individual trampoline final yesterday. Que Zfiicheng's impressive routine, which boasted height and powerful twists, earned him the highest score of 39.50 points andthe gold medal. Teammate Lv Chenglon^ pocketed the silver on 39.10 points while .Japan's Shunsuke Nagasaki setttled
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        • 157 12 IRAN booked their first Asian Games men's basketball semi-final berth m 55 years with a cliff-hanginc 68-64 win over .Japan yesterday. Iran Woke the 64-64 stalemate with 38 seconds to go as Samad Nik Khah Bahrami scored a field goal and added a free throw
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      • 640 13 COMPLAINTS Tan slammed by his officials for saying "ivals agreed on draw to oust team Doha MAI \YM.\\ hockey otfifihed out at their men's est( (day, tor suggesting that his team were knocked out oJ the Asian Gam fixed match. Pak> Japan played out
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      • 292 13 DIVING Doha CHINA'S Olympic champion Guo Jingjing nas become the most successful female diver m Asian Games ryShe took the women's 3-metre synchronised springboard title with Li Ting on Monday to add to her tnree golds from previous Asiads. In front of a packed
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      • 195 13 A sobbing Kyoko Hamaguchi's reaction (above right, with her father Heigo) after losing her Asian Games 72kg wrestling title to China's Olympic champion Wang Xv on Monday was worthy of television's WWF Wrestlemania. After the medal ceremony, Heigo rushed to the edge of the media interview zone,
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      • 502 13 RUGBY Doha JAPAN beat South Korea to win the Asian Games rugby sevens tournament. But the bigger news was China's third-place finish, as it may have a bigger impact on the game. Rugby has a small following m China, where it is limited
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      • 679 14 SOCCER Chelsea may revert to 4-3-3 and start with winger Robben against Newcastle l ONDON N- :^cr Jose Mounnho go hack to basics as he regain his grip on the Pre- tide I k b«ve been English footbaO's d 'ininant force since the Por-
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      • 229 14 Lampard's an 'insult specialist JENS Lehmann has branded Frank Lampard "a specialist m insulting people". The England midfielder Lampard. 28, enjoys a clean-cut image as a family man But the Arsenal goalkeeper insists there is another side to the Chelsea star. The Sun reported yesterday The German No 1 Lehmann
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      • 444 14 London TODAY'S trip to Wigan Athletic will be Arsenal's 12th game m six weeks. The Gunners are a massive 18 points behind Premiership leaders Manchester United. But the manager Arsene VVenger has refused to concede defeat m the title race. His men did
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      • 411 14 London ALAN Curbishley has said he would be delighted to take over as West Ham coach following the sacking of Alan Pardew. Curbishley, who has been biding time since he stood down as Charlton's manager m the summer to take a break, is believed
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      • 251 14 Sheffield (England) SHEFFIELD United and Aston Villa shared the spoils m a 2-2 Premiership thriller at Bramall Lane. Villa were m front after just two minutes on Monday night, when Stiliyan Petrov uncorked a shot from 20 metres. It was the Bulgaria international's first goal since
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      • 525 15 SOCCER THE PATH TO GREATNESS "The present team are showing signs of being a really good team. But they've to win the league, they've to win the European Cup, they've to win an FA Cup. They've to win these things. That's the only
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      • 813 15  - Iconic Iverson undone by coach and himself Chia Han Keong IN THE HOOP gfhgfdhgff Iv cis« >n m BOiS OUt ol Philadelphia lay's announcement may have caught some by sur:t irankK it isn't that -hock to OIOSC who bracked ids career. I a man who has put hi> bod] OB
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      • 378 15 BASKETBALL Los \m.i i is TOE San Antonio Spurs put a had game behind than m a hur: The .1 lr>-point lead m tt fiisl "41 and remained comfortably m tront on Mon- on Ihen u.i\ to a 103 B LOS Ange- ppera S
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      • 320 15 "CRICKET Perth WITH their Ashes defence hanging by a thread, the widely criticised England selectors face tough decisions for the third Test against Australia tomorrow. Down 0-2 m the five-match series, there is no margin for error at the WACA Ground. So, there will
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      • 71 15 \M ERIC AN FOOTBALL NFL St Louis 27. lASKETBAIX N3A Philadelphia 79, Phoenix 103 Or 105 Memphis 92. Boston 97 -*0. Miami 99 Toronto 77. Oklahoma City •'veland 89. Chicago 106 Indiana 91, Utah San Antonio 103 LA Clippers 81 iOCKEY jrgh 5 Washington 4 (OP). Colorado 5 Jose
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      • 188 15 THE National Basketball Association will return to using leather balls, rather than the microfibre composite version that has brought about numerous complaints from players. "Our players' response to this particular composite ball has been consistently negative and we are acting accordingly,"
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 80 15 ROME: Reggina's punishment for their role m fixing soccer matches m Italy was reduced on appeal, with the Serie A club docked 1 1 points instead of 15 yesterday. The team were also fined 100,000 euros (S$205,0()0), the Italian Ol ympic Committee said on
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        • 111 15 NEW YORK: Nike, the world's largest athletic shoe-maker, has signed top-ranked golfer Tiger Woods to a new endorse ment contract. But financial terms were not disclosed. Woods, 30, the winner of 12 Majors, signed a five year, US$4()-million (Ss62-million) agreement with Nike when he
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        • 66 15 MONTE CARLO: Algeria was reinstated by the lAAF on Monday. The North African country was suspended on Nov 14 after the Algerian Sports Ministry dissolved the national body for four years and installed an interim committee. The International Association of Athletics Federations said it had
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        • 63 15 NEW DELHI: Mumbai will host the final of the 2011 cricket World Cup. oiiicials announced yesterdax The World Cup is being co-hosted by India. Paki stan. Sri Lanka and Bangla desh. The semi-finals will be held m Lahore and Colombo, while Bangladesh's Sher-E Bangla
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    • OBITUARIES
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        479 16 "Safe m Jesus Arms MICHAEL OH JIN LEONG 22 March 1945 -1 1 December 2006 I said, "Let me walk m the field"; God Strid, "No, walk m the town" I Stud, "There tire no flowers there"; fie smd, *Nq flowers, but a crown. I said "But the sky is
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        273 16 am already bang poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:6-7) MICHAEL r Jfbfr^? OH JIN LEONG jflKsS^ Aged: 61 fIVvY HWtS called home to
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        292 16 Everything that happens m this world happens at the timo God chooses. Ecclesiast&s 3:1 TAN JEAMTTE Age: 69 Called home to be with the Lord on 12-12-06. Sadly missed by loved ones. (Husband: Chua Hee Koon, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chua Cheng Yang, Steve Jenny Khoo Chua Cheng Liang, Jerry Nathawan
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        224 16 sth Anniversary In Loving Memory Of DR GOH GEK KIOW Departed 13 December 2001 We cannot forget you Our loved one so dear; Your memory grows Sweeter year after year. Dearly missed it always remembered by Mummy, Papa. Patsy, Pauline Mimi. The Family of the late MDM ONG SOON YIAN
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        • 4383 17 TRANSACTION O»T[ DCC \2 :OC6 :mt<Ki urr m. mt »n m cap mm lm cmc cam* nun sale »m mc hick urn m vm. lttSoltMN 3 3 12.1 STHacoa 201 9 5 9 10 45.5 i 146 ?6 5 26 10.6 130 4 A3- 3,- 451 9
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        • 1027 17 CB»M*Cr LIST VOL MY WT CIT TIAOtD UU -OH 000 HIM IM HI SMI AAGrp 3 4 17 3 ABRHMgs 215 215 -1 41.5 Adampat. 25 5 25 7 4 43 9 AdvaoceSCT '0 5 67 26 6 178.4 i:., v 3!. 5 31 5 84 81 5
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        • 60 17 S2-NUI TU CUMUCT LAST Wt MT XT MUP MI6H LBN CODE COMPMT IMKQ SWi -0« OK MIW IW «t UK ***** 9000 6065 Diamoodi USIOSOOcd 6M5 IS DJ US Tech 6097 IS MSCI Sport ***** ***** 6101 ISSIPSOO ***** ***** 61 7 C SPDRS 2980 2382 623t STI
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      • 498 18 It needs support from just more than one-fifth of LSE investors to succerd l.o\I)ON LS I M 3 Stock Market Liun- ts £2.7 bilbos (SSS.2 bilbon) hostile bid tor the London ge iI.SE) yesterday. The United states exchange will DC It HIOR
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      • 524 18 Moscow ROYAL Dutch shell ottered to sefl Is I Ss2o hilhon (Ss3l billio S khaKn protect to Russia's prom, m a capitulation to the Kremlin s lignto tighten conadustry. Shell chid executive (CEO) Jeroen eer on Monday made after months of pressure tsa
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      • 30 18 Yesterdays close: 16.637.79 1 09.79 points) .apanese stocks closed up 0 66 per :ent Buoyed by a ♦irrpef ,Vall Street owawght and a US doHar wrich AFP
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      • 27 18 Yesterday's close: 18.907.17 (-17.49 points) closed M investors took profits sharp ga property stocks taking a the US Fed Reserves Doicv meeting AFP
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      • 26 18 Yesterdays close: 2,218.95 1+38.46 points) closed higher e-*--gains after Monday s very sharp upturn as the banks and carmakers attracted fresh support AFP
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      • 30 18 Yesterdays close: 5.473.6 +3.9 points) closed f*Hect takeover stocks offse by profit the broader market Volume *as 1 81 txllion shares, worth AS49 bii 0 Diiitun. AFP
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      • 37 18 Yesterday's close: 1,088.42 (-13.28 points) Malaysian stocks fell 1.21 percent on profit-taking with technology, finance and construction stocks leading the falls. Volume was 1 23 billion shares, worth RMI 94 billion (SSB4S million) AFP
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        33 18 Yesterday's close: 12.995.02 (-404.41 points) Indian stocks plunged by 3 0? per cent closing below the crucial 13 000 point level as sentiment was hit by tower-than-expected industrial production data AFP
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      • 36 18 Yesterday's close: 1,754.57 (-5.09 points) Indonesian stocks fell 0.29 per cent for a fourth straight day yesterday as investors continued to cash m gains after the market's recent run-up to record highs AFP
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      • 43 18 Yesterday's close: 738.25 (-2.69 points) Thai stocks closed 0 36 per cent lower on profit-taking of energy stocks and ahead of !he US Fed Reserve meeting Volume Aas 2 billion shares, worth 1 3 3 billion bah! SSSB4 million, AFP
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      • 266 18 Dec 12 Stock Name Wt Close Change Allgreen 035 1820 -0 020 Ascendasreii 109 bOO -0 020 BIL Intl 042 1 680 +0 040 Capita Land 482 6 050 +0.050 Capita Mall 091 2 800 +0 010 Chart Semi Cond nB5 1280 -0 040 CityOev S4
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      • 58 18 Genlntl 125 359.000 FHTK Htdgs 48 130.000 Auston 37 091.000 Straits Asia 35 430.000 Jasper 30.G75.000 Sing Tel 29.084.000 Xpress 20.514.000 CapitaßChina 17.695.000 First REIT 16 482.000 Hongguo 16.090.000 Dec 12 Midas 14.500.000 Federal Int 14.251.000 Circuits Plus 13.780.000 Silverlake 13.684.000 STATSChP 13.661.000 Capita Land 13.184.000 Star Cruises
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      • 171 18 Dec 12 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT (Jf FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar ***** ***** Can dollar ***** ***** Euro 2 0310 2 0540 Malaysian rinKit* 0.4349 0 4356 NZ dollar 1.0530 10/50 Sterling pound 3 0050
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      • 1335 18 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRAMSACTIOM D*T[ 01 U 70* u-«m ra cmmkt un mm m m mt cwpmy tukd mv tm 11 55 909; tsu£mmm;4 65 lb 4278 testMWOUttS 45 -Ob 1182 4 Ob m natron WO7oSO3 19 7 tm lOCWPICWO7OItS 1? 31b 71b 9436 lOC MPeCWO7O4n 285 05 ?8b 4b
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      • 343 18 Washington THE United States' trade deficit posted a dramatic decline m Octo ber, falling to the lowest level m 14 months as the price of crude oil plunged by a record amount But its deficit with China hit an all-time high, reflecting
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      • 334 19 China Life to sell $5.6 b in shares Shanghai listing leads rush market by HK-listed Chinese npanies as key indexes surge Beijing CHINA Lite Insurance will sell shares m Shang.cading more than US$5 billion (SS7.B bil- m offerings by Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies alter benchmark indexes surged 80 this year
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        88 19 CHINA Life will sell 1.5 billion yuan-currency shares, which may raise US$3.6 billion (555.6 billion) based on the Hong Kong share price. "The trend for Hong Kong-listed companies to sell shares on the domestic stock markets is only going to get bigger," says Mr Phillip Chan, research director
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      • 270 19 Tel Aviv FORMER Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has said that he sees a weak dollar for the next few years as the United States grapples with a balance of payments deficit. "I expect that the dollar will continue to drift downwards until there is
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      • 411 20 lata expects the industry to record combined net profit of $3.9 b next year Geneva THE global airline industry is enjoying an improved economic environment that will allow it to almost break even after six years of net losses, the
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      • 234 20  -  Gabriel Chen By SINGAPORE'S tech-savvy population represents fertile ground for online advertising, according to the search engine giant Google. Google s head of sales ior Hong Kong and South-east Asia, Mr Grid Yu. said yesterday that another reason for the company's optimism was
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      • 501 20 Hong Kong MS WINNIE Ho, billionaire Stanley Ho's sister, has offered to buy out his stake m the company that dominates Macau's gaming industry to settle an ongoing dispute. Ms Ho, 83, claims Sociedade de Turismo c Diversoes de Macau owes
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      • 268 20 Melbourne QANTAS is expected to announce a takeover offer of around A510.9 billion (5513.3 billion) from a Macquarie Bank-led consortium this week, possibly as early as today, sources said. Shareholders have been waiting for the offer since the carrier confirmed nearly iwo weeks
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      • 282 22  -  Arthur Poon \> UH )R\ port operator PSA International has reportedly won ■•ntract to operate Paid deep- water port. Gwadai Port on the Arabian the MUith- western Pakistani province ot Balochistan is current!} under construction. 1 ap into business on mau>r shipping
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      • 384 22  - Marina Bay condo sets price record Joyce Teo Some units sold for above $2,000 psf a first for leasehold market By Property Correspondent BUYERS snapped up units at 55-storey Marina Bay Residences yesterday and smashed price records for 99-year leasehold property into the bargain. Some flats went for more than
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      • 443 22  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent A FREIGHT forwarding company has failed m a lawsuit against its auditors for not having detected that a former director had pocketed $1.8 million. A judge threw out the case brought by JSI Shipping, after
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      • 330 22  - Eu Yan Sang bags sole rights for US ginseng Ashley Ong By IT MIGHT sound like a case of coals to Newcastle but American ginseng is so popular m Asia that Singapore firm Eu Van Sang In ternational has secured an exclusive worldwide distribution deal for the product. Eu Van
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      • 326 22  -  Grace Ng Bi \RD Chartered Bank I redoubling its eflri& back market share m th contested home loan market, after losing cuslomen earfier this year. Part i)t the problem was a •.istomer complaints m iftei the bank changed eras of its
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      • COMPANIES IN BRIEF
        • 79 22 EZRA Holdings, which provides offshore and marine solutions, has secured five charters worth up to $59 million m South-east Asia and the Middle East. The charters begin m the second half of the company's fiscal year 2007 and are expected
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        • 118 22 GENTING International is selling $425 million worth of convertible bonds to raise funds for the Sentosa m tegrated resort it is developing. The bonds, which have been fully placed to institutional investors, mature m 2012 and will be sold at par value
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        • 70 22 CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing yesterday reaffirmed its fourth-quarter revenue and* proiit guidance. The company had said m October that it expected revenues for the fourth quarter to be down about 5 per cent from the third quarter. Net income was forecast to be about $5 million m
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      • 419 23  - Capita Land sets up $977 m Islamic real estate fund Joyce Teo The fund will invest m Gulf waterfront development Raffles City Bahrain Bl sp indent Capita Land is g ip a US$63O million $977 m -Aanah-comphant d that will invest m :ont development do. Kattk-s City Bahrain Fund it
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      • 399 23  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK B\ Vlarkets Correspondent sprinten need to pause for OBCC m I while, and the Singapore bowK is HO exception. The benchmark Straits Times Index yesterday at 2.593.81, after advand g 6 points. tM modest rise, there was the fact
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      • 81 23 Top Rises Dec 12 CENTS SIA 1640 30 0 19 SIA2OO 1640 30 0 19 SIA SGA eCW*****9 90 5 20 0 28 4 GLD 10USS 6240 15 4 0 2 MOIL 175 10 8 4 2 CityOev 1200 10 0 0 8 Haw Par Corp 720 10 0 14
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      • 77 23 Top Rises Dec 12 CENTS Time Watch 1 100 0 0 5 SBX SGA eCWO6I2IB 2 33 3 0 5 SIA CA eCW*****5 315 28 6 7 0 SIASCAeCWKI229 90 5 284 20 0 DBS OB (PW*****9 8 23 1 1.5 Ist Software 3 20 0 0 5 lonics 6
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      • 87 23 Top Falls Dec 12 CENTS IS MSCI India 100 535 46? 5 3 DBSGrp 2120 30 0 14 JardineCiC 1430 30 0 2.1 OCBCCap3 93%Pref10 9630 ?0 0 0 2 Lyior China HI OUSJ 1120 15 4 0 9 CapiUßChina 178 12 0 6 3 Broadway 61 110 15 3
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      • 82 23 Top Falls Dec 12 CENTS Autron W07Q603 OS 50 0 0 5 ChaneredOßeCWo6l2lB 0 5 50 0 0 5 Unidui 5 5 313 2 5 Charttr«<»NPtCW7ollo 3 5 30 0 15 STATSChPMLeCWO7Q32B 18 5 28 8 7 5 CoscoCorpDßeCWo7o423 26 5 25 4 9 0 CharteredßNPeCW7o32B 17 24 4 5
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      • DIRECTORS' TRADES
        • 251 23  -  A NON-EXECUTIVE director of property giant Capita Land has raised his direct stalce m the company by exercising 418,400 stock options. The transaction by Mr Lim Chin Beng, who is also Ascott's chairman, last Wednesday lifted his holding from 120,000 shares to 538,400 shares, or 0.019
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      • 396 23  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent AS POP lyrics go, "I'm too sexy for my share portfolio" doesn t rank up there with those of John Lennon and Paul McCartney but it might meet a chorus of approval from investors. Pop
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    • MONEY
      • Article, Illustration
        126 24 NGI Airports 1 mult: :r.:ihon-dollar manage the Abu Dhabi national Airport > .1 major step m the impany's plans to forge a strong Middle East presence. Not resting 00 It 9 laurel- CAI is already .iting an even the right mage Abu Dhabfs Ben terminal once it is
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      • 486 24  -  Karamjit Kaur CAAS unit wins 18-month contract to manage tGulf state's airport ft iC f-L^pondent CH.W Urports International (CAI baa bagged a mul-ti-million-dollar deal to manUrn Dhabi International I major step m its as to forge a strong Middle rescnce The
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      • 9 24 Dec 12 2006 2.***** 6 58
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      • 23 24 BUYING SELLING Australian dollar 1.2040 1.2180 Euro 2.0310 2.0540 Sterling pound 3.0050 3.0380 US dollar 1.5330 1.5550 Yen (100 units) 1.3124 1.3263
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      • 221 24  -  FIONA CHAN FEEDBACK ON AMENDMENT THREE recommendations on an amendment to the goods and services tax (GST) Act have been accepted by the Ministry of Finance (MOF). These changes involve implementing an advance ruling system for GST and revising GST rules for
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