The Straits Times, 22 June 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 730 1  -  Chong Chee Kin Ex-NKF chief to appeal against sentence for deceiving charity He also agrees to pay $4m to the new NKF to settle civil case By THREE months behind bars this sentence was handed down yesterday to the former chief of the National Kidney
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  • 550 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS Ramallah CLOSING ranks against Hamas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be hosting the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders at a peace summit on Monday, Palestinian, Egyptian and Israeli officials said yesterday. Arab leaders watched
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1233 1  -  Jane Ng By WHEN Mr Soong Jun Wei applied for the biotechnology course at Ngee Ann Polytechnic three years ago, he did not think he would get into medical school eventually via that route. It was unheard of for poly graduates to
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    • 366 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 On dengue alert Asia 6-15 A general practitioner in World 16-29 the West Coast dengue Review 31-34 hot spot has been on Insight 35-36 dengue alert for the past PYi 07 few weeks. rTI o/ PAGEH1 SECTION TWO Home H1-H17 Challenging extremists Forum H18 If
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  • PRIME
    • 651 3  -  Sue-Ann Chia »ANY CHANGE SHOULD BE MADE CAUTIOUSLY, SAYS LIM SWEE SAY By reporters at a community event. But, he added, "we need to proceed cautiously" and make sure a system is put in place for workers to be re-em-ployed
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    • 620 3  -  Nirmal Ghosh AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Prosecutors say ex-PM illegally influenced deal involving purchase of prime land in Bangkok By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAI prosecutors yesterday charged former premier Thaksin Shinawatra with corruption, the first legal action to be taken against him since he was
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    • 596 4  -  Jeremy Au Yong By RIGHT to the very end, union leader and former Nominated MP Nithiah Nandan, 57, had workers' interests at heart. The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) vicepresident died early yesterday, a day after signing two memoranda of understanding
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    • 547 4 NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Top negotiator makes secret visit; move is a big reversal in strategy Washington IN A sharp reversal of United States strategy, Washington's top North Korea negotiator turned up in Pyongyang yesterday on a surprise
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  • ASIA
    • 835 6 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, BERNAMA XL govt gets tough, increases police patrols as 2 more girls are raped MUAR THE rising crime rate in Johor has hit tourism, and the Malaysian government is taking action to deal with the fallout. Speaking to reporters on
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    • CHINA
      • 603 7  -  Chua Chin Hon Decision to replace architect of China's 'peaceful rise' policy with party loyalist causes upset By China Bureau Chief In Beijing THE influential thinker behind China's "peaceful rise" policy, Mr Zheng Bijian, will make way soon for a party apparatchik at the
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      • 209 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing SOME Chinese censors are taking bribes to give the green light to television programmes, sparking a clampdown by the nation's watchdog, state press reported yesterday. "Censors collecting unwarranted fees from TV play producers will be strictly dealt with," Xinhua news agency
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      • Article, Illustration
        65 7 Local residents of Xunhua county winging their way across the the Yellow River with the help of a wire rope in China's north-western province of Qinghai on Wednesday. According to local media, these wire ropes, measuring about 200 m in length, are used by the residents to
        REUTERS  -  65 words
      • 263 7 Hong Kong SHOPS selling products to improve eyesight are, ironically, hurting the eyesight of their staff through excessive display lighting, according to a survey. The problem is also found in other shops, particularly goldsmith shops and snooker clubs, Hong Kong newspapers have reported.
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      • 748 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ►> CHINA'S SLAVE LABOUR RACKET He was beaten, starved and forced to work 20 hours every day without pay Ruzhou (Henan) UP FROM the countryside and desperate for work, 16-year-old Chen Chenggong jumped at the offer of a well-paying factory job
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      • 431 8  -  Ong Hwee Hwee B^ Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei A SMALL island with a big heart. That is the vision that opposition Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou has for Taiwan. For Taiwan to thrive amid stiff global competition, it must open
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      • 285 8 REUTERS Beijing BEIJING will not intervene in the pricing of hotel rooms during the 2008 Olympic Games, the city's tourism chief said, amid reports of exorbitant room rates and dwindling supply more than a year before the opening ceremony. Barring an extreme
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 542 10 BLOOMBERG Move to get more global financial firms to site Asia HQs in the city Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given the go-ahead to develop an area of Tokyo into an international financial centre along the lines of Wall Street or
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      • 296 10 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing CHINA said yesterday it was hypocritical of rich countries to buy its cheap goods and then condemn its greenhouse gas pollution. Beijing was defending itself against a Dutch report that said it had surpassed the US as the
        REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  296 words
      • 220 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Seoul THE head of a major South Korean university is planning to bar students who smoke and to start a campaign against excessive drinking. Mr Oh Myung, president of Seoul's Konkuk University, told Korea Times that a new admissions policy would
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    • INDIA / SOUTH ASIA
      • 539 12 REUTERS Bid to enter boy in Guinness Book of Records as world's youngest surgeon Chennai INDIAN doctor K. Murugesan and his unnamed wife, a fellow doctor, face having their licences revoked as well as possible criminal charges for allowing their 15-year-old son to
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      • 190 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS Karachi AT LEAST six people were hurt when youths here rioted for two hours yesterday to protest against a 16-hour blackout, even as the city's residents sweltered in 40 deg C heat. The youths blocked roads with tyre bonfires, stoned passing
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      • 363 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Recent surge in violence a desperate bid to win world attention, he says Kuala Lumpur INSURGENTS in the south of Thailand are on their "last legs", the country's Defence Minister said yesterday after a meeting with Malaysian defence
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      • 506 13  -  Yeo Ghim Lay By THE Thai government needs to be more serious in tackling the insurgency in the south or it could fester for as long as 30 years, one of the country's leading experts on southern Thailand said yesterday. Dr Srisompob Jitpiromsri,
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      • 39 13 AP Smoke rising from a fire in Jakarta that gutted about 200 houses in a densely populated slum area yesterday. Firefighters said the blaze was believed to have started in a kitchen. PHOTO:
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      • 198 13 REUTERS Manila CHINA, Thailand and Laos yesterday agreed to build a bridge across the Mekong River, linking Chiang Kong in northern Thailand and Houayxay in Laos. The bridge, scheduled for completion in 2011, is the final link of the north-south road system in the
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      • 277 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Jakarta AN UNNAMED Indonesian member of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) has told the English-lan-guage Al-Jazeera TV channel that the group was in disarray now that its two top leaders had been caught on June 9.
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 747 14  -  Carolyn Hong By' Malaysia Bureau Chief In Shah Aiam Key witness says he was told to sack assistant for being 'too close" A MONGOLIAN interpreter may have had an affair with a private detective working for her former lover, a political analyst
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      • 242 14  -  CAROLYN HONG POLITICAL analyst Abdul Razak Baginda has proven to be a man with quite a few mood swings. He looked chirpy and cheerful yesterday the fourth day of his trial in the murder of his former lover Altantuya Shaariibuu, and a day after
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      • 407 14  -  CAROLYN HONG Shah Alam A MONGOLIAN beauty, who was allegedly killed on the instructions of her prominent Malaysian former lover, had come to Malaysia three times because "she has someone" here, her father told the court yesterday. On the fourth day of the
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      • 601 15  -  Chow Kum Hor MCA man tries to make Chinese Malaysians aware of their bad habits By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur AFTER Malaysia was declared free of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in 2003, and fears about it began to ease, Malaysian politician Ong Tee
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      • 466 15 PUTRAJAYA MALAYSIA will submit the terms of reference for its joint ministerial committee with Singapore as soon as possible, Sin Chew Daily reported yesterday. The committee is for easing cooperation between the two countries on specific matters, including bringing about
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 30 6 A victim's horror A 16-year-old Chinese teen tells of how he was beaten and made to work 20-hour days as a slave at a brickyard in Henan province. PAGE 8
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  • WORLD
    • 728 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, XINHUA Pakistani scholars retaliate against Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie by honouring Al-Qaeda leader Islamabad A GROUP of Pakistani Islamic scholars yesterday awarded its highest honour to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in what it said was a reaction to
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    • 534 16 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Austin (Texas) POLICE were yesterday hunting members of an angry mob who beat a man to death in a parking lot after the car in which he was riding struck a four-year-old child. Investigators believe that Mr David
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    • 635 25 NEW YORK TIMES Win bolsters Iran's position and threat posed by political Islam to status quo Cairo THE conquest of the Gaza Strip by Hamas has frightened Arab leaders because it is characterised by the same dynamics that have been agitating the
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 123 25 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush has issued his second veto of a measure lifting his restrictions on human embryonic stem cell experiments. The move effectively pushes the scientific and ethical debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign. "Destroying human life
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      • 148 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA: Australia's leader announced plans yesterday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in some areas, and to tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight what he called a child sex abuse crisis among them. Prime Minister John Howard was responding to an
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      • 108 25 REUTERS DENPASAR: The younger brother of British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay admitted in an Indonesian court yesterday that he was a drug user in a trial on charges of heroin possession in Bali. Ronald Ramsay, 38, was arrested in February after entering a supermarket in
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      • 84 25 REUTERS HANOI: A 28-year-old Vietnamese woman died yesterday of the pernicious HSNI strain of bird flu. A hospital official said she was Vietnam's second victim of the virus this month, after a 20-year-old man from Ha Tay province died of the flu last week.
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      • 127 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China yesterday criticised a claim by Japanese lawmakers that the death toll in the Rape of Nanking had been grossly inflated as an affront to international justice. A group comprising some 100 Japanese ruling party lawmakers said on Tuesday that documents from their
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    • 248 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Washington THE White House is pushing for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be made a special envoy to work on forming a Palestinian state after he steps down, reports said yesterday. US newspapers cited unnamed officials as saying that the
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    • 500 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS Govt fears leak of secrets as e-mail goes through servers in US and Britain Paris BLACKBERRY handheld computers, or "Le Blackßerry" as they are known in France, have been called addictive, invasive, tiresome for thumbs and, now, a threat to French secrets.
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    • 266 26 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Washington HACKERS succeeded in penetrating computer systems of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in hundreds of attacks on the leading US cybersecurity agency, a congressional panel has disclosed. A lawmaker said at a hearing on Wednesday that documents provided
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    • 710 27 NEW YORK TIMES Super-rich fuelling demand for faster and bigger luxury business planes Paris TEXAS billionaire Robert Bass is not the kind of guy who flies commercial. And if his latest venture takes to the skies, he will not be the kind of guy who
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    • 343 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS Le Bourget (France) BOEING, Airbus and dozens of airlines that fly their jets are jumping on the environmental bandwagon, touting "green" technology at the Paris Air Show and pledging to spew less noxious fumes into the planet's skies. So far, though, growth in worldwide
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    • 242 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS Parts RENEWABLE energy has moved out of the fringe and into the mainstream, with investors worldwide pouring US$7l billion (Sslo9 billion) in new capital into the sector in 2006, says a UN report. Fears about global warming, frustration over high oil prices and
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    • 574 28 REUTERS Future of WTO's Doha Round in doubt as nations play blame game Potsdam (Germany) ATTEMPTS to salvage global trade talks collapsed yesterday, throwing the future of the World Trade Organisation's struggling round deeper into doubt. Ministers from the United States
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 421 29 ANDREW Hsu has not yet been on a date or taken his driving test. But the 16-year-old American does have three degrees in neurobiology, biochemistry and chemistry. Earlier this month, weeks after his 16th birthday, he became the second-youngest person to graduate from the
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      • 107 29 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MR ALASTAIR Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's former spin-master, is set to reveal the "warts and all" truth about life in Downing Street. But given Mr Campbell's reputation for controlling the "message", few expect any major embarrassments for the Premier when The Blair
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      • 259 29 REUTERS AUSTRALIA'S richest man media and gambling mogul James Packer has married model and singer Erica Baxter in a private ceremony in France, followed by a lavish celebrity reception on the French Riviera. Mr Packer's close friend, Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes, were
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    • 23 16 'Non' to Blackßerries French defence experts are advising government officials not to use Blackßerries as the e-mail passes through US servers. PAGE 26
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    • 420 31 THE Thai military government's undertaking to hold parliamentary elections on Nov 25, even earlier than planned, will be well received by a people who must feel their nation has lost its moorings in the months following last September's coup. The removal of the controversial Thaksin government
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    • 1658 31 BATTLE AGAINST EXTREMISM Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, who is also Home Affairs Minister, spoke at the opening of a five-day seminar on the role of community and faith leaders in promoting peace yesterday. The seminar was organised by the Islamic Educational,
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    • 1139 32  -  JOERGEN OERSTROEM MOELLER SHIFT IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC POWER By For The Straits Times THE first half of this year has seen a seminal shift in global economic power. Instead of the United States dominating, there is now a more even spread than at any time
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    • 876 33  -  Kanwaljit Soin AGEING AND SOCIOECONOMICS By For The Straits Times MORE and more we are hearing it said that "the 70s are the new 50s". This is not just a glib statement; there is growing evidence that this is a fact. A recent survey by HSBC
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    • 840 34  -  Ruth Marcus WASHINGTON POST »NANCY DREW AND THE TIMES By AMONG my many failings as a parent has been my inability to convince my daughters to read the Nancy Drew books. As a child, I did not so much read Nancy Drew mysteries as devour them, from
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      • 537 35 3 MEN AND THE 2-POINT HIKE The goods and services tax appears no longer to be a political hot potato, as Sue-Ann Chia finds out from three people helping business and consumers prepare for the increase FROM July 1, cash registers will ring
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      • 517 35 MR LEE Vi Shyan admits that he hardly looks at the GST tag when shopping or dining these days. Some would say it is because the Minister of State for Trade and Industry belongs to the higher income group whose pockets will not be
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      • 432 35 THEY say nothing is certain except death and taxes, and Mr Raymond Kwok knows a lot about both. As managing director of UOB Life Assurance, he is constantly finding ways to get people to buy life insurance. As chairman of the Taxpayer Feedback Panel, he
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      • 413 35 CONSUMER advocate Seah Seng Choon bought a new Toyota Camry two months ago to beat the GST hike. "A 2 percentage point increase for day-to-day items is still okay, but it can be a large difference for big ticket items," he says. As executive director of
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    • 1162 36  -  MOHAMED ALI FRIDAY MATTERS By COUNTERING Islamic radicalism has been the main focus of global counter-terrorism efforts in recent years. These have yielded some success. But terrorists have adjusted their strategies. Although operational capabilities have been weakened, groups like the Al-Qaeda have shifted
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    • 886 36  -  Zakir Hussain ►>THE POST-65ERS By ALL too often today, religion is seen as a source of conflict, even though no religion promotes violence. It is not hard to see why this perception exists, as extremists distort what religions actually teach and dress their
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    • 23 35 Countering radical thought Muslim thinkers have a responsibility to correct perceptions of Islam through their publications, speeches and via the Internet. PAGE 36
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  • HOME
    • 791 39  -  Andrea Ong They say some patients resist blood test, others refuse to rest at home By GENERAL practitioner Tan Chin Leong has been on dengue alert for the past few weeks. Dr Tan, 55, whose clinic is in the West Coast Road dengue
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    • DENGUE EPIDEMIC
      • 1091 40  -  Tania Tan SHOBANA KESAVA ARTI MULCHAND Research group grows, with focus on possible treatments, vaccine By Shobana kesava SINGAPORE'S battle against dengue was ratcheted up yesterday with more researchers coming on board determined to beat the virus. Six new research bodies have joined the Singapore
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      • 359 40  -  Chow Kum Hor By Malaysia Correspondent in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN health authorities are on high alert after Singapore this week declared its first dengue epidemic since 2005. The Health Ministry is not concerned about infections spreading across the Cause- way, but
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    • 432 42  -  Carolyn Quek By MEDIACORP actor Christopher Lee, who is serving out a six-week traffic offence sentence, could walk out of jail by this weekend. The prosecution yesterday dropped the last of five charges against Lee, 35, for failing to stop after an accident,
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    • 598 42  -  K.C. VIJAYAN 2 victims claiming damages for alleged lack of adequate security By Law Correspondent TWO air-stewardesses who were sexually attacked by an intruder three years ago are suing the Grand Hyatt Singapore hotel for about $1 million in damages. Together with
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    • 281 42  -  K. C. VIJAYAN FORMER Commercial Affairs Department boss Glenn Knight is set to join the law firm Bernard Rada Law Corporation. The firm's managing director S. Radakrishnan confirmed yesterday that Mr Knight "intends to join the firm" and added his role will be settled
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    • 107 42 A 55-YEAR-OLD man has been accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, now aged 16, on 10 occasions between 2002 and November last year. The odd-job worker appeared in a magistrate's court yesterday at a preliminary inquiry held behind closed doors. He was committed to stand
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    • 447 43  -  Ken Kwek PM spells out political vision for Spore in German interview By SINGAPORE must have new leaders with fresh ideas in 10 to 15 years' time. They must keep Singapore updated with emerging technologies and help the country
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    • 411 43 THE impact on Asean will be manageable if the stock market in China crashes, though it may affect the mood of the region's bourses, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. "But if it's the Chinese economy which goes down, the impact on Asean would be
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    • 246 43 THE Association for Women in Action and Research (Aware) yesterday released what it says is its most comprehensive report on the status of women here so far. Here are some of the key recommendations made in 130-page report. Amend the Constitution to include a provision that no one
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    • 599 43  -  Radha Basu By WOMEN'S rights group Aware yesterday called for the Constitution to be changed to ensure that no one is discriminated against because of sex or marital status. The call coincided with the release of a 130-page report by Aware (the Association of Women
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    • 541 46  -  Zakir Hussain By. Otherwise they will be conceding public space to extremists, says DPM Wong THERE can be no room for ambiguity on the issue of terrorist violence and extremist ideology, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said yesterday. If community leaders do not
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    • 245 46 IN THE Middle East and beyond, the Arab-Israeli conflict has strained relations between Muslims and Jews. While here, Italian Muslim leader Yahya Pallavicini hopes to show how the example of regular contact among Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders in his country has built trust. "This
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    • 280 46  -  Khushwant Singh By AROUND 350 students were yesterday given a glimpse of the horrors of terrorism during a mock MRT bomb attack. The youngsters from 17 secondary schools learnt how to raise the alarm about suspicious people and items, how to use fire extinguishers,
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    • 524 47  -  Keith Lin Training courses, job opportunities lined up for them By THE Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) will give a hand to elderly housewives who want to re-enter the workforce. The self-help group has lined up training courses and job opportunities
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    • 497 48  -  Ken Kwek Health, finances should be looked into if withdrawal age is to be raised By Workers and union leaders have called on the Government to look into how any move to raise the CPF minimum sum withdrawal age would affect
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    • DEATH OF UNIONIST NITHIAH NANDAN
      • 641 48  -  Jeremy Au Yong I By MORE than 2,000 workers, who had been paid on a daily-rated basis, are now enjoying stable monthly salaries because unionist Nithiah Nandan would not give up even if it was at his own expense. Being a daily-rated worker
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      • 768 48 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described the late labour leader Nithiah Nandan as an "outstanding unionist" in a condolence letter sent to his wife Vimalla yesterday. Here is what Mr Lee said: "Nithi lived an active and fulfilling life. From humble beginnings,
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    • 782 50  -  Maria Almenoar PRIMARY 1 REGISTRATION Enough places for all next year despite downward adjustment after increase this year By PARENTS will have six new primary schools to choose from during this year's Primary 1 registration exercise which starts next
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    • 114 50 THE Nanyang Schools Alumni Association is holding its annual Primary 1 registration talk tomorrow for parents with children enrolling in primary school next year. Nanyang Primary's principal, Madam Heng Boey Hong, will take the parents through the admission criteria, registration procedure and other matters. Pamphlets
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    • 83 51 Visitors took a literally hair-raising virtual rollercoaster ride, complete with wind effects, at Sentosa's newly launched Cineßlast yesterday. In this $3.5 million jungle-themed attraction, fans installed in the corners of the room give visitors the feel of wind rushing through their hair as they plummet
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    • 376 51  -  Liaw Wy-Cin Said to be more effective with fewer side effects, it is undergoing clinical trials now By A NEW anti-cancer drug, now undergoing clinical trials, may soon make cancer treatment as easy as taking a pill. Following encouraging results on mice, local bio-technology
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    • 436 51  -  Eunice Quek By MR STEVE Lim has been an optician for 20 years now, but he completed his optician's course at Singapore Polytechnic (SP) only in February this year. He had picked up his skills on the job, learning from his father, before taking over
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      • 576 52  -  Alfred Siew and By Tham Yuen-C THAT long MRT ride home may soon be less dreary, with the monotonous grind of the train tracks replaced by cheers from 1,000 football fans. The reason: live TV is coming to a cellphone near you. Local
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      • 506 52  -  Alfred Siew Bulk orders for region's 500 million people will lower the cost of new set-top boxes By Technology L.orresponaent ASEAN countries have adopted a common digital TV standard, joining the global trend of moving away from analogue TV, media regulators said yesterday. Because
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      • 173 53 WITH screens that flip, rotate and slide, new cellphones that tune in to mobile TV services were out in force at the CommunicAsia trade show, which is part of the Infocomm Media Business Exchange expo, this week. Three phones stole the show: Samsung SCH-P940 With a 2.15-inch screen,
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      • 110 53 SINGAPOREAN and South Korean media companies now have more reason to work on television shows together, after the Media Development Authority of Singapore signed an agreement with the Korean Broadcasting Commission yesterday. As a result, both countries will treat these joint projects as
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      • 99 53 THE 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused many an unsuspecting death, but a tsunami warning system developed by German-based A3M hopes to avert that. The system, a winner of the European Information and Communications Technology Prize, gets seismic measurements from some 100 stations around the world
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      • 97 53 SINGTEL has launched a free e-mail service for its mobile phone customers, but they must accept some advertisements. The MobileM@il push-mail service, which delivers e-mail messages to users' phones from their Sing Net, Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail accounts, will also include some text and graphical
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      • 123 53 SINGAPORE company Eubiq has just solved an interior decor problem for many house-proud people, with its patented power track. The track replaces fixed power points and allows people to attach power outlets anywhere so they can plug in their devices. This means not having to
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      • 340 53  -  Grace Chng Teams vie for $1.5b project to standardise hardware, software for public sector By i Deputy News Editor A CONVOY of six mini buses disgorged about 100 people in matching white T-shirts at Suntec Tower 3 yesterday, 18 of them carrying
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    • 779 54  -  Selina Lum Settlement deal brings NKF's civil suit against former CEO to a close By OF THE estimated $12 million that the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) sought to recover, the charity can now hope to see at least some part of it
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    • 1050 54  -  Chong Chee Kin By DISTRICT Judge Aedit Abdullah, who sentenced T.T. Durai to three months' jail yesterday, sent a clear signal to chief executives of all charities, saying the top man must perform his duties with utmost propriety. Doing anything less and failing in his
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    • CASE FILE
      • 101 54 THE driver of a Malaysian-registered oil tanker was arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint on Wednesday morning for attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants, contraband cigarettes and eggs into Singapore. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers who conducted checks found six men, aged between 21 and 34 and believed
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      • 107 54 A 55-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for six weeks and fined $1,000 on Wednesday for slashing his neighbour on the left arm. Low Liang Teck pleaded guilty to causing hurt to Mr Michael John Appadurai with a chopper outside his fifth-floor unit at Block 90, Pipit Road
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      • 77 54 THE office of a land surveying professional consultancy was raided on Monday morning for using pirated software and breaching several software licences. A server, 24 desktop computers, two laptops and 10 CD-ROMs which are suspected to contain pirated software programs were seized. Under the amended Copyright
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    • 294 55  -  .JAW WY-UIN ByL THEY have been "together" since 1971, so when he is late, she is understandably anxious. On his part, he cannot bear to be away from her for more than a week. This happy pair is featured in one of seven one-minute
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    • 371 55  -  SUMATHI SELVARETNAM They include largest indoor opening show, outdoor adventure test By FUHUA Secondary School student Govinderpal Singh, 16, has been drumming away, not at a gig, but for a Chinese drums performance. He has been preparing hard for this year's Singapore Youth
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    • QUICK NEWS
      • 84 55 SBS Transit yesterday launched a drive to stem the number of assault cases against bus drivers. Posters are up in all of SBS' 2,800 buses, at its 16 interchanges and 18 terminals asking the public to report any assault to the police. The Stop Bus Captain Abuse
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      • 79 55 A NEW express bus service will from this Monday allow Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Batok residents to travel to the Harbour Front interchange faster. The new service 188E will pick up passengers at selected stops along the present service 188 route. But it will travel on
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    • 24 39 For your viewing pleasure Local companies are testing out new mobile services, which will give smoother, clearer, uninterrupted TV on special cellphones. PAGE Hl4
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    • 429 56  -  Raymund Koh Joo Guan »TAXI WOES I REFER to the letter, "Anything but easy to get a taxi in Singapore" (ST, June 19). I am a full-time taxi driver and I was surprised to read that Mr Steve Armstrong had difficulty getting
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    • 344 56  -  Latifah Mohamed Akil (Ms) I REFER to the letter by Mr Steve Armstrong, "Anything but easy to get a taxi in Singapore" (ST, June 19). I agree with him. On Monday night I had to wait 1 hour and 20 minutes from 9.20pm
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    • 217 56  -  Lee En (Ms) ON SUNDAY night I was at the Clark Quay taxi stand, queuing for a taxi. A sign there says: "No touting, 24-hour camera surveillance...". Right in front of the taxi stand were two limousine taxis whose drivers stood outside smoking.
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    • 313 56  -  Raymond Anthony Fernando THE article, "Why caregivers should get an allowance" (ST, June 15), touches on a topic very close to my heart. As the sole caregiver to my wife who was stricken with schizophrenia 17 years ago, my journey with
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    • 79 56  -  Chang Long Kiat I REFER to the letter, "Consider single premium for Home Protection Scheme" (ST, June 18), by Mr Leong Sze Hian. Before March 1, 2001, HPS was a single-premium insurance scheme whose large premium payable upfront posed difficulty to members. Hence, the
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    • 383 56  - Save $120, 3 demerit points and your child's life Toh Boon Ngee POLICE would like to thank Mr Colin Suter for his feedback, "Parents belted up, child left to wander in back" (ST, June 13). We agree with him that failure to secure children properly in cars exposes them to
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    • 194 56  -  Lynne Tan Sok Hiang (Ms) I HAVE a soft spot for Alexandra Hospital (AH) as it is an architecturally interesting building with a rich history. Thus I wonder why AH is not considered a heritage monument. Surely, with the integrated resorts coming
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    • 92 56  -  Dr Khoo Chong Yee IHE report on the proposal to save a portion of the Butterfly House at 23 Amber Road ("'Hybrid' condo to replace Katong bungalow"; ST, June 19) gives the impression that the plans have been finalised, but this is not the case.
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    • 98 56 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. Investors should pay more attention to index funds Cats lured into traps and disposed of. Stop it, please Bank autorenews fire insurance for home even after being told not to StarHub removes one channel from
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  • SPORTS
    • SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2007
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        974 62  -  Terrence Voon Sportsgirl Vanessa and Sportswoman Tao Li steal the show, as Remy fights a jam By THE ballroom at Swissotel the Stamford was filled with Singapore-bred champions last night. But the ladies of Singapore sports very nearly stole the show. Swimmer Tao Li stood out with her
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      • 579 62  -  Jeanette Wang By LIKE a caterpillar maturing into a colourful butterfly, national swimmer Tao Li has also transformed herself from a dull to a dazzling performer. The change has come fast and thick for the the 17-year-old Singapore Sports School student. From a little-known swimmer
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      • 388 62 SENIOR AWARDS Sportsman of the Year ($lO,OOO award): Remy Ong (bowling) Sportswoman of the Year ($10,000): Tao Li (swimming) Coach of the Year: Zhang Yongqiang (sailing) Team of the Year: Li Jiawei, Sun Beibei, Zhang Xueling, Tan Paey Fern, Zena Sim, Tan Van Zhen (women's table tennis)
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      • 622 63  -  Terrence Voon By' DRESSED in black, the newly crowned Sportsgirl of the Year Vanessa Yong wore the smile of a champion yesterday. It was exactly the same feeling she had when she clinched the bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games shooting competition last year.
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    • JOY AND SORROW ON THE SOCCER PITCH
      • 346 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS Porto Alegre (Brazil) JUAN Roman Riquelme's return to Boca Juniors paid off big time for the Argentinian club. Playing in what is likely his farewell match with them, Riquelme scored twice to lead Boca to a 2-0 win over Brazil's Gremio on Wednesday.
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      • 740 64 Their U-21 side bow out to Holland after 32 kicks, Uefa's longest shoot-out in history Amsterdam ANOTHER penalty shoot-out, another night of tears for England. Only, this time, it was their Un-der-21 side who lost 12-13 to the Netherlands in the semi-finals of the European
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      • 621 64 London A DAY after media reports claimed that Fernando Torres was Liverpool's top target, the Spain international's club Atletico Madrid said their captain is going nowhere. The club's president Enrique Cerezo said yesterday: "Torres is an Atletico Madrid player, and I think he
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      • SOCCER SHORTS
        • 95 64 LONDON: Tottenham will consider offers for England striker Jermain Defoe when they complete a transfer for Darren Bent from Charlton. The Mirror said that they have yet to agree to a fee for Bent, having offered £14 million (5542.8 million), £4 million less than
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        • 48 64 LONDON: Manchester United defender Gabriel Heinze has signed a pre-contract agreement to join Real Madrid for £5 million, The Daily Star reported. The move to the new Spanish champions will be completed when he returns from representing Argentina in the Copa America.
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        • 107 64 MADRID: David Beckham will "be bored stiff" in Major League Soccer after leaving Real Madrid, said Getafe coach Bernd Schuster. The German, tipped by Spanish sports daily Marca to replace Fabio Capello as Real coach, told the Cadena Ser radio station: "It's a
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    • 553 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS SOCCER Club's board accepts the bid, but he has to pass the 'fit and proper person' test London THAKSIN Shinawatra has vowed to take Manchester City to their "rightful place at the highest level of competition in the Premiership and
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    • 114 65 English Premiership players, Tim Cahill (right) and Mark Schwarzer, were among the Australian national footballers who arrived at Changi Airport's Terminal 1 last night. The Socceroos will be based here for a 10-day training camp, to acclimatise to the heat and humidity ahead of their maiden appearance
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    • 494 65  -  Leonard Lim By HARISS Harun, 16, could soon add another feather to his cap. He will eclipse Fandi Ahmad's record as Singapore's youngest full international, if he plays in any of the upcoming senior "A internationals against North Korea, Saudi Arabia or Australia. Fandi
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    • 341 65 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tokyo JAPAN coach Ivica Osim has kept the door open for former Asian Footballer of the Year Hidetoshi Nakata to come out of retirement, but said his star may have already fallen. He's still young. And if he
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    • 241 65 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Beijing CHINA striker Li Jinyu, controversially left out of the Asian Cup national squad, became the first player to score 100 goals in the Chinese top flight on Wednesday. The striker headed a 67th-minute equaliser, then reached the milestone with his second goal
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    • 356 65 JEROME SEOW SWIMMING AFTER two years of hard work, Mark Tan has achieved his target. The 21-year-old broke Desmond Koh's 15-year-old national 200 m breaststroke record of 2min 21.875 ec yesterday at the Singapore National Swimming Championships. On the fourth day of competition,
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    • 419 65 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »TENNIS London ONE year after making Wimbledon history, China's Li Na returns with the legacy of her ground-breaking quarter-final appearance threatening to become too big a burden for her and her compatriots. She was the first Chinese player to reach the last eight
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    • 137 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERENA and Venus Williams will play with gold rackets, which will make their debut at Wimbledon. Serena will play with a black Wilson (X) Factor limited-edition racket and Venus will use a white version featuring 22-carat gold leaf laid into the frame. "I can't
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    • 470 66 MOTOR RACING Alonso, Hamilton cannot talk about each other unless both are present London MCLAREN have decided to muzzle their two drivers, but whether that will help reduce the friction between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso remains to be seen. The pair have been told
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    • MY TOP MARKS
      • 218 66  -  Hannah Back By Dunman High School Secondary 3 WHEN Chelsea Toh (right) joined Dunman High's badminton team from Tao Nan School, few expected her to excel in the way she did. Despite displaying natural talent for the sport, she never failed to toil
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      • 118 66 SIMPLY write in to The Straits Times about an outstanding athlete in your school, how he or she has excelled in a particular sport. Articles must be no longer than 300 words. Please also send us a photograph of the athlete. The student with this
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      • 396 66  -  Carissa Kang Royston Sim »SPORTS IN SCHOOLS By ONE was the youngest member of the Singapore team at the South-east Asia Junior Table Tennis Championships. The other had not even won a gold medal at the schools level. Yet Isabel Li, 13,
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    • 402 66 BASEBALL MLB: Florida 5 Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee 7 San Francisco 5, Oakland 5 Cincinnati 3, Arizona 7 Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 10 Philadelphia 6, Detroit 8 Washington 4, Toronto 12 LA Dodgers 1, Minnesota 6 NY Mets 2, Boston 11 Atlanta 0, Texas 7 Chicago Cubs 3,
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 63 66 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW JERSEY: Tennis player Guillermo Coria on Wednesday settled his lawsuit against an American vitamin maker. He blamed it for a positive doping test and costing him US$lO million (Ssls million) in earnings. Terms between him and Universal Nutrition, which had denied the Argentinian's
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      • 58 66 ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO: Vandals sawed the arms off a statue of football legend Pele last Friday. The police came to know about it the next day, and are scouring scrap-metal yards and art workshops for them. A bronze replica of the World Cup trophy, placed
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      • 128 66 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AUSTIN: Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong went on the attack on Wednesday, ahead of the release of a book reviving claims the US cyclist was a dope cheat. He criticised From Lance to Landis, the latest book by Irish writer David
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      • 53 66 ASSOCIATED PRESS CROMWELL: The PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem changed his mind on Wednesday and called for a united effort from golf's ruling organisations to test for drugs. Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said it was a big forward step for
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      • 78 66 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA: Victor Molina will accept whatever punishment he gets for kicking a horse in the stomach. The veteran jockey said on Wednesday that he hoped that everyone who saw his disturbing act can accept his apology and let him ride again. Last
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      • 52 66 MUNICH: Singapore's top golfer Mardan Mamat shot a one-under 71 at the European Tour's BMW International Open yesterday. At press time, he was six strokes behind leader Jose-Filipe Lima of Portugal. Former world No 1, South African Ernie Els, was two shots behind
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  • OBITUARIES
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      147 66 "I have fought the good fight, I have "c^ V finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 l< LYDIA PECK nee GAMMELL Age: 80 was called home to be with the Lord on 20 June 2007, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Peck
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      98 66 CHOO SENG HEO Age: 63 Passed away peacefully on 20 June 2007. Dearly missed and always remembered by loved ones. Husband: Lum Theen Phui Sons: Daughters-in-law: Lum Kok Keong Goh Siang Choo Lum Kok Siong Florence Phee Daughter: Son-in-law: Lum Sok Mun Leong Chen Tong Grandsons: Granddaughters: Lum Wei Young
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      63 66 SIM THYE SIANG Age: 68 Passed away peacefully on 20 June 2007. Dearly missed lovingly remembered by: Wife: Lim Pin Im Daughters: Swoo Fern Diana Swoo Fang Sara Swoo Yun Christina Wake is held at Singapore Casket, 131 Lavender Street Crystal Room (Level 4). Cortege leaves on 24/6/2007 (Sunday) at
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      38 66 4th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of RINSKY SNG SENG HUAT Departed on 22 June 2003 Always cherished and remembered by: June Lim Nick Gan Kelvin Elphine Shirley Lye Lim Chang Yaw Toh Kiat Heok Michael Vivien Warren Seah
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      43 67 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Sam Goi Seng Hui Family on the demise of their beloved mother MDM YU IK NGOK From: Xue Yongwen Hao Yanping Iim Seek Yeow Henry Wee |f Board of Directors, Management Staff of China Powerplus Limited
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      189 67 KOK KIU CHOY I Age: 94 passed away peacefully on 21st June 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: (Loh Seng, deceased) Sons Daughters-in-law (Loh Chow Kee. deceased) Chew Geow Yin Loh Chow Fook Lim Kirn Sim Loh Chow Cheng Loh Chow Choy Loh Chow Too Daughters:
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      25 67 nth ihrnwersarx ImlnttrnxMrmuryfif BRANDON LEE YEOW KHOON Iteparted 22 Oh 95 Always l<nrd and i IH-rtslH'd In fatmh relet ires, friends, caoeegnes and lined trees
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      81 67 NEELAKANTAN VELOO (Veloosan) Ago: M Pozamd away peacefully on 21 Juno 2007 Sadly rtWasod by all toyed ones. (Wrfe: Davagi. deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law Subash Snmathi Suthon Riatha Sangan Suresh Shanthi Daughters: Sons In low: Sarasa Karunakaran Shobha (Devarajan. deceased) Sarahs Govindan Sumathi (Sendaran, deceased) Suteaka Sasi Shantha Raj In-iews, Reiatfves
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      101 67 MRS IRENE GLASS NEEIAN HUAT CHOO Ago): 97 was called home to be with the Laid on 30 June 2007, leaving behind loved on—. Batoved Husband Last* AJbmft&UM Chilian: So/vPet/gnror-Aii tmw: Geffneme Gofßid Stmun Leaf* Coaka G/*er tuV. hAuk en.' K/te A MMOMi wuumii, o/siers, in-tmws, rrerenves f\nc rrveoos Wake
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      186 67 'For God so loved the world that he neve his one end only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but hair eternal life, lohn 3:16 In Loving Memory of Our Most Beloved Wife and Mother, on her first anniversary VIOLET CHIA SIEW HONG Went home into the
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      105 67 The family of the late KUEK PHUAY CHOO Beloved wife of the late Tan Soo Chye was called home to be with the Lord on 13 lime 2007 wish (o express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, prayers,
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      69 67 In Loving Memory Of RINSKY SNG SENG HUAT Departed on 22 lune 2003 We've lost a true friend, few like him well find. Albert Loh Jeffrey Tan Charlss 6 Bee Bee lerry a Lynene Darmawan MuTe Kevin a Katherine Lad Dean a Winnie hue Kirn Soon a Sheroh/n Pi i
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      36 67 6mn dtejutt *pmwt*rtf) «W ttmntjitt the Executive Chairman of Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing Re Ltd Mr Sam Goi bbm 0t* Jr-nUt ai 4m% tatemmd mrrtt-i MdmYuTnigok rVuni^ m fmm 2OO7 FUJI OIL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD.
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      28 67 AL-FATIHAH Allahyaxham HI AMIR KASSIM BIN HI IBRAHIM pasted away peacefully «»n 15 May 2007 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Assy Alia* Mess his soul Amin Tat *****140 -f-
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      136 67 **Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never Never was time it was not,end and beginning are dreams*' -The Bhagavad Gita Nithiah Nandan s/o Arumugam, PBM, BBM Age: 57 NTUCVice-PresKienc 1997 to 2007 Nominateo Member of Parliament. 2002 to 200S t Executive Secretary. Union of Power
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      66 67 UPAOE |The Union Of Power And Gas Employees (UPAGE) Mourns The Passing Of Nithiah Nandan s/o Arumugam, PBM, BBM Executive Secretary. UPAGE (1996 to 2007) NTUCVice-President (1997 to 2007) Nominated Member of Parliament (2002 to 2005) Departed on 21 June 2007 Brother Nithiah had been our champion ano role model.
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      52 67 3rd Anniversary In Loving Memory Of ANG POH KHIAM Departed 22nd June 2004 Time may heal the broken heart, Time may make the wound less sore, But time can never stop the longing For the loved one gone before. Sadly missed and always remembered by family and loved ones. aaaflßs.
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      50 68 i With Deepest Sympathy and i Heartfelt Condolences To i 77*e Family Of The Late j I MR NITHIAH NANDAN Departed on 21 June 2007 j IL| From I E Board of Directors, 1 F Management and Staff 1 jf TUAS POWER LTD 1 and its Group of Companies 1
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      35 68 With Deepest Sympathies And Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the late MR NITHIAH NANDAN Executive Secretary Union of Power And Gas Employees (UPAGE) From THE BOARD DIRECTORS, MANAGEMENT STAFF OF THE SINGAPORE POWER GROUP
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      41 68 II With Deepest Sympathy I II Heartfelt Condolences I I to the family of the late 1 NITHIAH NANDAN I Departed on 21 June 2007 I From: I Board of Directors, I I Management Staff of I SMRT Corporation Ltd II
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      110 68 NITHIAH NJVNDAN S/O (PBM BBM) Age: 57 NTUC Vice President 1997 to 2007 Nominated Member of Parliament 2002 to 2005 Executive Secretary, Union of Power and Gas Employees 1996 to 2007 Passed away peacefully on 21 June 2007. Dearly missed by loved ones. Wife: M. Vimalla Daughters: Son-in-law. N.Yogeswary P.S.
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      119 68 NDMOWMARY Deputed 21/06/2007 "Once there were two women who barely kneu each other One I faintly remember, the other I called mother The first one gave me life, the second taught me to Inr :t The first one gave me a need for love: The second was there to give
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      63 68 IIP*"" 9"W 1 The family of the late GOH KE0W KWANG Departed on 17 June 2007 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives friends neighbours colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance condolences wreaths and contribution during their recent bereavement Special flunks to: Doctors and Nurses of
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      515 69 |NTUC| The Labour Movement Mourns The Passing Of NTUC Vice-President (1997 to 2007) I Nominated Member of Parliament (2002 to 2005) Executive Secretary, Union of Power and Gas Employees (1996 to 2007) g Nithiah Nandan s/o Arumugam Departed on 21 June 2007 Brother Nithiah was a leader and a fighter
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      81 70 A& 'IPitA Q)eefeest <Jymft<itAi/ <&£%eartfe/t Gonc/o/e/ices to Mr Sam Goi Seng Hui Family on the demise of their beloved mother MDM YU IK NGOK Departed on 19th June 2007 From: Actus Builders Pte Ltd Mr Thomas D. Catallo, CATALLO+MACKENZIE designphase Hospitality Tan Chiang Brother's Corporation Pte Ltd Leng Consultants Jerevin
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      91 70 ONG CHOW KENG ONG ENG KENG Age: 75 Passed away peacefully on 19 June 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Tang Hung Lvi Son: Daughter-In-Law: Derek Ong Tee Soon Agnes Ng Daughter: Son-In-Law: Joanna Ong Soo Mun Liew Yik Wee Grand-Sons: Dylan Ong Wen Jie Mark
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      45 70 Our Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to the Family of the late A. NITHIAH NANDAN Departed on 21 June 2007 An Avatar who will always live in our hearts and minds From: The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of the PowerSeraya Group i 1
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      82 70 CHOO CHIN WYE Age: 78 passed away peacefully on 20 June 2007 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Chia Lai Heng Son: Daughter-in-law: Phillip Choo Llaine I re Daughters: Sons-in-law: Claire Choo Johnny \g Josephine Choo Jeffrey I ov\ Grandsons: Granddaughters: Jason Wu Florence \g Terence Choo Fiona Low Leon Choo
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      51 70 Eltrn Sfvwysm RASAMOAM HAMAIAMY •xPUB Aga:tl Depart ad on 20-6-07 sadty missed b> WHs Gunavathi Daughters: Vasandra Dcvi Sar?swatriy Sons-in-iaw Grandsons A all Relatives 4 friends Dearest father is rtsttr-j at •1 NYTHE RD loranfjoon Gardens Tel: *****369 Cortege leaves today, 22-6-07. 4.30pm for cremation at Mandai Crematorium, MaH 1,
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      40 70 In Chrnshcd Memory of t Dr Tan Chin Kwang Ikpartcd: 22.6.88 The timr spent togcthrr the Irvsons Iramt. Thry arr noi forgotten. neither are you With love oluayn. Mui Ltr. Manrna, Mam* P M«n«w Vrn. Ludu-q B Andrr It -if
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  • Page 66 Miscellaneous
    • 35 66 TV times GOLF: EPGA BMW Int'l Open: Day 2 (Live, Ch2l, 9.30pm). USPGA Travelers C'ship: Day 2 (Live, Ch22, tomorrow 3am). Event SOCCER: SGSFL, Divl: MOE A v Police Veterans (Teacher NT, Grange Road, 5.15pm).
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    • 497 72 BLOOMBERG NEWS Median home price set to drop while supply of unsold homes hits record Boston THE worst is yet to come for the United States housing market. The jump in 30-year mortgage rates by more than 0.5 percentage point to 6.74 per
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    • 412 72 BLOOMBERG NEWS, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New York MERRILL Lynch's threat to sell US$BOO million (551.23 billion) in mortgage securities seized from Bear Steams' troubled hedge funds is sending shudders across Wall Street. Two large hedge funds managed by investment bank and
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    • 328 72 BLOOMBERG NEWS London THE London Stock Exchange (LSE), Europe's third-largest exchange, is in takeover talks with Borsa Italiana, the closely held company that manages the Italian Stock Exchange. The two companies are seeking "to establish whether a merger of the two businesses
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    • 38 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 18,240.3 (+28.62 points) »Japanese stocks closed at a seven-year high on the main index's sixth straight day of gains, as exporters benefited from the weak yen, which is trading at multi-year lows.
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    • 35 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 21,954.67 (+270 points) Hong Kong shares gained 1.25 per cent, with the index nearing 22,000 points, as strong liquidity and China's expanded domestic investment scheme helped the market.
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    • 34 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 4,230.82 (+49.5 points) Chinese stocks rose 1.18 per cent, with Shanghai and Shenzhen recovering some recent lost ground, as investors bought banks on hopes of strong interim results.
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    • 36 72 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AFP Yesterday's close: 6,387 (-9.9 points) Australian shares ended 0.15 per cent lower, following the sharp fall in US markets overnight. Volume was 2.66 billion shares, worth A 512.2 billion (5515.9 billion).
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    • 28 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,387.96 (+1.69 points) Malaysian share prices closed 0.12 per cent higher at another record high, as investors ignored Wall Street's overnight slump.
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      30 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,499.24 (+87.29 points) »Indian share prices finished 0.61 per cent higher in volatile trade led by banks, on sustained interest in the ICICI stock offer.
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    • 35 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,152.34 (-8.73 points) »Indonesian stocks ended 0.4 per cent lower, with investors cashing in on recent record gains and as sentiment took a hit from Wall Street's overnight decline.
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    • 33 72 AFP Yesterday's close: 776.2 (-0.9 point) Tha i stocks finished 0.12 per cent off, as investors were worried over possible violence at a weekend rally against the country's army-installed government.
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    • 224 72 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: U,UUd.49 I^^^J Jun 21 Stock Name Wt Close Change Allgreen 0.60 2.110 +0.060 Ascendasreit 0.96 2.820 CapitaComm 0.62 3.260 +0.080 CapitaLand 5.00 8.200 +0.100 CapitaMall 1.06 4.300 +0.040 Chart SemiCond 0.68 1.360 -0.020 CityDev 3.09 17.200 -0.300 ComiortDelGro 1.51 2.300 +0.040 CoscoCorp 1.22 3.940
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    • 49 72 Jun 21 Compact 239,636,000 Magnus 207,089,000 SunBusiness 110,083,000 Digiland 102,734,000 Jasper 101,162,000 Equation 100,249,000 Jade Tech 99,814,000 Armarda 82,658,000 Gen Intl 80,472,000 Yongnam 66,997,000 Lereno 62,282,000 ChinaEnergy 60,856,000 Sapphire 55,063,000 HLHGrp 52,917,000 FHTKHIdgs 52,696,000 Eastgate Tech 52,356,000 UTAC 52,093,000 Japan Land 51,395,000 LianBeng 50,332,000 IPCO Intl 50,286,000
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    • 135 72 Jun2l UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT IF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Sellini lust dollar 1.2920 1.3061 .an dollar 1.4330 1.4501 Luro 2.0480 2.0721 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4458 0.446' IZ dollar 1.1610 1.1861 Sterling pound 3.0460 3.0811 JS dollar 1.5300 1.5471 SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO 100 JNITS
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    • 462 73 FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERG NEWS Exports to key US market up only 0.4% last month; imports grow at brisk pace Tokyo JAPANESE exports rose 15.1 per cent to a record high for last month. However, brisk imports and sluggish shipments to the
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    • 314 73 REUTERS Washington THE International Monetary Fund must vigorously pursue its new rules on currency surveillance, particularly for China, to stay relevant, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday. "Let me say that the reform is important, but the onus is on
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    • 275 73 BLOOMBERG NEWS Taipei COMPUTER memory chip prices, which rose by a record yesterday, have gained on speculation that some Taiwan producers are experiencing manufacturing "problems", according to Asia's largest spot market for semiconductors. The production problems have occurred at some suppliers of
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    • 518 74  -  Fiona Chan By Property Reporter Consortium pays record $1,449 per sq ft per plot ratio for the estate A GROUP of four property and construction firms has paid a benchmark price for a site in Newton, betting that home prices
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    • 296 74  -  FIONA CHAN MAJOR investment deals in Singapore's property sector since January have totalled $21.4 billion, thanks to a roaring collective sale market. The figure is 48 per cent higher than that a year ago, and investment sales are on track to hit
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    • 363 74  -  Gabriel Chen By OLAM International has won the bidding war for Queensland Cotton Holdings after rival bidder Louis Dreyfus Commodities threw in the towel in the face of a superior offer. Singapore-listed Olam announced yesterday that it had raised its
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    • 386 74  -  Arthur Poon By FIRSTLINK Investments is buying into a China-based organic fertiliser maker, in a deal that may go up to $64 million. This comes amid expectations that more China farmers will start using fertilisers. The mainboard-listed investment holding firm will pay $16 million initially
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    • 178 74 ROTARY Engineering has signed three deals worth $150 million for projects in Singapore and Indonesia. Two contracts came from Shell Eastern Petroleum for its new US$3 billion (S$4.6 billion) Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex on Bukom Island and Jurong Island. The first one, worth
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    • 246 74  -  Joyce Teo By ABOUT 300 political and business leaders from 25 countries are expected in town this weekend, to attend the 16th World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia. The event on Sunday and Monday, held in partnership with the Economic
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    • 431 75  -  No single director should have control over management, says fund manager By Bryan Lee THE second-biggest investor of Yellow Pages Singapore will oppose a proposal by the company's top shareholder to remove all its independent directors. American-based fund manager
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    • 228 75 ARTHUR POON ALLGREEN DIRECTOR SELLS 100,000 SHARES A DIRECTOR of Allgreen Properties has pared his stake in the property developer, after a recent run-up in its share price. Mr Teo Joo Kirn, who was appointed a director of Allgreen in 1989, sold 100,000 shares at an average price
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    • 587 75 DESPITE the onslaught of Internet search engines, Yellow Pages Singapore investor Stanley Tan believes the phone directory publisher can return to growth in two years' time. But more directors with industry expertise are needed to make this happen, he said,
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    • 293 75 Paris BUDGET carrier Tiger Airways has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 30 Airbus A-320 aircraft in a deal worth US$2.2 billion (553.4 billion) at list prices, planemaker Airbus said at the Paris Air Show yesterday. The 49 per cent-owned
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    • 422 75  -  TAKING STOCK By Goh Eng Yeow IN NORMAL times, a stumble on Wall Street would have brought Asian bulls grunting to a halt, but these are far from normal times for regional stock markets. Despite the sharp overnight correction in the
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    • 776 76  -  Goh Eng Yeow It is also reviewing rules for error trades as warrant market booms By Markets Correspondent THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is proposing decisive measures to make the risky but highly popular covered warrants market far more orderly and safe for
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    • 198 76 REUTERS »DIVESTMENT VIA IPO Jakarta THE Indonesian government aims to sell stakes in 15 state firms through an initial public offering (IPO) next year, with flagship carrier Garuda Indonesia to go public the year after, the state enterprises minister said yesterday. It
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    • 1286 76 m^fl C0 rm0 rrOGL s announcement appears as a matter of record only COSMOSTEEL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 9 November 2005) (Company Registration No. *****5540Z) Invitation in respect of 45,000,000 Invitation Shares comprising 36,200,000 New Shares and 8,800,000 Vendor Shares as follows:--(a) 1,000,000 Offer Shares
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    • 29 76 More expertise required Yellow Pages could return to growth in two years, but it needs more experienced directors for that to happen, says biggest shareholder Stanley Tan. PAGE H37
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      41 77 Children-friendly shows rule the airwaves. Programmes like Campus SuperStar and Spell Cast occupy the prime-time belt on free-to-air TV while cable offers four dedicated kids' channels, with one more likely to be launched. LEE SZE YONG repor pages 2&
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      1071 78  -  Lee Sze Yong Programmes such as Campus SuperStar and Spell Cast targeted at the young take primetime TV slots now. Life! checks out the trend MEDIA REPORTER SECONDARY 1 student Shawn Tok is getting ready to step in front of the television cameras on a Monday night. At
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    • 803 79 Their names may be unusual but viewers are getting familiar with Pornsak Prajakwit and Shane Mardjuki, who are making their mark on the goggle box hosting Campus SuperStar and Spell Cast pornsak prajakwit PLEASE do not Google Pornsak Prajakwit's first name on the Internet. The jovial
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    • 763 80  -  Boon Chan Popiah king Sam Goi remembers the sacrifices his mother made and her cooking WHEN popiah king Sam Goi's mother died on Tuesday, he wanted to honour her in a manner that was out of the ordinary. So he took out a full-colour,
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    • 407 80 AP LONDON The Lord Of The Rings musical, the most expensive production in West End history, opened to a standing ovation from its audience, and mixed reviews from the critics, with some praising it as brilliant and a wonder, and others calling it "a
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    • 481 81  -  Adeline Chia The National Library is holding an exhibition of pastel art works by both established and amateur artists ARTS REPORTER A SPLASH of colour has been added to the National Library's reference section. Some 57 pastel art works by Singapore artists amateur
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    • 346 81  -  Wong Pei Yee BUDDING comics artists take note: If you want to find out how to get published, attend the first ever Comics Publishing Forum tomorrow. Some of the biggest names in the industry will be speaking at the Comics Publishing Forum,
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    • 533 82  -  Douglas Tseng No amount of special effects wizardry can make up for a bad script says Takeshi Nozue, who directed the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children MEDIA CORRESPONDENT FILM-MAKERS must always remember that digital Special Effects (SFX) are just one of many tools in their storytelling
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      • 716 83  -  Lee Sze Yon a Activist Timothy Treadwell's passion for bears and his tragic death are captured in the award-winning film Grizzly Man MEDIA REPORTER GERMAN director Werner Herzog heard the sound of death when he was making his award-winning documentary Grizzly Man. The 103-minute film,
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      • 697 84  -  Cheong Suk-Wai Martha Stewart takes on The Apprentice while Oprah moves to another channel airtime I HAVE taken to tuning into Martha Stewart's version of The Apprentice (MediaCorp Channel 5) after reading that, while a jailbird, she coached her fellow inmates to be entrepreneurial, and even
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        99 86 Bicycle by Caroline http://www.myspace.com/ Caroline The Japanese-American electronica singer-songwriter (above) is known for her minimalist music which is a perfect foil to her angelic voice. She will perform at the Esplanade Recital Studio on Sunday. Ain't No Reason by Brett Dennen http://www.spinner.com/category/mp3/ The American singer-songwriter has been compared to
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      • 844 86  -  Yeow Kai Chai It's a Pandamonium when Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear cuts loose in a wild sonic landscape soundbites ALBUM OF THE WEEK > experimental PERSON PITCH Panda Bear Paw Tracks LOOKING for the next Beck, a whiz who dishes out killer tunes
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      • 467 86 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Some bands that played Monterey Pop 40 years ago will return in July to the site of the first great rock festival, but the original promoter and others say the spirit of the Summer Of Love is long over. The 1967 event at
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          404 87  -  Samuel Lee Samuel Lee Samuel Lee PRINCE Nicholas Teo (Warner) IT SEEMS like only yesterday when this Malaysian lad was still beaming his trademark toothy grin and crooning the catchy chorus of the 2004 sleeper hit Who Do You Think Of When You Are Lonely. Three years on,
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          184 87  -  Ong Sor Fern BACK EAST Joshua Redman Nonesuch THE title of saxophonist Joshua Redman's latest CD carries both literal and metaphorical baggage. His first acoustic album in six years takes the musician back to New York for collaborations with a cabal of East Coasters. Its programming also takes a
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          158 87  -  Chang Tou Liang RAVEL MIROIRS Gaspard de la nuit Minoru Nojima, Piano Reference Recordings RR-35CD THE great Japanese pianist Minoru Nojima has made only three commercial recordings in his illustrious career. He is extremely selective in his repertoire and the recording label almost makes an apology for the short
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        92 88 'Your enemy now can turn into your friend in the next second' Singer Kenji Wu (inset) on why he gets on with everyone 'She's already rich and she wants to be famous. That's certainly doable. Look at Paris Hilton. Perhaps that's what Posh needs she needs to go to
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      • 674 88  -  Chris Ho Mark Ronson's success producing Amy Winehouse proves that he s one white boy who can certainly play that funky music poplife IS SIXTIES soul of the Motown and Stax variety really all that hip and exciting again? Well, going by the hits of Lily Allen
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      • 723 89  -  Frankie Chee Molecular mixology, which turns familiar drinks into new forms and states, is the latest thing YOU order a cocktail and it comes in the form of a paste on a toothbrush. Or, if your poison is a cold martini, it is served so
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      • 229 96 Noor Hidayat is killed in a car crash on highway SINGAPORE writer Noor Hidayat (inset, in a 1979 file picture) died in a road accident on the North-South Highway near the town of Pagoh in Johor on Sunday night. He was 61. He died on
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        53 96 REUTERS OPEN SECRET: Meet film director Jay Chou and his leading lady Guey Lun-mei. The singer-actor was in Shanghai yesterday with the actress to promote his directorial debut, Secret. They play lovers in the teen movie that will open in Asia next month. Chou's real-life godfather, Anthony Wong, plays his
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      • 151 96 IT WILL be a Crowded House right in your home on the July 7 weekend. Couch potatoes can catch pop stars from Madonna to John Mayer to Eason Chan and bands like Crowded House, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Police in a 24-hour
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      • 404 96  -  Joyce Hooi KARAOKE hit singer Zhuang Xuezhong found himself doing something out of the box two years ago. The 44-year-old shaved his head and spent 10 days as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. The Malaysia-born singer, with more than 70 singing championships under his
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        79 96 HOMER'S BACK: Police yesterday forced two Malaysian college students to return a life-sized statue of cartoon character Homer Simpson which they stole from a cinema near Kuala Lumpur. Twentieth Century Fox had offered RMI,OOO (*****) for information on the theft... NEW WONDER: Indian actress Bipasha Basu (left) is so
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    • 191 82 B^flAi^^w Jll a tale of lust, greed hairstylingr^ HH|HH| Rossini's The Barber of Seville 27,28 &30 July 2007,8pm, Esplanade Theatre Conductor Lim Yau Director David Edwards Count Almaviva Dominique Moralez Figaro Yungbae Yang Rosina Liang Ning Dr. Bartolo Michael Lion Don Basilio William Lim The Philharmonic Orchestra Singapore Lyric Opera
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    • 251 83 |hP What's on TV I UUW 1\ that's getting \y*__ I |#v «"">/ youtaikinsiiaiKv^--^ BrendaG°h j A FATHER'S LOVE Fathers are in the spotlight in two new TV shows and one that is already showing Premieres June 29,8pm on VV Drama, Star Hub §r Channel 55 V^w^J^' Having remarried, he
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