The Straits Times, 26 June 2007

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 116 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 TUESDAY, JUNE 26 2007 JJ* A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Dengue numbers dip, but threat is still high
    697 1  -  Arti Mulchand Experts also warn of new danger from Aedes mosquito the chikungunya virus By THE dengue outbreak remains Yen challenging" even though the number of cases fell last week 10 34^ While this takes the numbers below epidemic levels, 56 new
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    Lock icon Triathlete's heart failure death shocks fraternity
    589 1  -  Jeanette Wang NATIONAL ATHLETE WHO DIED AFTER SEA GAMES SELECTION TRIAL RACE By HEART failure caused the death cf national triathlete Thaddeus Cheong a fact that has sent shock waves through the local community of endurance athletes. The tragedy has also spurred concern among
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Non-resident envoys keep S'pore plugged in globally
      1251 1  -  Ong Soh Chin By Senior Correspondent ONE suffered a cracked rib on the job. Another developed tinnitus a lifelong condition in which a person hears a constant ringing in the ear. Welcome to the world of Singapore's non-resident ambassadors, or NRAs full-scale ambassadors
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    • IN A FLASH
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        23 2 Taiwan getting hotter Spring has come early in Taiwan, raising concerns over rising temperatures attributed to the island's greenhouse emissions. PAGES 6-7
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        23 2 Tech titans' plea Top executives of US technology giants are lobbying Congress to meet their demand for more foreign workers. PAGE 13
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        60 2 Play smart Dealing with North Korea requires wide-open eyes and a healthy dose of scepticism. This is no less true after Pyongyang confirmed what the US negotiator Christopher Hill said about the imminent shutdown of the Yongbyon reactor. Yet the shutdown is the easy part of the Beijing agreement
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        35 2 Impact on prices Electronic payment fees and consumer prices are only weakly related to one another. The Competition Commission has wisely decided not to intervene in the case of Nets' fee hike. PAGE 18
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        50 2 Couple sues jewellers A couple is seeking to recover $2 million from jewellers who sold gems to rogue lawyer David Rasif They argue that the jewellers must be held liable because of the highly suspicious nature ofthe purchases by the lawyer, who disappeared with his clients' money. PAGE HI
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        Lock icon Staying dengue-free
        21 2 Conscientiously following anti-dengue measures hes allowed a landscaping business owner to live and work Wiva-potted plants safely PAGE H3
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        22 2 Parallel import cars enjoy lower taxes due to far lower OMV, an anomaly being looked into by the authorities. PAGEH7
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        40 2 Graft-free Spore Singapore is graft-free not because oi its small population but because its Government does not tolerate corruption, says reader. PAGE H9 Charity fraud Reader suggests that banks help minimise chanty frauds by monitoring unusual payments. PAGE H9
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        25 2 Marion Jones broke Seven years after winning fivt Olympic athletics medals a?H multi-million dollar endorsement deals, US sprinter Marion Jones is broke. PAGE HlO
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        20 2 Overlendinq warning Singapore's financial sector is becoming highly exposed to the booming property market, notes a Citigroup report. PAGEH22
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      21 1 P^PVPHP^^ 'WARMING'SIGNS (JKJjk tffl^^H Cherry blossoms and T^®^ fV EC^^^S^JLL^Hh Peac^ trees signaJ |"ff 1?' y^3BI growing perils in Taiwan asiapages&7
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      85 2 SECTION ONE Prime 2-4 Asia 5-11 World 12-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H8 Forum H9 Sports HlO-Hl3 Obituaries Hl3-Hl4 Money Hl5-H22 LIFE! Travel L2-L6 Events TV L 9 H i A big Thank You to all who attended the successful launch of bizhub C 550. Change the
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Al-Qaeda call to support Hamas overshadows Mid-East summit
      664 3 AFP, AP, REUTERS of tapes of hostages held by militants also dampens expectations of peace breakthrough Siiakm Fl-Sheikh (Egypt) A SHOW of support for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas from moderate Middle Eastern leaders began here yesterday, overshadowed b\ an Al-Qaeda call for
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      Lock icon S'porean hurt after car plunges into icy NZ lake
      485 3  -  Judith Tan By A CAR believed to have been driven by a Singaporean woman plunged into a lake in New Zealand last Thursday, killing a passenger on board. The rented vehicle slid off a road during a heavy snowfall and plunged
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      Lock icon SPH aims to be among media 'winners': Tony Tan
      585 4 It will invest heavily to do so, strengthening its papers 1 unique content and credibility THERE will be winners and losers MMMIg newspapers facing the challenges of new technology and changing media consumption habits, .md Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) intends to
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      Lock icon CRASH CAUSES HOUR-LONG JAM
      96 4 A traffic accident between a lorry and a taxi caused a one-hour traffic jam in Guillemard Road yesterday afternoon. The impact caused the goods truck to tip onto its side. Police received a call at 12.45pm ST PHOTO: about the crash at the junction of Geylang
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      Lock icon Nets' fee hike not an abuse of monopoly position: watchdog
      432 4  -  Lim Wei Chean By ELECTRONIC payment company Nets' decision to raise fees nearly four-fold from next month is not an abuse of a monopoly position, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) ruled yesterday. The increase "does not amount to an
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      492 3 Ride on the wave of success with UK's leading business school. jig UNIVERSITY OF FvJ"Time MBA rßnked 10ttl in UK and «mong top 100 in the world Mm E9 pr> A r\T/^\nr\ (Financial Times, 2007) r 'IF WVlivi V-^Txl-/ School of Manfaaement ranked 2nd in UK and Bth in Europe
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      43 4 STOCK MARKETS Sell pore? In an in-depth strategy report running counter to stock market consensus, a prominent research house is recommending investors to sell Singapore and I invest in Taiwan. BLACK ICE That's how one driver describes the treacherous conditions in NZ snowstorm
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Java mud-flow victims move Yudhoyono to tears – and action
      638 5  - Java mud-flow victims move Yudhoyono to tears and action Salim Osman Indonesian leader promises to speed up compensation for villagers By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta A FURIOUS Indonesian President arrived in East Java yesterday to demand compensation for thousands of displaced villagers whose lives have been ruined for more than
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    • ASIA FEELS THE HEAT A STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
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        Lock icon SUMMER COMES TOO EARLY
        1109 6  -  One; Hwee Hwee Rural Taiwanese feel the heat of global warming, with higher temperatures ruining their crops By Taiwan Correspondent In Mount I)a(;uan (Taiwan) SUMMER is here, but you can hardly tell from the bare branch es at Mr Chen Wen-cheng's peach orchard in northern Taoyuan
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        Lock icon Gimate change sending all the wrong signals to nature
        314 7 Plants bloom earlier At Mount Taiping in northern Ilan county, cherry blossoms were in full bloom in January this year one month earlier than usual. Also, it snowed only once on the 1,900ai mountain, which used to receive snowfall three times
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    • CHINA / EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Ties soar as China, Japan launch new shuttle flights
        501 8  -  Kwan Weng Kin Haneda-Hongqiao service will shorten trips between Tokyo and Shanghai By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo IN YET another sign of improving ties between Japan and China, the two countries yesterday agreed to begin shuttle flights between Tokyo and Shanghai
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        Lock icon N. Korea vows to keep promise to close reactor
        491 8  -  Lee Tee Jong By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul NORTH Korea yesterday vowed to keep its word and shut down its main nuclear reactor at the centic of a long-s:alled disarmament deal It also confirmed that a separate banking dis pute
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        247 8 SINGAPORE National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan begins a four-day trip today to north-eastern Tianjin. The visit is aimed at cementing ties with a region designated as China s next growth engine. He will co-chair the inaugural SingaporeTianjin Economic and Trade Council with Tianjin
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        Lock icon Storms leave trail of death and chaos in Pakistan, India
        544 9 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. REUTERS Karachi TKLC'KS carrying jid rolled into Karachi \esterdav after the death toll lrom violent storms and flooding along Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast rose to at least 235. To make matters worse, power remained suspended in several
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        Lock icon Doctor couple held for letting teen operate
        208 9 A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE Chinnai POLJCE in southern India said yestenfoy they had detained for questioning a doctor couple who allowed their 15-year-old son to perform I caesare.in operation in a bid to enter the record books Dr K. Murugesan and his gynaecologist wife
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Sparks may fly over Viet Cabinet reshuffle
        589 10  -  Ro<;kr Mitton PM's move to promote minister ruffles feathers jf party stalwarts By Vietnam Correspondent In Hanoi YIHTNAM'S ruling communist leaders will meet today to finalise a major Cabinet overhaul that has threatened to expose divisions at the top The personnel changes sought
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        Lock icon MANILA'S MOTTO: BE PREPARED
        48 10 A Philippine special rescue unit member in a bio-hazard suit tending to PHOTO a "victim" in a chemical attack exercise at a hotel in the Makati financial district of Manila yesterday. The drill was to prepare for any conventional or chemical terror attack. AM'
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        Lock icon JI will continue fight against West: Dujana
        455 10 REUTERS. A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE Jakarta ISLAMIC militants in Indonesia will continue to wage war against the West despite recent arrests, captured militant leader Arm Dujana told CNN television in an interview broadcast yesterday. Dujana, one of two top Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leaders arrested
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Union stages nationwide protest for minimum pay
        543 11  -  lla/lin Hassan PHOTO Demonstration disrupts traffic in parts of XL; MTUC threatens strike next By Maluy sin Correspondent I\ kUAI.A LUMPUR TRAFFIC in parts of Kuala I.umpur came to a standstill yesterday as hundreds of workers veiled slogans during a noisy picket staged
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        Lock icon head cut during caesarean, says mum
        304 11 Seremban MS NORAZIAN Yaacob's joy al giving birth to a daughter turned to horror when her husband discovered a deep cut on the back of the girl's head, the New Straits Times reported. The 27-year-old housewife claim the cut was inflicted during the caesarean
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        Lock icon Charter plane crashes in Cambodia
        157 11 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Phnom Penh A PLANE carrying 22 people between two popular tourist destinations crashed in a mountainous region of southern Cambodia yesterday, aviation officials said. The charter plane left the Angkor temple town of Siem Reap about 10am local time and vanished off
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        Lock icon KL summons EU envoy over criticism of pro-bumi policy
        294 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Foreign Ministry summoned Europe's top envoy in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to explain his criticism of the country's affirmative-action policies. Mr Thierry Rommel, the head of the European Commission delegation to Malaysia, said he told Datuk Othman
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    • MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Private eyes threatened us, say Altantuya's friends
        802 12  -  Carolyn Hong They allegedly told the women that Abdul Razak wanted them dead By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Shah Alam TWO Mongolian witnesses told a court here yesterday that they were threatened and harassed by private investigators hired by Abdul Razak Baginda, one
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        Lock icon New prison buzz cut for Abdul Razak
        163 12 CAROLYN HONG PHOTO ABDUL Razak Baginda yesterday turned heads when he walked into the courtroom with short-cropped hair, thanks to a prison barber. It was a very short cut, with the sides and back shaved. He usually wears his hair neat but slightly
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      Lock icon Tech titans lean on Senate to let in more foreign talent
      735 13 NEW YORK TIMES Proposed Bill to prevent visa fraud en as Damaging to competitiveness Washington MICROSOFT chiefs Bill Gates and Steven Ballmer have led a small army of high-tech executive* to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas
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      104 13 H IB visas for professionals Current: 65,000 visas given out. Proposed Bill will raise the cap to 115,000 in 2008, with a possible increase to 180,000 in later years. Green card application Bill originally proposes a new points system for seeking residency that eliminates the preference
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      703 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE. BLOOMBERG BBC reporter Alan Johnston, shown wearing explosives belt, asks govt not to use force to save him Gaza City A VIDEO recording released yesterday shewed kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston wearing what is apparently an explosives belt and warning
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      Lock icon Seven Australians held in Beirut over terror activities
      541 14 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS Beirut AT LEAST seven Australians have reportedly been arrested in Lebanon in connection with terrorist activities, amid a warning by analysts that the country may turn into yet another front for radical Islam. The Lebanese authorities confirmed
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        93 15 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE WASHINGTON: The World Bank yesterday approved US nominee Robert Zoellick as the next president of the 185-country development lender Mr Zoellick, a former top US diplomat and trade chief, was unanimously approved for a five-year term. He will succeed Mr Paul Wolfowitz,
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        Lock icon HK ALERT ON GARMENT DYE
        114 15 HONG KONG: A chemical dye that may cause skin irritation has been found in four samples of camisoles and tank tops sold here, including those made by bossini, Giordano and G2OOO. The dye, a fluorescent whitening agent, is used to make white fabric appear whiter,
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        104 15 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE AGENCC FRANCE PRESSE BANGKOK: The Thai anti-corruption authorities yesterday ordered a freeze on another 4.7 billion baht (***** million) of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's money. But the military-appointed Assets Examination Committee (AEC) said it had not yet opened an investigation into the
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        Lock icon TERMINATOR TO END BLAIR CAREER
        127 15 LONDON: Mr Tony Blair's last face-to-face meeting with a visiting politician as British prime minister will be with film star-turned-gov-ernor Arnold Schwarzenegger, his official spokesman said yesterday. The Terminator star, now governor of California, will be at Mr Blair's Downing Street residence in central London
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      Lock icon Dry cleaner sued for $83m wins case
      249 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington A US JUDGE yesterday ruled in favour of a South Korean dry cleaner who was sued for US$54 million (SsB3 million) over a pair of trousers in a case that garnered international attention and renewed calls for litigation reform. District
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      Lock icon Journalists convicted for protecting source
      451 15 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Australian reporters fined in landmark case that has alarmed the country's media Sydney TWO Australian journalists were yesterday convicted and fined for refusing to name a source in a landmark case which has alarmed the country's media. Herald-Sun newspaper reporters Michael Harvey
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        258 16 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE A HOT DOG eating champion has suffered a severe jaw injury during training, making his next title uncertain. Mr Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi, 29, who wolfed down a record 53 7&lt; hot dogs in 12 minutes last year, cannot open his
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        Lock icon Buffett lunch bids kick off at $34,500
        263 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS THE online bidding for lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett this year started at U5525,000 (5534,500) on Sun day night. The bidding on eßay will go on until Friday, and the money raised will benefii the Glide Foundation, which provides social
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        Lock icon British chef to give India taste of its own food
        220 16 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE IT WAS once hailed as Britain's national dish, but chicken tikka masala the spicy "Indian" curry popular throughout the country has remained largely a mystery on the subcontinent. Now, one of Britain's most celebrated chefs, Ms Manju
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      423 17 WHO could imagine that a sum of US$25 million, petty cash in sovereign finance terms, would have Ninth Korea delay compliance with the Beijing six-party agreement to end its nuclear programme? Actually it is rather likeajetlinmissing a critical holt, for that could prove fatal It is useful
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      1335 17 MEDIA SCENE Dr Tony Tan, chairman of Singapore Press Holdings, delivered the keynote speech at the 16th annual conference of the Asia Media and Information Centre (Amic) and Ist World Journalism Education Congress yesterday. This is an excerpt (THIS is) a
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      1016 17 Remarks by Patrick Daniel, editor-in-chief of SPH's English and Malay Newspapers Division, at the same conference I WOULD like to start in a roundabout way, and make reference to a wonderful book read some years ago. It's called The Passions And The Interests, by Albert
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      1157 18  -  Andy Ho »NETSFEE HIKE By Settlor Writer COMK next month, retailers using the Nets system will have to pay a higher fee to the banks that issue Nets-enabled ATM cards because the latter want a new component called the "interchange fee But while this component
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      131 18 Visa debit card interchange fees in the United States: The fee is different for different traders and different r-ectors. Some examples: Passenger transport: 1.6 per cent US$O.l5 Service stations: 0.7 per cent US$O.l7 Visa debit card interchange fees in Australia: Unlike the US, interchange fees
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      908 19  -  Lawrence Summers U.S. ECONOMIC POUCY CHALLENGE By poorer than they would be with a static income distribution, which works out to US$7,OOO less in income per family* or a 14 per cent lo^s. To put this in some perspective, the total gain
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      602 20  -  Seuna Lum US couple suing jeweller to recover part of money from fugitive lawyer By ON MAY 30 last year, lawyer David Rasif walked into a high-end jewellery store in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Scotts Road. He said
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      260 20 Pay 1 David Rasif (right) walks into Jewels Defred at Grand Hyatt Hotel and announces his interest in investing in diamonds. Employees show him choice pieces of Day 2 WBammmmmW^ammam^amm^a^am^a^ Two employees give a presentation at Rasif s office with more jewellery and gems. He chooses: A 3.63-carat
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      468 21  - Boy had gone missing twice within a week Carolyn Quek First 'disappearing act 1 happened just two days earlier By WILL not do it again, the "disappearing act" boy had promised his mum again. It is now known that 10-year-old How Jia Hao, who went missing last Tuesday afternoon and
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      292 21 CAROLYN QUEK MEDIACORP actor Christopher Lee made a quiet exit from jail yesterday morning, leaving two weeks before the end of a six-week sentence related to a drink-driving incident last year. There were no friends or relatives around when the actor released early
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      207 21  -  UAW WY-CIN A WOMAN telephone caller, pretending to be from the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board, has tried to fool several people into parting with money to get their recent cash payouts. The CPF Board, which administers the Workfare Bonos Scheme and the goods
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      218 21 TRACY SUA Mid MARIA ALMENOAR A RAFFLES Institution Secondary 3 student was found badly injured at the foot of a seven-storey classroom building yesterday the first day of school after the mid-year holiday. The 15-year-old was sported at around
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        423 22  -  Amelia Tan Owner of landscape business in virus cluster conducts 'safe checks' daily By EVEN as his neighbours in Kirn Keat Close, which is situated in a dengue cluster, were falling ill from the virus, Mr Choa Lye Peow, 61, stayed hale and
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        643 22 Singapore's current ckngue outbreak has surprised Professor Duane Gubler, who has advised the Singapore Government on the virus since the 2005 outbreak. The mozzie expert, better known as the father of dengue research, shared his thoughts on the ongoing scourge with Arti Mulchand Why
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        149 22 Kirn Keat Road /Kirn Keat Close /Kirn Keat Lane Cases: 28 West Coast Drive (Blocks 507, 509, 510, 511 and 512) /West Coast Walk /West Coast Road /Jalan Mas Puteh Cases: 27 West Coast Road (Blocks 514, 515, 518 and 519) Cases: 20 Pasir Ris
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        666 23  -  Audrey Tan By Ass^tunt Money Editor WESTERN countries should stop pointing the finger at emerging economies on environmental issues, as they are themselves guilty of the same crimes, Asian panellists at the World Economic Forum (WEF) said yesterday. The industrialisation of the Western
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        120 23 ST PHOTO: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, here on a two-day state visit, inspecting a guard of honour at the Istana yesterday during her call on President S R Nathan. Besides attending the World Economic Forum, Mrs Arroyo also met and lunched with Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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        638 23  -  Peh Shing Huei But courage is also vital for those at the helm: SM Goh By LEADERSHIP is the key to ensuring that the next hundred years is indeed the Asian century, Senior Minister Goh Chofc Tong said yesterday. And while it would
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        392 23  -  Erica Tay By PHILIPPINE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday flagged the reformed business environment in her country and welcomed Singapore firms to take another look at investing there. "We have turned the corner on our economy," said Mrs Arroyo, who is here both
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        368 23  -  Bryan Lee By ASIA may have emerged stronger from the 1997 financial crisis but it must watch for asset price bubbles that may form from surges in capital inflows. South-east Asia, in particular, must also integrate markets more to meet the added challenge
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        772 23  -  Shefali Rekhi NEWS ANALYSIS By Assistant Foreign Editor '.LISTENING Ferraris and limousines at the Shangri-La hotel were a hint that some of the world's high-powered personalities were attending this \ear s World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia here. Indeed Renault-Nissan
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        586 24  -  Christopher Tan »WEF FACES: CARLOS GHOSN By CHALLENGES OF ALLIANCES "It's never easy when you have a company dominating another company...You're trying to make different cultures work together, different staff work together." CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF RENAULT AND NISSAN CARLOS GHOSN Senior Cotrespondent AUTO honcho
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        110 24 MALAYSIA is still in talks with General Motors and Volkswagen AG on an alliance with Proton, Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop told reporters today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on East Asia conference. He declined to specify
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        571 24  -  CIIEONG SUK-WAI »WEF FACES: MUHAMMAD LUTFI r OR* !GN AND DOMESTIC INVESTORS EQUAL By "We will treat foreign investors and domestic investors as equals. The moment you arrive at Jakarta International Airport, you will be equal to the people of Indonesia." MR
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        135 24 CHEONG SUK WAI INDONESIA wants to smoothen the importing of Indonesian granite here, including, perhaps, scrapping checks on Singapore-bound barges carrying the rock. Its Investment Coordinating Board chairman, Mr Muhammad Lutfi, told The Straits Times yesterday that he will talk
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        462 24  -  Grace Ng »WEF FACES: DAVID WRIGHT I By ASIAN countries are "hiehly unlikely" to pare down their United States dollar reserves and spark financial chaos, a leading British banker said yesterday. There are two key reasons they would not do this, said Sir
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        107 24 "We tell our people we need a heavy dose of LSD. You know LSD in the 1970s was what people took to get their highs and hallucinations. We said we need a Singapore LSD in order to get our highs on imagination and innovation." EDB CHAIRMAN
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        78 24 "Innovation comes from those countries that have the most educated workforce. We're no longer in the Cold War where we were in an arms race. Today's race is a race for minds and whichever country, whichever region can create the greatest set of minds
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        69 24 "US$2 per capita per day. How do you serve this customer? A customer who earns US$6OO to US$7OO a year. You can't serve this customer on the same platform that you would serve the customer in the West" INDIAN BANK ICICI MANAGING DIRECTOR K.V.
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        51 24 "We are very happy with the ringgit and it appears to be behaving well. Based on cross currency rates, the ringgit is not too strong nor too weak. It's not creating a problem for the country." MALAYSIA SECOND FINANCE MINISTER NOR MOHAMED YAKCOP on the country's strengthening
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      630 25  -  Chua Hian Hou »16th AMIC CONFERENCE Media experts debate balance of expression and ;al responsibility B\ THE tug-of-war between press freedom and social responsibilit\. and how Eastern and Western societies saw the conflict, came under the microscope \esterda\ The topi; was one
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      339 25  -  Liaw Wy-Cin By ARTIST Ho Kok Hoe did not do national service and student Lav Hong Hu does not have to either but both were yesterday feted in connection with the institution's 40th anniversary. Mr Ho, 85, was yesterday thanked by Brigadier-General
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        124 25 MEMBERS of the public who need to apply for citizenship or permanent residency, register births or pick up passports and entry visas should note that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (IC A) will be suspending its services for about a week next month. Online services will
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        110 25 THE number of complaints about assault on bus drivers is rising, already hitting 18 so far this year, compared to the 14 complaints last year. Police yesterday warned that all assaults against bus drivers would be taken seriously. They probed all the cases except where the
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        59 25 GAMING magazine Game Axis- published by media company Hardware Zone will be revamped into a trendier publication named GameAxis/L33T. The revamoed magazine will hit news-stands by he end of this month The change follows an in-house sub scriber survey which revealed that readers wanted a magazine that
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      80 25 IN THIS week's Digital Life, find out which gadgets are worth getting if you want to squeeze in a last-minute tech purchase before the GST hike and which ones you should hold off on. With your new toy in hand, you can then discover
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      Lock icon Open market values of parallel import cars significantly lower
      626 26  -  Christopher Tan 'OMV anomaly 1 can mean more than $10,000 difference in taxes per car By Senior Correspondent PARALLEL-IMPORTED cars are attracting lower taxes than equivalent models brought in by authorised agents, with the difference sometimes being more than $10,000 per
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      347 26 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has filed an appeal to try and recover millions of dollars in taxes it says it is owed by Hyundai agent Komoco Motors. An LTA spokesman confirmed that the notice of appeal was filed on June 16 but did
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      383 27  -  Lim Wei Chean By THE drive to improve service standards reached the food and beverage (F&B) sector yesterday, with 44 companies pledging to get their employees trained in this r»rea. From popular nightspot Zouk to the Jack's Place chain of restaurants, from
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      389 27  -  Zakir Hussain Young should be told violence has no place in Islam: Dr Yaacob By MINISTER-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim wants parents, teachers and religious leaders to continue educating the young that violence has no place in Islam. "We must
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      295 27  -  ZAKIR HUSSAIN ASPIRING Arabic language teachers from South-east Asia will soon be able to receive training in Singapore, where a new centre will open in about a year's time. Set up by Muslim community organisation Jamiyah, with help from the Islamic Educational, Scientific and
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      101 27 ST PHOTO: Beauty pageant contestants and helpers teaching 15-year-old Ker Caixia, a resident at the Moral Home for the Disabled, how to spin a hula hoop. Eighteen finalists of the Miss Singapore International 2007 Beauty Pageant visited the residents of the home established by the Thye Hua
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      545 27  -  Radha Basu By Community Correspondent TWO new courses at Ngee Ann Polytechnic will help ease the shortage of teachers and teacher assistants at early intervention centres for special-needs kids. The polytechnic was approached by the Government to start the courses, which are
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      488 27  -  Ken Kwek By TODAY, 10 civil servants will come under the spotlight in Austria, to claim a top United Nations (UN) award for trie innovative way Singapore tackled ihe distribution of tne Government's Progress Package. The electronic system they helped create convinced
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      297 28  -  Ck)h Kian Huat I REFER to the report, "Don't compare Spore and Malaysia on graft: Minister" (ST. June 23). Malaysian de facto Law Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz commented that if an island &lt;&gt;t only four million people like Singapore is unable to
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      406 28  -  Dr Hoon Man Teck THE report, "Wage subsidy will not make poor work Vss. iayi US expert" (ST, lunc 23), highlights Professor Lawrence Mead's claim in his lecture at the Civil Service College that what explains the sharp increase in US employment from the
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      313 28 I REFER to the letter, "Whatever happened to 'quality programming'?" (ST, June 16), by Mr Tan Wee Liang. We thank Mr Tan for his feedhack Producing quality programmes icsts on a pact between the content producer and its audience, and
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      297 28  -  Amy Chua (Ms) I REFER to the letter, "Have dedicated channel for adult themes" (ST, June 16), by Dr Wong Jock Onn. Free-to-air television is accessible to all viewers, including children. Hence the content guidelines emphasise protection of the young from unsuitable
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      164 28  -  JoyOlby-Tan (Ms) I REFER to the letter, "Have dedicated channel for adult themes" (ST, June 16), by Dr Wong Jock Onn. The movie Skeletonman, which was telecast on June 14 at 7.45pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, contained strong violence and gore.
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      223 28  -  Tan Saw Bin (Ms) I REFER to the article, "Missing millions: 48 years' worth of savings" (The Sunday Times, June 24), about the plight of St John's Home for Elderly Persons. As an auditor, I would like to propose the following measures to minimise
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      128 28  -  Lav Wah Yuen RECENTLY I attended the AGM of the condominium where I live and was appalled by the proceedings. Many resolutions were put up for consideration. When it was time to vote, we found out that one subsidiary proprietor had garnered more than
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      297 28  -  Ong Seok Hwee (Miss) RECENTLY I travelled out of the country and had to abide by the new security restrictions implemented at Changi Airport which limited the amount of liquids, aerosols and gels that passengers can carry in their hand luggage. I understand
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      30 28 Letters to Forum Editor Please include your full name, address and a telephone contact number. For women, indicate Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. Send your letters via e-mail to stforum@sph.com.sg
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      800 29  -  Lee Hui Chieh DEATH OF TEENAGE TRIATHLETE National sports bodies say it's not feasible to have an ambulance or defibrillator at trials By IT IS not feasible to have an ambulance or a device to jump-start a stalled heart during training sessions or selection trials, national
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      497 29 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ATHLETICS Los Angeles SEVEN years after winning a womens-record five Olympic athletics medals and snagging multi-milhon-dollar endorsement deals, Marion Jones is broke The American sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about
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      410 29 ASSOCIATED PRESS Indianapolis TYSON Gay again overcame adverse weather and ran the second-fastest 200 metres ever in 19.62 seconds on Sunday. The effort broke Michael Johnson's meet record at the United States athletics championships. Running on a damp track with a 0.3 metre-per-second headwind, Gay
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      285 29 A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE Beijing CHINA'S Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion Liv Xiang is considering insuring nis record-breaKing legs if he can find a company to issue a policy. A great deal of money rides on the legs of the world's fastest hurdler, who is
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      462 30  -  IIKKENC fc V'OON SOCCER Isy HOME United head coach Vincent Subramaniam has offered to quit the club over a spat with the Football Association &lt;&gt;t Singapore (FAS). Only his players can make him stay. he says. It is understood that
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      633 30  -  Leonard Lim Now coaching in Indonesia, he won't return for Malaysia v Spore veterans game By HIS name is almost synonymous with the National Stadium. But when the nation gathers to hie he Grand Old Dame farewell on Saturday, Fandi Ahmad will
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      95 30 ST PHOTO The Socceroos' European stars (from left) Lucas Neill, Wince Grella, Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka working up a sweat at the Bishan Stadium yesterday. The four, together with Blackburn's Brett Emerton, had arrived in Singapore on Sunday to join up with the Australian national side
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      840 30  -  Jeanette Wang GOLF By THERE are probably only two instances where the word hopeles. aptly describes golfer Choo Tze Huang. First, Singapore's top amateur is a hopeless "old-fash-ioned romantic" To woo a gir! on Valentine's Day, which coincides with his birthday, he would
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      368 31 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCCER Puerto I^a Cruz (Venezuela) BRAZIL coach Dunga believes Mexico will hold a cruciu' advantage over his side when they meet in the Copa America tomorrow (Singa poie time). Mexico. Brazil's first opponents in Group B, have
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      420 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS. BLOOMBERG NEWS Ex-Arsenal striker Aliadiere says more will leave as Henry signs for Barcelona Barcelona FORMER Arsenal striker Jeremie Aliadiere believes more Arsenal players will follow Thierry Henry out of the Emirates Stadium. Henry was unveiled as Barcelona "s latest signing ytsterday
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      391 31 NEW YORK TIMES SAILING Valencia WHAT was looking suspidouriv like another lopsided America's Cup was eventually transformed into that rare thing, a genuine contest. Emirates Team New Zealand fought back from an early deficit on Sunday to defeat Alinuhi by 28 seconds.
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      213 31 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE SPORTSPEOPLE Shanghai CHINA S NBA All-Star centre Yao Ming is set to marry in August The 27-year-old, who plays lor Houston Rockets, wili wed his sweetheart from Shanghai after an eight-year courtship, state press reported yesterday Yao will marry Ye
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      228 31  -  HOE PEI SHAN ATHLETICS FIRST, she erased the national Under-15 long jump record last year, then put her name to the U-17 this year. Last weekend, Nurul Jannah claimed the national junior long jump record as well at the 41st International Children's Games in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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      254 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS RUGBY Sydney AUSTRALIAN P'gby offi cials say their South Afn can counterpart., broke a promise and betrayed fans when they named an understrength squad for the Springboks' two-test tour against the Wallabies and All Blacks. "We had previously sought, and received, an
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        61 31 REUTERS CROMWELL (Connecticut): Hunter Mahan registered his first PGA Tour victory on Sunday, after winning the Travelers Championship in a play-off. Mahan sank a short birdie putt on the first play-off hole to beat fellow American Jay Williamson. The pair had finished the tournament
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        46 31 LONDON: English Premiership soccer club Manchester Unit ed will allow striker Alan Smith to leave, after accepting a £6 million (5518.4 million) bid from Middlesbrough, reported 4thegame.com. The 26-year-old had been linked with Middlesbrough's north-east rivals Newcastle United and Sunderland recently
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        62 31 LONDON: English Premiership club Newcastle will receive a compensation package of around £10 million from the Football Association, for the injury that kept Michael Owen sidelined for more than 10 months. The 27-year-old suffered knee ligament damage at the World Cup last year, and returned
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        65 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS SONOMA (California): Colombia's Juan Pablo Montoya notched his first victory in NASCAR's Premier Series sincehis surprise switch from Formula One, after winning the Toyota/Save Mart 350 race in California on Sunday. Montoya qualified in 32nd place in the 43-car field, but showed his
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      412 32 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE GSG TENNIS He beats Gabashvili in straight sets, while Hingis nearly falls to wild card in round one London ROGER Federer's bid for a fifth straight Wimbledon title got off to a smooth start yesterday. He returned to a much-changed
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      946 32 ATHLETICS European Cup in Munich (winners only) Men's 8OOm: Paw a C/ao ewsk' (Pol) lmin 49sec 110 m hurdles: Ladji Douvoure (Fra) 13 35sec 3.000 m steeplechase: Fiimon -at (Grt) 8:38.78. Triple jump: Aieksandr Petrenko 7 29m Pole vault: Tim nnger (Ger) 5 70 Women's 1.500 m: Sy'w.a Ejdys
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      108 30 National Stadium Closing Ceremony Field of Dreams: A closing party ($l5. Tribute to the National $10 with proof of purchase Stadium (Saturday) of Fields ci Dreams ticket). Programme highlights Jldkete 5.30pm: Singapore Fnd*Y Adu't: -tS2 VMalaysia ex-internationals Child/student: §8 7.10pm: Cauldron light-up q,, Saturday Adult: $20 ceremony (normal gallery) and
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      69 31 TV times SOCCER: Copa America: Uruguay v Peru (Live, Ch22. tomorrow, 6am). TENNIS: Wimbledon Championships: Ist rd (Live. Ch24 6.30pm). HOCKEY: SHF League Men's Premier: Tornados v SCC (Delta Stadium, 7.30pm). SOCCER: SGSFL, Divi: PUB RC v SCDF SA (PUB RC) Div 2 MOE B v Sentosa LG (Tanglm 2).
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    809 32 "Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall csass to be nsvsr. Never was time It was not, end and beginning ars dreams." The Bhagavad Gita VADIVELOO SINNAMAL (Wife of Late Mr. Angappan Naidu) Exemplary Family Award 2004 Organised by MCYS Extended Family Category Ist Prize Winner Age: 83
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    387 33 on the demise of her beloved Mother and his beloved Mother-in-law ISEPOMA X S BAPPO (SANTHA) AGE: 66 l&gt;ass«*d awa&gt; \h&lt;h i-fulK on 25 lune 2007. Dearly missed by brother, sisters, loved oru-s, m-piii-Ms nieces. Husband: Sinnava kanapath\ deceased I Mother: ftdlUppon lanaki *&gt;ons l)aughiers-in-law. s I iMgDWMI Anitha Oaufthwrs
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      420 35 New York DOW Jones and Mr Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are close to ;i pact that would protect the journalistic independence of The Wall Street Journal if News Corp acquired the media company. However, people close to sources involved in the
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      551 35 BLOOMBERG NEWS. ASSOCIATED PRESS May sales down 0.3% to nearly 6m units and supply of unsold homes soars to 15-year peak Washington SALES of previously owned homes in the United States fell last month to the lowest in almost four
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      366 35 BLOOMBERG NEWS London THE London Stock Exchange (LSE), Europe's third-largest exchange, agreed to buy Italy's Borsa Italiana for 1.63 billion euros (553.36 billion) in shares, as increased competition forces equity markets to consolidate. The British exchange will offer 4.9 of its own
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      37 35 AFP Yesterday s 18.087 4« (-111.15 poM) Japanese share pnces dosed down 0 per cent, tut by tosses last Friday on Wai Street where fresh signs of trouble m the housing martrt unnerved investors
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      39 35 YestenLiy's ClOSt: 21.822 35 177 56 points) Hong tang stocks closed 081 percent tower m volatile trade, snapping s« sessons of gams as MMtors locked m irohts after sharp fads on China s bourses AFf
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      30 35 Yesterday s close-. 3.941.08 (-150.36 pomts) Cbmese stocks *el 4 percent ma rater -coaster sessen as investors netted rate Me to cool the fast growing economy AFP
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      38 35 Sydney S&P ASX 200 Yesterday's 6.329.7 52.9 points) Australian stocks Ml 083 per cent *ftt) investor smtiment shaken by the seM-or on Wai Street last fnday Volume was 1 91 Wton shares *wtti AssbBb*on 9P 3 Mhon) AFP
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      31 35 Yestenlays closfc un.ij (-14.44 points) Malaysian share pnces closed 103 per cent lower due to the plunge m US markets and concerns over a Memgtobal ntcicst rates AFP
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      36 35 Yesterdays dOSS: 14.417.72 (+2O 36 pants) Mian share pnces rase 014 per cert m cautious trade, as global martets turned weak ahead or a monetary pokey meehng of the US Federal Reserve tonunuw. AFP
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      34 35 Yesterdays 2.15*2 (-0.11 POMI) Indonesian stocks closed MUe changed Mffti early weakness from Mai Street s poor hmsh last Fndayoftseiby a rebound «i Pprusahaan Gas Negara. ar.j gams m mnen AFf
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      33 35 Yestenlay's 784.12 (-7.83 ports) »Thai stocks dosed 1 03 per cert tower on prof* taking hi rate-sensitive stocks ahead of the US Federal Reserve s meetng on nterest ra*^s AFP
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      9 35 YESTERDAYS CLOSE: 3,580.33
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      264 35 Stock Name MR Close Change Mcrtm CaprtaCo** Capital and CapitaKall Chart SemiCMtf CrtyOw CWRtSftttlCft Cosco Corp Creative Twk OlSCrp OTAC Datatratt Ftl Genlntl HKlartd Hytlui MM iartfmt CtC JuroNf Ttcfc KepptiCarp Reppelljad labroyMariM Ml 0 6? 2 ISO 0100 0 96 2780 OOttO 0 6? 3
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      54 35 Bin lot 259.203.000 Equate 204.725.000 itutcM Srp 171 ,081.000 Eastf alt Ttck 146.265.000 HIM Erp 13? 057.000 CentiHi«i 130.589 000 Sapphire 103.427.000 **imn 99.082.000 Penfimi 82.831.000 Tonfiiaiii 81.191.000 tan 25 tapwlwi 80,700.000 IprMS 71.936.000 FMH IMp 69.286.000 AOM 67.153.000 JafeTMk 65.212.000 ASTI 59.151.000 Ck»M 55.568.000 Imrti 49.094.000 CSC
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      146 35 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (SAM): UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS JM2S SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT Of FOREIGN CURRENCY Aust dollar Can*** ***** lui o 2 0610 Malaysian rmggrt' 0 4434 HI dollar Sterlutg pound 3 0590 US dollar 1 5300 ***** ***** 2 0840 0 4443 1
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      1446 35 Bonds, Loans Warrants nuMtcnw mti mn mi l^W RHU i? lH 140 14 J"9 KMlMMI 171 7 74 S 74 9337 l»lll MlCWHTH 67 S 7 47 77 1(74 gmMrt»»H 7S "ii saassia Ji Efi i s 13S 4161 CUMfawWittiit US .1 in 8 r 79S 13S I HI CijMMJtfcfgMpTl
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      406 36 REUTERS nters top 10 list laparv firms as jre&gt; r &gt;■ but drops out ins ire lost 1 OKYO NINTENDO zipped past Sony briefly m market capitalisation vesteiday to become one of Japan s lop 10 valuable stocks as it elbows the Play
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      335 36 FINANCIAL TIMES Bkijinc; C HINA has unexpectedly replaced 'he head of Sinopec, \m.« x largest oil refiner. Mr Chen Tonghai resigned as chainMUi of Hong Kong-listed Saopec, m which the state is the majority shareholder, for "personal reasons", the company and China's State-owned Assets Supervision and
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      468 37 NICHOLAS FANG DBS Bank broke the mould when it Nuhmitted its own entry tor this year's Singapore Effies instead of taking the r.iuitional route of going through a marketing agency And the bank achieved another first when its campaign "Living. Breaddat
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      721 37  -  Nicholas Fang Manager uses vibrant red and black to achieve strong brand recognition in DBS campaign By SHE was behind numerous award-winning marketing campaigns, including a silver award at the recent Singapore Effies. And many in the industry point to her as
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      177 38 The 280-unit development in Outram. which was completed in 1^76. could be put up tor s;ile soon for more than $500 million, say observers. H While some owners are on sale. BOM architects hope the building will be preserved, with one reportedly saying that it should be
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      519 38  -  Joyce Teo By Property Correspondent TWO iconic buildings The Riverwalk next to Boat Quay and Pearl Bank Apartments in Outram could be torn down soon if their collective sales go through. Elsewhere, two other residential developments in Leonie Hill and Upper
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      417 38  -  Arthur Poon Group to strengthen investment banking unit and expand into private equity By JAPANESE financial group Daiwa Securities marked its 35th anniversary in Singapore yesterday by unveiling plans to boost its presence here significantly. It will double its headcount
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        1465 39 The Beijing Hualian Group (BHG) made headlines recently when it became the first Chinese retail giant to venture into Singapore. Its purchase of Japanese department store, Seiyu, is a tribute to one man's vision and signals the coming of age of China's retail industry Like the legendary
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      583 40  -  Lee Su Siiyan r onse to Stanley Fan's comments comes ahead of vital holders' meeting By C (twpames Correspondent JUST two days before a vit3l shareholders' meeting, a public row between the independent directors of Yellow Pages (Singapore) and
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      795 40  -  Lhe Su Shyan By Companies Co) respondent YELLOW Pages is a household name, thanks to its wide lv used directory services, but it has rarely hit the headlines because of a steady and unexciting ieputation. Now. however, things
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      619 40  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK By Markets Correspondent SO THE local market is not shockproof after all. It just took some jitters over that old favourite United States interest rates to send the hourse sliding. The Straits Times Index (STI) fell
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      247 40 ALVIN FOO WARRANT WATCH \RKANTS on oil palm player Wilmar International enjoyed strong buying interest, after a mator acquisition was confirmed and the counter received an analysts' upgrade. Lasi Friday, the company announced shareholders' approval for a US$l 6 billion (552.46 billion) acquisition of
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      609 41  -  Alvin Foo Govt may need to step in to curb surge in such loans: Citigroup report By THE financial industry is becoming so exposed to the property sector, via loans to developers and other market players, that the Government may have to
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      220 41  -  RIG AND OFFSHORE DEALS BIG contracts just keep rolling in for rig-builder Keppel Fels (KepFels), which said yesterday that it has just won two more deals worth a combined US$534 million (SsB2l million). The first contract, valued at US$4OO million, is for the construction of
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        Lock icon There are no guerillas in this pretty town
        1080 43  -  Shaan Moledina ONE great pay-off in visiting an exotic place lies in debunking stereotypes. So when the Central American country of Guatemala is mentioned, what do you think of? Before crossing the border from Belize, I associated the country with guerillas, political
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        100 44 Get a macadamia oil face massage I and indulge in a bag of JL chocolate-covered macadamias at the Finca Macadamia. 2 Venture away from more comfortable modes of transport and experience the authentic way of travel in Guatemala the "chicken bus". 3 Visit the Mercado Central
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        65 44 1 Don't book your hotel in advance. There ere other great options for accommodation in Antigua the most common being staying with a Guatemalan family. 2 Do not decide on a language school without first visiting a few if you want to attend one. There are over 70 language
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        1089 45  -  Joyce Hooi Competition and budget airlines do their part to keep airfares low. But fuel surcharges and airport taxes are soaring, making the cost of your air ticket even higher MS KATHY Wong thought she was seeing double when she booked Jetstar Asia tickets to
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        323 46 FOR the frequent traveller, it pays to know where \oiir hard-earned dollars are going Lite! looks at charges levied by major airports around the world. All airport tax rales are quoted in Singapore dollars In addition to airport taxes, travellers should factor in other
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        80 47 It feels a little like Wolfowitz trying to get his girlfriend a job' Actor Brad Pitt on casting girlfriend Angelina Jolie (right) in A Mighty Heart Marriage is more interesting than iove because love has an ending but marriage doesn't Taiwanese TV producer Wang Wei-chung hands-on, like too
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        717 47 MY BROTHER and I will be flying to Darwin for the first time this August for six days. We are planning to visit kakadu National Park and I luru. and are on a budget. Is it better and more economical to book the tours online or book them when
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        651 48 The Tokyo edition of Life! Takes You Places will see four teams race against the defending Taipei champions on Thursday Hong Xinyi BROTHERS Soong Poh Luon and Soong Poh Loong are the team to beat in the third edition of Life! lakes You Places reality
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        427 48  -  Ng Yi-Sheng &gt; theatre THE TRAIN Cho-ln Theatre Esplanade Theatre Studto Last Saturday BACK in 1998, director Park Chung-euy began to develop a new style of drama, drawing from both Korean traditions of masked dance and modern Western techniques of physical theatre. The Train was his first
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        246 49 The Hong Kong action movie star will be in Singapore later this year for the opening HONG KONG action movie star Jackie Chan is opening a cafe here in September. Hoardings for the cafe, Jackie Chan's Cafe Coffee Tea, have come up at a shop
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        342 49 AP SAN FRANCISCO If the Summer Of Love established San Francisco as the hub of hippie culture, the summer of 2007 may be remembered as a time the United States commemorated 1960s counterculture by taking the "counter" out of it. From New York,
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        467 51  -  Huang Xueling THEY are powerhouses in their own right and now. Anita Sarawak. Maria Cordero. Frances Yip and Elisa Chan are teaming up for i one-night concert here in September. Called Four Asian Divas Live In Singapore, the two-hour-long concert will be at the Singapore
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        177 51 HONG KONG Oops, it is showing again. Hong Kong singer Yumiko Cheng (right), who last year unwittingly revealed her panties during a charity stunt, had another wardrobe malfunction last Saturday. Her tube top slipped down during the live telecast of a TV show in
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        99 51 END OF FEUD: Half brothers Julian and Scan Lennon have reconciled after an eight-year feud, Julian said. After contacting Scan's tour manager this year, Julian surprised his younger brother backstage following a show in Prague, and they hugged... FESTIVAL WINS: Tian Zhuangzhuang won the Best Director award at the
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        252 51 AP, AFP LONDON Prince William and former girlfriend Kate Middleton (below) have resumed their relationship, British newspapers said on Sunday. The couple, who announced in April that they had split up, attended a party at an army barracks together earlier this month, newspapers claimed. At the barracks
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        169 81 CLARIFICATION ERRORS 1. In Work, Live And Play On Your 3G Phone, Digital Life, June 19, UOB Kay Hian has clarified that its online account holders are not able to trade using their 3G mobile phones and PDAs. 2. In a True Or False snippet which appeared in
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      • GST HIKE
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          249 81 CHUA HIAN HOU gives the six-day countdown on what gizmos to get before the GST increase. From here to page 4 You have just under a week left to buy the tech gadgets you want before the 2 per cent GST hike makes things more
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          121 81 IF YOU HAVE cash to spare, then pick up that flat-panel TV, convergence devices including gaming consoles, and hard-disk-based DVD-recorders. This is because prices for most consumer electronics devices have gone as low as they can get so you w ljoy some savings if you buy
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        121 82 Meanwhile, gaming consoles like the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 that were launched just this year, are made by only a few manufacturers all of which are already suffering losses for these devices. And prices of DVD recorders, especially hard disk-based ones, which used to cost
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        158 82 DIGITAL IMAGING MOST CONSUMER DIGITAL imaging products like cameras, camcorders and printers, which cost just a few hundred dollars, have hit a price plateau, even though the technology behind them will keep improving every six to nine months with the release of new models. in addition, the
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        Lock icon Only if you need it
        294 82 COMPUTERS PRICES FOR NEW computers range from just $600 for entry-level models for basic word processing and Web surfing to over $3,000 for bleeding-edge built-for-gaming But PCs and the parts that go into making them like processors, memory chips and graphics cards are among the
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        238 83 ►►CELLPHONES DO NOT RUSH to buy a new mobile phone this week just to save on the higher GST from this Sunday. Mobile phone prices, said research firm GfK Asia's commercial director for telecommunications and imaging, Mr Stanley Kee, always depreciate quickly, so the phone you are
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        280 83 BUSINESSES FOR COMPANIES, BUYING or even just ordering tech items before the GST hike could mean thousands of dollars in savings. That is because companies purchases are bigger and in many cases, pricier compared to consumer purchases. On the macro level, the decision to buy now or
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        99 85 AS IN PREVIOUS years, phone makers made the biggest splash with their new cellphones at the CommunicAsia and Broadcast Asia events held at Singapore Expo. Promoters from south Korean electronics giant LG show off the LG KE97O Shine cellphone (right), one of many new models
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        455 85 IDA survey shows few jobs for digital media, amid the buzz at the imbX trade show last week. By ALFRED SIEW Singapore's push for interactive digital media has yet to create many jobs for the much-touted growth sector, going by the latest figures
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        331 87 Sharp shooter: Sony Ericsson KB5O What's cool: It's hard to decide whether this is a phone with a camera, or a camera with a phone. There is the 5-megapixel resolution, auto focus, Xenon flash, dedicated camera keys and a 2.2-inch LCD screen. On the other hand, it's 3G
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        580 89 ►►imbX 2007 ROUND-UP An e-concierge service launched last week will clue tourists in on sights and sounds here. By SERENE LUO The closest I've ever come to a concierge is the human kind a friend named Ali, who wears golden key pins on his lapels
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        272 89 SECRET NUMBER Singapore company Global Roam has come up with a way to mask a user's real mobile phone number. The cMask Mobil? service works like this: the system generates a phone number to subscribers, which they can then use to make and receive calls to
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        Lock icon Game gadgets let you feel the rumble
        708 91 The Washington Post Electronics makers are inventing new peripherals that allow greater immersion in game worlds Walking past a crack in a wall in the computer game Broken Sword, players feel a draft of air in the real world. When a virtual plane
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        497 92 NEBOJSA NOVAKOVIC, who visited Computex Taipei 2007, tells what to expect in the shops here in the next few months A fter the demise of Las ZX Vegas-based Comdex in 2003 JL jL after 24 years, and the re-focus of Ceßit on the German and European
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        Lock icon Looks like a sequel, plays like a copy
        709 93 Star Craft 2 turns out to be startlingly similar to its predecessor in gameplay. So why are game critics everywhere giving it the thumbs up? By FENG ZENG KUN A decade after its smash hit Star Craft, game developer BlizJL JL zard
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    • coolgear New products and services for the consumer
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        119 94 Safety first You don't have to worry about security with the new Fujitsu Lifeßook T4220. It boasts an array of security features such as the Bios lock, hard disk lock, anti-theft lock and fingerprint recognition technology, so your personal data remains personal and your laptop remains yours. Weighing less
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        110 94 Buy Mac, get iPod free The school holidays are over, and Apple is helping to ease the back-to-school blues of students and teachers alike with its Major in Mac promotion. Students or educational staff who purchase a Mac will get a bonus iPod nano by mail-in rebate. That means
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        147 94 Singapore mobile operators, Ml and Star Hub, will soon be offering MeTV, a mobile portal for users to upload and share their video clips online, as a joint mobile service to their respective customers, expected to be available early in the third quarter of the year.
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        Lock icon Universal remotes No more numb thumbs
        91 94 No more fiddling with hard-to-press buttons when using your universal remote control: one trigger finger is all you need with the touch-screen Harmony 1000 by Logitech. Control your audio, video, gaming and even lighting with its one-touch control on the large 3.5-inch touch screen.
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        97 94 Faster downloads Aztech has launched its new Wireless N Draft Router, the WL9SORT4, which promises speeds up to 12 times faster than wireless data rates and greater coverage of up to four times the range. The 802.1 In router features a pol- ished and ergonomic design, with WEP, WPA
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        149 95 Talk is free Singapore company, Sky Voice, has jumped on the VoIP bandwagon to provide free calls over the Internet. The service, similar to Skype, allows users to make unlimited free computer-to-computer calls for absolutely no charge. But for a monthly subscription of $15.75, it is also offering unlimited
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        84 95 Stone speakers Creative has launched a unique portable docking speaker system together with the Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus. The Zen Stone Travel Sound speaker system comes in one light, stylish block that is easy to carry. Simply slot in your Ston the slot in the centre and
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        121 95 Detailed images Panasonic has launched the high-est-resolution camera to date yet the DMC-FXIOO, which has 12.2 megapixels to give you even clearer detail in your shots. It is also able to record motion images at 1280 by 720 HD resolution. That means you won't be able to hide that
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        109 95 Top end display NEC has launched a new monitor with a name that is quite a mouthful: the MultiSync LCD269OWUXi. The 26-inch LCD panel boasts NEC's X-Light Pro feature, which constantly monitors variations in background lighting, brightness and colour reproduction and automatically corrects them internally, making it ideal
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        146 95 Mini SLR You will never "lose face" with Canon's new Power Shot S5 IS digital camera it boasts advanced face detection capability that automatically detects up to nine faces within a scene and optimises focus, exposure and flash output accordingly. It can also be activated while recording movies as
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        246 95 BOTH HOTMAIL AND Yahoo have spruced up their Web-based mail service. Stompers talk about their favourites. uniquelyinpairs: i prefer Hotmail.:] And i only use Hotmail, but yahoo messenger is nicer than msn. Still prefer Hotmail though. LoCoSinG: Hotmail, easiest to access especially since i'm on messenger. keegenoz: Hotmail is
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        59 95 PHOTO: 1. Umbrella Rihanna 2. Don't Matter Akon 3. Tian Shi Mayday 4. Over It Katharine McPhee 5. All My Roads Coilin Raye 6. Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie 7. Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 8. Cupid's Chokehold Gym Class Heroes 9. Give It To Me
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        453 96 It's Hogwarts fever among bloggers as fans prepare for the release of the final Harry Potter book on July 21 Harry die 7 http://tlgray.blogspot.com/2007/04/temptation-to-know-end-harry-potter.html "I'm really anticipating the new release of the seventh book...However, I'm also having a lot of reservations. I know that
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        565 97 Singapore-based graphic designer Jonathan Yuen wins three awards at the Webbys on his first try. By GERALDINE CHEANG Conceptualising an idea is hard work. Just ask graphic designer Jonathan Yuen, 30. It took him six months to come up with the concept behind his multi-award winning
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        563 98  -  CHUA HIAN HOU DIGITAL EDGE BY The Internet can be used to promote religious and racial harmony among the tech-savvy generation With the recent news of the role of the Internet in the radicalisation of Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader, it is heartening to hear of individuals
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        461 99  -  Ninin rairien Siama Ninja Gaiden (NG) was among the best reasons to own an Xbox back in 2004, as was its director's cut, NG Black, when it came out in 2005. Now long-time Playstation loyalists can finally see for themselves what the fuss was all about
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        86 99 HERE ARE TWO techniques that the game does not tell you about: The rolling thunder Against attacks that strike consecutively and are unblockable, use the rolling thunder, a dodging manoeuvre that involves jumping the moment you recover from a roll, and rolling the moment your feet lands (hit L
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        453 101 SHERWIN LOH checks out the Asian debut of the world-famous video game symphony in Singapore Not too many gamers were on hand to experience and enjoy the full musical sensation of Play! A Video Game Symphony's Asian premiere. Too bad for them, because they lost
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        189 101 Crush Years of pent-up frustration have left insomniac Danny hospitalised under the care of Dr Reubens,who claims to have invented a machine that can cure Danny by eliminating his trauma. The machine metamorphoses Danny's emotional distress into 40 3D stages that he must overcome in his head.
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        304 102 product] REVIEWsJ :h smartphone $848 Get it from electronics retailers When I first got my hands on the HTC Touch, I thought it was love at first sight. But it turned out to be a case of infatuation instead. The HTC Touch looks like a dream
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        344 102 $858 Available at most telco shops Seems like someone is mirroring someone. That was my first reaction when I saw the Nokia N76. Black, thin, metallic trims, mirror-fin-ished external screen, laser-etched keypad all that is so Motorola Razr, but the N76 misses the
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        355 103 Ji" 3 3 0 XpressMusic 5658 Available at most telco shops Designed primarily for the young and the young at heart, the highlight of the rubber-encased Nokia 5700 is its twist-me keypad which reminds me of Rubik's cube. You access music, video and camera functions with twists of
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        434 103  -  Melvin Seah 02 Xda Flame •$1,498 Available at O2 retailers The O2 Kd2 Flame is one giant of a PDA-phone it measures 126 mm x 74mm x 17.5 mm think first-generation Palm Pilots, which were as big as a person's palm. That said, big in this case may
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        380 103 LG Flatron L1982U LCD Price to be announced Get from authorised LG dealers Here is a 19-inch LCD monitor so flexible it can fold, twist and turn to give the user the most comfortable viewing angle. Designed with advanced dual hinge and sliding
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        530 104  -  Tan Chong Yaw, lyber-shot DSG-H9 $899 Buy it at authorised dealers or visit www.sony.com.sg There are some products that have people itching to grab them as soon as they are announced. Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-H9 is one such product. The drool list: ►►15 times zoom instead
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        479 104 npoi? 1 QHow do I install Windows programs like Internet Explorer in Übuntu 7.04? I have problems connecting to the Internet and my USB network adapter is not compatible with Linux. I tried installing it from the installation CD but failed. I also have problems upgrading
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        475 105 widescreen monitor NEC's new 26-inch widescreen LCD monitor, the MultiSync LCD269OWUXi, features a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. The high-end display is suitable for CAD/CAM work, desktop publishing and other design work. Two A4-size pages can be viewed at the same time on
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        528 105 Anti-piracy crackdown trips over legal snag The Record Industry Association of America's (RIAA) attempt to obtain identities of university students alleged to have violated its members' rights has run into legal trouble. Judge Lorenzo Garcia said that the University of New Mexico did
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        554 107 One trend in enterprise printers is to add more features to make them multifunction or all-in-one printers, reports LESLIE GOH The demand was to provide the tender proposal in triplicate. That was easy enough to do, but the project was complex. There was much to
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          518 109 It can take months for an artist to produce a work of art. But for Mr Patrick Lav, it takes only five seconds. Mr Lav prints replicas of paintings by artists in Asia and sells them at an affordable price with their permission, of course. His company,
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          512 109 Three men, $1.2 million and their very expensive printer. FENG ZENG KUN speaks to the co-founders of local company DigiLab A MILLION dollar budget conjures up fast cars, swanky condominiums and glittering multi-carat diamonds. But armed with a $1.2 million budget, three men used
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          691 111 )R THE MEDiUM TO LARGE ENTERPRISE CMBO6O Vital stats Type: Inkjet Functions: Print, copy, scan, fax Print speeds: black 71ppm colour: 71ppm Print resolution: 600 by 1,200 dpi Star feature: Long-lasting Get the CMBO6O and you will not need to buy another printer anytime soon: it is designed
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          835 113 The popularity of digital music has led to an increasing number of MP3 players, which end up contaminating landfills when their lifecycle ends This past March, Greenpeace made headlines by criticising Apple's environmental policies or lack thereof. The move generated a rare response from Apple CEO
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    • PEOPLE
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        785 114 Mr Steve Chae looks like a typical (read, boring) businessman, but the soft-spoken Korean has an imagination wild enough to make fantasy a reality for millions of gamers. As the product director-cum-game developer for Lineage 11, the popular online role-playing game (RPG) from NCsoft, you could consider him
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        53 116 THE WRITE SPELL J.K. ROWLING'S CHARMED LIFE PAGE 7 _^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B9BBBBB^a^af^HI AITUTAKI IN DANGER THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ONE ISLAND PAGE II NEW INVENTION CHANGES THE WAY PEOPLE CHAT PAGE 13 \3ENES f^ US HIGHLY COMMtNDED 6VTH [PACIHC this Nttl* red dot belongs to r^T V
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          88 117 Every time you see the Little Red Dot pencil, it is time to get creative! Grade the news, write your own headlines, try to guess meanings... whatever you do, have fun! What do you think? Were the Indonesian authorities heavy-handed in the way they dealt with the
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          619 117 The Shaw family is famous for more than just the cinemas. They are also well-known philanthropists, and the Shaw Foundation has given away more than $300 million to a range of charitable causes over the years. How luxury? Well, it is 44m long and three storeys high,
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          526 118 This week the five Ws and an H of what is changing in Singapore, by Andrew duffy WHAT IS HAPPENING? Prices are set to rise, thanks to a few changes. The biggest is the rise in Goods and Services Tax (GST) which customers and businesses pay when they
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          237 118 How would you rate the news items below: HOT, WARM, COOL or COLD? Write down the category in the spaces provided, then answer the quiz questions. A new $20 bill will be introduced tomorrow to mark the 40th year of an agreement between Singapore and Brunei to have interchangeable
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          191 119 PHOTO: 1, 100,000,000 yuan Convert this amount into Singapore dollars. What would it be? (Look at The Straits Times Money pages for a conversion table) What it is The amount of money China will spend on building its second-largest desalination plant, which purifies sea water. It will
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          376 119 Wedding of Brunei's Princess What was the occasion Princess Hajah Majeedah Nuurul Bulqiah, 31, the fourth child of the Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, married Pengiran Khairul Khalil Pengiran Syed Haji Jaafari, 32, an officer in the Prime Minister's Office, earlier this month. How they celebrated The lavish
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          440 120  -  EMILY LEX Kids are having a blast learning science through sounds. BY Whoosh. Pitter-patter. Clang! Just before the holidays, a noisy affair took place at the Singapore Science Centre. A series of four music science workshops aimed at teaching students science through sounds was organised last month.
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          38 121 Read through The Straits Times for stories on medical issues or news events, for example, breakthroughs, accidents or research updates. Write down five new medical or health-related terms you have learnt i M Ma A
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          437 121 FOR YOU► TTSH became fully operational at its fourth site in 1999. It was officially opened on April 1, 2000 by the then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. That same year, it became the first hospital here to go online on a hospital-wide scale, linking all
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      • BIGBUCKS
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          413 122 &gt;US FORTUNES Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling never dreamed a story of a young wizard could bring so much magic to her life, by zheng aiping ML uthor J.K. Rowling's love for writing started when she was six. In school, she was good at languages and
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          125 122 Denomination In the context of money, denominations represent units of value. For example, two-dollar notes and ten-dollar notes would represent different denominations in currency. Assets Items of value owned either by an individual or an organisation that can be converted into cash if necessary, such as property. Exchange rate
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          211 123 In Milan, Italy, a group of hares caused havoc when they invaded the runways at Milan's Linate Airport. The 80 or so hares confused the ground radar that is meant to prevent an air crash from happening. Because of this, flights into the airport
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          90 123 The country was embroiled in a slave scandal when 168 people were arrested for trafficking in slave labour for illegal mines and brick kilns in northern and central China. Hundreds of people, including children and the mentally handicapped, had been enslaved at these sites and the police continued to
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          67 123 On June 17, more than 6,500 anti-government protesters gathered in central Bangkok, demanding the resignation of the coup leaders who ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The protesters, mostly Thaksin supporters, also called for immediate elections. The country has been under military rule since the coup last September. Daily
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