The Straits Times, 12 March 2008

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 130 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 2008 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • Article
    Lock icon More S'poreans say 'I do' to spouses of a different race
    562 1  -  Theresa Tan By THE number of Singaporeans marrying outside their race has been rising steadily over the years and is now double that of a decade ago. The trend, experts said, was driven by several factors, including the increasingly
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    Lock icon Poor poll results limit KL's Cabinet choices
    703 1  -  Carolyn Hong Abdullah faces challenge of picking team with adequate minority representation By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur A DAY after securing the support of his coalition despite its disastrous electoral showing, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi faces the challenge of forming a
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Marshall's life and legacy remembered
      983 1  -  K.C. VIJAYAN By SINGAPORE'S first chief ministerDavid Marshall was urged several times to write his memoirs, but his answer was always no. The reason: He was more interested in "today's breakfast, not yesterday's dinner". His widow, Mrs Jean Marshall, said: "I think he felt it
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon GIC buying $2. 1b stake in Benetton family's holding firm
      483 3  -  Jessica Cheam Privately run Sintonia is involved in infrastructure and telco-linked investments By; FHE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is investing 1 billion euros (552.14 billion) in in Italian firm run by the famous Benetton fashion family. The GlC's
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      Lock icon Recent deals
      129 3 The GIC was said on Monday to have teamed up with private British firm Orchard Street Investment Management to create a $840 million fund to invest in commercial real estate in Britain. The GIC bought the Westin Tokyo hotel (right) for 80 billion yen (551.09 billion) from Morgan
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      Lock icon About Benetton
      109 3 The Benetton family owns two investment holding firms, Edizione Holding and Sintonia, which have a combined turnover of 9 billion euros (5519.2 billion) and a total workforce exceeding 60,000. Edizione Holding controls the Benetton Group, famous for its fashion brands such as United Colors of Benetton, Sisley, Playlife
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      Lock icon DAVID IN RED
      64 3 Catch Michaelangelo's David as you have never seen him dressed in fabric used to make the kebaya, a traditional embroidered blouse. The 8.5m-tall fibreglass replica, Surrounding David, takes pride of place at the National Museum, and is inspired by the architectural form of the Rotunda. The work,
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      Lock icon THE DIRT ON 'MR CLEAN'
      710 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, REUTERS New York Governor, a self-styled moral crusader, caught arranging tryst with prostitute "I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the
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      10 4 A 33 H I WHMftlliiliillfflHW AIRLINE OF THE YEAR 2007
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      47 4 PROPERTY Money down More foreigners in Singapore are buying a home rather than renting one. We look at the new trend. "i'l'm 'Silll "Iti!" China scholar in NTU has leukaemia E-mail sent asking for donations draws negative response from netizens Why should we pay for China student?
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon MB posts for two opposition states still up in the air
      570 6  -  Reme Ahmad SELECTIONS AFTERMATH PAS choice for Perak said to have been rejected; Selangor Sultan asks to see all coalition partners By In Kuala Lumpur TWO opposition-ruled states remained without menteris besar yesterday as their rulers for the first
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      Lock icon BN also kept waiting
      72 6  -  REMEAHMAD THE opposition coalition is not the only group being kept waiting on the appointment of chief ministers. The rulers of Perlis and Terengganu, two states retained by the Barisan Nasional, have also not approved the appointments of the chief ministers. This has raised speculation that
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    • MALAYSIA
      • ELECTIONS AFTERMATH
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          Lock icon Penang Chief Minister vows clean govt as he takes office
          718 8  -  Chow Kum Hor Lim pledges to end pro-Malay policies but analyst says he has no jurisdiction over them By Malaysia Correspondent In Penang AFTER taking power here yesterday in a quiet ceremony, the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) immediately promised
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          Lock icon 'Time in prison made me a stronger person'
          350 8 BERNAMA Georgetown DEMOCRATIC Action Party leader Lim Guan Eng, who was sworn in as Penang chief minister, told reporters yesterday that his experience behind bars had made him a much stronger person. Mr Lim, 47, is believed to be the first former
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          Lock icon Penang residents still coming to grips with poll results
          698 8  -  Chow Kum Hor By Malaysia Correspondent In Penang A NEWSPAPER vendor moved from table to table with a stack of Chinese dailies. "Your summonses are waived. No need to pay fine," he cried out repeatedly. That piece of good news in
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          Lock icon PAS denies reports that it may impose Islamic laws
          440 8  -  Hazlin Hassan By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur THE Islamist Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) yesterday sought to dispel fears that it would try to impose strict Islamic laws in states where it is a dominant partner in an opposition coalition following
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          Lock icon Controversial former Klang councillor dies of heart attack
          427 10  -  Arlina Arshad By In Kuala Lumpur DATUK Zakaria Md Deros, the former Port Klang assemblyman whose 21-bathroom mansion caused an outcry, died after a heart attack yesterday at age 62. His wheelings and dealings came under scrutiny last year when he failed
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        • POST-ELECTION SNIPPETS
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            Lock icon CONGRATULATIONS FROM SINGAPORE
            77 10 SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Law S. Jayakumar and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng have sent their congratulations to Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak on the Barisan Nasional's election victory. Minister for Foreign
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            Lock icon MCA PRESIDENT URGED TO RESIGN
            175 10 BERNAMA PETALING JAVA: A group of Malaysian Chinese Association's (MCA) grassroots leaders have demanded that its president Ong Ka Ting take responsibility for the party's poor performance in the general elections and resign. Branding Datuk Seri Ong as a "dictator", the group of 15 Selangor
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            Lock icon THAI PREMIER WON'T MEET PAS LEADERS
            181 10 BERNAMA BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej yesterday said he had no plans to meet leaders from Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) during his familiarisation visit to Malaysia next Tuesday although the party is now governing two states bordering Thailand's restive southern provinces. Mr Samak,
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          Lock icon Anwar plotting opposition's next move
          793 12  -  Leslie Lopez Alliance needs to prove its ability to govern with prudence and transparency, he says By South-east Asia Correspondent ENTERING last week's election as the wild card in Malaysian politics, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has emerged from the polls as the politician holding the
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          Lock icon Now for the hard part
          461 12 PACING the long corridors of his double-storey home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim fields telephone calls from his opposition colleagues, trying to hammer out compromises for new state government positions. "You think winning the elections is difficult. It is also
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          Lock icon Three parties 'may formalise their alliance'
          412 12 BLOOMBERG, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, SIN CHEW DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S three main opposition parties are considering a formal alliance after their strongest showing in 50 years in the March 8 general election, said former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. Datuk Seri Anwar said
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    • CHINA
      • TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL POLLS
        • MR POPULAR TAKES ON MR SURVIVOR
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            Lock icon Is the 'nice guy' up to the job?
            888 14 Taiwan's upcoming presidential election on March 22 is a clash between two of the island's biggest political personalities. The Straits Times' Taiwan Correspondent Ong Hwee Hwee sizes up the presidential hopefuls Taipei TAIWAN'S presidential front runner Ma Ying-jeou is out to prove
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            Lock icon Can the underdog turn the tide – again?
            971 15 Can the underdog turn the tide again? Taipei WITH a motto that says "make the impossible happen", Mr Frank Hsieh could have easily been dismissed as a hopeless idealist. But critics know better than to take the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) veteran lightly. The lawyer-turned-politician has a track record of
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      • NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
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          Lock icon China holds back on bureaucracy reforms
          661 17  -  Chua Chin Hon No new proposals to overhaul key areas like railway, finance and power By China Bureau Chief In Beijing CHINA yesterday unveiled a watered-down plan to streamline its bureaucracy, confirming fears that powerful vested interests were blocking much needed reforms in the
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          Lock icon SECURITY AT THE SQUARE
          73 17 HUNDREDS of policemen are patrolling Tiananmen Square, which is next to the the Great Hall of the People, where the national parliamentary session is being held. Beijing's entire force of about 50,000 policemen are on special alert for the parliamentary meeting as well as the concurrent
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          Lock icon Top marathon runner to skip Beijing Games
          500 17  -  Tracy Quek By China Correspondent In Beijing FEARING Beijing's smog might ruin his health, the world's leading marathoner has pulled out from the Summer Olympics event, dealing an embarrassing blow to organisers' clean-up efforts. World record-holder Haile Gebrselassie's decision to skip the marathon
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          Lock icon Wu Yi urged to stay on
          169 17 CONGRESS PEOPLE MANY Chinese netizens have urged Vice-Premier Wu Vi (right), who is due to retire after the ongoing National People's Congress, to stay on for a few more years. The 69-year-old is often described in Internet chatrooms as a person "with character" and
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          Lock icon Late leaders' sons up for vice-chairmen posts
          129 17 THE sons of two iconic Chinese leaders have been nominated as vice-chairmen to the nation's top political advisory body, reported South China Morning Post yesterday. Mr Deng Pufang (above left), the eldest son of late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, and Mr Hu Deping
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          Lock icon 8.7% rise in Feb's CPI fuels inflation fears
          506 17  -  VINCE CHONG By In Beijing CHINA'S consumer price index (CPI) exceeded forecasts and rose by 8.7 per cent last month, official statistics showed yesterday, fuelling fresh concerns over inflation. This pushed the main inflation gauge to nearly a 12-year high, on the
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    • INDIA /SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Two suicide car bombs kill 25 in Lahore
        476 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Latest in wave of violence poses challenge to incoming government in Pakistan Lahore TWO suicide car bombings killed at least 25 people in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore yesterday, posing a fresh challenge to the US-allied country's incoming
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        Lock icon Airport workers threaten action across India
        243 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New Delhi INDIAN airline passengers could face turmoil today with airport workers planning to launch a "non-cooperation" drive to protest against the opening of two private airports. "If we do not get a positive response (to our demands), all staff at 127
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon I'm finished with politics, insists Thaksin
        615 19  -  Nirmal Ghosh He concedes he made mistakes during his years as Thai premier By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok IN WHAT has become a well-rehearsed routine, former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday called a few foreign journalists to a briefing where he said he
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        Lock icon Thai Election Commission panel wants two ruling coalition parties dissolved
        306 19  -  NIRMAL GHOSH A SUB-COMMITTEE of Thailand's Election Commission (EC) yesterday recommended that the Chart Thai and Matchima Thipathaya parties be dissolved. The parties are members of Thailand's six-party ruling coalition. The Chart Thai is a significant member with 39 seats,
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        Lock icon MYANMAR'S GEM AUCTIONS GO ON
        52 19 Despite calls for a boycott, Yangon's gem market still seems to be thriving. This customer was checking the quality of goods at a new auction in Myanmar's largest city yesterday. More than US$l53 million (Ss2l2 million) worth of gems, pearls and jade were on sale.
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        Lock icon Arroyo calls on Congress to pass anti-corruption law
        323 19 REUTERS Manila PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo, under pressure from a graft scandal, said yesterday she would ask Congress to pass an anti-corruption reform Act this year. "On our part, we will hold officials accountable if they are found to be corrupt after
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        Lock icon Manila and Jakarta to set up DNA databank
        338 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS IDENTIFYING TERRORISTS Police say project will be useful in identifying captured or slain militants Manila PHILIPPINE and Indonesian police plan to set up a DNA databank to help identify quickly captured or slain members of the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah
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        Lock icon Indonesia under pressure from rising oil subsidies
        176 20 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIAN oil subsidies could hit 100 trillion rupiah (5515.4 billion) this year on the back of soaring crude prices, the Energy Minister said yesterday, warning it was unclear how long the nation could withstand such pressure. Indonesia is a member of
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        Lock icon Adam Air may be grounded: Minister
        102 20 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIA'S Transport Minister warned yesterday that budget airline Adam Air may be forced to halt operations after a series of accidents. In the latest incident, a Boeing 737-400 operated by Adam Air with more than 170 people on board overshot the runway
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      28 6 More suicide attacks Two suicide car bombings kill at least 25 people in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, the latest in a deadly wave of violence. PAGE 19
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Ecoterrorism new security nightmare for US
      671 21 Attacks by radical Earth Liberation Front have led to costly damage London ELVES are emerging as rivals to Islamic militants as a security nightmare in the United States following a recent spate of arson attacks. Members of the Earth Liberation Front or ELF for
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      Lock icon ELF's weapons include arson, vandalism and death threats
      330 21 TREE hugging is not enough, it seems. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is part of a growing band of activists who are taking to extreme measures to protect the environment and animal rights. In recent times, they have attacked biomedical laboratories, sent
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      Lock icon Anglican leader's syariah remarks naive, says Vatican
      526 22 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Catholic official says archbishop failed to consider reality of syariah ROME THE Vatican's top man for relations with Islam has called the head of the Church of England mistaken and "naive" for suggesting that aspects of syariah law
      REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  526 words
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      Lock icon Travellers to pay more at Heathrow and Gatwick
      208 22 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS London TRAVELLERS using London's two biggest airports Heathrow and Gatwick can expect to be charged higher fees from next month. Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced yesterday that it would allow fees to rise 23.5 per cent at Heathrow
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon DIESEL FUMES 'STRESS THE BRAIN'
        119 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Even brief exposure to the amount of diesel exhaust produced by heavy traffic stresses the brain, and could cause brain damage over the long term, researchers say. In experiments led by Professor Paul Bonn from Zuyd University in the Netherlands, 10 volunteers
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        Lock icon SPACE STATION MISSION BLASTS OFF
        105 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL: The shuttle Endeavour blasted into orbit yesterday on what was to be the longest space station mission ever. The 16-day mission will attempt to build a robot and add a new room that will serve as a laboratory. The Canadian Space
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        Lock icon BIRD FLU VIRUS MUTATING: EXPERT
        131 22 REUTERS HONG KONG: A Chinese expert on respiratory diseases says the HSNI bird flu virus has shown signs of mutation and urged vigilance at a time when seasonal human influenza is at a peak, newspapers reported yesterday. "We have to be very alert and careful
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        Lock icon TAMIL TIGER DEFECTORS WIN POLLS
        111 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BATTICALOA (Sri Lanka): A pro-government militia of Tamil Tiger defectors has swept to victory in the first local elections in Sri Lanka's restive east in 14 years, official results showed yesterday. The armed Tamil People's Liberation Party, which broke away from the main
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN COPTER CRASHES
        101 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA: An Indonesian Air Force helicopter burst into flames after crashing into a sugar-cane plantation yesterday, killing the pilot and critically injuring another person on board, a military spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident in Subang, a district in West
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      545 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG Two people dead, hundreds of flights cancelled and high drama at sea London BRITAIN and France have been battered by hurri-cane-force winds and heavy rain which have left two people dead and sparked widespread travel chaos and drama on the
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      199 23 REUTERS Riyadh A PROMINENT Saudi Arabian cleric has issued a rare public attack on religious hardliners angry over a video showing him dancing at a wedding in the conservative Islamic state, a newspaper reported yesterday. The video, posted on the Internet, showed Sheikh Ab-dul-Mohsen
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        163 24 AN INDIAN grocer has been recognised as having the longest ear hair in the world with tufts so long and dense that he can make two small ponytails. Mr Radhakant Bajpai has follicles sprouting a hefty 13.2 cm out of his ears at their longest
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        395 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS HE HAS driven trains, sailed on a submarine, flown a fighter jet and holds a black-belt in judo. Now outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin is dabbling in a new area theatre criticism. After a surprise visit to a Moscow
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        132 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAPAN'S tax agency yesterday arrested two sisters for allegedly hiding some 5.9 billion yen (SsBo million) in boxes to evade tax on their inheritance, an official said. It was the largest sum of inheritance money ever concealed from the authorities
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      101 25 This gleaming sports car on display may look like a Ferrari, but it is actually a fake. British model Yasmin Le Bon, an anti-counterfeit campaigner, was posing next to the car at the start of the Global Anti-Counterfeit Summit in Brussels, which takes place
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      348 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS He rejects notion of being V-P running mate for Democrat rival Hillary Clinton Biloxi (Mississippi) MR BARACK Obama headed into yesterday's primary in Mississippi, a state he is tipped to win, mocking talk of a "dream ticket" headed by his
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      419 26 REUTERS It works by detecting radiation emitted by people and objects London A BRITISH company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25m away in what could be a breakthrough for
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      306 26 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sydney AN AUSTRALIAN couple who took a spontaneous weekend beach holiday were stunned to arrive home to find a full-scale homicide investigation under way into their presumed murders, reports said yesterday. Mr Roy Ostell and his wife Heather pulled
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      815 25 We'll introduce a third party to your marriage. f And you'll love it. Meet the third party on 16 March at Carlton Hotel. On this tender afternoon, Carlton Wedding Show unites renowned bridal gown designers, wedding planners, jewellers and exquisite culinary fare from the award-winning Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant. Are
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      436 27 TAIWANESE voters choose a new president next weekend free of the disruptive influences and bombast associated with outgoing President Chen Shui-bian. He had his hide tanned after his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was eclipsed by the Kuomintang party in the parliamentary elections in January. He promptly
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      1302 27 SINGAPORE'S FOREIGN POLICY President S R Nathan delivered the MFA Diplomatic Academy's inaugural S. Rajaratnam Lecture on Monday. Here is an edited excerpt of his lecture AS WITH most other countries, geopolitical circumstances played a big role in the formulation of our foreign cyThe circumstances under
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      819 27  -  Doug Bandow By For The Straits Times AMERICA is a military colossus. The Bush administration has proposed spending US$5l5 billion (Ss7ls billion) next year on the military, more, adjusted for inflation, than at any time since World War 11. The US accounts for
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      856 28  -  X Kesavapany By IN A confounding repudiation of pundits who had predicted otherwise, Malaysia's ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN), failed to secure a two-thirds majority in the country's 12th general election. Although the BN's simple majority enables it to form the next
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      792 28  -  Hany Besada By Erica Dybenko For The Straits Times THOUSANDS who fled the conflict in Darfur for safe refuge in Chad are now on the move yet again to escape unstable conditions in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena, shining the spotlight on the African Union's
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      1036 29  -  Bruce Gale »JAPAN'S ECONOMY By Senior Writer IN HIS address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 26, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda digressed from his speech on the world economy and climate change to urge his audience to invest in Japan.
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      25 27 Impotent force The recent unrest in Chad has highlighted the African Union's inability to protect civilians and quell violence in the continent. PAGE 29 ■UNCHUNES
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      508 30 m MDIS: A Great Chapter in My Life JiMfe# y^l2th- 16th March 200T N\ If IT ~W^ t <^^p^®|f/I^™» A Suntec City Exhibition Centre TUE r atciaiav m vmiD iJfe ißilk Level4-Ha*****3&404 THE GATEWAY TO YOUR jf! J§^T% 11.00am-10.00pm Daily V I FUTURE IN TECHNOLOGY. HL J "After sending out
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      1226 30 Singapore today wBiBN^ Periods of showers in the _JL_ 0 n 0 JL~ 0 over many areas. THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 2008 HI HI ASIA WORLD WEATHER USEFUL NUMBERS V I 1 £t Emergency lines L'l-' lUUAI BEUIN' .J%H L S Po^e 999 "> _O^3liZ Poßf Hotline 1800-255-0000
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      811 32  -  Chua Hian Hou By A GROUP of irate anime downloaders are trying to rally other downloaders into suing Odex, a local distributor of Japanese anime. They say they want back the money they paid Odex in settlement for their having allegedly downloaded the Japanese
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      128 33 PUBERTY can be a difficult pill for teenagers to swallow. Raging hormones and mixed emotions may push some into attention-seelring behaviour like self-mutilation. Mind Your Body examines teenage angst this week and the reasons young people go to such lengths as cutting themselves. One
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      106 33 Scrambling to get out of the lashing rain, these people make a run for it at UOB Plaza yesterday. Heavy thunderstorms hit most parts of the island in the afternoon, with light rain continuing into the evening in some areas. According to a National Environment Agency forecast, heavier-than-average
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      584 33  -  Christopher Tan Third-party commissions now part of salesmen's salaries, with CPF deductions; CPF Board still pursuing backdated dues By Senior Correspondent THE Central Provident Fund balances of more than 1,000 car salesmen are looking healthier after motor companies here were made to pay CPF contributions
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      715 35  -  Jessica Jaganathan The area could turn into medical hub as more private doctors set up clinics there By PRIVATE doctors are flocking to the Novena area as the squeeze on clinic space in the Orchard Road belt tightens. The migration could turn
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      114 36 ALMOST $200,000 was raised for Malay cultural organisation Mesra in a golf tournament at the Orchid Country Club yesterday, even though it was called off midway due to a downpour. Mesra, which turns 20 this year, is the People's Association (PA) Malay
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      442 36  -  Carolyn Quek By A 49-YEAR-OLD man was crushed to death yesterday in Pasir Ris when a lorry ran over his car at a red light. The accident was part of a spectacular crash involving five vehicles in Loyang Avenue at around
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      517 36  -  Chong Chee Kin APPEAL FOR COMPENSATION Appeals court overrules decision by ministry not to indemnify worker as his claim was late By IT HAS been more than four years, but Mr Pang Cheng Suan, 42, will finally be compensated for the injuries he suffered in
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      629 37  -  Goh Chin Lian Rising food prices a factor contributing to sentiment against graft By THE Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) expects corruption to emerge as a hot-button issue in Asia this year as slowing growth, rising food prices and political
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      346 37 THE floating interest rate for Central Provident Fund (CPF) members' Special, Medisave and Retirement Accounts (SMRA) will be 3.75 per cent for the period of April 1 to June 30. This is a dip from the 3.9 per cent in
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      289 37  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent A MAN who robbed two prostitutes from China with an accomplice was given the minimum five years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane yesterday. Odd-job worker Tay Hock Soon, 36, admitted to punching and kicking Ms
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      89 37 Secondary 3 students (from left) Soon Vi Hao, Ricia Lee and Goh Wei Ting of Jurongville Secondary School breathe a collective sigh of relief yesterday as their remote-controlled plane takes off. Singapore Polytechnic lecturers Heng Chiang Hiong and Chaganti D.V. Subrahmanyam judged the students' performance during the
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        83 37 A MOTORCYCLIST injured in a collision with a lorry at Woodlands died in hospital on Monday afternoon. Mr Mohamed Zain Majid, 50, had been making a right turn into Woodlands Avenue 4, when he was hit by a lorry travelling along Woodlands Avenue 7. He was conscious when
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        92 37 POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a snatch theft at about 11am on Monday, at Block 504, Bukit Batok Street 52. The woman in her 50s had bent down to pick up her granddaughter when the thief yanked her $600 chain, snapping it in half. Half of
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        89 37 A MALAYSIAN man said to be responsible for at least a dozen break-ins at provision shops, coffee shops and eating houses in Toa Payoh and Bedok was arrested early yesterday morning. Police officers patrolling Toa Payoh Lorong 7 heard noises from a coffee shop at Block 20 at
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      552 38  -  Clarissa Oon HUNT FOR MAS SELAMAT Minister praises citizens, but stresses need to build strong network of trust By THE response of Singaporeans to the escape of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari received an A+ yesterday. Minister Lim Swee Say,
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      549 38  -  Peh Shing Huei By THE opposition Workers' Party (WP) has called for an alternative panel to be set up by the President to look into the escape of terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari. Instead of the committee that was set up by Deputy Prime Minister and
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      79 33 1 Wk HE made SIA a great way to fly, as chairman from its inception in 1972 till 1996. HE played a key role in the 1985 Pan-El crisis. HE has worked with pioneering Old Guard ministers Goh Keng Swee, Hon Sui Sen,Toh Chin Chye. t> Got a burning question
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      295 34 ixi I if We a" 'iave breams. Unfortunately, these dreams often take a back seat when the responsibilities of life LI V 6 fw take over. The reality is that you need financial security to do what it is you really want. f\ f\ \if\ I I X Introducing DBS
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      333 36 HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANT ACT p/ So you don't need a new one now. But what happens when you do? "In 2007, 563 people waited for a kidney transplant but only 46 transplants were performed in the same year." National Organ Transplant Unit For some, it's a race against time. Each
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      310 39  -  Juergen Fechner Paul FitzPatrick ►>OUTRAM MRT SHOOTING Dne reader says copy 3ritish policy; another :ites what that led to I WAS surprised to read that police had used a firearm in a crowded MRT station in last Friday's report, "Knifewielding suspect shot dead at MRT
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      371 39  -  Zainuddin Mohd Ismail CYCLISTS ON AND OFF THE ROAD I REFER to last Friday's articles about the Budget Debate on the Ministry of Transport. I am surprised at the brief response by Minister of State for Transport Lim Hwee Hua, citing land constraints, to the
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      240 39  -  Sarah Sum-Campbell (Ms) I AM the mother of a young baby. We take public transport and walk on the streets and pedestrian paths. My walk with my baby in her pram is a hazardous journey most days because of cyclists: They
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      198 39  -  William Toy Kay Chiak MALAYSIAN GENERAL ELECTION I HAVE the feeling that history is about to repeat itself following the unexpected showing by the opposition parties at last Saturday's general election in Malaysia. Forty years ago in 1969, the Alliance the predecessor to
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      387 39  -  Liew Lin Hai I REFER to Saturday's letter, "HDB ceiling doesn't factor in late marriages". Ms Xv Zhilin says the $8,000 income ceiling doesn't consider the trend among Singaporeans of marrying late, resulting in a combined income that is slightly higher because they
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      216 39  -  Ang Kin Leong THE Housing Board's Fiance/Fiancee Scheme should consider including citizens who are dating non-citi-zens or non-permanent residents. My fiancee and I have been dating for the past six years after we met as undergraduates while I was studying abroad. We want to get
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      416 39  -  Leong Kok Choong LAST year, my mother lost her fight against cancer. She was insured under an NTUC Income Income Shield policy. In mid-October, my NTUC Income insurance agent helpfully put in an Income Shield claim to cover my mother's medical costs. The agent
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      47 39 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. TOUT LOUTS: Nuisance at Boat Quay UNWELCOME BUZZ: Boy shocked by cable at fruit juice stall AIRLINE WOES 1: Airline's inconsistent boarding policy AIRLINE WOES 2: Customer not told of changed schedule
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      762 40  -  Leonard Lim SOCCER Said to be unhappy with lack of belief in local game, FAS gen sec opts for tourism job By AMID much fanfare last April, Steven Yeo stepped into one of the hottest seats in Singapore sport. Now, barely a
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      391 40  -  Christopher Ong BODYBUILDING By THE Singapore Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (SBBF) will shut down its national training centre next month. Consequently, it will terminate the contracts of four coaches. The closure is believed to result from a decline in funding that
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      470 40  -  Jeanette Wang BASKETBALL By A REVAMP is on the cards for Australia's National Basketball League (NBL) and that could spell trouble for the Singapore Slingers. NBL chief executive Chuck Harmison was reported in the Australian Associated Press last week as labelling the current state
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      811 41 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »SOCCER London THE crisis continues at Chelsea. Coach Avram Grant, labelled a "dead man walking" after FA and League Cup debacles, believes the blame lies as much on his under-perform-ing stars. But even Paul Jewell, the manager of relegation-bound Derby, who face the Blues today, claims
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      319 41 London LIVERPOOL fans were handed a double dose of distress on Monday. First, American co-owner Tom Hicks broke off negotiations with Dubai International Capital (DIC). Then, it was revealed that Anfield favourite Xabi Alonso could be on the way out. The player had
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      167 41 Pts Arsenal 29 Man United 28 Chelsea 27 Liverpool 29 Everton 29 Aston Villa 28 Blackburn 29 Man City 29 Portsmouth 28 West Ham 29 Tottenham 28 Middlesbrough 28 Wigan 29 Reading 29 Newcastle 29 Sunderland 29 Birmingham 28 Bolton 28 Fulham 29 Derby County 28 19 20 17
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      519 41 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS London TOTTENHAM manager Juande Ramos believes the English Premier League is tops in Europe. He said the proof will come when the Champions League final features two English sides. Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United are already in the quarter-finals. Liverpool were expected
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        104 41 BIRMINGHAM manager Alex McLeish has hit back at Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who wants to increase defender Martin Taylor's three-match ban for the red card he got after his tackle broke the leg of Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva. "I am disappointed with Sepp Blatter," said
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        76 41 MICHAEL Owen, the £17 million (5547.6 million) Newcastle striker who has scored just four goals in 20 Premier League games, wants a raise on his club record £104,000-a-week salary, which expires at the end of next season. Given that his request comes with
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        77 41 MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson ordered his players in for extra training on Sunday after their 0-1 FA Cup loss to Portsmouth, and tore into his squad. Striker Wayne Rooney, however, claimed that some of his teammates had been more culpable than others. Meanwhile,
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        48 41 SINGAPORE champions Singapore Armed Forces FC beat Hong Kong's Kitchee FC 4-0 in their AFC Cup opener at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. In the Group E game, Jamil Ali scored twice and Therdsak Chaiman, once, before an own goal completed the rout.
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      185 41 ASSOCIATED PRESS A JEALOUS boyfriend, angry that his girlfriend was flirting with another man, may have been the cause of a riot at a football game that injured 83 people including six police officers. The violence flared in the 65 th minute of
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      729 42 MOTOR RACING Renault boss Briatore blames last season's fiasco on rookie's fighting with Alonso and not for his team Big-headed rookie Monaco Grand Prix (May 2007) Lewis Hamilton, who finished second to Fernando Alonso, whinged that McLaren had ruined his chances by telling him not
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      292 42 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Melbourne ORGANISERS have proposed changing the starting time of the Australian Grand Prix next year in the hope of saving it from being scrapped. Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker said next year's race would start at spm in an
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      149 42 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAPAN'S struggling Formula One outfit, Super Aguri, said on Monday they had secured much-needed financial backing from Britain's Magma Group. It ended doubts that they would miss the new season, which opens this week in Melbourne. The first all-Japanese team on the
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      385 42 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS »TENNIS New York ROGER Federer has dismissed suggestions that his career is in decline and vowed to use recent defeats as motivation after recovering from a virus. The Swiss world No 1 was beaten by Briton Andy Murray in the first
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      660 42 NEW YORK TIMES ATHLETICS Valencia (Spain) WEDGED between an outdoor world championship and a particularly high-profile Olympics in Beijing, the indoor meet that ended here on Sunday was for connoisseurs only. A world championship, even with banked turns and a
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      680 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Tight defence helps Houston match NBA's third-longest winning streak, but questions abound over the quality of their opponents Houston LEBRON James and the Boston Celtics added to their amazing seasons, but all eyes remain on the Houston Rockets. Their Monday night
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      346 43  -  Jeanette Wang HORSE RACING By FIVE months after starting a private horse spelling station, Eric Koh is finally set to get his business off at a trot. Koh, the owner of Equine Sanctuary, a "rest-house for horses" at the old Bukit
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      564 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS »GOLF Palm Harbor (Florida) FOR all the tough losses he has endured on the golf course the last few years, Ernie Els found perspective at home in the blue eyes of five-year-old Ben. His son was diagnosed with autism,
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        88 43 REUTERS BANGKOK: Record-breaking Thai weightlifter Pawina Thongsuk, 28, has announced her retirement and will not defend her Olympic title in Beijing this year. Pawina, who has won gold at every Games or major championship she has competed in, has called it quits because
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        54 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Jonny Wilkinson has been dropped by England for the first time in his international rugby career. Coach Brian Ashton omitted the World Cup-winning fly-half for Saturday's Six Nations match against Ireland following the team's surprising 9-15 loss at Scotland. He will be
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        74 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia postponed its cricket tour to Pakistan just hours after two bombs killed at least 15 people and injured many more in the Eastern city of Lahore. The tour, which had been scheduled to start on March 29, had been in
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        83 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS ZUG (Switzerland): Swiss prosecutors have accused Fifa's former marketing arm of funnelling millions of Swiss francs in bribes through a Liechtenstein foundation. Prosecutors opened their court case yesterday by alleging that six executives of ISL/ISMM paid about 18 million Swiss francs (5524.5 million)
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      55 43 BASKETBALL NBA: Boston 100 Philadelphia 86, Orlando 123 Atlanta 112, Cleveland 88 Portland 80, LA Clippers 99 Miami 98, Houston 91 New Jersey 73, Dallas 108 NY Knicks 79, San Antonio 107 Denver 103. ICE HOCKEY NHL: NY Rangers 3 Buffalo 2 (SO), Calgary 7 St Louis 3, Vancouver
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      85 41 Today Aston Villa v Middlesbrough Live, Ch2l, tomorrow, 3.40 am Chelsea v Derby County Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 3.55 am Portsmouth v Birmingham City Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 3.40 am Uefa Cup ROUND OF 16, SECOND LEG Today Bayern Munich (5) v Anderlecht (0) Everton (0) v Fiorentina (2) Getafe (2) v
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      132 43 TV times CRICKET: South Africa Tour of Bangladesh: 2nd ODI (Live, ChlO9, 11.30 am). ICL 20's Grand C'ship: Chennai v Lahore (Live, Chi 10, 9.30pm). SOCCER: AFC Champions League: Melbourne Victory v Chunnam Dragons (Live, Ch24, 4.25pm). English Premier League: Aston Villa v Middlesbrough (Live, Ch2l, tomorrow, 3.40 am), Portsmouth
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  • OBITUARIES
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      103 44 w kin lee &cofc m n SEAH SEOW CHIUA Age: 73 Passed away peacefully on 10 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: TanYan Noi Sons: Daughter-in-law: Seah Kwang Heng Lea Kirn Chaw Seah Kwang Soon Seah Kwang Huat Daughter: Son-in-law: Seah Gek Choo Koh Chin
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      92 44 ATHMA SHANTIPOOJA The familyof the late N. KANAGASABAI (N.K. SABAI) Departed: 27 Feb 2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to all relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Doctors nurses of ward 45A (SGH) Karumathi
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      43 44 ■Si 3rd Anniversary Eg In Loving Memory Of VICTOR F. DOGGETT Departed on 12 March 2005 Time takes away the edge of grief but memory turns back every leaf Deeply missed by Wife: Marjorie Doggett Son: Nicholas Doggett Daughter-in-law: SS Felicia Ang wgi
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      50 44 VEERAPAN S/O KARTAMUTHU (BAI) Age: 54 passed away peacefully on 11 March 2008. Dearly missed by Wife: Dewi Son: Murugiah Daughters: Sujaja, Anita Son-in-law: Sri Ganesh Cortege will leave Blk 148 Bt Batok West Aye 6 #10-329 on 12 March 2008 (Wed) at 4pm for Mandai Crematorium. Hp: 9872-0506 Muru
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      35 44 2nd Anniversary In Everloving Memory Of ERICA CHANG KIM LOON GERMAINE called home to be with the Lord on 12 March 2006. Dearly missed always remembered loved by Hubby, daughter, parents, parents-in-law, loved ones friends
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      30 44 6th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of Victor Ong Cheng Lock called home to be with the Lord on 12 Mar'2oo2 Always remembered cherished by loving wife, children, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law grandchildren
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      24 44 In Memory Of My Beloved Wife MAYBELINETOK 12.03.2003 "5 years have passed, Our love, still alive in my heart" With love forever, Uncle Hubby
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      188 44 WONG YING WAI Age: 57 passed away peacefully on 10 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Father Wong Kum Seng, deceased) (Mother Kwok Kwai Yong, deceased) Brothers: Sisters-in-law: Wong Ying Wah, Albert Chow Bick Leng, Doreen Wong Ying Mun, Gilbert (Tham Yuet Sim, deceased) (Tan Seng
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      55 44 3RD ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory of TAN NOIHEOK Departed on 12 March 2005 In our home she is fondly remembered, Sweet memories cling to her name; Those who loved her in life sincerely, Still love her in death just the same. Always remembered by her children, children-in-law, grandchildren, grandson-in-law, great
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      145 44 YEO GUAT KEE Age: 83 passed away peacefully on 11 March 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Koh Lian Hwee (deceased) I Sons: Daughters-in-law: DrKhoTekHong Teo Sock Choo Koh Teck Pin Ledia Koh Teck Cheng James Goh Meow Ching Suzie Kho Teck Oon Roger Quek Chay
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      75 44 R.G. MURUGESAN Age: 74 passed away peacefully on 11/3/08. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Thanalakshmi w/ o Murugesan Sons: M. Puhalenthi M. Chandramohan Daughters-in-law: N. Arunselvi Bhavani d/o Rajagopal Daughter: M. Manimekalai Son-in-law: R. Mathivannan Grandsons: Sanjay Kumar, Velan Yuvan Raam Chandra Granddaughters: Abirami, Santhia Pradeeksha
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      118 44 A woman who touched the lives of many Shirley Webster Mama Age: 71 was called home to be with the Lord on 10 March 2008. Timeless and selfless individual A true friend and a mentor to all She was always there with a warm smile and gentle heart That is
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  • MONEY
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        7170 45 TRANSACTION DATE: MARCH 11, 2008 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL 'OOO DAY HIGH LOW NET P/E M CAP SMIL 0R22 28.5 107 3C ?e 42 141 22 27 195 32 IE 24 29 18 31 17.5 IE 43.5 26 126 34.5 le
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        1455 45 52-WEEK IEL HIGH LOW CODE SMIL COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL ORDAV ■OOO HIGH NET LOW MCAP P/E 3C 41.; 31 16.; 38 70.; 46.; ii.; 44.; 83 i;.; i; 16.; 17.1 2; 9C 43 i;.; 19.; 88 24.; 2.3 l 41.2 19.3 21 ii.; 21.; 4;.;
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        57 45 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E SM 11 20C 5200 1000 ***** ***** 338.3 3S77.S 116 6065 Diamonds 5000 6035 IS DJ US Tech 1000 6037 IS MSCI Spore ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** 6170 SPDRS 235 6003 STI ETF 3013.7 6010 STIETFIOPV US200CC US1000
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      719 46 REUTERS Wall Street rallies as banks team up on series of measures to boost liquidity Washington THE United States Federal Reserve and other central banks last night teamed up to get hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh funds to cash-starved
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      235 46 REUTERS New York IHE chance of an emergency interest rate cut from the Unitsd States Federal Reserve is low ahead of its March 18 policy meeting, after the Fed did not act on Monday, Goldman Sachs economists said. "The chance of an
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      271 46 REUTERS Washington THE United States trade deficit widened by a small-er-than-expected amount in January, a Commerce Department report showed yesterday. This occurred as strong foreign demand boosted exports to a record and oil prices averaging US$B4 per barrel pushed imports to an
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      32 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 12,658.28 (+126.15 points) »Japanese shares closed up 1.01 per cent, rallying from a 30-month low as bargain hunters emerged despite ongoing problems in global credit markets.
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      38 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 22,995.35 (+290.30 points) Hong Kong shares closed 1.3 per cent higher amid a rebound in Asian stocks as investors chased bargains after recent declines triggered by fears of a US recession.
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      26 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 4,165.88 (+19.58 points) Chinese shares closed 0.47 per cent higher led by energy stocks and despite growing concerns about inflation.
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      36 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,134.2 (-46.20 points) Australian stocks closed down 0.9 per cent at their lowest since October 2006, as resources stocks slumped on concerns that a slowing US economy will dent demand.
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      30 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,206.54 (+33.32 points) Malaysian shares rebounded to close 2.8 per cent higher as investors picked up blue chips after steep losses a day earlier.
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      33 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 16,123.15 (+199.43 points) »Indian stocks closed 1.25 per cent higher to snap six straight trading days of losses that saw the benchmark index fall by 25 per cent.
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      32 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,523.53 (-4.33 points) »Indonesian shares closed 0.2 per cent lower after some major stocks and miners rebounded in the afternoon in line with most regional markets.
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      24 46 AFP Yesterday's close: 819.83 (-13.18 points) Thai shares closed 1.63 per cent higher, led by bargain hunting and gains across Asia.
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      116 46 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: 2,860.85 March 11 Stock Name Close Change CapitaLand.... ...5.890 +0.180 CapitaMall ...2.910 CityDev .10.500 +0.060 Cosco Corp... ...3.260 -0.070 DBS Grp .16.820 +0.240 F&N ....4.500 -0.010 Gent Intl ...0.605 HKLand ...4.190 -0.020 JSH .15.260 -0.300 Jardine C&C .17.860 -0.540 Keppel Corp Keppel Land.. NOL
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      57 46 March 11 Golden Agri 47,537,000 Sing Tel 42,021,000 Cosco Corp 37,725,000 Yangzljlang 31,298,000 CoscoCorpMßLeCWoBo7o3 28,103,000 E3 Hlds 27,136,000 Jade Tech 26,691,000 JiutianC 26,251,000 Synear 24,437,000 Firstßes 23,184,000 CapitalanMßLeCWoBo6o6 23,064,000 Lian Beng 20,696,000 Ferrochina 19,062,000 SGX MBL eCWOBOBOB 18,459,000 DBS MBL eCWOBO7O3 16,525,000 Auston 15,804,000 Global Voice 15,714,000 SGX
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      141 46 March 11 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2690 1.2840 Can dollar 1.3890 1.4050 Euro 2.1230 2.1480 Malaysian ringgit* ..0.4334 0.4341 NZ dollar 1.0900 1.1130 Sterling pound 2.7800 2.8110 US dollar 1.3840
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      1631 46 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: MARCH 11,2008 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE '000 13 5 5 8756 Asiatic W*****2 2C 49 14 5 3657 BiosensorDBeCW080G23 14 5 -0 5 IOC 29 5 18 5 4014 CapitalanBNPeCI ***** 9C 36 5 10 5 3879 CapitalanBNPeCW080G02 13 +2 5 1C 35
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      Lock icon Bear Stearns dismisses talk it lacks enough cash
      548 47 BLOOMBERG NEWS, REUTERS Rumours shave the most from bank's shares since 1987 stock market crash New York UNITED States investment bank Bear Steams denied on Monday that it lacked sufficient capital after speculation about a liquidity crisis pushed its shares down the
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      178 47 Citigroup to shore up hedge funds with 1.39b NEW YORK TIMES BANKING giant Citigroup has moved to shore up six of its hedge funds pressured by a tightening in the municipal bond market with a capital injection of US$l billion (551.39 billion). The funds have so far received about US$6OO
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      406 48 BLOOMBERG NEWS Shares trade at as low as HK53.75, proving Spore firm's bid price of HK$3.BO is fair Shanghai SHARES of China Eastern Airlines, China's third-largest carrier, slid in Hong Kong trading, falling below the price that Singapore Airlines
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      233 48 BLOOMBERG NEWS BANGKOK THAILAND'S government will rewrite laws regulating foreign-controlled companies, including Tesco and Ford Motor, in the country. Changes will be of "mutual benefit" to local and foreign-owned companies, Deputy Prime Minister Suwit Khunkitti said in an interview in Bangkok on Monday.
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      Lock icon Toyota to make hybrid, bi-fuel cars in Thailand
      475 49  -  Christopher Tan In future, it will carry out its planning for Asian models there By Senior Correspondent JAPAN'S Toyota Motor, soon to be the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, is grooming Thailand to be more than a low-cost production venue. Mr Yasuyuki Kawamoto,
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      331 49 REUTERS GOLDMAN Sachs, one of the first banks to call above-US$lOO crude almost three years ago, says it is time to take short-term profit as prices could fall to US$9O a barrel in the next few months if funds cash out.
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        377 50 SMEclinic MY PUBLICATIONS have been rampantly copied in Vietnam, and I understand that copyright subsists automatically in most countries. What are the laws in Vietnam governing intellectual property (IP) copyright protection and will Ibe able to seek recourse? To officially protect your
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        1153 51  -  Joyce Teo Having found much success in running a hotel chain in NZ, siblings are back with new business to clean up buildings from the inside out By ARRIVING in New Zealand nearly 15 years ago was a breath of
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        178 52 DOWN UNDER Backed by funds from their father, the Tang brothers invested about $50 million in the 1990s to build a hotel chain under the Heritage brand. The chain now boasts more than 1,500 rooms in 10 hotels across New Zealand. The annual revenue of the hotel business
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      509 53  -  Nicholas Fang 'Computational error' leads to big changes in data on factory output By A RARE but sizeable error by the Economic Development Board (EDB) means factory output actually surged by 11.7 per cent in January not 6.9 per cent as reported
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      872 53 Several firsts were launched in the finance industry recently. The Straits Times checks them out DBS LAUNCHES 'LIFE CYCLE' FUNDS DBS BANK has launched a group of four funds to help Singaporeans save early for their retirement over 20 to 30 years. The so-called
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      Lock icon Global Voice chief voices support for firm on the back of selldown
      473 54  -  Goh Eng Yeow He has no idea why counter plunged by more than a third in the past IV2 weeks By Markets Correspondent THE dramatic fall in Global Voice Group's stock it has plunged by almost 37 per
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      413 54  -  Alvin Foo TAKING STOCK By Markets Correspondent GOOD news has been in short supply of late, so traders could hardly believe their luck when key Asian markets gave the slumping local market an afternoon shot in the arm yesterday. Post-lunch bargain-hunt-ing turned around the
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      368 54  -  Michelle Tay By INVESTMENT strategists at Bank Julius Baer remain cautious about investing in equities, but they are bullish on precious metals, especially gold, and commodities. They say stock prices may have fallen in the wake of the United States sub-prime mortgage
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      342 54  -  GOH ENG YEOW WARRANT WATCH BANKS got a temporary reprieve yesterday from the relentless, almost daily, selldown that they have suffered over the past two weeks. Dealers were hard-pressed for explanations for the sudden rebound other than the usual standbys of bargain-hunting
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      102 54 (0) iviarcn 11 i Asia Pac Brew IndoAgri DBS MBL iCW0S1230 CapltalanMBUCW***** DBS Grp Creative Tech SGX CapitaLand Great Eastern DelongH W*****8 Fat Hong SGXMBUCW*****0 UOB MBUCW*****0 Ferrochina NOL Parkway Hldgs Wilmar DCBC Bk riH SingTel 10 1300 226 458 203 1682 737 705 589 1618 306 214
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      273 54  -  GOHENG YEOW DIRECTORS' TRADES NOTHING is more painful than watching a once-loved stock get battered in a bear market. Ezra Holdings has stunned investors with a 49.4 per cent meltdown in its share price since November, after dazzling them over the past two
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        1263 57  -  Boon Chan Kelvin Tong's ability to blend commercial accessibility and arthouse aesthetics sets him apart from other Singapore directors and boosts his chances of making it worldwide MEDIA CORRESPONDENT WILL writer-director Kelvin Tong reign with Rule #1? That is the $2.8-million question that the cop thriller, starring Hong
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        199 57 THE EXORCIST (1973, above) By William Friedkin "This is easily one of the scariest movies ever made. Friedkin's technique is superlative who can ever forget that shot of Linda Blair scuttling down the stairs like a spider? "For me, The Exorcist has never been topped by any
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        235 58 HIDEO NAKATA, 46 Breakthrough film: Ring (1998, below), in which a cursed video makes its fatal rounds. Hollywood connection: The Ring (2002, bottom) starring Naomi Watts and Dark Water (2005), which was set in a creepy flooded apartment above the one occupied by its
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      490 63  -  June Cheonq Choreographer Elysa Wendi's interest in Arabic culture was sparked off by a marriage proposal ARTS REPORTER SINGAPOREAN choreographer Elysa Wendi once received a marriage proposal with the promise of 1,000 camels to her name. The ardent suitor was a Moroccan choreographer, her
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      545 107  -  GLORIA CHANDY iMkllog I've always valued the relationship I have with my daughter. It's a strong bond nurtured by frequent e-mail and trans-continental telephone conversations even as we spent five years apart while she was a student. She's a woman of 21
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        421 114 f you are a teenager, listen when their mum nags 'ou about eating breakfast. Eat wholegrain cereal if you can it's the best hing for you although anything is better than in empty stomach. Body-conscious teens may believe cutting out ireakfast will help them lose
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