The Straits Times, 1 December 2008

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  • 18 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 115/12/2007 MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 2008 «jp* AN SPH PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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  • INSIDE
    • 41 1 THAILAND'S political crisis got hotter yesterday as some 10,000 pro-government supporters rallied in Bangkok. The country stands on the brink of class war as the 'red-shirts' vowed to evict the PAD from airports. PRIME PAGE A 4
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    • 58 1 IN THE first 10 months of the year, 382 residents here were found infected by HIV. The 2008 figure looks set to exceed last year's record of 423, says the Health Ministry. The official tally of people here stricken with HIV stands at 3,865; at least
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    • 66 1 PLASTIC prices have dipped so low that firms which buy recyclables from collectors are no longer accepting it. In August, the kind of plastic used in mineral-water bottles went for more than $380 a metric tonne. By mid-October, the price had plunged to $50 a tonne.
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    • 47 1 WITH the opening up of the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur air sector, all restrictions have been lifted on low-cost carrier flights. From today, they can run as many as 14 a day, up from four. Full-service airlines will operate more than 15. HOME PAGE B2
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    • 64 1 AS INTERNATIONAL scientists meet today to discuss climate change, a number of them have warned that the situation is far more dangerous than previously thought. Not only do the changes seem to be happening faster than previously thought, but there is also a risk that human-caused
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  • 623 1  -  Ravi Velloor Ties with nuclear rival worsen as India claims Pakistani link to attacks By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF MUMBAI: Two of India's top officials quit yesterday over the Mumbai attack as the fallout from the three-day terror rampage threatened to push
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  • 499 1  -  Teh Joo Lin Carolyn Quek I By SHE had on the tailored crimson cheongsam that she had worn for her wedding last year. Beside Ms Lo Hwei Yen in her white coffin, the cherished Hermes Birkin bag that husband Michael Puhaindran had given
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 48 1 MM LEE KUAN YEW HOSSANLEONG SALMAKHALIK Gets fitted with On why he's never looked back, mm W Says it's time for the Government a pacemaker Av^ k or overseas, in his career f I to help HIV sufferers PRIME, PAGE A3 J^M IN LIFE'PAGE C4 PRIME, PAGE A2
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  • prime-commentary
    • 902 2  -  Salma Khalik Sufferers also deserve subsidies on drugs that help them live normally I I By I HEALTH CORRESPONDENT MORE than two decades ago, the first acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids) patient was diagnosed here. Since then, close to 4,000 people have been
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    • prime news
      • Article, Illustration
        102 3  -  MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN What happens a minute before Bam? Straits Times photographers show their interpretation of that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 7.59. We aim to capture everyday scenes across the island with a different perspective, bringing readers a slice of life that would perhaps go unnoticed.
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      • 505 3  -  Zakir Hussain He underwent surgery on Saturday and is likely to travel today I By MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew underwent minor surgery on Saturday to implant a cardiac pacemaker, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said yesterday. The surgery was performed because MM Lee had
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    • prime turmoil in bangkok
      • 490 4  -  Nirmal Ghosh Thailand on brink of class war as 'red-shirts' vow to push PAD out of airports By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Thailand's increasingly volatile political crisis remained in the balance yesterday, as some 10,000 pro-government supporters rallied in downtown Bangkok vowing to stay until
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      • 193 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS BANGKOK: Thailand's Foreign Minister said yesterday that the kingdom may have to postpone a regional summit until March as anti-government protesters continue their occupation of Bangkok's two airports. Mr Sompong Amornwiwat said the Thai Cabinet would make its final decision tomorrow over
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      • 271 4 THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said it was monitoring the Thai situation closely. In response to media queries about explosions at the Government House and Don Muang airport in Bangkok, the MFA spokesman said: "We are concerned about the recent developments in Thailand
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    • prime caught in the middle
      • 513 6  -  Serene Luo STUCK: IN THAILAND Siam City Hotel is now a holding area for Republic's citizens I By IT HAS been five days and counting for Mr Leong Sow Hoe and his group of 49 other Singaporeans stranded in Bangkok. The group from
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      • 452 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE For flights out Singapore Airlines: Twice daily flights from U-Tapao to Singapore Call: +66-2353-6000 (in Bangkok), or +65-6223-8888 (in Singapore) Silk Air: Flies out of Phuket and Chiangmai, two additional flights on top of the four per day from Phuket Call: +66-7630-4018/19/20 (in Phuket)
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      • 403 6  -  Judith Tan STUCK: IN INDIA I By A GROUP of students from Yishun Town Secondary School who were in India for a four-day immersion programme returned home safely yesterday much to the relief of their families. The 17 students and three teachers were supposed to
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    • prime mumbai terror attacks
      • 612 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Mumbai fears some militants escaped MUMBAI: The coordinated terrorist attack could have been much worse, an Indian official said, with investigations showing the attackers planned to kill 5,000 people. The Indian authorities were also investigating whether some of the attackers may
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      • 335 7  -  P. Jayaram By INDIA CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI: The terrorists who stormed the Taj Mahal Hotel sauntered along the corridors chatting and laughing as they knocked on the doors of the rooms, shouting: "Police, police." When the guests, cowering in their rooms after hearing the sound
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      • 698 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS WE'RE NOT AFRAID "We will prove to terrorists by opening that we have won, you have not won." Cafe manager Farzad Jehani People pour into Leopold Cafe before cops shut it down for security reasons MUMBAI: Leopold Cafe, the first target
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      • 222 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LAHORE (Pakistan): More than 1,000 activists marched in the eastern city of Lahore and urged Pakistan and India to refrain from hostilities after the Mumbai terrorist attacks. The participants of the rally, organised by the Pakistan Awami
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  • WORLD
    • 823 9  -  Carolyn Hong Party congress, aired over Internet, celebrates achievements of Umno rival By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF SHAH ALAM: When the Umno general assembly was aired live on TV two years ago, many Malaysians were so taken aback by the shrill Malay rhetoric that the brief
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    • world memo from beijing
      • 957 10  -  Peh Shing Huei China tries to correct poor reputation of police via reality-show contest I By I CHINA CORRESPONDENT MOVE over American Idol. It's time for Super Cop. Not content with just choosing the best singer or model, China is taking the
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    • world regional
      • 319 11  -  BERNAMA KUALA TERENGGANU: About 3,700 people slept in evacuation centres yesterday after their homes were flooded in three Malaysian east coast states. Heavy rains caused rivers to swell in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. The villagers were placed in more than 50 shelters, converted from schools
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      • 341 11 REUTERS SEOUL: Hundreds of South Koreans left the communist North over the weekend, expelled from a joint industrial enclave by Pyongyang in anger at President Lee Myung Bak's hardline policy. The expulsions, part of measures to tighten the border with the South, came
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      • 535 11 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Economic crisis erodes China's trade strength and competitiveness BEIJING: President Hu Jintao has warned that China's competitiveness and trade strength are being threatened by a sustained global economic downturn, testing the grip of the ruling Communist Party. Mr Hu made
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    • world international
      • 620 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES Clinton agrees to name donors to his foundation in deal with Obama ST PAUL (Minnesota): President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Senator Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state today, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic
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      • 295 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Police are reviewing surveillance footage of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that led to a suburban Wal-Mart worker being trampled to death. But they acknowledged that it may be tough to bring criminal charges. The victim, Mr Jdimytai
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      • 69 12 REUTERS A woman smelling two Italian truffles during an international auction held in Rome on Saturday. Despite the economic downturn, an Italian white truffle weighing just over lkg was sold for US$2OO,OOO (*****,760). The prized tuber went for the second year running to Hong Kong-born casino
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      • 564 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Ethnic-religious tension boils over, sparked by dispute over local election JOS (Nigeria): Rival ethnic and religious mobs have burned homes, churches and mosques in a second day of riots, raising the death toll close to 400 in the worst sectarian violence
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      • 152 13 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS The fighting parties Nigeria's 140 million people are roughly split equally between Muslims and Christians, and the two communities generally live peacefully side by side. But ethnic and religious tensions in the country's "middle belt" have bubbled for years. The tensions are rooted
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      • 224 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBART (Australia) A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them. Officials from Tasmania state's Parks and Wildlife Service rushed to the remote site at
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      • 389 14 LONDON: Hitting the dance floor, going for a walk, or just sitting there while your heart beats all involve energy, and scientists are now working on harvesting it for use as power. They are developing tiny generators to transform the kinetic energy of everyday movements
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      • 543 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Scientists paint bleak picture ahead of talks on global warming PARIS: Earth's climate appears to be changing faster and more deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists have said, ahead of international climate talks starting today in Poland. Evidence
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      • 656 15 Finland's rating the highest but Britain ahead of other big Western industrial nations LONDON: British men and women are now the most promiscuous of any big Western industrial country, London's Sunday Times reported yesterday, citing an international study. In an index measuring one-night
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    • world in brief
      • 146 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX (Arizona): Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an eight-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man. The boy, who in a police videotape released by prosecutors admitted pulling the trigger, faces two first-degree murder charges
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      • 97 17 BERNAMA HULU SELANGOR (Malaysia): Two sisters were buried alive in a landslide near here early yesterday. Noratirah Roslan, 16, and Nurul Intan Sarina Roslan, nine, were sleeping in their room when the hillside at the back of their house collapsed, sending tonnes of rubble and soil
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      • 80 17 REUTERS CHENNAI: India's health minister wants all schoolgoing children to learn yoga in the hope that it will reduce the prevalence of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Last week, Malaysia's National Fatwa Council sparked protests when it told Muslims to avoid yoga because the
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      • 187 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY: The distinctive white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened last night to mourn the death of Mr Joern Utzon, the creative mind behind the famous landmark. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd led praise for the Danish architect, who never saw his masterpiece
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      • 111 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW: Somali pirates have agreed on a ransom for a Ukrainian freighter carrying tanks and other heavy weapons and it could be released within days, a spokesman for the owner says. Mr Mikhail Voitenko said the MV Faina could be freed with its crew if
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      • 108 17 XINHUA JAKARTA: At least 2,000 small islands across Indonesia may disappear as a consequence of excessive mining and other environment-damaging activities, a senior official has said. "Uncontrolled mining activities continue to threaten the existence of those small islands but I wonder why nobody, including the hundreds of
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      • 87 17 REUTERS RIYADH: Saudi Arabia says Sunday will be the peak of this year's pilgrimage, in which more than two million Muslims will retrace the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad. The climax of the pilgrimage will see worshippers climbing Mount Arafat, the site of the Prophet's last
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 103 9 pi WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm out and persuades the protesters to MOST-READ ONLINE leave." Siege ends, at least 195 killed in Mumbai terror attacks. BLOGGED ABOUT Thai anti-government protesters Don't shun the HIV positive, attack police. Said Dr Duke: "Thailand did a great thing. By
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    • 485 16 iSI^ -^Pv- 1 if 7 Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA), the training arm of The Schools A >rJy!Sr^aJ- j* rjM A the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, celebrates its The Academy is made up of four specialised schools, l^iSl* W 50th Anniversary today. SAA provides training to civil name y the
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  • REVIEW & FORUM
    • 430 18 IDENTITY theft is not yet a personal-se-curity problem in Singapore. But there is no reason to be complacent in the light of a Microsoft report of a 40 per cent jump worldwide in the first half of this year in the
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    • 1122 18  -  David Boey RSAF EXERCISE AT LIM CHU KANG By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES THE 20 minutes of air activity at the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) exercise at Lim Chu Kang Road yesterday ranked as one of the air force's shortest war games. Despite its
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    • 713 18  -  Robert Karniol I By I DEFENCE WRITER THE election scheduled in Bangladesh for Dec 29 will mark the country's transition to democracy after two years of mili-tary-backed rule. But analysts say the period immediately following the election will arguably be more important than the vote itself.
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  • review
    • 1356 19  -  Anand Giridharadas NEW YORK TIMES MUMBAI ATTACKS I By THIS was not terror not as Indians understood it. This was war. The killers stormed the streets of Mumbai, India's financial capital, with machine guns and bags of grenades. They did not strike with the terrorist's
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  • forum
    • 263 20  -  David Lam TOWN COUNCILS' INVESTMENTS AS EXPECTED, the explanation by the coordinating chairman of PAP town councils Teo Ho Pin ("Well protected, with positive returns", Nov 28) is a regurgitation of what he told Parliament recently. The general idea is that town councils have done a
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    • 309 20  -  Jonathan Kwok MS JESSICA Walker's descriptions of the compulsive exam-study efforts of Singaporean youth in her letter, "Appalled by 'obsessive' study habits" (Nov 26), question the very validity of our examina-tion-based education system. This issue was addressed in a 2006 Newsweek interview with then Education
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    • 251 20  -  Dr George Wong MR SETO Harm Hoi's letter, "Plain and simple, mercy killing is wrong", on Thursday alleged that my letter contained "several fallacies". Please allow me to clarify that I am not advocating euthanasia or suicide, but for a patient nearing inevitable
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    • 276 20  -  Lav Yee Ler WEDNESDAY'S letter by Ms Pamela Liv, "It's about who can afford better tutors", dismisses the PSLE as an examination that "divides the haves and have-nots among our 12-year-olds", saying "students from well-to-do families will get into better secondary schools." I
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    • 173 20  -  S. Satish Appoo I REFER to the letter "Why smoking persists in Housing Board Lifts" (Nov 22). National Environment Agency (NEA) officers carry out checks against smoking in prohibited places including lifts. While lift owners are required to adequately and conspicuously display the "No
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    • 194 20  -  Dr Low Lip Ping I REFER to Tuesday's article, "Life savers at Changi Airport". The Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF) would like to congratulate Changi Airport on its decision to install automated heart defibrillators (AEDs) at the airport and to train its staff and those
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 57 20 jjjj WHAFS ONLINE MORE LEnERS www.straitstimes.com ONLINE FORUM SLEEPY FISHING VILLAGE?: Singapore a sizeable port of regional importance in 14th century BALLOON SCULPTURE: Inspired? Let's call a spade a spade. PIERCE RESERVOIRS: Named after Robert Pierce, the reservoirs have had their names misspelt as 'Peirce' MUMBAI ATTACK: Fight against terror
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  • HOME
    • 893 21  -  Lee Hui Chieh Jump partly due to more awareness, record numbers getting tested I By THE number of people diagnosed here this year with the Aids-causing virus looks set to hit an all-time high, fuelled partly by record numbers getting tested. In the
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    • 472 22  -  Karamjit Kaur Nicholas Yong Firms cut travel costs by opting for budget flights By MR ISKANDAR Dahlan, who flies from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur at least twice a month on business, is switching from full-serv-ice to low-cost flights. For the general manager of
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    • 516 22  -  Nicholas Yong I By OPERATORS of buses plying between Singapore and destinations in Malaysia are bracing themselves for a drop in business, even as consumers cheer the dramatic jump in the number of budget flights to Kuala Lumpur from today. Business in
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    • INBRIEF
      • 68 22 MEMBERS of the public have gone online to offer more than 1,300 suggestions on recycling and energy efficiency to a government panel. Some of these ideas included imposing charges on people who waste electricity and allowing cars under three years old to be converted for use
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      • 73 22 Costa Rica President Oscar Arias Sanchez will be here for an official visit from today till Friday. He will call on President S R Nathan and meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. President Arias will also give a public lecture titled Peace with Nature: A Costa
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      • 40 22 A BRIDGE linking Tanjong Rhu to the National Stadium opened to traffic yesterday. The 130m-long bridge will give direct access to the city through Nicoll Highway for motorists in Tanjong Rhu and Kallang.
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    • 88 22 A MAN in police custody who made a dash for freedom early yesterday was caught 14 hours later. The 24-year-old man, arrested for desertion from the Singapore Civil Defence Force in a routine anti-crime police operation in Boat Quay just before 2am, broke away while being escorted
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    • 399 23  -  Shobana Kesava I By ST PHOTO: MR YE Zhizheng, 71, was the oldest of 23 finalists in the National Library Board's (NLB) first storytelling competition for seniors. But, with his silver tooth flashing and hands waving, he gave such a lively performance that he won
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    • 486 23  -  Jane Ng I By His key priority: Develop, recruit and retain talented faculty and students THE new president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) plans to make the recruitment and retention of faculty and students his key priority. Professor Tan Chorh Chuan,
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    • 214 24 ZION Road Hawker Centre is all dressed up to remind patrons to return their trays after their meals. Goodness Gracious Me!, a movement to encourage diners to clear their trays out of consideration for the next person using the table, starts today
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    • 580 24  -  Grace Chua Households keen to recycle more but now, many scrap dealers and collectors refuse to take plastic I By THE recent slump in scrap plastic prices is bad news for scrap traders and karung guni men, and also for households trying to
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    • 196 24 How does the recycling industry work? The newspapers, plastic and other recyclables sold or given to a karung guni man or waste collector are sold to collection companies. These companies sort the waste and sell it to paper mills, plastic or other recycling facilities
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    • 173 25 JESSICA LIM For two weeks, reporter Jessica Lim monitors her household's electricity usage with the newly installed ETrack. In the first week, it is business as usual at her Serangoon Gardens home. In the second week, she and her three other family members embark on
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    • 212 25 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong met China's Jiangsu party secretary Liang Baohua yesterday. Both leaders reaffirmed the "longstanding and excellent relations" between Singapore and Jiangsu province, ties that began with the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) 14 years ago, said PM Lee's press
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    • 85 26 Birdsong returned to the famous Tiong Bahru bird corner at the former Block 53 yesterday after a seven-year silence, when the area underwent redevelopment. At the finals of a bird-singing competition organised by Link Hotel, merbuk jambuls performed in their cages, under the watchful eye of
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    • 434 26  -  Christopher Tan World's 2nd biggest to be built in Bukit Timah; Serangoon North's set for Feb opening By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT DRIVERS of cars which run on compressed natural gas (CNG) can expect more competitive prices when two new refuelling stations open in the next
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    • 179 26  -  JERMYN CHOW PHOTO: THE Republic of Singapore Navy has added a submarine support and rescue ship to its fleet. Dubbed Swift Rescue, the vessel the first of its kind in South-east Asia will carry a submarine rescue vehicle and its handling systems on
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    • 415 27 A faster and louder kind of traffic zipped down Lim Chu Kang Road yesterday. The thoroughfare became a military airstrip for Republic of Singapore Air Force planes in an exercise aimed at testing the RSAF's ability to use public roads as runways, should
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        362 28 Rednano photos Seek out rednano.sg to get Singa-pore-themed pictures. The Singapore Press Holdings' local search and directory engine has tied up with Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of photos, to provide even better service. The new deal, plus another with party community portal WhosGoing. sg, boosts
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      • 628 28  -  PHILIP LEE Some big advertisers keep faith with customers by stepping up their marketing drive BY DESPITE the global financial meltdown and the onslaught of gloomy economic news, some of the major companies in Singapore are sticking to their marketing strategies to drum up business. At
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      • 219 28  -  AHMADOSMAN BY, IKEA'S refurbished store in Alexandra Road offers a more enjoyable experience for shoppers and their young children after a makeover that costs $25 million. It now has a more spacious showroom and a bigger market hall to highlight more new home furnishing ideas
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      • 262 28  -  Karon Ng Central Chill out at The Gallery with a two-part ice-skating musical Zirkus Zirkus (from now to Dec 14), which features a world-re-nowned Stilt Skating Act, and Fantastique (from Dec 15 to 24), whicl boasts psychedelic cos tumes with daredevil fire acts. Show times
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      • 289 28  -  LIMYANNUNG BY I AFTER four years of design and construction, Royal Caribbean Cruises International (RCCI) floated the gigantic Oasis Of The Seas at its dock in Turku, Finland onNov2l. Dubbed as the "next generation cruise vessel" by its builder, STX Europe, the 362m-long
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      • 672 29 MY LIFE Are uniforms and ragging really about cliques? Youthlnkers have their say It's a jungle out there A CHILL went down my spine when I viewed the Anglo-Chinese Junior College ragging video. Was this the culmination of a long tradition of "us" against "them" in
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    • 94 21 pi WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com your say MOST-READ ONLINE The number of people infected with Singaporean hostage killed. HIV looks set to hit yet another record Teen raped on birthday. high this year, fuelled partly by record numbers getting tested. How can the MOST COMMENTED
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    • 125 22 I mt-.'\~-^Wi£^ Send-off for Haj pilgrims MINISTER-IN-CHARGE of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim (second from left) seeing 220 haj pilgrims off at Changi Airport yesterday. The pilgrimage to Mecca begins this Saturday and culminates on Hari Raya Haji two days later. Each year, two million Muslims perform the haj, and each
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  • SPORT
    • 854 30  -  Jeanette Wang Kirn's late birdie in Lexus Cup gives Sorenstam perfect parting gift By IT WAS a day of golf that had everything. Stunning and scuffed shots plenty. Rain delays two. See-saw battles, lucky breaks, inspired comebacks, 18th-hole heroics and underdog victors you bet there were. And then
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    • 320 30  -  Jonathan Wong I By SINGAPORE'S Feng Tianwei won her maiden professional title at the Polish Open in Warsaw yesterday. Her singles win came after a day of disappointment for Singapore's paddlers as they lost both the men's and women's doubles. In an all-Singaporean final,
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    • 906 31  -  Rohit Brijnath She wins her match, her team the Lexus Cup, to end her career on a high I By THE day for the shy champion started with words. Pages of them. Even before she arrived at the course, she was working, apparently on the
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    • 427 31  -  Jonathan Wong I By BEHIND every great man, there is a great woman. But the reverse is true in the case of Annika Sorenstam, and has been for the last nine years. Meet Terry McNamara caddy to the Swedish golf legend,
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    • 348 31  -  JONATHAN WONG SINGAPORE bowler Jazreel Tan (left) grabbed her fourth medal a silver in the Women's Masters at the IV Commonwealth Championships yesterday. She lost to Malaysian top seed Sin Li Jane in the step-ladder final, in a repeat of the women's singles final. In
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    • 868 32  -  Richard Jolly But Ronaldo steals the attention by getting sent off for handball Manchester City 0 Manchester United 1 I By WHILE Manchester United showed that the world's richest club are not the dominant side in their own city, Alex Ferguson's two marquee names had contrasting
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    • 411 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA: Getafe shocked mighty Real Madrid 3-1 on Saturday to pile renewed pressure on coach Bernd Schuster, whose side have now lost two of their last three Spanish Primera Liga games. Schuster, who was forced into fielding a makeshift team with seven
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    • 189 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHOTO: LONDON: Roy Keane has expressed doubts about his ability to continue as manager of Sunderland, who dropped into the Premier League's relegation zone after Saturday's 1-4 drubbing at home by Bolton their sixth defeat in seven games. "I ask myself every
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    • 308 32 Basketball NBA: Boston 89 Charlotte 84, Orlando 110 Indiana 96, Atlanta 102 Washington 98, NY Knicks 138 Golden State 125, Oklahoma 111 Memphis 103, Denver 106 Minnesota 97, Houston 103 San Antonio 84, Cleveland 97 Milwaukee 85, New Jersey 105 Utah 88, Dallas 101 Sacramento 78, LA Clippers 97
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      • 69 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS TURIN: Footballer Alessandro del Piero bagged his 250 th goal for Juventus as they thrashed Reggina 4-0 to move into joint-second spot with AC Milan in Serie A on Saturday. It was a sixth win in seven league games for Juve, with
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      • 84 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie (above), 35, with only a few hours of sleep and troubled by jetlag, broke away from Kenyan Patrick Makau with 4 km to run and accelerated to win the inaugural 15km Great Australian Run in 42min 40 sec
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      • 88 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu was named athlete of the year by the British Olympic Association on Saturday, a year after she overturned the organisation's ban for a doping violation. The 24-year-old Londoner beat favourite Sanya Richards at August's Beijing Games to become
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      • 69 33 REUTERS LONDON: England will send a cricket team back to India later this week if security advice is favourable, although individual players are free to opt out because of the Mumbai massacres. "I would not, if somebody felt strongly, force their arm," England
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      • 87 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS SHENZHEN (China): Sweden's Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson (below left and right) yesterday came from four behind for a three-shot victory at golf's World Cup. They carded a remarkable nine-under 63 to overtake overnight joint-leaders Spain and Australia at Mission Hills.
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    • 480 33  -  Michael Lee Craig Brennan He beats 15 rivals to win Singapore Gold Cup, at odds of $60 By I EL DORADO struck gold for Japanese trainer Hideyuki Takaoka in horse racing's $1.35 million Group 1 Singapore Gold Cup yesterday. The aptly-named Japanese-bred, owned by Masa Otani of
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    • 273 33  -  Lan Weizhen Serene Luo Bv r MOUNTAIN biking competitions for the Youth Olympics in 2010 will be held at an upgraded dirt trail in Tampines. Speaking at a community event in Tampines yesterday, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, who is also an MP
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    • 377 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS LONDON: New Zealand, Wales and Argentina were the big winners in the year's last round of rugby internationals. On Saturday, the All Blacks completed their third Grand Slam of the British unions in 103 years of touring the United Kingdom with
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    • 196 30 GOLD DUST El Dorado holds off Chevron to win the Singapore Gold Cup. 813 'LL BE READY The Tampines bike trail will be upgraded in time for the Youth Olympics. 813 O WHAT'S ONLINE MOST VIEWED, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Lionel Messi fires Barcelona clear. Australia's
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    • 25 30 C TALK OF *r:Y>\ the ton Wayne Rooney's 100 th club A goal gives United a 1-0 win P in Manchester derby. 812 _4i I
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    • 63 32 Today American football NFL: Minnesota Vikings v Chicago Bears (Live, Ch22, 9.15 am). Tomorrow Football mZ English Premier *^f. <wp, League: Liverpool v _i—i "IjL West Ham (Live, SS^ Ch27,3.55am). V fl Wednesday *f .jßj/r Basketball Eurocup regular '-^j -^i season: Day 2 (Live, Chll3, 1.30 am and a^ 3.30
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  • OBITUARIES
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      30 33 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late VARATHA RAJAN S/O RAMASAMY REDDIAR Departed on 29/11/2008 From The Patron, Trustees, Management Staff of Sri Muneeswaran Temple (Queensway)
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      54 33 With Deepest Sympathy Condolences to The family of the late MR. R.V. RAJ AM (Manager Body Language Group) who passed away peacefully on 29 Nov 2008. Our Longest Serving, Most Trusted Most Respectable Colleague. We are Blessed to have worked with him. Always remembered Missed by Mr Prakash (M.D.) Staff
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      67 33 VARATHARAJAN RAMASAMY REDDIAR (Trustee, Sri Muneeswaran Temple) (Grassroots Leader Queenstown C.C.) (Ex-Committee Sri Ruthra Kallamman Temple) Age: 78 passed away peacefully 0n29N0v2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Vasanthi Varatharajan Son: Sivaraman Rajan Body is resting at MtVernon Funeral Parlour No. 1. Cortege will leave on 01
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      74 33 RAMAN PARVATHY (wife of late Amboo) Age: 81 passed away peacefully on 30 November 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Sons: Krishnan Letchumanan Kannan Daughters-in-law: Sagunthala Kumari Sumathi Tan Daughters: Madevi Janaki Yogeshwari Sons-in-law: Kadirval(T.Vellu) Krishnan Sugumaran Grandchildren and Great-Grandchlldren. Body Is resting at Block 68, ToaPayoh
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      229 34 My beautiful angel Yen, without you my life has no meaning and no purpose. You were everything to me and the time I spent with you was the happiest of my life. Your family misses you more than words can express. We love you so much and pray that God
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      84 34 "You have slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face ofGod" President Reagan Hwei Yen, your passing pains and grieves us. We are upheld by, and shall always cherish the memory of your friendship and our time together as colleagues. Lim Tean Chua Choon King Chia Song Yeow
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      56 34 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late LoHweiYen Departed on 27 November 2008 You will be dearly missed by us all May you rest in peace From Friends and Colleagues of Stephenson Harwood (Please note that as a mark of respect, our Singapore office will be
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      59 34 LOHWEIYEN With heavy hearts and deep sorrow, we extend our condolences to Mike, the Lo family and the Puhaindran family on the loss of their beloved Hwei Yen. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families. Hwei Yen, we will always love and remember you as our beautiful friend. Beverly,
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      29 34 9th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of CHUAH BEE LIAN Departed: 01.12.1999 In our hearts you live and always will in memory. Deeply missed always remembered by family loved ones
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      28 34 W AL- FATEHA HAJIMAHADI ABDULLAH ANG passed away peacefully on2BNov2ooB. Dearly missed and always remembered by wife and family members. Wife: Zaiton Awang 6756 8674/9337 2060 k A
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      28 34 T llthAnnlversary In Everloving Memory of UMCHYENEO Departed 1/12/1997 (ChiiieseDste:2nddxrofllthmooii) In our hearts thoughts you Live Sadly missed and fondly remembered by all j& I loved ones. ~(m
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      132 34 "Lord Grant unto her the eternal peace and happiness she so deserves" MADAM TOK KIM ENG (MRS CHRISTINA YEO) Age: 84 was called home to be with the Lord on 29 Nov 2008 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Christopher Yeo Hock Gum, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Yeo Chiang Seng Jimmy Kew
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      43 34 6th Anniversary Jimmy Ec Fook Chye Departed 1 Dec 2002 The years may wipe out many things But this they will wipe out never; The memory of those happy days Which we all had spent together. Dearly missed by family loved ones. m
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      39 34 RATHINA DEVI D/O SINNIAH THIAGARAJAH Age: 40 passed away peacefully on 30/11/08 leaving behind beloved Husband: P Ramachandran Daughters: R. Rekha R. Ranjitha Mother: R. Sakkubai brothers, sisters, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, relatives and all loved ones.
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    • 649 35  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS AND BEARS Efforts by US, Europe and China to ease credit lines boost confidence By MARKETS CORRESPONDENT LAST week turned out to be the most spectacular trading week since late August, after the US government shored up investors' confidence
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  • money
    • 952 36  -  Goh Eng Yeow CAI JIN ST FILE By MARKETS CORRESPONDENT Act now to contain any fallout from property purchases worth billions of dollars IN MANY ways, the credit crisis crippling vast tracts of the global financial system resembles a guerilla war. It is fiendishly
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    • 231 37 HSU Fu Chi International said last night that its executive director Hsu Keng had tendered his resignation "with immediate effect", after he was convicted by the Chinese authorities of a customs offence relating to the import of production equipment. The Singapore-listed Chinese cake and candy
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    • 328 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: The British government will take over the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) with a majority stake of almost 60 per cent after the shareholders of the nation's second-largest bank shunned an emergency share issue. The £20 billion (5546.5 billion)
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    • 460 38  -  Robin Chan Asia's ability to weather hard times clearer with collapse of West: authors I By THE financial and economic crises have sped up the inevitable shift of power to Asia, said experts on the matter last Friday. Professor Wee Chow
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      • 59 38 PIERRE JOCHEM: Appointed general manager of Raffles Hotel Singapore, and regional vice-president of operations for Asia Pacific of Raffles Hotels Resorts. Mr Jochem will lead the daily operations of its flagship, as well as oversee Raffles properties in Cambodia and Beijing. He was previously general
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      • 76 38 LAWRENCE WONG SHYUN TSAI: Appointed chief executive of the Energy Market Authority (EMA) with effect from Jan 1 next year. He will succeed Mr Khoo Chin Hean, who will be retiring after 31 years in the public sector. Mr Wong joined the civil service in 1997
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        536 46  -  tara tan A lecturer and choreographer will be staging her first show arts reporter The saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach", hardly applies to choreographer and lecturer Melissa Quek. The 28-year-old lecturer from Lasalle College of the Arts will be staging her first show, Timeline,
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