The Straits Times, 21 April 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 TUESDAY, APRIL 21 2009 Spl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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      Lock icon A-G loses appeal case
      55 1 THE Court of Appeal has dismissed the Attorney-General's appeal to jail pub waitress Aniza Essa for life for her part in the murder of her husband. She was convicted of instigating her 16-year-old boyfriend to kili her disc-jockey husband and sentenced to nine years' jail last
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      Lock icon A red-shirt warning
      52 1 THAI "red shirts" leader Jakrapob Penkair warned yesterday that the window for reconciliation between warring factions was narrowing. He said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva might even be "irrelevant" though he supported the premier's cautious endorsement of an amnesty for banned politicians as a way forward. WORLD PAGE
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      Lock icon Uproar at racism summit
      36 1 IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a mass walkout on Day 1 of a controversial United Nations racism summit yesterday, when he called Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime". WORLD PAGE Al4
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Food bargain' outlets
      52 1 A NEW kind of factory outlet is attracting bargain hunters to the suburbs. They sell foodstuffs from frozen chicken and smoked salmon to condiments from out of factory buildings in industrial estates in the suburbs. They do not advertise, but word about them is spreading fast. HOME
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    • Article
      Lock icon Poor outlook for Q1 stats
      42 1 COMPANIES start reporting first quarter results this week with analysts expecting a series of ugly numbers, including an overall drop in profits of up to 35 per cent compared to this time last year. MONEY PAGE 816
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    Lock icon THE ART OF WAR
    81 1 Installation contractors put the final touches on the Love Tank (The Temple) at the rotunda of the National Museum. The art piece by Indonesian artist S. Teddy Darmawan sees seven replica tanks stacked like a pagoda. The pink lotus motifs adorning the tanks change an instrument
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    Lock icon Tamil Tigers get 24 hours to surrender
    568 1  -  Ravi Velloor Trapped civilians are in dire straits as the army gears up for final push By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF SRI LANKA's Tamil Tigers pleaded for a ceasefire as an all-out military push saw them hemmed into an area not much larger
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    Lock icon Five of nine Nominated MPs will not seek another term
    587 1  -  Kor Kian Beng By THE new slate of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) to be drawn up later this year will comprise largely new faces, as more than half of the current nine say they will not seek another term.
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      Lock icon The fuss about tax havens
      1047 2  -  Michelle Tay Spore on the OECD's grey list; bank secrecy the bone of contention By Think of tax havens, and you imagine yacht-studded harbours and bikini-clad sunbathers with multimillion-dollar private bank accounts in exotic places like San Marino and Monaco. Hardly the image you get
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        80 2 WE SAV Distrust within Aware's membership ranks is hurting an important civic organisation, not helped by the new executive team's reticence in discussing its plans. The quicker they front up, the better to clear the air. Civil society here is growing nicely. It needs people
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        Lock icon Design-centric engineers
        23 2 COLUMNS Chan Eng Soon says it will take a paradigm shift in engineering education to produce better engineers. REVIEW PAGE AlB
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        Lock icon Common Asean currency?
        30 2 As a first step, Asean could adopt interchangeability at the bilateral level or have a common currency within a sub-group, says Lee Yoong Yoong. REVIEW PAGE Al9
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        Lock icon Ballot is fairer to all
        27 2 OUR READER SAYS Is there consistency in the selling of Design, Build and Sell Scheme flats, asks Zhou Zhiqiang. FORUM PAGE A2O
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        30 2 www.straitstimes.com Nirmal Ghosh talks to a "red shirt" leader who is in hiding in Thailand. Christopher Tan says Singapore drivers are partly to blame for rising insurance premiums.
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      Lock icon Hijacker holds crew hostage for eight hours
      586 3 Drama ends when man who barged into plane is captured MONTEGO BAY (Jamaica): A gunman forced his way through airport security and hijacked a Canadian jet in Jamaica yesterday, holding six crew members hostage for hours before being captured by police. The eight-hour
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      Lock icon A-G loses bid to have woman jailed for life
      748 4 Appeal court retains nine-year term for her role in husband's killing THE final chapter of a love triangle that resulted in a murder two years ago was finally closed yesterday, when the Court of Appeal dismissed the prosecution's appeal to jail
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      Lock icon Jakarta's rivers of rubbish
      198 4 A man perches precariously in a small boat, scavenging in a river covered with rubbish near Jakarta's Pluit dam for plastic cups which can be recycled. The 13 rivers criss-crossing Jakarta are all heavily polluted by domestic and industrial waste. Officials blame riverbank dwellers for the
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      Lock icon Reflections on their terms
      246 4 "It has been educational and eye-opening, and I appreciate even more the whole process of policy and law-making. I have had my say, and expressed views and concerns reflective of those held by Singaporeans. I think others should have their chance to have their say." Dr
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      Lock icon A or B a breeze for hospital eateries
      1106 6  -  Judith Tan Ang Yiying Big chains can meet high cleanliness ratings but smaller ones face a tougher challenge By a small boat, scavenging in a river covered with rubbish near Jakarta's Pluit dam for plastic cups which can be recycled. The 13
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      1055 7 Special Feature More than just the adornment of physical beauty, your eyes are also the window to your overall health. Many early signs of illnesses will manifest in your eyes, and vice versa. Intricate in structure, the delicate human eye is susceptible f to injuries incurred from external factors. The
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      Lock icon Building up others in time of need
      1742 8  -  Radha Basu Businessman has pledged $500,000 so far to fund CDC help schemes By a small boat, scavenging in a river covered with rubbish near Jakarta's Pluit dam for plastic cups which can be recycled. The 13 rivers criss-crossing Jakarta are all heavily
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      Lock icon 'Little time left for reconciliation'
      747 9  -  Nirmal Ghosh Red shirt leader warns that the opportunity to settle conflict is fading and coup is a possibility By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT MORE ONLINE Read Nirmal Ghosh's blog on www.straitstimes.com BANGKOK: As Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva looked for a way out of Thailand's political crisis,
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      Lock icon Sondhi attack 'a plot to bring in army rule'
      370 9  -  NIRMAL GHOSH BANGKOK: The assassination attempt on Mr Sondhi Limthongkul was designed to spark a civil war followed by an outright army takeover, a co-leader of the royalist People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) claimed. Mr Pipob Thongchai made the allegation at
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        Lock icon Bridge project: No rush, says Najib
        811 10  -  Hazlin Hassan Any review of plan to b decided only after talks with Singapore, he says By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT "I don't know what is the point of reviving the crooked bridge project." Political analyst Agus Yusoff "The bridge will be a landmark for Johor
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        Lock icon Opposition glosses over widening cracks in coalition
        649 10  -  Elizabeth Looi By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: The resignation of an opposition assemblyman, paving the way for a by-election in Penang, has exposed widening cracks within the three-party Pakatan Rakyat (PR). But the leaders yesterday denied that there were problems. Penang Chief Minister
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        Lock icon Wife fights kids' conversion to Islam
        290 10 KUALA LUMPUR: A Hindu woman is challenging her husband's conversion of the couple's three young children to Islam, the woman's lawyer said yesterday the latest interfaith dispute over minors in Muslim-majority Malaysia. The conversion of children has been the subject of growing legal challenges
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        Lock icon BJP seizes on capital flight as campaign issue
        623 11  -  Ravi Velloor Congress acknowledges problem of illicit funds but questions opposition's figures By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF INDIA GET WATCH NEW DELHI: India's main opposition party has seized on money stashed away in overseas tax havens as a campaign issue and vowed
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        Lock icon India launches spy satellite
        160 11 BANGALORE (Karnataka): India put an Israeli-built spy satellite into orbit yesterday aimed at boosting its defence surveillance capabilities in the aftermath of the Mumbai militant attacks. The satellite, which can see through clouds and carry out day-and-night all-weather imaging from 550 km above the earth, has
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        Lock icon Technical glitches may delay poll results
        629 12  -  Salim Osman May 9 deadline may be missed due to electronic vote-counting problems By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA: The official results of Indonesia's recent elections may not be ready by May 9 because of technical glitches and human error during the electronic vote-count-ing. With only
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        Lock icon S. Korean blogger in false info case acquitted
        544 12 WHAT THE COURT SAID "Even if there was recognition that it was false information, he cannot be seen as having acted on purpose to harm public interest considering the situation at the time, including the special nature of the foreign exchange market."
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        Lock icon I saw Duch execute my uncle: Victim's nephew
        409 12 KHMER ROUGE TRIAL PHNOM PENH: A witness at Cambodia's United Nations-backed war crimes court wept yesterday as he testified that the former prison chief for the Khmer Rouge regime executed his uncle at a secret jungle camp. Mr Chan Veoun, 56, said
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        Lock icon $3m graft: Top official gets death sentence
        254 13 SHANGHAI: A Chinese court handed down the death sentence to a top official linked to Shanghai's multimil-lion-dollar pension fund scandal, state media reported yesterday. Wang Weigong, former secretary at the General Office of the State Council, was convicted of taking 12.9 million yuan
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        Lock icon China charms the world – in English
        574 13  - China charms the world in English Peh Shing Huei English-language paper hits the streets as part of push for global clout By CHINA BUREAU CHIEF BEIJING: China launched its third Englishlanguage newspaper yesterday, in what is believed to be the first step in a coordinated and official push for a
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        Lock icon Japan urged to get nuclear arms
        430 13 TOKYO: A former Japanese finance minister has said Japan should discuss getting nuclear weapons to deter North Korean threats, but the government quickly dismissed the nuclear-arming scenario as "impossible". "It is common sense worldwide that in a purely military sense it is nuclear that
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        Lock icon Great Wall far longer than thought
        328 13 BEIJING: The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported yesterday. But the project has also shown that many parts of the World Heritage-listed site are in danger
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        Lock icon Iranian leader's anti-Israel speech sparks mass walkout
        696 14 UN RACISM SUMMIT Already boycotted by the US and allies, forum in further turmoil after Ahmadinejad's remarks GENEVA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a mass walkout on the opening day of a controversial UN racism summit yesterday when he called Israel a "cruel
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        Lock icon Stephen Hawking Very ill' in hospital
        304 14 LONDON: British scientist Stephen Hawking, the author of A Brief History Of Time, is very ill in hospital, Cambridge University said yesterday. Professor Hawking, 67, achieved international fame despite being wheel-chair-bound because of a motor neurone disease and having to communicate through a voice
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        Lock icon SMGoh in Italy for 4-day visit
        382 14  -  Aaron Low By MILAN: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong arrived here last night for a four-day working visit to Italy, which includes a meeting with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday. In Milan today, he meets Mr Roberto Formigoni, president of the Lombardy region,
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        Lock icon Dubai doing just fine, says ruler
        500 15 LEADERS ON THE DEFENSIVE He hits out over media reports which speculate city-state has gone bust DUBAI (United Arab Emirates): Dubai's ruler, seeking to quash speculation that the Middle Eastern sheikdom has gone bust, said the city-state has seen the worst of the economic
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        Lock icon Smear scandal haunts Brown
        397 15 Support for British PM slumps despite apology and aide's resignation LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bid to re-establish confidence in his government days before he sets out the budget for recession-hit Britain is being thwarted by a sleaze scandal he cannot shake off. Despite a
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        Lock icon Poor warning system rapped as inquiry opens
        326 15 AUSTRALIA WILDFIRES MELBOURNE: A judicial inquiry into wildfires that killed 173 people in Australia opened yesterday with strong criticism of the warnings given to residents as flames bore down on their homes. Entire towns and more than 2,000 homes were razed in early
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        Lock icon The wheels of the masses
        64 15 Hungarian cyclists holding up their bicycles at the /arosliget (Hungarian for City Park) public garden in the lation's capital of Budapest on Sunday, during an snvironmental demonstration. The Budapest "Critical vdass", part of an ongoing series of cycling events taking )lace in over 300 cities
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        Lock icon Marriage of girl, 8, prompts look at law
        317 15 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is looking into introducing a minimum age for marriage, a justice ministry official has said, after a court upheld the marriage of an eight-year-old girl to a man 50 years her senior. Al-Madina newspaper quoted Mr Mohamed al-Babtain, the
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        Lock icon 'Slim is also green'
        377 17 Fat person is responsible for 1 tonne of CO 2 emissions more a year than thin one, says study LONDON: Shedding weight to squeeze into those tight-fitting clothes of the 1970s might be a way to fight climate change, researchers said. A study from the London
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        Lock icon Mask find could lead to Cleopatra's tomb
        94 17 A mask believed to depict Roman gener Mark Antony being shown to the press at the temple of Tasposiris Magna near Borg al-Arab, 50km west of Alexandria Egypt, on Sunday. Archaeologists searching for the tomb of Antony and Cleopatra may be closer to
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          Lock icon Child 'suicide bombers' arrested
          133 17 KIRKUK (Iraq): Iraqi security forces have arrested four children recruited by Al-Qaeda to carry out suicide attacks in and around the northern city of Kirkuk. The children, all under the age of 14, are part of a group known as "Birds of Paradise". The Al-Qaeda-linked group
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          Lock icon 'Dr Death' ordered to stand trial
          91 17 BRISBANE: An American doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at a rural Australian hospital was ordered yesterday to stand trial. The charges relate to Jayant Patel's job as director of surgery between 2003 and 2005 at the state-run Bundaberg Base
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          Lock icon 20,000 flee East Kalimantan floods
          72 17 JAKARTA: At least 20,000 residents in Samarinda city in East Kalimantan province have fled their homes amid floods. The National Disaster Management Agency yesterday said the flooding had been caused by consecutive days of heavy rain. A spokesman for the agency said the waters had
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          Lock icon Official whose son died in quake hangs himself
          114 17 BEIJING: An official whose seven-year-old son died in last year's huge earthquake in Sichuan province committed suicide yesterday, state media and the local government said. Mr Feng Xiang, vice-director of the publicity department of Beichuan county, hung himself in his home, according
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          Lock icon China to debate law on military mobilisation
          135 17 BEIJING: China's Parliament will debate a law that will give the legislative body the power to mobilise the military in times of war or emergency, state press reported yesterday. The draft law on national defence mobilisation was placed before the National People's Congress
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
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        207 20 I REFER to last Saturday's article, "How other groups build in safeguards". Civil society groups should take a leaf from the People's Action Party (PAP) on how it safeguards itself against takeovers. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, in his book The Singapore Story: Memoirs
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      719 21  -  Jessica Lim Lower prices the lure as more customers shop at out-of-the-way outlets By A NEW kind of factory outlet is reeling in more customers than a year ago. Instead of clothes and accessories, these outlets stock foodstuffs like frozen chicken parts, smoked
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      339 22  -  AMRESH GUNASINGHAM THE first made-in-Singapore eco-car to run on hydrogen was launched yesterday at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Powered by a I.2kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell, the $40,000 vehicle named KRUCE, or Kent Ridge Urban Concept Ecocar, expels water as exhaust and
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      778 22  -  Lim Wei Chean CONSUMER SATISFACTION Spore is joint last in 8-market survey despite millions spent and drive to boost service levels By Customers, who are already loath to spend, are expecting more bang for their buck when they do. DESPITE millions of dollars
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      526 23  -  Lee Hui Chieh By PATIENTS whose spines are crooked now stand a better chance of avoiding surgery with a new body brace that prevents their condition from worsening. Studies have shown that 77 per cent of scoliosis patients do not need surgery to prop
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      273 23 THE Singapore Press Club has elected a new management committee, bringing young journalists into its fold at a time when the 38-year-old outfit is reaching out to new members. Those elected during the proceedings include Straits Times journalist Syed Zakir Hussain, who, at
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      558 24  -  Carolyn Quek TRIAL OF REN CI FOUNDER Witness says Ming Yi's aide later asked for a letter stating otherwise By A CRAFTSMAN from China said in court yesterday that his company was told to draft a letter stating that it had sold two Buddha
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      273 24  -  ELENA CHONG THREE brothers yesterday admitted to being partners in crime. Singaporeans Mohammed Hasmi Abdul Aziz, 28, and Mohammed Hasrul Abdul Aziz, 22, together with their sibling Mohammed Hasmel Abdul Aziz, 20, a Malaysian, admitted to a series of housebreaking and theft offences. Between
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      333 24  -  Esther Tan By DURING their marriage, Madam Siti Rohani Kusno's husband had a habit of assaulting her when he had had too much to drink. So when the 37-year-old woman heard Mr Jalaludeen Musthafa, 36, moaning in his bedroom last Dec 24, she was too afraid
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      543 25  -  K.C. Vijayan By LAW CORRESPONDENT SOME 55 lawyers who breached a legal requirement were spared punishment by the Attorney-General after the Law Society explained that they were "ignorant" of the new law. These lawyers, who became partners, directors or sole proprietors, were required under the
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      904 25  -  Zakir Hussain SINGAPORE AFTER LEE KUAN YEW Leading figures list reasons: Values of founders institutionalised; citizens' sense of belonging strong By OPPOSITION AND POLITICAL LEGACY "Debates on Singapore's governance may make the population more aware of the precious political legacy that they have enjoyed. Alternatively, a
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      740 26 Mascherano issues rallying cry as Liverpool play Arsenal, who will be without Adebayor and van Persic Liverpool v Arsenal Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 2.55 am (Spore time) petition we have to play for now," said midfielder Javier Mascherano. "We have to win our next six games and, if United can
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      372 26 Red nightmare May 26,1989: Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2 No team had ever dented Liverpool's title ambitions so dramatically as Arsenal. It was the last game of the season, and just over two months after the Hillsborough tragedy. John Barnes needed only to
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      378 26  -  Jonathan Wong By NATIONAL triathlete Mok Ying Ren will not appeal against the overseas competition ban imposed by the Triathlon Association of Singapore (TAS), bringing to a close a long-running saga. This, after mediation from the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) earlier this month
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      641 27 Excuses for FA Cup loss mask Ferguson's fear of slip-up in EPL title chase LONDON: There was unbounded joy for Everton and relief for the keepers of the English game. After all, what would have been said if a club as desperate for success as the
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      377 27 LONDON: Tim Howard showed the value of study when he saved penalties from Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov and Rio Ferdinand in Sunday's shoot-out to lead Everton into the FA Cup final. While his opposite number Ben Foster watched Tottenham players on an iPod just
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      894 27  -  Rohit Brijnath SPORTINGLIFE By RAFAEL Nadal can make you sweat on clay without a point being played. Because you think: how does one play a man who doesn't let up. He will err, as he did often last week, but from
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        140 27 WELLINGTON (Florida): Veterinarians are waiting for test results to find out why at least 21 polo horses fell ill and died in a short time before their match at a Florida tournament over the weekend. The horses from the Venezuela-based Lechuza Caracas team were
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        80 27 HILTON HEAD (South Carolina): Brian Gay fired a final-round 64 on Sunday to complete a record-setting victory in the Verizon Heritage Classic. His total of 20-under 264 broke the tournament scoring record of 19-under set by Loren Roberts in 1996. Gay won by 10
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        64 27 TAMPINES Rovers beat Albirex Niigata 1-0 in an S-League football match at the Tampines Stadium last night. National striker Noh Alam Shah scored in the eighth minute to hand the White Swans their sixth defeat of the season. It was his fourth goal of
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      652 28  -  Jeanette Wang By HSBC Asian Five Nations What: South Korea v Singapore Where: Seoul When: Saturday 3pm Singapore line-up: Alex Muir, Andrew Douglas, Norman Sin, Nick Dance, Gaspar Tan, Chris Gilbert, Gabriel Lee, Steve Horsfall, John Lee, Andrew Bennett, James Valintine, Ben Wheeler (captain),
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      609 28  -  Wang Meng Meng Home United and Lions' custodian set to miss seventh straight match By "He will not be dropped by his country just because he has not played the last few club games." RADDY AVRAMOVIC, Sjngapore coach, on Lionel Lewis' place in the national side Despite
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      642 28  -  Steve Slater DRIVER'SSEAT By Their cars have lacked pace, suffered from unreliable electronics and the team have made some howling tactical errors. However, like BMW and Renault, whether the system is used or not, the cars are compromised by being configured to accommodate it.
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      505 28 Australian Rules AFL West Coast 17.14 (116) Western Bulldogs 12.11 (83), Melbourne 14.16 (100) Richmond 13.14 (92), North Melbourne 10.9 (69) Essendon 7.15 (57), Geelong 21.8 (134) Adelaide 13.8 (86), St Kilda 17.9 (111) Fremantle 4.4 (28), Port Adelaide 17.13 (115) Hawthorn 12.13 (85), Sydney 12.12 (84) Carlton 9.13
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      699 29  -  May Chen SPORT IN SCHOOLS Three meet marks, one Schools National record set at annual c'ships By "I expected to break the record because I worked very hard for today's competition." SAKINAH MUSLIMAH JOHAR WHEN she fractured her left ankle in a car accident last September, Inez Leong immediately
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      459 29 Philadelphia 76ers 100 Orlando Magic 98 ORLANDO: Andre Iguodala waited for the clock to tick down, took a few dribbles to his right and let go a high-arching jumper. Swish! The Orlando Magic were stunned, their fans silenced. For the Philadelphia 76ers, it was the sweet
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      161 26 n WHAI 5 UIMLIIMt in MOST VIEWED, 9 MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES United confident. Goals galore, Blues through. No Mourinho return: Chelsea. MOST COMMENTED Goals galore, Blues through. Said babybee: "While we're on the subject of defence, let's not forget the red faces on the Liverpool
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      235 28 Today Cricket IPL: Punjab v Kolkata (6.30pm), Rajasthan v Mumbai (10.30pm) Live, Chill. Football AFC Cup: Home United v Club Valencia (Mdv) (Jalan Besar, 7.30pm. Live, Ch27, 7.25pm). English Premier League: Liverpool v Arsenal (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 2.55am). Spanish Primera Liga: Real Madrid v Getafe (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 3am). Sailing
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      365 29 'The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want..." (Psalm 23:1) "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith..." (2 Timothy 4:7) "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord... Yea, saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours;
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      76 29 We, the family of the late MICHAEL WONG TOON SIANG Departed on 16 April 2009 Wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all pastors, relatives, friends, business associates, colleagues and church members for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, prayers, wreaths and contributions during our recent bereavement. Beloved wife:
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      39 29 With deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to Dr Ho Pui San and family on the demise of her beloved father DR HO YUEN Past President 1963-1964 SMA Honorary Member Singapore Medical Association From: President, Council Members Singapore Medical Association
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      137 29 3P "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6 ANDREW GOH SU LIAT Age: 67 Was called home to be with the Lord on 20 April 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered
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      112 29 AM BAR KAUR Age: 78 passed away peacefully on 20 April 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Late Karnail Singh Lakhowal Sons: Daughters-in-law: Jasbir Singh Ratan Kaur Manjeet Singh Harjit Kaur Ranjit Singh Bhajan Kaur Karmjit Singh Minder Kaur Gurdip Singh Sarjit Kaur Daughters: Sons-in-law: Charanjeet
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      96 29 LIM FO ENG Age: 67 passed away peacefully on 18 April 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Eng Guan Lai Sons: Daughter-in-law: Eng Kian Teng Ang Choon Choo Eng Kian Wah Daughter: Son-in-law: Eng Bee Lian, Vh/ienne Koh Sing Choong, Lionel Grandsons: F Granddaughter: Eng Chong
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      113 29 am the Resurrection and the Life. If anyone believes in me even though he dies he will live." 1 John 11:25 I MRSKOHGUANYAM nee CHEOK JENNY Age: 92 was called home to be with the Lord on 18 April 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by: Children, children-in-law, grandchildren, grandchildren-in-law,
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      292 30 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 PETER WONG POH CHUAN Age: 90 was called home to be with the Lord on 19 April 2009 leaving behind his beloved family. Wife: Teresa Goh Noon Kin (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law:
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      46 30 Third Anniversary In Loving Memory of GOHNERNCHOO Departed on 21 April 2006 God knows how much we miss her, Never shall her memory fade; Our loving thoughts ever wander To the spot where she is laid. Dearly missed and always remembered by family and loved ones.
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      104 30 HO NGAI YOKE Age 75 was called home to be with the Lord on 20 April 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Husband Soh Kirn Soon (deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law SohKokKuen Sunny Yu Soh Kok Mong Jennifer Gan SohKokTong Tang Chee Wan Grandchildren Megan, Eugene, Joanne, Adriel, Samuel All relatives friends. Body
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      108 30 QUEK SWEE LAY PBM Age: 54 Passed away peacefully on 18 April 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Son: Daughter-in-law: Thomas Alyssa Watt Daughters: Fiance: Theresa Wong Woon Weng Amanda Brothers: Sisters-in-law: Quek Swee Huat Soi Get Quek Yeo Swee (deceased) Goh Seok Yee Quek Swee Chuan
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      27 30 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late Dr Lim Jen Pei Departed on 18 April 2009 From The Management Staff of NHG Polyclinics
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      51 30 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Dr Tham Wai Lum on the demise of his beloved wife DR LIM JEN PEI Departed on 18 April 2009 From Alex Sandra Bee Lan Hui Seong Wan Teng James Mm Kheng Kok May San Kiang Hiong Yoke Yin Kit Leong Su Chin
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      20 30 Our Deepest and Heartfelt Condolences to The family of our beloved JEN PEI With Fond Memories, MEDICINE CLASS OF 92
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      38 30 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Dr Benjamin Tham Wai hum on the demise of his beloved wife DR LIM JEN PEI Departed on 18 April 2009 From The President Council Members of Obstetrical Gynaecological Society of Singapore
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      159 30 "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want... i J and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23 KOK SOON 001 Age: 87 Was called home to be with the Lord on 20 April 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved
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      78 30 TAN CHENG BIN ERIC Age: 65 Passed away peacefully on 19 April 2009, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Sim Kirn Choo Sons: Daughter-in-law: Tan Inn Poh Bernard Fong Phui Yeng Nicole Tan Mm Yu Winston Daughter: Tan Yin Chun Ivry all relatives and friends Wake is
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      31 30 CORRIGENDUM In yesterday's condolence announcement to the family of the late KENNY ANG, his name should be KENNY ANG WEE CHIA and not as published The advertiser apologises for the error.
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      86 30 AL-FATIHAH The family of the late JAMALIA BINTE YACOB Departed 2.03.2009 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and [colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences and donations during their recent bereavement. thanks to: Dr Prema Raj Dr Ravin Dr Das, Dr C. X David Dr
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        712 31  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS AND BEARS Six-week run-up fizzling out; traders say 'green shoots' too feeble to keep it going By MARKETS CORRESPONDENT IT HAS been rolling along for six weeks but the longest stock market rally since the sub-prime crisis erupted nearly two
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            414 31 For aJM list of SGXstocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 20, 2009 Top Rises w Top Falls (0) Top Rises Top Falls DCBC Bk 5.1%NCPS 100 ...9362 82.0 .yxor China H 10US$ 1200 31.6 JOB 5.05%NCPS 100 9350 30.0 iPC 346 26.0 DBS Bk
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        710 32  -  Lee Su Shyan Cable-making firm says duo hampered output and breached contracts By ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR TWO former executives of a cable-mak-ing firm listed here cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production after they breached service agreements, the High Court
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        276 32  -  Michelle Tay By THE global economic turmoil sent first-quarter profits tumbling at Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) and cast uncertainty over its Jeruk oil discovery. SPC reported a net profit of $55.6 million yesterday, down 43.5 per cent from the same period a year ago. Chief executive
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        259 32  -  Francis Chan By SHIPPING giant Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has appointed Mr Jim McAdam as president of its supply chain division, APL Logistics. He will replace Mr Brian Lutt, who left the group last month. Mr McAdam, 54, was president of APL South
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        241 32  -  MICHELLE TAY AN INCREASED need for communication has upped Nera Telecommunications' net profit by 8.6 per cent for the first quarter. The group made $2.9 million for the period ended March 31, up from $2.7 million in the same period a year ago. Nera
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      313 33 WASHINGTON: American businesses see signs that the prolonged recession is easing a bit in the world's largest economy but a return to healthy growth remains uncertain. Despite broad pessimism about the economic outlook, more businesses plan to increase capital spending and see demand rising,
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      969 34  -  Alvin Foo Britain committed to strengthening ties with Republic, says trade chief By BRIGHT PROSPECTS "Singapore's a very resilient economy...it's clear that trade and tourism are going to grow here. It's clear that it's an important financial centre." Lord Mervyn Davies, the British
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      363 34 NEW YORK: Bank of America (BoA) yesterday disappointed investors by reporting a big increase in troubled loans, even as its purchase of Merrill Lynch helped first-quarter profit more than double. While results topped analysts' forecasts, they were bolstered by one-time
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      277 35 CAIRO: Saudi billionaire Prince AlWaleed bin Talal's investment company said yesterday it had secured approval from the Singapore authorities to expand the landmark Raffles Hotel. Kingdom Holding, which has a controlling 58.1 per cent stake in Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, said in
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      684 35  -  Joyce Teo Condo-style flats popular; private homes see encouraging sales By PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT THOUSANDS of people flocked to check out some of the new housing developments on sale over the weekend, scenes more reminiscent of a boom, not a recession. As one industry watcher told
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      690 36  -  Alvin Foo Analysts expect Ql results to be bleak and say bottom may come only in Q2 By THE severe recession and the way Corporate Singapore is faring will make the upcoming reporting season one of the most eagerly watched in recent history. This time
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        1685 38 AMARA SANCTUARY RESORT SENTOSA 1 Larkhill Road, Sentosa Island What: Family Escapade Deluxe room at $268 per night, includes breakfast for two at Shutters restaurant, two tickets to Sentosa's Songs Of The Sea show, two tickets to the Sentosa Luge and Skyride, one complimentary Sentosa Luge and Skyride
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        472 39 TUNE HOTELS.COM PROMOTIONS Limited-service hotel brand Tune Hotels.com has opened its fifth hotel Downtown Penang in Malaysia. Launch promotion rates start from RMB (553.32) per night and are available for stays between May 3 and Dec 31. Downtown Penang is the largest Tune Hotels, com hotel. It has
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        598 39 In October, I will be touring Turkey for two weeks. What historical sites can I visit? Karen Chua According to SA Tours, you should stop by the Hippodrome Square where horse and chariot races were once held. However, only fragments of the original structure remain. Head on next
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        927 40  -  jovanda biston The chic resorts on the French Riviera may be the playground of the rich, but you can holiday there in style on a budget The name Cote d'Azur conjures images of glitz and glamour. Also known as the French Riviera, the stretch of the
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        687 42 fhe beauty of Nepal can be enjoyed without breaking into too much of a sweat, discovers Chong Zi Liang THINK of Nepal, and adrenaline seekers scaling the Himalayans inevitably come to mind. After all, this land-locked nation is home to eight of the world's 10 tallest
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        753 43 PHOTO: "ALL local catch", the chief chef promises. At Lobster Shack in Taj Exotica, a resort hotel in Goa by the Arabian Sea, executive chef Arun Sundararaj offers his haul of giant prawns, lobsters, pomfret, mullet, snapper, baby sharks, shells and squid. Take your pick and tell him
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        318 46 a small boat, scavenging in a river covered with rubbish near Jakarta's Pluit dam for plastic cups which can be recycled. The 13 rivers criss-crossing Jakarta are all heavily polluted by domestic and industrial waste. Officials blame riverbank dwellers for the mess, but residents point the
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        542 47 At Saung Angklung Udjo, a cultural centre, I enjoyed an impressive concert of angklung music performed by children and young adults. On our visits to various tourist spots, we were welcomed by young women in colourful costumes performing traditional dances to the strains of gamelan music. I was part
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      657 48  -  Rebecca lynne tan Healthy ticket sales prove that not even bad times can dampen appetites quote me 1 feel like a tranny a lot of the time' Actress Blake Lively (left) on having to wear high heels and lots of make-up on Gossip Girl WORLD GOURMET
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      230 48 The first English translation of Spain's answer to France's Michelin Guide was launched yesterday in conjunction with the World Gourmet Summit 2009. Called the Repsol Guide, produced and named after one of Spain's largest oil and gas companies, it comprises three parts: street directories of
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      748 49 Obituary Empire Of The Sun author had battled prostate cancer London Author J.G. Ballard, whose novel Empire Of The Sun vividly portrayed his childhood imprisonment in wartime Shanghai and whose vision was so dark and distinctive that it was labelled "Ballardian", died on Sunday.
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      514 49  -  deepika shetty Artworks by renowned Singaporean artist and Cultural Medallion recipient Lim Tze Peng are now on show at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The artist's first solo show in China's prestigious museum runs till April 26, after which it will
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      943 50 Washington Post Internet clips of Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle are setting a viewership record The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle, whose online popularity is headed straight to the history books. The video of her performance in the reality show Britain's
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      365 50  -  fffflffl concert TOKYO METROPOLITAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Kazuhiro Koizumi, Conductor Esplanade Concert Hall Sunday chang tou liang Japanese orchestras are generally known for their discipline, technical prowess and refinement of execution. These qualities and more were amply displayed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, on its first overseas
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        495 52 A round of silent applause for actress Josephine Siao at the Hong Kong Film Awards Hong Kong Sentiment ruled at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards as a little film beat the big blockbusters and veterans such as actress Josephine Siao were honoured. Siao, 62,
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