The Straits Times, 8 March 2010

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  • 19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, MARCH 8 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    • 66 1 IRAQIS turned out in huge numbers yesterday to vote, defying waves of bomb, mortar and rocket attacks that killed at least 38 people. Many Iraqis hope the election will put them on a path towards national reconciliation as the United States prepares to withdraw combat
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    • 44 1 FIRST, there was the Tea Party, a politically conservative grassroots movement that galvanised Americans opposed to Washington’s spending and intrusive regulations. Now, citizens unhappy with it are brewing up a rival movement and calling themselves the Coffee Party. WORLD PAGE A14
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    • 57 1 SOME house owners near Mount Elizabeth Hospital are opening their doors in the heart of Orchard Road to medical tourists and budget travellers. They charge $50 to $120 per room a night, when a hotel room could cost three or four times more. But are they
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    • 49 1 THE International Football Association Board, the game’s rule-maker, has said no to goal-line technology that allows video replays to determine goals, especially controversial ones. Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke said: “We should keep football as a human game...The door is closed.” SPORT PAGE B8
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  • 715 1  -  Restrictions to be placed on what such co-ops can invest in, how much BY GABRIEL CHEN gabrielc@sph.com.sg MEMBERS of credit cooperatives may soon get lower annual payouts, with changes in the works to limit the types of investments these societies can make. Credit
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  • 426 1  -  BY KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN SIX double-decker buses, worth about $3 million, went up in flames at the Ang Mo Kio bus depot yesterday morning. Bus drivers arriving for work at the depot in Ang Mo Kio Street 63 were confronted by the
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    • 115 1 JEREMY AU YONG ETHNIC INTEGRATION You can play ‘house’ only when there is a right ethnic mix Boy meets Chippendales China rejects ‘tough’ label PRIME, PAGE A3 LIFE! PAGE C6 Sweeten rules with rewards REVIEW, PAGE A16 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 ma#
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  • prime.commentary
    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 82 2 WE SAY Unlike Budget allocations to raise productivity, the $100 million set aside to support seniors may be written off as consumption. It is not. To be spread over five years it will bear dividends in social costs avoided and, yes, economic productivity
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      • 27 2 COLUMNS Malaysia is losing badly needed talent, as more Malay professionals emigrate to greener and gentler shores, says Rejal Arbee. REVIEW PAGE A16
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      • 26 2 ETFs are making waves with their simplicity and low cost, but these are not without risks, says Goh Eng Yeow. MONEY PAGE B14
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      • 33 2 OUR READERS SAY Minister Mah Bow Tan’s story study hard, work hard, and you can pull yourself out of poverty is also Singapore’s story, says Low Lee Siang. FORUM PAGE A18
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      • Article, Illustration
        23 2 www.straitstimes.com Ravi Velloor muses about all the “god-men” he has known. Nirmal Ghosh bemoans the top Thai resort island’s risky roads.
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    • 966 2  -  Race politics remains biggest roadblock; race rhetoric rage unchecked BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg MARCH 8, 2008 was the turning point in Malaysia’s journey to political maturity, the day when people set aside their communal feelings for the sake of the nation or so
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  • prime.news
    • 663 3  -  Take off tinted lenses, says Foreign Minister on concerns over assertiveness BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi yesterday rejected growing international concern that Beijing is becoming more tough and assertive, urging the world instead to remove its
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    • 343 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: He arrived to the squeals of crushed reporters, who crammed into an entryway of China’s Great Hall of the People to see one of the country’s potential leaders. Mr Bo Xilai, the gang-busting Communist Party boss of Chongqing,
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    • 561 4  -  Toxin found in venom can protect nerve cells from degeneration BY JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg THE bite of the King Cobra, which can bring down an elephant, has been found by Singapore scientists to yield a toxin that could delay the onset of
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      76 4  -  BY SAMUEL HE PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. A child gestures towards
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    • 130 5 A motorcyclist crashed his vehicle through the door of a bus early yesterday morning and is now in critical condition at the National University Hospital. The 27-year-old rider collided with the bus along Bukit Batok Street 23 while the single-decker was making
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    • 866 5  -  Growing demand has fuelled flourishing of unregulated outfits BY SIM CHI YIN CHINA CORRESPONDENT simcy@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Lina Miao BEIJING: After a year of trying, Madam Sun J.Y. just could not get pregnant. So she and her husband turned to a technique that
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    • 1138 6  -  They do so to reach out to members; keep online archive of materials BY CAROLYN QUEK carolynq@sph.com.sg WHEN he could no longer move about independently after suffering a stroke in 2007, Mr Patrick Phua stopped making his weekly trip to church for mass. For
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    • 511 4 INQAPORE AESIHETIC CENTRE Radiant Skin Within Your Reach 1 Face 1 Opportunity 1 Life Why leave your face to fate when you can take fate in your own hands? Youth is a time of freedom, a time for self-confidence to blossom. However, it can often be marred by the blossoming
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    • 303 6 LEE KUAN YEW 3 R R A ADMISSION IS FREE ALL ARE WELCOME Please register www.lkydvp.sg Prof Aaron Ciechanover 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Distinguished Research Professor, Faculty of Medicine The Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology Public Lecture NTU DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21 ST CENTURY: ARE WE GOING TO CURE
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  • WORLD.
    • 797 7  -  French and Germans fight the growing dominance of the language in European diplomacy BY JONATHAN EYAL EUROPE CORRESPONDENT Jonathan.eyal@gmail.com LONDON: The sweeping tide of the English language dominating the European Union (EU) in its meetings, memos and manpower recruitment is being fiercely resisted by the
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    • 108 7 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE US should mend ties: China. MOST COMMENTED ON False tsunami alarm? Better safe than sorry, say scientists. Says GhostRider666: “The scientists did the right thing. Better to be safe than sorry. Assume the worst, so that if it
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    • world.regional
      • 436 8 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK JOHOR BARU: Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of Johor has said he is willing to be a mediator on bilateral Singapore-Malaysia issues, and adds that Johor must be consulted on development projects planned by the federal government. He also said
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      • 608 8  -  Only one-quarter of delegates at AGM due to boycott; president hints he will run again in polls BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT chengwee@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s biggest Chinese political party pushed ahead with its annual general meeting (AGM) yesterday, despite failing to get
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      • 292 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA: Philippine marines killed at least seven Al-Qaeda-linked militants yesterday in a raid on a coastal hide-out but failed to capture a Malaysian terror suspect long wanted by the United States, officials said. Troops, backed by intelligence from captured militants and US military
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      • 678 9 But tradition, like arranged marriage, still rules for some P A KI S T A N S FIR S T FEM A LE PIL O T S AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ISLAMABAD: Flight Lieutenant Ambreen Gul made Pakistani history by becoming one of the country’s first
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      • 389 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korea, which has spent decades developing nuclear power to make up for its lack of oil, now hopes to become a global leader in atomic energy as the world turns away from fossil fuels. A Seoul-led consortium, triumphing
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      • 242 10 TOKYO: The Japanese government will move a US Marine Corps base in Okinawa either to an earlier agreed site but give it a watered-down air facility, or to an offshore strip, said government sources. The first option is to build a helipad at the existing
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      • 493 10 Thai PM to ask Beijing to cooperate in solving river’s low water levels AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: Thailand will ask China for help in dealing with the record-low water levels in the Mekong River, on which more than 60 million people depend, the Prime Minister
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      • 47 10 One-year-old standard poodle, Cream, had his day when owner Yoshihiro Nomura carried him on the catwalk at a canine fashion show yesterday. Odaiba Wan Wan Collection 2010 was held at Aqua City in Tokyo. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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      • 546 11 Final decision on successor to Tibet spiritual leader lies with Beijing, says former governor AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS XINHUA BEIJING: China indicated yesterday it would take a hard line on the selection of a successor to the ageing Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama,
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      • 328 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China says it expects new attacks by separatists seeking independence for the traditionally Turkic Muslim region of Xinjiang after deadly ethnic violence there last year. Despite massive pressure from security forces, separatists will continue to refine their methods and seek
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      • 814 12  -  As presidential election draws near, critics say opinion surveys can exert undue influence BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com PUBLIC opinion polls have annoyed administration spokesmen trying to explain away Philippine President Gloria Arroyo’s dismal approval ratings. Now, candidates running in May’s national election
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    • world.international
      • 632 13 At least 38 killed; polls seen as boost to democracy and paves way for US troop pullout REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG BAGHDAD: Iraqis defied waves of bomb, mortar and rocket attacks that killed at least 38 people, turning out in huge numbers
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      • 307 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: A man who lived in the same house as the family of an Indian boy found dead in Australia last week has been charged in connection with the toddler’s death. Gursewak Dhillon, 23, was charged with manslaughter
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      • 440 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SAN FRANCISCO: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said he “still loves” his Prius car, despite what he suspects is a Toyota software problem behind sudden spikes in acceleration. “It is just like all the other gadgets we have... Every thing today has
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      • 787 14  -  Coffee Party movement brewing as alarm stirs over conservative activists BY TRACY QUEK U.S. CORRESPONDENT tracyq@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: First there was the Tea Party, a politically conservative grassroots movement that galvanised Americans opposed to the government’s big spending and intrusive regulations. Now, some citizens
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      • 117 15 The complete manuscript of physicist Albert Einstein’s General Theory Of Relativity being displayed for the first time at an exhibition at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem. The 46-page work, which advanced an entirely new model of space, time and gravity, paving the
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      • 388 15 Mini-cyclone brings big hailstones, floods; more violent storms expected AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: Melbourne was bracing itself for more bad weather yesterday after a “beast of a storm” ripped through Australia’s second-largest city, bringing with it hailstones the size of tennis balls. The mini-cyclone
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      • IN BRIEF
        • 90 15 AGENCE FRANCE–PRESSE GENEVA: Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum yesterday a proposal for lawyers to be assigned to defend animals in court proceedings. Just over 70 per cent of voters chose the “no” option, official results showed. The referendum was initiated by the Swiss Animal
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        • 82 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: The Pope’s brother says he would be willing to testify in a sex scandal rocking the Catholic church in Germany, even though he knows nothing about the alleged abuse of a former choir boy. Professor Georg Ratzinger told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that
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        • 108 15 KUALA LUMPUR: Former chief of Malaysian Indian rights group Hindraf, Mr P. Uthayakumar, yesterday led a demonstration of several dozen people in front of the office of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), to voice its concern over ethnic Indian issues, Malaysiakini online news reported. He said the
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        • 65 15 AGENCE FRANCE–PRESSE RAMALLAH: The Palestinian leadership agreed yesterday to enter into indirect US-led peace talks with Israel, a senior Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official announced. The decision, at a meeting of the PLO executive committee, came after Arab foreign ministers last week expressed grudging support
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        • 74 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Taiwan’s scientists are investigating a suspected fault that could have been responsible for a powerful earthquake that injured 96 people, a seismologist said yesterday. The 6.4-magnitude quake rocked the south of the island last week, derailing a high-speed train carriage, toppling farm houses and
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 442 16 UNLIKE the $5.5 billion allocated in the Budget to help business enterprises and workers raise productivity, the $100 million set aside to support seniors may be written off entirely as consumption. It is not. Rather, it is investment over the next five years
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    • 793 16  -  BY YOLANDA CHIN, NORMAN VASU Yolanda Chin is an Associate Research Fellow and Norman Vasu is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU. IMPLEMENTED in 1989, the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) was driven by the desire to facilitate interaction among the different races
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    • 697 16  -  MALAYSIAN EMIGRATION BY REJAL ARBEE IN THE last two to three months, there has been much talk about emigration, especially among those who cannot accept policies that favour the Malays and discriminate against non-Malays. Thus, it is not surprising that most of these emigrants are
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    • review.
      • 870 17  -  GLOBAL WARMING BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. BRITAIN’SCairn Energy is about to begin a risky but potentially lucrative search for oil and natural gas in waters off the coast of
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      • 828 17  -  BY JOHN KENNEY NEW YORK TIMES ONE oddity of the report: United States President Barack Obama weighed 179.9 pounds with his shoes and workout attire on, which is not the usual way to measure a patient’s weight. THE TIMES, MARCH 1 KATIE Couric (in studio):
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      • 725 17  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg A FLURRY of activities are underway among deep thinkers and diplomats, aimed at reviving the ailing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The results won’t become known until May, when 189 states that are party to the agreement convene
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      • MY POINT
      • 55 18 Letters should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words and must include the writer’s full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please
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      • 404 18  -  SHIFT TO SERVICE-BASED FIRMS Han Tau Kwang I REFER to last Saturday’s letter by Ms Eileen Tan, “Systemic problems need bosses’ attention”, and last Tuesday’s report, “Bad service? The buck stops with the CEO”. I fully agree that chief executive officers should take the
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      • 222 18  -  Low Lee Siang I AM a 58-year-old Singaporean who shed tears on reading last Saturday’s article, “Mah’s own upgrading story”, in which National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan recounted his difficult childhood years growing up in various housing types. I have 11 siblings and,
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      • 232 18  -  Dr Jason Wong IT IS good that schools are committing more curriculum time to the use of information technology to support learning. In this spirit, the Ministry of Education should fine-tune the curriculum at different education levels to prepare students
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      • Article, Illustration
        95 18 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MRS NANCY GRIFFITHS: Discover delights of Singapore on bikes 2 SINGAPORE ZOO: Safety and care come first at wildlife parks 3 MR MURALI SHARMA: Only strict action can rescue island from poo 4 MRS RENEE KWEE: How about CWOs for errant dog owners?
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  • HOME.
    • 1073 1  -  Homes near Orchard Rd hospital found illegally offering budget lodging to patients, travellers BY KAREN ZAINAL kzainal@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Yeo Shang Long and Ang Yiying SEVERAL terrace house owners in the quiet lanes near Mount Elizabeth Hospital are opening their doors to medical
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    • 118 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Jack Neo admits affair MOST COMMENTED ON Service standards ‘appalling’. Says Pushkin62: “The whole problem boils down to the reluctance on the part of Singaporeans to pay for services. They want cheap and good service, which unfortunately does not
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    • 448 2  -  BY KAREN ZAINAL,YEO SHANG LONG DOMESTIC helpers or hostel managers? When it comes to some maids working in several private houses surrounding the Mt Elizabeth Hospital, the distinction is often not so clear. One such maid, who gave her name as Madam
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    • 198 2 CLIMBING enthusiasts will be leaping for joy with the opening of a climbing installation at the People’s Association (PA) WaterVenture adventure sports centre in Pasir Ris. The 13m-tall tower allows adrenaline junkies and mountain climbers to hone their skills in sport climbing and
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    • 81 3 Labour chief Lim Swee Say (centre) joining a mass exercise as part of NTUC’s celebration of International Women’s Day at the West Coast Park yesterday. NTUC is launching a weight management programme next month to promote healthy living at the workplace. Companies which sign up
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    • 361 3  -  Helpers will play a part in overseeing areas such as kids’ education, worker upgrading LIM WEI CHEAN FOUR hundred this is the additional number of volunteers the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) aims to recruit this year to help run its programmes. Of these 400,
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    • 719 4  -  Research project with TPJC students is first step BY LEOW SI WAN siwan@sph.com.sg THE European Union (EU) wants to reach out to youth here, and working with students at Tampines Junior College (TPJC) is its first step towards forming this relationship. A group of
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    • 541 5  -  She has not paid $150,000 in legal costs owed to three churchgoers in failed lawsuit BY BEN NADARAJAN,CAROLYN QUEK benjamin@sph.com.sg carolynq@sph.com.sg A FAILED lawsuit, which a woman took against a Catholic church, two priests and six churchgoers over an alleged exorcism, is coming back
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    • 318 5 THOUSANDS of Bedok parents with children in tow relived their kampung days yesterday as they gave their young ones a taste of the food they used to eat and the games they once played. The open space beside Block 35, Chai Chee Avenue was a
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    • 182 6 THE British Council is holding a one-day Education UK Exhibition on March 13. The exhibition will feature more than 40 education pro- viders with programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate/MBA students and preuniversity as well as professional courses. This is the first time that UK colleges and
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    • 248 6 Citi Singapore is holding three events as part of its new campaign "You...Powered by Citi" to extend the Citibank experience to the public. About 20,000 visitors and guests are expected to attend the events, where they can learn the core benefits of the products
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    • 313 6  -  BY. JACQUELINE WOO JAPAN was the bestselling Asian destination at the recent Natas travel fair, but the Japanese are not resting on their laurels. Last Monday, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) Singapore Office hosted its first Visit Japan Travel Trade Meet to
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    • 244 6 THE four-day IT Show 2010 at Suntec Singapore from this Thursday will be bigger than last year's with more exhibitors and new gadgets. Organised by Eastern Directories, this year's show has expanded to 345,000 sq ft of exhibit space from last year's 330,000 sq
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    • 195 8 www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Scholes sends United to the top Anger as goal-line technology aid rejected Phelps sets IM personal best MOST COMMENTED ON Gunners’ pyrrhic victory after severe injury. Said Eagle_Eye2004: “Everton lost up to 12 members of their first-team
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      499 8  -  New League Cup champs Etoile can help lift S-League standards Woodlands Wellington 1 Etoile 3 BY TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg IT SPEAKS volumes of Etoile FC’s confidence that they printed T-shirts with the words “League Cup Champions” before yesterday’s final. It was also with typical swagger that the French
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    • 323 8 Reading 2 Aston Villa 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Aston Villa staged a stunning second-half fightback to reach the English FA Cup semi-finals with a 4-2 win over Reading at the Madejski Stadium yesterday. Martin O’Neill’s side, beaten in the League Cup final by Manchester
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    • 358 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Birmingham’s Liam Ridgewell had a headed goal ruled out 10 minutes from time in Saturday’s 0-2 FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Portsmouth because the assistant referee did not spot it had crossed the line. The timing was perfect. Almost simultaneously, in
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    • 280 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Jamie Carragher, the epitome of a one-club servant in football, has revealed he would not hesitate to walk away from his beloved Liverpool should his employers express any doubts about keeping him when contract negotiations begin this summer. While a
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    • 771 9 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Has English football lost its way? Players’ wages have sky-rocketed as clubs gamble on big signings in the hope of staying in the Premier League or finishing in the top four. While that has pushed Portsmouth into administration, even more prudent
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    • 134 9 Today Balestier Khalsa v Albirex Niigata Toa Payoh, 7.45pm Tomorrow Tampines Rovers v Young Lions Tampines, 7.45pm Thursday Etoile FC v Woodlands Wellington Queenstown, 7.45pm Friday Geylang United v Beijing Guoan Jalan Besar, 7.30pm (Live, Ch5 Ch27, 7.25pm) Sunday Albirex Niigata v Gombak United Jurong East,
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    • 496 10  -  They win B and C Division titles to claim Overall Challenge Trophy SPH SCHOOLS RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS BY JEFF ANG improve jeffang@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Chia Jie Min YOU would be forgiven if you thought that you were suffering from multiple vision after seeing Ng Chin Hui
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    • 345 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI: In what has been described as a sad day for Asian hockey, India and Pakistan both crashed out of the World Cup on Saturday. India were eliminated after losing 2-3 to England, who reached the semi-finals for
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    • 152 10 Today Football S-League: Balestier v Albirex (Toa Payoh, 7.45pm). English Premier League: Wigan v Liverpool (Live, Ch27 Ch304, tomorrow, 3.55am). Spanish Primera Liga: Valencia v Santander (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 4am). Hockey World Cup: Spain v England (7pm), Australia v Pakistan (9pm), South Africa v India (11pm) Live,
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    • 128 10  -  CHIA JIE MIN IT WAS a match they had been looking forward to. But eight minutes was all it took for Lim Yi Xuan (left), 14, and Charlene Koh, 13, to be knocked out in the first round of the National Table Tennis Grand Finale women’s doubles
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    • 393 10 Badminton German Open In Muelheim, s-finals Women’s singles: Juliane Schenk (Ger) bt Wang Lin (Chn) 17-21 21-15 21-16, Wang Xin (Chn) bt Chan Tsz Ka (Hkg) 21-15 21-14. Men’s singles: Chen Long (Chn) bt Hafiz Hashim (Mas) 21-15 21-19, Bao Chunlai (Chn) Wong Choong Hann (Mas) 21-18 21-13. Basketball
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    • 60 10 Noh Seung Yul, 18, who birdied the final hole yesterday to win the US$2 million (S$2.8 million)
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    • 615 11  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg BUSY? Tired? No Time? These need not be the stooges that foil your workout plans. All it takes is good planning, smart training and a dash of desire to keep going. Here is how. Focus on quality, not quantity
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    • 487 11  -  Aussie is too quick for the pack at the OCBC professional cycle race BY FRANKIE CHEE frankiec@sph.com.sg HE CAME, he saw, he conquered... and he left soon after. Arriving only the night before yesterday’s OCBC Cycle Singapore professional criterium, Australian Ben Kersten scanned the field, won
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    • 300 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MADRID: McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton sees Ferrari’s Spanish star Fernando Alonso as his biggest rival for the Formula One World Championship. “He’s a fantastic driver with a very good car, yes potentially, he’s my most difficult rival for the title,” Hamilton said.
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    • 263 11 REUTERS LONDON: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has urged India to get behind Karun Chandhok when the Indian driver makes his Grand Prix debut in Bahrain this weekend with the new Hispania Racing Team (HRT). Chandhok was announced as HRT’s driver barely a week
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      • 86 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KHARTOUM: A Nigerian football star in one of Sudan’s top clubs died after collapsing on the pitch in mid-game in front of thousands of spectators. Endurance Idahor, striker for Al-Merreikh Omdurman, had penetrated rival team Amal’s penalty area in the 13th minute when he
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      • 42 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS FLORIDA: Rookie Brandon Jennings scored 25 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 92-85 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night, with LeBron James reduced to a spectator because of an ankle injury.
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      • 729 13  -  Recent upbeat data should convince traders to take fresh positions BULLS BEARS BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg LAST Friday’s United States job report offers some glimmer of hope that the long winter in the world’s No. 1 economy is finally showing signs of
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        98 13 Currencies Mar 5 CHNG YR 2010 CLOSE FR Mar 4 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.4005 +0.65 1.4219 1.3869 Euro 1.9042 +1.09 2.0153 1.8959 2.1061 +0.75 2.2776 2.0969 A$ 1.2638 +0.52 1.2923 1.2276 Yen* 1.5691 +1.50 1.5927 1.5027 Rupiah* 0.***** +0.32 0.***** 0.***** Where S$ stands Mar 5
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    • 464 15 French President issues warning as EU leaders refuse to bail out Athens BLOOMBERG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ROME: French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns that the European Union must support Greece or risk destroying the euro, as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou heads for Paris to
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    • 262 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: Casinos in the United States have run into a string of bad luck, with the recession and other factors cutting into gambling revenues, even as more states move to get a piece of the action. Gaming revenues in 12 US
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    • 730 16  -  HR execs give pointers on improving 360-degree feedback systems WORKING LIFE BY MARISSA LEE marilee@sph.com.sg STRIDING into the boss’ office to tell him off about some misdeed or other is perhaps not the smartest survival strategy, but bottled-up tension at work is not healthy either. Getting around
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    • 296 16  -  DICKSON LI HEDGE funds do not deserve the blame being heaped on them for problems in financial markets, said an industry player. Mr Thomas Della Casa, head of research and analysis at Man Investments in Switzerland, told The Straits Times that it was
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      • 59 16 HAN KWEE JUAN: Appointed managing director (MD) and head of credit payment products for Citibank Singapore, effective today. Mr Han (above), 42, will be responsible for growing Citi’s unsecured lending business in Singapore, including credit cards and credit lines. He was formerly MD and head
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      • 68 16 NICK CRINGLE: Returns to the Hong Kong office of RBS Coutts, from its London office, as of last Monday. The company’s global co-chief investment officer is responsible for the formulation of investment strategy and policy. Mr Cringle, 44, was in Hong Kong for four years
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      • 65 16 Q M Dental moves HUANG JIAN: Resigned as group financial controller of Q M Dental Group. Ms Huang, 41, is leaving to pursue other opportunities. Her last day is May 31. Q M Dental has appointed a new chief financial officer, Mr Sim Yu Xiong, with effect from April 6.
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      • 29 16 JASMINE TAN: Appointed chief operating officer (COO) of lifestyle products group Ossia International. Ms Tan, 47, was formerly the chief operating officer of VGO Corp.
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      • 42 16 CHIA WEI HO: Appointed chief operating officer and executive director of health-care group Medtecs International. Mr Chia, 54, has been an independent director of Medtecs since October 2007. He was formerly the general manager of Chamberlain Computime Investment.
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      • 43 16 HOWARD KIM: Appointed managing director of IT and communications firm Teledata, from last Monday. Mr Kim, 48, will help chairman and chief executive Christopher Pan execute business strategies. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry.
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    • 660 17 They vote against plan to pay off debts arising from collapse of Icelandic Internet bank ASSOCIATED PRESS REYKJAVIK (Iceland): Still furious over the crippling aftermath of the global financial crisis, Iceland’s voters on Saturday resoundingly rejected a US$5.3 billion (S$7.4 billion) plan to pay
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    • 228 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: It is too early for Japan to end its massive stimulus spending because the world’s second biggest economy is still slowly recovering from a severe recession, Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday. “We actually want to move to an
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    • 752 18  -  Investors jittery over debt, possible hung Parliament but holidaymakers happy POUND AT 13-MONTH LOW BY ROBIN CHAN chanckr@sph.com.sg A DOUBLE whammy of political and economic problems has turned investors off the pound and left analysts wondering how much further it has to fall. Sterling dropped
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    • 113 18 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Chips are down for US casinos MOST COMMENTED ON SIA is best airline brand: global survey. Says 3rdCoy77: “When one is really in need of help, SIA is always there. Keep it up. Yes, SIA may not be
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    • 252 1 Countdown to Mosaic Dead end? Jeremy Au Yong Boy meets Chippendales C6 Mandai Orchid Garden may close next year Shugo Tokumaru shares his dreams C8 C3 For the past 20 years, Fion Phua has led friends and volunteers on charity missions around Singapore, distributing food, money and other necessities to
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      • 1034 2  -  And eat and try anything, says Samantha Brown, the host of the popular Passport travel show 8QUESTIONSWITH...SamanthaBrown eunice quek euniceq@sph.com.sg Travel host Samantha Brown has travelled through Europe and Latin America in the popular Passport To Europe and Passport To Latin America series. Her latest
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      • 799 3  -  The 59-year-old Mandai Orchid Garden faces extinction when the lease on the land expires tay suan chiang taysc@sph.com.sg Singapore’s oldest orchid garden looks set to become a withering plot come January next year. That is when the 60-year land lease on which the 10-acre Mandai Orchid
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      • 2433 4  -  Being a busy broker does not stop Fion Phua from rallying many to help needy families the monday interview with Fion Phua akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg There are certain assumptions one makes about a woman who has been leading her friends and family for over 20 years
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      • 720 5  -  Censorship board guide on the web on how films are rated NC16, M18 or R21 adeline chia chiahta@sph.com.sg If you ever wondered what are the differences between an NC16, M18 and R21 film, you can find out as the Board Of Film Censors (BFC) has released a
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      • 113 6 ‘Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. But I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it’ Actor Sean Penn (left) on cynics who question his Haiti aid ‘I’m sure if he could breastfeed, he would have’ Actress Catherine
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      • 912 6  -  I took my girlfriend to see the Chippendales and I have no one to blame when one hits on my girl jeremy au yong jeremyau@sph.com.sg You can never really be sure how you are going to react until the moment of truth
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    • 865 7  -  His affair with 22-year-old model runs against the moralistic tone in his movies, they say adeline chia chiahta@sph.com.sg Fans of Jack Neo are disappointed with the news of the local movie director’s extramarital affair, which made the front pages of all three Chinese papers
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    • 427 7  -  reviewdance GRAFFITI OF THE CELESTE The Arts Fission Company Esplanade Theatre Studio/Last Saturday tara tan A frenetic urgency plagues the latest performance by local group The Arts Fission Company, where worries, bleak depictions and fantasy scenarios about climate change unfolded in an hour-long work titled Graffiti
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    • 644 8  -  That is how the members of Dinosaur Jr. see themselves, not as stars eddino abdul hadi music reporter dinohadi@sph.com.sg Their musical formula of marrying melodic tunes with noisy guitars, bass and drums has influenced countless alternative rock bands around the world but the members of Dinosaur Jr.
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    • 632 8  -  boon chan media correspondent Singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s Japanese lyrics come from a dream diary he has been keeping for 15 years and in which Singapore may soon make an appearance. He is performing here for the first time at the Esplanade Recital Studio on March 19 as
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      • 525 10 Associated Press Agence France-Presse Reuters Los Angeles Sandra Bullock won Worst Actress for the romantic comedy All About Steve at Saturday’s Razzies on the eve of her expected Oscar triumph for the drama The Blind Side. The winners of the Academy Awards were to
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        • 70 10 Jang Dong Gun has announced his wedding plans. At a fan meeting in Seoul last Saturday, the Korean actor said he would marry actress Ko So Young, “my dearest friend, colleague and love”, on May 2. Jang, 38, and Ko, 37, are known to have
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      • 309 2  -  The INside track BY SERENE GOH EDITOR Compared to older world cultures, there’s a lack of formal acknowledgement when our youths become adults there are no big celebrations or welcome sessions to initiate you into the Land of Being Grown Up. Instead, the transition into adulthood has
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      • 167 2 The Ministry of Defence wants to produce an 18-episode reality television series based on the men in green. It will be “as real as it gets”, said Mr Donald Chew, who heads Mindef’s Defence Information Television. The series will show recruits undergoing the three-day field camp,
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      • 483 3 Sources: The Straits Times Xinhua Reuters THE NEWS El Nino, which means “Little Boy” in Spanish, is said to be the weather phenomenon behind the heatwave sweeping across Asia. Singapore, Malaysia, China and the Philippines have seen record temperatures and been hit by water shortages.
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      • 206 7 For sisters Shane and Faye Yeo, both 14, from Sembawang Secondary School, just being close to their idols and breathing the same air they did was a dream come true. The two rabid fans of World No. 1 golfer Lorena Ochoa and popular female golfer Michelle
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        279 8/9 With the March holidays around the corner, IN Crowder Salwa Barmaky reviews the trailers of some movies and gives her take on what to save up to see and what to pass on. EOV JRVC 1. ALICE IN WONDERLAND Opens: March 4 Directed by Tim Burton, this dark
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