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    10 1 TODAY MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating ouGHtS Monday February 7,2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Thaksin set for landslide victory
    861 1  -  LEE PANG CHUAN Agencies Exit polls show Thai RakThai winning 399 of 500 seats BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tightened his grip on power yesterday with a projected landslide election victory that "shocked" opponents and critics already alarmed by his overpowering "CEO-style" domineering leadership.
    – Agencies  -  861 words
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    Singaporeans barred from posh Batam casino after gang clash
    477 1  -  David Chew david.chew@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS who wanted to gamble at the Waterfront City casino on Saturday night were prevented from entering by special units of the Batam police, who were conducting a raid on the premises. Earlier, two ferries packed with Singaporeans
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      86 1 fI\~DIACORP NEWS LINE *****268 every call has a story I HUAYI CHINESE I FESTIVAL OF ARTS I I 2005: MENAGE Al3 I I Lowe is -ArTHt fi all about in I I TneTheabePradkE'ihtest I t V-J^**\ DANCETITUDE '05 The NTU Madam Jazz Club MS Get your FREE 16-page arts events
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      Lock icon Tsunami panic hits M'sian state
      339 2 -AFP Thousands in Sabah flee coastal areas after warning of quake in Philippines KOTA KINABALU (Malaysia) Thousands of people in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island fled coastal areas for higher ground when officials warned of a possible tsunami after a strong earthquake hit the
      -AFP  -  339 words
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      Casino discourse blown off-course?
      850 3  -  Sunny Goh N EWSSSDUDSD^ AFTER months of intense debate over this malady called the Singapore casino, it seems, in the view of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, two camps have emerged in the Cabinet The "moralists" who strongly oppose the idea of a legalised gambling den
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      Lock icon As cash cows go, you can't Beat It
      622 4 -AFP Business is booming in small US city where Michael Jackson molestation trial being held SANTA MARIA (California) Guaranteed publicity and unprecedented profits are the order of the day for businesses large and small in this sleepy city, which is hosting the
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      22 2 NKF Children's Medical Fund A vital lifeline for our children Beacon of Hope The NKF Story Tonight on Channel News Asia, 8.30pm
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  • singapore news
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      It's potential and passion
      546 6  -  Tor Ching Li MOE looks beyond the top cohort for its teacher-training schemes chingli@newsto day, com. sg SOME first year junior college students fresh from the O levels were slightly taken aback when they received letters recently from the Ministry of Education (MOE) inviting them to
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        Lock icon Drunk man arrested on MRT
        72 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A drunken man was arrested after he caused a commotion onboard an MRT train on the North East Line. The man, an American, was taken into police custody when the train reached the Chinatown station just before midnight yesterday. He is said to
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        Lock icon Hot reunion dinner buffets
        54 6 Newsßadio 93.8 More Singaporeans are having buf-fet-style reunion dinners on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Hotels said they expect an increase of at least 1 0 per cent in bookings compared to the previous year. Most of the major hotels say reservations began streaming
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        Lock icon Tanker crew safe in Egypt
        60 6 Newsßadio 93.8 The Singapore-registered tanker which collided with another oil tanker off the coast of Egypt is not in any danger. All 24 of its crew members are safe. The tanker's owner, GBLT Ship Management, said the vessel suffered a gash but is otherwise secure.
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      Giving hope to fractured lives
      664 8 Special Feature The NKF Children's Medical Fund supports young ones who are medically fragile and builds their spirit Like many young boys in Singapore, soccer is Daniel Seah's favourite sport and FIFA 2005 an obsession. But for this cheerful 14-year-old, penalties, free kicks and scoring
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      Lock icon DrYaacob's strange find in S'pore River
      590 8  -  Jasmine Yin We need such NGOs to play a part, together with PUB and NEA, to send the message home that all of us have a role to play in keeping our waters clean. Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, on the crucial role played by the
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      281 9 B got to be How I'll surprise my true love this Valentine's Day Vf j connected J\ §M WM' 1 J« wr'm i?*' d c v c 1 op m i.^'y^B >- m ob i 6 :^^H nff o.# T X n, f o c^«*Mrffc^~ m m i at i
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Constitutional work: Iraq Sunnis set terms
      127 10 AFP BAGHDAD Top clerics from the Sunni minority announced that they would take part in the drafting of a new constitution only if a timetable was drawn up for United States-led troops to quit Iraq. If a timetable was set, the clerics would send
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      Lock icon Ellen's in sight of world solo record
      597 10  -  John Wanstall British woman is 125 km from completing trip news@newstoday.com.sg LONDON The little girl's blue eyes shone with anticipation as she watched the gleaming white sails of the small dinghy flap in the turbulent winds off England's East Coast. Clenching her small
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Coup d'etat feared in Togo
        68 12 AFP Togo faced a political crisis yesterday after the death of President Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest-serving leader, as the armed forces filled the power vacuum with his son Faure Eyadema in what neighbouring countries denounced as a coup d'etat. Mr Eyadema, 69, died Saturday en
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        Lock icon Blair, longest-serving PM
        74 12 AFP British leader Tony Blair became the longest-serving Labour prime minister yesterday, holding the top job for 2,838 days and with no intention of letting go. The record previously belonged to Mr Harold Wilson, a giant of British post-war leftwing politics, who occupied 1 0 Downing Street
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        Lock icon French rally against bill on work week reform
        58 12 AFP Over half a million French workers took to the streets over the weekend in 1 00 towns and cities to protest plans to reform the 35-hour work week. The protest was launched ahead of today's introduction of a parliamentary bill enabling
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      Lock icon Her piano skills will be her forte
      421 12 -AFP Rice wants to forge better SEA ties WASHINGTON The United States is determined to strengthen political and trade ties with South-east Asia even as it takes a tougher line on Myanmar under new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, officials said. This year,
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      Lock icon Take lovesickness seriously
      135 12 AFP LONDON The concept of lovesickness might be more than just a flighty notion, as it can burden the afflicted with genuine mental trauma. In the most serious cases, the "disease" can prove fatal, a British psychological study said yesterday. It called for lovesickness to be taken
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      Lock icon China gets tough on schools
      287 14 AFP 27,000 staff sacked after spate of bloody attacks BEIJING Chinese authorities have shut down 10,000 kindergartens and 2,000 schools and sacked 27,000 staff in a nationwide campaign to increase safety after a spate of knife attacks on pupils, state media reported yesterday. The State
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      Lock icon Baby allegedly abducted by maid found after 5 days
      169 14 -AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian baby allegedly abducted by an Indonesian maid was returned to her parents after a five-day search that riveted the nation, news reports said yesterday. Ten-month-old Nurkamila Shah Nawaz was reunited with her family in western Hang
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      Lock icon It's samba time in Brazil
      94 14 Dancers from one of Brazil's many samba schools strutting their stuff at the famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The annual frenzy of feathers, skin and fast-moving hips kicked off on Friday and reaches a climax today. This year's theme takes revellers back to the
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      176 14 In the US since 1991. Now in Singapore. You are at a great place in life. You're young, single, attractive and successful. And you are ready to share it all with someone. But where do people go to meet other single professionals? Not a singles club. Not a dating marathon.
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      Focus On TheFamily
      225 16  -  Dr James Dobson I by CHILDBIRTH COACHES Are hospital delivery rooms becoming smaller? Perhaps it only seems that way. One thing's for certain: they're getting more and more crowded. When I first served on a medical school faculty, only the mother, the obstetrician, and the nurses were
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      School not asking for 2006 fees now, but in October
      92 16  -  IRENE WEE Letter fromß Principal Bethesda Katong Kindergarten WE refer to the letter, "School already demanding fees for 2006" by Ishwar Mahtani (Jan 24). We clarified with Mr Ishwar Mahtani on Jan 31 that we are not requesting payment of
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      City layout makes S'pore less livable
      361 16  -  PENELOPE BENNETT Driver-friendly urban design shortchanges others I Letter from AS a keen cyclist, I agree with Tristan Sim of the Singapore Police Force (Feb 4) that cyclists should obey the rules of the road. Failure to do so antagonises other road users and
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      Insufficient demand for 24-hour MRT
      325 16  -  DAWN LOH Letter from] Manager, Corporm^ommumcafion^^^^^ SMRT I REFER to the letters by Nelson Quah oan 24), Michael Chua Kheng Hwee oan 25) and Jenny Neo (Jan 26). Every day, SMRT engineers conduct preventive maintenance work and checks on the MRT system to ensure they
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      Revive Bugis of old, but not its vices
      173 18  -  NELSON QUAH I Letter from I TOO remember the early Bugis Street days described by Sim Kah Choon in the article, "Grand Old Bugis Street" (Feb 4). I am glad that the street, which had a notorious reputation, was rid of its
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      Not cheap in Chinatown
      430 18  -  ROBERT WILLIAM Overcharging during festive season will send wrong signal to tourists I Letter from STRAUGHAN.I3 IN light of the Chinese New Year festive season, my family and I took a trip to Chinatown to buy traditional costumes for my brother and me. We entered one
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  • Businesstoday
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      OCBC is top loan arranger
      604 20  -  Val Chua Focus on home-grown mid-cap firms makes it No 1 in local loans market val@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has made a big splash in the domestic syndicated loans market, overtaking foreign and local rivals as it seals financing deals for its
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      MarketWATCH
      152 20 ESI SINGAPORE share prices are expected to be flat to higher this week as investors take a break during the Lunar New Year holidays, dealers said. "There's still a chance for the market to go higher but the holidays are likely to mute sentiment," a dealer with a local
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      Your S$l buys
      36 20 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6118 0.3262 63.683 4.7717 2.3249 0.4754 5619.5 23.449 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.484 0.7942 26.598 628.3 0.7645 5.0636 0.8615 19.347
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      Lock icon Commodities
      27 20 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Bold us$/oi iilver us$/oz 'latinum us$/oz 416.200 6.640 866.000 Rubber centsAg 205 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 268 Brent crude us$/barrel 44.08
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      Lock icon PSA can now grab slice of Hong Kong's container traffic
      192 20 Dow Jones HONG KONG NWS Holdings, which blocked PSA International from buying a Hong Kong port stake by exercising its pre-emptive rights last year, has agreed to sell the stake to PSA for about HK$3 billion ($630 million), said The
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      Lock icon Proton to name new chairman
      50 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's state-controlled automaker Proton is expected to appoint Mr Mohamad Azlan Hashim as its new chairman, The Edge newspaper reported. Proton's board will consider Mr Azlan's appointment today, the report said. Mr Azlan is a former Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange executive chairman.
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  • business news
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      Lock icon To keep debt plan alive...
      551 22 Bloomberg CAO parent may have to offer more cash to appease creditors THE parent of China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO) which sought court protection with debts of about US$53O million ($866 million) may have to pay more cash to prevent creditors from pushing the
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      Lock icon S'pores paper tiger in China
      353 24 Dow Jones SembEnviro strikes gold in Shanghai waste paper market FOR one Singapore-based environmental management services company, scouring the streets of Shanghai for used paper is the way to carve a niche in the Chinese pulp and paper market "Shanghai city alone has a per
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      Lock icon Habib to buy Chuan Hup boats
      130 24 Dow Jones KUALA LUMPUR Habib Corp, a Malaysian jeweller, is set to change its core business by buying tugboats and barges from Singapore's Chuan Hup Holdings for RMI.3 billion ($559 million), the Edge weekly newspaper reported. Habib will fund the purchase by calling a
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      market BUZZ
      202 24 Gong Xi Fa Car IF a hong bao came with four wheels and a horn, would you call it a honk bao? Anyone seeking the answer to that riddle would do well to ask Mr Edward Lin Kee Tat, the grand prize winner in Watson's Festive Draw. Mr
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      106 23 fi W^T fchinese New Year Variety Show 2005] #5* 1 *JL* V. II ill JK m>M |i3Feb '05,7.30pm I Escape Thpm« 1 BJ] Sfl I Downtown East, D Marquee. Pro/not/on r K^Bfll Tickets available at Downtown East, Happy Days,§ 9 73 Feb 79 &-> fcVJ A V/M 111 iTfl Celebrations,
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      179 24 SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Just some of the 19 SIM graduates who received first class honours from the prestigious University of London in 2004 Could you be next In 2004, 19 of our University of London graduates were ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■H awarded first class honours. Such success speaks volumes Diploma in Economics
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  • the business of learning
    • SUCCEED
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        For what it's worth
        690 25 Getting your career into shape: The sums What is your value to the company you work for? IN your appraisal of the company you work for, where did pay and work conditions figure in? For many, these two items are top of the list, although there
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        From 14 babies to two
        654 26  -  Ng Shing Vi Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2000 now a full-time mother and wife shingyi@newstoday.com.sg THE first thing you notice when you step into the Cairnhill apartment home of Nanz Chong-Komo is the many framed pictures of her Japanese-American husband, Larry Komo, and the
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      96 25 MOE Approved Courses __k^BM^^^_ ISO 9001:2002 certified T*^ Small class size 'W^WB B^ff^^ Over 30 years of jflf99nHlnH£ experience in 20 countries Terms conditions apply I/I fm. enr>^\-icr\ institute KilsKi-l /bU LearnEngSsh YourWar>> w ft. Wh-rt uriU. y*u -CREATE? The NTU School of Art, Design Media continues to nurture skilled
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      346 26 wk Your next career step "**f HUMAN RESOURCE CONSULTANT H^Ny, Singapore's fist ever Consultancy Certificate for HR practitioners. AW. This programme focuses on developing/enhancing of both internal and external HR Consultants. ElO Organisation Change Management 17-19 Mar '05 Overview of Organisation Change Planning Change Interventions Creating Supporting Conditions and Structures
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      compilation chorus
      582 27  -  Mervin Tay It's the time of year when the stars get together to sing gongxi-gongxi-gongxi-ni mervin@newstoday.com.sg WHAT would Chinese New Year be without the traditional festive songs? As the lunar festivities build up, CD shops stock a myriad of Chinese New Year compilation albums which must sell within
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      Lock icon Too short an evening date
      566 28  -  YONG SHU CHIANG kd lang charms, teases and leaves fans craving CONCERT REVIEW by Mosaic-kdlang In Concert THREE SONGS into her one-night-only performance at the Esplanade Theatre, Canadian singer k d lang showed that her remarkable mezzo-soprano voice was in fine fettle. Hitting all the
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      Lock icon Taufik is
      79 30 The Singapore Idol is justTaufik, notTaufik /Cec/7/7 or Taufik Celak GROWING up with a popular Malay name, Taufik Batisah was accustomed to being i "Taufik" among many everywhere he goes. "There were many 'Taufiks' at the Youth Park where I used to skate. So, they called mi Taufik
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    • incinemas
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        Swatch's envoy on wheels
        236 31  -  Clarence Lim interview last Thursday. So did he really wear eyeliner then? "Your head lahl Skate wear what eyeliner?" was his tongue-in-cheek response in Singlish. Despite not having skated for the past two years, he still had the moves. He showed off his skills when with
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        Stephen's chow
        616 32  -  Cathleen Tung eal oul Mayim's chief chef whips up Chinese dishes fit for a prince food@newstoday.com.sg WHAT would it cost to have a bowl of noodles that's fit for Prince Charles? Just $5.50 and you can have it right here in Singapore. In 1977, Stephen Chow, founder of
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        Wine down in South Australia
        290 33 THESE are going to be the best five days of the year for wine enthusiasts. From March 9 to 13, indulge your passion with fellow wine lovers when you join the Five-Day Adelaide Winery Tour, organised by Just Wine Club. Set up by NTUC Fair
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      285 27 Yomeishu. As good for you today, as it has always been. a -winv The Yomeishu recipe for gOOdlt lilt Rehmanniae Paeoniae MHP*****6 Yomeishu taps the goodness J fe M&h of natural herbs Created in 1602 by Sokan Shiozawa, Yomeishu is a caryophyUi Ginseng special concoction of 14 natural ingredients m°s
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