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    15 1 TODAY en c ■I—' o Q_ O O c o I Friday February 18,2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon The Bahasa gap
    535 1  -  Derrick A Paulo MM Lee: Vital for more non-Malays to understand language derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE spotlight has been on the Chinese language in the past year, but Singapore's experience in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster has highlighted deficiencies in another key language Bahasa. Speaking at his constituency's
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    Lock icon Thaksin: I'll crush Muslim revolt in 4 years
    602 1 AFP YALA Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) vowed to crush the Islamic separatist revolt in the south within four years, after unveiling plans to cut off funding to pro-rebel villages yesterday. Dr Thaksin, making his first visit to the southern provinces
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      42 1 NEWSX^/lEWS More go tax-free Iras raises taxable income threshold/2 mr brown Life is getting scary, Mummy .../22 GDP up 8.4% But economic expansion set to slow this year/30 m a**^ 1 r t I Top boxer i^k Suherman f eyes SEA -^aames
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      Lock icon Iras raises taxable income threshold
      349 2 Channel News Asia, Newsßadio 93.8 Three changes to tax filing procedure announced SOME 50,000 taxpayers will no longer need to file an income tax return, as the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) has raised the taxable income threshold to $22,000 from this year. This
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      Mature workers: The vital force
      625 3  -  Soh Tiang Keng N EWSSSDUDSD^ Faced with a fast-ageing working population, Singapore must tap these experienced assets SINGAPORE companies and industries have to come to grips with two demographic realities. First, the proportion of young workers to the total working population is dwindling. Second, older
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        8 share $10m jackpot
        86 4 EIGHT lucky people struck it rich in the 1 0 million Lunar New Year Hong Bao draw yesterday, each pocketing $1.25 million. The winning numbers were 5, 12, 13, 30, 31 and 43. The additional number was 39. Ironically, although the total purse for Group 1
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        Lock icon Parliament in session tomorrow
        76 4 Newsßadio 93.8 The illegal cashback in transactions of resale flats and guidelines for the Lift Upgrading Programme are among the issues to be raised in Parliament tomorrow. The Government will also be asked for an update on aid given to tsunamistricken Aceh. Ways to improve the
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        Lock icon Shell launches petrol station safety awareness drive
        83 4 Newsßadio 93.8 Shell has launched a nationwide safetyawareness drive highlighting the importance of safety at petrol stations. Between 2003 and mid-2004, 17,000 potential safety incidents were recorded at Shell service stations across the Asia-Pacific. The most common problems were motorcyclists refuelling while they
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        Lock icon Year's biggest bush fire in Lim Chu Kang takes total to 377
        88 4 Channel News Asia Another bush fire the biggest so far this year, spanning an area the size of 15 football fields broke out yesterday, this time in Lim Chu Kang. It was the latest in a series of
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        Lock icon Recycle, Singapore
        51 4 Newsßadio 93.8 The Ministry of Environment and Water Resources hopes to increase recycling efforts among households, in particular owners of landed property. Minister Yaacob Ibrahim said his ministry was working with waste collectors to explore different ways to encourage the habit. Half of households in Singapore currently practise
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        Lock icon New NUS overseas scholarship
        100 4 Channel News Asia The National University of Singapore (NUS) has come up with a new scholarship programme that will allow top Singaporean students to study overseas for up to a year. The Global Merit Scholarship will be the most prestigious scholarship the university offers annually. Recipients
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        Lock icon FAMILY magazine hits the stands
        64 4 Channel News Asia MediaCorp Publishing's new FAMILY magazine hit the newsstands yesterday. The monthly publication targets parents with children aged between four and 15. FAMILY magazine retails at $2 a copy; to supplement the family-related content, MediaCorp Publishing has also teamed up with Channel News
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      Lock icon China is world's No 1 consumer
      375 4 IPS But are global resources being depleted at unsustainable levels? WASHINGTON China is quickly overtaking the United States as the world's biggest consumer of global resources, energised by a dynamic economy that is growing at a record pace, said Washington-based research group Earth Policy
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      Lock icon ERS holders to get 11.4% in bonus shares
      191 6 Channel News Asia SINGAPOREANS holding Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) will receive 11.4 per cent in bonus shares to be paid out on March 1. This is based on their ERS balances on Dec 31 last year. The Finance Ministry said the rate
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      Lock icon 11,790 illegals caught in 2004
      305 6 Ansley Ng Majority of offenders overstayed IN MORE than 350 operations and checks, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) nabbed 11,790 immigration offenders last year. Some 5,400 were illegal immigrants while 6,390 were overstayers. Illegal immigrants from China, India and Myanmar formed the majority at
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      Ang Mo Kio Hospital to get TCM clinic
      133 8 TRADITIONAL Chinese Medicine (TCM) is making headway with the setting up of a full-fledged medical centre within a hospital here. From April, a new TCM clinic will be operational within the Ang Mo Kio Hospital. The hospital has already been offering acupuncture
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      Lock icon A company policy to do good
      669 8  -  Tor Ching Li Success and corporate social responsibility go hand in hand: Claire Chiang chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S been called "compassionate capitalism", "philanthropy at other people's expense" and even a "public relations gimmick" by sceptics, and hailed by advocates as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). But even
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      Lock icon More banking and engineering jobs available at NUS career fair
      173 8 Newsßadio 93.8 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is reporting good signs in the job market, particularly in the engineering and banking sectors. Its career fair this year is seeing the biggest participation from employers since 1996, with 63 employers
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      Lock icon Case to provide legal advice on investment-linked insurance policies
      300 10 Channel News Asia THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) says it will lend a helping hand to anyone who is concerned about investment-linked insurance policies. The move follows recent news reports that highlighted the hidden costs of such policies, which, in
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      Lock icon Tiger Air to fly to Macau
      483 10  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Territory is airline's Bth destination shobha@newsto day, com. sg TIGER Airways, one of Singapore's three low-cost carriers (LCC), has just been given the rights to fly to Macau by the territory's authorities making it the airline's eighth destination since it began
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      Has Britain lost 30kg of plutonium?
      154 12 SELLAFIELD Britain's major nuclear site has "lost" 30kg of plutonium, according to figures by an national audit The annual audit of nuclear material at all of Britain's civil nuclear installations is expected to reveal that the plutonium enough for seven or eight nuclear bombs
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      Lock icon Iran, Syria unite to 'face common threats'
      299 12 Move comes about as row with US continues TEHRAN Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with the United States, pledged to form a common front to face challenges and threats. Iranian vice-president Mohammad Reza Aref said in Tehran after meeting Syrian Prime
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      Lock icon Finding way to coax N Korea back to talks
      152 12 AFP BEIJING United States and South Korean envoys held talks with China aimed at coaxing North Korea back into six-party nuclear talks, as the Central Intelligence Agency said the Stalinist regime could restart long-range missile testing. The visits come one week
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        Instant bridegroom
        54 12 bridegroom An Indian bride from Shivshankar Dham in Mirzapur district invited volunteers from the audience after her groom deserted her at the last minute. One man stepped forward and the couple were married within minutes, reports the Hindustan Times. The original groom had cold feet and fled after
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        Tying up to avoid the toilet
        75 12 A Romanian man ended up in hospital after he tied string around his penis to avoid going to the toilet. He faces months of complicated surgery to correct the damage caused, according to Annanova.com. But doctors are worried that the damage is done. "He
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        Getting high on Listerine
        68 12 A 55-year-old American woman has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol after downing three glasses of a strong mouthwash. Sne was caught after she rammed her car into another vehicle. The woman told the police that she had downed a bottle of Listerine.
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        'Indecent exposure' protester heads for court – naked
        76 12 'Indecent exposure' protester heads for court naked An environmental protester who faced indecent exposure charges arrived at Auckland's District Court naked but dressed before he entered the courtroom. He was charged for organising a naked bicycle ride in protest against society's dependence on the car. Before walking into the courthouse,
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      Lock icon Study: Bird flu may have infected more people than figures show
      314 14 AFP PARIS Bird flu may have infected more people than previously thought, according to a study published yesterday. The findings suggested that the virus can attack all parts of the body, rather than just the respiratory tract, but this
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      Lock icon Ex-footballers walk free after gang rape
      304 14 AFP Teenager assaulted by 15 youths for 7 hours TOKYO Six former college football players in Japan have walked free after being found guilty of gang raping a 15-year-old school girl for seven hours in an apartment, according to a court ruling yesterday. Tomoyasu
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      Overbooked passengers on EU flights now entitled to compensation
      125 14 BRUSSELS Airlines using European Union airports will have to compensate passengers for overbooking, long delays or cancelled flights under controversial new rules, reported Reuters yesterday. The laws, which came into force yesterday, are part of a wider set of measures the
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      Split? What split, asks SBY
      427 18 Indon president says he and Kalla have different working styles, but share common goal INDONESIA'S president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dismissed speculations that there was a rift between him and Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla, but admitted they had different styles of working. What is more important,
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      Timber smuggling
      99 18 JAKARTA Indonesia and China have been implicated in a billion-dollar timber smuggling racket, threatening the remaining tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region. A report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak said international criminal syndicates were behind the looting of merbau trees from Indonesia's Papua province. An
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      116 18 GLOBAL roundup AFP New constitution for Myanmar? Myanmar relaunched a national convention aimed at framing a new constitution, despite the absence of the leading prodemocracy opposition party. The international community has derided the event as a sham. AFP Vatican offering exorcism course The Vatican university is launching a course for
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      Focus On The Family
      220 22  -  Dr James Dobson Tbiw's by J DOWNWARDLY MOBILE We've all heard of corporate ladder climbers who've earned the label "upwardly mobile". But I bet you haven't heard of too many people being "downwardly mobile" at least not by choice. I know of two physicians in Hershey,
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      Poor accessibility of Net trading portals
      102 22  -  PHILIP FS LEE I Letter from I CONCUR with Michael Chua (Feb 16) on the SGX's almost impossible-to-access website. What is surprising is that this has been going on for quite a while, at all times of the day or night Some of the
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      Lock icon Life is getting scary, Mummy...
      906 22  -  mr brown At school or varsity, finding a job or getting married, it's not like it used be Dear Mummy, I am feeling very sad. Today in school, Zhong Guoren my classmate from China beat me again, in a maths test That boy is an
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      If a policy-or speed limit-is impractical, let's have the courage to change it
      398 22  -  DOUGLAS CHUA HOCK LYE I Letter from ONE of the many changes made by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was a five-day working week for the civil service. His reason is obvious: In a fast changing world,
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      Animal abusers let off too easily
      317 24  -  GIAN KHIA MING Vandalism appears to get a heftier punishment than harming animals I Letter from I I WAS shocked and angry after reading a report about several stray dogs that were inhumanely tied up and abused by a pest-control company van driver. Two
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      Parents in need of lessons in social graciousness
      199 24  -  |DRTANCHEKWEE I Letter from I REFER to the letter, "No room for courtesy", by Benjamin Gan (Feb 16). I couldn't agree more on the importance of inculcating virtues of courtesy and kindness in children. However, some parents do not appreciate their role.
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      Maxwell Hawker Centre free from vermin, rodents: NEA
      145 26  -  Goh Chin Tong Letter from Head, Hawkers Department I National Environment Agency WE THANK your reader David Kwok for his feedback on cleanliness concerns about Maxwell Hawker Centre (Feb 15). The wheel bins used for the disposal of food waste at the
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      It only takes a spark...
      207 26  -  Aidliana Sa'at to start a fire so can parks and forests be watered more often? I Letter from There have been two bush fires in my area in three days. I have lived in the new Sembawang estate for four years, near a forested area.
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      READERS' SHORT TAKES: MADE IN SINGAPORE'
      207 26 James Alan Hall: Spore-made or Spore-owned? Articles and letters recently have brought up the concept of buying "Made in Singapore" products (such as "Buy made-in-S'pore goods? Yes, but Feb 17) They fail to draw a critical distinction between made-in-Singapore and Singapore-owned. One brand mentioned
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      NUH: Patients always come first
      261 26  -  Lim Yean Teng Letter from Associate Professor Chairman, Medical Board National University Hospital WE THANK Mr Derek Loo for his feedback, "Longer waits at hospitals during training periods" (Feb 15), and have since contacted Mr Loo to clarify his concerns. The National University Hospital is
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      478 30  -  Val Chua But expansion pace expected to slow val@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S economy surged 8.4 per cent last year after a better-than-expected fourth quarter, but the pace of growth will slow this year, due partly to the "uncertain outlook" in the electronics sector, the Government said yesterday.
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      175 30  -  Val Chua SINGAPORE'S currency regime is "robust" enough to absorb the potential economic impact caused by any significant shift in China's yuan exchange rate, a senior official of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. "We do not think it will have
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      255 30 Dow Jones SINGAPORE'S key exports grew at a slower-than-expected pace last month from a year ago, as higher chemical and petrochemical output offset slower electronics sales. Non-oil domestic exports grew by 9 per cent last month to $10.6 billion, better than the 8-per-cent
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        168 32 Agencies KIM Eng Holdings, Singapore's biggest independent stock brokerage, reported net profit of $127.4 million, or 21.06 cents per share, for the year ended Dec 31, up 44.9 per cent from its $87.9 million profit in the nine months ended December the year earlier.
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        95 32 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Telecommunications said yesterday it expected to gain about $39 million from the sale of its stake in the world's second-largest satellite company, Intelsat. Sing Tel and its unit, Optus Networks, are entitled to receive U5518.75 ($3l) per
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          60 32 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 11,582.72 13,967.82 4,155.00 6,072.16 972.56 Pis -18.96 -47.67 +12.20 -71.33 +1.00 -0.16 -0.34 +0.29 -1.16 +0.10 KLCI 912.62 -6.81 -0.74 SET Index 734.68 -4.69 -0.63 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,082.97 2,096.99 247.05 +9.53
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        130 34 Bloomberg SEMBCORP Marine said yesterday it had won a US$2OO-million ($321 million) contract to build an oil production vessel for ConocoPhillips' China unit SembCorp's Sembawang Shipyard and SMOE, a unit of its parent SembCorp Industries, will build the oil-processing equipment of
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        224 34 Chan Kwai Seng TATA Steel managing director B Muthuraman, who has been appointed chairman of Nat Steel Asia, said that Nat Steel Asia would not be laying off staff, but would instead expand through acquisitions and organic growth. Singapore-listed Nat Steel has all but
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        291 34 Val Chua THE highly-competitive credit card market has not enlarged the pie for the players as most banks are going after the same customers, a report showed yesterday. According to the Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS), new credit card accounts rose by 12
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      74 36 American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul nave selected the 24 semi-finalists (picture) for the competition. Over the next three weeks, the American public will vote for six males and six females for the finals. Viewers can catch the singing competition on Wednesday
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      98 36 For those unfamiliar with Malay pop, Siti Nurhaliza may be the only name they recognise at Anugerah Planet Muzik 2005. Now, there's also Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah. The two will join some of the biggest names in Malay music, including top Malaysian acts Zainal Abidin, Flop
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      286 40  -  YONG SHU CHIANG I FILM REVIEW BY FORGET about comparing every new film Audrey Tautou makes to her breakout hit, Amelie. A Very Long Engagement may share the same leading lady and director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) but its charms are quite different from what those who've only
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      167 44  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by AT 10 years of age, Dakota Fanning, the star of Taken and Man on Fire, is one of the most dependable young actresses around. But even her performance can't save this derivative film. Fanning plays a young girl traumatised by her
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      Lock icon Mighty Thai defies the storm to lead
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      244 55 AP MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney (picture) is already expecting a hot reception when he returns to face the Everton fans tomorrow. And if he knocks his former team out of the FA Cup he'd better leave quickly out a side door. The Manchester
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