Today, 21 December 2005

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  • hot news
    • 325 2  -  JASMINE YIN Donors withdraw from NKF programme after report release jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg MORE than 220 donors withdrew their monthly donations to the National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) Life Drops programme after Monday's release of the KPMG report The Life Drops programme is one of three fund-raising avenues that the troubled
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    • 424 3  -  LEE U-WEN Saving money did not appear to be NKF'sand Durai's priority: Report u-wen@newstoday.com.sg HE FLEW in the lap of luxury on countless occasions. And all he had to do was ensure that his air ticket cost no more than the Singapore Airlines (SIA) business-class
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    • 657 4  -  VALCHUA Former Exco member's interior design firm had dealings with NKF va l@newstoday.com.sg IT RECEIVED $340,200 to spruce up the interior of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and its dialysis centres between 1991 and 1996. But it wasn't just another interior design firm providing consultancy services
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    • 244 6 -AGENCIES MIAMI BEACH (Florida) Construction worker Fidel Araujo was hanging out at Miami Beach when he heard a "funny sound". He looked up and, to his horror, saw a plane just metres above ground, engulfed in flames and its pilot struggling to
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    • 681 6  -  LIANG DINGZI Call me fastidious but phone service needs a major upgrade TWENTY retailers have pledged $10 million towards improving customer service, but the national campaign seems to be targeted almost completely at face-to-face front-line transactions. One other aspect, which can do
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  • singapore news
    • 302 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Commission issues finalised guidelines on Competition Act AFTER four rounds of public consultations, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has finalised its guidelines on the Competition Act, which will come into force next month. The Competition Act passed in Parliament last year is aimed
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    • 162 8 NTUC Income policyholders who have an accident are discovering that it pays to take photographs of the damage with their mobile phones. Since the insurer's MMS initiative kicked off one month ago, 40 policyholders have sent in
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 155 8  -  Vinita Ramani The three Thai nationals who were part of a 14-member drug ring operating out of an apartment in Oxley Garden, appeared in court yesterday to face charges for drug consumption. Warinthorn Singngam a 29-year-old prostitute faced a charge for possession of
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      • 110 8 938 LIVE The Boys' Brigade Sharity Gift Box has ended its 18th year of gift and food item collection. Despite having more wishes to fulfil this year, the organisation was able to meet its target. The Boys' Brigade received a record number of 7,700 wishes
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    • 208 10  -  SERENE CHUA WITH Christmas just round the corner, and retailers vying for consumer dollars, electronics megastore Audio House is courting them with cold, hard cash and more. Recognising that people may want to have more cash in hand for festive shopping, Audio
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    • 527 10  -  LOH CHEE KONG Police warn drivers against saying 'cheers'too often this festive season cheekong@newstoday.com.sg WHILE eight in 10 drink drivers know the penalties they could face, half believe they will not get caught. And as the festive season kicks in, the traffic police are out
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    • 24 10 PILOT JAILED FOR LACING FOOD OFACTIVISTWITH POISON Case seen as test of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's dedication to ensuring rule of law in Indonesia
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  • world news
    • 450 12 -AFP Case seen as test of SBY's dedication to ensuring rule of law in Indonesia JAKARTA In a landmark case seen as a test of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's dedication to ensuring the rule of law following the Suharto era, an
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    • 155 12 Confusion then Thai villagers seize two schools BANGKOK Villagers from two separate groups in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat province in southern Thailand seized two schools briefly and held executives and teachers hostage, demanding the release of two villagers arrested by the police after a shooting incident, reported The Nation.
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    • 215 14 -AFP SEOUL Sources in Vienna said yesterday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) had launched an investigation to make sure that South Korea does not produce weapons-grade plutonium. However, Seoul denied it had plans to create plutonium at the facility at the centre of
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    • 359 14 —AGENCIES At least 50% have jobs, says report JAKARTA At least half of the tsunami survivors who lost jobs after last years' disaster have returned to work, but more must be done to restore their livelihoods, aid group Oxfam said in a report released
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    • this quirky world
      • 56 14 AND NOW FOR THE TALKING LENNON DOLL The website for the National Entertainment Collectibles Association www. necaonline.com- has unveiled pictures of a new John Lennon action figure that is expected to arrive in stores soon, reported Reuters. The 45-cm doll, dubbed "The New York Years" John Lennon, will reportedly utter
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      • 70 14 -AFP Australians could soon be chucking a piece of "australus" on the barbecue if the new name for a slice of kangaroo makes it more appealing to diners sensitive about eating the national symbol. Australia's kangaroo meat industry backed a competition to find
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      • 63 14 British police were hunting for thieves who had snatched a baby Jackass penguin from a zoo on the Isle of Wight, reported Reuters. Toga was taken from the Amazon World zoo on Saturday night. "Toga is very vocal and makes a noise
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    • 202 16 -AFP HANOI An Australian man of Vietnamese origin has been sentenced to death for trafficking heroin in southern Vietnam. The announcement comes just weeks after Australian Nguyen Tuong Van was hanged for drug trafficking in Singapore in a case that angered many in
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    • 297 16 -AFP SYDNEY Following the riots at Cronulla beach in southern Sydney, Australian Prime Minister John Howard declared: "I do not accept there is underlying racism in this country." Not all Australians agree. According to a survey after the country's worst racial violence in decades,
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    • 531 18 With webcams, teens are performing lewd acts on Internet CALIFORNIA He turned to the Internet hoping to meet other teenagers online but 13-year-old Justin Berry's fascination with cyberspace changed his life forever. For five years, he lived a secret life, selling images of
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 76 18 A MAN accused of rape was cleared by a jury on Monday after claiming that he suffered from sleepwalking, the Times of London reported yesterday. London bar worker James Bilton, 22, said that he could not remember the alleged attack at his flat
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      • 68 18 AFP Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon left hospital yesterday after his recent stroke, ready to renew his rivalry with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the newly-elected leader of Mr Sharon's old Likud party. Mr Sharon was admitted to a Jerusalem hospital after
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  • Voices
    • Uncovering the truth
      • 397 20  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the KPMG report on the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). On Dec 31, 2001, the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) revoked the NKF's Institution of Public Character (IPC) status, which would discourage the NKF's
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      • 317 20  -  TIMOTHY LIU Letter from KUDOS to KPMG for coming up with a bare-all-tell-all report Will the authorities concerned accept that they have been guilty of lapses, and now show the will to right the wrong and restore public confidence? Years ago, a
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 137 20  -  KRIS LEE WAI LOON: Thank you for the insightful coverage of KPMG's audit of NKF's affairs. Two main issues come to the fore. Why did the authorities not carry out further investigations or take action against NKFwhen alarming signs came to light
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      • 89 20  -  SOH POH HUAT: Now that the truth about NKF is out, maybe it is time other charity bodies who embark on donation drives be fully transparent prior to their launch. A good example will be the latest Singapore Heart Foundation's donation drive -what is the
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      • 121 20  -  GURU VISHWANATH: I refer to Mr T T Durai's comments on the KPMG report. When you are the leader of an organisation, you must accept responsibility for whatever happens. Whether you know it or not does not matter if
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    • 535 23  -  Mr Miyagi Online community reactions range from amusement to outrage IN JULY, just after the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal broke, someone started a blog called "Justice For NKF Donors" (justice4nkfdonors.blogspot.com) detailing key points in the investigation into the management of the charity organisation. At time of
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    • 191 23 Undergraduate Gabriel, aka "agagooga", downloaded "all 442 pages" in order to "draw up a National Education lesson plan on "Lessons we can learn from the NKF"", he writes on his blog gssq.blogspot.com. Lesson 10, for instance, which reflects on KPMG's comments about the NKF's audit committee, is that "trusting
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    • 233 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... SIX PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DISCIPLINE I wanttotalktoday aboutthe six basic steps to good child discipline. First, define the boundaries very clearly in advance. If you haven't spelled them out, don'ttry to enforce them. Second, once a child clearly understands what's expected, he
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    • 393 26  -  WONG HOONG HOOI Asian values movement is a struggle for identity Letter from I REFER to Mr Simon S C Tay's news comment, "Avoid another Asian values debate" (Dec 19). The attack by westernised Singaporeans in the 1990s on the "Asian values" movement employed two main
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    • 165 26  -  CHUASWEEKIAT Letter from General manager Corporate communications, M 1 I REFER to Ms Nazurah Omar's letter "Ml didn't inform customer of abrupt maintenance disruption" (Dec 19). We thank Ms Nazurah for her feedback and wish to assure her that in conducting maintenance work on our SMS systems,
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    • It's a question of lust
      • 253 28  -  JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "We men are just suckers!" by Mr Tang Li (Dec 19). God gave women a lovely body so that men would be attracted to them in order to make reproduction possible.
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      • 330 28  -  KATE SMITH Letter from I WAS a little surprised by Tang Li's commentary. In my three years in Singapore, I've found the men here rarely ogle women in the street, in comparison with their counterparts in other Asian countries. In fact, I
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  • Businesstoday
    • 419 30 -BLOOMBERG Economy much larger than earlier thought, may be No 4 in the world CHINA'S economy took another Great Leap Forward this one overnight. The economy is 17 per cent larger and growing faster than previous estimates, according to a government report released in Beijing
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    • 184 30 Keppel Corp said the sale of its 96.5-per-cent stake in Keppel Bank Philippines, or KBP, was completed yesterday. In early October, Keppel said it would sell the stake to buyers including GE Capital's GEC South East Asia Holdings and GEC Emerging Markets Asia Holdings for 1.45 billion pesos ($45.3
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    • 180 30 -BLOOMBERG PENINSULAR Oriental Steam Navigation Co, or P&O, the United Kingdom's largest port operator, will stick with a £3.3-billion ($9.7-billion) takeover bid from Dubai as Singapore's Temasek Holdings has not made a competing offer. Speculation that Temasek may make a
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    • marketbuzz
      • 96 30 EU VAN Sang is the official sponsor of The Promise starring Nicholas Tze, Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong Gun and directed by Chen Kaige. Those who bought $50 or more of Eu Van Sang products from Nov 30 to Dec 10 stood to win 50
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      • 135 30 PLAN a short getaway at the Carlton Hotel Singapore this month and get a complimentary spa treat at Helio Asia Spa, makeover from Cover Looks and scent from Salvatore Ferragamo. The "Glow&Glam from Head to Foot" festive package is priced at $178
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      • 111 30 TO HELP needy families save money on school books, to protect the environment and to encourage thrift, NTUC Fair Price has run its Used Textbooks Project since 1983. This year, more than 100 Hwa Chong Institution, Dunman High School and Montfort Secondary School students
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    • business news
      • 176 32 -DOW JONES SINGTEL has invested US$4O million ($66.5 million) in a new fibreoptic submarine cable. South-east Asia's largest telephone company by market capitalisation said that the SEA-ME-WE4 cable, which was launched yesterday, would give it additional reliable infrastructure to enhance its services to customers
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      • marketwatch
        • 4 32 ST Index 2,382.72 +2.17
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        • 155 32 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended barely changed for the sixth consecutive session as more players stayed on the sidelines as 2005 draws to a close. Tech stocks were soft, hurt by the weaker close of their counterparts on Wall Street overnight, but the ST Index (STI) was slightly firmer
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      • 197 34 -AGENCIES Pumps $59.7 m into two ventures to build apartments in Shenyang and Wuxi GIC Real Estate (GIC RE), the real estate investment unit of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), said yesterday it was investing in two new residential projects in
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      • 122 34 AIRPORTS of Thailand (AOT) has awarded a 10-year ground services contract at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport to a Singapore firm through Thai Airport Ground Services (Tags), The Nation of Thailand reported yesterday. Singapore-based Forbisher holds 48 per cent of Tags, while British Airways owns 8.5
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      • 72 34 -AFP UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has, through its subsidiary, completed the sale of its 66 branches in the Philippines to Banco de Oro Universal Bank Group, UOB said yesterday. UOB's subsidiary UOB Philippines will convert from a commercial bank into a thrift bank. The move to
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      • 503 37 -DOW JONES Joint venture will tap into the 'tremendous growth' of derivatives trade in Asia CHICAGO The planned formation of an electronic commodity derivatives exchange with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in the third quarter of next year represents a "value proposition" for the Chicago Board
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      • 202 37 -DOW JONES JAPAN'S Toshiba Corp yesterday denied a media report that it may build a NAND flash memory chip plant in Singapore. "There are no plans to build a NAND flash plant in Singapore through our joint venture with
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    • 453 41  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR neil@newstoday.com.sg BACK in August, there was an unusual story in the PLUS section. A Singaporean actress was enjoying a mini-renaissance thanks to Screen Singapore a monthlong festival that championed local films. She was 46-year-old Doris Young from Katong. Back in 1978,
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      • 68 44 -AFP Britney Spears has sued a popular magazine for US$2O million ($33.2 million) for an article alleging she and husband Kevin Federline had videotaped themselves having sex, her lawyer said. Spears, 24, accused US Weeklyoi defaming her when it published the report in October.
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      • 78 44 -AFP British icon Elton John and his longtime boyfriend David Furnish threw a stag party on Monday to celebrate their imminent "marriage". They plan to hold a civil partnership ceremony today the first day such vows can be exchanged in England and Wales under a
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      • 64 44 -AFP About 250 pieces of vintage animation work from classic Walt Disney films have been discovered at Chiba University near Tokyo. The collection includes work from Flowers and Trees, the world's oldest colour animation, released in 1932. It had been donated to the National Museum of Modern
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      • 379 46  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS In S'pore,the US, King Kong shows he's got it Deputy Plus Editor neil@newstoday.com.sg THE scene is a familiar one. People have been running into the streets screaming, "the beast is escaping, the beast is escaping". The cage had been left open, but
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    • 161 54 -AFP LONDON Jose Mourinho (picture) apparently refused to shake Arsene Wenger's hand after Chelsea's 2-0 win on Sunday because the Arsenal manager had refused to respond to a Christmas Card. Mourinho reportedly sent the card to apologise for labelling Wenger "a voyeur" in another recent row.
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    • 476 55 -AGENCIES Brazilian wizard picks up second World Player of the Year award MADRID Ronaldinho spent an unscheduled night in Switzerland and arrived in Barcelona just hours before his club's kickoff against Celta Vigo yesterday (early this morning, Singapore time). He took off in a private
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    • 195 55 Real coach keeps his job till the end of the season —AFP MADRID Real Madrid coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro is to stay in the hot seat until season's end, the club said in a statement late Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) via vice-chairman and sporting director Emilio Butragueno. "I'd
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      • 564 51 -AP Tale of two quarterbacks as Baltimore send Green Bay packing NFL Baltimore 48 Green Bay 3 BALTIMORE In his last Monday Night Football appearance, Brett Favre shuffled off the field, a yellow parka pulled over his bowed head. He ignored the shouts of the people around him,
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      • 337 51 -AP INDIANAPOLIS Ron Artest doesn't want to be traded by the Indiana Pacers after all, his agent says. Artest said last weekend that his past in Indiana haunts him, and he is interested in being traded to the New York Knicks or Cleveland Cavaliers. But
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      • 594 52 -AGENCIES World champion pried away from Renault on the back of US$l5O million deal LONDON Fernando Alonso described it as an offer that was "too good to miss". Indeed it was. Yesterday, the Formula 1 grapevine was whispering that the world champion's shocking switch from
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      • 392 53  -  LEONGWEEKEAT AT 16, Jazreel Tan was the youngest member of the national bowling team that competed in last month's Manila SEA Games. And the Singapore Sports School student proved her worth, bagging a silver in the Women's Masters and a bronze in
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