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    18 1 TODAY 12/07/2005 1 (P) MICA newspaper free your share todayonline.com 2006 18, January Wednesday 8 *****6 *****9 AFTERNOONEDITION
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    Disclosure discomfort
    736 1  -  Was Kwek’s CDL not prepared to reveal all, or they did withdraw from casino race due to changed bidding rules? VALCHUA ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR val@newstoday.com.sg ONE day after Singapore’s richest man Mr Kwek Leng Beng (picture) abruptly withdrew from the casino race, questions have arisen over whether the
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    The move towards life without the dialysis crutch
    596 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg EVER since the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal broke, efforts to improve governance standards in the charity sector have never been greater. Now, another area will be getting some overdue attention in the wake of the episode. The
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    Lock icon Rebel officers escape, trigger Manila alert
    468 1 (2nd edition) Lieutenants allegedly took part in failed rebellion in 2003 AFP MANILA Four junior officers who helped lead a failed rebellion against Philippine President Gloria Arroyo in 2003 escaped yesterday from a military prison, triggering a security alert, officials said. The embarrassing jailbreak came a
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    Lock icon Stocks lower as oil hits 3-month high
    143 1 (2nd edition) BLOOMBERG THE tailspin in US stocks continued for a second week as the price of oil jumped to a three-month high and investors prepared for disappointing earnings reports from banks and technology companies. More than 70 component companies of the Standard Poor’s 500
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    Lock icon Police ‘foil plot to kidnap Blair’s son’
    62 1 (2nd edition) AFP LONDON Police in Britain foiled a plot to kidnap the five-year-old youngest son of Prime Minister Tony Blair, The Sun newspaper said in today’s edition. Britain’s biggest-selling daily claimed the plan was hatched by “extremist sympathisers” of the Fathers 4 Justice group,
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      Lock icon Stamping out trouble
      384 2  -  Violent protesters at World Bank, IMF meetings here face caning, imprisonment LINYANQIN yanqinl@newstoday.com. sg CANING and imprisonment await violent protesters at the upcoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings to be held in September this year. In a written response to a question posed by
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      Lock icon Stamping out trouble
      385 2 (2nd edition)  -  Violent protesters at World Bank, IMF meetings here face caning, imprisonment LIN YANQIN yanqinl@newstoday.com. sg CANING and imprisonment await violent protesters at the upcoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings to be held in September this year. In a written response to a question posed
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      Lock icon Turkey may send Pope’s attacker back to prison
      204 2 (2nd edition) AFP ANKARA Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, faced a possible return to jail after Turkey’s Justice Minister yesterday sought to overturn a court decision freeing him after a quar-ter-century. Justice Minister Cemil Cicek formally
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      OPEN BUDGET TERMINAL TO ALL AIRLINES
      740 3  -  An exclusive budget market is a myth: A man can wear Gucci and eat hawker food newscomment we set you thinking LIANG DINGZI news@newstoday.com.sg The writer is a freelance author who is retired from the aviation industry. SINGAPORE’S Budget Terminal, costing $45 million, will
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  • singapore news
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      Raising the worksite safety bar
      442 4  -  Workplace Safety and Health Bill introduces harsher fines, more proactive measures TORCHING LI AND LOHCHEE KONG news@newstoday.com.sg HARSHER and more wide-reach-ing penalties are now in store for the breach of workplace safety in Singapore’s most accident-prone sectors, namely: Construction, shipyards and metalworking factories. The new
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      Raising the worksite safety bar
      442 4 (2nd edition)  -  Workplace Safety and Health Bill introduces harsher fines, more proactive measures TORCHING LI AND LOHCHEE KONG news@newstoday.com.sg HARSHER and more wide-reach-ing penalties are now in store for the breach of workplace safety in Singapore’s most accident-prone sectors, namely: Construction, shipyards and metalworking factories. The new
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      The move to life without the dialysis crutch
      317 4 (2nd edition)  -  Derek A Paulo EVER since the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal broke, efforts to improve governance standards in the charity sector have never been greater. Now, another area will be getting some overdue attention in the wake of the episode. The way
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      Lock icon SAVH seeks redemption
      400 6  -  Interim chief hopes to regain I PC status and funding JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com. sg WOOING back public confidence and restoring its charity funding are at the top of the Mr Tan Guan Heng’s checklist. The new interim president of the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH),
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      Going straight for the jugular
      356 8  -  LOHCHEE KONG TO STRENGTHEN Singapore’s fight against the illegal wildlife trade, the Ministry of National Development has introduced harsher penalties against traffickers of endangered species. Yesterday, a Bill was passed in Parliament to double the maximum jail terms and raise the fine limit. Under the
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      SAF fine ceiling raised
      252 8  -  Punishments now in line with servicemen’s increased wages: Teo LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg TO BRING punishments in line with wages and the allowances for full-time National Service (NS) men, the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) has raised the maximum fines it can impose against errant soldiers across all ranks.
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    • PARLIAMENT BRIEFS
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        Lock icon CASINO CONTROL BILL INTRODUCED
        134 8 Channel NewsAsia Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has introduced the Casino Control Bill, which spells out a legal framework to regulate the gaming operations as well as measures to keep out crime and mitigate the negative impact of gambling. This sets
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        Lock icon VEHICLE REGISTRATION TO GO ONLINE
        105 8 Channel NewsAsia The Government has passed a bill paving the way for the $36-million Vehicle Registration and Licensing System (VRLS) to go online. The VRLS will provide the public with more convenient and one-stop services for vehicle-related transactions and enquiries through the Internet. This includes
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        REVERSE MORTGAGE FOR ELDERLY?
        78 8 The National Development Ministry and Housing and Development Board are exploring reverse mortgages as a possible additional source of income for the elderly. Reverse mortgaging allows the elderly to pledge their HDB flats for a regular income. “We have met up with the industry associations and
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        NEW SPORTS COMPLEXES FOR EAST AND WEST
        64 8 Sports complexes will be built at Pasir Ris and Bukit Panjang by 2010, said Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan. Residents will be able to enjoy facilities such as swimming pools and tennis courts at these complexes. Private developers may
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      Companies secure, but is it enough?
      389 9  -  Small companies asked to seek advice and help from the Government ANSLEY NG ansley@newstoday.com.sg ABOUT nine in 10 manufacturers here have security checks in place to protect their staff and property from terrorism acts, but what is lacking are business recovery plans should the
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      Post-doctoral research push for Singapore
      251 9  -  —TAN HUI LENG TO ENCOURAGE the best brains to further their research in Singapore, the newly-formed National Research Foundation (NRF) is considering funding universities to set up post-doctoral studies. Speaking at the Singapore-MIT Alliance Annual Symposium yesterday, NRF chairman Dr Tony Tan issued the challenge
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      Lock icon Enjoy US beef again
      82 9 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) will lift the ban on beef imports from the United States within a month. The import of beef from the US was banned in late 2003 after reports of a case of mad cow disease in Washington. After
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      Lock icon Cutting through the red tape
      671 10  -  US don who helped improve Singapore’s education is made honorary citizen DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg PROFESSOR Robert Brown was stumped when he first learnt of the support services for university researchers here it took “months and months” for an academic to buy equipment and spend
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      Thaksin reality show falls flat
      179 12 BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s reality programme appears to have fallen flat. The five-day public relations stunt, which went on air on cable television, shows the Thai premier dedicating his time to fight poverty. The programme, Backstage Show: The Prime Minister, was filmed at
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      Lock icon Net tycoon’s offices raided
      105 12 TOKYO Flamboyant Japanese Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie vowed yesterday to keep expanding his business, despite prosecutors raiding his group for suspected illegal securities trading on Monday. Mr Horie, 33-year-old president of one of Japan’s most successful Internet companies, Livedoor, apologised to investors for any concerns they
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      Lock icon When ignorance can kill...
      381 12 Children infected by bird flu in higher numbers, says WHO expert AGENCIES BEIJING As the international community meets to raise US$1.5 billion ($2.45 billion) in the battle against bird flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that risky behaviour and ignorance remained the prime dangers for
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      Lock icon H5N1 MAY HAVE KILLED INDONESIAN BOY
      115 12 AFP Indonesia yesterday reported one more probable bird flurelated death. The three-year-old brother of an Indonesian girl who probably died from the H5N1 bird flu virus died yesterday after suffering from similar symptoms, the Health Ministry said. The 13-year-old girl died in Indramayu, a
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      Lock icon Launch of Pluto probe postponed
      160 13 –AFP WASHINGTON The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has postponed for a day the planned launch yesterday of the world’s first probe to the icy, distant planet of Pluto in an ambitious mission to investigate the solar system’s outer reaches. The launch of the
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    • GLOBAL ROUND UP
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        Lock icon GLOBAL LEADERS DISHONEST: POLL
        66 13 –AFP Most of the world’s population think global leaders, politicians in particular, are dishonest, have too much power and are easily influenced, according to a Gallup poll carried out in 60 nations for the World Economic Forum. For 61 per cent of those polled, political leaders
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        Lock icon GALLOWAY TO FACE PROBE
        85 13 –AFP Controversial British lawmaker George Galloway is facing a parliamentary probe into how he managed to sign a series of House of Commons motions while appearing in a television reality show. Mr Galloway, who has been locked up with a number of other celebrities in Channel
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        Lock icon NAVY ITINERARY FOUND IN PUB
        73 13 –AFP A sensitive document detailing a British Royal Navy warship’s tour of duty in the Middle East over the next two years has been found in a pub, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported yesterday. A student spotted the two-page document titled “HMS St Albans Longcast”
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      Lock icon Aussie govt’s role in Iraq bribe scam being probed
      188 13 (2nd edition) AFP SYDNEY The Australian government’s role in the alleged payment of huge bribes to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq by national wheat exporter AWB has come under scrutiny, an official inquiry was told yesterday. The commission of inquiry was set up by the
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        Lock icon GLOBAL LEADERS DISHONEST: POLL
        66 13 (2nd edition) –AFP Most of the world’s population think global leaders, politicians in particular, are dishonest, have too much power and are easily influenced, according to a Gallup poll carried out in 60 nations for the World Economic Forum. For 61 per cent of those polled, political leaders
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        Lock icon GALLOWAY TO FACE PROBE
        85 13 (2nd edition) –AFP Controversial British lawmaker George Galloway is facing a parliamentary probe into how he managed to sign a series of House of Commons motions while appearing in a television reality show. Mr Galloway, who has been locked up with a number of other celebrities in Channel
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        Lock icon NAVY ITINERARY FOUND IN PUB
        73 13 (2nd edition) –AFP A sensitive document detailing a British Royal Navy warship’s tour of duty in the Middle East over the next two years has been found in a pub, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported yesterday. A student spotted the two-page document titled “HMS St Albans Longcast”
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      CLEARING HIS PATH TO POWER, QUIETLY?
      838 15  -  But Anwar will have to rejoin Umno if he ever wants to be the PM news•views•analysis straighttalk OONYEOH Oon Yeoh is a writer and commentator based in Kuala Lumpur. FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rarely makes the headlines in local newspapers these days,
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        Lock icon SPOOKED COPS STAY CLEAR OF POLICE STATION AFTER DARK
        98 16 AFP Spooked officers are crying off night duty at an Indian police station they say is haunted by ghosts. “A man with long hair and long nails moves around in the police station,” said constable Umed Singh, speaking from the Indian
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        Lock icon PARROT BLAMED FOR BREAK-UP
        67 16 AFP A talkative parrot is being blamed for the break-up of a couple’s relationship after squawking the name of the woman’s secret lover. Ziggy the parrot prompted a confession from call centre worker Suzy Collins that she was having a four-month fling with a former colleague
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        WHEN TV IS BAD FOR SEX
        66 16 An Italian study has found that couples who have a television set in their bedroom have sex half as often as those who don’t, Reuters said. On average, Italians who don’t have a TV in their bedroom have sex twice a week, or eight
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      Lock icon Taiwanese premier quits
      371 16 Move paves way for Cabinet reshuffle AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan Premier Frank Hsieh resigned yesterday, the fourth leader in five years to quit the post. His resignation came a month after the ruling party suffered a local election defeat because of its strained ties with China. President Chen
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      Lock icon Her job’s on the line...
      301 18 $63.5m move could help UK minister keep it LONDON Britain’s education minister Ruth Kelly has been given until tomorrow to save her career by putting an end to the growing scandal over sex offenders being hired to teach in schools. The controversy has also forced
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        Lock icon VISION WOES AND IMPOTENCE DRUGS
        94 18 AGENCIES Middle-aged men with a history of heart disease or high blood pressure may face a heightened risk of sudden vision loss, if they take anti-impotence drugs such as Viagra and Cialis, a study has found. The team at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, found
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        Lock icon COMIC FILM AS GOOD AS A WORKOUT
        89 18 AFP Watching a comedy film boosts the flow of blood to the heart equivalent to a bout of aerobic exercise, but watching a sad film makes the flow decline. A study by the University of Maryland found that blood flow was largely reduced
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        Lock icon BIG GAMES, BIG GROWTH FOR BEIJING
        38 18 AP Hosting the 2008 Olympics will create 1.8 million jobs in Beijing and the Chinese capital’s economy will grow 9.8 per cent annually between now and 2008, the state-run China Daily reported.
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      Lock icon When it pays to speak Mandarin
      430 19 Chinese lessons, nannies latest signs of China’s growing global influence AGENCIES LONDON Knowing how to speak Mandarin is increasingly being viewed as an asset, according to at least one educator in Britain and a growing number of parents in the United States. In the
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      Lock icon How to keep dementia at bay
      154 19 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Exercising three times a week in later life could drastically reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s, a study has found. People over 65 who exercise at this level are up to 40 per cent less likely to develop dementia than those less active.
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        118 20  -  ANGELINETAN Corporate Communications Manager, Singapore Post: I refer to the letter, “Junk default opt-in practices” by Mr Phillip Ang Keng Hong (Jan 12). As a licensed public postal operator, SingPost is obligated to deliver all mail both addressed and unaddressed on the instructions of the
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        118 20  -  DING HOCK HUI Commissioner of Buildings, Building and Construction Authority: I refer to Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming’s letter, “What limit an MCST’s right to penalise?” (Jan 7). A management corporation (MC) can impose conditions on persons entering its premises and using its common facilities such
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      645 20  -  Petition wants to ban celeb blogger for ‘racial slur’ chipofftheblog with Lin Yanqin JUST when you thought there was only so much controversy Wendy Cheng, aka Xiaxue, could get embroiled in, the ante gets upped. Now there is an online petition to of
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      251 22 Letter from KUNAVATHI GANESAN KUDOS to Frances Ong (“Six kids and they are the real bonus”, Jan 17). Every word in that commentary is true. I am a mother with three children, all born before the baby bonus scheme was launched.
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      489 22 Mediation can solve differences if both parties are willing to communicate Letter from FLORENCE KEH Head, Press Feedback Unit Housing Development Board AUDREY ANG Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force CHERYL LIM Acting Manager Community Mediation Unit WE REFER to the series of letters
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      78 22 In our report, “S’pore seeing more start-ups” (Jan 17), we stated that Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed in Parliament that while more that 200,000 companies were formed in the first half of last year, over 150,000 companies closed down in the same period. This is
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      245 24  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON BARBIE II I have discussed my concerns about Barbie dolls and what they do to the little girls who become absorbed with them. They create an image of physical perfection that most girls will never be able to meet. I'm convinced that
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      599 24 Allowing rich kids to buy their way out isn’t fair on the rest Letter from ADRIAN KWONG I REFER to the proposed review of penalties for defaulting on one’s NS obligations, “No dodging this draft” (Jan 17). What is wrong with the Melyvn Tan
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      619 26 Necessary for alternative views to be aired Letter from HOWARD LEE I READ the commentary by Benjamin James Saram, “Avoid sowing the seeds of hate” (Jan 16). His points deploy an often-abused theory that by the sheer influence of one or many sources, an
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      572 28  -  Government’s bullish sentiment builds on better-than-expected trade performance last year CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE is expected to enjoy healthy trade growth this year, building on 2005’s better-than-expected performance that was unveiled yesterday by International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, the agency tasked with developing
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      180 28 AIROCEAN Group warned yesterday that it expected to report a loss in its fiscal third quarter that ended on Dec 31. It said third-quarter performance was affected by costs incurred on the scaling back of its express courier services business in China, which
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        514 30 Government’s real estate investment arm diversifies away from US amid fears of falling property prices there BLOOMBERG THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), which manages more than US$100 billion ($163 billion) of the country’s foreign reserves, said it might buy real estate
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        212 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has appointed two legal professionals to its board of directors. Mr Lee Seiu Kin, who is second So-licitor-General at the Attorney-General’s Chambers, and Mr Lucien Wong, a managing partner of law firm Allen Gledhill,
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        207 31 FerroChina, a maker of steel coils, is making its first major acquisition as a listed company. The company has agreed to acquire around 35.5 per cent of Chinese steel processor Superb Team for US$30.2 million ($49.2 million). Superb Team is in the process of issuing 30 million redeemable
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        437 31  -  Singapore, India to review implementation process of economic agreement LEE CHINGWERN IN NEW DELHI chingwern@newstoday.com.sg IN A show of determination to get the slow-moving Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (Ceca) on a faster track, Singapore and India yesterday called for a meeting to review the implementation
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        121 32 DOW JONES COMPUTER systems integrator Datacraft Asia yesterday reiterated that it expected dou-ble-digit growth in revenue for its current fiscal year. Datacraft chief executive Bill Padfield said he was “confident that the double-digit growth forecast will hold up”. Mr Padfield said the company
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        506 32 BLOOMBERG Singapore SHARES fell for a fifth day, the longest slump in almost one-and-a-half years, weighed down by continued profittaking. The ST Index fell 24.24 points, or 1 per cent, to 2,376.96, rounding off a fiveday, 2-per-cent slide. It last fell for five straight days in the period
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          189 32 JETSTAR Asia will be hiding 88 tickets a day islandwide from Jan 18 to 20. In celebration of Chinese New Year, the free tickets will be contained in hongbao packets and randomly hidden inside copies of Today. Readers of Today simply
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        210 33  -  TradeXchangeto save industry players $75m over 10 years CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg A NEW IT platform is expected to save up to $75 million over 10 years for shippers, importers and exporters in Singapore. To be launched by October next year, TradeXchange is a
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        212 33 AGENCIES MAPLETREE Logistics Trust, a real estate investment trust (Reit) that owns warehouses and industrial buildings, will distribute $6 million to investors for the fourth quarter. Mapletree said it would distribute 1.05 cents a share for the three months ended Dec
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        388 34  -  SME 500 rankings show record profits for such firms: DP Info VALERIE LAW valerie@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE’S top 500 small and medium enterprises (SME) in terms of sales have chalked up record profits, according to a recent survey of such companies with their financial year ending between June 1,2004, and
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      822 35  -  Gelato gives Gelatissimo’s Singapore franchisee an edge over ice-cream rivals VINITARAMANI vinita@newstoday.com.sg IS THERE a market in Singapore for gelato and sorbets authentically prepared with ingredients imported from Italy and Australia? Mr Vince Yip, a 48-year old former banker with more than 25 years of
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      172 31 Hartford/ nstitute A quality institute of RaffleS Corp Central Queensland University 7 One of Australia's most innovative and richly diverse universities with a network of campuses situated along the east coast of Australia and international operations extending into the Pacific and South-East Asia The Good Universities Guide 2006 (Australia's only
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      169 33 The Master of Science Programmes in Economics Finance Applied Economicss Programme Features Information Session Date/Time: 21 January ’06 (Sat), 10am Venue: Conference Hall, Level 5, Administration Building The programmes are designed to equip graduates with indepth knowledge in their selected discipline for a career in academic research or teaching or
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      144 34 Healthy Participants Needed The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study involving one investigational medicine. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of this medicine in the blood when it is taken with and without food. Pre-requisites: Healthy males and females aged
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      863 36  -  This year’s Golden Globes honoured works that dared to break new ground JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg ANG Lee said it best when accepting his award for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain at yesterday’s 63rd Annual Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, California. He thanked his fellow film-makers for “strengthening
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      1143 38 Can six weeks be all it takes for a lifestyle overhaul? For the four contestants of the Ultimate Makeover Challenge, this was possible. And California Fitness not only helped them shed the pounds but also cultivate healthy lifestyle habits. In this concluding issue of our series
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      292 40  -  —AMELYNNLIONG WHILE the fortunes of films and their chance at the Oscars are dependent on what is announced during the Golden Globes, celebrities know full well that the walk up to the theatre can make or break them. How they appear can determine whether they will
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      483 42  -  With I Not Stupid follow-up, director Jack Neo takes aim at movie-goers’ hearts JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg FOR his new film I Not Stupid Too, Jack Neo used real-life gangsters to play a group of thugs who lead one of his central characters astray. Jack
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        292 43 BARBECUED PORK FRIED RICE WITH GRILLED CORIANDER PINEAPPLE RIVER SCAMPI eed ideas for your reunion dinner? Find it in New Age Cuisine for an Age-Old Tradition, a cookbook published by TODAYin collaboration with celebrity chef Moses Lim. The book contains recipes lovingly-crafted by five award-winning chefs. In this third of
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        301 44 AP CHICAGO In her first book club pick since allegations that some parts of her last selection were fabricated, Oprah Winfrey chose Elie Wiesel’s Night, a classic of Holocaust literature sometimes labelled a novel but regarded by the author as a memoir. On her show
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        371 44 Singer builds home in Bahrain; looks set to work as consultant AP DUBAI Michael Jackson seems to be settling in to the Persian Gulf. He has shopped for real estate here, been spotted in glitzy malls and now it appears that Jackson is interviewing for a
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          75 44 Supporters of the arts, here’s your chance to get your due recognition. Nominations for the National Arts Council’s (NAC) Patron of the Arts Awards are now open. Both individuals and organisations who have contributed to the promotion of the local arts scene in the past year may
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          IT’S A DOG’S LIFE
          78 44 The Year of the Dog will be heralded in style on stamps. It’s A Dog’s Life, an exhibition organised by the Singapore Philatelic Museum, will showcase stamps and other philatelic materials exploring the evolution of the dog from ancient civilisations to modern day breeds. A special
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          68 44 Sembawang Music Festival Singapore’s largest outdoor camping music festival is to take place on Friday and Saturday at Sembawang Park. The festival features over 25 bands and six DJ/club acts from the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. Bands slated to play include The Animators (US),
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          36 44 The Ren Ci Charity Show 2006, which was televised live on MediaCorp TV Channel Uon Jan 8 and repeated on Jan 15, raised $7.26 million, exceeding the show’s target of $5 million.
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          44 44 The evergreen Fong Fei Fei, the songbird who is famous for her penchant for hats, will be in town for a concert on April 8 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium as part of her world tour. Tickets available from Sistic.
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        419 45 In Her Shoes kicks way to top of box office chart —AGENCIES GIRL power trumped magic and monkey business in Singapore cinemas last weekend, with In Her Shoes helping boot Narnia and King Kong from their perches atop the box office top 10. Director Curtis Hanson’s tale
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        176 45 I nNorthAmerica(Jan 13 15) RANK I NG WEEKEND GROSS/US$ CUMULAT I VE GROSS/US$ WEEKS I N C I NEMAS MOV I E 1 Hoodwinked $16.6m $16.6m 1 2 Glory Road $16.5m $16.5m 1 3 Last Holiday $15.7m $15.7m 1 4 (2) The Chronicles of Narnia$12.2m $269.97m
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        59 46 Season Premiere Channel 5, 7.30pm Tens of thousands auditioned in seven cites across America, vying for the chance to follow in the footsteps of Carrie, Fantasia, Ruben and Kelly! Who’s the next American Idol? Don’t miss a note! Get into Idol mode with American Idol on Channel
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        105 46 Episode 12 Channel 8, 8pm The final seven will now move on, from the studio skits, to a full fletch interactive drama which involves full scale production and acting alongside MediaCorp artistes. All 8 finalists will be “invited” to Bintan Island, to vie to be the right heir/heiress
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        71 46 Episode 6 Arts Central, 10pm The Brainiac big questions in this episode: How much weight can a man lose in just 4 hours? Is it better to be an under or overweight victim of an earthquake? Is extra-sensory perception (ESP) real or rubbish? Can you build yourself a hovercraft
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        84 46 Generation Debt Channel NewsAsia, 8.32pm Four thousand people have turned up for debt management talks organised by non-profit organization Credit Counselling Singapore in the past year. And 600 people with severe problems have signed up for its debt management programmes, many of them professionals. Just how did they
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          171 46 National Geographic (Ch 11), 9pm Able to mutate, to adapt, to use host cell mechanisms to reproduce themselves with astounding rapidity, unpredictable viruses have presented humanity with a deadly challenge. Nearly 100 years after the terrifying Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that claimed over 50 million
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          44 46 MTVSEA (Ch 20), 10pm MTV bad boy Ryan Dunn gives viewers a chance to get revenge on someone who has done them wrong with Homewrecker. Ryan will help execute a covert room wrecking renovation and get the evil-doers right where they live, literally.
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      72 49  -  with ItRight(Education) Denyse Tessensohn ItRight(Education) COMMONLY MISPRONOUNCED WORDS soot SUT (to rhyme with foot) women WIM in vegetable VEJ tib bil dosage DOHsidj surplus SIR plirs 2 colx 10.11cm. Poor English: Hopefully we will find out sometimes. Standard English: Hopefully we will find out sometime. A book
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      151 41 4 Pairs of Desperate Housewives preview tickets to be won! Answer a simple question and stand a chance to win! Question: The new season of Desperate Housewives will launch on Channel 5 on 6 Feb, Mon at 10pm. Answer: True/False 2 Easy Steps To Win Step 1: Compose your sms
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      97 41 SUDOKU plus HOWTO PLAY: The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. What are your views on Sudoku Plus? Email us at plus@newstoday.com.sg YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: THIS PUZZLE IS EXTRACTED FROM THE LITTLE BOOK OF
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      34 41 CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the wrong solution to the Jan 12 Sudoku plus puzzle appeared in our Jan 13 edition. The correct solution is shown right. We are sorry for the error.
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      115 43 with atwist! Recipes Venue: Raffles Place Park Date: January 20 (Friday) Time: 11am Catch celebrity Moses Limin person! Purchase the cookbook at a special price of $18* and get it autographed by Moses Lim between 12.00pm to 1.00pm! Normal price $28 Special price of $18 is valid till January 27,
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      744 46 CHANNEL 6.00AM Opening Soon Cube 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 America’s Funniest Home Videos XIV 10.00 My Big Fat Greek Life The Empire Strikes Back 10.30 Hope and Faith Summary Judgement 1 1 .00 That 70s Show V I Can’t Quiz You Baby 11.30 How Clean is Your House Bradford
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