Today, 24 February 2006

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    13 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper mica(P) 112/07/2005 Friday February 24, 2006 todayonline.com
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    A $50,000 handshake – but still they ran
    625 1  - A $50,000 handshake but still they ran JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg THE two Nigerian-born soccer players who now carry Singapore passports have had fans tearing their hair of late. But a shocking revelation shows that they had impressed the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) more than anyone had imagined. Given Singapore
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    Solving the payout puzzle
    571 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH How the Govt is funding Budget giveaways without touching past reserves christi e@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong dished out his platter of goodies on Budget Day, he appeared to be spending beyond his means on the face of it In fact the
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      Lock icon Civil war looming in Iraq?
      506 2 -AFP Sectarian violence claims 127 victims BAGHDAD Gunmen have killed at least 127 people in Iraq in sectarian violence that flared after the bombing of a revered Shia shrine and reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques, officials said yesterday. Amid warnings that sectarian violence could spiral
      -AFP; EPA  -  506 words
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      PRIVATE NUMBERS, OPEN SECRET?
      791 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG Protection of NRIC, credit card data needs the full weight of the law OVER a year ago, I wrote a commentary calling for the introduction of data protection legislation in Singapore ("Time for data protection laws", Nov 8, 2004). Recently, Minister for Information, Communications and
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      Lock icon Farewell to a hero
      721 4 From Govt leaders to the workers, they came to pay Rajaratnam tribute THEY came in a steady stream, from Prime Minster to humble gardener, to mourn and celebrate a man who was friend, hero, wiseman and mentor to them all. As the national flag was flown
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      Lock icon MM Lee's thumbs up for SBY
      388 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA But he mentions hurdles in Batam, says Jakarta should remove unwieldy laws JAKARTA Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew wrapped up his five-day visit to Indonesia with words of praise for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's "problem-solving government" but suggested that cumbersome laws were
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      Lock icon Poultry supply steady with 'zones'
      381 6  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg DISEASE-FREE zones carved out in Malaysia last year has saved Singapore from having to suspend all poultry imports from across the Causeway in the re-emergence of the HSNI bird flu virus in Selangor. Only poultry and poultry products from these zones, established
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      Lock icon S'pore-Australia ties won't be affected
      197 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE'S relations with Australia will not be affected by Canberra's decision to deny Singapore Airlines (SIA) access to the trans-Pacific route. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said the Government is naturally disappointed, but it respects Australia's decision to protect Qantas. "Singapore-Aus-tralia relations are
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        Lock icon MOE SENT FEE LETTERS WRONGLY
        141 6 938 Live The Ministry of Education (MOE) has made a mistake in sending out school fee notifications to parents. About 39,000 of these were sent to the wrong addresses. This is the first year MOE has sent the school fee notification together with the Edusave
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        Lock icon GROUPS TO GIVE IDEAS TO MDA
        68 6 Channel News Asia A new Community Advisory Committee has been formed to provide feedback to help the Media Development Authority's outreach programmes, especially on new media and cultivating Singaporeans' media literacy skills. The committee is made up of the Parents Advisory Group for the
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        Lock icon LTA TO INSTALL MORE ROAD STUDS
        86 6 938 Live The Land Transport Authority plans to install more intelligent road studs at traffic junctions this year following the successful trial carried out last year in Toa Payoh. The studs which are installed into the road surface will blink when a pedestrian push
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        Lock icon ABUSIVE JAPANESE FINED $2,000
        97 6 Channel News Asia A 33-year-old man has been fined $2,000 by a district court for using abusive language on officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. Ken Kanada, a Japanese employment pass holder, pleaded guilty to committing the offence at Changi Airport on Jan 9. He
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Make way for MTV parade
      283 8  -  SERENE CHUA IF YOU thought that the MTV Asia Awards was Singapore's biggest entertainment event on the calendar, you will be spoilt for choice in the next four years. Under a four-year partnership inked with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) yesterday, MTV Networks Asia has
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      Blocks get a lift from new technology
      481 8  -  JASMINE YIN New materials, construction methods make lifts less expensive to install, cheaper for residents jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg THE cost and time it takes to upgrade lifts look set to drop, thanks to a new construction method and lighter materials that the Housing and Development
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      Online activism: Sleepy in S'pore
      521 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO Island state not as advanced as neighbour, says academic derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT IS not often that Singapore comes across as the sleepy fishing village compared to the advanced buzzing metropolis of Malaysia. It may sound even more counter-intu-itive when the analogy is used
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      Plug in at the park
      212 10  -  —TEOXUANWEI YOU can do it across campus, in fast food restaurants and cafes and now, you can do it in a park. Singapore now has a park with wireless Internet connection. The 3.3-hectare one-north park, opened officially yesterday, will allow visitors to surf the Internet
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      Different airshows, different purposes
      710 12  -  LOHCHEEKONG Each show has its place in the market, says manager of Singapore Airshow cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE upcoming Singapore Airshow seems keen to distance itself from the Asian Aerospace (AA), which is leaving the Republic's shores. "I think there's only going to be one airshow in the
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      Lock icon Guess who rubbed shoulders with Airbus?
      376 12  -  LOHCHEEKONG AMONG the throngs of middle-aged men and women in business suits, a group of fresh-faced exhibitors stood out. No less immaculately dressed, these students from local and American universities drew curious stares from behind their booth at the ongoing Asian Aerospace show. As
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      Expense statement jitters
      365 16  -  JASMINE YIN Making this compulsory may hit charities, feedback suggests jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg THE Inter-Ministry Committee on the Regulation of Charities and Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs) has garnered more than 50 responses in its one-week public consultation exercise. Charities, IPCs and members of the public gave
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      Foreign workers help nab robbery suspect
      264 16  -  TEOXUANWEI TWO foreign workers summoned whatever energy they had left from backbreaking construction work to nab a snatch thief. Mr Joseph Pillomin Raj, 23, and Mr Veerasekaran Suresh, 25, were working at the ground floor of Block 513, Jurong West St 52 on Wednesday
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      Lock icon Armed gang makes off with $142m in 7.5 tonne truck
      399 18  -  —THE GUARDIAN Manager and family abducted as gang raids UK cash depot LONDON An armed gang escaped with up to £50 million ($142 million) in a raid on a high-security cash storage depot in England yesterday in what is thought
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        Lock icon POWERFUL QUAKE IN MOZAMBIQUE
        58 18 AFP A strong earthquake rocked central Mozambique early yesterday, leaving at least two dead and frightening residents who felt tremors as far away as Zimbabwe and South Africa. Thirteen people were injured. Geology department officials described the situation as "evolving". The quake is rare to the
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        MALAYSIA EXTENDS DETENTION
        57 18 Malaysia has extended the detention without trial of two Islamic militant suspects accused of having ties to the Al Qaedalinked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network. "The detention orders for Abdul Samad Shukri Mohamad and Ahmad Yani Ismail have been renewed for another two years," counsel Edmund Bon told
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        Lock icon MINING COMPANY ATTACKED
        77 18 -AP Students angry at United States gold mining giant Freeport attacked the building housing its offices in Jakarta yesterday, as the company's Grasberg mine —the largest gold mine in the world and third largest copper mine in Papua province remained shut for a second day due to
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        Lock icon SHARON'S EXCESS FLUIDS REMOVED
        58 18 DPA Excess fluids were detected in the abdominal cavity of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a routine scan and were promptly drained, the hospital treating the premier said yesterday. Doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Em Kerem Hospital described the comatose Mr Sharon's condition as unchanged after
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        Lock icon CHINA FREES FAMOUS VANDAL
        81 18 AGENCIES Chinese journalist Yu Dongyue was freed Wednesday after spending nearly 17 years in prison for splattering paint on a portrait of Mao Tse-tung during the 1989 prodemocracy protests in Tiananmen Square, media reports said. The 38-year-old and two friends had hurled eggs filled with red
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      Lock icon 40 killed in Moscow market collapse
      335 18 -AFP MOSCOW The snow-laden roof of a Moscow food market collapsed before dawn yesterday, killing at least 40 people, injuring 29 and trapping others in the wreckage. The roof of the Baumansky market fell in as traders were preparing to start their day. A
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      Lock icon M'sian newspaper faces govt action over cartoon
      430 20 AGENCIES A/S7"defends picture poking fun at furore over Prophet caricatures KUALA LUMPUR The New Straits Times (NST) daily, the flagship newspaper of Malaysia's sec-ond-biggest publisher, said the government may take action against it over a cartoon it published following complaints it insulted the
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      Lock icon Ex-Vietnamese refugee buys ticket to $593m lottery win
      288 20 -AFP CHICAGO A former refugee from Vietnam bought the ticket that claimed the biggest United States lottery win ever recorded at a whopping US$365 million ($593 million). Mr Dung Tran, 34, will share his winnings with seven co-workers from the meat processing
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        WOMAN WHO FOUNDED JAPANESE RED ARMY JAILED
        103 22 The woman who founded Japan's Red Army guerrilla group has been jailed for 20 years over a 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague. A court in Tokyo convicted Fusako Shigenobu, 60, of kidnapping and attempted murder, the BBCsaid. She had
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        Lock icon MORE CIGARETTES PRODUCED AFTER SMOKING BAN
        57 22 -DPA The number of cigarettes produced or imported in New Zealand increased by 5 per cent last year, the first year of a widespread ban on smoking in pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants, according to official figures released yesterday. Surveys show that about one
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        IRAN'S PRESIDENT MAY FACE HOLOCAUST DENIAL CHARGES
        70 22 An Israeli lawyer, Mr Ervin Shahar, has asked Germany to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with denying the Holocaust, the BBC reported. Mr Ahmadinejad said last year that the Holocaust was a "myth" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map". According
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      Mum throws herself in front of train, just like daughter did
      180 22 LONDON The mother of an Indian woman who threw herself and her two children in front of a train six months ago, has killed herself in the same manner at the same spot, The Telegraph newspaper reported. As the
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      Lock icon Thailand on the brink of violence?
      378 22 BLOOMBERG AGENCIES Ousted leader warns Thaksin of trouble BANGKOK Thai authorities, as well as a military leader deposed by protests in 1992, have warned of more violence after a government critic's office was bombed ahead of a planned mass rally on Sunday against Premier
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      Lock icon FOR GOOGLE, READ PROFITEERING
      560 23  -  CHARLES ARTHUR THE GUARDIAN Internet firm is shoving publishers aside as it helps itself to the contents of books news@newstoday.com.sg IS GOOGLE mad, or just bad at reading? Or might it have the best interests of authors and publishers at heart? I ask because it has
      THE GUARDIAN  -  560 words
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        Lock icon COME VISIT AUSTRALIA, DAMMIT
        57 23 DPA The Australian government yesterday launched a multi-million-dollar international advertising campaign that asks foreigners: "Where the bloody hell are you?" The tourism promotion campaign will cost AslBo million ($216 million) and play in Germany, Japan, the United States, Britain and India. Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said
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        SUSPICIOUSLY DEPRESSED BIKERS
        78 23 Swedish police are investigating the Stockholm chapter of the famed Hell's Angels motorcycle club after they found that 70 per cent of members were certified as depressed, ananova.com reported. They had all been certified by the same doctor and were getting state benefits for sickness, which roused
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        Lock icon TRAPPED IN FRIDGE? DIAL 999
        58 23 DPA A Hong Kong woman trapped in a fridge was freed after she dialled emergency services on her mobile phone. The 53-year-old restaurant worker became trapped when the door accidentally closed after she stepped into the two-metre high fridge on Wednesday. She phoned the police
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      Lock icon Court told: Prince Charles intended to be hostile about China
      279 24 -AFP LONDON Prince Charles intended to be hostile when he described China's leaders as "appalling old waxworks" in private diaries that he is fighting to keep out of the press, a lawyer for a British newspaper argued. The heir to
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      'No hope' of wiping out bird flu in Europe
      484 24 Top expert says no way of stopping the spread of the virus LONDON Europe has "no prospect of eradicating" the deadly HSNI bird flu virus in the foreseeable future, now that there are infected wild birds across the European Union, an
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      Lock icon Bodies litter Nigerian city
      367 25 -AP Sectarian violence sparked by Prophet Mohammed cartoons claims 96 lives LAGOS Bodies littered the streets of the southern Nigerian city of Onitsha as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence rose to 96. Gangs of Christian youth armed with machetes and shotguns had poured
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      Lock icon British MPs blasts government for CIA flights
      192 26 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON British ministers were castigated by Members of Parliament over their stance on the United States policy of secretly transferring terrorist suspects to places where they risked being tortured. This came as officials admitted for the first time that 200 suspect
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      Lock icon White House scrambles to save UAE port deal
      504 26 -AGENCIES Bush tries to limit political fallout amid lawmakers' outrage WASHINGTON The White House was scrambling to rescue a deal giving a state-run Arab firm control of operations at six major United States ports and to limit the political fallout from the
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      Lock icon Arabs resist anti-Hamas drive
      513 28 AGENCIES Saudi Arabia the latest state to reject US campaign to isolate militant group RIYADH United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with a new Arab refusal to isolate Hamas as she arrived on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia on the second leg of a Middle
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      Lock icon Twice as many gay men as women said 'I do'
      207 28 THE GUARDIAN LONDON There were 3,648 gay marriages in Britain during the first six weeks in which they became legal, government statisticians said yesterday. The figures, the first to emerge since the Civil Partnership Act came into force on Dec
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      970 30  -  mr brown Payyour children's school fees according to the new 'means testing scheme' From: Ministry of Education for Normal Children Re: Change in policy with regards to school fees Dear parents, I hope this letter finds you well. I write to you to explain some
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      262 32  -  PJ JOHN Letter from MR S RAJARATNAM was a great communicator. Together with the late Mr Devan Nair, they were the first among equals who served their nation and gave Singapore reason to be proud on the international stage. We may be a
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      HERELIESGREATNESS
      89 32  -  ALFRED LIM JEE LONG A tribute by A great man passes. We all have to go one day, But before we do Do we think of how To be richer To buy more things? To show the world how great We are Or are supposed to be? Here lies
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      isay STORIES THAT ARE JUST WAITING TO BE TOLD
      675 32  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN HERE is an interesting question you can ask someone to determine his or her age: Who is Goh Keng Swee? Is he: a) Goh Chok Tong's grandfather; b) one of the founding fathers of Singapore; c) once
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      259 34  -  SABRINACHOO National accreditation ensures the practitioners are properly trained Letter from I REFER to the letter "Are HDB officers trained to mediate?" (Feb 22). In recent years, I have observed a marked increase in the promotion of mediation as the choice for dispute resolution in community
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      Were wildlife laws amended?
      217 34  -  LOUIS NG Letter from President and Executive Director, Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) I REFER to the article "OK to keep pet shark without a licence?" (Feb 23). Section 5 of the Wild Animals and Birds Act clearly states that "any person who kills,
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      251 34  -  DANNYCHUA Letter from I REFER to your report, "MGM's Macau partner under investigation" (Feb 22). Gambling has often been connected to the mob. Even today, though most casinos are run by corporations, the business has a lingering reputation for attracting shady characters, and it's easy to
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      260 36  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... THE RISKS OF COMPULSIVE PARENTING We've spoken on several occasions about parents who couldn't care less about their children, but today I want to address those at the other end of the continuum, referring to mothers and fathers for whom the kids
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      I say Ang Mo Kio, you say tomato...
      199 36  -  NEO CHEW PENG Letter from I WAS shocked to notice a sign indicating Ang Mo Kio... with a red tomato next to it What is this trying to say? Ang Mo Kio ang mo kio, which is Hokkien for tomato? I find
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        DEVIATE FROM ROUTES SHOULD BUSES BUNCH
        85 36  -  BORIS CHAN: I refer to SBS Transit's letter,"Why'busbunching' happens" (Feb 23). When two buses leave the terminal just two minutes apart and follow their usual routes, waiting passengers will experience extended delays. So, I have a suggestion: The bus operators should consider sending the
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        IF YOU'RE SORRY AND YOU KNOW IT...
        128 36  -  NELSON QUAH: I agree with Mr Mak Wai Keong's advice that people should say "sorry" sparingly and meaningfully ("When sorry doesn't mean a damn thing", Feb 22). If a person is truly sorry, the following three things would not be too much to
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      174 36  -  CHOW JAN MAN Letter from THE football field next to Block 715 at Bedok Reservoir Road is a very popular venue. Every weekend, youngsters can be seen playing matches there from morning to evening. It is one of the few soccer fields in
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      Terminal efficiency adds up to lowest airfares
      262 38  -  TONY DAVIS Letter from CEO, Tiger Airways Pte Ltd I HAVE followed the recent debate regarding the opening of the new Budget Terminal with some interest. Thanks to the Government's strategic vision, Singapore today has one of the most developed and competitive aviation
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      233 38  -  AKNES CHANG Or go buy another brand, Bausch& Lomb user told Letter from AS A Bausch Lomb contact lens solution user for the 20--odd years, I was concerned when the issue of fungal cornea infections arose as I have two bottles of unopened Moistureloc. Prior to this, I
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      329 42  -  STEVE KNGO Letter from THE possibility of a bird flu pandemic is a clear and present danger. Experts around the world including the World Health Organization have issued warnings that a human-transmitted outbreak is inevitable and will affect the whole world. So, it is alarming
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      249 42  -  EDDYTAN Letter from I REFER to the letter, "No Budget joy for stay-home mums?" (Feb 23). I agree that there is no rationale for excluding stayhome mums from the Budget payouts. Just because they are not working outside the home does
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      121 44  -  RASHID OSMAN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Two Lions axed" (Feb 21). I was shocked over the sudden sacking of two national players two days before a major tournament I can understand the emphasis on discipline for our national players and agree
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      183 44  -  ASSOC PROFESSOR ROY CHAN Letter from Director National Skin Centre I REFER to the letter from Mr Leow Eng Lye, "Clerks need to follow doctor's orders too" (Feb 22). I would like to thank Mr Leow for his comments. We try our best
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      isay THE BIG LIE OF 'QUALITY TIME'
      462 44  -  LIANG DINGZI I RECALL one year when a chief executive officer gave a poignant New Year message, exhorting employees to spend time with their families. Implicit in this was the acknowledgement that many workers had sacrificed much of family life for work. But
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      Lock icon UOB earned $1.71b in 2005
      639 46 Bloomberg -AGENCIES Interest earned on loans rose 9% while non-interest revenues jumped 28% UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore's second-largest bank, yesterday reported an 18-per-cent rise in full year net profit to $1.71 billion, from $1.45 billion a year earlier, after it included the full-year earnings
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      Lock icon No QFB status yet for State Bank of India: Report
      207 46 DOW JONES THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said that State Bank of India (SBI) will not qualify for a full banking licence in Singapore unless it has a guarantee from the Indian government, the Economic Times newspaper reported
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        127 46 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended higher, led by buying in blue chips following a strong overnight performance on Wall Street. The ST Index ended up 7.69 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,435.58. Gainers led losers 284 to 236 as 1 billion shares worth $975 million were traded. City
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        60 46 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg Nikkei 225 *****.10 +314.32 +1.99 Hang Seng ASX *****.53 +176.01 4913.20 +26.50 +1.13 +0.54 Taiwan Wtd 6474.69 -56.01 -0.06 Korea Comp 1361.23 +20.65 +1.54 KLCI 927.51 +3.11 +0.34 SET Index 732.60 +4.00 +0.56 Jakarta Comp 1224.16 -7.00 -0.50 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2091.32
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        Lock icon State-run Vietcombank aims for first overseas listing
        231 48 DOW JONES VIETNAM'S state-run Vietcombank plans to list in Hong Kong or Singapore in the country's first overseas listing, people familiar with the situation said yesterday. The listing, set for either this year or next, could be a dual-listing in either Hong Kong
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        229 48 Hotel Properties had a net profit of $38.3 million, or 8.43 cents a share, for the year ended Dec 31, up from $26 million, or 5.73 cents a share, the previous year. Revenue rose to $304.2 million from $320.1 million. Noble Group had a net profit of US$232 million
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        Lock icon StarHub made $73.3m in Q4
        466 48 DOW JONES Improved margins, rise in subscriber base helped telco post net profits TELECOMMUNICATIONS and cable company Star Hub swung to a profit in the fourth quarter due to improved margins and an increase in subscribers, but it expects growth to slow in the year
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        Lock icon Aircraft repair venture mooted
        443 50 DOW JONES SlA's and ST's engineering units among those in talks with India's Wadia Group INDIA'S Wadia Group, the founder of discount carrier GoAir, is in talks with several companies including SIA Engineering Co and Singapore Technologies Engineering about forming an aircraft maintenance venture in India,
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        Lock icon Dubai Aerospace targets wide planes
        165 50 DOW JONES DUBAI Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) aims to be the world's third-largest lessor of wide-body passenger planes over the next few years, a senior executive said yesterday. Explaining DAE's focus on such aircraft, project director Rashid Al Malik Rashid said that 60 per cent of
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        405 50 Qatar Airways, is in talks with Airbus and Boeing Co to buy 20 aircraft to meet growing travel demand. The airline is looking at Airbus' A 340 and Boeing's 777 models, said chief executive Akbar Al Baker, at an interview yesterday. The carrier may make a decision by the
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        Lock icon Tiger may fly Merpati's routes
        307 51 BLOOMBERG MERPATI Nusantara Airlines, struggling to turn profitable even after an investment from Indonesia's government, said that it may let Singapore-based Tiger Airways and three other companies fly some of its routes. Tiger Airways, a low-fare carrier partly owned by Singapore Airlines, has asked to
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        Lock icon January prices were highest since 2004
        251 51 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose at their highest pace since November 2004, and above a central bank inflation threshold for 2006. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.7 per cent from a year earlier in January the highest pace since November 2004 with
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        Lock icon Time for Sing Tel to change its approach?
        594 52 Experts say M&A field crowded, buttelco is set to maintain focus SINGAPORE Telecommunications has to embark on a growth strategy other than expanding abroad as competition to acquire regional telecommunications companies will intensify in coming years, analysts said. While South-east Asia's largest
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        Lock icon CapitaLand to sell asset-backed bonds in Malaysia
        229 53 BLOOMBERG CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest developer, plans to sell RMIIS million ($50.4 million) of asset-backed bonds in Malaysia, according to a report by Malaysian Rating Corp (Marc). Aragorn ABS, a unit created by Capita Land for this purpose, will sell the bonds to
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        Lock icon Japan records first trade deficit in 5 years
        436 53 -AFP But January deficit of $4.8 billion did not jolt markets' confidence in Japanese economy TOKYO Japan posted its first monthly trade deficit for five years and only its third in two decades in January as the Chinese New Year holidays hit
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        Lock icon New Indian airline may raise funds here
        695 54  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA Budget carrier considers seeking money in Spore during its second phase of fund raising shobha@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as its airports struggle to keep pace with Indian aviation's soaring growth, another new airline is taking wing later this year bringing to 13 the total
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      1473 56  - ROCK ROLL STAR Neil Humphreys THE WORLD ACCORDING TO LIAM With the possible exception of his brother Noel, no rock star is more quotable than Oasis' front man Liam I Gallagher. With an extremely long list to choose from, I NEIL HUMPHREYS picks out his favourite Liam lines I 11
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      506 58  -  JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE a long and occasionally tumultuous relationship with Hollywood, the former head of Columbia Pictures, Lord David Puttnam, still has faith in awards ceremonies. The 65-year-old Briton, who has produced such Academy Award-nomi-nated films as Midnight Express (1978), The Killing
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        108 59  -  DAVID CHEW DURING World War 11, prisoners of war reportedly died after being exposed to sounds of agony and pain over long periods of time. Sound artist Darren Ng said he wanted to see the extent to which sound affects an audience. "Within safe limits!" he
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        117 59  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR While researching his new dance performance, Haim Adri interviewed more than 150 people and asked them about their lives in Israel and Palestine. Adri's work forms the backbone of Back Up, a piece by the French company Sisyphe Heureux, which will be staged at the
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      426 60  -  ZULOTHMAN World-class DJ slams his genre as one rife with 'bling-bling,thus nonsense' zul@newstoday.com.sg RARELY do you hear one of hip-hop's hottest DJs express distaste for the genre, but DJ Craze says he finds most of today's hip-hop "over rated". "All this bling-bling and thug nonsense
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      294 61  -  ZULOTHMAN HOMEGROWN musician Kelvin Tan has no problem being laI belled unorthodox. The 41-year-old, who is k best known in Singapore Xt music circles for being the lead guitarist for indie-pop heroes The Oddfellows, has since 1998 released an astounding 20 solo albums'
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      271 61  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg NICE girls finish last? Apparently so, which is why Misty Giles (picture) is out of the running for the USsl million ($1.6 million) cash prize for Survivor only three weeks into the show, which airs tonight on MediaCorp TV
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      214 61 AGENCIES LOS ANGELES FOR Guns N' Roses fans wondering when frontman Axl Rose will release the legendary rockers' forever-in-the-works Chinese Democracy album, the wait may be coming to an end. Three studio-quality tracks appeared on the Internet this week, not long after Rose,
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      267 62  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by..... THE third instalment of the Final Destination series is every bit as silly as its predecessors were, but it continues the tradition well by making dying an entertaining spectator sport. This is, after all, a movie made for the hormonal teenage masses. In
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      391 62  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by..... BIOPICS about writers tend to play up the self-destructive nature of their genius think The Hours (2002) and Sylvia (2003) so much so that very little light is shed on the drudgery that gives birth to great books. Capote is set to change all that.
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        303 65  -  Zul Othman FILMREVIEW by..... IT'S not quite a sequel but Rumor Has It, a unique take on the romantic comedy genre, presents itself as a follow-up of sorts to the 1967 classic The Graduate. The premise of Rumor Has It, whose plot mixes fact with quirky fiction,
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        173 65  -  -SHIBUITTYKUTTICKAL THERE'S no celebrity airs about Paresh Rawal, a Bollywood veteran of more than 200 films and 100 plays in six languages. But if versatility is the hallmark of a great actor, then Rawal ranks among the greatest Gangster, statesman, blind beggar, eunuch you
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        225 70 IT'S only a peek into the real thing but the SATours' Preview Roadshow this weekend has many attractive travel deals, great prizes and freebies awaiting visitors. The travel agency is offering a 10 per cent discount on all Europe tours by Insight Vacations, Trafalgar tours;
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      510 72 AP Ames GOLF WGC Match Play C'ship CARLSBAD, California Stephen Ames meant it as a joke. Tiger Woods apparently didn't think it was funny. Ames was on the practice range on Monday afternoon when he was asked if he would take a carefree approach into his
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      553 73 -AGENCIES French star's last-gasp strike completes Werder's improbable comeback CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Werder Bremen 3 Juventus 2 BREMEN After scoring two goals in the last three minutes to turn a potential defeat into a victory, Werder Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf believes that nothing is impossible. The German side scored
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      434 73 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Ajax2lnter Milan 2 AMSTERDAM Ajax will be kicking themselves after throwing away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Inter Milan in the first leg of their last 16 Champions League tie yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Dutch giants, winners of
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      420 74  -  LEONARD THOMAS you annotbi serious Sports Editor leona rd@newstoday.com.sg A MATCH that bordered on a classic, two talent-laden outfits that would make any manager or fan drool, a scarred pitch that only added to the drama, and a red-hot atmosphere on the terraces that summed
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      632 74 AGENCIES Mourinho seething as teenager plays crucial role as the Blues stand on the brink of elimination CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Chelsea 1 Barcelona 2 LONDON Two weeks ago, his player's play-acting succeeded in getting an opponent sent off. Yesterday morning (Singapore time), it was Jose Mourinho who was crying
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      603 76  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Martial art joins fellow Core sports at Sports School weekeat@newstoday.com.sg RIGHT NOW, it is a traditional form of martial arts practised predominantly by Malays. But silat could well be on the way to acceptance as a mainstream sport in the not too
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      484 76  -  LAN DE COTTA l^^^gCLASS_ ia n@newstoday.com.sg MOST students prefer football track, badminton or swimming. But Andrew Tang is hardly like most students. The Primary Six student of St Michael's Primary School picked up kart racing. For the past three years, he has been
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      660 78  -  Leonard Thomas As Avramovic's Lions continue to plot the return of that roar, Goh and Mas can only look on in envy FOR so long it was missing. Instead of hungry bold Lions unafraid of who lay in their path, the team fretted if the predators
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