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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp fresfsf mica(P) 112/07/2005 share your free newspaper Friday April 7, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY fgd share your free newspaper Friday April 7, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Shin deal safe, say analysts
    785 1  -  LEECHINGWERN Although there maybe regulatory hiccups, Thai govt unlikely to send negative signals to investors chingwern@newstoday.com.sg AS THAILAND comes to terms with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's decision to stand aside, questions are being raised as to whether there would be implications for Shin Corp, the
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      UNDERSTANDING A PHANTOM GENERATION
      928 2  -  TERENCE CHONG To post-65ers, a majority group in the electorate, material values and lofty ideals may not be mutually exclusive EVER since Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called on younger Singaporeans to step forward to make a difference, the term "post-65ers" has never been far from
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      Lock icon Okay for tourists in KL to lock lips in public – but cool it
      587 2  - Okay for tourists in KL to lock lips in public but cool it LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg TOURISTS to Kuala Lumpur (XL) will not be hauled up by the authorities if they are found kissing in public, said the city's mayor Datuk Ruslin Hasan yesterday. The reassurance comes after a landmark
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      Set for a new battlefield?
      441 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG Speculation rife that MP Charles Chong will contest MacPherson cheekong@newstoday.com. sg FIREWORKS can be expected in the battle for MacPherson as speculation abounds that popular Pasir Ris-Pung-gol GRC MP Charles Chong will be switched to the Single Member Constituency at the upcoming polls. With
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      Lock icon Changes likely in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC team
      272 3 Changes likely in HollandBukit Timah GRC team CHANNEL NEWSASIA THERE could be two or three changes in the new Hol-land-BukitTimah GRC come Nomination Day. But Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Swee Say, who is also MP for the current Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC, said this does not mean every
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      Lock icon NEA ups anti-mozzie efforts
      389 4 -CHEOWXINYI Checks for breeding sites to intensify as dengue cases are expected to go up as weather turns warmer EXPECT a knock on your door at least once every six months from National Environment Agency (NEA) officers looking for potential breeding habitats of mosquitoes. These efforts,
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        Lock icon SALVATION ARMY REPORTS MISUSE OF LOGO IN DONATION DRAW
        141 4 938 Live The Salvation Army has drawn the public's attention to the misuse of its logo on the "Great Concepts Crack the Safe National Lucky Draw", two days after the Community Chest issued a similar alert. In a statement yesterday, the
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        Lock icon REVIEW: CABBIES' RETIREMENT AGE
        90 4 Channel News Asia The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is looking to revise the age limit for taxi drivers beyond the current retirement age of 70. It acknowledged that it was exploring this idea, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong raised the issue at a Mandarin TV
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        Lock icon CONTRABAND CIGARETTES SEIZED DURING ISLAND-WIDE RAIDS
        105 4 Channel News Asia More than 83,000 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes have been seized during raids at suspected warehouses and stores in the past week. The raids crippled a syndicate that supplies cigarettes to the peddlers, who ply their trade at Yew Tee. Over 4,000
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        Lock icon SEARCH FOR 'CARING TEACHERS' ON
        80 4 938 Live The search is on for this year's caring teachers. The annual awards are to honour those who have demonstrated exemplary character, initiative, integrity and altruism. They must also have a proven track record of service to their schools and students. Three awards will
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        Lock icon OVER 500,000 WATCHED TV FORUM
        97 4 Channel News Asia Over half a million viewers caught the hourlong TV forum "Face to Face with the Prime Minister" which was telecast on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 on April 1, making it the highest rated programme for the night. It was the first time
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      Lock icon In dire need of hospice doctors
      781 6  -  SHERALYNTAY 22 doctors predominantly foreigners-managing care of 3,700 patients news@newstoday.com.sg FORMER taxi-driver Phee Seng Kee used to roam the island but now the 58-year-old, who suffers from colon cancer, has little strength in his legs and only "drives" his wheelchair when he's home. Being
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      More birds surrendered
      418 7  -  TAN HUI LENG 48 birds handed over to the AVA between January and March huileng@newstoday.com. sg MORE Singaporeans are surrendering their pet birds and chickens to the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) as the global bird flu scare escalates. Between January and March this year, 48 birds
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      Over 1,000 rabbits ditched
      157 7  -  -RENNIEWHANG CHARMED by their cute appearance, many Singaporeans keep rabbits as pets. But the sad fact is that many are unprepared to take care of them, resulting in more than 1,000 rabbits being abandoned in Singapore each year. Owners typically abandon their pets in parks and
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      Online help in the offing for Chinese teachers
      297 7  -  -UNYANQIN SOME new Chinese teachers may be too shy to ask their experienced peers questions for fear of appearing foolish. Others may be stressed out from drawing up lesson plans. The new innovative Chinese teachers' portal (portal.sgchinese.innovativeteachers.com) hopes to solve these problems.
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      Lock icon 3 bioimaging labs set up at Biopolis
      111 7 —AGENCIES THREE new laboratories were officially opened at the Biopolis yesterday to consolidate research efforts in bioimaging. Bioimaging involves the examination of what is inside the human body. These three labs will create opportunities for researchers and clinicians in biomedical sciences and bioengineering
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      Lock icon Help at hand for Maxtor's retrenched
      138 8 938 LIVE ABOUT 513 workers left disk drive maker Maxtor yesterday in the first part of its retrenchment exercise. Nearly half of them are locals and the majority of them are females. The company announced on Wednesday that it would be cutting the jobs
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      Lock icon S'porean quest to find Japan karate guru
      269 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THREE Singaporeans were lost for a day in the freezing mountains of Aomori, Japan, while on a quest to fulfil the dying wish of a family member to find a karate master. They were part of a 12-member mission. Yesterday, the
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      Lock icon Unfolding art Las Vegas-style
      476 8  -  JASMINE YIN PHOTO COURTESY OF Sands' IR entertainment proposal built around water theme jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg WHAT looks like a cross between a lotus and a palm, collects rainwater during the day, and radiates light into the sky at night? Renowned architect Moshe Safdie, 67, will tell
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      Lock icon MARINA BAY IR TO HAVE HIGHER HOTEL RATES
      187 8 BLOOMBERG The proposed Marina Bay IR will probably command higher occupancy and room rates than the hotels in the city, said Mr Bobby Srinivasan, a professor at the CornellNanyang Institute of Hospitality Management. Room rates for the Marina Bay IR eyed by
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      For sale, but buyers are few
      609 10  -  VINITARAMANI Flats in BukitPanjang area are sold belowvaluation due to transport woes vinita@newstoday.com.sg WHEN 49-year-old factory worker Loke Scow Wah bought an executive flat nearly five years ago at Segar Road's Block 468 with her sister, she hoped it would bring the family closer
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      S'porean faces on McDonald's products
      161 10 THE next time you step into a McDonald's outlet, don't be surprised if you see a familiar Singaporean face featured on its cups and bags. This is because the fast food chain is offering its customers a chance to appear on the items. The products
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      Lock icon MIDDAY DARKNESS
      94 12 WEETECKHIAN It looked like a scene from the 1998 doomsday movie, Armageddon, butforthe folks in Marine Parade on Tuesday afternoon it was all too real. The area turned dark and foreboding as the midday brightness was slowly squeezed out of the area. No, it wasn't an eclipse, neither
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      Skits to alert school kids to sexual abuses
      520 12  -  CHEOWXINYI Spore Children's Society's outreach programme to go to 14 more schools xinyic@newstoday.com.sg HOW do you differentiate a good touch from a bad one? More primary school students will be educated on the subtle differences, as an initiative to spread awareness on
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      Malay teen hotline a hit with parents too
      215 12  -  -TEOXUANWEI THE help hotline for Malay teenagers launched last December is proving to be a useful avenue, not just for youngsters with problems, but also their parents. In the past four months, more than 400 calls and SMSes have been received by
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      Lock icon CANDIDATES IN THE RUNNING TO BE PM
      326 14 Ms Khun-ying Sudarat Keyuraphan, (right, top), is the 44-year-old Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Previously a secretarygeneral of Palang Dhamma party, she joined the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in 2000 and was also minister of education from 2001 to 2004. She was
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      Lock icon Chidchai's first, crucial political test
      621 14  -  VINITARAMANI Thaksin's successor must face protesters, by-elections vinita@newstoday.com.sg ALL EYES are on Thailand's newly appointed Acting Prime Minister, deputy premier Chidchai Vanasatidya, who is set to face his first political test today. The opposition People's Alliance for Democracy has called on thousands of protesters to
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      Lock icon 'Do the right thing, Snow'
      330 16 -AFP White House reportedly waiting for top official to take the hint and resign WASHINGTON Speculation over United States Treasury Secretary John Snow intensified on Wednesday with the White House reportedly hunting for a more effective spokesman for its economic policies. Talk that Mr Snow,
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      Lock icon Hamas will consider talks with Israel: PM
      163 16 -AFP GAZA CITY Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said on Wednesday that his Hamas-led government would study any Israeli offer for negotiations, following an unprecedented Palestinian peace overture that was presented to the United Nations. His Foreign Minister Mahmud alZahar's letter to UN
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN PLAYBOY GOES ON SALE
        63 16 -AFP The Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine is due to hit newsstands in the world's most populous Muslim nation this week. The magazine will be sold in major cities such as Surabaya and the capital, Jakarta, and will be marketed nationwide later this year. The
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        Lock icon JUDGE QUITS AFTER CLAIMS OF AFFAIR
        83 16 -AFP Top Taiwanese judge Cheng Chung-mo resigned yesterday after media allegations of an extramarital affair with a professor drew strong criticism from the public. Newspapers reported that Mr Cheng, 68, and a 39-year-old college professor had stayed at a Taipei motel on Sunday. Mr
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        Lock icon HOW TO STEAL A WHOLE LOT OF COINS
        68 16 -AFP A former worker at the Royal Australian Mint yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from his employer by regularly hiding two-dollar coins in his shoes and walking out of the building. Prosecutors allege 48-year-old William Bosia Grzeskowiak stole more
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        Lock icon SCOTTISH SWAN DIED FROM H5N1 VIRUS
        72 18 AFP Britain confirmed late yesterday its first case of HSNI bird flu. The Scottish Executive in Edinburgh said the mute swan found last week on a harbour slipway in Cellardyke, Fife perished from the same HSNI strain that has killed more than 100 people,
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        Lock icon HOWARD WELCOMES NEW ASYLUM SEEKERS' FAILED BID
        131 18 AP Australia's prime minister welcomed news yesterday that a family of asylum seekers from Papua in Indonesia had failed in their bid to sail to Australia. The family of six would have become the first asylum seekers from the restive Indonesian province to
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        NO MORE SEXY ADVERTS
        67 18 Shanghai plans to set up a citizen advisory panel to prevent advertisers from erecting billboards that feature scantily clad women and other potentially offensive images, the Shanghai Daily reported. The move follows complaints over a huge billboard that displayed the bare thigh of a Hong Kong
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        Lock icon NO PLANS YET FOR HAMAS VISIT, SAYS CHINA
        58 18 -AFP China said yesterday it had no plans yet to receive Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmud Al Zahar, two days after the Hamas politician announced he would visit the Asian giant. Mr Zahar said on Tuesday he was planning to tour countries in
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      Lock icon US to push for South Asian moratorium
      314 18 —AFP Hopes to halt production of nuclear arms to ease tensions between India, Pakistan WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that the US would push for a South Asian moratorium on nuclear weapons production to ease tensions between
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      Lock icon Hope for millions of migrants
      217 18 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Republicans in the United States Senate have reached an agreement on procedures that will allow undocumented migrants to apply for citizenship. This clears a major obstacle that had stalled legislation overhauling the US' immigration laws, which is currently being debated. "It moves the
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      NO WAY TO PUT HAMAS GENIE BACK IN BOTTLE
      814 20  -  EMANUELSHAHAF Putting international pressure on Hamas is counter-productive IN JERUSALEM YET AGAIN, the parties in the Middle East have achieved unanimity on the only issue they have ever been able to agree on how to make a miserable situation even worse.
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      Lock icon Fish crawls into man's family tree
      327 21 —AGENCIES "I applied in the morning and they got back to me in less than 10 hours, saying my loan application was approved. I can now pay off my Bachelor of Commerce fees." Anchita, F, 22 Fossil of land-travelling fish found in the Canadian
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      Lock icon 'SMS divorce is an abuse of technology'
      216 21 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Muslim husbands who divorce their wives with a text message are cruel, Malaysia's minister for Women and Family Affairs said yesterday. Ms Shahrizat Abdul Jalil told The Star that attempts to divorce via SMS were humiliating and disrespectful to wives
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      Lock icon Maids confess to robbing M'sian minister
      200 21 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Two Indonesian maids working for a Malaysian cabinet minister have admitted stealing almost RM350,000 ($153,000) worth of cash and jewellery from his home, local media said yesterday. Suermi Riyato, 31, and Handayani Untung Praid Nor, 33, admitted stealing the jewellery and
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      Lock icon There's a shortage of brains at Harvard University
      353 21 BLOOMBERG "I did some calculations and found that ezyCash will save me a lot of money because of the lower interest rate. I use it to consolidate my multiple credit card bills in one payment." Anthony Yang Ming De, M, 30 WASHINGTON
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      Lock icon UK arrests grandmas under anti-terror law
      356 22 —AFP The two women were peacefully protesting outside a military base LONDON Two British grandmothers are facing up to a year in prison after being arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation that outlaws protests at military bases, The Independent newspaper said yesterday. Ms Helen John,
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        Lock icon MP TOLD TO QUIT AFTER GRABBING BREASTS
        79 22 -AFP South Korea's Parliament voted for the first time yesterday to ask one of its MPs to stand down after he grabbed a reporter's breasts. The national assembly voted 149 to 84 for a legally non-binding resolution calling on Mr Choi Yeon-Hee to
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        SNORKELLERS BANNED FROM USING FINS
        79 22 Malaysia's northeastern Terengganu state has banned snorkellers from using fins in the seas around its island resorts to conserve fragile coral, Bernama reported. The move, to be enforced within two weeks, will not cover scuba divers, he said. Diving enthusiasts say it is already basic
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        Lock icon PICKPOCKETS PEPPERSPRAY COMMUTERS
        67 22 -AFP At least 18 people received medical attention yesterday after suspected pickpockets used pepper-spray to escape police at a Tokyo train station. A group of four suspects, some of them carrying knives, sprayed indiscriminately when plain-clothes police alleged they stole from a person and asked to speak
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        Lock icon 29 INDONESIANS MISSING AFTER BOAT CAPSIZES
        66 22 -AFP Twenty-nine Indonesians are missing and feared dead after a freight boat laden with cows capsized in heavy seas off Indonesia's West Timor last weekend. Three survivors were plucked from the ocean on Wednesday, three days after the boat carrying 32 people, 65 cows
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      Lock icon Djibouti boat mishap: 69 dead
      252 22 -AFP DJIBOUTI At least 69 people drowned, 20 were missing and 36 injured after a boat carrying more than 200 capsized as it left the main harbour of the Red Sea state of Djibouti yesterday, hospital sources said. Mr Mohammed Said Median, director of emergency
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      Lock icon Asia's killer lifestyles
      409 24 —AFP Cancer, chronic diseases to kill 270 million Asians regionally next decade HONG KONG Bird flu has the world in a flap, but health experts say more must be done to combat a far bigger problem chronic "lifestyle diseases" that will kill 270 million Asians over the
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        Lock icon BAD MONKEY, NO PHONE
        67 24 —AFP A troop of mischievous squirrel monkeys at the London Zoo had to be retrained after they started grabbing mobile phones used by visitors to take pictures or film the primates in their no-barrier enclosure. A short training programme using old mobile phones covered in a
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        Lock icon IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SIX PACK ...
        86 24 IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SIX PACK —AFP Women who become financially independent are interested less in the size of a suitor's wallet than in the size of his belly, a research by University of St Andrews said. More than 1,800 heterosexual British women aged between 18 and 35 were quizzed
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        Lock icon NO HORSING AROUND PLEASE ...
        78 24 NO HORSING AROUND PLEASE -AFP You could never get enough horse saddles these days or so it would seem in Amsterdam. Police in the Dutch city are reporting an alarming rise in thefts of horse saddles. Police suspect that the rise in thieves saddling up at the city's riding stables
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        A GEM OF A DOG
        60 24 A millionaire in Vienna is offering a reward for the return of his little white dog with an unmistakable adornment a diamond stud in its left ear. The reward for returning the flashy pouch called Grimaldi which disappeared last Thursday is a mix of cash
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      Lock icon Amphetamine haze envelopes 'Middle Earth'
      330 25 BLOOMBERG New Zealand launches campaign to tackle growing addiction AUCKLAND New Zealand is known for its sweeping coastlines, steaming volcanoes, glaciers and where the Middle Earth setting for blockbuster Lord of the Rings was filmed. And now it has a reputation for having the second-highest
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      572 26  -  HO KONG LOON SCHOOLS play a responsible role to inculcate the love of sports, games and wholesome physical activities. Do all schools have a large field? Are pupils given ample opportunity and sufficient space to play that is, run, jump, skip, hop, chase, catch?
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      220 26  -  HABIB MOHAMED Letter from I REFER to the letter "Too low a price on duty" (April 5). I am really proud to be a Singapore citizen and I think the writer, Terence Teo, said it very well. I was not born a Singaporean. I earned
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      872 28  -  mr brown The images this conjures up simply boggle the mind I HEAR that talks are still underway between Singapore and Malaysia regarding the building of a new bridge to replace the Causeway. In fact, if Malaysia proceeds and Singapore does not, the impression out
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      281 29  -  KONG YIT SAN Letter from Director, Parks National Parks Board WE REFER to the letter "Building a sense of ownership" by Lim ChiSham (March 31). As East Coast Park (ECP) is one of our most popular parks, NParks decided from the onset to adopt
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      168 29  -  QUEKQIUYI Letter from I WENT with my boyfriend to exchange my Renu contact lens solution on the last day for the exchange. We were asked to give our full name, contact number, address and even our NRIC number! When asked why, they
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      239 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I WHO'S AT FAULT FOR BAD KIDS? Whose fault is it when a child goes bad? Who gets the blame when adolescents skip school, or spray graffiti on a bridge, or begin to experiment with drugs? In the opinion of some people,
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      209 30  -  AUDREY ANG Agency hired ex-con despite 'no' from police Letter from Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force I AGREE with Mr Lim Boon Hee ("Cut corners and risk lives" April 5), that security agencies must be responsible and ensure that only approved and trained security
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      314 30  -  MICHELLE JEAN YEANG Letter from I REFER to Rashid Osman's letter, "Hassle to opt for payouts by cheque" (April 4). He was peeved that "the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board assumes that all Singaporeans have bank accounts" and that there was no
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      252 32  -  SHIRLEY CHONG CHAN WAI SAN Letter from Property Manager Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council Head, Hawkers Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter "HDB cleaners waste the most water" (March 28). The writer said he observed cleaners at the Holland Village Market
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      405 32  -  LEE KIM HUA Parents unable to take leave have daycare options Letter from Director, Family Services Division for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports WE REFER to Madam Peh Bee Choon's letter, "Of ill children, desperate parents and a lack of
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      189 34  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from THE discussions on the upcoming General Election provide much food for thought Having seen and read about some countries where untoward incidents had occurred during elections, we can pride ourselves on not only voting wisely but also
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      410 34  -  EUNICE TAN LAY HONG Two PSB units have important, long-term role in industrial innovation Letter from I READ with amazement about the recent sale of PSB Corporation and PSB Certification to TUV SUD, a German multinational. The sale price of $124.4 million, TUV SUD's plan
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      132 34  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letters "All hail this cabbie" by Brigitte Leyendecker (March 28) and "Cabbie Chua's story should be in STB brochures" by Uma Balji (April 1-2). We are happy to
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      894 40  -  CHEOWXINYI After years of relying on experts, Kah Ying succeeds in reaching out to her autistic son xinyic@newstoday.com.sg HE USED to chase his own mother down the streets, getting pleasure from pinching her. But the nine-year-old now sitting beside his mum at a busy
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      279 42 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SHOWPIECE: (From left): Waters Corporation senior product marketing manager Eric Fotheringham demonstrating the Alliance High Performance Liquid Chromatography system to Waters CFO John Ornell, A*Star chairman Philip Yeo and US Ambassador Patricia Herbold. TWO US-listed companies laboratory instruments maker Waters Corp
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      714 42  -  CHRISTIE LOH Company will acquire electronics business, sell core digital publishing unit christi e@newstoday.com.sg WITH glowing credentials, he stepped onboard, pledging to revive Ist Software Corp in a year. Nearly three years on under chief executive officer David Fraser, 58, the company is still in a
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        277 44  -  VALERIE LAW For under $10, insure against attacks, infectious diseases valerie@newstoday.com.sg NTUC Income yesterday launched what it described as Singapore's first insurance policy to cover infectious diseases and terrorist attacks excluding chemical, nuclear and biological attacks. The Personal Accident and Infectious Diseases (Paid) policy is targeted at frequent
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          83 44 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed flat as prof-it-taking on a lack of fresh local catalysts offset gains due to a higher Wall Street, said traders. The ST Index fell 2.25 points, or 0.1 per cent, to close at 2,542.64. Losers led gainers 371 to 257 as 1.77 billion shares
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          49 44 Nikkei 225 *****.33 +245.35 +1.42 Hang Seng ASX *****.13 +311.04 +1.93 5238.90 +31.90 +0.61 Taiwan Wtd 6760.82 +95.22 +1.43 Korea Comp 1397.00 +8.23 +0.59 KLCI 941.06 -0.61 -0.06 SET Index Jakarta Comp 1355.01 +10.41 +0.77 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2220.37 +22.47 +1.02 275.71 +3.18 +1.17 Mumbai Sensex
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          26 44 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 592.50 Silver US$/oz 11.71 Platinum US$/oz 1,080.60 Rubber cents/kg 345.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,391.00 Brant crude US$/barrel 67.09 Information provided by
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        264 46 -DOW JONES MP3 player and sound card maker's second profit warning in a year spooks investors SHARES of Creative Technology fell sharply yesterday following the company's second profit warning in a year, as its MP3 player continues to struggle to compete with Apple Computer's iPod. Analysts said
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        177 46 -AGENCIES NEW YORK Wall Street closed mixed yesterday amid jitters ahead of a monthly US employment report, with lacklustre retail sales data weighing on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 23.05 points to close at 11,216.50 while the Nasdaq Composite
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        268 46 EASTGATE'S ability to operate as an ongoing concern is uncertain, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said yesterday in an audit report to the shareholders of the CD ROM maker. PwC noted that as at Dec 31 last year, the current liabilities of Eastgate and its group of companies exceeded their
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        339 48 BLOOMBERG Stock hits record closing high, best performer in ST Index THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday found itself on the receiving end of a query on its share price movement As the operator of the securities market here, SGX is the party usually responsible
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        Investors bail out of China Paper
        236 48 INVESTORS dumped shares of Singaporelisted China Paper yesterday after company insiders sold their stock in the Chinese firm for the second time in less than a month. The counter fell 8.5 cents, or 17.3 per cent, to close at 40.5 cents yesterday. It had
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        194 48 ST Telemedia has teamed up with Qatar Telecom (Qtel) to bid for a licence to build, manage and operate Egypt's third mobile network. The two firms yesterday signed an agreement to form a joint venture company that will be majority-owned by Qtel. The investment amount was not disclosed. Albedo,
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        318 52 BLOOMBERG Asian Development Bank raises Asian growth forecast to 7.2 percent THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised its growth forecast for Asia this year, because of strong demand for its electronics and other exports. Asian economies excluding Japan will expand 7.2 per cent this
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        251 52 BLOOMBERG MICROSOFT Corp, the world's secondbiggest home video game console maker, plans to add 15 games by summer to the 25 available for its Xbox 360 in Japan, which may help it exploit the delay in Sony Corp's Play Station
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        693 54 BLOOMBERG Chinese want convenience of credit cards but shun borrowing habit CATHERINE Xia racks up about 8,000 yuan ($1,600) a month, almost 90 per cent of her salary as an account manager at a Shanghai trading company, on her China Merchants Bank Co credit cards. Yet, she
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        669 50 -DOW JONES Despite sluggish sales to IBM, profits likely to be sustained GES International's steady growth profile, attempts to move up the value chain and a relatively high dividend yield make it an attractive investment despite hiccups in orders from its
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        135 50 Dow Jones Venture ($12.50) —Hold UOB KayHian keeps its "Hold" rating on Venture Corp, with a $11.70 price target. The brokerage says Venture's Q1 earnings are likely to "disappoint", as there will be no contribution from the mobile handset business that it had exited. UOB KayHian cuts Venture's FYO6
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      1333 56  -  Ross Wallace Racism and "polite" New Yorkers don't matter because Deputy Plus Editor in New York ross@newstoday.com.sg DENZEL Washington likes to laugh. At his own jokes. That much is clear from the moment he strides into the room in jeans and a black turtleneck and "silences"
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      692 58  -  Felix Cheong The feel-good factor of musical theatre is what attracts the crowds THERE'S no business like show business. And what makes big business these days is old Broadway shows. In the next three months, four musicals are to be given a new lease
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      360 58 INSTEAD of waiting to catch The Da Vinci Code on the big screen in Singapore when it opens on May 18, here is your chance to get up close and personal with the exotic European locales featured in the movie.
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      489 60  -  AMELYNN LIONG Medical student and winner of Ashton Kutcher's 'experiment' spills the beans a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg ALTHOUGH labelled socially handicapped together with six other geeks on the reality series Beauty and the Geek, Chuck Munyon is really not that square. Together with his partner Caitlin Stoller, Munyon
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      274 61  -  AMELYNN LIONG a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg BAMBI-EYED Vivian Chow may look fair and fragile, but the former goddess of sweetness in the 90s claims she is actually a bit of a sportswoman. In town recently as an ambassador for health and fitness chain Philip Wain International, the
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        75 61 EMINEM TO DIVORCE AGAIN US rap superstar Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has filed for divorce from his wife Kirn Mathers less than three months after he remarried her. The couple walked down the aisle for the second time on Jan 14 after reconciling following their 2001 divorce.
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        99 61 -AGENCIES A photographer who took topless photos of Cameron Diaz and tried to sell them back for US$3.5 million ($5.7 million) has been ordered to pay the actress undisclosed damages. Superior Court Judge Valeric Baker ordered photographer John Rutter to pay statutory damages
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        152 62 AGENCIES TWENTY years after it was turned down for selection by the Cannes organisers, director Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama Platoon will screen at this year's edition of the festival next month to coincide with a DVD re-release. At the same time, festival
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        427 62  -  Ross Wallace Stellar cast, average movie FILMREVIEW by I Inside Man As casts go, they don't get much better. Denzel Washington. Jodie Foster. Clive Owen. Willem Dafoe. With a dozen Academy Award nominations among them and four wins not counting director Spike Lee's two nods audiences would
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        366 62  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by IT's a story less well- known than Romeo and Juliet or the Arthurian legend of Lancelot and Guinevere, but the tale of ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde is one of the most romantic Western legends. The story reaches mythical proportions. In most versions,
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        242 63  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by Wa THIS South Korean cop movie relies on pretty boy Kwon Sang-woo's imagebusting performance as an out-of-control detective, but the real gem of the film is Yoo Ji-tae. Yoo's name may not ring a bell for many, but he was the smooth, Machiavellian schemer
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        423 63  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by A singing, dancing Hitler all campy and comic. Misogynist jokes about dumb blondes and gays. No matter how politically correct someone might be, it's hard to avoid sniggering at such jibes. And that's the sting in Mcl Brooks' satire, The Producers. First made into
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        422 64  -  Neil Humphreys She's 72, but acting icon Smith steals every scene as a wicked housekeeper FILMREVIEW by Keeping Mum THE movie posters in Singapore for Keeping Mum feature Rowan Atkinson prominently, and understandably so. No British comedy actor is more famous than Mr Bean and any
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        152 64  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by QUIRKINESS may not save this French film from mediocrity, but it does prop it up when the plot starts to sag. The story revolves around Gus (Guillame Canet), who suffers from narcolepsy, a disorder that causes him to fall
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        442 68 -AP Companies are racing to take ordinary rich people out of this world LOS ANGELES If floating weightless and peering down on a shimmering-blue Earth sounds appealing, you might consider being a space tourist. As long as you've got a fat wallet. Two years after the
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        456 69 The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is drawing in big crowds and spenders ATLANTA When the Georgia Aquarium opened nearly four months ago, its supporters hoped for a haul of two million visitors in the first year. But they landed an even larger catch more
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      1548 65 IT] [fl!l SURVIVOR XII WITCHHUNTER ROBIN TRIVIA TROVE II S-LEAGUE 2006 The Power of the Idol Episode 10 Debut Albirex Niigata vsTampines Rovers Channel 5, 1.30pm (Direct off satellite), Arts Central, 11pm L L_ J Channel 8, 8.30pm Channel News Asia, 6.55pm As part of an STN-J In each episode
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      560 70  -  TANYO-HINN Spore No I's third Open outing hangs by a thread, permanent resident Park on course yohinn@newstoday.com.sg MARDAN Mamat's dream of a third appearance at golf's oldest and most prestigious Major could well be over. Instead, Singapore permanent resident Unho Park could fly the flag
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      262 71  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE being reduced to 10 men for more than three quarters of the game, valiant Gombak United still managed to come from behind twice for a 2-2 draw with Sporting Afrique last night in an NTUC Income Yeo's S-League 2006 clash at the Yishun
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      Lock icon Out to catch Hong Kong
      575 71  -  CUBBYLEONG Rugby chief Low confident Singapore Sevens can become one of the best in the world RUGBY Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore 2006 cubby@newstoday.com.sg FOR atmosphere and prestige, the 31-year-old Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament sets the standard on the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens Series
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      460 71  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg HE WILL turn 11 on Dec 10, but Edgar Oh has already been playing golf for more than six years. And it showed when the Nanyang Primary School student finished in first place in the Boys' nett category at
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      Lock icon Letting his feet talk
      541 72  -  LI ZAI SHI Shy off the field, Yoshizawa's a star on it, as he aims to reach the top NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 AlbirexvTampines sports@newstoday.com.sg THE club's translator warned he was a shy person and she was not joking. Up close, Albirex Niigata striker Shogo Yoshizawa is
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      DEFEND YOUR TURF, S'PORE
      83 72 NOKIA, in partnership with the Football Association of Singapore, is inviting street footballers under the age of 23 to compete for the right to take on a Rio de Janeiro selection-the Boys From Brazil. Visit www.defendyourturf.com.sg and sign up a team of up to 8 players
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      Lock icon Go One-on-One with Hassan Sunny
      557 72 Heeran Kumaresan, 11 -year-old student Given a choice, which of the following S-League giants would you rather play for and why Home United, SAFFC or Tampines Rovers? Hassan: If I have to choose I would have to say Tampines. As a goalkeeper, it is important
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      Lock icon Can Fergie add to his legend?
      591 74 -AGENCIES Charlton insists Scot will stand on his own as No 1, if Red Devils pip Chelsea MANCHESTER Sir Bobby Charlton believes Sir Alex Ferguson would be the "greatest manager of all time", if he leads Manchester United to the English Premiership title this
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      Gerrard to Juve?
      205 74 LONDON Steven Gerrard is in for another uncertain summer after Juventus made him their No 1 transfer target The Liverpool skipper, 25, has spent the last two close-seasons agonising over a move to Chelsea. Now he is wanted by Juve boss Fabio Capello, who is even prepared
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      Lock icon Rijkaard smells Milan blood
      559 75 -AFP 'Old boy'will have no room for sentiment going up against his former club CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, 2ND LEG QUARTER-FINAL Barcelona 2 Benfica 0 BARCELONA He is a friend of Carlo Ancelotti, after both played together in Milan's Cup triumphs in 1989 and 1990. But Barcelona coach
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      Lock icon Singapore to host world swimming meet
      384 75  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg HAVING played host to last month's 7th Milo Asia Swimming Championships, Singapore have now landed another major international swimming assignment Yesterday, Fina, the sport's world governing body, awarded Singapore the rights to host a leg of the Fina Swimming World Cup Series
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      Lock icon Super Dravid
      149 75 —AFP KOCHI, India Captain Rahul Dravid (picture) led from the front as India crushed England by four wickets here yesterday to take an unassailable 4-0 lead in the sevenmatch one-day series. Dravid fashioned England's dismissal for 237 with astute bowling changes and then hit 65 off 73 balls
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      208 70 ■1 ~2 3 ll WEATHERTOD/ Amsterdam 2/11 C rainy Los Angeles 10/21 C fair o Auckland W23C showers Manila 25/35 C fair OingapOre Bali 24/33 C cloudy Melbourne 12/17 C showers 24/33 C BS Begawan 25/32 C thunderstorm New Delhi 20/37 C partly cloudy Bangkok 26/36 C partly cloudy NewYork6/13C
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        NEW WORLD CUP BACKERS
        77 76 VISA International Inc will sponsor the World Cup in 2010 and 2014, ousting rivals MasterCard International Inc, which has backed the world's mostwatched sporting event since 1990. Visa, the world's largest credit card company, will become the official payments system for football's showpiece, a position it
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        NO TO RACISM
        125 76 A G ERMAN court yesterday ordered the neo-Nazi NPD party to pull a racist photo of German international midfielder Patrick Owomoyela (picture), whose father is Nigerian, from their World Cup brochure. The decision follows a complaint lodged by the 26-year-old player and the German football federation against
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        BECKS IN RIB SCARE
        81 76 REAL Madrid star David Beckham could be sidelined for three weeks after suffering a knock to his ribs during last weekend's Spanish Primera Liga 1-1 draw against Barcelona. The England captain feared a cracked rib but scans revealed severe bruising, the Sun newspaper reported yesterday. Beckham
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        ENGLISH FANS WILL BEHAVE
        64 76 MORE than 100,000 English fans are expected in Germany for the World Cup this summer, a British embassy official estimated yesterday. Andy Battson, football attache for the British embassy in Berlin, told reporters the vast majority of English fans were peaceful and would be well behaved.
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      Lock icon Capello hails the champions-elect
      575 76 -AFP After bowing to Arsenal's might, Juve coach marvels at Wenger's young guns CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, 2ND LEG QUARTER-FINAL JuventusO Arsenal 0 TURIN After accounting for Real Madrid and Juventus in their last two ties, Arsenal's credentials as potential Champions League winners were scarcely in need of
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      Lock icon Vijay leads, Tiger labours
      762 77 —AFP -AFP AUGUSTA, Georgia Vijay Singh seized the first-round Masters lead with a fiveunder par 67 yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) while Tiger Woods and many of the world's top players struggled over the just-lengthened Augusta National Golf Club course. The bogey-free round by the 2000
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