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    13 1 TODAY /A=£JJJ\CORP share your free newspaper MICA(P) 314/10/2006 Tuesday November 7, 2006 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Clearing the air
    789 1  -  SHARON VASOO DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sharon@media corp.com.sg Jakarta unhappy but Spore explains why it wants wider haze effort THE haze that shrouds the region has spilled over from the skies into the diplomatic arena. Yesterday, it emerged that Indonesia had taken strong exception to Singapore's suggestion, made
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    Globalisation's victim: The S'pore marriage
    505 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg BEHIND the smiles, the flowers and the chocolates, not all is well with the Singapore family. Nearly one in 10 marriages here now ends even before the couple can celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. Speaking to reporters after the opening
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      34 1 imping hot news 2 Singapore news 6 world news 10 voices 17 business 26 impact 30 infotech 32 plus 34 healthtoday 40 tv radio listings 48 classad 49 sports 50 we set you thinking
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      85 1 IN BUSH'S CORNER: A SITTING DUCK I \l Democrats looksetto regain I 1 control of United States Congress 15 I &f JJQ Wmk A J 4 v^ffni. I WHYTHEY SO LIKE THAT AH? I V^*^P% For the young, there is little need for I good English-notwhen Singlish rules 17 I
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      6 1 ONCE MORE, WITH REASON PAGE 18
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      18 and already a director
      450 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH Finance Ministry to lower age limit for company registration to boost entrepreneurship christie@mediacorp.com.sg ENTERPRISING teenagers no longer have to use Dad's name to register their own companies. Instead of waiting until they turn 21, they can soon legally undertake business transactions, enter partnerships
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      Lock icon THE PSI SCALE – WHEN 50 + 50 ISN'T 100
      754 3  - THE PSI SCALE WHEN 50 50 ISN'T 100 NGYAKEN Air quality readings aren't straightforward to interpret, and have not been adjusted to suit the local context THE decade-long haze problem is a complex one. So, while the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and, more importantly, Indonesia in particular has committed
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      Lock icon KL court frees Anwar's brother
      571 4  -  NG HUN WEI MALAYSIAN prosecutors yesterday dropped sodomy charges against the alleged sex partner, and adopted brother, of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. But while this would help to clear Mr Anwar's name, said analysts, it is unlikely to fast-track his political comeback. Sukma
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      Tiwary gets life term for Sydney murders
      469 4  -  TORCHING LI Motive for 'heinous' double murders unknown, no parole for him: Aussie court chingli@media corp. com. sg SINGAPOREAN student Ram Puneet Tiwary was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole by an Australian court for bludgeoning his two flatmates to death
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        Lock icon CNA AT ASIAN TV AWARDS
        76 4 938 LIVE Channel News Asia's programmes have been nominated for the 11th Asian Television Awards. CNA's tsunami anniversary special was nominated for the Best News Programme. Two documentaries earned nominations for the Best Current Affairs Special. CNA news presenter Lisa Ang is shortlisted for the
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        Lock icon 2ND GIRL'S TOE CAUGHT IN ESCALATOR
        53 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA In the second such accident in recent days, a two-year-old girl got her toe cut after it was caught in an escalator at Tampines Mall yesterday. On Saturday, a three-year-old had her big toe on her right leg severed by an escalator
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Moustachioed don's five minutes of fame
      591 6  -  ANSLEYNG 'Handsome' prof's light teaching style featured in video clip on Web ansley@mediacorp.com.sg A NANYANG Technological University (NTU) engineering professor has shot to cyberspace stardom after a video of his lecture was posted onto video sharing website You Tube.com. In the five-minute clip, Professor
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      Share NS experiences, photos online
      436 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG IT WONT just be the National Servicemen (NSmen) who will be getting the perks. Even the children and women would not be left out as the Defence and Home Affairs ministries seek to create a virtual "NS community". Replacing miw.com.sg, which only
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      Clock is ticking for Asean
      421 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO It has 4-5 years to adjust to fast-changing world: Jayakumar derrick@media corp.com.sg THERE is only a small window of opportunity for the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to "get its act together". Speaking at a US-Asean Business Council dinner last night,
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      An award of thanks for the benefactors of Singapore heritage
      361 8  -  DAVID CHEW IN A sign that Singapore is serious about keeping its cultural heritage alive, a new category of awards has been carved out to honour organisations or individuals who help build up the collection of artefacts or works of
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        Lock icon 5TH LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRY
        61 8 -938UVE Singapore is the fifth least corrupt country in the world, according to Transparency International's 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index. It measures perceived levels of public sector corruption in 163 countries. On a scale of 0 to 10, Singapore's score was 9.4, compared to 9.6 for Finland
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        20 LEFT IN MEDIACORP RADIO-SUBARU CHALLENGE
        51 8  -  EUSACHIA At 10pm yesterday, only 20 of the 320 contestants for the fifth annual MediaCorp Radio Subaru WRX Challenge were still in the running for the prize. The competition began at Ipm on Saturday, and will go on until only one person is left
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        Lock icon HDB LAUNCHING NEW FLATS
        66 8 938 LIVE The Housing and Development Board is launching more than 1,100 flats in its latest walk-in-selection exercise in Hougang, Punggol and Sengkang. From Saturday, HDB will suspend the sale of flats under walk-in-selection for established towns such as Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Merah, Queenstown and
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      Lock icon Shin Corp TV station faces $3.9-billion fine
      272 10 -AFP BANGKOK A Thai broadcaster once linked to ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra and now controlled by Temasek faces a US$2.5-billion ($3.9 billion) fine over a concession fee dispute, officials said yesterday. The Prime Minister's Office, which owns the concession licensed to iTV, said
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      Lock icon Thaksin ready to stand trial
      340 10 -AFP Ex-premier may return to Thailand once martial law is lifted BANGKOK Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) is ready to stand trial and defend himself against any criminal charges, his lawyer in Thailand said yesterday. Mr Noppadol Pattama said that Mr Thaksin, who
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      Lock icon Orangutans flee from forest fires
      267 10 -AP MANTANGAI (Indonesia) Dozens of endangered orangutans have been driven from their dwindling jungle habitat in Borneo by months of land-clear-ing fires that have shrouded parts of the region in a choking haze, conservationists said yesterday. Forty-three orangutans have been taken for medical treatment to
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      Lock icon Some cheered, some jeered
      398 12 -AGENCIES Saddam sentence draws mixed reaction at home and abroad BAGHDAD Yesterday, the world was torn between jubilation and restraint after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death. The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal found Saddam and six of his former top government aides guilty of
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        Lock icon SEX STORY SPAWNS APOLOGY
        84 12 -AP A government-linked tabloid newspaper in Malaysia yesterday published a front-page apology for an article on sex following protests by readers and politicians. In a weekend feature. The Malay Mail surveyed 100 people to write an unusually frank article about the sexual habits of the city's
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        Lock icon ANOTHER SHANGHAI OFFICIAL IN GRAFT NET
        78 12 -AP Another senior official of Shanghai's city government is under investigation, a city spokesman said yesterday amid a widening corruption probe in the city. Mr Chen Chaoxian, the chief official of Shanghai's Changning district, is suspected of "serious irregularities", said a government spokesman. It
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        Lock icon BUSH TO DISCUSS BIRD FLU WITH YUDHOYONO
        85 12 BLOOMBERG United States President George W Bush will discuss ways to combat bird flu during a meeting this month with his Indonesian counterpart. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Mr Bush is scheduled to visit Indonesia on Nov 20. The talks will focus on boosting
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        Lock icon EX-ISRAELI PM OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE
        63 12 -AFP Comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was yesterday transferred out of intensive care, after his condition had improved. The Tel Aviv hospital treating him said his heart condition has improved after treatment for an infection and his "overall condition has stabilised". Mr
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      Lock icon Ban alarmed by nuke debate
      448 13 -AFP Next UN chief says Japanese ministers' remarks are not ideal TOKYO South Korean Foreign Minister and incoming United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm on Monday over calls in Japan to consider a nuclear weapons programme, saying the debate was not healthy for the
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon HUGGING CAMPAIGN GETS COLD SHOULDER
        71 13 -AFP Chinese police on Monday rounded up a group of "huggers" who tried to offer free hugs to passers-by on a street in downtown Shanghai over the weekend. Police detained 11 "huggers" and confiscated their signs, which advocated a "hug" therapy campaign. The China Daily
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        Lock icon GRUNTS NOT ALLOWED IN GYM
        80 13 -AFP A New York fitness club with a long list of restrictions has expelled one of its members for grunting. Club member Al Argibay reportedly emitted several grunts earlier this week while lifting weights and was escorted out of Planet Fitness by the police who
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        HOLY TREASURE TO BE DONATED TO CHURCH
        82 13 An American man will donate his find of 300 letters to God to a church, instead of auctioning them off on eßay after being inundated with protests from religious individuals, Reuters reported. The letters, sealed in a bag, were sent to a dead
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        Lock icon THREE-MONTH-OLD BABY CHARGED WITH ROBBERY
        97 13 -AFP Police charged a suspect in India after a bus driver was robbed of his fares, then realised the suspect was a three-month-old baby. The boy had been listed along with his father on an initial charge sheet, police in the eastern Indian state of
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      Lock icon Disgraced scientist files lawsuit, wants job back
      193 14 -AP SEOUL A disgraced South Korean scientist who falsified stem cell research data filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking reinstatement from a university that fired him over the controversy, a court official and his lawyer said. Mr Hwang Woo-suk, who once claimed he produced
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      Lock icon Chen fighting for political life
      367 14 -AFP Quit calls follow wife's indictment, his alleged role in $704,000 scandal TAIPEI Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian faced calls from party allies yesterday to give up power temporarily amid a growing corruption scandal and a fresh bid from the opposition to oust him. Mr Chen's
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      Lock icon IN THE BUSH CORNER: A SITTING DUCK
      882 15  -  SIMON MARKS Democrats look set to regain control of US Congress, while Bush could end up lamest of lame ducks UNITED STATES BUREAU CHIEF CHANNEL NEWSASIA AS THE United States' mid-term election campaign reaches its climax, telephones all over Washington have been ringing
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      51 13 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC V* Ch 77 I Realm Of The 3^#%vv* IBfl^L* Great White Bear A V Ixo9l 1 WIUI Sun 10 Dec, 9pm ■■■> ma W-**» mP wildlife on National -'/w3SSK!I^ Geographic Wild! Jesgmg^H^mmgaL Only with Family Plus on Star Hub Digital Cable «V *w Family-size entertainment for everyone in
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      160 14 RI EELfI I Mm wS&L I UPvB TERMS CONDITIONS: •The contest is open to all Singaporeans and permanent residents only.* Closing date is 14 November. ■The participants must be a family with parent and two children between the age of 7-12 years old.'The winning family must comprise of immediate family
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      isay FOR THE YOUNG, 'SINGLISH' RULES
      597 17  -  DENYSETESSENSOHN FOR everything that we are prepared to do to improve the standards of spoken English in Singapore, I fear that the majority of the younger generation see no need for it. Teaching academically-brilliant pupils at a premier school, I was disheartened to note
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      Lock icon Once more, with passion ... and reason
      679 18  - Once more, with passion and reason ASHRAF SAFDAR face! in the crown SAIFUL HISHAM SIDEK 32, Family counsellor Remarriage isn't something you should jump into blindly, warns this family counsellor ashraf@mediacorp.com.sg AS A counsellor to stepfamilies and couples who remarry, Mr Saiful Hisham Sidek deals with facts and fairy-tales. "Remarriage
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      281 18  -  MARTIN KWAN HENG KUEN Letter from AT THE end of last month, my Giro-linked ez-link card went into bad debt, and I had to pay the debt at the General Ticketing Machine (GTM). But my card remained blocked. I went to the ticketing office
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY TEACHING FAILURE TO CHILDREN One of the best ways to showyour children how to succeed may just be to teach them how to fail. It's not news to anyone that youngsters mimic the behaviour of their parents. And since parents are being
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      Lock icon isay MERCY IN THE FACE OF HATE
      888 20  -  TAN TAY KEONG LAST month, an event that rocked an obscure community made the international headlines. A Pennsylvania milk truck driver shot 10 Amish girls dead, execution-style, before killing himself. This tragic event took place in the idyllic Plain People community in Lancaster
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      Nothing hazy about getting help from UN
      200 21  -  LIMBOONHEE When Asean can't, maybe world can Letter from I REFER to the article, "Indon minister skips Spore meet 'in protest' (Nov 6). I do not see why Indonesian Industry Minister Fahmi Idris should be so surprised or angered by Singapore referring this
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      It's really about working together
      119 21  -  MARYANNE MAES HADN'T Singapore offered its fire-fighters, fire equipment cloudseeding technology and national support to Indonesia? Was it wrong of Singapore to have raised the haze problem at the UN General Assembly, when everyone has long recognised Indonesia's role in the occurrence of the annual
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      Driving licence not an official library card
      229 21  -  AMY GAY Deputy Director, Corporate Communications National Library Board Letter from WE THANK Mr Liang Dingzi ("Customers hear silent messages", Nov 2) for his comments and we apologise for the inconvenience he experienced in this particular incident We are committed to providing quality
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      Coping with mental illness requires whole society
      230 21  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Letter from I REFER to the report, "Mental health programme to get a boost" (Nov 4-5). For too long, mental health services have not received the attention they deserve and there is much work to be done to improve the
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        DONT LET THE MATTER DROP ...
        130 22  - DONT LET THE MATTER DROP LIMCHEWHIANG I refer to the recent letters on library book-drops. My family has been borrowing books for years. Last year, I noticed there were always overdue fines on books returned. As there were six library cards involved and many transactions made, I took for granted
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        WHY SPRING THIS ON US?
        123 22  -  UM POH SENG Yesterday, at 7am, I took my mother to the Sembawang Hot Spring managed by the Ministry of Defence. The opening hours are from 7am to 7pm, as stated on a notice board at the site. When we got there, it was closed,
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      Sound advice for labourers
      261 22  -  NG CHONG HWEE Ear protection is a First World essential Letter from I WANT to highlight the plight of many of our blue-collar workers. Recently, a project was undertaken in my estate to replace the metal grilles covering a roadside drain. I noticed that the workers
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      If I didn't win, don't call me
      188 22  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Keep personal details personal Letter from I REFER to Mr Rick Lim's letter "Telemarketers' fishy sources" (Nov 6). Like him, I've faced some who got agitated when I persisted in asking how they obtained my telephone number. They similarly said
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      It's an unethical way to operate
      109 22  -  CHENSHIQI THERE should be a law forbidding the use of one's personal data for any particular purpose without one's consent Even if the data is obtained from lucky draw contest forms, is this ethical? Most of the time, the forms are so small, one
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      Help for a budding accountant
      505 23  -  CHOW PENN NEE Ms Julia Susanti Keen to move up the career ladder, she signs up for ezyCash to pay for her part-time course fees pennnee@newstoday.com.sg WITH ezyCash behind her, Ms Julia Susanti's dreams of becoming a full-fledged accountant are just one step away. Currently
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      ezyCash assists one customer to better organise various credit card payments
      342 23  -  CHOW PENN NEE EZYCASH is a personal loan that is convenient to apply for, and offers payment plans that suit your needs. With her busy schedule, Ms Janet Lim, an ezyCash customer, finds it hard to keep track of
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      180 17 Just a flick of the switch to turn off your lights when not in use, you can do what these trees do help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere. Day to day, CO2 is being produced at an alarming rate, leading to a reduce CO2 emissions. These simple and
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      292 22 From Traditional Shop Owner Regional Entrepreneur Irene Ng is a very ambitious lady. She became her own boss at a very young age and operated a traditional business for many years. However, not only were her earnings limited, she also chalked up heavy debts. Later on, she began distributing bwL
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      466 25 Market Street Convenience Hub is now open! Come check out our new and exciting food and retail outlets at Market Street Car Park (146 Market Street). Promotional leaflets available at the outlets. Promotion Period Ito 17 Nov 2006 Soup Spoon i M^a i t^-^ 7.^^. i v s*n™M™? The Soup
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      546 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH Only 2 Lippo nominees, new chairman and CEO are left christie@media corp.com.sg IN THE end, they all walked out in solidarity. The last of Robinson and Company's Old Guard quit the board yesterday, shortly after the resignation of the longestserving director Chew Gek
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      204 26 Atotal of 188 units, or about 75 per cent, of the 250 units launched for the Metropolitan condominium development next to the Redhill MRT station have been sold at an average selling price of $780 per square foot, said Capita Land Residential Singapore's chief executive Patricia Chia. The 382-unit,
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      352 27  -  MIRAKASHINATH 100,000 local firms to be part of national branding campaign m ira@newstoday.com.sg HEEDING the call of local businesses, International Enterprise (IE) Singapore will launch the "Buy Singapore.com" portal to take Singapore firms and products to the world. Some 100,000 businesses will be part of
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        277 28 -BLOOMBERG SEMBCORP Industries said its third-quar-ter profit rose 14 per cent after higher energy tariffs and near-record crude prices fuelled demand for oil rigs. Its net income rose to $75.6 million, or 4.25 cents a share, in the three months
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          3 28 ST Indes 2,729.13+6.82
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          58 28 Nikkei 225 16,364.76 +14.74 +8.89 HK Hang Seng Australia ASX200 18,936.55 +186.86 5,444.18 +12.18 +1.88 +8.22 Korea Comp 1,379.19 -4.69 -8.34 Thailand SET 734.98 +2.68 +8.36 Jakarta Comp 1,648.85 +27.93 +1.73 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2,763.89 -2.97 347.43 +5.88 -8.11 +1.46 Mumbai Sensex 13,186.89 +56.18 +8.43 Malaysia KLCI
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          56 28 Centillion Quhua China Sun BerlianLaju Pac Cent Equation Tuan Sing Magnus HiapHoe CSC 0.180 +0.005 +2.9 67,158 0.525 -0.050 -8.7 60,589 0.730 +0.075 +11.5 52,203 0.330 +0.020 +6.5 39,108 0.425 +0.020 +4.9 38,828 0.190 +0.005 +2.7 37,756 0.210 +0.015 +7.7 26,524 0.210 +0.015 +7.7 26,040 0.115 +0.015
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          171 28 -DOWJONES SHARES ended higher yesterday, with investor interest focused on smaller construction and China plays. The ST Index languished in negative territory for most of the session, but rallied in the final ten minutes of trading to end up 6.82 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,729.13. In the
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          36 28 US$ 0.6378 UK£ 0.3363 Yen 75.508 HK$ 4.9644 RM 2.3341 Euro 0.5021 Rupiah 5326.5 Baht 23.424 Peso 31.858 A$ 0.8284 Indian Rs 28.642 Won 601.07 C$ 0.7241 Yuan 5.0271 NZ$ 0.9575 NT$ 21.016
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          24 28 1 SGX,Dow Jones Bloomberg OH uss/oz 626.80 Silwuss/oz 12.575 FMnui uss/oz 1,190.00 IMtBI cents/kg 271.50 Uml 1,648.00 Bnftmdiiiss/i,,™,:! 58.94 Information provided by and
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        495 29  -  TAN HUI LENG Government will continue to make business environment friendly in order to nurture a thriving enterprise sector huileng@media corp. com. sg THE private sector is set to get a bigger slice of the pie in the next five years, as the
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        473 29  -  CHOW PENN NEE RAISING the standards of market conduct and improving financial literacy are areas where the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will continue to focus on. The financial services regulator will do this by "refining existing
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          713 30  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Actress JacelynTay's clinic takes good health seriously shobha@media corp.com.sg IN WHAT could set a benchmark for the rest of the "slimming" industry in Singapore, a new kind of wellness centre has just come up in the heart of Singapore's upmarket shopping belt to
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          312 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO IF television commercials (TVCs) were given a category of their own at the Academy Awards, Tiger Beer's new campaign would arguably be one of the nominees. The brand recently unveiled the beer industry's first Hollywood-style short film with "Tiger: Unravel
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          342 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO FOR the fifth straight year, Singaporeans are witnessing feats of superhuman endurance as the MediaCorp Radio Subaru WRX Challenge has returned. In a fast-changing world, the MediaCorp Radio-Subaru union is still going strong. From a marketing standpoint, it bears the hallmarks of
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      638 31  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Marketing guru shares lessons on boosting local SMEs'prospects shobha@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE should forget about selling itself as a tourist destination and should instead concentrate on promoting itself as Asia's number one business hub as it has the largest number of multinational companies (MNCs)
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        386 32  -  ARIELTAM HP's electronic vaulting service launched here ariel@mediacorp.com.sg HEWLETT-Packard has I chosen Singapore as the first country in the AsiaPacific region to launch its electronic vaulting service (EVS) targeted at large enterprises. The service involves the digital transfer and backup of critical data in an en
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        380 32  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN IMAGINE accessing files that are on your desktop computer wherever you are in the world and not losing them in the event of a hard drive crash or virus attack. Those scenarios could well be a reality if your company has a file
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      361 33 TODAY'S ITEXPERT In a fix over IT matters? Bugged by software glitches? Send your questions to infotech@newstoday.com.sg WIRELESS CONNECTION FAILURE I'm puzzled by my Acer notebook's sudden failure to connect wirelessly. The Properties window shows the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 BC built-in adapter is working fine. The suspected corrupted driver
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      467 33  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Audio giant Sennheiser is in tune with consumers' needs hedirman@media corp. com. sg IF YOU'VE I ever enjoyed the pristine sounds in the Esplanade, you've probably experienced, first-hand, the quality of Sennheiser's professional audio equipment. Singapore's newage concert hall and performance space uses up
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      145 33 SINGNET ENHANCES VOIP PREFIX '3' SERVICES Companies which subscribe to Sing Net's Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services can now connect to users from other telcos like Star Hub and M 1 using their own prefix' 3' numbers. Sing Net's enhanced VoIP service enables subscribers to call between fixed
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      321 26 W 't can be hard making sense of the investment world. But look A A closely and opportunities become clear. Take smaller companies: S^i j they're under-researched, growing from a low base and often inexpensive. So if you've got your eye on the region, consider A "Uk^v^-l^^-iri S^C* I tne
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      87 30 "°—d*®<£ET SffGU Supponedby^B-~ "Staying Mentafly Positive About Ageing" A Public Forum on Mental Health, in conjunction with Senior Citizens' Week Date 18 Nov 2006 (Sat) Time 9.30 am -12.00pm (in Chinese) 2.30-5.00pm (in English) Venue Toa Payoh Central Community Club, 93 Toa Payoh Central, Multi-Purpose Hall (Level 2) Registration Free
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      105 31 SHIM US Nobel Museum HH V^JfSlofl National University \^<^r of Si nga pore PROUDLY PRESENT Cultures of Creativity >4 w THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE Discover 100 Years of Creative Achievements L 26 OCTOBER 2006 TO 24 JANUARY 2007 Lee Kong Chian Atrium, University Hall, National University of
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      892 34  -  Zul Othman me hip-hop world is an elite Amencan MackW H,,h h ~,i !HITE, BRITISH FEMALE BEATS THE ODDS itish rapper Lady Sovereign is a rarity in today's P climate. While it is not uncommon for female ars like Beyonce and Christina Aguilera to conol
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      728 35 Class 95FM DJ Rod Monteiro tells LYNETTE KOH why sports and financial planning are so important to his family of three (and counting) MEETING Darion Monteiro, it does not come as a surprise that the four-year-old son of MediaCorp Radio Class 95FM DJ Rod Monteiro is
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      473 36  -  AMELYNN LIONG Jesse McCartney's girl wears the pants in his latest album plus@newstoday.com.sg IT'S not hard to tell the type of girls that appeal to Jesse McCartney, simply because he says it all in his songs. The 19-year-old singer-songwriter sang of not wanting "another
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      118 36  -  LESLIE LOW This week we ask The Observatory singer Leslie Low, who released his solo album Worm last week, to name the long-player that influenced him the most. ON THE BEACH BOYS' PET SOUNDS: I got this album mainly because I was a fan of American rock
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      323 37  -  GRACE YAP grace@media corp. com. sg CHRISTIAN Bautista is a hit with the ladies in the Philippines and his popularity is spreading to Singapore. Just a week after the 25-year-old crooner held a concert for the Filipino community here on Oct 29, his song The Way You Look
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        147 37  -  Zul Othman I by Depeche Mode HEROICALLY uncool, British electro-pop pioneers Depeche Mode have had a startlingly long career. Never mind that many had predicted their demise when member Alan Wilder jumped ship in 1995. Turmoil aside, few could fault founder Martin Lee Gore's gift
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        138 37  -  John Legend DESPITE his many talents, it is perhaps a shame that Grammy-win-ning singer John Legend is often cited as the male Alicia Keys for his strong gospel roots and hip-hop ties. A shame when you consider that Once Again is every bit as tuneful as his critically
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        134 37  -  P Diddy SEAN Combs (a.k.a. P Diddy) is not a man encumbered by an apparent lack of talent or the fact that his career is in a slow decline. On the contrary, he remains supremely confident of his own prowess. So much so that he spends over an
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        365 38  -  Derek Lim Singer brought black-tie crowd to their feet-in appreciation and in a sing-along by CONCERTREVIEW Bryn Terfelin Recital IT'S not every day you attend a classical music concert where the audience is on its feet, singing lustily at the behest of the star soloist of the night.
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        83 38 VISIT the Singapore Biennale for free until this Sunday. The originally ticketed venues City Hall, Tanglin Camp, National Museum and Singapore Art Museum are open from 10am to 6pm daily, except Tuesday (lpm to 6pm). City Hall, Tanglin Camp and Singapore Art Museum
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        822 40  -  JOANNEYAP Study shows patients with irritable bowel syndrome have a lower pain threshold joanne@media corp.com.sg IF YOU experience frequent cramping and bloatedness in the stomach, or have painful bouts of diarrhoea or constipation, you could be suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Previously known as
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        334 40 GOOD PROTEINS AND OVERALL WELL-BEING Learn the ABCs of ammo acids and the importance of good proteins in maintaining robust health at this nutrition talk. Data: Nov 9 Time: 2pm to 3pm Venue: Wings Centre, Junction 8 Office Tower, Level 6, Unit 5 Fee: $5, registration required. Call 6250
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      729 42  -  JANICE GOH Drinking vegetable and fruit juice may prevent Alzheimer's: Study janice@media corp.com.sg DRINKING fruit and vegetable juice regularly may help to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease, findings from a 10-year study suggest A study of some 1,800 Japanese living in America aged 65 and
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      531 43  -  JOANNEYAP For better spinal health, take note of your sleeping posture joanne@media corp.com.sg MOST of us don't worry about the way we sleep at night, but it's time to start paying attention. Making sure you are in a proper sleeping posture before drifting off to dreamland can
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      523 44 I am a 29-year-old woman who stands at 1.68 m tall and weighs 62kg. Before I gave birth to my first child two years ago, I weighed 49kg. Shortly after my first child was born, I conceived again and gave birth to my second child earlier this year.
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      117 44 THE SKINNY ON SWEET DRINKS Will drinking sweet beverages during meals suppress one's appetite and affect digestion? Sweet drinks do not lead to the suppression of one's appetite. However, it is generally not recommended to consume sweet drinks because these are often high in calories and are
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      395 45  -  ADELINE SIM IN TOKYO It provides a good source of nutrients for the body WORKING long hours and not getting enough sleep are becoming a daily ritual for many adults and children. Many may not even have time for proper meals and have turned to supplements
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      492 46 MCT US researchers discover protein that wards off influenza viruses IN AN intriguing finding, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have unveiled a critical protein that prevents influenza viruses from entering cells, a mechanism that could spark production of anti-viral medications to fight multiple flu strains, including the deadly
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