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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=DIACORP share your free newspaper Wednesday January 17, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006 TODAY /A=DIJ\CORP share your free newspaper Wednesday January 17, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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  • 1023 1  -  RAHULPATHAK DERRICK A PAULO Bangkok withdraws invitation to George Yeo after CNN interview with Thaksin here ASSOCIATE EDITOR rahul@media corp.com.sg HE CALLS himself an unemployed man, roaming the world. Last week, Mr Thaksin Shinawatra was having a leisurely bak kut teh breakfast at a
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  • 131 1 HELEN Mirren (picture) had an evening fit for a queen. Make that two queens. At yesterday's Golden Globe Awards, the actress scooped a Best Actress in a Television Motion Picture award for her titular role in Queen Elizabeth I, and another Golden Globe for Best
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    • 57 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 10 voices 18 business 24 growth 31 plus 32 1v radio listings 37 classed 38 sports 40 we set you thinking WATERWARS Talk of future disputes over water far from reality 6 SUICIDE BOMBER HITS BAGHDAD UNIVERSITY 10 CHAPATI TERROR PLOT Bombers'recipes
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  • hot news
    • 484 2  -  SHERALYN TAY But enforcement raids and fines are not enough to deter some smokers sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THEY looked like typical coffee shop patrons, two middle-aged men and a woman out for a meal after a long day at work. But their focus wasn't their
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    • 529 2  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@mediacorp.com.sg CEDAR Primary, Dunman Secondary and Crescent Girls' are among 20 schools in the running to be selected as schools of the future, where students use tablets instead of textbooks, work in virtual laboratories instead of classrooms and are automatically
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    • 456 3  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE teen who hijacked his neighbour's Internet access is a loner whose life centred around Internet gaming, the judge presiding over the case said yesterday. What the 17-year-old needs is a structured environment for him to change, said District Judge
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    • 458 3  -  JASMINE YIN Personnel want to play more strategic role in firms, rather than fire-fighting jasmine@media corp.com.sg TOP executives need to lead more with their hearts and guts, rather than their brains. Such multi-dimensional leadership will satisfy the intellectual and emotional needs of workers, said Mr
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  • Singapore news
    • 404 4  -  TORCHING LI Capita Land, Kerzner pitching IR dream elsewhere in Asia chingli@media corp. com. sg SINGAPORE may have turned down the Frank Gehry-designed Atlantis Sentosa, but the concept and the partners behind it will come to life in another part of the world, possibly near
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPEST
      • 80 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Budget carrier Tiger Airways will launch flights between Singapore and Perth from March. The Western Australian city is the airline's second Australian destination after Darwin. The airline said it will fly to Perth four times a week from March 23, with plans for
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      • 64 4 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 41-year-old Malaysian was extradited to Singapore on Tuesday for a murder committed 10 years ago. Singapore police said the man is wanted in connection with a murder on Dec 20,1996, in Bukit Merah. He fled Singapore after the crime and
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      • 51 4 Singapore will see its first multi-storey driving centre in Woodlands next year. The $30-million centre by the Singapore Safety Driving Centre will feature an Intelligent Circuit which uses IT to help examiners assess test candidates. This will enable more objective assessments of driving test
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      • 118 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The URA has received two bids for the 99-year leasehold hotel site at Sinaran Drive. The top bidder. Glory Realty, offered $131.1 million, or $501 per square foot, per plot ratio. According to property agents CB Richard Ellis, this is close
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    • 504 6  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Water wars a far reality but Singapore's success story in water management holds lessons for the world EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg THE world's movers and shakers have long debated the likely catastrophic effects of a global crisis triggered by a water shortage. It was
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    • 365 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg THE National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) botched contract with Forte Systems which has become the centrepiece of its civil lawsuit against its former board members was legitimate and the losses incurred were for "developmental issues". Yesterday, defence
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    • 162 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG NKF lawyers have confirmed that they would be using Mr Durai's concession to weaken the cases of the remaining defendants. Towards the end of the hearing yesterday, lawyer Edwin Tong informed Judicial Commissioner Sundaresh Menon that his team would be relying on
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    • 313 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT HE COULD have just gone about his own business. Or, he could have just pointed her to a public phone or an Internet terminal to help her contact her friends. But Mr Sim Kirn Song (picture) didn't. The Senior Immigration and
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    • 745 8  -  WAYNE SOON But where will the funding come from? THAT Singapore is considering setting up a liberal arts college is great news. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam thinks the Republic is ready to explore other options, now that the three local universities are doing
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  • world news
    • 552 10 —AFP Witnesses take to the stand in trial that could lead to demise of both major political parties BANGKOK Thai judges yesterday began hearing the case against deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party on vote fraud charges, a day after the ousted leader broke his
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    • 61 10 A mangled bus lies near the Mustansiriya University in north-eastern Baghdad yesterday after two bombs killed 60 people and wounded 11O.Asuicide bomber detonated an explosives vest at the back entrance of the school and a bomb in a van at the main gate under
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 88 10 -AFP A Malaysian Islamic court is investigating a marriage between two Malay Muslims amid suspicions that the groom may actually be a woman, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. It said Mr Mohamad Sofian, 40, and Ms Zaiton Aziz, 43, were married in December 2002
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      • 92 10 -AFP About 4,000 South Korean anti-globalisation activists rallied yesterday against drawn-out talks of forging a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. Protesters burned a paper bull covered with a US flag and shouted "Stop FTA negotiations" during a street rally, accusing the
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    • 405 12 Winter storm leaves dozens dead; Bush declares emergency in Oklahoma CHICAGO A massive winter storm has moved eastward across the central United States, prompting President George W Bush to declare an emergency in Oklahoma state. The severe conditions have also knocked out power lines,
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    • 409 14 -AFP Object detected off west Sulawesi could be part of missing Adam Air aircraft JAKARTA Investigators searching for a missing Indonesian airliner said yesterday that they had detected an object resembling an aircraft nose on the seabed. An Indonesian survey ship involved in the massive
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    • 230 14 -AFP NEW DELHI The number of victims of a serial murder case that has shocked India may top 40 after detectives uncovered a dozen more skulls stashed in plastic bags, a report said yesterday. "We found more than a dozen skulls (and) other
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    • 296 16 -AGENCIES Gang of six planned to bomb UK transport system LONDON Six men plotted to kill London subway and bus passengers with bombs made from hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 commuters on July 7, 2005. No one
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    • 173 16 THE GUARDIAN LONDON A poker cheat who used high-tech gadgets to film cards as they were being dealt in casinos was jailed for nine months yesterday. Lam Yau Yiv, 45, and two accomplices are believed to have made £250,000 ($757,173) after targeting
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 82 16 Muslim designer Aheda Zanetti has crafted what she says is the world's first two-piece Islamic swimsuit-the burkini (picture). While other forms of Islamic swimwear exist, Ms Zanetti, 39, says her lightweight, head-to-ankle costumes are the first to be streamlined down to a twopiece suit
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      • 71 16 -AFP Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in "very serious" condition after three failed operations for worsening intestinal problems, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported. He is suffering from a "serious infection of the large intestine following three failed operations and various complications
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  • Voices
    • 645 18  -  HOWARD LEE AS A child, I thought my family's favourite prata shop where we would eat every weekend made the best prata in the world. Somehow, that changed as I grew older. What used to be crispy prata now tastes like rubber. It's not
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    • 246 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON by............." THE RETURN OF COURTESY Remember when children were taught to say "ma'am" and "sir", and men opened doors for women? In many places, that's been replaced by a rudeness and a lack of civility that would have made Sir Walter Raleigh cringe.
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    • 288 20  -  HENGCHOCHOON Car buyers should suss out pros, cons of parallel imports before making a purchase Letter from YOUR report, "Driven to frustration" (Jan 12), comes as more people are buying parallel-import cars. They should be more prudent before signing on the dotted line. A
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    • 180 20  -  LIMBOONHEE Letter from I AM perturbed by the decision of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to give the cyberspace pervert blackmailer a second chance to complete his accountancy degree, provided his jail sentence is not a lengthy one. This is absurd. His is a
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    • 152 20  -  JESSICA CHAN Letter from COULD we include service training in our school education curriculum? I worked in the service industry for about 20 years and noticed that teens who have worked part-time in, say, an F&B outlet, behave better than teens who have
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    • 208 22  -  BERNARD NG H J Letter from I READ with interest G Jagathisan's letter, "No Malaysian stamp on passport" (Jan 12). Last November, my colleagues and I took a rail trip to Kuala Lumpur. My passport was not stamped, neither was part of the immigration
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    • 374 22  -  STEVE KNGO S'poreans should buy according to their means Letter from I REFER to the article, "Revealing times for private homes market" (Jan 16), in which the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is reported to be looking at distinguishing between mass and high-end segments for its quarterly
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  • Businesstoday
    • 188 24  -  CHOW PENN NEE UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) might make "a strategic investment" in the Southern Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Southern Bank) of Vietnam, Singapore's sec-ond-largest bank said in a filing with the Singapore Exchange yesterday. It said due diligence into the Southern Bank
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    • 510 24  -  TAN HUI LENG JTC asking for ideas to turn one-north into a 'landmark cultural focal point' AFTER years of discussion, JTC has finally launched the formal process to kick-start the development of a civic, cultural and retail complex on a 1.93 ha plot next to
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    • 214 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHANGI Airports International (CAI) said yesterday that it had been appointed to advise the Abu Dhabi International Airport on the planning of its new terminal. The move comes after CAI clinched a contract for managing and operating the existing airport
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    • business news
      • 636 26  -  LEECHINGWERN But the Republic continues to trail Hong Kong in overall ranking TOP 10 ECONOMIES chingwern@media corp. com. sg FOR the 13th consecutive year, Singapore has been overtaken by Hong Kong for the title of the world's freest economy. Since 1995, Singapore has
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      • 282 28  -  MIRAKASHINATH mira@media corp. com. ag THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is listing Asia's first commodity-index exchange traded fund (ETF) in a move that will provide investors investment diversification with one trade, instant liquidity, transparency of pricing and low investment amounts. The Lyxor ETF
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      • 136 28 Dow Jones Australia's Dyno Nobel has acquired a 29.9-per-cent strategic stake in Singaporelisted Fabchem China for US$3l.B million ($48.9 million), giving it access to the fastgrowing Chinese explosives market. Dyno is paying 70 cents per Fabchem share, comprising an upfront payment of 52 cents per share, another 13 cents
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      • marketwatch
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        • 28 28 I3TSI Digiland 0.015 +0.005 +50.0 345.513 Genlnt 1.000 +0.135 +14.1 240.318 PDCCorp 0.100 +0.010 +11.1 217.572 TimeWateh 0.010 +0.005+100.0 100.272 Sapphire 0.035 -0.005 -12.5 110.485
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        • 19 28 SPCCAeCWO7O4IO 0.030 +100.0 TimeWateh 0.010 +100.0 Star HubMBLeCWO7O2OB 0.375 +50.0 Digiland 0.015 +50.0 MatexWllolos 0.030 +50.0
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        • 19 28 HSIIBOOOSGAePWO7OI3O 0.010 -77.8 SembMar DBeCWO7D2OS 0.055 -71.8 HSIIBOOOSGAePWO7O33O 0.285 -43.0 HSIIBBOOMBLePWO7OI3I 0.020 -42.0 HSIIBBOOSGAePWO7OI3O 0.015 -40.0
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        • 61 28 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Nikkei 225 17.202.40 -7.40 -0.04 HK Hang Seng 20.027.05 -40.01 -0.20 Australia ASX2OO 5.073.40 -0.40 -0.01 Korea Camp 1.380.71 -1.25 -0.00 Thailand SET 055.00 -0.41 -0.00 Jakarta Camp 1.754.20 +23.82 +1.38 Phils Comp 3.070.20 +51.23 +1.70 Shenzhen B 520.84 +0.07 +1.77 Mumbai Sensex 14.114.73
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        • 134 28 Agencies shakls closed nigner yesterday amid active trading ahead of the corporate earnings announcement season. The ST Index hit a new high of 3,051.75 intraday before retreating on profit taking to end the day up 2.63 points, or 0.1 percent, at 3,038.21 points. In the broad market, advancers outnumbered
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        • 20 28 Gold US$/oz 626.90 Silver US$/oz 12.88 Platinum US$/oz 1,152.10 Rubber cents/kg 321.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,950.50 Brent US$/barrel 53.36
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        • 28 28 JSS JK£ 'en IKS 1M iuro 0.6497 0.3304 78.168 5.0685 2.2762 0.5003 Rupiah 5,896.6 Baht 23.309 Peso 31.666 AS 0.8284 Indian Rs 28.757 Yuan 5.0622
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      • 336 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE RIDING the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) wave, broadband TV service provider M2B World Asia Pacific (M2BAP) is looking to grow regionally through its reverse takeover of embattled education services firm Auston International Group. Singapore-based
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      • 438 30 -AFP Aim is to ease trade frictions, minister says BEIJING China will significantly cool exports this year as it makes slashing its record trade surplus one of its most urgent tasks, Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said in comments published yesterday. "Cutting the huge trade
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    • growth the business of enterprise
      • 622 31  -  MIRAKASHINATH Corporate Social Responsibility is a new verification area for SMEs venturing abroad mira@mediacorp.com.sg YOU'VE heard of ISO-certification, but what about the Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, certification? The concept of being certified on how socially responsible a company is be it in terms of
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