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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=ryJj\COßP share your free newspapei MICA(P) 314/10/2006 Monday January 29, 2007 todayonline.com I
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  • 438 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO >DAYEXCLUSIVE derrick@media corp.com.sg THEY made their mark last month in the waters off Doha, Qatar. Now, two national sailors are making history at the Singapore Management University (SMU). Asian Games medal-winners Renfred Tay and Koh Seng Leong are
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  • 741 1  -  LEECHINGWERN Economy's growing, but retailers aren't seeing benefits chingwern@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN you have an economy charging ahead it grew by 7.7 per cent last year you would expect cash registers to be ringing non-stop as more people hit the shops. But the reality has left economists and retailers
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    • 77 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 8 voices 16 business 22 succeed 24 plus 26 eatout 32 fv radio listings 34 classed 35 sports 36 we set you thinking IS CPF RATE TOO LOW? Interest rate should be relooked, says reader 21 UNDERWHELMING VISTA New Windows version unlikely
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    • 10 1 WILL POOR KNOW HOW TO GET HELP? VOICES «PAGE 21
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  • hot news
    • 650 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO Singapore's universities look to tap alumni spirit derrick@media corp.com.sg JUST how does the Singapore Management University (SMU) continue to find its students' G-spot? That's "G" for giving. Today, the university will receive a $10,000 donation from Renfred Tay and Koh Seng Leong,
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    • 553 3  -  More offset funds should go to those unable to pay utility bills, loans: Don LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IDENTIFY those who have defaulted on their HDB loan repayments or have not been able to pay their utilities bills when deciding who should
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    • 531 4 '—AP Tens of thousands gathered to demand that Congress cut off funds for the war WASHINGTON Convinced that this is their moment, tens of thousands of Americans including military families and an icon of the Vietnam War protest movement, united on Saturday in a
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    • Article, Illustration
      73 4 OPERATION CLEAN UP: Dr Lily Neo (left) and Mayor Zainudin Nordin (in black, with broom) join 80 volunteers to clean up and decorate the homes with auspicious Chinese New Year couplets to bring cheer to the less privileged elderly at Chinatown. The volunteers came from the private sector, schools, grassroots
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    • 216 4  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ CHANNEL NEWSASIA aziz@media corp.com.sg EVEN as Singapore opens it doors wider to foreign doctors, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has assured that a premium will be placed on standards. The aim is to loosen stringent rules that have prevented foreign doctors from
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  • Singapore news
    • 295 6  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI IN MULTI-ETHNIC Singapore, all sorts of misconceptions can arise, as some young citizens found out. Undergraduate Farhana Munshi used to think that when Christians befriended people from other religions, their sole purpose was to convert them. The 19-year-old realised she was mistaken after speaking
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    • 288 6  -  SHERALYNTAY 40-year-old Asean reaches out with music sheralyn@media corp.com.sg IT TURNS 40 this year, and the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) wants to mark it by drumming up a younger beat and following. Kicking of the celebrations here was Asean Rocks!, a five-day music
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 94 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Police have charged six men with drug trafficking, following a pre-dawn raid on Saturday that yielded 1.4 kg of heroin and other controlled drugs worth more than $430,000 in all. Shortly after sam, Central Narcotics Bureau officers moved in on two suspected drug couriers
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      • 36 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College West has introduced a new course in security systems technology. Graduates of the two-year course can expect starting salaries of between $1,500 and $1,800.
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      • 56 6 AN average of 34 reports are made a week giving details of allegedly suspicious articles or acts —with Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng himself receiving two such email messages a week. In an interview with The New Paper on Sunday, Mr Wong called this Singaporean
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    • 571 7  -  Serene Huang CHOOSING to do an accountancy degree in Australia when one does not speak a single word of English would seem foolhardy to many. But nottoTakashi Hayashi. The chemical science graduate from Nihon University in Japan was an assistant engineer at Toyota when he
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  • world news
    • 279 8 BATAM An industry representative from the Riau Islands has said the Indonesian government's move to ban sand exports to Singapore is a political decision that does not take into account the impact on local business, a report said. Mr Syahrul Jamal, the general secretary
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    • 206 8 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has accused his critics of unfairly smearing his reputation, but pledged not to let them distract him from working to boost Malaysia's economic progress, The New Sunday Times said yesterday. "I know there are people who are
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    • 311 8 AGENCIES M sian ruling coalition scores big win after opposition boycott KUALA LUMPUR Plantation labourers, shopkeepers and housewives yesterday cast ballots in a by-election in rural Batu Talam in Pahang state, which Malaysia's ruling coalition won easily following a boycott by opposition parties.
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    • 210 8 -AFP BEIJING China's national state-run television network has banned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslim minorities, according to a company official. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Across China, images of the
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    • 213 10 -AFP BANGKOK- All 19 suspects questioned in connection with the deadly New Year Eve's bomb blasts in Bangkok have been released without charge because of lack of evidence, according to the police. The suspects, including soldiers and civilians, were detained for questioning by
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    • 315 10 -AFP 'Grounds to prove graft at Suvarnabhumi' BANGKOK Cracks on the runway, graft claims and now safety issues Bangkok's new airport has suffered blow after blow but analysts say the public hammering could be a ploy to discredit the ousted Premier. Suvarnabhumi Airport, built at
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    • 568 12 -AFP Will scientists amend figures to help policymakers? PARIS Hundreds of the world's top climate scientists will be gathering in Paris today to frame a report expected to issue the bleakest assessment yet about global warming and its effects on the weather system. On
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    • 144 12 -AFP BEIJING Booming giant China has failed to make any headway with its efforts to protect the environment over the last three years as compared with other nations. A new government report ranks the country 100 th on a list of 118 developing
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    • 401 13 -AFP Second suicide bombing in two days, police chief killed PESHAWAR Pakistan ordered a federal probe and beefed up security yesterday after a suspected suicide bomber killed 14 people including two top police officers the second such attack in two days. As investigators hunted for clues
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    • 344 14 -AFP After China's recent weapons test, India announces plan to set up aerospace command NEW DELHI India will set up an aerospace defence command to shield itself against possible attacks from outer space, officials said yesterday. The announcement came almost three weeks after China, which fought a
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    • 532 14  -  Neo Chai Chin The second in a five-part series on Pro-Family Businesses PLANNING a family holiday for four might sound like a nightmare to some, but for Mdm Ang Chong Heng, 63, holidaying with her six daughters and their families is an annual affair. On their most
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 72 14 -AFP Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa (picture) has come under fire after referring to women as "child-bearing machines" in a speech on the country's declining birth rate. "The number of women aged (15 to 50) is fixed," he said. "Because the number of child-bearing machines and
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      • 74 14 -AFP The Israeli government voted on Sunday to appoint an Arab Muslim to the Cabinet for the first time in the Jewish state's history, despite opposition from ultra-nationalists and some Arab lawmakers. Ghaleb Majadleh, 53, from the centre-left Labour party, becomes minister without portfolio
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      • 75 14 —AFP The defection of opposition lawmakers to support Sri Lanka's ruling party yesterday has scuttled chances for a landmark peace deal aimed at ending decades of ethnic bloodshed, officials say. President Mahinda Rajapakse expanded his Cabinet to a record 52 members to accommodate 18 defectors
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      • 108 14 -AP Shanghais mayor Han Zheng said investigators had recovered all the money siphoned away from city social security funds in one of China's most politically divisive corruption scandals. Mr Han's announcement yesterday was the first major revelation in months into the probe that
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      • 91 14 -AP Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou might not stand in the 2008 presidential election if he is indicted on charges of misusing official funds, an opposition lawmaker warned. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party claims that Mr Ma, chairman of the Nationalist Party, embezzled
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      • 61 14 You Tube co-founder Chad Hurley said at the World Economic Forum that the popular video-sharing site would start sharing revenue with its users. He said You Tube is working on a way to allow users to be paid for content. He gave no details of how
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  • Voices
    • Crazy lessons, naked truths
      • 299 16  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Crazy horseplay came too soon, leaving quite fast" (Jan 26). Among the reasons given for the failure of the revue was that "few knew it existed, because of initial rules that prohibited advertising even
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      • 238 16  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AH MAD Letter from IN 1995, despite having the best minds in the advertising industry working on creating, naming and promoting New Coke, Coca Cola' s attempt to be innovative and fresh failed. Ditto the efforts by Xerox to be a
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    • 226 16  -  CHRISTINE HUANG SHU YING Letter from I HAVE always found the sticker "flags" given out to donors during flag day collections meaningless and wasteful. Most of the stickers end up on the handrails of escalators or on the floors of MRT stations
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    • 86 18  -  HOON WEE HWANG Letter from THERE are currently three right-turning lanes into Paterson Road from Orchard Boulevard. The fourth lane is meant for vehicles travelling straight. It is common to see cars in the fourth lane cut across and attempt to turn right, causing a
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    • DO CATS BELONG IN OUR HDB ESTATES?
      • NO
        • 173 18  -  Letter from YANWAIKEET I REFER to the letter by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), "Forced to put on the coat of Dr Death" oan 24). The SPCA wishes to increase the number of pets allowed in HDB flats to reduce
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        • 196 18  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Letter from I REFER to the letter, "'Because cats scare me' is not a good reason" (Jan 20-21). While I appreciate Dr Tan Chek Wee's care and concern for stray cats, I do not understand the reasons for not supporting the way stray
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      • YES
        • 231 18  -  KHOO HWEE BOON Letter from I HAVE written numerous times to the HDB to review its cat ban policy. Each time, I get a template reply: "Cats are not allowed to be kept in HDB flats as they are nomadic in nature
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        • 158 18  -  REBECCA HO SHU LING Letter from THE authorities have made the removal of stray cats convenient and cheap for residents just 10 cents to make a call, and you get speedy service to your doorstep. In contrast, volunteers who use the humane sterilisation method fork out
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        • 65 18  -  SHIRLEY GOH Letter from BY IMPLEMENTING and recommending the Trap-Neuter-Return-Manage programme, the Cat Welfare Society has provided a humane and effective way of managing the cat population in a particular area. As noted by CWS' Ms Dawn Kua, culling cats will only lead to new, unsterilised cats moving
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    • 246 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE I never cease to be amazed at what some people will do to get someone else to love them. I read recently of a love-struck man who began spending himself into bankruptcy in orderto gain
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    • 400 20  -  JOYCELYN SU Tour company aims to give travellers a fair choice Letter from Senior Manager (Outbound Tours Division) CTC Holidays I REFER to Ms Tan Yen Ling's letter "Forced to take 'optional' trips on package tour" (Jan 16). CTC Holidays strives to maintain
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    • 358 20  -  TAN QUEE HONG Letter from Chief Engineer, Pollution Control Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to Mr Tay Hock Soon's letter /'Residents losing sleep over noise from construction site" (Jan 24), on noise from a con- struction site near Orange Grove Road and Ms Victoria
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    • 546 21  -  ALAN GREENE IT IS good to hear the politicians engaging with focus groups on GST rises, increasing the CPF levy on employers and targeting support for the less fortunate. However, a workable balance will be difficult to achieve while there is
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    • 248 21  -  CHIAHERNKENG Letter from I REFER to the proposed 2-per-centage-point hike in GST that the Government is proposing, which is likely to be imposed in a single step. The Government has explained that the GST hike will be used to help the poor.
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  • Businesstoday
    • 424 22  -  CHRISTIE LOH Telco also reportedly in talks to buy more shares in India's Bharti christie@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE Telecommunications may be raring to enter the Middle East amid slowing growth in some of its existing units. According to various Arab media reports over the weekend,
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    • 275 22 -AFP AFTER a surprising show of strength in the United States economy, the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates steady at its monetary policy meeting on Wednesday to see if the trend continues, analysts say. The Federal Open Market Committee is
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    • 426 23 -AFP New Vista operating system may push up PC prices WHEN Microsoft launches Windows Vista tomorrow the operating system that took five years and US$6 billion ($9.2 billion) to develop it is not expected to wow home computer users. The United States software giant has heralded its oft-de-layed
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    • marketwatch
      • 80 23 -AFP SHARE prices are likely to trade higher this week, on bullish sentiment about corporate tax rate getting cut by at least one percentage point, dealers say. Expectations of strong corporate earnings results may also lend a boost. Westcomb Securities foresees a trading range of 2,980 to 3,250 points.
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      • 36 23 USS 0.6499 UK£ 0.3317 Yen 78.987 HKS 5.0755 RM 2.2755 Euro 0.5032 Rupiah 5951.1 Baht 21.771 Peso 31.911 AS 0.8402 Indian Rs 28.805 Won 611.26 CS 0.7667 Yuan 5.0532 NZS 0.9332 NTS 21.405
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      • 20 23 by i Gold US$/oz 650.7 Silver US$/oz 13.38 Platinum US$/oz 1181.50 Brant crude USS/barrel 55.42 Information provided SGX, Bloomberg
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    • vista:whatreviewerssayaboutit
      • 29 23 Microsoft's best operating system, offering greater security; windows that are 'transparent' and 3D to make navigation easier; an animated desktop that could be a movie or moving image.
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      • 36 23 It's like "Windows XP with lipstick and Botox", said Fortune magazine. Older PCs are not fast enough to run the new features; premium versions are expensive; you may need to buy a bug-fixing pack later.
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    • SUCCED the business of learning
      • 633 24  -  BITTLESTON Why farm out a business function? The answer to this is in why you eat out OUTSOURCING vermin control is sensible. They are experts; you are not. It's not something you have to do a lot of, and a regular, disciplined approach will keep the potential
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      • Article, Illustration
        241 24  -  LEE U-WEN Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock Just what are the key challenges that face service managers in today's competitive business world? That's one question that two prominent academics address in this sixth edition of the best-selling Services Marketing series, restructured to cater to
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      • noticeboard
        • 121 24 Thinking of becoming a professional counsellor? With the Government pushing for more people to join the social work sector, there is no better time than now to latch onto an industry that greatly needs skilled manpower. If you already have a basic degree, consider upgrading
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        • 73 24 This workshop aims to provide human resource practitioners and line managers with the tools and resources to perform com- prehensive work-life needs assessment, and implement and evaluate work-life initiatives. WHAT: Workshop on implementing and evaluating work-life strategy WHEN: Feb 6-7, 9am to spm WHERE: Singapore Human Resources Institute,
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        • 87 24 Many view minutes-taking as a chore but it is actually an underestimated skill in running a business. Taking effective minutes can be challenging when discussions become too animated and contentious issues arise. This one-day workshop will show you how to take good minutes and be
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      • 588 25  -  LEE U-WEN them u-wen@ mediacorp.com.sg AFTER working for six years as a horticulturalist at West Coast Park, Ms Samantha Lee discovered a new calling caring for sick people. From spending her day amid plants that "don't talk back", the 27-year-old is now working
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      • 286 25  -  -Sharon Eng Q. Are there plans for an LLM for non-law graduates who do not wish to practice but would find the knowledge relevant to their work? The University of London has such an LLM on a part-time basis. But they do not offer modules for the Singapore context,
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      • 112 25 Question: Work-life balance is a myth. You do have to choose between career and family. Agree? KENNY YAP, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF QIAN HU CORP, REPLIES: "Oriß of the rewards of running a family business is that (I have somehow struck) a balance. There is always an
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    • 429 28  -  JEANINETAN Director's latest film inspired by Singapore's red light district jeanine@media corp.com.sg the happenings in that area. Filming wrapped up in December last year and the film is slated for commercial release later in the year. While the Uekrongtham said he was initially repulsed by the
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    • 172 28 —AP CROONER Leo Ku (picture) clinched the biggest prize of the Hong Kong music awards season, helped by the popularity of Loved Too Late, a song that urges people to express their appreciation for loved ones. Ku was awarded the Four
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        • 142 33  -  This Lunar New Year, indulge in the finger-lick-ing good KFC Treasures Feast (picture), available until Feb 18, with your friends and family. Priced at $22.95, this value-for-money meal comprises eight generous pieces of Original Recipe chicken packed in a festive bucket, one medium whipped potato,
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