Today, 28 March 2007

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    13 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\CORP we set you thinking MICA(P) 314/10/2006 Wednesday March 28, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Karimun confusion
    733 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Workers upset, unions look for solution, but it's Jakarta that holds the cards IN KARIMUN, INDONESIA nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IN KARIMUN'S barren landscape, little seems to stir except the drone of machinery in the quarries churning out sand and granite. But ever since the navy went into overdrive, even
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    Lock icon Abdullah takes the experiment one step further
    398 1 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The first time it happened, they called it an experiment But, when Malaysia announced another relaxation in its Tpro-bumiputra policies yesterday, observers sat up and took note. Could this be the start of a trend? Malaysia said that to attract
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      New NKF goes for a leaner look
      556 2  -  GRACIA CHIANG It lays off 12 workers fromfundraising division to cut costs gracia@mediacorp.com.sg THERE used to be 174 people racking their brains on how to raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) before the shake-up involving ex-chief executive officer T T Durai.
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      Genting to pay $255 million for Star Cruises' IR stake
      333 2  -  -TANHUILENG A MONTH after it received a sharp rebuke from the Government, Genting International has finalised details of its move to take complete control of the Sentosa integrated resort (IR) project. In a statement late yesterday, Genting said it will
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      Lock icon Paid $45 million a year
      449 3 BLOOMBERG Barclays top performer received 5 times more than his boss last year HE IS not even the chief executive of his bank, but he is letting his performance speak for itself. In turn, his employers have made him one of the corporate world's highest
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      Lock icon AND IN SINGAPORE ...
      143 3 AND IN SINGAPORE AGENCIES Capita Land paid its chief executive officer LiewMun Leong (picture) $5.1 million, including a whopping $4 million in bonuses, last year-the year the company reported record earnings. Mr Liew's salary in 2006 was $1.1 million, less than the $1.6 million he was paid in 2005. But
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      285 2 r■ T< Money makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, Y\ T*l I*"* Y\ was highlighted that the rich is getting richer whilst the lower income J-J.W -L Ivll group is struggling along. This is because the lower income group is i 1 competing with
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      197 3 BANGKOK (BKK) <™>HOMMINHCimSGN) PHNONI PENH (PNH) $11 PHUKET(HKT) $JJ JAKARTA (CGK) $44 SIEM REAP (REP) uu^o.^ fi M mate Spot Jetstar's TV commercial and fioo* ty 7 >»pri/ anrf fra vel between 1 July and 31 August 2007. win free tickete! BALI (DPS) w uwSmSmm^m SURABAYA (SUB) SSt {vr Easy
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      Lock icon Ideology is the new battlefield
      687 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Spore must share its expertise in the fight against extremism, says security expert cheekong@media corp.com.sg IT HAS been repeated so often that it is becoming a cliche. But there is a greater impetus for countries to work hand-in-hand in the drawn-out struggle
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      How fast can we rush flu drugs to Cambodia?
      538 6  -  TAN HUI LENG WHO, Asean to coordinate mock transfer of Tamiflu from Spore to Cambodia huileng@media corp. com. sg A STRAIN of bird flu mutates in Cambodia and sparks a deadly human flu outbreak. The only hope of stemming the pandemic
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      Lock icon French 'Spiderman' will not be scaling Suntec heights
      243 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA WORLD-famous climber Alain Robert is in Singapore but he is not going to scale any heights here. The French "Spiderman", known for climbing skyscrapers with his bare hands, has scaled the world's tallest building in Taipei. Last week, he tried
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; AFP  -  243 words
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      Foreign talent paid local rates here
      382 6  -  TAN HUI LENG ONE of the misconceptions that Singaporeans have about foreign professionals is that they are paid much higher than local talent. This may have been true 10 years ago. However, a recent survey by human resource consultancy Watson Wyatt shows that most
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      Lock icon MM meets Australian Foreign Minister Downer
      144 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TERRORISM and China were on the agenda when Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in Canberra yesterday. He met with Mr Downer yesterday afternoon for a wide-ranging discussion; the exchange went so well that it ran
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  144 words
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      Lock icon Spat ends with settlement
      394 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Suit against ex-MP Wan Hussin dropped after mediator steps in weekeat@media corp.com.sg A WAR of words between two prominent Malay-Muslim community leaders, which was carried on into the courtroom, came to an abrupt end yesterday, At the start of the ninth day of proceedings, Mr
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      No D-Day yet as Durai calls in sick
      282 8  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT IT WAS supposed to be the most eagerly-anticipated day in the criminal trial against former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T T Durai, but yesterday's court session turned out to be an anti-climax. The expected ruling on the "no case" submissions
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      301 5 Wmr fc^SMU K3 SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT j^^ UNIVERSITY Beyond social sciences Thinker, doer and leader >> ChenHaoyi Sft 2nd Year Undergraduate 'j Social Sciences P^^ YuShuli 3rd Year Double Degree Student >. ,^fl v»-' "\^tv Social Sciences Information Systems J^Ttm Professor David Chan Associate Dean Jmm School of Economics Social Sciences
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      125 7 I P fll pHm^^v^ .jv. I THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM N'US. Dr William Tan became the first person to ever complete *„«ii„,#i„ M o uhc M 10 marathons across 7 continents, in just 65 days. Apphcations toNUS ara ™w open to all nationalities presenting ■v ...a.au.uMo au.uoo uumumc.io, jusi
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      Lock icon NO PARTING THE DREAM TEAM
      838 10  -  JOCELINETAN Ties between Abdullah and Najib remain solid: Observers THE Malaysian Prime Minister covered his ears at a press conference last week when reporters asked if he had found a bride. Then, after telling reporters it was "too late" to ask more questions, he walked
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        Lock icon HERE COMES TOAD-ZILLA
        69 12 -AFP A cane toad (picture) the size of a small dog has been captured in the Australian tropical city of Darwin. It is the largest ever recorded in the country's remote Northern Territory, and measures 20.5 cm long and weighed 861gm, environmentalists said yesterday. Cane toads have
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        THAILAND SEEKS HAZE HELP
        73 12 Myanmar and Laos will be asked to help with Thailand's haze problem. Thai media reported yesterday. According to the Bangkok Post, Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham will seek "official cooperation" from its two northern neighbours after the haze in the north of the country worsened over
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      Lock icon Asean decides to kiss its teeth goodbye
      846 12 -AGENCIES Move rejected because it would cause confrontation within group, says diplomat MANILA The proposal that could give the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) enough teeth to take errant states to task, including by expelling members, has been dealt a blow. According
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  846 words
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      Lock icon Malaysia to brand Johor durian for global market
      252 14 JOHOR BARU The King of Fruit will be given a brand name to reach out to the international market. Malaysia wants to raise the profile of the tasty durians sold in Segamat in Johor so that it has as much brand recognition
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      Spot checks for better service
      298 14 M'sia aims to boost public sector standards PUTRAJAYA To boost the service standards of all government departments and ministries in Malaysia, department bosses will be conducting spot checks to gauge the efficiency of counter staff and the quality of service they provide. These staff are
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      NO IDLE CHATTER, PLEASE
      149 14 Mr Mohammad Sidek Hassan, the Chief Secretary to the Malaysian government, has a few suggestions as to how to raise service standards for counter staff in government agencies. D 0... Answer telephone calls by the third ring. Smile and remember your manners at all times. Serve
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      More flats for rent
      558 15 Relaxed subletting policy gives homeowners greater flexibility and subtenants more options Retired seamstress MadamTeo Geok Mvi, 62, is enjoying what her peers have termed "the good life" Hertwo children are grown up. She has stopped working and wanted to rent out her 3room flat in Ang
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      Lock icon US forces nab Iraq's top car bombers
      310 17 -AFP BAGHDAD United States forces in Iraq yesterday said they had arrested two leaders of a network suspected of killing about 900 civilians and wounding nearly 2,000 others in a series of high-profile car bomb attacks. Haytham Kazim Abdallah Al Shimari and Haydar
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      Lock icon Aspirin reduces women's risk of dying from any cause: Study
      241 17 -BLOOMBERG BOSTON Women who take aspirin in low or moderate doses reduce their risk of dying from any cause, particularly heart disease, a study concluded. Women in the study who took one to 14 aspirin a week reduced their risk
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      Lock icon British woman's body found in Japanese man's tub
      217 17 -AFP TOKYO Japanese police yesterday issued an arrest warrant for a man after the body of a young British woman was found buried in sand in a bathtub in his apartment, officials said. The 22-year-old woman, identified by police as Lindsay Ann
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      Lock icon Indonesia to resume sharing bird flu samples after WHO deal
      325 17 -AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday agreed to resume sharing bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization (WHO) for tests aimed at fighting the disease. "We are going to send the virus samples immediately," said Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  325 words
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      Lock icon Sorry's not enough
      287 18 -AGENCIES Washington wants Tokyo to take responsibility for its role in sex slavery during World War II WASHINGTON Washington yesterday urged Tokyo to take responsibility for its role in sex slavery during World War 11, after Japan's Premier Shinzo Abe apologised again for prior comments about the
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      Lock icon Korean families reunite by video
      252 18 -AFP SEOUL A South Korean man, aged 102, greeted his 72-year-old son in North Korea for the first time in more than 50 years as hundreds of people from the two Koreas were reunited briefly by video yesterday. "You must be my father, being old
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      Lock icon Australian pleads guilty to terror charge
      154 19 -AFP GUANTANAMO BAY Australian David Hicks (picture) has pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism before an American military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, more than five years after he was detained in Afghanistan. Under the terms of an agreement between the Australian and
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      Lock icon Tamil Tigers launch suicide attack on army
      357 19 -AGENCIES Deadly bombing comes a day after rebels' first air strike COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels drove a tractor-trailer yesterday loaded with explosives and bombed an army camp in Sri Lanka's east, killing eight people, a day after the Tigers' first-ever air raid left
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  357 words
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      Lock icon Olmert, Abbas to meet every two weeks
      178 19 AGENCIES JERUSALEM United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that Israeli and Palestinian leaders had agreed to meet every two weeks. On the final day of four days of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, she also urged Arab nations which
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      Lock icon India: America's new frontier
      736 21 NYT NEWS SERVICES CHENNAI (India) It was an unusual university entrance interview. Late one recent evening in the south Indian city of Chennai, Mr Vijay Muddana sat in an air-conditioned room, leaning forward in his chair and talking to the wall. There, projected on a screen
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      Lock icon No C in Ribena
      341 22 —THE GUARDIAN New Zealand schoolgirls' science experiment finds almost no Vitamin C in drink LONDON Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world's biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of Vitamin C.
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      Lock icon Self-medicating Anna Nicole overdosed
      216 22 -AP FORT LAUDERDALE (Florida) Days before her death, former Playmate Anna Nicole Smith (picture) lived on a diet of prescription pills, soda cans, Slim-Fast, nicotine gum and Tamiflu tablets. She was not trying to kill herself, but trying to nurse a bad stomach flu. On Monday,
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    • Why compare oranges, apples
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        Ministers' pay should be performance-based
        416 24  -  YAK CHIN HUA Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "One missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of civil service pay" (March 26), and Mr Tan Kin Lian's letter, "Try different benchmark for ministers' pay" on the same day. I tend to agree with Mr
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        Lower risks, no competitive stresses in public service
        170 24  -  ANDREW CHAI Letter from THERE are differences between the private and public sectors that need to be reconciled in the coming debate on civil service pay. In the private sector, there are usually many alternative service providers, hence, the competition for performance.
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        FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
        225 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE BROKEN FAMILY EPIDEMIC Adolescence has always been a time of unusual stress, but many teenagers today are being asked to handle more than they can bear. Recently, the Denver Post earned a report from a convention of the American Psychological Association.
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        How'high' should we go?
        280 26  -  PHILIP KWEK Letter from CONTRARY to perception, Singaporeans generally do not begrudge the higher pay needed to retain top civil servants. Neither is it true that Singaporeans doubt their contribution. The question is: How high is "high" enough to retain them? All organisations, be they small
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        Pay top dollar – ministers are worth their weight in gold
        224 26  - Pay top dollar ministers are worth their weight in gold KKAUDAS Letter from WHAT exactly is the worth of our ministers? They are of a high calibre, toil and sacrifice their privacy and family time for the country, and draw salaries they can easily command in the private sector or
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      Lock icon isay A HOT TOPIC ... AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY
      788 28  - isay A HOT TOPIC AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY DAVID SHUKMAN I SEE it in their faces, the puzzled look from friends, family and colleagues as they ask why I keep subjecting myself to the coldest, most remote, least hospitable corners of the planet to report on global
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      Nurturing young minds
      444 30  -  RUTH LOW AMY GAY NLB, other groups are working to give kids from poor families access to books Letter from Chief Executive PAP Community Foundation and Deputy Director Corporate Communications National Library Board WE THANK Mr Leong Sze Hian ("Volunteers to run community libraries?", March 17-18) and
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      sayagain
      60 30 Malaysia is a very interesting country. It demands that Singapore not compete with it on the same track. However, let us not forget that a few years ago, Malaysia went all out to crush PSA by attempting to attract the shipping giants to Tanjong Pelepas in Johor. Reader Tan
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  • Businesstodasy
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          194 40 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE'S big three local banks have put off plans to offer reverse mortgages for HDB flats because of the poor demand. NTUC Income is the only financial institution here that provides such reverse mortgages and so far only
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