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    14 1 TODAY //\=djaCofcp we set you thinking Tuesday May 22, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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    Fresh out of school, on a higher starting wage
    774 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO New grads joining the civil service can expect up to $620 more each month derrick@media corp. com. sg TOP engineers may earn the least in the six professions used to benchmark ministerial salaries, but their rookie practitioners will
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  • hot news
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      Home engine humming
      515 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH Govt upgraded GDP forecast largely due to stronger domestic economy: Analysts christie@media corp.com.sg JUST as doubts were creeping in about Singapore's continued economic boom, the Government sprang a surprise upgrade in its growth forecast. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) is now expecting this
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      A hospital in the west, soon
      454 3  -  SHERALYNTAY New general hospital 'around 2012' to meet rising demand: Khaw sheralyn@media corp. com. sg THOSE living in the west of Singapore will have their own hospital in the "next few years", announced Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan in Parliament yesterday. This will help
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      Lock icon Malaysian civil servants get up to 35% pay hike
      343 3 —AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's 1 million civil servants will get a salary hike of between 7.5 and 35 per cent from July 1, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced yesterday. Their cost-of-living allowance will also increase by 100 per cent in
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      322 3 APMI KAPLAN) AtAPMI, we say YES. Asia pacific management institute Today, a quality education that provides you with relevant skills is crucial to make you stand out among your peers. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA cricosooi™ y^^ an a m IaUH, aW, ,oaf f™T"~"\ MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION S Oa/7 a
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  • I Singapore news
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      Lock icon Soldiers get more powers
      594 4  -  GRACIA CHIANG MPS ask about safeguards to prevent abuse against civilians in security ops gracia@mediacorp.com.sg SOLDIERS in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) were given new powers of search and arrest in security operations yesterday, even as Members of Parliament voiced concerns over how such powers might
      AFP  -  594 words
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      Man who allegedly pushed girlfriend in front of MRT train to plead guilty
      207 4  -  —JASMINE YIN A MAN accused of pushing his girlfriend into the path of an oncoming MRT train last September will plead guilty tomorrow. Kwong Kok Hing, 26, faces a maximum of seven years in jail and an
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      Lock icon 50 firms abuse Skills Development Fund
      204 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE THE Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has taken action against 50 companies and training providers for abusing the Skills Development Fund in the last financial year. The fund allows companies to apply for subsidies for staff training. Thirty-five of the cases
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA,; 938 LIVE  -  204 words
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      Lock icon News out of Asia ... by Asians via Net
      482 11  - News out of Asia by Asians via Net LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg FROM Afghanistan to Timor Leste, news from the corners of Asia look set to be delivered to your home television sets not only as they break, but cheaply should talks to develop an Internet-based news exchange platform take off.
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon JUNE HOLIDAY ERP RATES
        88 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will reduce the ERP rates by 50 cents for the coming June school holidays. This follows a review of traffic along ERP-priced roads and expressways. The affected gantries are: Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), ECP (Fort Road), ECP (Ophir Road),
        — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  88 words
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        Lock icon KNOW YOUR INFECTIOUS DISEASES
        78 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The National Library will play host to an exhibition on Infectious Diseases from Thursday to July 8. The exhibition will be launched by Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan and will explore the history of epidemics in Singapore, as well as current infectious diseases and
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      Lock icon A match that made good
      388 12  -  TAN HUI LENG Very sick toddler, the first recipient of cord blood, is on the mend huileng@mediacorp.com.sg TWO-YEAR-OLD Hoh Sin Jun is up and about A year ago, he was down with a severe viral infection because of a rare congenital form of immunodeficiency. His
      XX WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL  -  388 words
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      354 5 P YourMnnin9^l \ncrease very I To date, NTUC has almost 500,000 members. To celebrate, we're giving away more than $150,000 worth of prizes to 500 winners, including the sleek Chevrolet Captiva, in an exciting lucky draw. What's r a more, be the 500,000 th member and you'll walk away with
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  • parliament
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      Extradition Treaty signed hastily?
      412 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg WITH the recently signed accords between Singapore and Indonesia having encountered "unexpected difficulties", as the Defence Ministry called it, Parliamentarians yesterday asked if the Republic had perhaps rushed into signing the Extradition Treaty (ET). Wasn't this especially when the Defence Cooperation
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      Commodity traders may be monitored by MAS
      288 6  -  —JOHNSON CHOO IN A long-anticipated move, commodity traders could soon come under monitoring by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a role currently undertaken by the Trade and Industry Ministry through International Enterprise (IE) Singapore. Introduced in Parliament yesterday, the Commodity Trading (Amendment)
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      Private home transacted price info to be released
      267 6  -  LEEU-WEN PRIVATE home-owners could soon get a "fuller picture" of private property price figures in Singapore, as part of a move to improve the market's transparency. In the wake of media reports of developers achieving record sale prices, the Urban Redevelopment Authority,
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      Lock icon Passport rules may be tightened
      363 8  -  —JASMINE YIN Bill aims to prevent fraud, allow for modifications THAT little red book that lets you travel around the world could soon come under a tighter regulatory leash to ward off misuse and abuse. If proposed changes to the Passports Act take off, Singaporeans
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      Bill moots changes in postal services
      183 8  -  LEEU-WEN GREATER competition in the $200 million-a-year basic mail services market in Singapore can be expected if a bill is passed in Parliament to amend the Postal Services Act The bill was introduced yesterday in a bid to liberalise the market, as well as
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      CONVICTIONS UNDER SECTION 377 A
      48 8 In response to Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong's question on how many convictions there have been under the Penal Code's Section 377 A which prohibits acts of a homosexual nature Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng gave these figures.
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    • PARLIAMENTBRIEFS
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        ENERGY LABELLING A MUST
        137 8  -  SHERALYNTAY Changes passed to the renamed Environment Protection and Management Act will see the Mandatory Energy Labelling Scheme come into effect from July 1. Suppliers have six months to comply and register with the National Environment Agency (NEA) to label the energy consumption on all air-condi-tioners
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        Lock icon NO DIRECTOR'S FEE FOR GIC BOARD MEMBERS
        62 8 CNA Board members who sit on the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and hold political office do not receive any director's fee. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong clarified in a reply to a question for written answer in Parliament. He said political
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        Lock icon COMPETITION ACT AMENDED
        84 8 CNA The Competition Commission of Singapore has been given more power to take pre-emptive action on mergers and acquisitions. In particular, it will be able to stop companies doing anything that may bias its decision on the merger, if there is good reason to suspect the move
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      Looking at better regulated eyecare
      162 8  -  —TANHUILENG OPTOMETRISTS and opticians will have to be registered and regulated by an Optometrists and Opticians Board, if a new bill introduced in Parliament yesterday is eventually passed. Optometrists have long lobbied for legislation of the eyecare industry for better regulation. The Optometrists and Opticians
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      302 6 I It takes more I I I A guide to a successful educational future for your child Join us for an enriching seminar as we look at how food intake and proper financial planning is crucial to your child's educational future. Date 26 May 2007 (Saturday) Time 2pm to spm
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      302 8 FINANCIAL GENIUSES TO SHARE THEIR W/17 A T T^TT Special Article MONEY makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that wealth is created by a small group of people whilst the lower income group is barely struggling along. This is because the
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      Lock icon Shanghai F1 boss fired
      386 14 -AFP Yu Zhifei accused in one of China's biggest corruption cases SHANGHAI The head of Shanghai's Formula One (Fl) motor racing track Yu Zhifei has been fired from his job and kicked out of the ruling Communist Party for his role in one of China's biggest
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      Lock icon Tommy Suharto probe reopens
      178 14 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia plans to reopen a corruption investigation into the youngest son of former President Suharto, the AttorneyGeneral's office said yesterday. Tommy Suharto has so far escaped trial over allegations that he corruptly amassed millions of dollars during the three decades that his father ruled
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      Lock icon The baby who died twice
      148 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A baby girl declared stillborn by a Malaysian hospital shocked her grieving parents when she started moving as they prepared to bury her. The father, Mr Azmi Masiron, said he and other mourners in a village in northern Kedah state noticed a
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      Lock icon M'sia takes quiet route on condoms
      341 17 —AGENCIES Officials don't want to be seen as encouraging promiscuity KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Health Ministry cannot openly promote condom use to prevent HIV/Aids, fearing perceptions it is advocating promiscuity in the mainly Muslim nation, reports said. The deputy director of the ministry's Aids and
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      Lock icon Riots in China over 'one-child' policy
      158 17 —AFP BEIJING Police clashed with protesters in southern China as thousands of angry farmers rioted over the nation's controversial "one-child" family planning policies, residents said yesterday. Angry farmers besieged up to four township governments in Guangxi province over the weekend, with police and protesters
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        UNIVERSAL THEME PARK IN KOREA
        43 17 Universal Studios will reveal plans to build a theme park in South Korea today in what would become its third resort in Asia, Bloomberg reported. The company has a park in Japan and another is planned in Singapore.
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        Lock icon INDONESIA TO RECRUIT 300,000 CIVIL SERVANTS IN 2007: REPORT
        92 17 —AFP Indonesia will recruit 300,000 new public servants this year, bringing the total number of those in the service to 3.9 million. Most of the jobs will goto non-perma-nent staff working for the government on a contract basis. But 50,000 will
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        Lock icon ISRAEL TO PICK NEW PRESIDENT
        44 17 —AFP Israel's Parliament will elect a new President on June 13 to replace Moshe Katsav, who has been suspended from public duty over allegations of rape. Lawmakers approved the move given that Mr Katsav's seven-year term ends in July.
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      Lock icon Bangkok launches green plan
      171 18 AFP —AFP BANGKOK The governor of Bangkok, Mr Apirak Kosayodhin, yesterday launched a five-year action plan to turn the Thai capital into a green city using clean energy and biofuel. Bangkok's 5.5 million cars will be regularly checked to gauge the amount of carbon dioxide they
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      Lock icon No proof of foreign fighters
      358 18 —AGENCIES Thailand backs away from previous claim BANGKOK Thailand yesterday backed away from comments that extremists from Cambodia and Indonesia were training militants in the Thai south, but the capture of an alleged former Aceh rebel may yield proof of Indonesian involvement in the insurgency
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      Lock icon Fine dining explosion a threat to fish
      484 19 —AFP Top chef warns of dwindling stocks left in the wild HONG KONG One of the world's top chefs has warned that environmental degradation and an explosion in fine dining restaurants worldwide is set to have a drastic impact on the food trade.
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        Lock icon TEA CLIPPER CUTTY SARK GOES DOWN IN FLAMES
        65 19 —AFP The Cutty Sark (picture), the world's last remaining tea clipper and a major London tourist attraction, was engulfed by fire yesterday. Police were treating the blaze as suspicious. The vessel, which was built in 1869 and made her first voyage in
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        Lock icon KIMCHIIO BE RANKED ON LEVEL OF SPICINESS
        50 19 -AFP Kimchi, South Korea's famed side dish made of fermented vegetables, will be categorised into five levels of spiciness. The Agriculture Ministry said it has developed a benchmark ranking the pickled delicacy as mild, slightly hot, moderately hot, very hot and extremely hot.
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        Lock icon LOANSHARKS LEAVE THEIR NUMBERS ON FLIERS
        207 19 Malaysia's Internal Security Ministry wants the public and utility companies to join in the fight against illegal moneylending. The Star newspaper reported. Minister Fu Ah Kiow said that the police would step up the drive against vandalism by loansharks who paste fliers and stickers
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      Lock icon A dangerous promise...
      461 20 —AGENCIES Return by Bhutto, Sharif could spark more Pakistan unrest LONDON Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's political woes deepened yesterday with two political enemies vowing to defy a ban preventing their return to the country. Exiled former Premiers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, who each ruled Pakistan twice
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      Lock icon Firing continues for 2nd day in Lebanon
      265 23 —AGENCIES Siege of Palestinian camp shielding suspected extremists tightened NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon) Lebanese soldiers yesterday tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp, where a shadowy Islamist group suspected of ties to Al Qaeda and Syrian intelligence services is holed up. In the
      —AGENCIES; AFP  -  265 words
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      Lock icon Kirn tightens grip on power with reshuffle
      280 23 —AFP SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn JongII has reshuffled the National Defence Commission (NDC) which he heads, to strengthen his grip on power in the communist state, news reports and analysts said yesterday. The reshuffle increases the number of full-time senior staff at
      —AFP  -  280 words
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      Lock icon Asean urged to push for Suu Kyi release
      311 23 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday urged the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to take a united stand to push for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a week before her current house arrest is reviewed. "Asean countries
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      122 19 An evolutionary retail investment product will be unveiled at: The Rabobank Investment Seminar Saturday, 26™ May, 9.30 am, Rock Auditorium, Suntec City Mall Level 3 The first listed product of its kind in Singapore to be made available to retail investors. An opportunity previously mainly available to private banking clients.
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      FOOTING THE F1 BILL
      368 24  -  KWEKLEEHUAT Tourist revenue should be able to offset the amount spent by the Govt to host F1 races Letter from UNDERSTANDABLY, there is concern about the Government footing $90 million a year to stage a Formula 1 (Fl) race here, with much of the benefits labelled
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      Lock icon Time for a health report on S'pore trees
      146 24  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from THE report, "Fallen tree was healthy" (May 17), made me wonder if there are, in fact, unhealthy ones out there, too. Footpaths are invariably lined with fallen trees and twigs after a bout of heavy rain
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      Queue-jumping not for a first-world nation
      193 24  -  ANDREW SEOW Letter from I REFER to the letter "Civilised Society? Just watch those queue jumpers" by Ms Marie Ho (May 19-20). This situation is no different at the Bedok MRT Station. There, the queue-cut-ters are those who have all the time in the
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      Misleading, these special-offer adverts
      254 25  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the advertisements placed by a financial institution in the media. The ads state that, for a limited period of one month only in May, the upfront sales charge for all Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme (CPFIS)-included unit trusts
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      Lost in translation
      400 25  -  THOMAS LEE ZHIZHI Chinese names for MRT stations are so far off that we could become a joke Letter from NOW that the MRT Circle Line is about to be completed, maybe it's time for us to do better in our Chinese translations of the names of
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      245 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY BLENDED FAMILIES We were talking about blended families and the special challenges they typically face. Our focus was on the children and the difficulties they experience in accepting a stepparent or living with siblings whom they perceive as competitors. But there's a
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      Lock icon Engraving can help deter bicycle thefts
      312 26  -  ROYSTON ANG KAH TAT Letter from MORE Singaporeans are turning to cycling as a mode of transport However, it appears that bicycle theft, too, is on the increase. I have lost my third bicycle and many of my friends have also had the unfortunate
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      Guidelines will regulate fees
      248 26  -  TAN KIN LI AN Letter from I REFER to Mr Paul Chan Poh Hoi's letter on the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act (May 21). Under this Act, several professional bodies, such as the Singapore Medical Association, are asked to dump their fee guidelines and let the
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      Let's not get distracted by sex
      374 29  -  TERENCE TEO Letter from SEX is always an interesting topic, and the debate about homosexuality is no exception. However, before we get too distracted by sex, let me make two clarifications: There is no law against homosexuals. People who are homosexual per se are
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      Not just any old job, please
      282 29  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Seniors, too, need meaningful work Letter from I AGREE with the views expressed in the letter, "Jobs for the seniors" (May 21). It is true that despite our best efforts to work hard and save, few can expect to live
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      246 32 -AGENCIES THAILAND'S three major mobile phone operating concessions will be renegotiated, as the Council of State has found that earlier revisions to these concessions were improper and illegal. Revealing this yesterday, the Information Communications Technology Minister Sittichai Pokaiudom said the move would impact
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        485 35  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Young entrepreneur says mobile gaming market is set to explode hedirman@media corp. com. sg THE global mobile gaming market will be worth over US$ll.2 billion ($17.1 billion) by 2010, according to a young mobile technopreneur. Mr Christian K-L Yau Heilesen, the 23-year-old chief executive
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        246 35 —AFP HANOI Software giant Microsoft on Monday signed an agreement with a Vietnam government ministry to use only licensed programmes in a bid to reduce rampant software piracy in the communist country. Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer met Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
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      526 45  -  JOSE RAYMOND Aide and Subramani the only two Lions in 100-cap club jose@mediacorp.com.sg FIVE days ago, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) proudly announced the induction of Aide Iskandar and S Subramani into Fifa's Century Club. Current Singapore captain Aide has so far
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