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  • 27 1 TODAY //\=DJACORP MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Tuesday October 16, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /v\=DtACORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Tuesday October 16, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 963 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IN TOULOUSE, FRANCE IN SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) chief executive Chew Choon Seng's view, it "was well worth the wait". Against the backdrop of sunny skies here and in the global aviation scene, the world's largest passenger plane
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  • 301 1 -AGENCIES LONDON Al Qaeda terrorists are plotting to bomb an English Premier League football game live on British television, reported a British newspaper. Citing a new government report to be announced soon, News of the World said followers of terror group Al Qaeda are
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    • 499 2  -  ANSLEYNG CHRISTOPHER TOH AND ansley@media corp.com.sg IT WOULD have been like any other night at this alfresco bar and bistro known for its live performances: Local bands playing cover hits and original songs. Except that tonight, candles would have been
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    • 500 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg SHOULD Myanmar's military leaders not show up at next month's Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in Singapore following worldwide criticism of the recent violent crackdowns it would not bode well for the future of the grouping's new Charter. Asean Secretary-General
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    • 318 3  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI With Americans consuming some US$9 trillion ($l3 trillion) in goods and services a year, the United States remains the most important source of demand in the world. And to take advantage of this, besides pushing for a free trade agreement (FTA), Asean producers
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    • 370 4  -  -LOHCHEEKONG SINGAPORE'S ambition to become a top biomedical research and development (R&D) hub could be hampered by the shortage of patent professionals here, according to a lawyer at one of the Republic's top law firms. Dr Stanley Lai, who heads Allen Gledhill's Intellectual Property
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    • 694 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Legal eagles split over accommodating differences or adopting universal values cheekong@media corp. com. sg THE feng shui, or geomancy, fad of the 1990s might have brought Lady Luck to many, but the authorities here certainly were not smitten. Speaking as part of a
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    • 478 5  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg EVEN before the recent Michael Moore-di-rected documentary, Sicko, was released in American cinemas in June, thousands of people around the world had already watched it weeks earlier for free, and in the comfort of their own homes, no less. They did so
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    • 466 6 AGENCIES Consumer sentiment resilient to sub-prime mortgage crisis SINGAPORE retail sales rose at more than twice the expected pace in August as shoppers bought more goods at department stores and more cars, showing that consumer sentiment was resilient to the United States sub-prime mortgage crisis. The retail
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    • 217 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Retail therapy works for many people. But now, there is an even better reason to shop, especially for the elderly. A local study has found that shopping can stave off dementia. The study by a team from the National University of Singapore found
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      66 6 SOLO PROTEST: A week after he and four others were arrested for demonstrating in a gazetted area, Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan was back outside the Istana yesterday. Dr Chee plans to stage a one-man protest until Friday. He wants the Prime Minister to clarify Singapore's relationship with
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    • 829 8  -  SIEWKUMHONG SLA's actions with regard to Virtual Map case puzzling MENTION "Virtual Map" to a local businessman, and he just might respond with some choice ear-burning words. That was the depth of anger that the company behind Streetdirectory.com aroused a few years back,
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    • 523 10 -AGENCIES WELLINGTON New Zealand police arrested 17 people in a series of anti-terror-ist raids yesterday, which targeted Maori and environmental activists among others. In the first operation under New Zealand's Terrorism Suppression Act, police said a number of people had taken part in military-style training camps
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    • 211 10 -AFP ISLAMABAD Ms Benazir Bhutto has said that she fears retired army officers may be plotting to kill her on her return to Pakistan this week amid entreaties by top officials that she delay her homecoming. The former Premier has already faced threats of suicide
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    • 595 12  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Airbus CEO confident it can make it despite turbulent times ahead IN TOULOUSE,FRANCE weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT WAS 18 months late, but that did not detract from the grandeur of the occasion as Airbus pulled out all stops yesterday to celebrate the delivery
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    • 306 12 -AFP BANGKOK United Nation envoy Ibrahim Gambari yesterday demanded that Myanmar's ruling junta immediately stop arresting pro-democracy activists and targeting dissidents, calling the crackdown "extremely disturbing". Kickstarting a regional tour to push Asian nations to pressure the regime, Mr Gambari said he hopes to return to
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    • 434 14 -AGENCIES But Taipei rejects olive branch based on 'one China policy' BEIJING Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday called for a peace agreement with Taiwan in a keynote speech at a party congress here, while insisting independence for the island would never be tolerated. "We are
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    • 196 14 -AGENCIES STOCKHOLM Professors Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S Maskin and Roger B Myerson, all from the United States, have won the Nobel Prize in economics for theories that help set rules for transactions ranging from auctions to elections. The three will share the 10
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    • 402 14 -DPA AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard has such a hold over Australians that opposition Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd's election pitch is thathe's hardly any differentfrom the Prime Minister and can be trusted to continue almost all the policies the conservatives have put in place over last
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    • 345 15 -AGENCIES HK film star says KMT asked him to be hitman in the '80s TAIPEI In a shocking revelation, Hong Kong film star Wang Yu said Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) had asked him in the 1980s to assassinate a Taiwan dissident, who was hiding in the
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    • 369 16 Findings emerge as income gap in the US broadens WASHINGTON The salaries of chief executives in the United States will come under the spotlight this week, with a survey that shows that most US corporate leaders believe that chief executives are overpaid. The findings
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    • 283 17 -AFP Cinema blast kills 6, injures 32 AMRITSAR Indian police said yesterday that an explosion that killed six people and injured 32 in a packed cinema hall in northern India was a "terrorist" bombing (picture). Hundreds mainly poor migrant workers crammed into the theatre in
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    • 735 18 NEW YORK TIMES Not just a cookie-cutter wife, Laura Bush has been called a foreign policy asset to the US CRAWFORD (Texas) This Saturday, an American military jet with the code name, Bright Star, will take off, bound for a diplomatic mission in the Middle East It
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    • 458 18 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON For now, the most powerful law enforcement official in the federal United States government is a 47-year-old lawyer little known outside Washington. Or inside Washington, for that matter. He is acting AttorneyGeneral Peter D Keisler, who is running the Justice Department
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    • 320 19 -BLOOMBERG Senator's mistress bares all in Playboy Brazil SAO PAULO The October issue of the Brazilian edition of Playboy is flying off newsstands. Nude photos of the former mistress of a senator under investigation for graft adorn the centrefold and cover, with the headline, The
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      550 20  -  HUANG QIAO YING PROTECT KIDS FROM VIOLENT OUTSIDERS I COMMEND the Government on its resolve to protect women within a marriage by the proposed amendment to Sections 375 and 376 of the Penal Code to criminalise marital rape in specified circumstances. This initiative shows political will and social commitment
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    • 126 23  -  RONCHONGKERCHUEN Letter from I WRITE regarding the recent online campaign urging the Government to repeal Section 377 A of the Penal Code, under which it is a crime for men to have sex with other men. My wife and I have always tried to educate our
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    • 146 23  -  STELLA KON Letter from THE North East MRT Line already has a station called Fairer Park. The future Circle Line will have a station called Farrer Road. Crazy or not? This is what will happen: Taxi driver on your mark,
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    • 160 23  -  CHUAKIMCHOO Letter from FOR the past three weeks, I have called Comfort taxi to make advance bookings on a daily basis. I usually call the night before for a taxi early in the morning. But it is not easy
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    • 113 23  -  PETER PEH Letter from I REFER to the letter "Sunrise, sunset... and streetlights are timed to go on and off" (Oct 12). Instead of having them automatically switched on and off at 7pm and 7am, respectively, would it not be
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    • 217 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY............. THE PROCESS OF EXTINCTION It's a well-known fact that behaviour that is not reinforced will eventually disappear. This process is called "extinction", and it can be very useful to parents and teachers. Have you ever wondered why so many young children develop
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    • 416 24  -  TANYAPKWANG, MOE urges parents to help children to manage anxiety Letter from Chief Executive, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board WE REFER to the recent letters and discussion in the media on the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE). We appreciate the concerns of parents
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    • 167 26 TEMASEK Holdings will open bidding later this week for the first of Singapore's three power generation companies, with the sale likely to be completed by January, Dow Jones Newswires reported yesterday, citing unnamed sources. About 20 companies are likely
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    • 260 26 BLOOMBERG CHINA President Hu Jintao pledged to tackle damage to the environment, increase rural incomes and ensure product safety in an economy that has doubled in size since he took over five years ago. "Our economic growth is realised at an excessively
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    • 372 26  -  JOSEPH YADAO Showcase in Dubai gives investors a glimpse of life here joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg MIDDLE Eastern investors will get a first glimpse of what it's like to live, work and play in the Republic at the Singapore Pavilion in Cityscape Dubai 2007, a three-day
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        • 77 28  -  JOSEPH YADAO DHL announced the launch of DHL Student Express, an international delivery service for students studying overseas. With the new service, students can enjoy up to 70-per-cent savings on excess baggage surcharges to Australia and the United Kingdom. They can also save up to 15
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        • 81 28 China National Aviation Holding Co (CNAHC) withdrew its bid for a stake in China Eastern Airlines Corp because the Shanghai-based carrier's share price was too high, said CNAHC president Li Jiaxiang, on the sidelines of the 17th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. CNAHC and
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        • 81 28 -AP India s two key stock exchanges received bomb threats yesterday as share prices jumped to an all-time high, the police said. Bomb squads rushed to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) offices after an NSE official received the threat through
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        292 28  -  ESTHER FUNG Best World opens regional HQ in Changi esther@media corp.com.sg BEST World International started operations in a tiny office in Changi 17 years ago and yesterday, the mainboard-listed health and lifestyle products distributor returned to its roots to open its regional headquarters, a 42,000-sq-ft building to
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      • 389 30  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE shares ended flat as investors remained reluctant to trade going into the corporate earnings season. The Straits Times Index (STI) gained just 4.77 points to close at 3,862.02. A total of 2.7 billion shares traded worth $2.3 billion,
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      • 609 32 -BLOOMBERG Across the pond, Europe is pressing for US intervention fora more robust dollar A FORMER master of the universe like Mr Henry Paulson does not often find himself on the defensive. At international meetings this week in Washington, he will be. Under pressure
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      • 499 33  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE news@newstoday.com.sg ASIAN nations are in a bind. Currency traders are closing in for the kill. Monetary policy in the export-dependent region has made a valiant effort since 2002 to suppress appreciation in the real, or infla-tion-adjusted, exchange rate as capital inflows grow. With
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    • 167 39 AN EMMY FOR MEDIACORP'S THE ARENA! The Arena, a MediaCorp Channel 5 prime-time debate game show has been nominated for an International Emmy Award this year in the Children Young People category. The three other nominees in the category are: The Magic Tree from Poland, Mortified from Australia and
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    • 103 42  -  NGIAMYINGLAN Gets/meets cabaret at Scarlet City, NTUC Club's latest clubhouse, which opened on Wednesday night. Singapore-based Taiwanese singer Hao Hao (picture) belted out a medley of golden Mandarin and Hokkien tunes. The clubhouse's other themed nights are Sunday (Cha Cha), Tuesday (J-Pop), Thursday (Retro
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    • 440 42  -  MAYO MARTIN That's what a good art gallery should be in its design: Architect mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SOMETHING extraordinary. That's the kind of National Art Gallery that Dr Ho Kok Hoe (picture) wants to see. The 85-year-old architect and former president of the Singapore Art Society told Today in
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    • 137 42 -AP AUSTRALIAN pop diva Kylie Minogue has recorded a duet with Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It will appear in the Asian edition of the former's new album X, said their record company yesterday. EMI Taiwan announced the collaboration -In My Arms on its official website.
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      • 480 46  -  JOANNEYAP Afolate-rich diet during pregnancy can help to prevent birth defects joanne@media corp.com.sg IN A study conducted by three universities in China, Indonesia and Malaysia, researchers found that women who had low red-blood-cell (RBC) folate levels were at greater risk of having babies with neural tube
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    • 243 49 ORGANISERS of the OSIM Singapore Corporate Triathlon, which will be held on Nov 3 at the East Coast Park, will take extra measures to make the event as safe as possible for participants. To allay concerns after the recent deaths of triathlete Thaddeus Cheong and
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    • 421 50  -  PAUL GREEN Coach Steinebrunner has reminded his players of team's 2005 success over the Warriors RHB BANK SINGAPORE CUP 2007 IST LEG SEMI-FINAL Woodlands Wellington v SAFFC Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg WOODLANDS Wellington have had possibly one of the most turbulent few weeks in the history of
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    • 467 51  -  THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Michael Owen's future looked more uncertain than ever after it was claimed that the England striker could leave Newcastle United next summer for a knock-down £6 million ($17.9 million), thanks to a get-out clause in his St James' Park
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      216 51 -AGENCIES MADRID Andy Murray (picture) has backtracked on his comments last week that match-fixing was rife in tennis. Last Tuesday, Murray told the BBC that "everyone knows" that match-fixing goes on. Representatives from the world's major professional tennis associations met last Friday to discuss an forming "integrity unit"
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    • 254 51  -  —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Thierry Henry has admitted that his leaving Arsenal for Barcelona in the off-sea-son was best for both the Premiership side and himself. Cesc Fabregas, one of the young hotshots who has stepped out of Henry's shadow in Arsenal's barnstorming start to
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    • 638 52  -  —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH England boss confident Uefa delegate will help ensure fair play on artificial turf EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GROUP E Russia v England LONDON England went back to school yesterday morning, taking a lesson in artificial intelligence on the fake pitch owned by
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    • 162 52 BLOOMBERG BOGOTA, Colombia Brazil kicked off their bid for a record-extending sixth World Cup with a 0-0 draw with Colombia on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) on the opening weekend of South American qualifying for the 2010 tournament Playing at high altitude 8,700 feet (2.65 km)
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