Today, 26 December 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY JviEDIACORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday December 26, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 872 1 -AGENCIES Flurry of negotiations likely no single Thai party can form government on its own BANGKOK-With the political landscape still hazy, Thailand's smaller parties could well turn out to be the kingmakers, as neither the proThaksin People Power Party (PPP) nor its main rival, the Democratic
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    • 440 1 -BLOOMBERG FIFTY-FIVE million years ago, the world's climate was catastrophically changed when volcanoes melted natural gas frozen in the seabed. Now Japan plans to drill for the same icy crystals to end its reliance on imported energy. Billions of tonnes
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    • 53 1 MALAYSIA: THE YEAR THAT WAS OF CELEBRATION, CONFRONTATION AND CONSOLIDATION WORLD PAGE 10 WHERE'S THAT GIVING FEELING? FINDING THE SPIRIT OF SELF-SACRIFICE VOICES PAGE 16 TEMASEK INJECTS $6.4B INTO MERRILL OPTION TO BUY $872M MORE STOCK BUSINESS PAGE 17 FORCE OF WILL HOWTHE FRESH PRINCE BECAME A LEGEND PAGE 20
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  • hot news
    • 633 2  -  —ZULOTHMAN A DEFAMATION case between the estranged sons of artificial limbs pioneer, the late Mr S Rajaratnam, may have simmered down but it has now brought to light a tale of sibling rivalry in which brother battles brother over
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    • 418 2  -  lAN DE COTTA WHEN superbike enthusiast Marcus Tan set out on his $40,000 Ducati 999 for the Johor Racing Circuit in Pasir Gudang on Sunday morning, he was looking forward to an exhilarating race and a very special Christmas on his return. Reason:
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    • 613 2  -  ZU LOTH MAN More investors pump money into office property as reselling them could reap huge gains zul@media corp.com.sg IT WAS probably the most profitable "flip" in the property market In a deal announced last week, GE Real Estate made a whopping 73 per cent profit on
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    • 458 3  -  -ZULOTHMAN IT IS a $2-million addition to the Shenton Way skyline, but some passers-by are not sure what to make of it It stands on an island at the busy intersection of Finlayson Green, opposite One Raffles Quay, and is a painted steel sculpture known
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    • 744 3  -  WAYNE SOON A liberal arts college offers diverse coursework and more interaction between students and professors THE proposed fourth university in the form of a liberal arts college has generated a lot of buzz and interest in Singapore's higher education system over the past year.
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  • singapore news
    • 272 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Marginal increase in births, record number of new Spore citizens this year SLIGHTLY more than 30,000 Singaporean babies were born in the first 10 months of this year, just one per cent higher than the same period the year before, according to the National
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    • 550 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg THESE little green buses are on trial providing a shuttle service from the Yio Chu Kang MRT station and bus interchange to nearby private housing estates. Despite being concerned over profitability, the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit
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    • 378 4  -  -NAZRYBAHRAWI It was a bleak Christmas for train commuters as services were disrupted three times in a single day. In the morning, the Singapore Mass Rapit Transit (SMRT) Corporation stopped services for short periods on the North-South line after two incidences of commuters going
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    • 927 5  -  Cathleen Tung Join 160,000 Singaporeans at Marina Bay to make a wish forthe New Year AT THE Marina Bay Singapore Countdown 07/08 on Monday, Singaporeans will see their New Year wishes collated into a symbol of hope in the form of a visual arts
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  • world news
    • 239 6 ■AFP Pope deplores 'grim sound of arms' on day of peace AT THE VATICAN POPE Benedict XVI (picture) has lamented the "grim sound of arms" in the world's conflict zones, from Sudan to Sri Lanka and especially the volatile Middle East, in his Christmas message. "On
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    • 503 6 -THE GUARDIAN IN BETHLEHEM THE pilgrims are coming back! One hotel, the Alexander Hotel on Manger Street leading to the Church of the Nativity, is dusting off its "No vacancies" sign. "This is the best year we've had since the uprising," hotel owner
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    • 380 8 -AP LODHRAN (Pakistan) Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has accused President Pervez Musharraf of failing to stop the spread of Islamic militants. Ms Bhutto has promised to crack down on the groups if she wins next month's parliamentary election. She said yesterday that extremism
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    • 300 8 ■AFP KUALA LUMPUR More than 200 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim that their employers underpaid and abused them have sought refuge outside their country's embassy in Malaysia. The Bangladesh High Commission has turned a section of its mission
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 101 8 ■AFP Nineteen Filipinos out of 52 sentenced to death for crimes committed in other countries have been spared from the gallows over the past two years, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo's office said in a statement yesterday. Of the 19, six have been sent home
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      • 102 8 -AFP Also in the Philippines, a group of military officers and soldiers could face court martial over the Nov 29 failed mutiny, an armed forces spokesman said yesterday. A military board of inquiry has completed its investigation of the takeover of the
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    • 238 8 -AFP KATHMANDU At least 11 people died and hundreds on a religious pilgrimage were missing after an overcrowded bridge collapsed in western Nepal yesterday, police and officials said. Nearly 400 people were said to have been on the bridge across a gorge over the Bheri
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    • 806 10  -  001 KEE BENG CONSCIOUSNESS about the growing lack of national unity and the übiquity of ethnic distrust mark the end to what was to have been a celebratory year for Malaysia. The country turned 50 on Aug 31 and with it came much reflection
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    • 296 10 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government wants Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president Samy Vellu (picture) to monitor all Hindu temples in the country and submit a report on their status periodically, The New Straits Times (NST) reported yesterday. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
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    • 566 11  -  CATHLEEN TUNG For Gen V accountant Kwek Jia Sing, obtaining a CPA (Australia) was a validation of her expertise THE desire for knowledge led Kwek Jia Sing to study accounting after her 0 levels. She has not looked back since. As a Generation V child, the
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    • 74 12 Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (left) apologising to the victims of a hepatitis C outbreak and their family members at his office in Tokyo yesterday. At least 10,000 people are estimated to have contracted the potentially fatal disease from contaminated blood products. They had been given fibrinogen, which
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    • 170 12 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON A 38-year-old man was charged on Monday with intending to carry out a terrorist attack. Mr Hassan Mohammad Sabri Al Tabbakh, from Birmingham, is accused of compiling a document with instructions on how to make a bomb and stockpile chemicals for such
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    • 243 12 -AFP TAIPEI Former Taiwanese Vice-President and opposition leader Lien Chan was questioned over the alleged misuse of expenses during his tenure, a prosecutor said yesterday. "We have interviewed Lien Chan at his office as a courtesy to a former Vice-President," Mr Chen Yun-nan,
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    • 389 12 —THE GUARDIAN Public confidence hit by security breaches: UK Commissioner LONDON The series of data security breaches that has seen the personal details of tens of millions of people lost is pushing the United Kingdom to a "tipping point" over how such records are
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    • 265 13 —AFP The fear: That Khmer Rouge leaders may die before decision PHNOM PENH More than 600 Buddhist monks and nuns, as well as Muslim leaders, marched to Cambodia's United Nations-backed genocide tribunal yesterday to demand speedier trials of five top Khmer Rouge leaders who
      —AFP; EPA  -  265 words
    • 225 13 —AFP SEOUL South Korea's Presi-dent-elect Lee Myung Bak has chosen the head of a Seoul women's university to lead his transition team, a spokesman said yesterday. Aides had said Mr Lee, of the conservative opposition Grand National Party (GNP), wanted an academic rather
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    • 872 14 NEW YORK TIMES NEWSSERVICE Fund administration issues stymie move to build US allegiance PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Weeks before it is to begin, an ambitious American aid plan to counter militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas is threatened by important unresolved questions about who will monitor
      — NEW YORK TIMES NEWSSERVICE; ■AFP; MCT  -  872 words

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    • 226 15  -  GOHSIGUIM They may benefit more from educational programmes Letter from I REFER to the report, "From Singapore to China: Barbie X'mas" (Dec 24). I feel the Concern and Care Society's efforts to send Barbie dolls (picture) to children in rural China, while commendable,
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    • 159 15  -  MURUGESAN SUPPAYYAN Letter from I REFER to Koh Wei Kiang's letter "Many feel they have no right to tell others off" (Dec 21). He claimed: "The reasons why people do not give up their seats and others do not speak up could simply be a
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    • 204 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... KIDS ARE LIKE COCKLEBURS Have you ever had the experience of feeling the sting of small cockleburs in your shoes and around your ankles? There is something interesting about cockleburs. Inside those prickly seed pods are not just one, but several seeds,
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    • 488 16  -  LOON SENG CHEE THE economy has been roaring forward for a while, and many people are receiving their richly deserved rewards, the fruits of their labour. It is also that time of the year when we see frenetic shopping, even beyond our normal feverish pace.
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    • 180 16  -  S SATISH APPOO Letter from Director Environmental Health Department PLEASE refer to the letter "Why protect errant retailers?" (Dec 19). The National Environment Agency (NEA) has already imposed high fines on the pork sellers who foisted thawed frozen pork as chilled pork on
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    • 252 16  -  GOHSOONPOH Letter from Deputy Secretary (Policy) Public Service Division Prime Minister's Office I REFER to "A question on remuneration" by Mr Leong Sze Hian (Weekend Today, Dec 22-23). Mr Leong asked why ministers received a higher percentage wage increase compared to those in
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  • Business
    • 194 17 -AGENCIES NAGOYA Toyota might end General Motors' (GM) 76-year reign as the world's top car-maker by sales with its raised sales forecasts for next year. The Japanese firm announced yesterday it plans to sell 9.85 million vehicles
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    • 788 17 -DOW JONES Spore investment firm has option to buy $872 m more stock NEW YORK Moving to bolster its waning capital amid writedowns of mortgage-related assets, Merrill Lynch said it would sell up to US$6.2 billion ($9 billion) of newly-issued common stock at a discount
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    • 385 17 ■AFP The United States dollar stayed firm in Asian trade yesterday as investors welcomed a large cash infusion into Merrill Lynch amid the sub-prime mortgage woes, dealers said. In Tokyo, the US unit stood at 114 yen in afternoon trade, easing slightly from 114.40 yen in
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    • business news
      • 589 18 -AFP WASHINGTON State-run investmentfunds from Asia and the Middle East are unleashing a cultural revolution on Wall Street, buying up big stakes in ailing US banks, but the deals are also raising national security fears. Concerns have spiked
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      • 570 18  -  ESTHER FUNG In Thailand's Prachinburi province, eucalyptus trees are grown on sides of rice fields for paper pulp IN THAILAND esther@media corp.com.sg PLANTING rice is not exactly a lucrative profession, but rice farmers in Thailand have found another source of income planting trees on their
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      • 418 19  -  ESTHER FUNG Fund managers still positive due to emerging markets esther@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE the gloomy outlook, with a possible United States recession, fund managers are still positive about equity markets on the back of strong growth in emerging markets. Contributions from emerging markets such as China, India
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      • 137 19 BLOOMBERG NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mo-bile-phone service provider, will integrate Internet search and email functions from Google into its "I-mode" Web service, Nikkei English News reported, without citing its source. DoCoMo is attempting to address the needs of users who access the Web through their mobile
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    • 266 19 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Dec 21, 2007 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9am) US$ 798.90/OZ SPOT GOLD CLOSE (spm) US$ 800.60/OZ CHANGE+O.2I% First, it was the massive write-downs announced by major investment banks. Next, it was the capital infusions by sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Middle East. It
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      1360 20 After being cheated on by his first girlfriend at 15, Will Smith swore he would never not be good enough again. Today, he's a mega-star with serious box-office pull BACK in the early *****, just as Will Smith was making the transition from rapper to television star
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    • 395 22  -  Christopher Toh FILMREVIEW by..... Across the Universe ACROSS The Universe is a mind-blowing experience. But I confess: I am a HUGE Beatles fan. And this is important to remember when reading this review. Here's what the movie is about Boy (Jim Sturgess) from
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    • 403 22  -  Mayo Martin Will Smith shines as the last man standing after a deadly virus decimates the rest of the population FILMREVIEW b Y I Am Legend WILL Smith hunting deer. Will Smith hiding from creepy monsters. Will Smith coming on to a mannequin at a video shop.
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      57 22 VEXILLE In this Japanese anime, the year is 2077 and Japan considered a renegade nation due to its persistence in experimenting with robotics is isolated from the rest of the world. Fearful that Japan has gone too far in its creation of human androids, a crack team led by
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    • in cinemas
      • 228 24  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by..... My Blueberry Nights WONG Kar Wai's first Hollywood movie has all the stylised beauty and ennui that one would expect from a film by the Hong Kong auteur, but it's also a little too inspired by script
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      • 262 24  -  Jeanine Tan Even Cate Blanchett's stellar acting can't lift this film to greatness FILMREVIEW by..... Elizabeth: The Golden Age CATE Blanchett returns to the role that defined her career, and shows once again why only she can play Queen Elizabeth I, although even she can't quite bring
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      • 344 24  -  Karman Tse FILMREVIEW by..... Breath WHEN Yeon (Zia) found out that her husband is having an affair, she does not burst into tears. Neither does she confront him. Instead, she becomes increasingly concerned with news of a convict on death row, Jang Jin (Chang Chen), who
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      • 317 25 -AFP Jazz legend played with all the greats over 60-year career MONTREAL Legendary jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson has died at the age of 82, friends said on Monday, sounding the final note for one of the most celebrated musical careers of the 20th
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    • 1095 26 DEAL OR NO DEAL 2 THE YEAR AHEAD DOCUMENTARY IMPIAN ILLYANA Channel 5, 8.30pm US Europe 2008 Ultimate Viper Episode 10 ViXJ fit) U £1 fUI (ft Channel News Asia, 9.32pm 12.32 am Arts Central, 10pm Suria, 10.30pm administration faces IW BLi make vipers one of nature's cold-blooded success B^^^^
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  • sports
    • 663 27 After an eye-opening SEA Games experience, Erwan's ready for more action with Young Lions WITH the Singapore under-18 boys chasing the match against Malaysia in the Lion City Cup final in June 2005, coach V Sundramoorthy brought on midfielder Erwan Gunawan. The gamble paid off as
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    • 677 28  -  LOWUNFHOONG Outgoing principal Moo mulls the 'what next' question for the school's students, calls for better support system linfhoong@media corp.com.sg NEARLY four years after he officially opened the doors to the Singapore Sports School on Jan 5, 2004, principal Moo Soon Chong will step down
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    • 254 28 -BLOOMBERG LONDON -Jacques Rogge (picture), the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), pledged "zero tolerance" for athletes involved in betting scams and doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and future Games. The past year has been scarred by doping scandals, from the Tour
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    • 160 28 INDONESIA and Thailand will co-host the biennial Asean Football Championships next year after winning a secret ballot at the 3rd Asean Football Federation council meeting on Saturday. The two countries were given the job of hosting the South-east Asian competition formerly known as the Tiger
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    • 581 29 -AGENCIES Rijkaard and Ronaldinho's futures in jeopardy after loss to Real BARCELONA Last Christmas, Barcelona boss Frank Rijkaard and Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho were riding the crest of the wave, on top of the Primera Liga and reigning champions of Europe. Yesterday, Spanish football fans were
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    • 398 29 -AFP MANSFIELD This Christmas, spare a thought for the have-nots. Sitting 91 places below Premiership leaders Arsenal, Mansfield Town are propping up the English league this Christmas. It's a far cry from the Premiership. You won't find Lamborghinis
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    • Article, Illustration
      780 30 k^yjHgi -AGENCIES Struggling Sunderland boss Keane losing his cool as Man United clash looms ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Sunderland v Man United SUNDERLAND The pressure is apparently beginning to get to Roy Keane as he prepares his side for the visit of Manchester United today (11pm, Singapore time)
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    • 276 30 -AFP DERBY They may be 10 points behind leaders Arsenal in the Premiership, but Liverpool's defensive stalwart Jamie Carragher (picture) has urged his team-mates to keep their nerve, saying they still have a chance of catching up. Despite beating Portsmouth 4-1 at
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    • 373 31 -AFP LONDON Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Almunia (picture) has refused to rule out switching his national colours to England. The 30-year-old Arsenal keeper was born in Pamplona but is yet to receive a call from Spain's national team boss Luis Aragones, and in a
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    • 713 31 -AGENCIES Gunners confident of winning first league title since 2004 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Portsmouth v Arsenal PORTSMOUTH Cesc Fabregas has said Arsenal are determined to prove people wrong by continuing their table-topping form in the second half of the season and winning the Premiership title. Arsenal's title
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