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  • 24 1 TODAY /A=DIA,CORP we set you thinking Wednesday January 16, 2008 todayonline.com MICA(P) 132/10/2007 Recruit with TODAY Today "Wednesday January 16, 2008 www.todayonline.com J\A=diaCorp Frew
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  • 1049 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH HKj $9.83b deal with Citigroup structured to safeguard against downturn in US christie@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS the biggest bank in the United States, yet when Citigroup named Mr Vikram Pandit (picture) its new chief executive officer last month few envied his promotion.
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  • 471 1  -  JEANINETAN jeanine@media corp.com.sg MR KENNETH Tan (picture), the managing director of Golden Village in Singapore, has resigned. In a statement yesterday announcing this, Golden Village Multiplex also said that the company had settled its legal tussle with Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong
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    • 44 1 CHIKUNGUNYA? MOSQUITOES MAY CAUSE THIS VIRAL FEVER AS WELL LOCAL PAGE 8 SALES SHRINK PRIVATE HOME SALES DOWN BY 46% BUSINESS PAGE 30 HARISS' BIG BATTLE MIDFIELDER FIGHTS TO EARN STORE CAP SPORTS PAGE 45 piii I "1 ■■■11 1 J JLIJfJi fl j
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    • 427 2 -AGENCIES Suharto's doctors up dosage as ex-President's health gets worse JAKARTA There was grim news yesterday for millions of Indonesians, who have been transfixed by daily updates on the health of former President Suharto. Indonesian doctors said that they had put the 86-year-old on the maximum
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    • 377 3  -  TEOXUANWEI 80 per cent more drug abusers nabbed: CNB xuanwei@media corp.com.sg AFTER posting the lowest-ever number of drug abusers in 2005, Singapore saw its drug statistics rebound sharply, and disturbingly, for the second successive year. Almost 80 per cent more drug abusers were caught
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    • 144 3 DESPITE a cap of 3-per-cent growth under Singapore's vehicle quota system, the number of cars increased by 9 per cent last year. The car population reached 514,685 units. Overall, the number of motor vehicles on the roads increased to 851,336, a growth of
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  • Singapore news
    • 501 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg BIT by bit, the suggested meanstesting framework is taking shape. Yesterday, Heath Minister Khaw Boon Wan mooted the idea of defining the middle-income group as those earning wages between the 50th and 80th percentile. And retirees and housewives could be
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    • 291 6 A STORM and staffing requirements forced the cancellation of a Tiger Airways flight bound for Singapore, leaving some 200 passengers stranded at Perth International Airport at the weekend. Budget flight TR7I7 was scheduled to leave at 10.35pm on Saturday, but the
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    • 618 6  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg ONLY 39 buildings made the mark last year. But just two weeks into 2008, nearly 120 building projects, both private and public, are lined up and eager for a Green Mark rating. The idea of building sustainability is gaining acceptance among industry
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    • 447 8  -  ALICIA WONG Besides dengue, Aedes mosquitoes may cause this viral fever as well alicia@mediacorp.com.sg YOU'VE heard of dengue fever and malaria but what of chikungunya fever? About two years ago, there was a massive viral outbreak in India and islands in the Indian Ocean, in which victims experienced
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 97 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Sentosa Express turned one yesterday and for Nurashyidah Mahadi (picture, left), who celebrated her birthday on Sunday, it was a doubly-joyous occasion. As the 1,5015t person to board the train yesterday with her husband and their eight-month-old baby, she walked away
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      • 128 8 -938 LIVE Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean is in the United States until Saturday for an official visit. He met with Defence Secretary Robert Gates in Washington DC and exchanged views on a range of issues, including bilateral defence cooperation, the regional
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    • 473 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Govthas improved employability, financial situation of ageing society: Committee sheralyn@media corp.com.sg FROM employment for older workers to annuities to provide for old age, tweaks to Eldershield and the CPF it was a year that saw many strides being made to better provide for an
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    • 218 10  -  -MAYO MARTIN GET ready at this year's Chingay Parade for a showcase of "high art" 12m off the ground, to be precise. As part of the finale of the annual street parade, to be held on Feb 15 and 16, Cultural Medallion recipient Tan Swie
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    • 153 8 Singaporeans Are Becoming Richer, Are You Getting Your Fair Share^ I V Master The 7 Essential Money Skills *1 ii Bost-SeHer Bgjflfljjgftllfifl!! "After experiencing 3 major I failures in 5 years, Conrad W m declared bankruptcy in 2001 B at the age of 37, under a fcg£m mj^^J mountain of
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    • 139 8 I Celebrate Lunar New Year I gilt fit Double Blessings! I .fan r—* f-Tj |v Here's our 1 -for-1 deal, package includes: F3 LJ 2 x Brand New Hot Room Table-Top aa Water Dispensers P E] 8 xIOL Bottles up L 3 •24 bottles of Fruitty Vitaminized Fruit L |i]
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  • world news
    • 295 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will ban hotels from hiring foreigners in frontline positions, bringing them in line with airports, which are also subject to the order aimed at reducing migrant labour, an official said yesterday. Mr Victor Wee, secretary-general for the tourism
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    • 289 12 -AFP PM hopes to look past rivalry and work with China on energy issues BEIJING With a controversial nuclear deal with the United States now in limbo, India yesterday held out the possibility of civilian nuclear cooperation with China. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the
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    • 300 12 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Mr V X Lingam, the lawyer at the heart of a probe into alleged corruption in the Malaysian judiciary, made a surprise appearance in court yesterday, just as the star witness in the case was giving his testimony. Businessman Loh Mvi Fah,
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    • 246 14 ISLAMABAD Pakistan's President has ordered troops to shoot anyone trying to disrupt next month's elections as Karachi, the largest city went on high alert yesterday after the country's second deadly bombing in under a week. Western nations hope the Feb 18 polls will help
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    • 217 14 KUALA LUMPUR Two senior Tourism Ministry officials in Malaysia are being investigated for allegedly misusing government funds to produce a tourism promotional video, local press reported yesterday. The probe started two weeks ago, according to Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor. The duo
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    • 173 14 -AGENCIES HONG KONG It's official. Hong Kong was named the world's freest economy yesterday for a 14th straight year by the US-based Heritage Foundation, but sec-ond-placed Singapore is catching up. Hong Kong, which prides itself on its lais-sez-faire economic policy, topped the
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    • 250 16 -AFP Michigan will decide whether Republican has a chance at top seat DETROIT United States polls opened yesterday in Michigan, where Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (picture) faced a make-or-break battle in his lagging campaign. Mr Romney, whose father once governed the northern US state, was
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    • 250 16  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AS THE threat of a possible economic slowdown looms, the United States is already fortifying itself against a different kind of war. New measures to "boost economic growth in the near term" are being worked out by the nation's economic advisers on the
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    • 137 16 —AGENCIES RIYADH Opec kingpin Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, will increase crude output if such a rise is justified, Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said on Tuesday. "We will raise production when the market justifies it, this is our policy," he said
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    • 668 18 AP US presidential race between a woman and a black man fuels debate NEW YORK Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Mr Barack Obama and Ms Hillary Rodham Clinton have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined. And they
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    • 122 20 A suicide bomber is shown on TV during a press conference yesterday led by Afghanistan's intelligence service chief in Kabul, Mr Amrullah Saleh. Reports said four Taliban gunmen including the suicide bomber who later blew himself up stormed the top five-star and most secure hotel
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    • 305 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Junta to profit from gas sales to China KYAUKPHYU (Myanmar) China is building pipelines to carry huge new gas supplies from Myanmar after securing new contracts with the country's junta. A 1,450 km pipeline will be builtpossibly this year to take gas
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    • 192 20 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE PARIS Virgin Atlantic has said it will conduct a demonstration flight next month of one of its Boeing 747 jets using biofuel the first airborne test of a renewable fuel by a commercial jet. The airline, founded by British billionaire
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    • 117 22 —AP The 10-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has received death threats, the Interior Minister said yesterday. Ms Michele Alliot-Marie confirmed French media reports that Louis Sarkozy, the youngest of the French leader's three sons, received several threatening phone calls on a cell phone
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    • 162 22 .—AFP PARIS Did they or didn't they? A French newspaper reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy (picture) has married former Italian supermodel Carla Bruni. On Monday, a French report said the couple had held a ceremony at the presidential palace last Thursday.
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    • 451 22 -AGENCIES Identity verification among measures to protect young users NEWYORK-Undermounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, the social networking site MySpace has agreed to take steps to protect youngsters from online sexual predators and bullies, including searching for ways to better verify users' ages. The online
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  • Voices
    • 441 24  -  DAVID SEE LEONG KIT Letter from I REFER to Soh Ah Yuen's letter, "A thorny matter of health" (Jan 15). It is a timely reminder for food-loving Singaporeans of the importance of food safety and hygiene. There are two important lessons to be learnt from
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    • 205 26  -  DR BILL MAIER I BY KIDS AND CHORES Having trouble getting your kids to help around the house? Here are some ideas you might want to consider. Start by calling a family meeting. Explain to your kids that a home doesn't run by itself and that
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    • 560 26  -  LIANG DINGZI A Today reader who wanted to continue contributing to the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) was told he could no longer do so because he had passed the mandatory age of 62. He was upset as he could have made the contribution before
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    • 230 28  -  JASON CHIAM CHIAH SERN Letter from I REFER to Mr Thomas Koshy's "Fourth U can go niche and trendy" (Jan 14). Mr Koshy cites the Singapore Management University (SMU) as an example of how a new university can build its reputation
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    • 399 28  -  TERENCE LIM Asean import code may squeeze out smaller labels Letter from I REFER to Ms Marie Tham's letter, "36-month grace period for cosmetic labels" (Jan 14). While the intent to implement higher regulatory standards for cosmetic products is good, I urge the Health Sciences Authority
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  • Business
    • 493 30  -  ESTHER FUNG CHEOWXINYI Lull normal during year-end holiday season: Analysts and esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE number of new private homes sold in December about halved from the month earlier, but analysts attribute the drop to the year-end holiday season and say it is not necessarily an indication
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    • 174 30 -BLOOMBERG RETAIL sales here unexpectedly declined last November as rising oil prices curbed purchases of motor vehicles and offset growth in most other sectors. The November retail sales index dropped 0.3 per cent from the same month a year earlier, after gaining
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    • business news
      • 171 32 -AGENCIES MERRILL Lynch is raising US$6.6 billion ($9.4 billion) by issuing preferred stock to a group that includes three long-time investors as it seeks to shore up its capital base in the wake of massive mortgagerelated write-downs. The investors Korean Investment Corp, Kuwait Investment
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      • 321 32 CITIGROUP posted the biggest loss in the United States bank's 196-year history as surging defaults on home loans forced it to write down the value of sub-prime-mortgage investments by US$lB billion ($25.7 billion), Bloomberg reported yesterday. The fourth-quarter net loss of US$9.B3 billion, or US$l.99
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      • marketbuzz
        • 142 34 Until Jan 21, you can get electronics from top brands as Audio House Sims Drive outlet clears out its display sets. Audio House is offering the lowest prices in town, with discounts of up to 90 per cent. About $10 million worth of stocks are
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        • 174 34 Qatar Duty Free, a subsidiary of Qatar Airways, has announced the winners of its biggest raffle prize draw ever, turning one passenger into a millionaire and two others into luxury-car owners. Varkey Thomas from India won USslmillion ($1.4 million) in the
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      • 284 34  -  NEOCHAICHIN Republic picked to be regional HQ chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg YOU may never see a wind farm here but wind power is set to make its presence felt in Singapore's expanding renewable energy industry. German engineering giant Siemens said yesterday it has chosen Singapore as
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      • 227 34  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) reported a net profit of $156.4 million for its fiscal second quarter ended Dec 31, up a better-than-expected 43.9 per cent from $108.7 million in the corresponding period a year earlier, boosted by higher trading volumes an a
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
        • 39 34 Capita Land is selling its 50-per-cent stake in Savu Investments owner of Hitachi Tower in Raffles Place -for $403.5 million to book a gain of $110.1 million, the property developer said yesterday.
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        • 64 34 The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and the Singapore Exchange has established the Audit Committee Guidance Committee (ACGC) to strengthen the corporate governance practices of listed companies here. The ACGC will be chaired by Mr Bobby Chin Yoke Choong,
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      803 36  -  Jeanine Tan The writers' strike may be happening thousands of miles away in Hollywood, but it's about to hurt you TO MOST people, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is probably nothing more than an interesting report in the papers about lazy creative types wanting
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    • 447 38  -  JEANINETAN Host of The Contender Asia, Jaymee Ong, gets 'cheeky' with 16 savage fighters jeanine@media corp.com.sg BEING the only female in a testosteroneladen environment may be intimidating to some women, but not to Jaymee Ong. The 28-year-old model-actress-host is the co-presenter of The Contender Asia, a
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