Today, 22 January 2008

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    26 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday January 22, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=OJA.CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday January 22, 2008 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon MARKET MELTDOWN
    651 1 -AGENCIES STOCK markets around the world were awash in a sea of red yesterday on concerns the United States will enter a recession and slow global growth, as a US$l45-billion ($209.6 billion) fiscal stimulus package announced on Friday by US President George W Bush failed to steady investors'
    -AGENCIES; BLOOMBERG |; AP  -  651 words
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    Billions invested – are they safe?: MPs
    625 1  - Billions invested are they safe?: MPs NAZRYBAHRAWI Tharman: Yes, they're 'good, long-term investments'with risks thoroughly assessed nazry@mediacorp.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings' multi-billion investment in British bank Barclays about half a year back hogged the headlines. But now that the value of the US$3-bil-lion ($4.3-billion) investment has about halved, the wisdom of recent
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    Lock icon No white card? Surprise for those visiting M'sia
    467 1  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@media corp. com. sg THIS familiar white card, which once was as essential as your passport to getting you in and out of Malaysia, is now no more as overland travellers found out to their surprise and confusion at the weekend.
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      59 1 school bullies teachers need more training local page 4 youth olympics store, moscow in two-horse race sports page 45 world record theresa goh rewrites 50m mark sports page 45 meet felicia chin at the Today health wellness exhibition ON JAN 25-27, z^S^. WAM TO BPM, iSHk STORE mmR m. EXPO
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      5 1 CHINA FOOTHOLD BUSINESS «PAGE 28
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  • hot news
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      'Those who need help will be helped'
      654 2  -  TAN HUI LENG Governmentwill help S'poreans offset increases in healthcare, cost of living huileng@media corp.com.sg AS SINGAPOREANS grapple with spiralling costs of living, which are expected to climb further this year, two government ministers yesterday took pains to explain the issues one touching
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      Lock icon FAULTY TRAIN CAUSES 7-HOUR DELAY
      620 3  -  JINNY KOH jinny@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as an overhaul of the public transport system is being rolled out, SMRT's train services encountered their longest delay in at least 10 years. With the first train of the day from Pasir Ris unable to depart until 12.45pm more than
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  • Singapore news
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      LANDMARK DECISION
      493 4  -  SHERALYN TAY Muslims to be included under amended Human Organ Transplant Act sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg WITH six Members of Parliament (MPs) five of them Malay-Muslim -voicing their support, Singapore made history in becoming the first country to enshrine the principle of assumed consent for Muslims within an organ donation law.
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      Lock icon Bullies: Teachers need more training
      424 4  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg A CASE of bullying can come to the attention of a teacher in school, but do teachers have adequate training as well as access to resources to help them determine what to do next? This was an area Member of Parliament (Jalan
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        PROSTITUTION, GAMBLING IN GEYLANG UNDER CONTROL
        93 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT The twin vices of prostitution and gambling at Geylang are under control, said Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee in Parliament. Last year, the police conducted some 950 vice-related operations, 60 more than in 2006, resulting in
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        Lock icon NUS OFFERS POST-GRAD COURSE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
        70 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The National University of Singapore has launched a new Masters of Psychology (Clinical) Programme, the first postgraduate programme in Clinical Psychology offered by a local university. The new two-year full-time course is an entry-level training programme, and is a combination of
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        CHIKUNGUNYA DETECTED IN 9
        100 4 As of Sunday, 9 probable cases of chikungunya fever, which is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, have been reported. Eight were from Clive Street and one from nearby Dickson Road. Seven patients were admitted, of which two have since been discharged. The Health Ministry and the
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      Poly grads, you're hot, hot, hot
      409 5  -  NEQ CHAI CHIN POLYTECHNIC graduates are in high demand amid Singapore's robust economic growth, with the maritime and engineering sectors offering the highest salaries for fresh grads. According to the annual Graduate Employment Survey conducted between October and December last year by the five
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      Upgrading costs too much for some, says MP
      289 6  -  ■ZULOTHMAN THE makeover of their homes is welcomed, but would the weight on the wallets of the low-income be too much? Member of Parliament (MP) Cynthia Phua of Aljunied GRC raised this concern yesterday as Parliament debated proposals to usher in new
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      Lock icon Raise or not to raise?
      539 6  -  TAN HUI LENG MPs debate whether to up $8,000 ceiling for DBSS buyers huileng@media corp.com.sg THEY are public housing flats designed, built and marketed by private developers, costing as much as $700,000 which begs the question: Should not the $8,000 income ceiling for prospective buyers
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    • Article
      Murdered masseuse tried to extort $30,000, Court told
      354 8  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg HE WAS a regular customer at her massage parlour and the rubs blossomed into a sexual relationship. Things were rosy for about a year then, hawker Eu Lim Hoklai discovered a third party in his affair with masseuse Madam
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      Crime rates are low, but...
      385 8  -  ZULOTHMAN kidnapping hoaxes, phone scams now a top concern: Police zul@media corp.com.sg AMID crime rates that are the third lowest in a decade, crimes against the elderly, metal thefts and statutory rape bucked the trend last year. But the crime cases that stood out were
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      WHY DISCOURAGE THESE N-LEVEL STUDENTS?
      812 10  -  THOMAS KOSHY Schools should support every student who is willing to try even the weakest one FOLLOWING adverse comments on the way in which a secondary school principal had addressed some Secondary 5 Normal stream students, last Thursday the Minister of State for Education stated
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Lingam: I must have been drunk
      506 12 -AP Lawyer on those boastful claims he allegedly made in video KUALA LUMPUR A lawyer who boasted he had brokered senior judges' appointments said yesterday that he must have been drunk when he made the claim, which was caught in a secretly shot clip
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      Lock icon DPM Najib defends crackdown
      359 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday defended its crackdown on dissent, including the arrest of ethnic Indian activists and suppression of street protests, saying it had averted a serious risk of racial violence. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak raised the spectre of the country's worst race riots,
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      70 12 AFP GIVE US THIS DAY...: Palestinians trying to buy bread outside a bakery in Gaza City yesterday. Gaza's sole power pjant had been shut down after Israel had restricted fuel supplies to pressure Hamas to stop Palestinian groups from firing rockets into Israel. Traffic on the city's normally busy streets
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      Still no word on Malaysian elections
      191 12 PUTRAJAYA The issue of the forthcoming general election was not on the agenda of the Barisan Nasional (BN) Supreme Council meeting yesterday, Bernama news agency cited Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as saying. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi had chaired a three-hour
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      Lock icon Jockeying for Cabinet posts begins
      431 14 —AFP Thai crown prince formally opens Parliament; parties to choose Premier on Friday BANGKOK —Thailand's crown prince yesterday opened the country's first elected parliament since a coup 16 months ago, with allies of deposed Premier Thaksin Shinawatra back in charge under the People Power Party
      —AFP; BLOOMBERG  -  431 words
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      Lock icon Flight attendants want Thai 'racy' drama off the air
      297 14 -AGENCIES BANGKOK A popular new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants who yesterday demanded that the show be cancelled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light The Air
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon OLYMPIC STADIUM'S SAFETY REPORT FALSE, SAYS BEIJING
        121 14 -AFP Beijing Olympic organisers yesterday rejected charges that more than 10 workers had died during a rush to complete the main stadium for the August Games. London's Sunday Times reported that safety standards were ignored during work on the 90,000-seater stadium, known as
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        Lock icon HEFTY FINES FOR THE WEALTHY CHINESE WITH MORE KIDS
        129 14 -AFP Beijing plans to make an example of celebrities who flout China's one-child policy by dramatically raising fines, state media said yesterday. "Celebrities and wealthy people will be fined more for giving birth to more than one child," Beijing Municipal Commission
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        Lock icon West gets Musharraf pledge of 'fair' elections
        321 14 AGENCIES BRUSSELS Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (picture) opened a European tour yesterday by offering assurances that his government is committed to democracy and playing its full role in the global fight against terrorism. Before meeting with senior European Union and North Atlantic Treaty
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        Lock icon Bomb blasts in Bhutan; militant Nepalis suspected
        213 16 -AP GAUHATI (India) Four bomb blasts rocked the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, just days after it set the date for its first election a vote that will end a century of absolute royal rule. The explosions on Sunday rocked different parts of
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        Lock icon Pulling the black vote
        421 16 -AFP Hillary, Obama in a delicate duel in South Carolina COLUMBIA (South Carolina) Ms Hillary Clinton paid homage to Mr Martin Luther King yesterday in a bid to woo African-American voters ahead of the Democratic primary in South Carolina, where her top rival, Mr Barack Obama
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        Spotlight back on Yangon's snub of Asean at summit
        468 18  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg MYANMAR under the intent gaze of the world snubbed the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) at its Summit last November by its llth-hour rejection of United Nations (UN) Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari's scheduled briefing for world leaders. And
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        Lock icon My role? 'I don't know'
        465 18  -  TIFFANY TAN IN BANGKOK New Asean chief Surin unsure about Myanmar tiffany@media corp.com.sg FEW will disagree that the new Sec-retary-General of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) is as experienced as they come. But it appears that Dr Surin Pitsuwan's three-week-old post as head
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        Lock icon Taiwan and China in tug of war over allies
        288 19 DPA TAIPEI Taiwan's push to rally support for its bid to join the United Nations may have been dented by the possible loss of three Latin American and Caribbean allies to China. But it may win over two other nations which
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        'Suharto has to confess crimes'
        500 19  -  JESSINTATAN IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA jessinta@media corp.com.sg WHILE he lies fighting for his life in a hospital bed, protesters gathering nearby demand that former President Suharto must be brought to justice. And, they say, he must first admit his sins before they can forgive him. Among
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        Lock icon Saudi women get the green light
        380 20 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Driving ban lifted to stem move for more freedom RIYADH Saudi Arabia is to lift its ban on women drivers in an attempt to stem a rising suffragette-style movement in the deeplyconservative state. Government officials have confirmed the landmark decision and
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        Lock icon Fukuda faces a defiant DPJ
        355 20  -  -JESSINTATAN -AFP UNITED THEY STAND: About a dozen ex-political prisoners and activists hold hands and sing the Indonesian national anthem while gathering near the hospital where former President Suharto is fighting for his life. The National Activists Movement of 1998 (Pena) has demanded that Mr
        -AFP; WEETECKHIAN  -  355 words
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  • Voices
    • A CRISIS MISMANAGED?
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        SMRT should have raised alert through the media
        135 22  -  GURMIT SINGH KULLAR Letter from FROM listening to the radio reports yesterday morning, it seemed that radio presenters were receiving information about the MRT train disruptions between Pasir Ris and Tanah Merah (picture) from commuters instead of from official sources. Shouldn't the
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        Lock icon Not enough information, handling of traffic flow
        312 22  -  MONGKOKTHONG Letter from I REFER to the MRT disruption that occurred yesterday morning between Pasir Ris and Tanah Merah MRT stations. I was caught in the chaos at Tampines station along with thousands of other stranded commuters. While the SMRT staff and police
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    • Letter
      A gap that calls for an iconic bridge?
      141 22  -  CHARLES TAN Letter from MANY great waterfront cities the world over are famous for their beautiful bridges. Think of London's historical Tower Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. San Francisco boasts the Golden Gate Bridge and Japan the Akashi-Kaikyo bridge, both of
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      203 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY WHEN PARENTS DISAGREE What typically happens when mothers and fathers disagree on how to raise and, especially, discipline the children? Well, it's a very common pattern in family relations and an unhealthy one. Here's the familiar scenario: Dad is harsh and
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      Lock icon Avoiding the potholes
      327 24  -  JASON CHIAM True competition, costs among issues to be worked out Letter from I APPLAUD the new initiatives announced by Transport Minister Raymond Lim in his speech on the review of Singapore's land transportation policy last Friday. The fact that he acknowledges the public transportation system must
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      Part-time work: Give foreign students a choice
      161 24  -  LAWFOOKLOONG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Going hungry in a land of plenty" (Jan 18), and agree wholeheartedly with the writer that foreign students who struggle to make ends meet in Singapore should be allowed to work part-time. School and revision
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      Shareholders or commuters, which is it?
      280 24  -  BINHEEHENG Letter from I REFER to Mr P N Balji's commentary, "The 3Cs of transport" (Jan 21), which missed questions, left fundamentally unanswered by the Government, on whether public transportation should be considered a public utility or commercial business. The issues of public utility
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      SAFETY PLACED BEFORE PROFIT
      304 26  -  ALAIN KHAIAT Letter from President, Cosmetic, Toiletries and Fragrance Association of Singapore (CTFAS) WE REFER to the letter "No cosmetic change this" (Jan 16). We represent over 75 companies doing business in Singapore who have pledged to operate ethically and in accordance with the regulations of
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      Cosmetic code means business
      446 26  -  MARIE THAM HSA working with industry players to ensure Asean directive's success Letter from Head (Cosmetics Control Unit) Centre for Drug Administration Health Products Regulation Group Health Sciences Authority WE REFER to the letter "No cosmetic change this" (Jan 16) by Mr Terence Lim. We are
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      247 25 !healthBwellness 25 -27 January 2008 10am Bpm pre °dby •■r? by Singapore Expo Hall 6B £^r parkwayHeaith™ PQC jb^ f- Galling all newtorn tallies and toddlers\ paEr*. —--"""I 1 feeout/^/ e^es, encnWtog anrfe ftTyrequeri^ett/ng U and cfiu% cflee*s. «De want you F }y compliments tfiatyeur Takegart in tfiese centests and
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      659 27 JhealthBwellness 25 -27 January 2008 10am Bpm -«rp Singapore Expo Hall 6B i^r ParkwayHeaith- PQC TIME THEME I YOUR CHOICE TO LOOK FABULOUS I 1.30pm 2pm Registration I 2pm 2.30pm Welcome speech by Dr Chua Jun Jin, Plastic Surgeon S3 2.30pm 3pm Hair growth: Facts and Myths by Dr Eileen
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  • Business
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      Temasek gains foothold in China's equity industry
      328 28 TEMASEK Holdings, seeking to gain a foothold in China's high-pro-file private equity industry, is apparently following one of its key strategic guidelines by teaming with a good local investment partner. Temasek is investing, together with two Canadian funds the Canada Pension Plan and
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      Lock icon A magnet for Mid-East funds?
      383 28  -  ESTHER FUNG Al-Futtaim offer for Robinsons may be the start esther@media corp.com.sg FLUSH with petrodollars, more Middle Eastern companies could head to Asia to snap up assets, following Dubai-based Al-Futtaim Group's cash offer for Singapore's oldest retailer, Robinson and Co. These companies would follow in
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    • business news
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        Spore aims even higher
        414 30  -  CHEOWXINYI Up to $19 billion of fixed asset investments in manufacturing, services this year cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg IT EXCEEDED expectations last year. And this year, Singapore is aiming for an even higher target in investment commitments up to $19 billion of fixed asset investments in manufacturing and
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        Lock icon Transport shares drop after 'Big Bang' report
        265 30 CHEOWXINYI WHILE global recession fears sent shares around the world plummeting, Singapore transport shares also came under pressure from a Government announcement to overhaul the transport system, including the opening up of the bus market to competition. The Straits Times index dropped 6
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        Lock icon Air China shares fall following China Eastern's brush-off
        384 31 -REUTERS CHINA Eastern, the country's third-biggest airline, snubbed an approach by bigger rival Air China's parent to buy a $2-billion stake, triggering the steepest daily loss in Air China's shares in Hong Kong. China Eastern said the proposal from China National Aviation
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        323 31 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Failed Taiwan bank going up for auction on Jan 31 DBS Group Holdings and New York-based SAC Private Capital Group LLC are considering bidding in an auction for Taiwan's failed Bowa Commercial Bank, people familiar with the matter said. Central Deposit
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          135 32 Travellers passing through the departure hall at Changi Airport Terminal 2 last week got a taste of the fast-paced world of Formula 1. An F1 simulator, accompanied by educational stations that featured information on the sport and its history plus details about the inaugural Singapore leg
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      206 37 THE Complaints Choir Project one of the main performers for the Ml Singapore Fringe Festival will have to do without a conductor and the project co-founders for one of their performances. Project co-founders Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and wife Tellervo, as well as conductor Chong Wai
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      548 42 -AFP TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE Novak Djokovic wore down the tenacious but battle-weary Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets to power into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open yesterday. The exciting young Serbian third seed produced the full array of his blinding groundstrokes to sink
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      429 43 —AFP AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS Ghana 2 Guinea 1 ACCRA, Ghana Sulley Muntari brought Ghana to a standstill on Sunday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), when the Portsmouth midfielder's last-gasp wonder strike gave the 2008 African Cup
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      391 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports Hub Consortium (SSHC) have guaranteed 90 event days annually at the new national stadium, when it is ready at the end of 2011. The consortium have also promised 46 event days at the Singapore Indoor Stadium
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      209 44 TANYO-HINN INTEGRATED resorts specialists Genting International want to build a hotel at Singapore's Sports Hub. The three-star hotel, estimated to cost $200 million, is expected to be 24 storeys high and will boast 528 rooms. Ludwig Reichhold, managing director of Singapore Sports
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      204 45  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg BEFORE she set off last Thursday, she admitted she already had one eye on the Paralympic Games in Beijing in September. The 4th Asean Para Games, which opened on Sunday in Korat, Thailand, was meant to be another stepping stone as swimming star Theresa
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      541 45  -  LOWUNFHOONG lOC will announce hosts for inaugural Youth Olympic Games on Feb 21 linfhoong@media corp.com.sg HE CAME prepared with two speeches, the second one just in case Singapore failed to make the final shortlist in its bid to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010.
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