Today, 12 February 2008

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    27 1 TODAY /AediaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday February 12, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /AediaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday February 12, 2008 todayonline.com I
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    Lock icon Their Chinese New Year ordeal
    505 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE much of Singapore partied or went wsiting over the Chinese New Year, 12 scrapfard workers spent the long holiday locked In their workplace as their employer flew off ro Hong Kong. The six Chinese nationals and six Indian nationals had apparently been
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    Timor in crisis after attacks
    698 1 President in'serious but stable condition' in Aussie hospital DILI (East Timor) Rebel soldiers launched early morning attacks on the homes of Timor Leste's two key leaders yesterday, critically wounding President Jose Ramos-Horta and plunging the recently-independent nation into renewed fears of violence. Mr Ramos-Horta, who
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      49 1 A SLAP AND A WRIT BUSINESSMAN'S WIFE SUED BY STEWARDESS HOT NEWS PAGE 3 NEWS COMMENT P N BALJI ON AGE, GENDER, RACE... AND THE NEXT PM SINGAPORE PAGE 6 US ELECTIONS LAGGING HILLARY SACKS MANAGER WORLD PAGE 10 MUSIC'S FINEST GRAMMY NODS FOR OBAMA, WINEHOUSE PLUS PAGE 29
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      As the world lurches, Spore presses on
      665 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG Spore at a transformative, stable phase, says MM Lee cheekong@media corp.com.sg BATTERED financial markets, a crippled United States economy headed for recession and food prices soaring on a twin draft of poor harvests and ballooning energy costs. Yet, even as such dire
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      A shock, for students about to leave on school excursion
      324 3  -  JINNY KOH jinny@media corp.com.sg WHAT was meant to be an excursion for students of a secondary school in the north, turned into a shocking experience when a Secondary 2 Thai boy was believed to have jumped off the fourth floor
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      Lock icon A 'slap' that led to a suit
      376 3  -  TEOXUANWEI Stewardess suing wife of Venture Corp CEO over alleged incident xuanwei@media corp.com.sg A SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) flight attendant is taking the wife of one of Singapore's richest men, Mr Wong Ngit Liong, to court for allegedly slapping her on a flight from
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon FLYER TAKES FLIGHT
      385 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg EVEN before the Singapore Flyer reached the pinnacle of its ascent, the festive mood in a capsule booked by United Overseas Bank (UOB) rang with yum sengs, each louder than the previous one. The 50 people in the bank's group were among
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon HDB TO SELL 278 MORE FLATS IN MATURE ESTATES
        114 5 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has launched the sale of 278 flats under the Bi-monthly Sale of four-room and bigger flats. These flats comprising 194 units of four-room, 64 units of fiveroom and 20 executive flats are in
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        Lock icon WOMAN IN SHOCK AFTER FIRE
        68 5 -TEOXUANWEI A woman in her 40s was hospitalised for shock after her three-room flat at Lorong 1 Toa Payoh caught fire yesterday afternoon. The blaze in the bedroom and living room of the third-floor unit was put out within 15 minutes. Fifteen residents from the
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      Fertility doctor suspended
      289 5  -  SHERALYNTAY He had sex with a patient and revealed confidential information to her sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg A FORMER fertility consultant with XX Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) has been suspended from practising medicine for two years, after he admitted to having sex with a patient. Dr Yeong Cheng Toh
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      Lock icon AGE, GENDER, RACE ... AND THE NEXT PM
      672 6  - AGE, GENDER, RACE AND THE NEXT PM P N BALJI EDITORIAL DIRECTOR balji@media corp.com.sg LEAVE it to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to deliver that delightful, memorable and incisive soundbite. Showing his displeasure with Myanmar's generals who lead obscenely rich lives while their country continues to burn, he described one
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      Young Muslims rally against terrorists' rap of hate
      233 8  -  -NGJINGYNG RAP with an anti-terrorism message: What better way to reach out to young Muslims when the enemy in this case, the Jemaah Islamiyah network has its own rap video to draw the youth to terrorist activities? The idea was one of
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      Lock icon More zip for SAP schools
      432 8  -  UNYANQIN Changes include poly tie-ups, non-exam courses yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THEY stand out for their academic excellence but Singapore's Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools can't just be good schools for top students. They need to evolve to better fulfil their mission of nurturing bilingual and bicultural students
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      159 6 A WALTZ THROUGH VIENNA I THIS VALENTINE'S DAY I Celebrate romance with your loved one this Valentine's Day at Intercontinental Singapore. Waltz through Vienna at Olive Tree, beautifully transformed into an intimate dining area and invoke moments of romance with special Viennese desserts crafted by Executive Pastry Chef Reinhard Lackner.
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      Lock icon KL embarks on $142b boost for Sarawak
      354 10 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday launched a development project worth nearly US$lOO billion ($141.8 billion) to fuel growth in re-source-rich Sarawak state on Borneo island. Mr Abdullah said the government will spend an initial RMS billion ($2.2 billion)
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      Lock icon Lagging Hillary replaces campaign chief
      212 10 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Ms Hillary Clinton (picture) shook up her campaign as Democratic rival Barack Obama overtook her in the race for delegates to win the party nomination for the White House. Mr Obama is expected to extend his lead in the "Potomac Primary" today, after
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      Lock icon Bomber blows up Pakistan poll candidate
      155 10 -AFP MIRANSHAH (Pakistan) A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, including an election candidate, and wounded 13 others in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan yesterday, the police said. The attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into the candidate's convoy as it
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      47 12 GUTTED: South Korean police standing guard yesterday in front of the destroyed centuries-old wooden structure atop the Namdaemun gate in Seoul, South Korea. The Yonhap news agency says police have arrested a suspect in the fire that destroyed the 610-year-old landmark-which is considered a national treasure. AP
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      Lock icon Marine held for raping Japanese girl
      340 12 -AGENCIES Tension mounts over United States-Japan military alliance TOKYO —Japanese police yesterday arrested a United States Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa, an incident that could affect plans to relocate a US base there, officials said.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon EX GARUDA HEAD SENTENCED FOR MURDER OF ACTIVIST
        105 12 -AP A Jakarta district court yesterday sentenced Indra Setiawan, a former CEO of Garuda Airlines, to 12 months in prison for his part in the mid-air killing of a human rights activist. Setiawan was convicted for being an accessory to the 2004
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        Lock icon ATTACK ON BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE FOILED
        104 12 AFP Police in northern India have held six alleged Islamic militants suspected of planning an attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), a report said yesterday. "The BSE was going to be their first target," Mr Amitabh Yash, a police officer with Uttar Pradesh
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        Lock icon MALAYSIA CONSIDERS CONJUGAL VISITS FOR INMATES
        64 12 AFP Malaysia is considering allowing its prisoners conjugal visits to help rehabilitate them before they re-enter society, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. Well-behaved inmates with no sexually transmitted diseases will be allowed visits from family members, the paper said. Similar programmes abroad have
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      Lock icon Four masterpieces, gone
      287 14 —AGENCIES ZURICH Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth 180 million Swiss francs ($231 million) from a Zurich museum, police said yesterday, calling it a "spectacular art robbery". The robbers, who are still at large, stole the
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      M'sian food safety alerts on the rise
      367 14  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THE Malaysian authorities issued 110 alerts last year to warn the public about food safety -10 of which were caused by food imported from Singapore. Malaysia had either sent back or destroyed 765 consignments of food imported for the Chinese
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      245 10 Canon Delighting You Always (7?£/nem6e/ 1 a/u/sAa/r mow- fireaom moments Remember your very first dinner date together? Your first bouquet of W flowers? There are few things more precious than the memories of the ®STIiYT\ ffl good times the two of you spent together. vMi9 ml ~7r-, l><USBGn /I W
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      Lock icon Pull the plug on unfair treatment
      274 16  -  PHUA CHENG SAN Workers seen handling noisy drills without ear protection Letter from I FEAR that many road construction and repair workers are being treated unfairly. I say this because I have seen workers who handle high-decibel pneumatic drills without wearing protective ear plugs.
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      That elusive seat on the train: Ask, and it shall be given
      401 16  -  ABDUL RAHMAN TANCHEAHOON Letter from I REFER to Lee Kam Woon's letter, "All she is asking for is a seat on the train" (Feb 5). It is sad to read about Madam Lee being refused a seat on
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      Lock icon Town councils, rev up recycling
      286 17  -  PHILLIP ANG KENG HONG Needed: More bins, motivated cleaners Letter from MOST town councils have been relatively silent on environmental issues, preferring to go with government-led initiatives. Unfortunately, tonnes of recyclable material end up at the incineration plant daily. One issue is the number of
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      Helpful ways to spell it out for those who can't hear
      120 17  -  ETHYUS LIEW Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Have English subtitles to improve film experience" (Feb 4). I have a hearing-impaired sister who does not go to the movies. And she seldom watches English movies shown on television
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      Shedding principles to cut costs
      188 17  -  JENNY CHEN Letter from WE ALL know the cost of living is soaring and people are finding ways to cut costs. But I was stunned by two incidents I witnessed recently. I was on the lower deck of a bus, and there were only a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      177 18  -  DR BILL MAIER BY GETTING THE PROPER SLEEP You probably know that getting too little sleep is harmful to your health, but did you know that getting too much sleep can be bad for you as well? A new study showed that women who average about
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      Lock icon isay A GRACELESS SOCIETY?
      414 18  -  ANNETTE TAN SIEWLIAN MY FATHER has recently been wheelchair bound and has to use the lifts at shopping centres such as Parkway Parade, which is the closest mall to where my parents live. It is here where my family and I encountered utterly disappointing behaviour from
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  • Business
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      Lock icon Time for Yahoo to wed AOL?
      367 20 -AGENCIES Internet search firm rebuffs Microsoft's $63-billion offer INTERNET search firm Yahoo may restart merger talks with AOL to fend off a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft, The Times of London reported yesterday. Yahoo and its advisers from United States investment banks Goldman Sachs
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      SembCorp affidavits allowed
      354 20  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp.com.sg THE High Court will allow the inclusion of most parts of affidavits submitted by SembCorp Marine as evidence in its application for an injunction against a winding-up petition filed by French bank BNP Paribas, the rig builder said yesterday. BNP is claiming US$5O.7
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        Lock icon Genting's gamble
        406 22 -BLOOMBERG Casino developer borrows $4.2 b to fund building of IR GENTING International, a unit of Asia's biggest gaming operator by market value, borrowed as much as $4.2 billion to fund the building of its casino resort in Singapore, more than double its outstanding debt. The unit of
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        Lock icon Credit Suisse may topple UBS off the top of the Swiss earnings chart
        402 22 -BLOOMBERG CREDIT Suisse Group is earning more than ÜBS for the first time in almost a decade after chief executive officer (CEO) Brady Dougan avoided the writedowns that forced his rival to report the biggest-ever quarterly loss
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      • marketbuzz
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          LUXURY INDULGENCE WITH CAPITACARD
          227 22 When he received a call informing him that he was one of five Capita Card members who had won timepieces of their choice from Sincere Fine Watches, Mr Surandran Pillai (picture, centre) thought it was a prank. Said the 55-year-old businessman with a grin: "I only
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          CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DISABLED AT KFC AND PIZZA HUT
          172 22 KFC and Pizza Hut believe that those with disabilities should enjoy equal job opportunities, which is why it announced its "open-door" hiring policy last month. Mr Michael Gian, chief executive officer of KFC and Pizza Hut, said: "At KFC and
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        Is Temasek eyeing a bigger slice of Standard Chartered?
        324 23  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg LESS than a month after it increased its stake in London-based Standard Chartered Bank to 19 per cent, Temasek Holdings may be planning to raise its interest further to over 20 per cent, according to UK newspaper The
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        Lock icon Shares plummet here, across Asia
        221 23 -AGENCIES SINGAPORE shares plunged yesterday in line with the rest of Asia as fears mounted that the United States economy was already in a recession, dealers said. The Straits Times Index fell 63.68 points, or 2.1 per cent, to 2,868.29. In the broader market, falling
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        Lock icon NOL-TUI talks hit deadlock
        245 23 Dow Jones EARLY merger talks between Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) and Germany's TUI to create the world's third-largest container shipping enterprise have hit an impasse, Dow Jones cited an unnamed source as saying. "They both want it but it's a very complex deal. It's now
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        Fancy a rat watch? This one is $9,890
        125 24  -  JOSEPH YADAO THE Hour Glass group welcomes the Year of the Rat with Alain Silberstein's "Chinese New Year Rat Watch". Alain Silberstein watches are contemporary works of art for everyday wear, as can be seen in this brightly-coloured titanium watch (picture). Its
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        Spend dough to make dough
        416 24  -  JOSEPH YADAO City Link Mall Bread Talk outlet gets $400,000 facelift joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IF YOU miss the aroma of freshly baked bread as you're strolling along City Link Mall, you'll be glad to know it's returned. The Bread Talk outlet there which had a $400,000
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        Y&R Singapore clinches Ml account
        246 24  -  JOSEPH YADAO ADVERTISING agency Y&R Singapore has won the Ml account following a closed-door pitch last week. The mobile operator has appointed the agency for an initial period of 12 to 18 months, pending a full pitch process. "This change of creative agency is part
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