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    • 399 1 DPA ISLAMABAD Embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was heading for a devastating election defeat today as opposition parties dominated early polling results from crucial parliamentary elections the previous day. Local news channels reported the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Mr Musharraf's political backers,
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    • 687 1  -  JINNY KOH ANDNGJINGYNG TAN HUI LENG Venerable Shi granted leave of absence as police take over investigations huileng@media corp.com.sg THE search for answers to possible irregularities at one of Singapore's biggest charities has now been turned over to the police experts in commercial crime. Despite an
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    • 48 1 RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO SERBIA WITHDRAWS MORE ENVOYS WORLD PAGE 16 LEAN, GREEN FLYING MACHINE A CLOSER STEP TO ZERO EMISSIONS?... HOT NEWS PAGE 2 DEAD POETS SOCIETY AN END TO RHYMES SOON IN STORE? PLUS PAGE 28 YOUTH OLYMPICS SINGAPORE GETS ALL ABUZZ OVER BID SPORTS PAGE 36
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  • hot news
    • 568 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg THIS plane will have the wingspan of a superjumbo Airbus A3BO but the weight of a car. And when it finally takes off in three years' time, the single-seater Solar Impulse plane will attempt to create aviation history by flying around
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    • 772 3  - EXTENDING A HELPING HAND ANDYMUKHERJEE STAGFLATION has come to Singapore. The entire focus of the Government's annual Budget was on dealing with the perils of slowing growth and accelerating inflation a deadly combination as less fiscally robust governments than Singapore's may soon discover. Of the two, the bigger threat is
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  • singapore news
    • 254 4  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg WHEN the Institute of Technical Education's (ITE) College West campus opens in Choa Chu Kang in 2010, lessons will not be limited to the classroom. The imposing 114,480 square-metre structure built at a cost of $323.7 million will
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    • 502 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Little or no difficulty for 98% of students cheekong@media corp.com.sg SOME four years after it was rolled out, the Integrated Programme (IP) received a glowing report from Minister of State for Education Lvi Tuck Yew yesterday. So far, only 2 per cent have
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    • 287 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Load on Sin-XL route still to meet carriers' expectations weekeat@media corp.com.sg TWO new entrants to the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur sector, Jetstar Asia and Tiger Airways, have experienced "lower than expected" passenger loads on flights. Jetstar chief Cheong Phit Lian said loads on the
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    • 303 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Turbulent skies and warning signs are looming for the global aviation sector, said industry players at a pow-wow here yesterday. Airlines face low returns, rising oil prices and an impending recession in the United States, noted the International Air Transport Association (lATA),
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    • 218 6  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@media corp.com.sg IMAGINE the millions of dollars in fuel costs that could be saved if aircraft drag could be reduced. This breakthrough in flow control technology might just be developed in Singapore, with the research collaboration between the National University of
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    • 222 8  -  —ANSLEYNG IN THE past, Singapore had played the "smart buyer" on the open market of defence procurement But in today's world, a traditional seller-buyer approach is no longer enough to meet the needs of a military transformed by rapid technological advances, said Second Defence
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    • 172 8 NEARLY 10,000 applications have been received by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) for 278 four-room and bigger flats in its latest bi-monthly sale. The flats are in popular, mature towns such as Toa Payoh and Tampines, where land is limited for new
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      411 8  -  SHERALYN TAY First dedicated refuelling station outside Jurong Island opens sheralyn@media corp. com. sg WHILE it may be early days yet for compressed natural gas (CNG) cars here, there has been a surge in demand for the environmentally friendly vehicles in recent months from both taxi
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 77 10 A woman was fined $4,500 and banned last week from hiring other foreign domestic workers (FDWs) because she had withheld her maid's salary for about six years and lied to the Controller of Work Permits. Zubaidah Sanluan had to also pay
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      • 110 10  -  —TEOXUANWEI Three Malaysians who killed a Myanmar national in 2005 had their appeal against the death penalty dismissed yesterday. Kamal Kupli, 24, Abdul Malik Usman, 28, and Hamir Hasim, 23, wanted only to rob Mr Them Naing, 41, defence lawyers said. When the aircon repairman resisted,
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      • 79 10 From March 1, six new sectors will come under the Workplace Safety and Health Act: Hotels and food-and-beverage; goods transport; landscape care and maintenance; healthcare; veterinary; and waste and water management. Small and medium-sized enterprises can tap into the Risk Management Assistance
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    • 374 10  -  TAN HUI LENG SGH's Life Centre treats illness, manages lifestyle huileng@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore General Hospital has launched its first holistic centre for lifestyle-related ailments such as eating disorder and obesity. It even provides counselling and hypnotherapy. The $l-million Life Centre doesn't just treat one's medical
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  • world news
    • 436 12 KUALA LUMPUR Several leaders of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) are quietly worried that party president Samy Vellu has become a liability and think he should be replaced soon, Malaysiakini reported yesterday. But they are reportedly clueless on how to convince him to give up his
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    • 351 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's weak opposition received a jolt when a prominent member decided not to contest the upcoming general election but her party urged her yesterday to reconsider and defend her parliamentary seat. The Democratic Action Party (DAP), the main opposition party
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    • 190 12 —AFP YANGON Military-ruled Myanmar must respect the election won by Ms Aung San Suu Kyi (picture) in order to build a true democracy, her party said yesterday in its first reaction to the junta's timetable for new elections. The junta earlier this month
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    • 590 13  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI DPM Najib seems set to become PM, but who will be No 2 is less clear nazry@media corp.com.sg IT MAY be a Herculean feat for Singapore's ruling party to unearth credible candidates for its future political A-team, but across the Causeway, there is apparently no
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    • 212 13 PENANG Prime Minster Abdullah Badawi has urged Malaysians not to compare the country's economy with that of Singapore's, a newspaper report said yesterday. Speaking to the Chinese community at a dialogue session in Penang on Sunday, Mr Abdullah said the comparison of Singapore's economy
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    • 299 14 —AFP A former official-who has accused the husband and a political ally of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo of corruption yesterday produced bundles of money he said were used to try to buy his silence. "I am returning this because I failed to do my
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    • 373 14 —AFP YANGON The police in military-run Myanmar have banned DVD vendors from selling the new Rambo film about a Vietnam war veteran fighting the junta's soldiers. But that has not stopped people from trying to buy it "I have asked a
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    • 236 15 A GROUP of residents around Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport (picture) has threatened to launch rockets and balloons to disrupt airborne jetliners unless they are paid compensation money for noise pollution. About 100 residents on Saturday called on the new government of Prime
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    • 425 15 —AGENCIES Critics say govt's 'populist'policy will drain nation's coffers BANGKOK Thailand's newlyelected Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej yesterday unveiled an ambitious spending plan he said would shore up the kingdom's economy despite worries over a global slowdown. In his first speech to Parliament, Mr Samak also vowed
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 100 16 -AFP Special prosecutors are expected to clear South Korea's president-elect Lee Myung Bak of allegations that he was involved in a stock manipulation scandal in 2001, media reports said. State prosecutors had cleared Mr Lee, who takes office on Feb 25, of involvement
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      • 112 16 -AFP Japan voiced anger yesterday after the arrest of two more United States Marines for misconduct on the southern island of Okinawa. "What's the matter with the US military?" Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said. "I have to demand seriously that they pin it down." One
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      • 91 16 -AFP More than 2 million people have registered as descendants of Confucius (picture), tripling the size of the ancient Chinese philosopher's family tree, China's state media reported yesterday. The list, which was last updated in 1930, has rocketed by more than 1.3 million, according to
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    • 366 16 DPA Belgrade retaliates over recognition of Kosovo's independence BELGRADE Serbia has ordered its ambassadors to Washington, London, Paris and Ankara to return to Belgrade for consultations in retaliation for recognition extended to Kosovo as an independent country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Speaking to the Serbian
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    • 193 16 AGENCIES China yesterday expressed "grave concern" over Kosovo's declaration of independence, as events in the Balkans triggered a flare in tensions between the Chinese and Taiwanese governments. China's Foreign Ministry blasted a statement by Taiwan welcoming the former Serbian region's independence,
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    • 478 17 -THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE 65 million kg recalled in US following cow abuse scandal WASHINGTON A meat company based in California has issued the largest beef recall in United States' history, 143 million pounds (64.9 million kilograms) 37 million pounds of which was used to
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    • 230 17 .-AFP BAGHDAD A woman suicide bomber fled into a Baghdad shop chased by Iraqi soldiers who had tried to search her and then triggered her explosives, killing two people, Iraqi security officials said. The suicide attack occurred near the National Theatre
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  • Voices
    • 381 18  -  ALBERT TENG ANN BOON They need to safeguard sinking funds for maintanence of HDB estates Letter from Co-ordinating Secretary 14 PAP Town Councils WE REFER to the letter by Mr Joseph Khoo "Help with rising cost of living" (Feb 11). Town Councils are funded
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    • 188 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I MORE ABOUT CHILDREN'S TEMPERAMENTS We were talking last time about very strong-willed children versus those with compliant temperaments, and I shared four findings from a study. Today, I want to cite a few more conclusions. We wanted to know what parents
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    • 784 20  -  GUYHOH fll coffee with VENN WONG 29, Hotelier and restaurateur news@newstoday.com.sg Not even 30, Venn Wong has built herself a mini hospitality empire comprising two boutique hotels the award-winning JIA Hong Kong and JIA Shanghai as well as four restaurants, Issimo in Shanghai, Opia in Hong
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    • Hairy questions from two customers
      • 86 21  -  CECIUATANSEOLENG Letter from When I was in a cab recently, I took out a comb to detangle my daughter's hair. The cab driver told me repeatedly to stop doing so. His reason was that the loose strands of hair would dirty his
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      • 110 21  -  LIONEL DESOUZA Letter from Recently, I went for a haircut at a barber shop at Parkway Parade. As I was leaving, I saw a Caucasian couple confronting one of the barbers. The reason for their agitation was soon clean The male
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  • Business
    • 130 22  -  ESTHER FUNG MALAYAN Banking (Maybank) is offering a 3-year fixed-rate home loan package, with a 1.68 per cent for the first year. It said the rate is close to the current three-month interbank rate, which was 1.44 per cent as of Feb 15. The rates
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    • 462 22  -  ESTHER FUNG $6.70 a share: Tecity makes its final bid for STC esther@media corp.com.sg THE fight for Straits Trading appears to be reaching its end-game as one party of a 6-week bidding war said it was raising its offer for the second and last time.
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    • 236 23 RECENT falls in property prices around the world present buying opportunities, and Deutsche Bank is offering smaller investors to get into the sector through three real estate securities funds. Previously available only to institutional and high net worth investors, the
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    • 387 23 —AGENCIES NON-OIL domestic exports picked up speed at a surprisingly rapid pace in January, but economists are cautiously optimistic the manufacturing sector has turned a corner. Shipments to the US and Europe reported slower growth, but healthy demand from neighbouring markets helped take up
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    • business news
      • 372 24 —AGENCIES SOUTH Korea's Hana Bank has agreed to buy 1 million shares of Merrill Lynch from Temasek Holdings for USSSO million (s7l million), Dow Jones Newswires reported yesterday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The person, which Dow Jones did not identify,
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      • 451 24 BLOOMBERG Company acquires 100% stake in Bowa Commercial Bank DBS Group Holdings, Southeast Asia's biggest bank by assets, may buy other companies to expand, chairman Koh Boon Hwee said, after embarking on its first "significant" acquisition in seven years. The bank will
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      • 299 25 —AFP Australia to focus on China's investment plans in country's resources INVESTMENTS in Australia by foreign state-owned wealth funds will face close scrutiny, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (picture) said yesterday, in the wake of China's move into mining giant Rio Tinto. While stressing that he
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      • 241 25 BLOOMBERG PARKWAY Holdings had its steepest decline in more than six years on concern the company's $1.25 billion bid for a new hospital site was too high. The bid by Parkway, Singapore's largest private hospital operator, is as much as five
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  • Impact
    • 340 27  -  JOSEPH YADAO Raymond Weil targets a younger audience joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IT'S all in the family for watchmaker Raymond Weil as it prepares to take on the world with a fresh contemporary look that makes it more appealing to its younger audience. "After more than 30 years
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    • 274 27  -  JOSEPH YADAO THE Asian Centre for Professional Excellence is rebranding itself as the ERC Institute after making the grade in the Ministry of Education's requirements for an institute of higher learning. The institute prides itself on promoting the entrepreneurial spirit of its students, with its
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    • 181 27 NTUC Fair Price's convenience store chain, Cheers, stands firmly behind the country's bid to host the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Earlier this month, Singapore athletes Li Jia Wei, Kendrick Lee, and Sun Bei Bei, plus junior members of the national badminton team got the ball
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    • 913 28  -  Mayo Martin Local poets are not receiving as much support moral and financial at home as they are from overseas. Will Spore soon hear rhymes no more? TO GO or not to go, that was the question. It's just that hanging out with strangers reading poetry wasn't
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    • 140 30 THE SOUND OF VICTORY? Crazy Nasty, a beats-infused song by local dance/electronica outfit CC Sound Factory, has been shortlisted for the finals of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). Selected from over 15,000 entries last year, CC Sound Factory is one of two Asian finalists the other is Japan's
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    • 476 30  -  FAZILLA ABDUL GAFFA The focus of Idol should be on singing, not age or experience plus@newstoday.com.sg SEASON after season, the sheer glee derived from watching insipid fame-starved wannabes who can't carry a tune in a bucket embarrass themselves on American Idol never seems to get old. Similarly, there
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    • 230 31 —AP HEIDI Klum (picture) wants to help Britney Spears. The 34-year-old German model said she'd be willing to open her home to Spears while the troubled pop singer puts her life back together. "She can call me and come live in our house with us
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    • 849 32  -  EVELINE GAN Being responsible when you're ill and maintaining personal hygiene are some of the ways to keep diarrhoea-causing bugs at bay eveline@media corp.com.sg EVEN in developed countries like Singapore where food handling practices and sanitation are more than adequate, food poisoning and other diarrhoeal illnesses are
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      • 48 32 The arrival of a newborn can be both joyful and challenging. Pick up practical parenting tips and learn all about vaccinations at this talk. Date: Feb 23 Time: 11am to 2pm Venue: Auditorium, XX Hospital Fee/Registration: $8 per couple. Registration is required. Call 6394 1268
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    • 197 34 —AFP NEW ORLEANS Leßron James (centre) and Ray Allen took command late after the East squandered a big lead to spark a 134-128 victory over the West in Sunday's (yesterday morning, Singapore time) 57th National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game. Allen, a
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    • 223 34 BLOOMBERG COLUMBIA, Missouri US swimmer Natalie Coughlin lowered her 100-metre backstroke world record at the Missouri Grand Prix. Coughlin, 25, won her preliminary heat in 59.21 seconds, slicing 23-hundredths of a second off the mark she set at last year's World
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    • 373 35  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg HE HAS been hired to act as assistant coach at Sengkang Punggol, but clearly the Dolphins are also counting on Mirko Grabovac for goals in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 campaign. Despite being 36 years of age,
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    • 487 35  -  SHAMIR OSMAN 2008NTUCINCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Super Reds 2 Woodlands 1 shamir@media corp. com. sg BOTH teams had a season to forget last year, and in the build-up to the 2008 campaign, Super Reds FC and Woodlands Wellington spoke about climbing up the SLeague table. The two
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    • 889 36  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg Singapore's Olympic heroes cannot help but reminisce, as they applaud the lOC initiative for youngsters THEY are some of the biggest names in sport in the country. They have flown the Singapore flag high by conquering the continent's best, and
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    • 333 36  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE eyes of the world will be on the Republic when the Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix 2008 is flagged off on Sept 28. It will be the first night race in the history of the sport and Singapore Pools
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    • 736 37  -  —THE GUARDIAN Barnsley nightmare means Benitez dare not lose, as Italian aristocrats come to town CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool v Inter Milan LONDON It doesn't matter what happens tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), when Inter Milan visit Anfield for the first leg of their Champions League last
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    • 309 37 —AP LONDON Barnsley will host defending champions Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. The Championship side were rewarded for their stunning 2-1 win over Liverpool in a last 16 clash at Anfield on Saturday with what will be a sell-out at home. "It's a
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