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    28 1 TODAY /AediaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Thursday April 3, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY //\=£>Jj\COßP we set you thinking Thursday April 3, 2008 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 132/10/2007
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon 'Be there for the common man
      948 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG DAYEXCLUSIVE New Law Society head wants lawyers to help S'poreans know their rights cheekong@media corp.com.sg A YEAR ago, former Law Society president Philip Jeyaretnam broached the proposition with the man he was courting as his successor. And he did not have
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      40 1 WOMEN MINISTERS ALL IN GOOD TIME, SAYS GRACE FU HOT NEWS PAGE 2 STOCKS TO REBOUND? RALLIES TAKE PLACE AT STRANGE TIMES... BUSINESS PAGE 26 I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S FIFTY HOW COME I DON'T LOOK LUCE MADONNA? PLUS PAGE 34
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      Lock icon No women in Cabinet? Don't fret
      400 2  -  JINNY KOH Senior Minister of State Grace Fu content to progress at a steady pace jinny@mediacorp.com.sg SHE had often been mentioned as one of those with the best chance of becoming Singapore's first woman minister. But neither Ms Grace Fu (picture), nor any of
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      How wide do we cast the net?
      851 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Analysts say search for the next PM could be stepped up among S'poreans abroad nazry@media corp.com.sg WITH many of the country's top young talent heading overseas, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's urgent task of finding a successor within the next 15 years
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    • Article
      OIL SLICK HITS EAST COAST PARK
      107 3 A stretch of the beach at East Coast Park has been hit by an oil slick, ruling out swimming and beach activities for now. Patches of oil were found in the seas off East Coast yesterday, and some of the oil landed around the
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      136 3 I A NEW BREED I OF YOUNG I SINGAPORE! I at-sunnce Global Chef Academy A t-Sunrice Global Chef Academy is the new brand positioning for the seven-year-old school which has thrived in the cultural diversity and rich gastronomic heritage of Singapore. The academy promotes the global chef career pathway and
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    Lock icon Motorola's 700 lay-offs a sign of these prudent times
    391 4 IN A sign of the competitive, in-novation-driven times, electronics firm Motorola announced yesterday that it would phase out its mobile phone manufacturing operations here by the end of this year, but retain its Asia-Pacific operational headquarters in Singapore. The retrenchment of
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    Lock icon LABOUR PAINS
    45 6 PRIVATELY-HELD BUSINESSES IN THE REGION WERE ASKED: ARE YOU MORE OR LESS FOCUSED ON ATTRACTING AND RETAINING KEY STAFF THAN YOU WERE ONE YEAR AGO? FAIZAL VIETNAM 86% 13% 2% MAINLAND CHINA 85% 10% 4% SINGAPORE 32% 66% 2% JAPAN 20% 60% 17%
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  • Article
    More than just pay
    351 6  -  SHERALYN TAY Fostering employee loyalty takes more than pay packages, says survey sheralyn@media corp.com.sg A GENEROUS pay package and employee benefits certainly go a long way to attracting and retaining staff, but they are not everything with more companies here taking a different tack, according to
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    'Season pass' to watch Euro 2008: StarHub
    402 6  -  TAN HUI LENG TWO weeks after sports fans found out they would have to sign up with Sing Tel if they wanted their dose of Uefa Cup and Champions League football from next year, rival pay-TV operator Star Hub said it would be
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    'Accident victim' arrested in Geylang
    213 6 TWO separate car accidents, both featuring the same "victim", took place on April Fool's Day. But the 32-year-old "victim" was not pulling a fast one just for laughs he was allegedly trying to cheat the two drivers for compensation after claiming that they had knocked
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  • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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      Lock icon NEW PREMIUM SERVICE CUTS JOURNEY TIME TO CBD
      116 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Residents of Geylang Bahru and Boon Keng now have an alternative way to get to the Central Business District. For a flat rate of $3, commuters can travel on SMRT bus Service 546. The service will call on 13 bus
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      GIRL DIES IN HOTEL BATHTUB MISHAP IN TAIPEI
      109 8 In Taiwan with her parents for the Qing Ming festival, a two-year-old girl from Singapore was found unconscious in a bathtub at their Taipei hotel Monday. She died soon after, reported Taiwan's China Times yesterday. The girl's father is reportedly a Singaporean
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      Lock icon HUNDREDS TURN UP AT BONG FAMILY FUNERAL
      163 8 938 LIVE Hundreds of mourners turned up for the funeral mass of the four Singaporeans killed in last week's road accident in Malaysia, in which only two-month-old Jolene Bong survived the crash of the family's seven-seater minivan. Her father Kevin Bong, mother Eleane
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    Lock icon Bright hope for autistic students
    417 8  -  JINNY KOH Pathlight to build new pre-vocational training centre jinny@media corp.com.sg IN ABOUT a year's time, autistic students at Pathlight School will be getting a pre-vocational training centre at their new premises, thanks to Ngee Ann Kongsi's $2-million gift This is the first time Ngee
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon DUTCH LADY APPEALS TO MUSLIMS NOT TO BOYCOTT ITS PRODUCTS
        115 10 —AP A Malaysian-Dutch dairy producer took out newspaper advertisements yesterday to denounce an anti-Islam film by a Dutch lawmaker, in an apparent appeal to Muslims not to boycott its products. Malaysia's religious council and several Muslim groups in the country
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        PROPOSAL TO PROSECUTE NON-MUSLIMS FOR KHALWAT
        120 10 Non-Muslims committing khalwat, or close proximity, with Muslims should also be held liable for the crime, two Islamic bodies have proposed in a resolution to be sent to the Attorney-General's Chambers, Malaysian press reported yesterday. The Islamic Institute of Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) and Syariah
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        Lock icon A THREE-MINUTE 'COLLECTIVE' DIVORCE
        126 10 —AGENCIES When a Malaysian Muslim married a second time, he might have wondered if his two wives will get along with each other. He need not have worried. The two wives got along so well they decided to leave him at the same time. Faced with
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      Lock icon Hindraf lawyer: It's dictatorial
      250 10 —AFP Free detained leaders, court urged KUALA LUMPUR The lawyer for five detained ethnic Indian activists yesterday called on the country's highest court to immediately release them, claiming the government was abusing its power. The leaders of rights group Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) are being
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      Lock icon N Korea exporting rockets to Myanmar: Report
      184 10 —AFP TOKYO North Korea has started exporting multiplelaunch rockets to military-ruled Myanmar, after the two nations agreed to normalise ties last year, a Japanese television report said yesterday. The weapons exports are in violation of the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea after
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      Lock icon Unrest brewing in China's west?
      470 12 —AFP Muslim extremists attempt uprising, says Chinese government BEIJING China has accused Muslims in the nation's northwest of trying to start a rebellion, following what an exile group said yesterday were peaceful protests against injustices under Chinese rule. The unrest occurred in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang
      —AFP; AFP  -  470 words
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      Lock icon PAS Muslim politician makes rare visits to church, temples
      179 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR A lawmaker from Malaysia's Islamic opposition party yesterday said he made rare visits to a church and temples to help assure non-Mus-lim minorities about their religious rights. "We respect the rights of nonMuslims. There's no plan to stifle
      —AP  -  179 words
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      I'm prepared to go to jail: Lim
      214 13 KUALALUMPUR-Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the authorities can take action against him if he had made wrong statements about the New Economic Policy (NEP) and the open tender system, local press reported yesterday. "I am prepared to face action of there
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      Lock icon Paulson expresses concern over Tibet
      343 14 AGENCIES BEIJING United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (picture) yesterday said he expressed concern over violence in Tibet during the first of two days of talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing. His visit, part of a routine economic exchange between the two nations, has taken
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      Lock icon 12 KILLED AS GAS BLAST WRECKS BUILDING IN PAKISTAN
      132 14 AGENCIES At least 12 people were killed and 26 others injured yesterday when a two-storey building in central Pakistan collapsed after gas cylinders inside exploded, police said. The incident took place in the industrial city of Faisalabad after gas started leaking
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      Lock icon I killed a man: Maxim publisher
      357 14 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis has apparently admitted to killing a man during a drink-sodden interview with a journalist writing for The Times. Mr Dennis revealed to the interviewer, Ms Ginny Dougary, that he once pushed a man off a
      — THE DAILY TELEGRAPH  -  357 words
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      Lock icon First human-animal embryos for Britain
      579 16 —THE GUARDIAN Breakthrough will aid research into untreatable conditions, say scientists LONDON Britain's first human-animal hybrid embryos have been created, forming a crucial first step, scientists believe, towards a supply of stem cells that could be used to investigate debilitating and so far untreatable conditions
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        Lock icon ARMED GROUP STEALS CORPSE OF REVERED MYANMAR MONK
        98 16 —AFP An armed group raided a Buddhist shrine in eastern Myanmar on Tuesday and stole the corpse of a revered monk whose body had been displayed as a holy relic in a glass coffin, an official said yesterday. The monk Sayadaw Wi
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        Lock icon THAILAND BANS CASTRATIONS
        97 16 —AGENCIES Thai health officials yesterday ordered hospitals and medical clinics to temporarily stop performing castrations for non-medical reasons, saying the procedure that is popular among transsexuals needs stricter monitoring. The ban affects more than 10,000 hospitals and clinics, which could face closure if they violate the order.
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN RUNAWAY BACK HOME AFTER $13,000 SPENDING SPREE
        124 16 —AFP An Indonesian boy who ran away from home with US$lO,OOO ($13,800) in cash and went on a spending spree has returned safely on Tuesday, his father said yesterday. Nine-year-old Ahmad Legal Civiandi ran away last week after a row with his
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      Lock icon Australia launches project to bury carbon dioxide underground
      266 17 —AP CANBERRA Australia began pumping carbon dioxide underground yesterday, using an experimental technology that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by locking dangerous gases deep in the earth. Australia is one of only a handful of places trying out the technology and
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      Lock icon 14-month-old boy escapes unscathed as truck kills his family
      193 17 —AP BAEISAL (Bangladesh) A toddler escaped unscathed when a truck crashed into his family's roadside shack in southern Bangladesh yesterday, killing his parents, grandmother and two uncles, the local police said. The accident apparently occurred when the driver of the overloaded
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      Lock icon NZ First calls for ban on Asian immigrants
      259 17 —AP WELLINGTON New Zealand should shut its door on Asian immigrants to prevent the country from being inundated with people who will not integrate well into society, a leader of an anti-immi-grant party said yesterday. The comments by New Zealand First deputy
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      Lock icon End of the Mugabe era
      382 18 —AGENCIES Zimbabwe President's 28-year reign in jeopardy with elections defeat HARARE Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's (picture) run of 28 years at the helm has come to an end with his Zanu-PF party losing its parliamentary majority, following last Saturday's presidential poll. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
      —AGENCIES; AF  -  382 words
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      Lock icon Pregnant man to show ultrasound scan to Oprah
      236 18 —THE DAILY "TELEGRAPH CHICAGO The pregnant man who used to be a woman is expected to show chatshow host Oprah Winfrey images from his ultrasound scan, proving that his pregnancy is not a hoax. Mr Thomas Beatie, 34, of Oregon, claimed he
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      Lock icon God told us to leave: Cult
      279 18 —AFP MOSCOW Three of the last 14 members of a Russian doomsday sect left their muddy cave yesterday after it began to collapse around them. A woman and two children were seen leaving the cave in a ravine some 700 km southeast of Moscow
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      Lock icon 'Teflon' Ahern to call it quits
      221 18 —AFP DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahem (picture), one of Europe's longest serving leaders, announced yesterday that he will resign next month amid growing pressure over alleged financial irregularities. The 56-year-old, re-elected for a record third term last year after overseeing a decade-long economic
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      Comment hit nail on the head
      140 20  -  MAX YUEN TEEN Letter from I REFER to Conrad Raj's comment, "Temasek should put aside semantics" (April 2). He hit the nail on the head in saying "the initial seed money for its investments came from the Government". Temasek is not the only sovereign
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      Watch out, the taxi 'mafia' is back
      111 20  -  MICHAEL POHL Letter from ON TUESDAY at 9.50pm, I was in a taxi queue at Clarke Quay with more than 80 people, most of whom looked like tourists. It took me 48 minutes to get a cab. Taxis were dropping people off, but
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      Lock icon Chinese dilemma
      350 20  -  ALBERT CHEW Country's new laws good for workers but bad for business Letter from I REFER to Maria Siow's comment, "What cost, China's new laws?" (April 2). It is an interesting article, but no mention was made of the long service payments or benefits that are payable when
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      Lock icon Pressing need for well-trained tourism workers
      566 23  -  MUHAMMAD ROSTAM UMAR Plan to produce 74,000 workers with the right mindset Letter from Director of Communications Singapore Tourism Board WE REFER to the letter, "Casinos and job training", by Melvin Lee Tiong Choon (March 27). The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) thanks the writer
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      245 24  -  H DR JAMES DOBSON T BY CRO Isn't turbi CROSSING THE BARBWIRE FENCE Isn't it strange how when we're disturbed over some family problem, we sometimes choose the most obscure or roundabout ways of saying so? Instead of getting our feelings out in the open, we
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      Why is mall's playground located next to smoking area?
      106 24  -  SHYNNASENG Letter from I WENT to IMM Garden Plaza on Monday with my children as I had heard good things about its outdoor play area. I was surprised to discover that the playground was located next to a smoking area. Between
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      Lock icon Commuter's act of kindness
      245 24  -  IMAH OTHMAN Letter from LAST Friday, my friend and I boarded the train at Marina Bay MRT station at almost 11pm. As the doors closed, my friend told me a man was signalling to us from the outside. The man was holding my wallet, which I
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  • Business
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      Lock icon MAKING THE CASE FOR A SUSTAINED RALLY
      623 26  -  MOHAMMED HADI DOW JONES Sentiment is as negative now as it was bullish atthe peak of the dotcom bubble IT IS not unreasonable to start wondering when the recent mess will come to an end. Not the potentially rest-of-the-decade effect of the collapsing
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      Lock icon ASIAN STOCKS SHAKE OFF ÜBS BANKING BLUES
      360 26 —AGENCIES Asian stocks surged yesterday as investors took heart from an overnight rally on Wall Street amid a growing belief that the worst of the credit crisis is over. In Singapore, the Straits Times Index finished 2.6 per cent higher at 3,124.61. In
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      540 28  -  CHEOWXINYI Experts forecast a turnaround with US recovery at year-end cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU had followed Temasek and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's (GIC) lead and snapped up shares in global banking giants during the sub-prime crisis, you could now be sitting on hefty
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      231 28 —AFP The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed a plan to develop with international partners guidelines for sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), now that they are becoming more important in the global economy. But the IMF cautions that it has no intention to
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      339 30 Just 1 how SWFs can help Africa's poor —AGENCIES WORLD Bank president Robert Zoellick has outlined an ambitious plan for sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to invest 1 per cent of their holdings in equity in sub-Saharan Africa. This is seen as a way of tapping longterm global liquidity to boost
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        72 30 —AGENCIES New data shows that Singapore manufacturing last month contracted for the first time in nine months. The latest Purchasing Managers Index came in at 49.4, a dip of 0.9 points over the previous month. Any figure below 50 is considered a contraction. Factory
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      671 34  -  KAREN KRIZANOVICH THE DAILY TELEGRAPH plus@newstoday.com.sg The trouble with longevity is how long it goes on for. Way back when we, as a societal group, died at 30, life was shorter and more compact: We married at 16, had children at 17 and were toothless by 25.
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      283 40  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Local singer Maiya will perform with Siti Nurhaliza MEDIACORP artiste Maiya Rahman (picture), who was the first runner-up in last year's Anugerah 2007 competition organised by Suria, has been invited to perform at Radio Televisyen Malaysia's (RTM) 52nd anniversary concert this Saturday. This prestigious
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      711 44  -  SHRUTI NANAVATY Tanzania's many animals and distinctive geography make for exciting safaris traveller@newstoday.com.sg IT IS often said that once you experience Africa, you can never forget it The vast, bare plains and abundant wildlife intoxicate and linger in the memory. Although wildlife reserves are scattered all over
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      202 44 Getting there: Tanzania has three international airports at Dares Salaam, Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro. The last is the best option for safari enthusiasts. When to go: The standard tourist season stretches from January to February, when the hot, dry weather is generally considered to be the most pleasant. But to
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      264 45 Serengeti National Park, meaning "endless plains", is a unique wilderness area that is awesome for its natural beauty. It lies between the Ngorongoro Highlands and the Kenya-Tanzania border. Serengeti's low vegetation which varies from open grass plains to hilly, wooded grasslands is ideal for game viewing. A vast
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      324 49 —AFP LONDON Max Mosley (picture), president of world motorsport's governing body (FIA), claimed on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that he had been the victim of a covert surveillance operation orchestrated by unknown enemies of his so as to
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      411 49  -  LOWUNFHOONG Lee and Sivakumarthe right people to take Singapore football forward: Ho Peng Kee linfhoong@media corp.com.sg THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) yesterday announced the appointment of Winston Lee as its new general secretary, with P Sivakumar taking on the role of deputy general secretary. Lee
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