Today, 28 April 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    27 1 TODAY /ApdjaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday April 28, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY yV\=£JjJ-\CORP MICA (P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday April 28, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      A room at Raffles, in Paris or Morocco
      1103 1  -  TEOXUANWEI >DAYEXCLUSIVE Iconic hotel group aims for 30 properties worldwide by 2012 xuanwei@media corp.com.sg WHEN it was bought over by American owners in 2005, controversy erupted: How could you sell what was a historical icon and quintessentially Singaporean brand name, asked some.
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      For just a few dollars more ...
      540 1  - For just a few dollars more SHERALYNTAY TAN HUI LENG AND sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE final figures are out, and for the young, they offer an even better deal than expected. If you are 40 or younger, it will cost you an extra dollar or less in premiums each month to
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      56 1 MAS SELAMAT ESCAPE LOOKING FOR CLOSURE COMMENT PAGE 2 BEIJING OLYMPICS TORCH ARRIVES IN N KOREA WORLD PAGE 14 SINGAPORE DRIFT CAR RACE AT CHANGIA SELL-OUT SPORTS PAGE 41 [CH OF THE DAY V CURTIS STONE URRENTLY THE TTEST TV CHEF PLUS PAGE 34 VW'jr~- i -Ti.'B> f7>vS\ ar«* n
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      LOOKING FOR CLOSURE IN MAS SELAMAT CASE
      897 2  -  P N BALJI That will come when fugitive is found and the issue of culture is dissected EDITORIAL DIRECTOR balji@media corp.com.sg INQUIRIES, whether public or private, are heart-wrenching affairs. I should know. I was punished as a result of one and felt morally
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      Lock icon She won an award and gave it to her best friend
      275 2  -  LYNDA HONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA lyndahong@media corp.com.sg IN AN act of selflessness, a 16-year-old girl has given away her bursary award of $650 to her best friend whom she feels needs the money more. Tan Chin Won (picture) and Abdul
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  275 words
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      Storm erupts over new liposuction rules
      1158 4  -  ALICIA WONG SHERALYNTAY Plastic surgeons, GPs divided on what they will achieve for patients' safety alicia@mediacorp.com.sg FOR flab-conscious consumers wanting a shortcut to weight loss, it could provide some assurance of safety, without coming at too steep a price. But among industry practitioners, the
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      A hospital in Bukit Batok?
      515 6  -  SHERALYN TAY Khaw raises possibility, as Lake District site for newJurong hospital identified sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE day could come when the northern part of Singapore is served by three hospitals and not just the upcoming Khoo Teck Puat hospital in Yishun. Hinting at this yesterday
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      Lock icon 'No' red T-shirts and caps must be removed
      353 6 -AGENCIES MANY wore red T-shirts and caps printed with the word "No". Up to 1,000 Myanmar citizens lined up yesterday outside their country's embassy in Singapore to vote in a referendum on a militarybacked draft Constitution, which is supposed to be part
      -AGENCIES; EPA; 1 EPA  -  353 words
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      Lock icon Say 'Aho!' to Native American food
      642 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN Native American producers are looking for new markets in Singapore, Asia chaichin@media corp.com.sg NEVER mind wagyu beef, try a cut of bison. And who needs Thai rice, when you could have blue corn or wild rice. More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus'
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      NTUC's new logo unveiled
      170 8 AS A show of its intent to be a labour movement for all by 2011, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has undergone an image revamp to draw more workers into its fold. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong unveiled the new NTUC logo (picture) that replaces
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      Lock icon Oz mums can soon insure unborn babies
      313 8 —AFP SYDNEY Pregnant women will be able to insure their unborn babies against birth defects and death under a new policy, a report said yesterday. Insurance company ING has devised a baby policy for women aged 16 to 40, which will deliver payouts
      —AFP  -  313 words
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      275 7 t£» Lower power consumption benefits you in more ways than one: Less heat-trapping CO2 emissions and J lower electricity bills. So start saving II II n Freeze Enersv Wastaee" money with these easy energy tt^M J^ V Set% e ra,reco^dSe?f c- conservation tips. JP^Wf thermostat at 25° C or higher.
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      344 9 With 88 flights a week, any time's a good time to visit Australia. Experience Australia now from $688* with Singapore Airlines. There's always something new to do in Australia. Go on a coastal getaway along our miles of perfect beaches. Enjoy nature at her finest with our unspoilt landscape and
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      Millions siphoned off by diesel syndicates
      275 10 KUALA LUMPUR Some are businessmen, some are triad members and others are politicians. They have one thing in common: They are politically-connected or enjoy the patronage of law enforcement agencies in their state or districts, and they head some of the biggest diesel smuggling
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      Lock icon Umno Youth chief urged to quit
      373 10 /(ens act a stab at unity during polls: Branch leaders MUAR Many Umno branch and divisional leaders in the Malaysian state of Johor want the party's Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein to resign over the keris issue, reported The Star. The issue, they said, had
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      Lock icon Better border controls may ease immigrant-jail overcrowding
      183 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will not build new detention camps for illegal immigrants to ease overcrowding, but plans to tighten border security to keep them from entering the country. Human rights activists have renewed criticism about cramped conditions at 17 prisons where some
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      Lock icon 'Black widower' GM mozzie plan
      256 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically-modi-fied (GM) mosquitoes in Malaysia to fight dengue fever. Malaysia has expressed concern about the insect-borne scourge after 25 people were killed in the first three months of the year. The New
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      Lock icon 'Smiling Siew' tackles Taiwan economy
      776 13  -  JASON LEE Taiwan's VP-elect has a clear agenda to follow jasonlee@mediacorp.com.sg JUST 10 months ago, critics questioned the wisdom of Mr Ma Ying-jeou (picture) then the presidential nominee for Kuomintang (KMT) when he named Mr Vincent Siew as his running mate for the Taiwanese presidential
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      TIBET: THE OTHER SIDE
      825 14  -  JOHNWHALEN-BRIDGE I READ the commentary by Venessa Lee "Tibet an Ambiguous Case" (April 26-27) with great interest, as I've been studying the ways in which this prominent issue has been covered differently by the news media of different countries. As Ms Lee states in her opening
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      Lock icon Olympic torch arrives in N Korea
      250 14 —AFP BEIJING The Beijing Olympic flame arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang late yesterday, Chinese state media said, on one of the final legs of its troubled worldwide journey. North Korea will "astonish the world" with its handling of the torch relay, according
      —AFP; EPA  -  250 words
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      Lock icon VERDICT UPROAR
      391 17 —AP Hundreds march in Harlem after detectives who shot black man were acquitted NEW YORK Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem after Reverend Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom
      —AP; I AF  -  391 words
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      Lock icon Trapped, 55 die in Moroccan factory fire
      289 17 AGENCIES CASABLANCA It took just minutes for the blaze at a mattress factory in the Moroccan city to turn into an inferno, burning alive 55 people and seriously injuring another 24. The fire the city's deadliest- apparently broke out on the ground floor
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      Lock icon Over Democrat din, McCain struggles to be heard
      392 18 —AFP WASHINGTON Weeks after wrapping up his party's presidential nomination, Republican John McCain is struggling to make himself heard over the din of the Democratic race, but seems no worse off for it. A compilation of recent polls by independent website RealClearPolitics
      —AFP  -  392 words
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      Lock icon Tired, Obama turns aggressive
      381 18 HE SEEMS tired, brittle and more aggressive, and some of his appealing charisma has been dispensed with. Five days after losing to Ms Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary, Mr Barack Obama (picture) has taken off the gloves in his battle to win the American presidency
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      Lock icon Children too, yearn to be thin
      638 20 —THESUNDAYTELEGRAPH To young subjects of a TV series, slim means'popular' while fat is'nasty' FOR the young subjects of Lord Winston's latest series, thin means "popular" while fat is "nasty". Celebrity culture and the obsession with body image are driving girls as young as seven
      —THESUNDAYTELEGRAPH  -  638 words
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      Lock icon US on a 'recession diet'
      468 22 —THE NEWYORK TIMES STUNG by rising costs, Americans are finding creative ways to cut costs on routine items like groceries and clothing forcing retailers, restaurants and manufacturers to decode the tastes of a suddenly thrifty public. Spending data and interviews around the country show that
      —THE NEWYORK TIMES  -  468 words
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      Lock icon Mushrooms could come to the rescue
      275 22 —THE NEW YORK TIMES FORT BRAGG (California) On a warm April evening, 90 people crowded into the cafeteria of Redwood Elementary School here to meet with representatives of the State Department of Toxic Substances Control. The substance at issue was dioxin, a pollutant that
      —THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  275 words
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      Dignity, please
      428 24  -  JEANNETTE CHONG ARULDOSS Replace 'majority wins' rule with consensus-seeking in the en bloc process Letter from AS A citizen of a progressive and global nation, I thought no one would be allowed to sell property that was not legally theirs, until my estate came under threat of an
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      Agencies decide whether maids get days off or not
      243 24  -  WARMININGSIH Letter from I REFER to your report "Two years on, employers still skirt day-off clause" (April 25). I have been in Singapore as a foreign domestic worker for seven years. I am Indonesian. My relationship with my employer has always
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      sayagain
      88 24  -  -READER GEORGE LEE I ?il Mil II i H H ifiT» Regarding Mas Selamat Kastari's escape, one hopes that this serious breach of public trust can be repaired as soon as possible. For example, relocating the Whitley Road Detention Centre to Changi Prison may be seen as a knee-jerk
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      212 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ....BY FORGIVENESS Forgive and forget it's a lot easier to say than to do. When our spouses do something to wound us deeply, can we ever truly forgive them? And if we do forgive them, can we ever forget the pain they've caused
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      isay INSENSITIVE BUT NOT RACIALLY SO
      513 26  -  JEREMY TAYKIAHKOON I REFER to "The Monopoly of racial relations" (April 25). I understand that, ethnically speaking, it is a curious position for me to rebut the experiences of alleged discrimination aired by someone from a minority group while I'm part of the majority.
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      Lock icon A switch in channels ... and perspectives
      372 26  - A switch in channels and perspectives AUDREYTHNG Letter from I REFER to "The monopoly of racial relations" (April 25). Based on what has been written, various courses of action may be taken: Firstly, do not turn on the radio. From what the writer says, minorities should stand up for their
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      Lock icon Opec has no 'magic cure' for high prices
      409 28 DOW JONES QATAR'S Oil Minister said the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has "no magical solution" to ease record high oil prices that approached US$l2O a barrel last week in New York. In a phone interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Abdullah
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      Lock icon Yahoo deadline expires
      569 28 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its U5544.6-billion ($60.8-billion) acquisition offer expired over the weekend, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant Neither side made any comment as the April 26 deadline came and went.
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        Lock icon Expand overseas, minister urges China
        323 30 -DOW JONES The yuan's rise against greenback makes it an ideal time for expansion THE United States sub-prime mortgage crisis and the yuan's appreciation against the US dollar offer Chinese companies a good opportunity to expand abroad through mergers and acquisitions, a Chinese Vice- Commerce
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        Lock icon Singapore share prices to ease amid hopes of US cutting rates
        243 30 —AFP SINGAPORE share prices are expected to ease this week on profit-taking ahead of economic data which could give a further indication on the health of the ailing United States economy, a brokerage said. Investors may soon lock in
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        Lock icon Wall Street looks beyond turmoil amid plunging property prices, awaits recovery
        498 31 -AFP ECONOMIC worries are growing but the stock market is holding firm. The United States is likely barreling toward a recession that could be worse than any in the past few decades, with a housing market in a meltdown
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        Lock icon Fund managers prefer cash positions to equities: Dow Jones survey
        472 31 -DOW JONES FUND managers favoured cash positions for the third consecutive month this month, while becoming even less interested in stocks. Managers moved to "slightly underweight" on equities, down a notch from "neutral", while staying "overweight" on cash, according to
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        brainfood
        342 32  -  LOH CHEE KONG The Invisible Employee by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Praise, praise and more praise -that, according to the authors, is not just the key to retaining star performers, it also prevents employees from becoming disinterested, or in the writers' words, "invisible". According to recent studies in
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        Lock icon Embracing the new mass media opportunities
        656 32  -  JOHN BITTLESTON The information revolution has made mass communication a two-way street SUCCEED WITH succeed@newstoday.com.sg OVER the past century, the mass media have played a vital role in the dissemination of information about everything from disease to designer handbags. The relatively high standards of
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        Lock icon After a life-changing event, this corporate warrior took a pay cut and devoted himself
        842 32  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg IT MIGHT read like a movie script After years of working in the corporate world, a man affected by untimely circumstances within his family decides to search for greater
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      • the business of learning
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          ceo101
          139 33 Dealing with employee complaints What do you do when an employee comes to you with a complaint about his superior or colleagues? MR lAIN EWING, PRINCIPAL AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EWING COMMUNICATIONS Each situation will be different, and you must beware of fanning the flames of internal politics.
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      684 42 —AFP Villarreal spoil the party this time but defending champions can retain crown by beating Osasuna next weekend SPANISH LEAGUE Real Madrid 3 Athletic Bilbao 0 MADRID Real Madrid were unable to clinch a 31st Spanish title yesterday (early today, Singapore time)
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