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    26 1 TODAY yV\=ryJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday June 16, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /V\=ryJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday June 16, 2008 todayonline.com
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    For many, time-out brings reassurance
    869 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Safety procedures in place and followed, says Mindef; but other questions remain weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE wait was laced with anticipation given the rarity of a three-day time-out from training for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to review its procedures, after the deaths
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    Making games is hard work
    691 1  -  SHERALYNTAY sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as the DigiPen Institute of Technology gets set for its first intake of students here come September, two Singaporeans have already achieved what some consider the holy grail of a gaming education: Coveted places at the the Harvard of gaming and animation
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      65 1 EURO2OOB Austria-Switzerland LOOK OUT FOR THE LATEST IN OUR AFTERNOON EDITION mm tffr IVY LEAGUE THE UNLIKELY J ACTRESS JIU PAGE 32 M VASU MENON IS THE WORST OVER FOR STOCK MARKETS? COMMENT PAGE 2 THE NEW AND OLD FACES OF THE RIVER ELECTRIC POWERED BUMBOATS, SAME OLD BOATMEN NEWS
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      Lock icon IS THE WORST OVER FOR STOCK MARKETS?
      669 2  -  VASU MENON THE outlook for equity markets improved last month, partly due to the United States Federal Reserve's aggressive actions to restore confidence and liquidity in credit markets. While it is tempting to believe that the worst is over, it may be premature
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      PC Show scores $51.7 m in sales
      143 2 Tech-savvy bargain-hunters thronged the PC Show at Suntec Singapore over the last four days and when the curtains fell yesterday evening, the cash registers had chalked up some $51.7 million in sales, nearly double last year's turnover. The annual event, Singapore's longest-running information
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      Lock icon GOODBYE, SIR
      131 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Hundreds of friends and family members bade farewell to 2LT Clifton Lam Jia Hao as he H was given a military funeral yesterday. 2LT Lam died on Wednesday while undergoing jungle training in Brunei as a Pilot Officer Cadet. He was awarded his wings posthumously by
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      Lock icon ADB calls for higher interest rates
      275 3 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Asia's growth is being threatened by spiralling inflation due to higher food and fuel costs, and governments should tighten monetary policies to deal with the scourge, Asian Development Bank's (ADB) managing director-general Rajat M Nag said yesterday. "The growth story is
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      A more 'balanced' market
      358 4  -  TAN HUI LENG New rules for BTO applications have helped genuine public housing buyers: Mah huileng@media corp. com. sg THE private market may have quietened, but the housing board resale market remains "quite active", said Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan. "Transactions are still strong
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      Lock icon $275 for a room at Changi
      301 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE'S first airport hotel has opened its doors to guests, nearly 30 years after Changi Airport began operations. The Crowne Plaza Changi Airport has been open for just two weeks, and not all its 320 rooms are ready, but the hotel is
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      Lock icon 'I'd like a pizza and some satay, please'
      389 4 LAKSA and satay may soon be words that trip off the tongues of millions of Americans as easily as taco or pizza if a Singapore Government initiative achieves its aim. Twenty delegates from 18 leading food industry players from the United States,
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      Lock icon The new and old faces of the river
      644 6  -  TAN HUI LENG The boats may be electric powered, but the same boatmen still ply the waters huileng@media corp.com.sg A BOATMAN for almost half a century, Mr Png Chin Lai has seen his fair share of the changes along the Singapore River.
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        Lock icon LUI TUCK YEW TO ATTEND OECD MINISTERIAL MEETING IN SEOUL
        185 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts Rear-Admiral (NS) Lvi Tuck Yew (picture) will attend a Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, this week. The three-day meeting, organised by
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        FUN FOR THE FAMILY, THANKS TO NTUC CLUB
        96 8 NTUC Club has organised four all-expenses paid outings for lower-income families at Downtown East, to benefit some 10,000 households. The first of four Family Recreation and Fun Carnivals kicked off yesterday, and included food as well as free two-way transportation at designated
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      Lock icon Shedding light on that endorsement
      622 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO Head of Transparency International clears the air on MM Lee award ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR derrick@media corp.com.sg PRIOR to 2000, little was heard of Transparency International (TI) Malaysia. As the fight against corruption in Malaysia picked up pace, so did the news reports
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      167 4 KWAP PROGRAMMES f UnlwnHyrf BSe (Hons) in Computer 5510,500*^ Master Programmes: sund.riand Applicnfions co^™? Masters of Business in Enterprise -^"lonth^V Resource Panning (SAP) Systems VOT WOLVERHAMPTON BSc (Hons) in Games Development Masters of Science in Enterprise (Taught by Faculty bctuier) BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology Resource Planning FINAL YEAR TOP-UP
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      Lock icon After the jailbreak, the hunt
      460 10 AGENCIES US forces searching for more than 1,100 escaped prisoners in Afghanistan KABUL (Afghanistan) More than two dozen insurgents were killed in Afghanistan as security forces hunted for hundreds of militants who escaped from a prison after a brazen Taliban attack, police said Sunday. Afghan
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      Lock icon Search for Japan quake survivors
      264 10 -AFP KURIHARA Gapan) Troops yesterday pulled the bodies of three people from the muddy rubble of an earthquake-ravaged resort hotel in Japan as aftershocks and landslide fears hampered the search for survivors. Experts meanwhile said that the magnitude 7.2 quake struck at a previously unknown
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      Lock icon Abdullah to seek December re-election
      376 10 -AP PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia) Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said he would seek reelection as ruling party leader in December and that he has not set a date for handing over power to his deputy. On Friday, Mr Abdullah said he had struck
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      Lock icon Truckers threaten blockade
      402 12 -AP Strike over fuel prices has caused traders millions in losses SEOUL Striking South Korean truck drivers threatened to block the country's largest port to protest against surging fuel prices, deepening the woes of the government, which is already reeling from public outrage over the resumption of
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      Be wary of 'save petrol' gadgets
      207 12 KUALA LUMPUR With the rise in world oil prices, a Malaysian academic has advised vehicle owners to be wary of products that claim to save on petrol. Most gadgets in the market that claim to reduce petrol consumption have so far not been effective,
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      Lock icon Australia will pressure Asia to drop fuel subsidies
      293 12 AFP SYDNEY Australian Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner yesterday said the government will pressure Asian countries to drop their fuel subsidies to ease rising petrol prices. Canberra argues that the subsidies distort demand for petrol and push up the cost of fuel, and
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      Sued over 'blue energy' hoax
      260 12 JAKARTA The Muhammadiyah University in Yogyakarta, sponsor of the "blue energy" project has halted the research and is suing its inventors Joko Suprapto and Purwanto, a report said on Saturday. A team from the university's centre for energy development and studies tore down the project's
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      Lock icon China tightens the screws on Xinjiang
      372 13 AFP Move comes ahead of Olympic torch arrival amid fears of terrorist threats KASHGAR (China) China has tightened controls on Muslims in its remote west ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival next week to thwart any actions aimed at disrupting the relay, residents and
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        Lock icon HELP FOR ABU SAYYAF CAPTIVES TROOP INTO HOSTAGE AREA
        145 13 AFP Heavily-armed troops began moving into a forested area in the southern Philippines where Muslim extremists are holding a broadcaster and her crew hostage, a reporter said yesterday. Truckloads of troops began moving from a military base on the island of
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        Lock icon HEAVY RAINS IN CHINA LEAVE AT LEAST 62 DEAD OR MISSING
        129 13 -AFP Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, while more than one million have been evacuated, said the Chinese government. Rains were expected to further pound southern China in the
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      Lock icon 'I mean no disrespect... I was scapegoat': Prince
      263 14 -AFP LONDON The playboy brother of the Sultan of Brunei, threatened with jail for failing to turn up to a British court hearing, yesterday hit back at his critics, insisting he was a scapegoat in the affair. Prince Jefri Bolkiah told Britain's
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      30 14 FIGHTING IT OUT: Balinese villagers fighting using thorny pandanus leaves and rattan shields during the annual battle event Perang Pandan (Pandanus War) in Tenganan village, on Karangasem Bali island. AFP
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      Lock icon How Asia can do better than EU
      338 14 AGENCIES Europe failed to convince layman about integration JEJU ISLAND (South Korea) France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde urged Asian nations yesterday to persuade their people of the benefits of economic integration, saying Europe had failed to do so effectively. Irish voters last week
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      Lock icon More secret papers found on London train
      438 16 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Another gaffe, this time exposing information on terror funds and WMDs LONDON Another batch of secret British government papers, this time detailing policies on terrorism, has been found abandoned on a train. This came as the government launched a sweeping
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        Lock icon EVEN WETTER FOR lOWA
        119 16 -AFP More rain was headed to floodravaged lowa yesterday where tens of thousands of residents had been forced to flee their homes and officials struggled to reinforce breached levies and stem the rushing waters. Hardest-hit Cedar Rapids -where 1,300 streets were submerged and 24,000 of the
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        Lock icon FATHER'S DAY PARTY: REPUBLICAN
        126 16 -AP Sometimes a card and a necktie for Dad just won't do. For Father's Day, Meghan McCain became a Republican. The 23-year-old daughter of presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain marched into the State Capitol Executive Building in Phoenix, Arizona, Thursday and changed her party affiliation
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      Lock icon Iran mulls nuclear deal, but the world isn't hopeful
      342 16 -AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran was yesterday considering an offer from world powers aimed at resolving a sixyear nuclear crisis, but hopes of a breakthrough were dim, raising the prospect of tougher sanctions against the Islamic republic. European Union Foreign Policy chief Javier
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      Lock icon Obama goes to Hollywood
      581 19 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Democrat frontrunner needs the party's most high-profile supporters to help raise funds WASHINGTON Mr Barack Obama has launched a Hollywood charm offensive to win over Hillary Clinton's celebrity backers and persuade them to raise money for his own presidential bid. He is attempting
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      Lock icon The schoolgirl who ate nothing but chocolate
      385 20 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A 12-year-old girl has eaten almost nothing but chocolate all her life because she is so frightened of trying new foods. Rebecca Scowcroft from Bolton in northern England, eats 15 squares of cooking chocolate and 10 chocolate fingers every
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      Lock icon It helps to check email less often
      513 20 -THE NEW YORK TIMES Tech firms band together to fight information overload that hurts attention span and productivity SAN FRANCISCO The onslaught of handphone calls, email and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now,
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      'WAS I SUCCESSFUL?'
      338 22  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Have avenues for bidders to check NDP ballot results, says reader Letter from SUCCESSFUL applicants for National Day Parade (NDP) tickets have been informed through telephone from June 5 to 11 between 9am and 9pm. I received two phone calls from a "private number"
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      Lock icon Will I ever get to attend the parade in my lifetime?
      90 22  -  TAN SIOK HA Letter from I REFER to "Fewer apply to get National Day Parade tickets" (June 14-15) and congratulate Koh Mm Qun on securing two tickets to the NDP I have been sending in my applications every year
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      195 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY I GIVE THE KIDS A CONTRACT Hey parents, if you're still trying to "argue" your kids into minding, maybe it's time to try a little "reality discipline". "Reality discipline" was coined by Dr Kevin Lehman, and it's all about shifting the responsibility
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      Lock icon SiLC take-up not lacklustre
      269 24  -  KARIMAH TAN ABDULLAH Much of the industrial land in Iskandar's SiLC has gone to Singapore firms Letter from General Manager, Corporate Communications UEM Land Berhad WE REFER to "Iskandar prices rising but where's the queue?" (June 6) and would like to clarify several points made in
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      Case should really be applauded
      192 24  -  BENJAMIN TAN BOON CHIAU Letter from I refer to "Makeover studio is Naughty By Nature" oune 12). It was reported that "cynics may say three cases in four years suggests that Case (the Consumers Association of Singapore) is not doing enough to protect consumers' rights".
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      A not-inconvenient show
      126 24  -  GERALD ANG Letter from I REFER to "Provocative ads: Useful or frightful?" (June 13). Such ads may shock, disgust or promote initiatives to go green. But their "primitive" approach does not show details for example, the damage we have caused to Mother Earth. Documentaries like An Inconvenient
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      Lock icon Tullett Prebon joins in Islamic banking
      494 26  -  CONRAD RAJ Leading money broker drops hat into an ever-growing ring EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg THE rapidly-growing Islamic capital market, nowworth over US$l.5 trillion ($2.06 trillion) globally, has attracted yet another prominent participant Leading money broker Tullett Prebon (Asia-Pacific). The company has announced it intends
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      Lock icon Saudis willing to act to bring oil prices down: UN chief
      263 26 -AFP JEDDAH Oil exporting powerhouse Saudi Arabia views skyrocketing crude prices as "abnormally high" and is willing to do what it can to bring them down, visiting United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday. Media reports have earlier suggested
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      Lock icon G8 powers on SWFs: 'We recognise the benefits'
      263 26 AFP OSAKA Finance ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) said over the weekend that they recognised the benefits of sovereign wealth funds, whose growing financial power has stirred controversy around the globe. The G8 nations, comprising some of the wealthiest and
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        Lock icon Fuel prices won't affect Air Asia's plans
        515 28 -AFP No holding back if routes are profitable: Tony Fernandes KUALA LUMPUR Malaysiabased Air Asia, South-east Asia's largest low-cost carrier, said yesterday that despite surging fuel prices it would not scale back growth plans and would press ahead with an ambitious routeexpansion programme.
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        244 30 LOHCHEEKONG Blind Spots by Claudia Shelton Ever had the feeling that people are responding negatively to you? Yet you brush it off in the belief that you got to where you are today by doing things your way. Be careful, the author cautions, for you have developed blind spots,
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        213 30 SELL LIKE A PRO Through sharing the key findings of a three-year research programme, this forum, organised by the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), seeks to imbue in participants a "new paradigm" for sales effectiveness based on a values-led approach. Participants learn to recognise the differences in approach between
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