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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday August 27, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday August 27, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • IN OUR MORNING PAPER
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      HOME BOOST
      112 1 They are "overstretched, strained and stressed", in some areas. Which is why Home Team officers are now getting their numbers beefed up with the re-hiring of retired officers, and a retention bonus this year for junior police officers to stem an outflow. That's on top of recommendations to
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      LEGAL SECTOR
      91 1 With the proposed changes to the Legal Profession Act set to liberalise the sector and enhance disciplinary processes, the debate among parliamentarians yesterday saw an interesting divide: Between six lawyers and three nonlawyers. Calling the changes—which were approved by Parliament "far too tentative and limited" Nominated Member of
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      SKILLS FOR ALL
      49 1 Even highly-educated workers these days need to brush up on their skills. This is why employers will soon have to pay the Skills Development Levy for all employees, instead of only those earning $2,000 or less a month. todayonline.com Log on to read the full reports
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  • afternoon edition
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      Lock icon Police, protesters clash in Bangkok
      374 1 AFP BANKOK PRER Thai riot police surround besieged Government House BANGKOK Thai riot police have surrounded Bangkok's Government House, where thousands of protesters are camped out after storming the compound to demand the prime minister resign, police said. After the intruders ignored a deadline to
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      Lock icon 3 EPL clubs crash out of League Cup
      279 1 .AFP LONDON Bolton suffered an embarrassing League Cup second round exit as Northampton won 2-1 at the Reebok Stadium, while West Bromwich Albion and Hull also crashed out yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Gary Megson's side were the biggest of the three
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Ivanovic scrapes through
      495 2 USOPEN World No 1 survives mighty scare against No 57-ranked Dushevina NEW YORK Ana Ivanovic raised her racket, ready for an easy overhead slam in what was shaping up as an easy match. Then she somehow spiked the ball right into the net from just a few
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      Lock icon He's Berbatov's replacement
      420 3 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Russian star Pavlyuchenko set to sign for Spurs LONDON Tottenham prepared for the probable departure of Dimitar Berbatov by reaching a verbal agreement with Spartak Moscow on the £15 million ($39 million) signing of Roman Pavlyuchenko. The Russia forward was among the stars
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      Lock icon Juve, Barca ease into Champions League proper
      325 3 DPA MADRID Euro giants Barcelona and Juventus cruised into the Champions League yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) by eliminating, as expected, minnows Wisla Cracow and Artmedia Bratislava in the third qualifying round. The 2006 champions Barca lost 1-0 in Cracow but go through
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      JCs' single intake inked for Feb 2
      393 4  -  ALICIAWONG CHANGES INSCHOOLCALENDAR COME January, one group of students will no longer need to join the thousands of others who will be resuming classes. Those moving on to their A-level studies should instead ink this date on their calendar: February 2, 2009. It
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      A visit to 'organ farms'
      266 4  -  LINYANQIN WHEN he visits Manila next month for a World Health Organization meeting, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan will make a trip to villages where a number of donors have been selling their organs, "to find what happens after surgery". He revealed this in Parliament
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      Lock icon Steps to safer tunnelling works
      163 4 WITH four incidents since 2005 of road subsidence from MRT tunnelling works, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has undertaken a comprehensive safety review and tightened its tunnelling specifications, said Transport Minister Raymond Lim. The latest case was at Cornwall Gardens (picture) in May. Mr Lim
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    • PARLIAMENT ROUNDUP
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        THE LOANSHARK SCOURGE
        91 4 There were 9,364 reports of loan-shark related harassment last year, slightly down from the 9,912 in 2006. By their nature, such cases are "not easy to solve", said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, and unless perpetrators are caught red-handed, there are often few leads. The Internet
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        47 FINED IN STRINGENT SHIPYARD INSPECTIONS
        65 4 Following the recent spate of accidents in shipyards, inspections were stepped up at all 89 shipyards here. There were several areas where safety standards fell short, and 47 shipyards were fined a total of $113,000. Two shipyards were also ordered to suspend operations for
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        A 'SIMPLISTIC' CONCLUSION
        99 4  -  LINYANQIN Was the presence of foreign workers contributing to wage stagflation, and holding employers back from training workers, asked Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim, citing reports from the Manpower Ministry and Institute of Policy Studies. Acting Manpower Minister Gan Kirn Yong said it was "simplistic" to draw this
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        11 PERCENT WITH HDB RENTAL ARREARS
        78 4  -  LINYANQIN ABOUT 4,700 HDB households had rental arrears of three months or more between last April and this March -about 11 percent of all rental households, said Ministry of National Development Parliamentary Secretary Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman. This was comparable with figures for the
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        NEW COMPUTERS FOR 5,000 NEEDY STUDENTS
        85 4  -  LINYANQIN The Education Ministry and the InfoComm Development Authority have helped about 5,000 needy students obtain new computers and Internet access, under the enhanced NEU PC Plus programme since 2006, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary MasagosZulkifli Masagos Mohamad. Responding to a question on helping them
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      Lock icon 10,000 to trial new ez-link card
      322 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be working with 10,000 public transport commuters to trial its new ez-link card (picture) between Friday and Oct 28, ahead of its fullscale launch at the end of this year or early next year. The trial
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      Lock icon Flagdown will cost you $5
      367 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN LUXURYTAXIS But new Chrysler taxis come with more legroom, friendly cabbies chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WOULD you pay a $5 flagdown fare for a taxi? SMRT Taxis is betting that some people would, especially with highcachet events such as Formula One next month and high-roll-ers expected with
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      Lock icon Speak well? 4 in 10 say 'no need'
      333 8  -  ESTHERNG GOOD ENGLISH S #poreans will speak better in front of bosses, but not with family or friends estnerng@medtacorp.com.sg WHEN IT comes to speaking good English, Singaporeans will put in more effort if they are talking to their superiors, business associates and
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      Singapore goes Down Under
      206 8  -  NG DAI LIN THERE will be char kway teow, chicken rice and other hawker fare. Phua Chu Kang and family will make a special appearance, as will other MediaCorp artistes like Tay Ping Hui and homegrown band Electrico. But beyond the food and entertainment from home,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        TWO NEW FULL-DAY BUS LANES
        54 8 From Monday, two stretches of peak-hour bus lanes along Geylang Road (from Sims Way to Kallang Road) and Sims Avenue (from Kallang Road to Sims Way) will be converted to full-day bus lanes. They will operate from 7.30 am to Bpm on all weekdays and
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        474 BTO FLATS AT SENJA GREEN
        73 8 The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is offering 474 flats in Bukit Panjang under its Build-To-Order (BTO) scheme. Senja Green consists of 96 two-room flats, 94 three-room flats and 284 fourroom flats. The prices range from $82,000 to $270,000. The building contract will include
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Anwar betters his wife's win
      829 10  -  ZULOTHMAN PERMATANG PAUH (Penang) The question was not whether he would win but how big his victory would be. Last night, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim showed that, despite the sodomy charges hanging over his head, he remained a political figure to contend with by
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      Lock icon Shouting match that turned ugly
      543 12  -  ANSLEYNG PERMATANG PAUH BY-ELECTION Riot police called in to separate BN and PKR supporters IN PERMATANG PAUH, PENANG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg FOR about two hours after polling stations opened at Bam yesterday, supporters from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) and the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) gathered
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      Lock icon ELECTION COMMISSION DENIES ANWAR FRAUD CHARGES
      129 12 AFP Malaysia's Election Commission yesterday angrily rejected opposition claims that it had rigged the voter list for the Permatang Pauh by-election expected to return Mr Anwar Ibrahim to Parliament. "They are saying that 949 names are missing in the latest electoral role, but this
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      Lock icon BN man counted on lucky No 8
      433 14  -  ZULOTHMAN PERMATANG PAUH BY-ELECTION IN PERMATANG PAUH, PENANG zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE first few hours of polling day at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya 2 had the air of a rock concert, with supporters from the two rival parties cheering and pleading with passers-by to
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      Lock icon MEDALS DON'T MEAN MUCH...
      587 16  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg not when China's sports facilities are hardly accessible to the masses CHINA topped the gold medal chart and its athletes wowed the world with their spectacular performance during the Olympics. But little has changed for Beijinger
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      Lock icon Their irresistible kisses
      415 19 AFP DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION Obama #s young daughters win hearts DENVER (Colorado) Two little girls stole the hearts of Democratic diehards on Monday as they appeared at the party's national convention blowing kisses to their daddy, Barack Obama, after a rousing speech by their mum. Malia, 10,
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      Lock icon FOUR HELD INTPLOTTO KILL OBAMA'
      111 19 AFP Four people have been arrested in Denver amid fears of a plot to kill Democratic White House hopeful BarackObama. The shooting was supposed to happen at Invesco stadium tomorrow, when MrObama will accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, a Denver-based TV station said on
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon RUSSIA RECOGNISES REBEL REGIONS
        61 19 AFP Russia formally recognised yesterday the Georgian rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. President Dmitry Medvedev's recognition in a national television address ignored warnings from Western powers against the move, which France and Britain condemned. He said his decision was made "taking
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        Lock icon NORTH KOREA STOPS DENUCLEARISATION
        80 19 AGENCIES North Korea said yesterday that it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has failed to remove it from a terrorism blacklist. The communist state accused the US of an "outright violation" of a six-nation nuclear disarmament
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        Lock icon SUU KYI ON HUNGER STRIKE?
        62 19 AFP Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has started refusing food deliveries, her party said yesterday, but the Myanmar junta denied rumours she had launched a hunger strike. Exiled dissidents in India and Thailand said the Nobel laureate last accepted fresh food supplies on Aug
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        Lock icon 1 M CUSTOMERS' BANK DETAILS SOLD ON EBAY
        83 19 AFP A British data-processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer by mistake on eßay containing personal details of 1 million bank customers, said the firm, Mail Source. The computer was bought on the site for
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      Long wait at polyclinic
      369 20  -  Tan Hong Boon A MATTER OFTIME Letter from ON AUG 14,1 went to Hougang Polyclinic to see a doctor for a skin rash. My time of arrival as stated on the registration chit was 11.41 am. Five minutes later, I got my queue number and waited
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      Why Mr Tan had to wait
      231 20  -  Chan Soo Chung Dr LimChee Kong Head, Hougang Polyclinic National Healthcare Group Polyclinics and General Manager National Healthcare Group Pharmacy WE THANK Mr Tan Hong Boon for his feedback. We have since contacted Mr Tan to convey our apologies and explain the situation to
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      167 26  -  DR BILL MAIER BY RAISE A SUNNY CHILD Want your children to always look on the bright side of life? Well, here are five simple steps to raising a little optimist. When children complain about something bad that has happened, quickly remind them of all the
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      278 26  -  Yeo Eng Wah CHILDCARE Govt should encourage stay-at-home mums to be childcare teachers Letter from WITH the Government's plan to build more childcare centres, more teachers will be needed. I hope the Government can tie this plan with that of encouraging more stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) to go
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      A choice of brain or brawn
      295 26  -  Narayana Narayana Letter from I REFER to the letter "Why local kids fall short" (Aug 25). Mr Jimmy Ho Kwok Hoong's experience as set out in his letter may well have elements of truth, but it basically reveals the extent, and expense, that "kiasu"
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      Set up ping pong tables at void decks
      224 27  -  Arthur Seah Letter from IT IS post-Beijing Olympics, and the Singapore Sailing Association is already saying that it needs $10 million to $12 million to prepare for the next Olympics. Before we go spending money, let us consider our strengths. We do
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      EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE
      251 28 EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE A NEW, NEW BEGINNING Lucas' prequel story starts in the year 32 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin) with Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999). For those not in the know, the BBY acronym refers to the massive battle in the original Star
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      177 28 EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES WHAT'S LOVE GOTTO DO WITH IT? Set 10 years after the events of Episode I (this would make it 22 BBY), Star Wars: Episode 2 Attack of the Clones (2002) finds Anakin (now played by Hayden Christensen) growing strong in the Jedi order as
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      STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
      108 28 SINGING A DIFFERENTTOON Chronologically, this is where the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which opens in cinemas tomorrow, fits into the saga. Lucas looks to further explore the development of Anakin before he steps across to the dark side, but succeeds more in entertaining
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      169 28  -  SHAMIR OSMAN YENYOK IN A GALAXY FAR, FARAWAY... The Today guide to George Lucas universe I shamir@mediacorp.com.sg There is a disturbance in the Force. While one faction of Star Wars fans is pleased as Jedi punch that a new chapter in George Lucas' sci-fi juggernaut is
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      EPISODE III – REVENGE OF THE SITH
      155 28 EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH NOOOOOO!!! Star Wars: Episode 111 Revenge of the Sith (2005) picks up where the animated series ends in 19BBY, three years after the onset of the Clone War in Episode 11. The Jedi finally catch on to Palpatine's plot, but he manages to draw
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      THE FUTURE OF THE FRANCHISE
      157 29 MAYTHE FORCE BEWITHYOU It seems that Pauline Kael did get one thing right about Star Wars. She said: "For younger audiences, (Star Wars) is like getting a box of Cracker Jacks that is all prizes." Ours is a generation that sat back and was wowed
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      EPISODE VI – RETURN OF THE JEDI
      71 29 EPISODE VI RETURN OF THE JEDI THEENDOFAN EMPIRE The final instalment in the saga takes places roughly a year after the events of the previous one. Just before going on to destroy the second Death Star, Luke has to face his father, with whom he reconciles in a shower of
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      EPISODE V – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
      77 29 EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK AFAMILYAFFAIR It is three years later, and Luke finds himself stranded on Dagobah, where he trains under wee Jedi Master Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz, the man behind Miss Piggy). After a swashbuckling duel, which sees him losing a hand, Luke finds out that
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      EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE
      155 29 EPISODE IV A NEW HOPE BACKTOTHE FUTURE Lucas' original Star Wars (1977) fits in here. Re-released as Star Wars: Episode IV—ANewHope, the story is set 19 years later, when the Republic is no more and the Emperor (Palpatine's snazzy new moniker) controls the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is
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      192 30 AP SQUEEZING between Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson sounds intimidating, but Kara DioGuardi (picture), the newly-installed fourthjudge on American Idol, is confident she'll find her niche within the judges panel, where the line between love and hate is blurred with every
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      Lock icon Big test for a new padawan
      443 30  -  SHAMIR OSMAN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Clone Wars director Dave Filoni knew he had big, Lucas-sized shoes to fill IN CHIBA, JAPAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg BEFORE a padawan learner is inducted into the Jedi order as a knight, he has to endure the test of flesh, of skill,
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      Art-wrenchingly beautiful... and long
      156 32  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEWTHE BANISHMENT WITH the melancholic pace, long, meditative silences and overt religious symbolism of Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Banishment, one wonders if the Russian director, who gave us the highly-acclaimed movie The Return, has bitten off a tad more than we can chew. Clocking
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      218 32  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW STARWARS: THE CLONE WARS CHILDREN will enjoy it, and geeks will tolerate it. Hardcore fans will feel obliged to love it, while the rest of the world will just be thankful that Jar Jar Binks does not make an appearance.
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      301 33  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL You'll laugh you'll cry you'll forgive its formulaic structure WE'VE all been there at least once in our lives: You're in a blissful relationship, thinking everything is peachy-keen, when all of a sudden, BOOM! your significant other needs a change.
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      131 29 The qualification for business leaders of the future is now available in Singapore Singapore is one of the world's fastest-growing financial centres and the demand for highly-skilled accountancy professionals is rapidly increasing. In response, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is working in collaboration with the
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      1084 34 TV LISTINGS BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 A JOURNEY OF HOPE IV SINGAPURA SYOK PREHISTORIC PARK Closing Ceremony (Part 1, Encore) channel News Asia, 9.31pm Suria, gpm The Bughouse meet as we embrace two new Olympic heroes: Michael It is one of the most preventable cancers in the world, Haizad discovers
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      579 35 USOPEN Nadal, Dementieva are still recovering from their Olympic highs NEW YORK Olympic gold medal winners Elena Dementieva (picture) and Rafael Nadal opened their US Open campaigns with lacklustre firstround wins on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The pair, who struck gold on Aug 17, both said
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      521 35 THE NEWYORKTIMES,AGENCIES NEW YORK Kei Nishikori (picture) looked anything but assured, even though he held a two-sets-to-one lead over 29th seed Juan Monaco of Argentina in his US Open first round match on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Serving at 5-2, and holding match point
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      280 36 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH English Premiership Portsmouth o Man Utd i LONDON It was a gripping game, brimming with end-to-end action, showing why Manchester United will not yield their Premiership title easily. United spilled blood and sweat for their three points gained at Portsmouth's Fratton Park ground,
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      690 36 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH IS HE MAN UTD WORTHY? I I DIMITARBERBATOV 48 4 sub 4,280 23 (1 per 186 mins) 15 (1 per 285 mins) WAYNE ROONEY 39 4 sub 3,480 18 (1 per 193 mins) 14(1 per 249 mins) CARLOSTEVEZ 40 9 sub 3,520 19 (1 per 185
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      206 37 AFP LIVERPOOL Jamie Carragher has warned that Liverpool could pay the ultimate price for complacency if they underestimate Standard Liege in the second leg of their Champions League qualifier at Anfield tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Rafa Benitez's team, who lifted the European Cup for a
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      383 37  -  TANYO-HINN SWIMMING Sports School keen to retain coach Churchill after Olympic success yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN swim star Tao Li returned from the Beijing Olympics on Aug 18 as Asia's fastest woman in the 100 m butterfly, she feared that she could lose her coach, Peter
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      551 37  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Geylang United v Balestier Khalsa Bedok Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg AFTER three seasons with mighty SAFFC, captaining his side to two NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League titles and the RHB Singapore Cup, Noor Ali (picture) returned to his former club
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      149 36 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am Tennis US Open: Day 2, Ch 22 6pm Football J-League Kobe v Kashima Antlers, Ch 27 11pm Tennis US Open: Day 3, Ch 22 11.38pm Cricket Gloucestershire v Middlesex, Ch 110 TOMORROW 3am Football Champs Lge 3rd Rd: Arsenal v FCTwente, Ch 27 3am Football
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      653 38 VENTURE CAPITALISM Fresh entrepreneurs can distinguish their businesses by building a professional image ACCORDING to Insead Associate Professor of Strategy Ouy Nguyen Huy, entrepreneurs face the same problem when starting *Sl^ out on their own. He asks: "When you are relatively young, with relatively
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      159 39 WHERETO FIND HELP? IE Singapore's Advisory Centre is a one-stop centre catering to the overseas expansion needs of all Singaporebased companies. WHAT HELP IS AVAILABLE? Through a face-to-face free consultation, in-house experts and private sector partner consultants can provide free advice and recommend appropriate products and services to
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      478 39  -  ESTHER FUNG VENTURINGABROAD When engaging in cross-border trade, due diligence is not an option esther@mediacorp.com. sg COMPANIES keen to export their products often face issues when overcoming regulatory hurdles. Local beauty and healthcare firm TR Networks, which exports products such as detoxification juices and anti-ageing pills, had
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      261 39  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg LIFESTYLE magazines publisher Communication Resources Media knew that expanding the distributorship of its lifestyle titles abroad was necessary for its survival, as it felt the Singapore market was too small. Since launching its flagship title, Prestige, in 2000, the
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      380 40  -  CHEOWXINYI ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING New pacts to iron out the kinks of regional trade cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg BY JUNE next year, South-east Asian investors will get a new avenue of redress should they find themselves short-changed by a country in the region. Under a new Asean Comprehensive Investment
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      161 40 AFP SOUTH-EAST Asian economic ministers have signed agreements on Monday, the eve of a ministerial summit here, to allow accountants, dentists and doctors to work in each other's countries. Under the pacts, member countries will mutually recognise qualifications and standards covering accountants, dentists and
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        DROP IN TOURIST ARRIVALS FOR JUNE, JULY
        126 41 Some 916,000 visitors arrived in Singapore last month. This represents a drop of 3.8 per cent from the same period last year. Even so, that was the highest number of visitors since January, with Indonesians topping the arrival list at the height of
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        BUGIS HOTEL SITE ON OFFER
        109 41 The Urban Redevelopment Authority is inviting applications for a reserve hotel development site in Bugis. This 0.12 ha (0.3 acre) site in Short Street has a maximum permissible gross floor area of around 43,00 square feet. It is the first of two new hotel sites
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        100 41 Struggling tiles and building materials supplier NH Ceramics is being taken over by Dyna-Mac Engineering Services. Dyna-Mac Engineering provides turnkey project management services to customers from the oil and gas industry. The reverse takeover involves NH Ceramics buying the entire share capital of Dyna-Mac from its current owners for
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      373 41  -  CHEOWXINYI TRADE TALKS cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg AS SOUTH-EAST Asian economic ministers began talks in Singapore yesterday to strengthen regional trade links, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned against "backsliding" towards protectionism. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of ministers from the Association of
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      509 42  -  CONRAD RAJ And Temasek should release quarterly reports editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings' media briefing yesterday gave a refreshing and useful insight into the workings of one of the Government's two main investment vehicles. Its latest review, called "Risks and Opportunities", provided a slew of
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      122 40 ITC—SCHOOL OF LAWS MAKE THE FIRST MOVE TCHWTOSTEPUPTHE W- -~-^l CORPORATE LADDER -M TOMORROW m ii I "Obtaining a law degree, has given me invaluable legal perspective that has helped me in my life, both professionally and personally" ■I Mr Tan You Leong, the ONLY Ist class Honours degree recipient
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      270 43 TEMASEK'S HOLDINGS Major investments in the Singapore investment firm's portfolio Financial Services Transport Logistics NIB Bank 63% PSA International 100% PT Bank Danamon Neptune Orient Lines 66% l n.__! a. 5.8% Singapore Airlines 54% PT Bank Internasional SMRTCoirpciß^ 42% Indonesia 48% DBS Group Holdings 28% 777 Z Infrastructure, Industrial Standard
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        167 44 Stocks rise US stocks rose yesterday, rebounding from the biggest drop in a month, as higher oil prices boosted energy shares and analysts said Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac have enough capital to last the year. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. jumped 6.4 per cent and led gains in 38
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        68 44 vii sxeaay Crude oil was little changed after rising more than US$l a barrel yesterday on forecasts showing that Hurricane Gustav may enter the Gulf of Mexico, home to more than a fifth of US oil production. Crude oil for October delivery fell US$O.3l to U*****.96 a barrel.
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      69 44 Insurance giant Great Eastern presented a cheque for $1 million to the Community Chest at its 100 th anniversary dinner last night. At the event, guest of honour Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: "Great Eastern has made steady progress for a hundred years. Your longevity attests
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      500 44 BLOOMBERG US ECONOMY Federal Reserve officials agree that's their next move WASHINGTON Federal Reserve policy makers agreed at their meeting three weeks ago that their next change in interest rates will be to raise them, while reaching no conclusion on the timing of such a decision, according
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      805 44 IN Ayear rocked by tumultuous global financial markets and the United States credit crunch, Temasek Holdings has reaped the rewards of its Asian investments. Yesterday, it reported record profits of $18.2 billion for over the financial year to end-March, double that of a year earlier, thanks
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        64 44 Manufacturing output dropped the most in at least two years in July as pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies reduced production, signalling a deepening slowdown in Singapore's economic growth. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang now says Singapore's economy may end up growing at the lower end of the
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