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  • 10 1 TODAY Tuesday October 7, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    35 1  -  Agatha Koh Brazil Our Voices Editor sits down with Singapore's only female film-maker, Wee Li Lin, who divulges her secret to recovering from bad-review depression: Supportive family and friends and Facebook Scrabble. Page 22
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  • 76 1  -  Ho Kwon Ping The failure of the financial system suggests it is time to change society's reward system, which has bred the fear and greed driving capitalism, says the head of Banyan Tree. Page 2 Don't write off the US It's the end of Wall Street, scream headlines on
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  • 853 1  -  CHEOWXINYI KELVIN CHOW SINGTEL RATES INCREASE First hike in land line subscription fees, local call charges in 18 years cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg FROM January, if you have a Sing Tel land line at home over 90 per cent of households do you will have to pay $10 more
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  • 616 1 AGENCIES 2.30 AM LATEST UNITED States stocks slumped at the open yesterday as panic gripped worldwide markets and eclipsed Friday's passage of the US$7OO-billion ($l-tril-lion) financial bailout plan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below the key psychological level of 10,000 for the first time since
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    • 1889 2  -  HOKWON PING NEWS COMMENT TEN years ago the Asian financial crisis raged like wildfire through the region. Corporates, banks, even governments one after another collapsed due to imprudent borrowings, poor corporate governance and crony capitalism. Today, history repeats itself, but halfway around the world. And
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    • 264 4  -  .CHEOWXINYI Sing Tel as a company is preparing for "another 12 to 18 months of uncertainty and difficult economic environment," and will be cutting costs to deal with the turmoil in the financial sector. "For us it's no longer business as usual," said Mr
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    • 442 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg HIS life in Indonesia for the last 10 years seemed all but over his wife and son had left him and he was jobless. Being broke, Mr Roger Lee (picture), a Singaporean, figured the only way back to Singapore was to
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    • 662 6  -  ZULOTHMAN NIGHTSPOTS Parent firm Lifeßrandzto terminate contract with London brand owners zul@mediacorp.com.sg IN ITS owners' version of a Cabinet reshuffle, the Ministry of Sound (MOS) is to be replaced with a new nightlife venue. The club's franchise operators the mainboard-listed company Lifeßrandz yesterday announced in
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    • 363 8  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S typically a social affair for the overseas Indian community. But this year, the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conference which is held annually in India is coming to Singapore as well, with business in mind. Co-organised by the Singapore Indian Chamber
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    • 478 8  -  ZULOTHMAN MURDERTRIAL zul@mediacorp.com.sg SOBBING uncontrollably on the stand, Mr Ong Pang Siew the man accused of murdering his China-born teenage stepdaughter told the High Court yesterday he had not intended to kill the girl. "I am prepared to accept the death sentence if
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    • 367 10 SOME three decades after passing through its doors, former student Koh Thiam Seng returns to St Joseph's Institution as its new principal, come January. The 48-year-old, who is currently deputy director at the National Institute of Education (NIE), will take over from Mr Benjamin Lvi
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    • 493 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT AVIATION weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THINKING of a quick getaway to Kota Kinabalu, Kuching or Miri? A scan of the travel advertisements yields little information about these East Malaysian destinations, with many tour agencies offering "mature destinations" in Peninsular Malaysia instead. This is about to
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  • WORLD
    • 230 12 AP BANGKOK Protesters in Thailand, who have occupied the grounds of the prime minister's office for six weeks, marched to the streets outside parliament yesterday evening, vowing to block the government from delivering a policy statement to lawmakers. The action by the People's Alliance for
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      183 12 CORRUPTION CHARGES Thaksin and wife applied for asylum in Britain in August LONDON Britain's Home Office has confirmed that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Potjaman (picture) have applied to seek political asylum and stay in Britain, the Sunday Mirror reported. Mr Thaksin, a former
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    • 224 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is under intense pressure to quit, said he will announce by tomorrow whether he will step down in March. Mr Abdullah had earlier suggested he may not seek re-election as leader of
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 137 14 AFP A United States woman sentenced to life in jail in Hong Kong for bludgeoning her banker husband to death after lacing his milkshake with sedatives lost her appeal against conviction yesterday. Ms Nancy Kissel, dubbed the "Milkshake Murderer", was found guilty of killing her husband
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      • 116 14 After being held hostage for 41 days by Somali pirates, MTBunga Melati Dua crew member Mohd Salwadi Mamat is eagerto marry his childhood sweetheart, The NewStraitsTimes reported. Mr Mohd Salwadi, 31, returned home on Saturday. He got engaged to Ms Nor Hasliza Mat
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    • 349 14 AFP DETAINED BLOGGER KUALA LUMPUR A popular Malaysian blogger yesterday pleaded not guilty to sedition over an article he wrote that linked the Deputy Prime Minister and his wife to the murder of a Mongolian woman. Mr Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder of the popular Malaysia Today
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    • 152 16 In Dubai, only the tallest will do AP THE world's tallest building is nearing completion in Dubai, but its won't hold that title for too long. The city is already planning to build an even more ambitious skyscraper: One that will soar the length of more than 10 American football
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    • 387 16 AGENCIES US PRESIDENTIAL RACE In a tit-for-tat Obama digs up McCain's role in an '80s scandal ASHEVILLE (North Carolina) Democrat Barack Obama, responding to his portrayal by John McCain's campaign as a crony of "terrorists," fought fire with fire yesterday by highlighting the Republican's embroilment in a devastating
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    • 237 16 AP BANGKOK Land mine explosions wounded two Thai soldiers yesterday near the border with Cambodia, army officials said, three days after both sides exchanged gunfire near a disputed 11th century temple. One of the Thai paramilitary troopers lost both legs after stepping on
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    • 233 17 AFP CENTRAL ASIA STRUCK Village of Nura razed, 128 houses ruined by temblor of magnitude 6.6 BISHKEK (Kyrgyzstan) Rescuers raced to reach a remote village in Kyrgyzstan yesterday after a strong earthquake killed at least 72 people in a mountainous area near the border with
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    • 101 17 AGENCIES A pair of earthquakes jolted Tibet's capital and surrounding areas yesterday, killing 30 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The US Geological Survey said the first quake measured magnitude 6.6 and struck 80 kilometres west of Lhasa, more than 2,600 kilometres away
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    • 217 17 AFP I SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd blamed the financial crisis on the "greed is good" attitude of Hollywood's fictional financier Gordon Gekko, saying the world had failed to learn from the '80s. In an speech to a weekend business forum, Mr
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    • 206 17 AFP STOCKHOLM French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind Aids and cervical cancer won the Nobel Medicine Prize yesterday, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced. France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who shared one half
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    • 250 18 AFP ISLAMABAD In an interview, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said arch-enemy India had never been a threat to his country and that Islamic militant groups in Indian-con-trolled Kashmir were "terrorists". Mr Zardari also indicated to the Wall Street Journal that there was
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    • 474 18 AP ALBANIA'S SWORN VIRGINS SHKODR (Albania) She spent 12 years in a hard-labour camp, punished for her fiance's attempt to flee Albania's regime, then one of the world's most repressive and isolationist. Ms Drene Markgjoni swore she would never suffer like that for somebody else
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    • 60 22  -  Murali Sharma It is really a mark of the sorry state of the nation that we have to spend so much time discussing the whys and wherefores of clearing tables at food centres. What is it with our First-World residents that they are unable to perform this
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    • 846 22  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEE WITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg Doors are now opening for the director who has made a comeback TALK about suffering for her art... After the release of her film Gone Shopping in local cinemas, Wee Li Lin was hit with depression and secluded
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    • 189 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY LET YOUR KIDS SNACK-ON FRUITS Worried about the way your children are eating? Why not let nature be your family nutritionist? You can't get better than nature's garden for sweets that are good for you. Fruits are a great tasting way to
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    • 266 24  -  Geoffrey Lim PUBLICTRANSPORT SBST has removed decals from buses not running on disabled-friendly routes Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE REFER to "Wheelchair friendly but sorry, you can't board" (Oct 2),"Why the Confusion Now?" (Oct 3) and "SBS should have accessed
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    • 222 24  -  TanYok Hong Letter from I REFER to "Baby Bonus? No, it's adopt-a-dog perks" (Oct 4). According to the report, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals receives an average of 250 lost or unwanted dogs every month, not counting those received
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      • 871 25  -  MAYO MARTIN DA:NS FESTIVAL 2008 With more dance pieces going multimedia, Today wonders where the actual vdancing' has gone mayo@mediacorp.com.sg LAST month, this reporter caught the production Old Sounds, the inaugural offering from contemporary dance company T.H.E. Choreographed by company artistic director and former Singapore
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      • 229 26 Go contemporary with our picks for this year's dams Festival. COPPELIA It's a ballet classic like you've never seen before, with Japanese geishas, a film on seven dwarves, a TV dance contest, and the character dressed up as an eyeball. Thursday and Friday, Bpm, Esplanade
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      • 506 27  -  MAYSEAH S UPER BA ND WIN NE R S Tuzi crowned champions, hopping with surprise may@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the story of the tortoise and the hare in reverse. This time, the bunnies were the underdogs that came from behind to cross the finish line first. At
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      • 203 27 GET your umbrella-ella-ella ready, not because it's rainy season, but because good girl gone bad Rihanna she who had hits with songs like Umbrella, Disturbia and Pon de Replay is heading this way. Yes, the multi-platinum MTV and Grammy award winner will be in town for
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      • 581 28  -  EVELINE GAN BEDTIME BLUES Insufficient rest can cause babies to be hyperactive, cranky or obese later in life eveline@mediacorp.com.sg BEDTIME with my energetic one-year-old daughter, Jubilee, is always a nightmare she fusses, cries and whines for a good two hours before falling asleep. And
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    • 306 30  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg WITH an eye on the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010, the Singapore Hockey Federation (SHF) hired Juanma Mas as national women's coach. He began his tenure on Sept 1 and SHF president Annabel Francis said: "Juanma has a lot of
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    • 222 30 AFP PARIS The 2009 European PGA International Tour, comprising 53 events, will culminate in the inaugural US$2O million ($29.2 million) Dubai World Championship tournament in November. Formally the European Order of Merit, the tour will now be known as the "Race to Dubai",
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    • 496 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG TODAY EXCLUSIVE After just 3 months, Johari and federation's secretary general told to vtake a break' linfhoong@mediacorp.com SINGAPORE Silat Federation (SSF) president Johari Mokti has been in office for a little more than three months, and already the silat chief
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      624 31  -  TANYO-HINN STAR INTHE MAKING Youngster could go on to become a world champion, says bowling guru Allen yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg A WORLD-CLASS consultant with more than 30 years experience in the sport, only truly special talent triggers excitement in bowling guru Sid Allen. In 1991, he went "wow" when he
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    • 270 31 HE DEFENDED his British Open title at Royal Birkdale in July and won his third Major when he bagged the PGA Championship the following month. The Republic of Ireland's Padraig Harrington will fight to add "the Major of Asia" to his trophy cabinet, when he tees
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    • 136 31 AFP NEW DELHI Opener Virender Sehwag believes India could beat Australia comfortably in the upcoming Test series. "If we play on spin-friendly tracks, the series might go 3-1 in our favour," the Indian batsman said yesterday. "India is the only team that beat
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    • 579 32 ENGLISH CLUB FOOTBALL After 19 years of hurt, Reds finally look as if they have cracked the title puzzle English Premiership Man City 2 Liverpool 3 LONDON If belief is the key to Liverpool finally ending their title drought, then, Rafael Benitez could well have
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    • 237 32 AGENCIES LONDON Phil Brown is not the self-dep-recating type. His strutting touchline pose, earpiece and microphone at the ready, reminds anyone watching of an American football coach. So it was strictly in character when he claimed his Hull side were just three points
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    • 309 32 AFP LIVERPOOL Joe Kinnear will have to let Newcastle's results do the talking, after the interim manager admitted he is sick of defending himself against criticism from the English press. Kinnear marked his arrival with a foulmouthed tirade at local journalists in his
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    • 638 33  -  HENRYWINTER INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Newcastle striker's England career in danger as coach Capello ignores him again sports@newstoday.com.sg LONDON Fabio Capello's conviction that Michael Owen does not fit into his tactical plan for England was confirmed again on Sunday night when the Newcastle United striker, the
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    • 187 33 AFP GENEVA Football's world governing body Fifa said yesterday that the two Polish World Cup qualifiers with the Czech Republic and Slovakia will go ahead after a tentative agreement between the government and the country's football federation. Fifa had given Poland a deadline of
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    • 851 34  -  PEARLYN THAM CHANGING WITH THE TIMES Companies that have revamped their logos include Fuji Xerox (main picture), as well as (from top) Old Chang Kee, Resorts World at Sentosa and theYCH Group, which replaced the lorry icon to signify its growth into a logistics company and its
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  • BUSINESS
    • 489 35 ONTHE MARKET Could Tays buy back firm they sold to Peace Mark six months ago? SINGAPORE'S Sincere Watch and its subsidiaries are being placed on the market, just six months after the company was sold to Hong Kong-listed Peace Mark (Holdings) in a deal valuing
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    • 276 35 BLOOMBERG TANTALLON Capital, founded by Merrill Lynch former head of sales Nicholas Harbinson, is understood to have closed one of its hedge funds after bad bets on Asian stocks. The Singapore-based firm shut its Tantallon Smaller Companies Fund, managed by Mr Steve Sun, after it
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    • 747 36  -  QUAKHIANGWHAI BUSINESS COMMENT Despite the financial crisis, American innovation and strengths will prevail IT WAS rather ironic. But there was the screaming headline: The End of Wall Street. The publication? The Wall Street Journal itself. A quick Google with the phrase "The End
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      • 159 36 On Thursday, Panasonic announced that its new alkaline battery EVOLTA has entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's No 1 Long Lasting AA Alkaline Battery, based on the data obtained from discharge tests conducted in accordance with the guidelines set by the International
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    • 423 37 AP FINANCIALCRISIS Now Denmark, Sweden take steps to protect consumer bank accounts NORDIC countries Denmark and Sweden yesterday moved to bolster protection for bank customers as stock exchanges across Europe moved lower and central banks pumped more money to cash-starved banks. In Copenhagen, the Economy
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    • 216 37 THE NEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK It might be a surprise that anyone wants to buy a collapsing American bank these days, let alone that two rivals are fighting over it. But the battle to take over Wachovia is now in front of the courts, with hearings
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    • 331 37  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) have shown improved earnings performance, but tougher times lie ahead. In the sixth annual SME development survey, conducted in June by DP Information Group and its partners SPRING Singapore and IE Singapore, the number of unprofitable SMEs
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      • 50 38 5 cents Sell CIMB downgrades, cuts target price to $0.04 from $0.22 on bad debt provision for FYOB, expectations firm may not pay dividends for FYO9, FYIO. WesTech announced major customer in Taiwan with accounts receivables amounting to U5534.95 million ($51.1 million) recently defaulted on payment to firm.
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      • 54 38 13.5 cents I Buy NRA Capital starts coverage with $0.19 target price. Growth prospects healthy on increase in medical procedures performed globally, increase in day surgeries and group's acquirement of new medical devices through acquisitions of other brands of medical devices. Analyst notes trend for hospitals to shift
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      • 101 38 55 cents Outperform CLSA downgrades from Buy, cuts target price to $0.80 from $1.20. Broker says move reflects expectation that lack of funding may limit growth. "Due to weakness in capital markets, the firm, which has used equity raisings to support its aggressive growth strategy, will have to
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      45 38 Hang Seng 16,803.76 4.97% Nikkei 10,473.09 T 4-25% Shanghai 2,173.74 T 5.23% Seoul 1,358.75 T 4.29% Mumbai 11,801.70 5.28% KLComp 996.84 T 1.95% US$1 £1 $1,462 ¥100 $1,415 $2,576 HK$ioo $18.83 leuro A$i RMi $1,991 RMB100 $21.37 $1,091 RS100 $3,059 $0,419 RPio,ooo $1,524
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    • 513 38 BLOOMBERG HSBC chairman Stephen Green (picture) kept to his schedule the day Europe fell into the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression turning up in Singapore for the Formula 1 race. On Sunday, Sept 28, as governments in London and Brussels were
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    • 478 38  -  LOH CHEE KONG AIG ASSET SALES Insurer's regional office says reputation has been hit, but manages strong Sept snowing cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as the sale of stakes in its Asia-Pacific lifeinsurance operations begins in earnest, American International Group (AIG) has given its assurance that the impact of
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    • 119 38 INTERNET access for the Central Depository (CDP) was unavailable for more than an hour yesterday, leaving investors unable to check their shareholdings online during that time. A spokesperson for the Singapore Exchange, parent of the CDP, said: "The CDP Internet access resumed at about 6pm
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