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    20 1 TODAY Friday October 24, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday October 24, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    763 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ASSISTING NEEDY RESIDENTS CDCs using unconventional ways to assist needy residents weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg MONEY, dry rations and meal vouchers have long been part of the aid arsenal to help needy families. Now, you can add quitsmoking sessions and financial workshops to the list. As more
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    Lock icon Singapore-China FTA a real boon
    590 1  - SingaporeChina FTA a real boon LOHCHEEKONG IN BEIJING cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg FROM greater opportunities for businesses here to tap China's 1.3-billion strong market to cheaper Chinese beer, there is something for just about every Singaporean in the free trade agreement inked between the two countries yesterday. Under the deal, which comes
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      86 1 COMMENTARY The McCain campaign's attacks on Obama could M backfire in a big way WORLD 27 COLUMN Phin Wong Our Plus Editor gets a call from the Queen of Pop herself as she asks for advice on coping with her divorce. Really... Page 42 WORLD Ageing singles As a growing
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      Singapore eyes food zone in Jilin
      338 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG CHINATRADE IN BEIJING cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg ONE is a small country with an insatiable demand for food and a reputation for effective administration. The other has abundant resources but lacks the know-how to ensure food safety. Now, Singapore and China are looking to join
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      Civil service salaries may be revised
      328 3 PUBLIC SECTOR Those in senior positions may be affected by slowed economic growth THE Public Service Division (PSD) may revise civil service salaries in light of the turmoil in the financial markets and lower growth forecasts for Singapore, the first Asian economy to slip
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      Lock icon Behold the new barrage
      595 4  -  ESTHER NG FUTURE SINGAPORE It will soon become Singapore's 15th reservoir estherng@mediacorp.com.sg AT $230 million, the Marina Barrage is more than just a water catchment area. In fact, the barrage, which officially opens next week, will serve up three benefits: It alleviates flooding in low-lying areas
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      Lock icon CLEAN AND GREEN SINGAPORE 2009
      165 4 ESTHERNG What a difference a year makes. The National Environment Agency's (NEA) move to change Clean Green Singapore (CGS) from a week into a year-long programme has made more Singaporeans go green. Its pool of community volunteers grew from 8,375 last year to 11,414 this
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      THE GOOD IN BAD TIMES
      724 6  -  CHITRA RAJARAM NEWS COMMENT As dark clouds hover, the time is right to reflect on values deputy editorial director chitrarajaram@mediacorp.com.sg AMID the doom and gloom, it's only natural to worry about what will happen tomorrow. While it might be hard for some to fathom, there
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      Comfort reviews diesel surcharge
      256 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg TAXI passengers may be able to get some relief soon. When pump prices fell for the 10th consecutive time yesterday, ComfortDelGro, which operates 15,000 of the 24,000 taxis in Singapore, said it will review the 30-cent diesel surcharge with its drivers. The surcharge was
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      Application to be withdrawn
      402 8  -  ANSLEYNG JURONG BY-ELECTION No lawyer has been found to replace JBJ ansley@mediacorp.com. sg HE WAS depending on veteran politician J B Jeyaretnam to represent him in court over his application for a by-elec-tion in Jurong GRC. But after he could not get a lawyer to take
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      Lock icon Charity cows headed for India
      266 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP has joined hands with the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) for the media group's social enterprise initiative, called "The Village Help: Cows for the People". They will train 15 families in the village of Phoolpur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to
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      Lock icon Singaporeans are piling on the debt
      525 10  -  TAN HUI LENG EFFECTS OFTHE RECESSION Credit card rollover debt has risen to $3.3 billion; total debt up 10 per cent huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AS ECONOMIC growth heads south, debts are going up. And the combination "will push many individuals into financial difficulties as jobs and
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      Bizarre love quadrangle
      415 12  -  TEOXUANWEI MURDERTRIAL Accused lover claims they are soulmates, as victim falls for husband's friend xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SHE ranted and railed at her husband when she caught him, red- handed, cheating on her in their matrimonial home. Yet, moments later, Madam Smaemeeral Abdul Aziz became calm and composed, even
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      Lock icon Takeover options 'diminishing'
      222 14 .AGENCIES ANWAR'S BIDTO UNSEAT GOVERNMENT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim acknowledged yesterday that he won't be able to unseat the government any time soon. "I'm not saying we have no options left, but I'm saying it's getting to be much more difficult," Mr Anwar said.
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      Lock icon ANWAR PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE BUDGET FORTOUGH TIMES
      122 14 AFP Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday proposed an alternative budget plan to restore confidence in the economy amid a global downturn. The 20-page document proposes slashing government expenditure on mega-projects and opening up public tenders. It calls for a RM23.83-billion cut in the
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      Lock icon 12 Hindraf activists and family members arrested
      177 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police arrested 12 ethnic Indian activists and family members when they tried to present a petition yesterday at the Prime Minister's office. The petition called for the release of detainees held under the Internal Security Act. The activists are
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      Syed Hamid ticks off seekers of early polls
      248 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Home Minister, Mr Syed Hamid Albar, has ticked off Umno party leaders who have asked that internal party polls be brought forward to December, from March next year. Mr Syed Hamid's ire was targeted at Mr Muhyiddin Yassin, the
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      406 17 'AFP THAI PROTESTS Plastic clappers a must-have for Thailand's protesters BANGKOK The latest must-have among Thailand's protesters is a plastic, hand-shaped clapper. The clack-clack-clack of the multi-coloured hands has resonated throughout Bangkok during the months-long campaign by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to bring down the nation's elected
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      Lock icon Thaksin confident he will remain in exile in Britain
      362 17 AGENCIES BANGKOK Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison, says he is confident he will be able to remain in Britain, where he is in self-exile. "I think I can stay here
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      Lock icon Citibank falls for Nigerian scam
      295 18 AFP INTERNATIONAL FRAUD Almost $iom lost, bank duped by forged documents SEOUL South Korean police said yesterday they had arrested three Nigerians for allegedly obtaining millions of dollars from Citibank with a forged document purportedly from Ethiopia's central bank. The police said the suspects were
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        Lock icon GOLF DIPLOMACYTO EASE BORDER DISPUTE
        107 18 AFP Cambodia's defence minister teed off with Thai military officials yesterday in a spot of golf diplomacy ahead of talks aimed at resolving the deadly territorial border dispute. A meeting of mid-level officials in Siem Reap was meant to pave the way for talks today
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        Lock icon ASEAN SUMMIT MAY MOVE TO CHIANG MAI
        105 18 AFP Thailand may move a keyAsean summit away from the capital amid ongoing political unrest, a foreign ministry official said. The 10-nation Association of South-east Asian Nations is due to meet in Bangkok in December. "The government has looked at several options, so
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      Lock icon Chinese dissident bags award
      268 20 AFP EU HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE China angered over prize given to vcriminal #Hu Jia BEIJING China expressed its anger and disappointment at the European Union decision yesterday to give a major human rights award to Chinese dissident Hu Jia (picture), insisting he was a criminal. The
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      Lock icon Immigrants must learn to use toilets'
      223 20 AP WELLINGTON Minority lawmakers accused a senior New Zealand politician of racism yesterday for comments he made about Asian and Pacific Island migrant workers while campaigning for next month's elections. Opposition National Party lawmaker Lockwood Smith who is in line to become the Minister
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      Lock icon Aussie jury declares 'Jihad Jack' innocent
      224 20 AP MELBOURNE An Australian man who spent time at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan and who met Mr Osama bin Laden was found innocent yesterday of receiving funds from the terrorist group. Mr Joseph Thomas, a Muslim convert dubbed "Jihad Jack" by
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        Lock icon JAPAN WOMAN KILLED AFTER $3-MILLION LOTTERYWIN
        104 22 AFP A man allegedly killed his girlfriend after she won 200 million yen ($3 million) in the lottery, Japanese police said yesterday. Police said they arrested newspaper deliveryman Jinichi Kumagai, 51, for allegedly killing Ms Hisako Yoshida. Media reports said the two were dating.
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        Lock icon SARKOZY SUES OVER VOODOO DOLL
        111 22 AFP French President Nicolas Sarkozy is suing a company that sells voodoo dolls in his image along with pins to stick in them and a satirical biography, court officials said yesterday. The company also sells a similar doll resembling Socialist Party member Segolene Royal. The
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      Lock icon Yet another food scare?
      196 22 AFP FOOD FRIGHT Japanese woman sickened by tainted Nissin noodles TOKYO A Japanese woman fell ill from eating instant noodles laced with insecticide, officials said yesterday, in the latest food safety scare to hit the country. The woman, 67, vomited and felt numbness on her tongue
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      Lock icon War was the single biggest threat to press freedom
      162 22 AGENCIES PARIS Singapore is placed in the bottom quarter of a global press freedom index that ranked 173 countries, which was issued on Wednesday by a Paris-based media group. In the annual World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Sans Frontieres'
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      Lock icon Unmarried, unwanted
      460 25 AFP AGEING SINGLES Japanese turn to matchmaking, but marriage woes remain TOKYO As a growing number of Japanese remain single into their4os, their anxious parents are turning to an old tradition: Matchmaking. More than 200 parents gathered recently in the ballroom of a Tokyo hotel. Most were mothers
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      Lock icon Korean hunts runaway bride, but ends up begging in Hanoi
      297 25 AFP SEOUL A mentally handicapped man from a remote South Korean farming village flew thousands of miles to Vietnam to seek his runaway bride, only to end up living on the streets of Hanoi, police said yesterday. The 44-year-old man,
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      Lock icon STIRRING UP A HORNET'S NEST
      687 27  -  TIMOTHY GARTON ASH FHE GUARDIAN AMERICA VOTES NEWS COMMENT The McCain campaign's attacks on Obama could backfire in a big way WHERE were you when Obama was shot? The line we pray we will never have to say. A line that I have hesitated to
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      ISAY OUR OWN CERTIFICATION BODY?
      416 28  -  PETER NG SAN This is one way to rein-in private institutions offering unaccredited qualifications IN SINGAPORE, there is currently no national authority certifying courses and training programmes leading to the award of certificates, diplomas and degrees. With so many local and foreign institutions, commercial schools
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      Family time can never be replaced
      220 28  -  Lai Yew Chan FAMILY VALUES Letter from I REFER to the I Say, "Confucius will flip" (Oct 20). Perhaps it is time to take the breakdown of the family beyond the West-erodes-East perspective. That family-averse values are percolating through societies in largely-homogenous South Korea
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      Lock icon Not all families are the same
      119 28  -  DarylYong Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "Confucius Will Flip" (Oct 20). Indeed, as our society evolves rapidly, there is a need to rethink traditional notions of "family". But imagine if, in an effort to preserve a particular family model, the Government mandates
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      Dorm will be returned by end of the year
      124 28  -  Kee Lay Cheng Letter from Deputy Director (Land Administration) Housing &Development Board I REFER to the letter "Boon Lay Drive: Time for checks" (Oct 9) by Mr David Kwok. HDB had previously let out the flats at Blocks 174 to 179
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      Why is Chinese fish still imported?
      248 28  -  Sarah Sum-Campbell Letter from I REFER to the report, "It's about feed, not milk" (Oct 20). If the "US FDA, the European Union, Health and Welfare Canada and numerous other government agencies" have seen fit to ban Chinese fish imports and wheat glutamine containing
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      181 30  -  DR BILL MAIER BY TEENS AND WORK Having a teenager in the house shouldn't drain your finances. Teens can have a lot of expenses, but there's no reason why they can't help cover some of their costs themselves. It's good for teens to learn early that
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      Lock icon TOO FAST, TOO FURIOUS IN HK
      746 30 Wavering in a land where suits are made while you wait can prove costly BEFORE I came to Hong Kong, people warned me about how difficult it would be to rent a place. One woman said it took her six months before she found
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      1360 38  -  DARREN H PUB CRAWLING Despite economic woes one group is still spending as if everything is hunky-dory darrenh@mediacorp.com.s r '••••••••••••••••••a THEY are mostly guys in their late 20s and early 30s, have loads of disposable income and think nothing about spending $900 or more on a
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      418 40  -  GENEVIEVELOH NIGHTLIFE REVIEW L'ESPRESSO Revamped poolside bar at Goodwood Park Hotel is yummy and inventive genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY be slightly off the beaten food track, but the new "Dim Sum and Sips" special at the relaxing poolside terrace of L'Espresso at Goodwood Park Hotel turned out to
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      779 42  -  PHINWONG plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg An actual* phone conversation with the Queen of Pop Phin: Hello, you've reached Today newspaper. This is Phin speaking. How may I help you? Madonna: It's me. (Sniffle) Phin: Who? Madonna: It's me M. (Sniffle) Phin: Mariah? Madonna: No, you idiot. It's me
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      534 44  -  GENEVIEVELOH BIG LOVE Bill Paxton could 'totally be a polygamist in real life genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg HE'S one man, with three wives, seven children and a thousand and one problems. But Bill is taking it all in stride Paxton that is. Not that Bill Henrickson isn't trying hard to
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      210 46  -  MAYSEAH PHOTO EXHIBITION View the work of Magnum masters AT THE inaugural Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), enthusiasts will get to have their first look at seminal works by the Magnum masters. As part of the SIPF, which began last Wednesday, Magic Moments II by Leica is a
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      130 50 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former South African President Nelson Mandela were among 50,000 people watching the controversial Amy Winehouse, 25, perform at Mr Mandela's London birthday concert. But Mr Mandela was perplexed when the singer substituted the chorus of the song
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      323 50 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH CHINESE DEMOCRACY Guns NT Roses finally release their album GUNS N' Roses are to release their first album in 17 years. The band's record label announced Chinese Democracy will be available from Nov 23. This is the first album of new Guns N' Roses
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        89 50 What better wayto experience the movie adaptation of Mingfong Ho's award-winning book Sing to the Dawn than with leafy shade and twittering birds at the Jurong Bird Park? You'll also get to meet Mingfong Ho herself and enjoy special bird appearances. Sing to the Dawn
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        68 50 At the Sing To The Dawn movie roadshows this weekend, you can catch Dawan and Kai sing and dance to the songs from the movie, pose for a picture with them and win movie prizes. Mingfong Ho will also be making an appearance tomorrow. Catch
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      297 44 FROM FERNANDO MEIRELLES THE ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR OF THE CONSTANT GARDENER AND CITY OF GOD. 'Blindness is an apocalyptic nightmare... It has a real coil of horror at its centre' The Guardian A MYSTERIOUS VIRUS. A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC. A WORLD IN CHAOS. JULIANNE MOORE MARKRUFFALO with DANNY GLOVER and GAEL GARCIA
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      19 46 1 r* if«A IB GEARED FOR BATTLE H Scolari's wary, Benitez's worried ahead of Sunday's top-of-the-table showdown. 53 B.
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      1046 52 TV LISTINGS ONMEDI AC OR P -g-- GHOST WHISPERER 111 DARK ORACLE Channel q iopm 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight Performance: 11 Finalists (Available InTrue HD On HD$) D6but 5.30 Prime Time Morning 4.45 Just For Laughs Gags 11.00 Survivor XVII: Gabon t"^^fc; J^' 9-3° The Ellen DeGeneres Show 5.00 The
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      440 53 AFP EUROPEAN CLUB FOOTBALL Chelsea need to dig deep for Reds' visit this weekend: Scolari Champions League, Group A Chelsea i AS Roma o LONDON Luiz Felipe Scolari has warned his Chelsea stars they will have to go the extra mile to beat Liverpool in Sunday's Premier
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      419 53 AFP Champions League, Group D Atletico Madrid i Liverpool i MADRID A top-of-the-table clash with Chelsea looms for Liverpool this Sunday in the Premiership, and manager Rafael Benitez will spend the next few days concerned about knocks to Steven Gerrard, Robbie Keane
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      614 54 AP EUROPEAN CLUB FOOTBALL Spanish giants turn on the style in five-star show Champions League, Group C Basel o Barcelona 5 BASEL (Switzerland) Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola praised his players after they thrashed FC Basel 5-0 on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), as the Spanish giants
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      112 54 TWO Australian Olympic gold medallists are headed to Singapore for next weekend's Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup, which will be held that the Singapore Sports School. Bronte Barratt (picture, centre), 19, was a member of the 4X200m freestyle relay team that
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      441 55 BASEBALL Utley homers but starting pitcher Hamels is the hero World Series, Game 1 Tampa Bay Rays 2 Philadelphia Phillies 3 ST PETERSBURG (Florida, USA) The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series game in 1915, and for 65 years they did not win
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      184 56 AFP BERLIN Germany captain Michael Ballack (picture) said yesterday he welcomed a showdown with national coach Joachim Loew over comments the Chelsea star made criticising the trainer for a lack of respect. "I am pleased that the coach is looking for dialogue with
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      335 56 AFP GOLF Spaniard will undergo third operation today MADRID Golfing great Seve Ballesteros is fighting for his life after suffering a suspected brain haemorrhage. The five-time Major winner was reported to be seriously ill in intensive care after his condition worsened following an operation to remove
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      245 56 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is willing to negotiate with Asian football's governing body to stop it moving to another country. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) proposed earlier this month moving their headquarters from Kuala Lumpur and invited applications from their 46 member nations to provide
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      525 57  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Koreans well-rested and ready for a final push for the title NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Super Reds vAlbirex Niigata Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com. sg WITH five games remaining for them in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 season, the Super
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      347 57  -  MILTON TAN WITH the title race set up for another close finish, the result of tonight's NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League 2008 match between the Super Reds and Albirex Niigata will go a long way to deciding who wins the championship. League
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      136 54 THIS PROGRAM GIVES IVIE A GOOD JOB WITH A VERY PI HIGH SALARY. IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS, IVIY SALARY DOUBLED AND I WAS PROMOTED TO BECOME A MANAGER"- Dudley crossland Earn 5543,200* Get the World Recognised British Professionar Qualification at the Same Time. SPECIAL BENEFITS: Guaranteed job start almost
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      50 54 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER S.League Super Reds Albirex I Fri, 24/10/08 7.30pm I E Premier, E League Champ, German, Italian, Spanish, J League and X League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. \i S.League Super Reds Albirex Fri, 24/10/08 7.30pm
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      39 54 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam MLB World Series: Rays v Phillies, Ch 24 Bpm Tennis WTATour: Linz quarter-final, Ch 113 gpm Golf Castello Masters, Ch 26 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-ii.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on gjBLive
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      342 60  -  GRASS-HOPPER GAME REVIEW WARHAMMER BATTLE MARCH REAL-TIME strategy (RTS) games are designed for the PC platform due to their complexity. Porting an RTS game over to consoles is then challenging due to differences in hardware and control mechanisms. Warhammer Battle March is the latest PCoriginal title
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      591 60  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN NOTEBOOK REVIEW SONY VAIO Z Run high-powered applications with no loss of efficiency hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg THE latest Vaio Z line from Sony (picture) doesn't exhibit the extreme dimensions of some of the modern ultra-portables but it offers roadwarriors yet another computing alternative. The Vaio Z
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      261 60  -  TREVORTAN PANASONIC Singapore yesterday gave local media a brief hands-on with the Lumix DMC-G1 (picture), the world's first "Micro Four Thirds" (MFT) DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera. The revolutionary constituent in the MFT format is the exclusion of the mirror box found
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      440 62  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN THE VIRTUAL ECONOMY Local firm First Meta wants to turn virtual bucks into real money hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg MONEY talks, even in virtual worlds. If you don't have time to invest in playing or learning to develop items, you'll need virtual currency to upgrade your
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      153 62 The Co-Space initiative is aimed at developing technologies where users can manipulate data seamlessly among physical and virtual worlds. The 15 projects selected for the CoSpace industry call for proposals demonstrate the kinds of applications that are possible. For example, the National Heritage Board's Cybermuseum project will showcase
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      318 62  -  A TEAM from the National University of Singapore clinched the US$lOO,OOO ($150,000) top prize in a competition to develop technologies for a next-generation search engine. Dubbed The Star Challenge, the competition sought to encourage the development of technologies that can be used in
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      347 62  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN WII and Play Station 3 owners, take cover. Microsoft's major gaming event XOB is here. Held at the Marina Square Atrium from today until Sunday, XOB will give you the chance to try out more than 30 Xbox 360 titles before
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      34 60 VCrdlCt Complex controls in Warhammer Battle March require time to master, demanding attention and commitment from the player, ole ifir^Pf Nfef The writer wonders whether it's 1\ '^KB/T^^ easier to send locusts into battle.
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      645 67  -  SEUMAS MILNE THE GUARDIAN BUSINESS COMMENT The free-market model has been discredited. Is a new capitalism taking root? AS THE dust of the credit crash clears and the real-world recession kicks in, the ideologues of capitalism are scaring themselves with spectres. "He's back," the (London)
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      285 68 CREDIT Suisse is warning of further squeezes on the banking sector, and yesterday confirmed that it lost 1.3 billion francs ($1,675 billion) in the third quarter of this year. Mr Brady Dougan, chief executive of the Swiss bank, said: "We expect the market environment
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      507 68  -  ESTHER FUNG AFTERTHE CRISIS Boards need to take risk management seriously esther@mediacorp.com. sg IT IS time for some corporate home-truths, and last night Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was the man to spell them out. "Risk management is not a taskjust for specialists that we hire
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      256 71 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE ECONOMY SINGAPORE'S inflation accelerated last month to a threemonth high amid rising housing costs and electricity tariffs. The consumer price index increased 6.7 per cent from a year earlier, after gaining 6.4 per cent in August, the Department of Statistics said today. That was
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      541 72  -  CHEOWXINYI RIGHTING THE MIS-SELLING cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg BROKERS who sold disastrous Lehman-linked structured investments have been meeting, and the Singapore investors who bought them can expect to know their fate soon, Today has been told. Mr Lim Eng Hai, chief executive of Securities Association of Singapore
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      232 72 DOWJONES SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output likely contracted in September on continued weakness in the Pharmaceuticals and electronics sectors because of slowing global demand. Manufacturing output is expected to contract 1.4 per cent on year compared with a 12.2 per cent fall in August,
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      509 73  -  CONRAD RAJ SWF ACTION $7i5-million injection comes after sharp fall in share price of troubled GPT editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is paying up to $715 million fora 12- to 18-per-cent stake in financially-troubled GPT Group, one of Australia's
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        46 74 $2.22 Buy DMG cuts target to $2.65 from $4.80, to reflect valuation compression in weak economy. Also lowers 2008-09 earnings forecasts to factor-in asset deterioration as economic downturn takes toll. But keeps Buy call as stock considered much more attractive after recent decline.
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        44 74 $1.73 I Underperform Macquarie keeps rating, sets $1.53 target price. Broker says public transport firm to see slower growth. Says rising energy, wage costs to put rail margin under pressure, new competitive framework that encourages greater competition will erode company's historically defensive character.
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        116 74 $n.74 I Equal weight Morgan Stanley downgrades from Overweight, target to $12.50 from $18.00. Says stock is defensive but "its relative outperformance of 16 per cent versus the local market since beginning of the year is unlikely to be sustained for the next 12 months". Expects airline to
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      61 74 Actors Olivia Newton-John (centre) and John Travolta (right), who is also Qantas' ambassador-at-large, reunited to welcome the inaugural Qantas A3BO flight in Los Angeles on Monday. The pair, who memorably starred in the musical Grease, welcomed the super-jumbo's flight from Melbourne. Qantas is the third airline after Singapore Airlines
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      437 74  -  ESTHER FUNG IRWOES Las Vegas Sand's financial troubles could see Singapore banks suffer credit losses esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE business of building the integrated resort at Marina Bay could cost Singapore's three local banks far more than they bargained for. The parent company, Las Vegas Sands, is under financial distress,
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      403 74  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE DBS Group Holdings has said it will pay up to $80 million in compensation to investors, analysts are saying this will not have a significant impact on its earnings. Mr Kenneth Ng, head of research at CIMB-GK Research,
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