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    19 1 TODAY Friday October 31, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday October 31,2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    21 1 Phin Wong Our Plus Editor on boys who want other boys to look like the boys they are. Page 48
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    WORLD
    30 1 India hit by blasts The north-eastern state of Assam was rocked by 13 coordinated bomb attacks, which killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 300. Page 4
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    BUSINESS
    25 1 America in recession The US economy suffered its biggest decline since 2001 in the third quarter as consumers cut back on spending. Page Bl
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    Lock icon More roar for S'pore
    636 1  -  LAN DECOTTA TODAY EXCLUSIVE Hot on the wheels of Formula i motorcycle championship MotoGP is headed to town formula 1 correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg NOW that Singapore has established itself as a premier venue for Formula 1, get ready for the biggest and fastest thing on two wheels.
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    More than just hot air ...
    683 1  - More than just hot air ONG DAI LIN AND ESTHER NG dailin@mediacorp.com.sg A SUNNY island, a built-up city perfect for solar power, but not so for wind energy. That is the conventional belief about Singapore. Indeed, the prospects are growing brighter for solar power here, with companies beaming in investments
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      252 1 SINGAPORE'S SECOND MOST-READ NEWSPAPER Nielsen Media Index 2008 SOMEOFTHE BESTTHINGS IN LIFE ARE STILL FREE A PUBLICATION OF /\A=diaCorp MICA (P) 132/10/2007 HOTLINE 6822 2268 ADVERTISE 6333 9888 |o FairPrice Check out our Amazing offers inside!* ONLINE SHOP EXCLUSIVE BH Fil LI IMrl J HlJ^^Pltj^ Plus 2 Games! HWMI|BIHM|MRHI |M||M
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      Lock icon A way for firms to put off paper losses
      532 3  -  CHRISTIE LOH FINANCIALCRISIS S #pore accounting body fast-tracks unprecedented global rule change deputy business editor christie@mediacorp.com.sg ANYONE with a disastrous score in an examination would jump for joy if he were to get some "sympathy" points because the teacher felt he
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      Lock icon Bomb blasts rock Assam
      579 4 AGENCIES VIOLENCE IN INDIA 13 bombs go off in region's main city killing at least 50 and wounding 300 GUWAHATI Six weeks after the Indian capital New Delhi was hit by a series of bombs, another part of the country, the north-eastern state of Assam, was
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      Lock icon Bangkok braces for more violence
      524 4 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thousands of Thai anti-gov-ernment protesters rallied in Bangkok yesterday, hours after a bomb injured 10 people and heightened fears that political tensions were again spiralling towards violence. Ten volunteer security guards for the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were hurt when a hand
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      Lock icon WHO'S THAT MAN IN THE VIDEO CLIP?
      157 4 AGENCIES Thailand's political crisis has taken a salacious twist with the anti-government alliance releasing a video of a man resembling Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, in the company of a young woman. The video was shown to a crowd at Government House by the
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      Lock icon Quality care to the end of life
      571 6  -  ALICIA WONG PALLIATIVE CARE One cancer centre is already offering such a service alida@mediacorp.com.sg AS NURSING homes gear up to provide quality palliative care, one cancer centre has already stepped up its offerings by starting its own palliative care service. Palliative care refers
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      Lock icon A guide to dying with dignity
      477 6  -  ALICIA WONG ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Ms Dawn Kor's father was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, she started blogging about her role as his primary caretaker. But the Lien Foundation wants to bring issues of death and dying to the public with a broader
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      More clinics to offer anonymous tests
      573 8  -  TAN HUI LENG Latest move by the MOH aims to encourage more voluntary testing huileng@mediacorp.com.sg TO ENCOURAGE voluntary testing, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has increased the number of anonymous HIV test sites. From tomorrow, another four clinics will be added to the current
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      Lock icon Organ donation helps others live on
      368 8  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg SHE felt a searing pain in her side but then 16-year-old Nurashikin Jasman thought it was just a gastric attack. But it was much more serious than that. Ms Nurashikin was found to be suffering from kidney failure despite her young
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      Singapore F1 race fails to halt tourism drop
      280 10 DESPITE the Formula 1 race, the number of visitors last month fell. With this fourth straight drop for the tourism sector, this year's visitor arrivals and tourism receipts are expected to fall short of the targets. While the Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
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      Lock icon Cisco officer caught for moonlighting
      440 10  -  ZULOTHMAN I MASS PROTEST AUXILIARY POLICE zul@mediacorp.com. sg TO SUPPLEMENT his monthly income, a Certis Cisco auxiliary police officer decided to moonlight as a car washer and even employed two foreign construction workers to help him. But Mr M Subramaniam's moonlighting days ended on Wednesday
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      Short-term ways to pack more in
      665 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN RAIL IMPROVEMENTS Congestion management, new standards announced for train operators chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg FROM today, 84 fewer seats per train in exchange for more standing room and increased passenger capacity. This is part of the latest package of short-term measures to ease train congestion until
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      Lock icon THE BOON LAY EXTENSION
      216 12 NEOCHAICHIN When the new Joo Koon MRT station opens on Feb 28 next year, warehouse coordinator Michael Van, 33, estimates he could shave half an hour off the 1.5 hours he takes to travel from Woodlands to Joo Koon Circle for work. "Definitely," said Mr Van
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      Lock icon He tried to smuggle 5,100 cartons of contraband cigarettes
      167 14 THE nervous look on the lorry driver's face suggested he was carrying more than a load of empty drums as he had declared. Upon closer inspection, Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) officers discovered that some of the drums weighed heavier than
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      Good things do come in small packages...
      560 14  -  ESTHER NG REDUCING WASTE AND COST Ten firms bag NEA #s very first 3R Packaging Awards estherng@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU'VE been ordering Kentucky Fried Chicken's (KFC) home-delivered Couple Meal or Family Meal in the past few months, you would have noticed that the box
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      Lock icon Media ban did the trick
      292 16 .AFP TAINTED EGGS Chinese authorities covered up toxic eggs for weeks: State media BEIJING A government in north-east China kept quiet about the discovery of melamine-tainted eggs for weeks, and ordered a media ban before Hong Kong authorities finally revealed the problem, state press said
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      Lock icon Adding melamine to animal feed an 'open secret'
      391 16 AP BEIJING Animal feed producers in China routinely add the industrial chemical melamine to their products to make them appear higher in protein, state media reported yesterday an indication that the scope of the country's latest food safety scandal could extend beyond
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      Lock icon Indonesia ignores protests, passes anti-pornography law
      353 16 AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesian lawmakers rammed a far-reaching anti-pornog-raphy law through Parliament yesterday despite howls of protest by artists and religious minorities who say it threatens national unity. Lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to back a modified version of the law, which criminalises all
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      Lock icon Bali bombers could be executed on Saturday
      254 16 AFP JAKARTA Everything is in place for the three men sentenced to death over the 2002 Bali bombings to be executed as early as tomorrow morning. Security has been beefed up on the prison island of Nusakambangan off southern Java where the Islamist
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      CLASH OFTHE RADICALS
      87 18 Indonesian riot police clashed with scores of Islamist radicals outside a court in Jakarta yesterday. The violence broke out after Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab was sentenced to 18 months jail for ordering supporters to attack a peaceful rally for religious tolerance in the capital
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      Muhyiddin backs bumiputera policy
      455 18 M'SIARACE DEBATE KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Trade and Industry Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said yesterday the government's policies favouring the Malays will continue until the target of 30-per-cent bumiputera equity in listed companies is achieved. He said Malay participation in the economic sector has shown no marked progress
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      Lock icon Taliban attack kills 5 in Kabul
      308 21 AGENCIES SUICIDE BOMBING KABUL A suicide bomb exploded during a meeting in the Information and Culture Ministry in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding several more. The insurgent Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had been
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      Lock icon 12 die in elevator accident
      195 21 AGENCIES BEIJING Twelve people were killed when the elevator they were riding in plunged to the ground at a construction site in south-east China yesterday, state press reported. The accident occurred at the construction site of a residential building in Xiapu county, Fujian province, Xinhua
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      Lock icon China meeting won't compromise sovereignty: Ma
      276 21 AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwanese leader Ma Yingjeou says he will meet with a top Chinese envoy next week in his official capacity as the island's President, in an attempt to allay fears that such high-level contacts will compromise Taiwan's sovereignty. Mr Ma's comments were part
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      Lock icon Japanese man asks to wed manga character
      289 22 AFP 20 6000,30 BAD? TOKYO A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world". Comic books are immensely popular in Japan, with some
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      Lock icon Mum keeps daughter confined for 8 years
      228 22 .AFP TOKYO A Japanese woman kept her daughter prisoner in their home for eight years until she turned 19, leaving her too feeble to walk or talk properly, officials and media reports said yesterday. The daughter, whose name was withheld, had been under
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      Lock icon Fritzl says he also had mum locked up
      249 22 THE DAILY Amstetten (Austria) —Josef Fritzl (picture) has admitted locking his mother in a room until her death, in the same house where he later imprisoned his daughter and grandchildren. The Austrian made this revelation to a psychologist preparing a report on
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      Lock icon Palin accused of abusing power over travel expenses
      283 24 AP ANCHORAGE (Alaska) A new ethics complaint has been filed against Republican vice-presiden-tial candidate Sarah Palm, accusing the Alaska governor of abusing her power by charging the state when her children travelled with her. The complaint released on Wednesday alleges that Mrs
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      Lock icon Palin hints she's eyeing presidency in 2012
      261 24 AFP WASHINGTON Republican vicepresidential candidate Sarah Palm has hinted in an interview with ABC News that she will remain a key player in United States politics regardless of who gets elected President next week, and that she may even run for election in
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      Lock icon Obama blitzes US airwaves
      474 24 'AFP He enlists support of Bill Clinton in battleground states ORLANDO (Florida) Democrat Barack Obama hit White House rival John McCain with a prime-time TV onslaught as he vied to clinch victory in battleground states in the climactic run-up to next Tuesday's vote. After his 30-minute
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        Lock icon ADULTERY STILL A CRIME, SAYS A SOUTH KOREAN COURT
        128 26 AFP South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that adultery should remain a crime punishable by up to two years'jail, rejecting a petition from an actress who said it infringes individuals' rights of choice. It was the fourth time that the court
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        Lock icon ONLY BLIND PEOPLE CAN BE MASSEURS
        110 26 AFP South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that only blind people can become licensed masseurs, rejecting a 2006 petition from sighted workers in the business. The ruling follows a dramatic protest last month by dozens of blind masseurs who threatened to leap from a
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      Lock icon Led in 'wrong direction'
      419 26  -  RACHEL LIM RUSSIA'S GEOPOLITICS HK ex-Governor on why the country isn't in the ranks of China or India rachell@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE China and India are key global players today, Russia is not part of the ranks of emerging world powers, according to Lord Chris Patten (picture), the
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      Lock icon Hardline groups first to arrive at quake site
      217 28 AFP WAM (Pakistan) Shivering Pakistani earthquake survivors begged yesterday for shelter, food, medicine, or indeed any help at all. Mr Abdul Qadeer, his wife and his five children spent a freezing night huddled under the stars after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday
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      Lock icon Asian students raped, murdered
      273 28 AFP AUSSIE CHARGED Girl dies after falling naked from 3rd-floor balcony SYDNEY A homeless Australian man was charged yesterday with the rape and murder of four Asian students. Wielding a knife, he allegedly entered their Sydney apartment and subjected the students to an hour-long sex attack.
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      Lock icon Syrians stage mass protest
      156 28 AGENCIES DAMASCUS Thousands of people marched in Damascus yesterday to protest at a deadly American helicopter raid on a Syrian village on Sunday near the Iraqi border, where eight civilians, including children, were allegedly killed. Syrian riot police ringed the area housing the US embassy, which
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      Lock icon BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE TWILIGHT ZONE
      960 30  -  JONATHAN FREEDLAND THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT George Bush will soon be free to do just what he wants WE ARE about to enter the twilight zone, that strange black hole in political time and space that appears no more than once every four years.
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      132 38  -  Chong CheeWah Letter from I AM surprised that 14 town councils have invested part of their sinking funds in financial products like Lehman Mini-Bonds. According to DrTeo Ho Pin, "a couple of percentage" of the total investment portfolio had been invested, and there is no worry
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      775 38  -  TABITHAWANG BUDGETTAITAI People are rushing to see ghouls they avoided during the Hungry Ghost month I BRUSHED aside the creepers hanging down from the dank roof and tried to peer into the pitch darkness. Ahead, shadows shifted as the wind howled through the cracks in the walls. I
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      242 40  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE NEED FOR SELF-RESPECT Many of us spend a lot of time trying to gain the respect of others, but the truth is that the person we most need respect from is ourselves. Ms Fiona Campbell of Great Britain so longed for
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      646 40  -  John Koh Kirn Seng How China has dealt with issues of rapid urbanisation, while not perfect, has been largely successful I REFER to "Not an issue of romance" (Oct 25-26). I have been fortunate to have lived in China as an expatriate since
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      329 40  -  Peter Hartmann Letter from I REFER to the article "Let's not forget about personal responsibility" (Oct 30). When melamine was found in Chinese milk and subsequently a wide range of dairy-based products, nobody raised the issue of "personal responsibility" of the buyer of such products.
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      1551 42  -  DARREN HO io awesome local nightspots you'll never get to know darrenho@mediacorp.com.sg OVER the past few decades, Singapore's nightlife has evolved and turned into the bustling, modern and energetic scene it is today. Well, it didn't happen overnight. While we don't have a lineage as legendary
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      837 46  -  DARREN HO WEEKEND PLANS There are horror parties galore tonight, but will this economic downturn bring a scary Friday for the clubs? darrenh@mediacorp.com. sg THANK God it's Friday. More important, thank god it's Halloween. It's not much, but after the obliteration of the world economy, I
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      743 48  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg The day my hair made the news. Seriously. YOU know it's a slow news day when your choice of hairdo makes the news and you're not Victoria Beckham. I was minding my own business last week, innocently catching up on the scandalous things
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      330 50  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH IN CONCERT Jose Feliciano says music has taught him lessons on life and love christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE'S one thing that gui-tarist-singerjose Feliciano says he has no time for, it's regret, the blind musician informed Today in an email interview. "I really don't have time for that. I
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      304 52  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW SINGTOTHE DAWN But local animated flick needs more spice genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg IT BEGAN life as an award-winning story turned beloved local secondary school literature text. It then found new life as a popular stage musical with songs by Dick Lee. But as Singapore's first
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      352 52  -  CONCERT REVIEW CHRISTOPHERTOH KANYE WEST GLOWINTHEDARKTOUR AT THE press conference prior to his concert, hip-hop artiste Kanye West promised to put on a show that you wouldn't easily forget. True to his word, Wednesday's concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium will be remembered for a
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      332 50 *********************************************8 I 'il- I 7 i &Bjl BkT«l^kfßjlßjßjlßj™jl \1 1 fc:i D"r :11": EQBSffip&iS&i MBI9 §11 llfll B/^^^^^^^^^F^^^tl LBBT^^^^^r^^N" JT/ mil—-,.-H BiP^'t., '/I -v [©**********4 O www-9»-"""-'9 VKA 1 Talk by author Ho Minfong, screenwriter Philip Stamp and director Phil Mitchell at the library@esplanade on 1 Nov at 4pm Meet
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      136 54 ON MEDIACORP LIGHT INFO-ED: GLOBETREKKER The Spanish Islands okto, 9.00pm Alex Riley travels to the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. He discovers what lies beyond the tourist trail and finds hundreds of volcanoes. He also goes whale-watching and visits the magnificent
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      762 54 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL jj? S.ooAM Entertainment Tonight 2.45 Just for Laughs Gags VII 10.00 Ghost Whisperer 111 5.30 Prime Time Morning 3.00 The West Wing VII Gravesitter (Available in True 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI Running Mates HD on HDS) 10.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show 4.00 American Idol VII
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      118 54 ON MEDIACORP LOCAL VARIETY Food Detective Channel 8, Bpm f1 Let Food i I Detective hosts I i^^ I Dennis Chew -^t take you on a gastronomic seafood tour! HEART@WORK The NCSS Story Channel News Asia, 8.31pm I v These days, caring for the needy takes more than a kind
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      211 55 BENCKISER TjffSsfJsf i> it i TRUSTED rvuMnutfi q**\i*u IPettOl) PROTECTION FOR GENERATIONS Contest Be 100% Sure r Purchase any Dettol products and attach either an original receipt or wrapper of Dettol products as proof of purchase. I "'a^^_ Dettol Antiseptic bfli^ jfj^r free spray Bf 3«; N.P. $11.75 Dettol Shower
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      409 56 LOW LIN FHOONG WITH the economic crisis hitting businesses worldwide, Singapore sports have taken a hit in recent months and are tightening their belts. But while the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) are also looking to do the same as
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      690 56  -  lANDECOTTA TODAY EXCLUSIVE Renault ace tips Hamilton for title, hints he #s ready to stay with French team formula 1 correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg IN TWO days, McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton could become the youngest ever Formula 1 world champion. The 23-year-old Briton leads Felipe Massa of Ferrari
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      594 57  -  TANYO-HINN SWIMMING Life hasn't been the same for gold medallist Oussama since his Olympic feat yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg IN AUGUST, Oussama Mellouli ended Australian swimmer Grant Hackett's quest for an unprecedented third straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 1,500 m freestyle at the Beijing Games. The
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      370 57  -  TANYO-HINN TAO Li came within two places of an Olympic medal at August's Beijing Games. The 18-year-old swim star set an Asian record of 57.54 in the 100 m butterfly en route to becoming the first Singaporean to race in an Olympic
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      Lock icon Scolari shows Lampard the love as Blues get back on track
      304 58 AFP English Premiership Hull City o Chelsea 3 HULL Frank Lampard's performance in Chelsea's 3-0 victory at Hull City on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) has convinced his manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, that the midfielder should be named as
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      Lock icon Tottenham's new spur
      513 58 AFP ENGLISH FOOTBALL New boss Redknapp fires up Spurs with stunning fight-back at Arsenal English Premiership Arsenal 4 Tottenham Hotspur 4 LONDON Harry Redknapp feels belief has flooded back into Tottenham Hotspur after his new charges earned an unlikely point in a thrilling 4-4 north London derby
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      124 58 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ArseneWenger accused his Arsenal team of naivety on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) after Tottenham Hotspur recovered from 4-2 down to snatch a dramatic 4-4 injury-time draw at the Emirates Stadium. "I'm angry," Wenger said. "We were two levels above Tottenham and
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      332 59 BLOOMBERG PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series for the second time in their history by wrapping up a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), in a game that took nearly 50 hours to complete. The
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      513 59 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Fergie challenges Ronaldo to repeat last season's 40-goal feat English Premiership Manchester United 2 West Ham o MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson has challenged Cristiano Ronaldo to repeat last season's remarkable feat of scoring more than 40 goals. Ronaldo took his tally for the current campaign to five,
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      203 59 AFP NEW DELHI Venkatsai Laxman (picture) struck his sixth century against Australia to help India power to 393-3 at lunch on the second day of the third Test here yesterday. Laxman, on 104 not out, has belted 10 fours during his fine 174-ball KnocK,
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      727 60  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Super Reds coach breaks down his opponents for his last four must-win matches NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Sengkang Punggol v Super Reds Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com.sg TRAILING NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 leaders SAFFC by four points and with a
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      255 60 MILTON TAN THE Super Reds have lost yet another striker after the spinal injury to forward Oh Ddog Vi (picture) last Friday ruled him out for the season. The 24-year-old, whose 12 goals lead all Super Reds scorers, has flown
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      58 58 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER S.League Sengkang Super Reds Fri, 31/10/08 7.30pm E Premier, E League Champ, German, Italian, Spanish and X League matches are also on sale. For more details, pleose check Singopore Pools website. Qualifying Sun, 02/11/08 12.00 am Brazil Race s Final Mon, 03/11/08 I.ooam
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      51 58 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam NBA Rockets v Mavericks, Ch 24 Ipm Golf Iskandar JohorOpen, Ch 24 4pm Rugby World Cup: Samoa vTonga, Ch 22 Bpm Golf Volvo Masters, Ch 26 gpm Tennis BNP Paribas Masters, Ch 24 SPOKTS ON RADIO 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on
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      365 813  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg A LOCAL team of students has earned a place in gaming history by winning Dream-Build-Play 2008, Microsoft's global game development competition. Team Gambit's winning title, CarnyVale: Showtime (picture), beat 350 games submitted from 100 countries to win the top prize
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      345 1 CAMERA REVIEW NIXON COOLPIX S6o THE Nikon Coolpix S6O ($599) recently joined the ever-growing compact digital camera market, touting a 10-megapixel image sensor, a generous 5x optical zoom (33mm-165mm at the 35mm equivalent) lens and a stunning 3.5-inch wide touchscreen display. Clearly targeted at
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      962 1  -  DON WONG CAMERA REVIEW FUJIFILM FINEPIX F6OFD FUJIFILM'S latest digital compact camera, the FinePix F6ofd ($499), comes armed with a 12-megapixel image sensor, 3x optical zoom (35-105 mm equivalent of 35mm) lens and a three-inch liquid crystal display packed in a solid, metallic
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      382 86  -  LOHCHEEKONG WAFER FAB PLAN COLLAPSE First big layoff since recession announced cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg IN WHAT is the first largescale retrenchment here since the economy turned sour, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) a joint venture between chip giants Micron and Intel has scrapped plans to build a wafer fabrication
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        137 85 Mainboard-listed Cosco Corporation (Singapore) said yesterday that net profit for the quarter ended Sept 30 was $113.9 million, up 17 per cent from about $97 million a year earlier. The company attributed the results to stronger dry bulk performance and the expansion of
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      561 83  -  CHEOWXINYI HIGH NOTES 5 cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg DBS has suspended some of its relationship managers who had been found to have errant sales tactics and reported them to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to be blacklisted. The bank's spokeswoman Karen Ngui revealed this to reporters on the
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      258 83  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg DBS' reputation has taken a hit after the ugly episode involving the sale of Lehman-linked investments now worthless. Mr Jacky Tai, principal consultant at branding specialist StrategiCom, said it was inevitable that the bank's brand would be dented. "The key issue now
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        85 81 $2.43 I Neutral DMG downgrades rating for Sing Tel from "Buy" on concerns over near-term pressure on share price due to impact of global financial crisis on operations, falling AUD, tougher business climate for associates. Cuts target price to $2.80 from $4.05, based on sum-of-parts valuation, after lowering FYO9-10
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      45 81 Hang Seng 14,329.85 A 12.82% Nikkei 9,029.76 A 9.96% Shanghai 1,763.61 A 2.55% Seoul 1,084.72 A 11.95% Mumbai Closed KLComp 853.56 A 2.91% US$1 £1 leuro A$i RMi $1,462 ¥100 $1,480 $2,420 HK$ioo $18.85 $1,916 RMB100 $21.41 $1,002 RS100 $2,939 $0,414 RPio,ooo $1,356
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      734 81  -  EDMUND L ANDREWS THENEWYORKTIMES IT'S OFFICIAL: US IN RECESSION The United States economy suffered its biggest decline since 2001 in the third quarter and consumers cut back on spending by the biggest amount in 28 years, ushering in what may be the worst recession
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      476 81 AGENCIES MARKETS across Asia and Europe mounted a strong recovery yesterday as investors regained confidence after central banks cut interest rates and governments took further measures to prevent the credit crisis from causing a deep recession. Central banks across the globe are trying to ease the
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