Today, 13 December 2008

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    20 1 weekendTODAY December 13 -14, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking weekendTODAY December 13 -14, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    WORLD
    58 1 Welcome, Legoland Asia's first Legoland theme park and only the fifth in the world will be built in the Iskandar development corridor. Page 4 Chen faces life in jail Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who once promised to reform the island's corrupt political culture, could be given a life
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    BUSINESS
    27 1 Chartered warning Thebeleagueredsemiconductor manufacturer cuts Q4 guidance and rolls out cost-cutting measures as analysts warn that the firm's fortunes will not turn around soon. Page 26
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    SPORTS
    31 1 Crucial test for Man U How will Man U who have won only three of their eight away matches this season fare against a resurgent Tottenham on Saturday? Page 50
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    LIVING
    25 1 Be a recessionista Credit crunch taking its toll? Here are ways to stay stylish, value-for-money dining deals and motoring tips. Pages 31 to 38
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    Let's get building
    577 1  -  ONG DAI LIN PRIMINGTHE PUMP Mah: HDB upgrading a priority as deferred projects reinstated SOME of the Government's $4.7 billion worth of deferred construction projects are to be brought forward again, in a move expected to help smaller local building contractors. And priority will be given to
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    $130m to keep airlines coming here
    507 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE fund took flight in 2003, shortly before Sars struck, when Changi was fighting to stay ahead as the region's premier air hub. Five years on, amid global economic turbulence, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has turned to the Air
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  • NEWS
    • HAS THE RECESSION HIT RETAILERS?
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        Lock icon ORCHARD ROAD STILL A-BUSTLING
        1001 2  -  PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU had been out on Orchard Road last weekend, you would not have guessed that Singapore has slipped into a recession. Not with the hordes of shoppers who braved the gloomy weather and the even gloomier economy to indulge in their favourite
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        Lock icon HEARTLANDS STRUGGLING TO ADAPT
        657 2  -  NEOCHAICHIN ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICIA WONG, ESTHER NG,TEOXUANWEI, SUFIAN SUDERMAN, ZULOTHMAN AND LEONG WEE KEAT chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg A CUSTOMER walks into a shop that sells branded sportsgear, and asks: "Are there any discounts?" Until last month, the Link Millennium sports shop's answer was no. As a result,
        ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICIA WONG, ESTHER NG,TEOXUANWEI, SUFIAN SUDERMAN, ZULOTHMAN AND LEONG WEE KEAT; DONWONG  -  657 words
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        Lock icon MARINA FEELING THE PINCH
        668 3  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg THIS time last year, shoppers were out in full force in Suntec City Mall and Marina Square doing their Christmas shopping. This year, even a long weekend failed to bring in the crowds. While some shoppers were still spotted rifling through bargain bins,
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      Lock icon Asia's first Legoland – next door in Johor
      243 4 Asia's first Legoland next door in Johor CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg ASIA'S first Legoland theme park, and only the fifth in the world, will be coming up at the Johor development corridor of Iskandar Malaysia. Work on the RM7SO-million ($312-million) project on a 145-acre site in Nusajaya, near Johor's second
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      Lock icon Chen faces life in jail
      465 4 AP TAIWAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL Former Taiwanese President indicted TAIPEI Taiwanese prosecutors indicted former President Chen Shuibian on graft charges on Friday, a stunning blow for a man who rode to power eight-and-a-half years ago on promises to reform the island's corrupt political culture. Prosecutor Lin
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      SIA SPREADS WINGSTO RIYADH
      155 4 Singapore Airlines will launch its four-times-weekly services to the Saudi city of Riyadh, via Dubai, on Sunday. Riyadh is the second city in Saudi Arabia to which SIA operates, after Jeddah. Asked about the carrier's decision to go ahead with the new route in this downturn,
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      Fourth university to see S'pore, China, US tie-up?
      343 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE'S fourth public-fund-ed university, due to open in 2011, could feature a "unique tripartite partnership" with an American and a Chinese university, if plans fall into place. The Ministry of Education (MOE) is in discussions with several United States
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      WANTED: 150 IN HEALTHCARE
      215 6 Are you an unemployed professional contemplating nursing the sick back to health? The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) is looking to sign up 150 Singaporeans for its Healthcare Professionals Conversion Programme (PCP), which comes with guaranteed employment after training. The three-year programme will cover four occupations: Registered
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      Lock icon Bosses, screen thy workers
      554 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN WORKPLACE HEALTH Healthy staff the best incentive to help them tackle chronic disease: Khaw chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU are a boss already organising yoga or aerobics classes for your employees, here's how to take workplace health promotion to a new level: Help them get screened for
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      Lock icon A bridge to Primary 1
      341 8  -  SUFIANSUDERMAN SIX-YEAR-OLD Ivan Wong suffers from leukaemia. Having to make frequent visits to the hospital for treatment, he was unable to attend many of his kindergarten classes in I<2. As a result, he found it difficult to understand and speak English. His father, Mr Joseph
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      Lock icon Clean air around office buildings
      467 8  -  ANSLEYNG SMOKING BAN ansley@mediacorp.com.sg COME the new year, office workers craving a quick nicotine fix will have to step further out in the open for a puff. The smoking ban will be extended to include the space within a 5m radius of the entrances and
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      After Philips layoffs, pink slips handed out at Panasonic
      393 10 JAPANESE electronics company Panasonic, which employs about 7,000 workers in Singapore, has started to let the axe fall on a few here. At least 17 employees, mostly from the rank-and-file, have been let go from Panasonic Electronics Devices Singapore, one of
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      Lock icon Remaking plans take shape
      508 10  -  ONG DAI LIN PUNGGOL2I-PLUS Work on $25-million waterway to be completed by 2010 dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TAKE a stroll along a "kelong-like" bridge across the 4.2km Punggol waterway into a heritage park trail to learn about the town's past as a fishing village. Or ride the 10km cycling
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      Lock icon Quicker, cheaper transplants
      561 12  -  ALICIA WONG HEART VALVES Patients can now get heart valve within hours at local homograft bank alicia@mediacorp.com.sg PREVIOUSLY, if you needed to replace your heart valve with one from a human donor, doctors here would have to scour 70 homograft and heart valve banks worldwide. A homograft
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      6 months' jail for 6-year tax fraud
      302 12  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg FOR six years, businessman Ang Tin Yong under-declared the profits from his food court operations cheating the tax man out of $45,728.49. On Friday, Ang, 48, was jailed for six months after admitting to six counts of tax evasion. He was
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Thaksin phone home
      315 14 AGENCIES TURMOIL INTHAILAND Democrats worried about former PM #s speech to supporters BANGKOK Thailand's opposition Democrat Party warned on Friday that a speech by deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could reignite political turmoil. Mr Thaksin, who is in exile, hopes to head off a government led by
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      Former JI leader taken off UN terror list
      251 14  -  RACHEL LIM r achell@mediacorp.com.sg A FORMER Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), leader, who switched sides to become an informant, has been taken off the United Nations terror list. Mr Nasir Abas (picture), who lives in Jakarta, told Today over the telephone: "I am grateful."
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      Lock icon M'sia students still banned from political parties
      158 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Parliament has amended a law to allow university students to join social groups but still bans them from political parties, a restriction slammed by critics on Friday. Lawmakers approved the amendments to the Universities and University College Act on
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      Lock icon NO GO, ARROYO
      69 16 EPA Thousands of people took to the streets of Manila's busy Makati district on Friday to protest efforts to amend the Constitution that would extend the term of scandal-tainted President Gloria Arroyo. Opposition Senator Francis Escudero added that any moves to change the Constitution should occur after
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      Lock icon Pakistan gets tough on terror-linked charity
      199 16 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Friday tightened the screw on an Islamic charity linked to militants behind the Mumbai massacre, arresting dozens of members. A day earlier, the government ordered the assets of the charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, frozen after the United Nations listed it as a
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      Lock icon Melbourne cops kill teenage boy
      360 16 AGENCIES POLICE SHOOTING Officers say he threatened them with knives MELBOURNE Police in the Australian city of Melbourne fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in a skate park after officers said he threatened them with knives. Police said the teen, Tyler Cassidy, continued to approach them
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      Lock icon CASTING A VOTE FOR PEACE
      919 18  -  SUNANDA K DATTA-RAY XTRA MUMBAI ATTACKS Strong turnout in five state elections in India prove democracy was not a victim in Mumbai attacks THOUGH the results of India's five state elections, announced this week, confirm the truth of the old French saying that the more
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      Lock icon Wife cons husband to pay $1m over fake kidnappings
      322 20 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH MADRID A court in Madrid has heard that Josefa Sanchez Vargas, 47, convinced her husband to pay ransom totalling more than £500,000 ($l.l million) to secure the release of their children after she faked their kidnapping repeatedly over five years.
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      Lock icon From legend to fraudster
      405 20 AGENCIES WALLSTREETTRADER He ran a phony investment business that lost $75 billion NEW YORK On Wall Street, he is a legend. With money he had made as a lifeguard, he built a trading powerhouse that had prospered for more than four decades. But on Thursday morning,
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      Get ready to 'sell'
      776 22  -  SOESTRINOBACHIR SEPUTAR INDONESIA As the slowdown looms, it is time to get cracking sindo@mediacorp.com.sg THE ongoing global crisis will continue to prey on its victims. Indonesia will not be able to avoid the tsunami which has destroyed the economies of many countries. Up until now, we
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      Don't wear long sleeves – try sunscreen instead
      216 25  - Don't wear long sleeves try sunscreen instead KwekJooChuan Letter from I REFER to "Protect our children from the sun" (Dec 12). Ms Sonia KolesnikovJessop's efforts to modify her daughter's physical education (PE) uniform may do more harm than good. Singapore is a hot and humid country. Wearing long sleeves for
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      Lock icon SANSKRIT IS ALL AROUND
      834 25  -  CAROL LEONG XTRA LINGUISTICS carol@mediacorp.com.sg THE Balinese have a very interesting word for "yes". They say "om" instead. But in Malaysia, this ancient Sanskrit word (Hindus say "Om" is the sound made when the universe was created) was given a resounding no. Three weeks ago, Prime
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      Lock icon Chipmaker warns ... again
      476 26  - Chipmaker warns again ESTHER FUNG ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN Analysts doubt its fortunes will turn around soon esther@mediacorp.com.sg THERE seem to be no end to Chartered Semiconductor's troubles. The contract semiconductor manufacturer on Friday cut its fourth-quarter guidance and implemented more cost cutting measures to weather the downturn. The firm now expects
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      Distributors to fund Minibond legal fees
      280 26  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg THE nine financial institutions that distributed the Lehman Minibonds have agreed to pay for legal expenses for a cross-border lawsuit surrounding the failed notes. Under the agreement secured by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the distributors will contribute to the cost of
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        Lock icon SPCWARNS EARNINGS 'SEVERELY WEAKENED'
        139 26 DOWJONES Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) said on Friday that earnings this year have been "severely weakened" because of a fall in crude oil and product prices. "The drastic slowdown in refined products demand in the second half of 2008 has caused a sharp drop in refining
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        Lock icon RALLY FIZZLES ON BAILOUT COLLAPSE
        187 26 AGENCIES Asian shares tumbled on Friday following the failure of a proposed United States government plan to bail out American auto makers, a sign that fear of risk still grips markets despite easing over the past few days. Sentiments was also hit by news that
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      Lock icon EU leaders pledge $397b for package
      201 28 AGENCIES EUROPEAN Union leaders have agreed to an economic stimulus package worth €200 billion ($397 billion) to ward off the threat of a "recessionary spiral". Reports from Brussels where EU leaders are meeting said that under the plan, member countries would pump on average
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      Lock icon Bank of America to cut 35,000 jobs
      143 28 BLOOMBERG BANK of America said it plans to cut 30,000 to 35,000 positions over the next three years because of its acquisition of Merrill Lynch and the weak economic environment. In a statement on Friday, the bank said the final number of job
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      WHERE DOES DBS GO FROM HERE?
      706 28  -  JACKY TAI XTRA BRANDING DESPITE a company's best efforts, crisis situations will crop up. No brand, no matter how strong or reputable, is immune to problems. How a brand manages the crisis will determine if it regains the trust of its customers. I must
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      Lock icon BUDGET BEAUTY
      511 31  -  PEARLYN THAM THE RECESSIONISTA pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg I'LL come out of the closet and admit it. Beneath the coiffed and perfumed veneer of a beauty and fashion writer, I'm really a cheapskate shopper. Friends, who regale me with tales of how they nabbed that designer dress at a sale, have
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        8 WAYS TO BE A RECESSIONISTA
        903 32 SURF TUA LOBANG Bargain hunters, bookmark tualobang.blogspot.com. The founder, who wants to be known only as Ming, started Tua Lobang Singlish for big deals with his wife last year because he wanted to share news about the latest sales and promotions. With help from
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        FERGIE DOES HER BIT FOR CHARITY; SHOULDN'T YOU?
        320 34  -  PEARLYN THAM SPOTTING a sale always gets my adrenalin pumping. But last Saturday, it was making a sale that did the trick for me at the MAC Cosmetics counter in Tangs Orchard. Fora couple of hours, I joined the likes of celebrities
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        KIEHL'S GIVES YOUTHAIDS FULL SUPPORT
        157 34  -  PEARLYN THAM NOT only Christmas presents get ribbons this festive season. The Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 is being decked out in them, too. It's not just any ribbon, though, but the Red Ribbon the international symbol of HIV/Aids awareness. The Red Ribbon is seen on
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        208 41 ROCKIN' THE CAMPUS The latest instalment of Campus Superstar begins next year, every Monday from Jan 12. The live show will be hosted by Felicia Chin and Yoga Lin plays ambassador for the series this season. The live performance segment will be shown at Bpm, with the results show
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        465 42 THE NEW YORK TIMES GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINATIONS Only one nod for Ledger Australia, Milk also snubbed A GLOOMY Hollywood on Thursday put aside a dismal economy and the threat of an actors strike, focusing instead on Golden Globe nominations. The nods were fairly predictable in the
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        1103 35  -  DON MENDOZA CRISIS ON THE MENU? One of the best things we have going for us during times of uncertainty is our conviction to eating well donm@mediacorp.com.sg IFTHE onset of the recession hasn't already given you indigestion or left a bad taste in your mouth,
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          412 38 IS IT WORTH THE WEIGHT? Keep your car as light as possible to reduce fuel consumption. Golf clubs, pails, car care items they don't seem heavy on their own, but everything adds up. Consider leaving the spare tyre at home (especially if you don't know how to change
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          204 38 DO IT YOURSELF You can easily get more money for your used car if you sell it privately instead of to a second-hand car dealer. Online classified sites such as MediaCorp's mocca.com make it easy for individuals to post advertisements themselves. There will be some legwork involved in
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