Today, 15 January 2009

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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday January 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday January 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 118 1 A reversal of roles? As the Kuala Terengganu byelection battle enters its final lap, indications are that PAS may end up winning the support of the minority Chinese but losing the majority Malay votes, which would be a significant, yet hilarious result, says Baradan Kuppusamy in The Malaysian Insider.
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  • 55 1 Vandal arrested A man who vandalised a wall outside Parliament House bearing the Singapore crest and the mace of the Parliament Serjeant-at-Arms was arrested yesterday. Page 8 'Unimaginable pain' MP Seng Han Thong's family speaks about their ordeal for the first time since he was attacked at a community
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    26 1 Holland on ice Take your woolies and mittens to the Netherlands for a rare chance to glide through the Dutch landscape in winter. Page 44
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  • 803 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG PRIVATE HOMETRANSACTIONS Owners still asking for sky-high prices while bank valuations fall cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg A DOWNTURN is usually the time for bargain-hunt-ers to snap up properties on the cheap. But for now at least, the reality could not be more different, as prospective buyers discover. Said
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  • 737 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S largest childcare operator revealed its part in the Government's grand plan to boost the national birth rate yesterday, announcing not only a rebranding exercise, but also more centres, higher salaries for teachers, and higher qualifying cap for fees assistance. NTUC First
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  • 360 1 AGENCIES CAIRO As the Israeli military offensive in Gaza entered its third week, an audiotape believed to be made by Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been posted on Islamic militant websites. In his first recorded message in eight months, aimed at harnessing
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  • NEWS
    • 778 3  -  ALICIA WONG ALICIA WONG COMPLAINTS AGAINST DOCTORS alicia@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the absolute number of complaints against doctors rising, changes to the disciplinary process are in the wind, aimed at speeding matters up while encouraging doctors to self-regulate further. At present, most complaints to the
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    • 237 6 LEONG WEE KEAT A TECHNICAL glitch the first of its kind affected the Mobile Data Terminals of some 800 ComfortDelGro taxis yesterday. These terminals are used for call bookings and making cashless payments, but ComfortDelGro said bookings were not disrupted during the affected period. From
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    • 435 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT PUBLICTRANSPORT Record 4.84 m daily passenger trips will likely be surpassed this year weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AS OIL prices soared and future plans for the land transport system were rolled out last year, commuters were setting records for public transport: Average ridership hit an
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    • 285 8  -  ANSLEYNG RECKLESS CABBY Parents of man killed after taxi hit him agree to accept amount ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE parents of financial adviser Alex Lim who died after being flung off the bonnet of a taxi along Scotts Road in 2007 agreed to an out-of-court settlement of $150,000 in
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    • 212 8  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS lunchtime outside Parliament House, and he was in plain sight of a security camera as well as office workers heading out for a meal. Using a marker, the man, clad in trousers and a red polo T-shirt, scribbled on
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    • 163 8 938 LIVE BUSINESSMAN Chia Chor Yam was hauled to court yesterday on 14 charges of corruption involving some $103,000. The 54-year-old is the second person to be charged in connection with the National Library Board subsidiary eLpedia corruption case. Mr Chia, the managing director of
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    • 46 10 TREVOR TAN Workers put up decorations in Chinatown to usher in the Chinese new year. These may be tough times but the cheery looks of these"oxen" and mandarin oranges are likely to bring cheer to visitors during this festive season.
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    • 213 10 The number of unionised workers retrenched in the last three months of last year was double that in the third quarter. And the figures seem set to go up in the first quarter of this year, with more manufacturing companies to be hard hit, and
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    • 431 10 ATTACK ON MP Mr Seng's family says their pain is 'beyond imagining' HE IS hooked to a respirator, unable to move or speak and in great pain. That anguish is shared by the family of Yio Chu Kang MP Seng Han Thong, who broke their silence
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    • 306 12  -  LINYANQIN NATIONAL SECURITY Police cordon off road after abandoned box spotted yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg ITS contents a perfume sachet and some red beads turned out to be harmless, but for about three hours on Stevens Road yesterday morning, a motorcycle box found under a tree got the attention
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 150 14 In a 24-hour islandwide dragnet on Tuesday, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) nabbed 14 suspected drug traffickers and 59 suspected drug abusers, and seized heroin, ketamine, "Ice" and "Erimin-5" tablets with a street worth of more than $12,000. One of the arrests involved some high-rise drama at
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      • 105 14 HEDIRMANSUPIAN Search giant Google launched a Singapore version of its news aggregation site yesterday. Google News Singapore provides local netizens up-to-date news from more than 4,500 English language sources The latest Singapore-related stories are sourced from major local media outlets such as Channel News Asia, Today
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      • 50 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA From Sunday, the routes of SBS Transit's Services 400 and 402 will be diverted for six months along the stretch of Marina Street and Marina Station Road. These roads will be closed to vehicular traffic for the construction of the MRT Downtown Line.
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    • 521 14  -  SUFIAN SUDERMAN EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE sufian@mediacorp.com.sg THEY have the experience and are highly educated. So, sourcing information for jobs, in the event of retrenchment, should not be a problem. Professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) do not need employment assistance. That is what the North East Community Development
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  • WORLD
    • 655 16  -  BARADAN KUPPUSAMY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER NEWS COMMENT PAS may win Chinese votes but lose Malay support AS THE battle for Kuala Terengganu enters its final lap, indications are the opposition Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) candidate may end up winning the minority Chinese support but losing the
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    • 153 16 MANILA Eleven people have died and nearly 200,000 have been displaced in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains across the Philippines, relief agency officials said yesterday. Nine other people were missing, while two others have been injured, said the National Disaster
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    • 286 18 BEIJING The mother from Hangzhou doesn't let her daughter have any dairy products now and worries that her baby's cries signal pain from kidney stones. Like thousands of parents in China, Mrs Yu Lufang has a child who got sick from drinking formula tainted
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    • 392 18 AP SICHJJAN EARTHQUAKE"! Parents want to know why schools collapsed BEIJING Nine Chinese parents whose children died when their classrooms crumbled in the Sichuan earthquake last year said yesterday they will keep pursuing the government until they know why the school gave way. Questions about shoddy construction
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    • 174 18 AP BEIJING Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for a renewed fight against corruption because of worries the financial crisis may boost graft. Corruption is a major problem in China, costing the country more than it spends on education every year. Mr Hu and other
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    • 319 20  -  SUJADI SISWO CHANNEL NEWSASIA WAR ON TERROR Terror suspect in Indonesia ready to face consequences sujadi@mediacorp.com.sg JAKARTA A Singaporean member of the terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), who is facing charges under Indonesia's antiterrorism law, said he is ready to face the consequences for his
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    • 452 21 AP I TAX BLUNDERS Treasury Secretary nominee Geithner failed to pay taxes WASHINGTON Tax and immigration blunders tripped up President-elect Barack Obama's highly-regarded nominee for Treasury Secretary, arguably the most important position in the next Cabinet that assumes power in the midst of an economic
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    • 271 21 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A Saudi suspected of involvement in the Sept 11 attacks was tortured at the United States detention site in Guantanamo Bay, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Ms Susan Crawford, the Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo
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    • 258 22 AP WAR IN GAZA Families struggling to find new places to bury the dead GAZA CITY One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three young cousins and lowered them into the grave of a long-dead aunt. A
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    • 400 22 AP AFP RAMON AIRFORCE BASE (Israel) Apache helicopter pilot Capt Orr, who has flown dozens of combat missions over Gaza in the past few weeks, said on Tuesday he felt sorry for civilian casualties and had aborted missions to avoid them. He and his
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 109 24 AP Pakistan's Prime Minister has played down the significance of an Indian dossier on the Mumbai attacks, saying it only contained information and "not evidence," state media reported. MrYousuf Raza Gilani's remarks late on Tuesday before Parliament were likely to anger
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      • 109 24 AFP Indonesian President Susilo BambangYudhoyono yesterday ordered a thorough investigation into a ferry disaster that left 230 passengers missing and feared dead. The relatives of those missing have angrily demanded that the government step up search efforts. Only 35 survivors have been found since
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      • 89 24 AFP Bombs destroyed a checkpoint in southern Thailand near the Malaysian border yesterday, causing no casualties. The low-intensity pipe bombs went off 10 minutes apart at a customs booth in insurgency-hit Narathiwat province (picture), about 300 metres from the Malaysian frontier, said Thai police. Two Muslim
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    • 255 24 INDONESIA STUDY JAKARTA Religious intolerance is getting worse in Indonesia, said a report released on Tuesday by the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, an Indonesian human rights group that promotes tolerance and counts former President Abdurrahman Wahid as one of its founders. The latest sign
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 108 26 United States President George W Bush says it's likely that he and First Lady Laura Bush lost money in the economic crisis. However, they won't find out how much they have lost until after he leaves office. In an interview with CNN's
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      • 106 26 AP A California man has been arrested for arranging for his 14-year-old daughter to marry a neighbour in exchange for US$l6,OOO ($23,800), 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat. The Authorities said they learned of the deal after Mr Marcelino de Jesus Martinez,
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    • 344 26 AP FAILED PLOT Faced with family, work problems, businessman tries to fake death HARPERSVILLE (Alabama) With his world crumbling around him, investment adviser Marcus Schrenker (picture) opted for a bailout. However, his plan to escape personal turmoil was short-lived. In a feat reminiscent of James Bond movie
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    • 127 26 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Blondes may have more fun, but brunettes are better paid, according to a new survey. More than twice as many brown haired women are in jobs paying between £45,000 ($97,200) and £55,000 than blondes or redheads. And brunettes are more likely to be taken
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    • 202 28  -  Lionel DeSouza Letter from YESTERDAY, I saw a foreign worker perched perilously about 5 metres above the ground, hacking a high wall of a house undergoing reconstruction in the Haig Road area. The worker was astride the wall, using both hands to operate a
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    • 90 28  -  Roger Poh Letter from OIL prices have plunged from a high of US$l4O per barrel last year to below US$3B, yet express bus companies continue to levy a fuel surcharge for coaches to Malaysia and Thailand. It is even more appalling when you consider
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    • 334 28  -  .eong Sze Hian CORPORATE FRAUD Govt should take lead in educating private sector on how to fight fraud Letter from L IN LIGHT of the recent high-profile cases of corporate fraud, I would like to draw attention to KPMG's Singapore Fraud Survey, released in
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    • 176 32  -  DR BILL MAIER BY HOW DO YOU SPELL INTIMACY? What's your idea of an intimate evening with your spouse? Well, it probably depends on whether you're a man or a woman. When a woman thinks of intimacy, she may imagine a quiet evening sitting together on
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    • 326 32  -  DrWong ChooWai SAA GRANT GAFFE Letter from President, Spore Contract Bridge Association I REFER to your report on the Singapore Athletic Association's (SAA) late submission of its application for grants from Singapore Sports Council (SSC), in "SAAblame human error for late paperwork" (Jan 8). I
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    • 145 32  -  Edwin Reglo Letter from DUE to the implementation of the Enhanced Childcare Leave, I have lost my two days' childcare leave entitlement. My family and I are Singapore Permanent Residents and, being non-citizens, are not covered by the Children Development Co-Savings Act, thus I am
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      • 143 59 BLOOMBERG Capita Land, South-east Asia's biggest developer, is seeking to reduce utility costs by as much as $4 million this year, as part of its policy to protect the environment. The firm said it would cut electricity and water consumption in about 150 Singapore and overseas properties
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      • 65 60 $2.Bz_ I Sell Citigroup reiterates its rating and slashes the target price to $2.65 from $3.11, saying the developer could see provisions amounting to more than $500 million as the worsening outlook hits sale prices. It cuts Capita Land's FYO9-FYIO earnings estimates by 18 to 24 per cent on
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