Today, 30 March 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Monday March 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    35 1 Conrad Raj The recent spate of scandals hitting Chinese companies listed in Singapore, once again highlights the difficulty of policing companies that do not have their headquarters or any operations in Singapore. Page B2
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    COMMENT
    29 1 Taming finance The protesters ahead of the G20 summit have it right global finance needs to be tamed. Fortunately, we're about to hear some innovative proposals. Page 19
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    SINGAPORE
    28 1 Dark night For an hour the lights dimmed, from Egypt's pyramids to Beijing's Bird's Nest, and in Singapore too. See Earth Hour captured in photos. Page 12
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    WORLD
    43 1 Kedah hotseat The record number of candidates in the Bukit Selambau by-election and the fact that many of them are disgruntled PKR members, both past and present has brought a different dimension to the contest for the Kedah state seat. Page 14
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    Killing Fields trial
    36 1 Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal this week resumes the trial of the Khmer Rouge's former prison chief, who is expected to admit his role in the "Killing Fields" horrors three decades ago. Page 16
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    'Yes' for treatment abroad
    464 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN USEOFMEDISAVE But S #poreans studying, working overseas won't qualify for cover chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg THE request was put forward by unionists at a dialogue session last year, and yesterday, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said "yes" to the use of Medisave for non-urgent hospitalisation treatment overseas.
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    For home care – and nursing homes too?
    558 1  - For home care and nursing homes too? NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE demands on Medisave have gone up, due partly to an ageing population. Even as he confirmed that Medisave would be freed for more uses including home palliative care, Mr Khaw Boon Wan said more possibilities lay ahead for the healthcare
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    A Spur, then a stutter
    701 1  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE scheme has been praised since it was launched in December, to get companies to train workers for the upturn rather than retrench. But a number of employers, especially those running Small and Medium Enterprises, are still hesitant to embrace the Skills Programme
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  • NEWS
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      With new media, trust all the more imperative
      418 2 COMMUNAL HARMONY AS NEW media increasingly dominates the landscape and as Singaporeans embrace more diverse beliefs, there is a rising danger that hurtful or insensitive remarks may cause unrest between communities, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday.
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      Lock icon DRUMMING UP INTEREST IN THE ARTS
      81 2 DONWONG MrSyed Ibrahim, programme director and percussionist from One Heartßeat, conducts a group of senior citizens from the O'Joy Care Services centre at Upper Boon Keng Road in a drumming workshop. This is one in a series of workshops that are part of the
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      Patients can expect more nuanced subsidies by July
      350 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN COMMUNITY HOSPITALS Changes mean most patients will pay less; PRs to get lower subsidy chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE difference in household income may be small, but the resulting difference in government subsidy granted could be sizeable. This is the situation faced by some
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      Raise insurance coverage for maids, work permit holders?
      245 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN SHOULD employers be made to pay an "extra few dollars" monthly for their maids' medical insurance, to avoid a massive hospital bill when unexpected illness crops up? The question came up at the dialogue session with Mr Khaw Boon Wan yesterday,
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      Lock icon Some certainly, please?
      878 4  -  ESTHER NG CHANNEL NEWSASIA RETRENCHED PMETS Train and Place schemes less popular due to lack of allowances, job certainty estherng@mediacorp.com.sg FOUR months after help for retrenched professionals, managers, engineers and technicians (PMETs) was ramped in a big way, reactions to an initiative to convert them for new
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      Lock icon THE HUGGING SAINT IN S'PORE
      98 4 DONWONG When she came to Singapore last year, more than 35,000 people got hugged. This time, some got more than an embrace from Indian spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, known worldwide as the 'Hugging Saint. At Suntec Singapore over the weekend, she also gave out $ioo-provision
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      Lock icon Campaign kicks off for by-elections
      489 6 AGENCIES,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS The opposition plays down expectations for results TAIPING (Malaysia) Malaysia's incoming Prime Minister Najib Razak faced the first test of his leadership yesterday, as campaigns were launched for three byelections on April 7, which are seen as a barometer of
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      Lock icon Attractive deals but...
      472 8  -  ZULOTHMAN ORCHARD RELOADED 2009 Retailers still worry there will not be enough shoppers to keep stores afloat zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE hottest international and local models will strut their stuff on Singapore's longest catwalk stretching from Wisma Atria to Ngee Ann City wearing the latest designs from Diesel Blackgold,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MUIS' NEW INITIATIVES FOR THIS YEAR
        96 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA At its workplan seminar, the Muslim Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) announced three initiatives for this year to develop confident and modern Muslims. It will develop a new curriculum on Islamic learning, which will be enhanced with updated content to facilitate discussions
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        Lock icon NLB'S ECONOMIC SURVIVOR SERIES
        93 10 938 live From next month, the National Library Board will roll out a year-long Economic Survivor series consisting of monthly programmes, to help Singaporeans ride out this downturn. Apart from tips on stretching one's dollar and family resilience, there will be programmes such as Learn a
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      Lock icon PICK OF THE DAY
      73 10 DONWONG A star-studded family carnival over the weekend at D'Marquee Downtown East offered bargains, games and entertainment under one roof. Organised by Singapore's leading online classifieds and directory mocca.com, the two-day MocCarnival Full House featured live performances and appearances by MediaCorp artistes as well as more
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      2,600 more jobs, will locals bite?
      388 10 PUBLIC HEALTHCARE 93 out of 250 career conversion scheme places filled SINCE the recruitment blitz began, some 1,100 people have been hired to work in the public healthcare sector, with Singapore citizens filling just 60 per cent of the vacancies. Asked if it was
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      Lock icon What they did in the darkness
      390 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN EARTH HOUR Hotels cashed in and guests rejoiced AS THE lights dimmed and temperatures soared, the cash registers began to ring. Earth Hour proved to be lucrative for some hotels that took part in the initiative to help spread the message of energy
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      Lock icon 'Street parties, not protests'
      357 13 AP BONN From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State building in New York, illuminated patches of the globe went dark on Saturday night to highlight the threat of climate change. Time zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities
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  • WORLD
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      Tourism Minister will not quit
      132 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Tourism Minister Azalina Othman Said has said she will not resign as minister following her defeat in the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) Supreme Council elections, The Star reported yesterday. She told the newspaper that her position in the Cabinet would
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      Lock icon SCORES STILL MISSING
      116 14 Attention shifted to caring for homeless and hungry survivors after a dam burst outside the Indonesian capital, sending a wall of water crashing into homes and killing at least 96 people. More than 130 others are still missing, but the hope of finding them alive dimmed yesterday.
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      Lock icon 15 compete for state seat
      429 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Crowded Bukit Selambau by-election headache for BN PR? SUNGAI PETANI (Kedah) The record 15 candidates nominated for the Bukit Selambau state seat by-election in Kedah not only makes it Malaysia's most crowded contest ever, but the presence of the 13
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      Lock icon M'sian political party barred over 'clenched fist' symbol
      217 14 .AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's socialist party, which recently won a decade-long battle for recognition, faces a new hurdle after authorities rejected its "clenched fist" symbol as too violent. The Socialist Party of Malaysia has used the symbol an iconic image for the
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      Lock icon Duch to seek forgiveness at trial
      273 16 AFP KHMER ROUGE LEADER PHNOM PENH Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal this week resumes the trial of the Khmer Rouge's former prison chief, who is expected to admit his role in the "Killing Fields" horrors three decades ago. When proceedings began last month, lawyers for
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      Lock icon Thailand pushing Thaksin extradition talks
      264 16 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's government is pushing forward on talks with foreign countries on the possible extradition of former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, the Foreign Minister said yesterday as protesters surrounded the seat of government for a fourth day. Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said officials and prosecutors
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HK TEENS 'BUILT TERROR BOMB'
        82 16 AFP Three Hong Kong teenagers have been arrested for possessing explosives of the type used in the 2005 suicide attacks in London. They were arrested after one of them almost had his hand blown off when he set off a homemade bomb in his family's
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        Lock icon KMT'S NARROW BY-ELECTION WIN
        93 16 AFP Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party (KMT) won a by-election in Taipei, but suffered a sharp decline in support in a traditional stronghold, officials said yesterday. The KMT won just under half the votes in the by-election for the Daan district, where it took 66.8 per cent
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      Lock icon N Korea preparing for another missile test: Report
      213 17 AP SEOUL North Korea is preparing to launch a short- or medium-range missile, possibly right after it carries out its plan to fire a long-range rocket in early April, a newspaper reported yesterday North Korea says it will launch a communications satellite
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      Lock icon No longer the 'older brother'
      483 17 AFP N KOREA'S ALLY China's leverage on Pyongyang limited to food, energy supplies: Analysts BEIJING China might be North Korea's only ally of note, but its influence over Pyongyang and its leverage is limited, analysts say as the reclusive state prepares for an expected rocket
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      Lock icon Counter-Strike sharpens vision: Study
      115 18 AFP PARIS Slaying hordes of bad guys the more the better in fast-paced video games improves vision, a study published on Sunday showed for the first time. Far from being harmful to eyesight as some had feared, action games such as Counter-Strike provide excellent training for
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      Lock icon Zardari moves to end political crisis
      394 18 AGENCIES PAKISTANI POLITICS Calls for end to governor rule in Punjab and reinstates Chaudhry ISLAMABAD Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari executed a climbdown on Saturday by vowing to help the main opposition party regain power in a key province, an issue that had sparked
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      Lock icon THIS G2O SUMMIT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
      773 19  -  WILLHUTTON THEOBSERVER NEWS COMMENT The countries increasingly look as if they have got their act together AT LAST, the demonstrators have got the correct target in their sights. The anti-glo-balisation movement has always been too sweeping in its choices of enemies, lumping the
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      Lock icon Court mulls case against ex Bush officials
      145 20 AP MADRID A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials over allegations that they provided legal cover for torture methods at Guantanamo. Human rights lawyers brought the case before leading anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon,
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      Lock icon 1,295 systems hacked
      251 20 AP CYBERSPIES Sensitive official data from 103 countries compromised; Dalai Lama among victims TORONTO A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organisations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said
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      Lock icon RISING WATERS
      55 20 A man wades through waist-high floodwater to fill up empty petrol cans south of Fargo in North Dakota on Saturday. Snow storms closing in yesterday threatened more misery for residents and authorities fear as many as 30,000 people could be left homeless if the swollen Red River breaks
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      Lock icon POLICE FIRES WARNING SHOTS
      59 21 The police on Saturday fired warning shots and teargas at supporters of Madagascar's ousted President Marc Ravalomanana as they rallied for a sixth consecutive day of protests, leaving 34 people injured. Officers took action to prevent around 20,000 protesters who had gathered at gardens in the
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      Lock icon Another monster dad emerges
      407 21 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ITALIAN FRITZL Man, 64, accused of raping daughter since she was nine PERUGIA Shocked police listened in as an Italian man allegedly raped his own daughter after a 25-year reign of terror, it has emerged. Listening devices had been placed in the handset of 64-year-old
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      Alleged rapist dad claimed they 'loved each other'
      195 21 BOGOTA A Colombian man has appeared in court and was accused of sexually abusing his daughter and fathering eight children with her, news reports said. Arcebio Alvarez, 58, is alleged to have abused his daughter Alba Nidia Alvarez, 35, since she was
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      210 21 I'm dying here and you treat it like it's no big deal. Thank you. "Thank you for treating me as if I am still a part of your life. For not treating me with lad gloves. For not treating me as if I am already dead. Thank you for talking
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      Over 40, under-valued
      491 22  -  Allan Pek OLDERWORKERS Letter from I REFER to "Over 40? Don't send us your resume" (March 26). I am not surprised that workers more than 40 years old are being rejected in Singapore. I know this from experience: I have been applying for jobs for six months
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      It's on the environment's tab
      134 23  -  David Soh Jin Hoe Letter from MANY vehicle owners litter the environment everyday when they tear off the tabs from parking coupons. Could the Housing and Development Board and the Urban Redevelopment Authority consider allowing the use of a pen to cross out the required
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      Efficiency's a drag
      297 23  -  Joseph Wong COURTESY SHORTFALL Letter from I REFER to Nury Vittachi's "They're dead polite" (March 28-29). On a visit to Tokyo, I stayed at the Hilton and was going up to my room when a Japanese lady entered the lift. She bowed to me out of courtesy.
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      169 23  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY LOVING YOUR CHILD IS JUST HALF THE TASK When a child is convinced that he is greatly loved and respected by his parents, he is inclined to accept his own worth as a person. However, I've observed that many children know they
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      Lock icon Solemn sunshine
      868 24  -  MAY SEAH Dai Yang Tian is old beyond his years. And it's kind of sexy may@mediacorp.com.sg DAI Yang Tian had snubbed me once before, on an occasion when I tried to make polite conversation. So I wasn't expecting to have an easy time talking with him especially when
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      Please do not feed the Bear
      472 26  -  MAYSEAH It's called Man vs Wild, but BearGrylls is all for nature may@mediacorp.com.sg His name is Bear but if you're thinking teddies, you're wrong. It's more like giant grizzlies. That's because he probably knows how to win a fight with one. And he can
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      Delightfully insincere
      320 28  -  MAYSEAH THEATRE REVIEW |THE IMPORTANdt OF BEING EARNE§f| Wild Rice's all-male staging of Oscar Wilde's iconic play has verve and polish may@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE being an Oscar Wilde fan, a friend of mine did not want to see W! Id Rice's The Importance of Being Earnest as she was
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      181 30 AFP Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel was fined heavily and penalised 10 grid places for the next race after stewards blamed him for a collision in the final laps of the chaotic Australian GP here yesterday. Vettel, 21, was on course to
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      585 32 AFP INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL England head into Ukraine clash with a striker crisis after bruising victory over Slovakia j INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY England 4 Slovakia o LONDON England boss Fabio Capello admits injury-hit England won't get the kind of easy ride they enjoyed against Slovakia when
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      558 32  -  LAN DE COTTA GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Home United v Woodlands Wellington Clement! Stadium, 7.45pm ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE mood in the Home United dressing room is decidedly downbeat following two consecutive losses, and they will be looking to stop the
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      265 33 THEOBSERVER LONDON Uefa have strongly criticised the number of players on the payroll of the Premier League's Big Four clubs. Liverpool, who under Rafa Benitez have stockpiled a 62-man squad, the biggest in the league and enough for more than five full teams, have come
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      326 36 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said yesterday that United States automakers which are awaiting an announcement today on whether his administration will continue a bailout of General Motors and Chrysler are "not quite there yet" on a viable restructuring plan. While the President
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      527 36 AFP CHINA CAR MAKERS BEIJING Despite their global ambitions, Chinese car makers are still not big enough to take over their troubled foreign rivals, analysts and company officials said. Reports have swirled for weeks on persistent rumours that Chinese car makers are eyeing the
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      263 36 AP SHANGHAI Asia's biggest oil refiner, Sinopec, said yesterday that its net profit fell 47 per cent last year from a year earlier as government caps barred it from passing on costs of surging crude oil prices. Full-year net profit fell to 29.8 billion yuan ($6.6
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        49 38 ($5.31) I Hold OCBC Investment Research reinitiates coverage on the property developer and sets a $5.43 target price. It says City Developments has a strong enough balance sheet to withstand economic turmoil, noting it is a potential beneficiary from HDB owners upgrading thanks to its massmarket exposure.
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      262 38 AGENCIES AMID public fury over the executive bonuses paid out at American International Group and other financial institutions, Bank of America (BoA) plans to increase some investment bankers' salaries by as much as 70 per cent following the takeover earlier this year of Merrill Lynch,
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