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    20 1 TODAY Friday April 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday April 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      in the news
      125 1 2 US President Barack Obama says yesterday's G2O reforms are a turning point in the world's economic recovery. 6 The battle to rid Joo Chiat of sleaze has made some headway, but some residents want even tougher laws. "~)f\ Japanese Prime Minister ZJ\J Taro Aso will seek
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      Lock icon Young PAP v 2.009
      643 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG ONLINE POLITICS External contributors, lively rebuttals with revamp of website cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg HAVING made forays into Facebook and online multimedia, the ruling party is now taking the cyber-battle for hearts and minds up another notch. Its youth wing is set to launch an offensive in the
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      Horizon Towers sale off – for good
      659 1  - Horizon Towers sale off for good TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS been one of the most keenly-followed en bloc sale disputes in part because the history of the Horizon Towers' saga is "complex and convoluted", and also because it was the first instance where majority owners were taken to court for
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      Lock icon World economy at turning point: Obama
      442 2 AGENCIES G2OSUMMIT Sweeping reforms vdo not however, guarantee swift return to growth' LONDON United States President Barack Obama declared yesterday that sweeping G2O summit reforms were a "turning point" in the world's quest for recovery but warned they did not guarantee a swift return
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      Lock icon SPOTTHE MISSING WORLD LEADER ATTHE SUMMIT
      91 2 AFP As United States President Barack Obama and his Group of 20 counterparts lined up to face the lenses of the world's press, organisers noticed too late that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper 1 was missing. At a second photo shoot two hours later,
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      Lock icon OECD discloses 3 lists of tax havens
      243 2 AFP PARIS The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development yesterday named those tax havens it said had not made any commitment to respecting international standards on exchanging tax information. After the agreement at the G2O summit in London earlier yesterday to act against
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      Lock icon Owners caught in a bind
      636 3  -  LEONG WEEKEAT HORIZONTOWERS Expecting en bloc some bought second properties weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE Horizon Towers resident had bought a second property at the peak of the property market, as he expected the en-bloc sale of his estate to go through. Now servicing a second loan, he
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      Lock icon Not guilty, says Ming Yi
      700 4  -  ZULOTHMAN MONKINTHE DOCK Monk allegedly disguised $50,000 paid to aide as loan to cultural centre zul@mediacorp.com.sg NINE months after his arrest made headlines, Singapore's most famous abbot, Shi Ming Vi (picture), walked into the Subordinate Courts yesterday for his long awaited trial. Flanked by black-suited
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      IT'S THE MESSAGE, NOT THE PLATFORM
      177 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG The Workers' Party (WP) lays claim to being the first political party here to use Twitterto send out updates and mobilise supporters. According to WP'sTwitter page, its first message was posted on Nov 10 —11 days before the Singapore Democratic Party. The potential
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      Lock icon The clean-up battle isn't over yet
      725 6  -  LINYANQIN JOOCHIAT Headway in cleaning up sleaze, but some residents want tougher laws to eliminate it all yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg MORE than five years since the sleaze problem at Joo Chiat Road grabbed national attention, the clean-up battle is not over even if the fighting
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      A drop in business, a dip in usage
      407 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg AT MR Siew Yit Foong's factory, machines that used to run for 24 hours are now in use for only half that time. Overall, it has been quieter than what you would normally expect of a sheet metal
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      Lock icon EARTH HOUR
      95 8 EARTH HOUR:THE RESULTS How much electricity was saved during Earth Hour last Saturday? According to the Energy Market Authority (EMA), consumption dipped by 42 megawatts equivalent to 420,000 hundred-watt light bulbs being switched off for the hour.^^^_ The reduction, however, BBBj makes up only 0.044 I per cent
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      Lock icon MOM gets tough
      685 10  -  ESTHER NG ESTHER NG FOREIGN WORKER HOUSING estherng@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS probably the toughest message sent to errant employers of foreign workers so far. Just three months into 2009, the Ministry for Manpower (MOM) has taken enforcement action against 217 employers on "unacceptable" housing for their workers. "Some
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      Fewer retail, F&B, hotel employers hiring, but sector's still a bright spot
      356 12  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THOUGH it has been heralded as one of the few bright spots for the job market this year, the retail, food and beverage and hotel sector has seen the biggest year-on-year fall in hiring expectations, according
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      For their experience, a generous package
      529 12  -  ESTHER NG PROFESSIONAL CONVERSION PROGRAMME Scholarships of s^skto be given to up to 40 trainees estherng@mediacorp.com.sg NOW is a good time for retrenched PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) keen on making the switch to the hotel management line to go back to school
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      Lock icon SINGTELTOUCHES 30,000 LIVES
      99 14 938 LIVE Singapore Telecommunications says its Touching Lives Fund raised a total of $2.2 million last year. The money will go the six beneficiaries: APSN Tanglin School, Autism Resource Centre, Fei Yue Community Services, Milk Fund, Singapore Children's Society and Students Care Service. President S R Nathan
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      Optimism level lowest: Survey
      302 14 AXA LIFE OUTLOOK INDEX But more S'poreans plan to have children THEY claim to be the least affected by the economic meltdown, yet Singaporeans are also the least hopeful about their future. In fact, so low is their optimism level that they are almost 11 points
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      In-house lawyers back in class
      222 14 THE Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA) has been pushing hard in recent years to develop the capabilities of in-house lawyers here. And in October this year, the body will take a big step towards this end when it launches a new four-day training course in
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      Cut off 'loans to gambling addicts'
      346 16 SOCIAL PROBLEM A PROBLEM gambler may be barred from entering a casino but as long as he has the money, he will find other ways to indulge in his habit. That is why the key to controlling a person's gambling addiction is to cut
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      Lock icon ERA CHARITY WALK FOR THE DEAF
      64 16 (From left) Ms Denise Phua, MP for Jalan BesarGßC; Mr Frankie Chan, President of the Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) and representatives from corporate sponsors flagged off the ERACharityWalkforthe Deaf, which raised $80,000 for the SADeaf's essential programmes. More than 500 participants joined
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      Lock icon Car dealer faces 20 charges of tax evasion
      151 16 938 LIVE A PARALLEL importer has been slapped with 20 charges of tax evasion over the import of 70 Japanese cars. Between June 2006 and February 2007, Ong Siong Hock allegedly under-declared the values of the cars by submitting invoices showing incorrect
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      Lock icon Handover hits a snag
      476 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS All 81 opposition lawmakers send petition to the King KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi resigned yesterday after more than five years in office, clearing the way for his deputy Najib Razak, who is facing the mammoth task of
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      Lock icon M'sia's by-election to see biggest ballot paper ever
      220 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SUNGAI PETANI (Kedah) Malaysia's Bukit Selambau state seat by-election on April 7 will see the largest ballot paper ever in the country's history as none of the record 15 candidates withdrew after the midnight deadline on Wednesday. "We have
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      Lock icon Blagojevich indicted
      146 20 AGENCIES CHICAGO A sweeping federal indictment charges former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich with scheming to auction off United States President Barack Obama's Senate seat, pressuring a congressman for campaign money and lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. The 19-count indictment handed down against Blagojevich, 52, and others
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      Lock icon Japan to seek UN action
      368 20 AGENCIES ROCKET LAUNCH Test will threaten peace, stability: Aso LONDON Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will seek a United Nations Security Council condemnation of North Korea if the nation goes ahead with a test missile launch this weekend. "North Korea's rocket or missile launch over
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      Lock icon SOMETHING'S BLOOMING
      44 23 AFP A couple admire fully-bloomed cherry blossoms along a river in Tokyo on a sunny spring day. Viewing of cherry blossoms is a national pastime and cultural event in Japan, where millions of people turn up each year to admire the flowers.
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      Lock icon Kidnappers release Filipina
      378 23 AGENCIES PHILIPPINES'HOSTAGE CRISIS Militants on the run as army surround Jolo island camp MANILA The Philippine authorities are trying to re-estab-lish contact with Al Qaeda-linked militants, who released one of three Red Cross hostages. Philippines Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said Ms Mary Jean Lacaba is in the
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        Lock icon TWO TOURISTS ARRESTED FOR DRUGS
        76 23 AFP Indonesia Two Canadian tourists are facing four years'jail in Indonesia after being arrested while allegedly smoking marijuana, police said yesterday. The women, aged 31 and 30, were arrested in February in Lombok. The two kindergarten teachers had3.6g of cannabis when they were arrested in
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        Lock icon BABY POWDERTAINTEDWITH ASBESTOS
        73 23 AFP South Korea Three South Korean manufacturers said yesterday they are recalling baby powder products after health authorities said they contained cancer-causing asbestos. The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it had found asbestos in baby powder made by eight manufacturers and banned their
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      Lock icon WELCOME CHINA, THE WORLD POWER
      693 24  -  TIMOTHY GARTON ASH THE GUARDIAN G2O SUMMIT BEIJING Yesterday may yet be marked as the day China definitively emerged as a 21 st-century world power. Just a few months ago, the talk in Western capitals was still about graciously inviting China to join the Western
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      Lock icon British Queen gets personalised iPod from Obama
      163 26 AGENCIES G2O SUMMIT LONDON Apple can now officially proclaim its iPod music player "fit for a Queen". United States President Barack Obama and his wife paid a visit to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, bringing Queen Elizabeth II the music and video storage system
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      Lock icon Diplomatic musical chairs
      466 26 THE GUARDIAN SUMMIT DINNER The dinner seating plan: Who sat next to whom? LONDON It was, observers can agree, the only real question of import in the run-up to Wednesday's summit dinner. Some might have concerned themselves with whether Russia and the United States would agree a
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      Lock icon Expectant UK mothers to get $420
      137 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON All pregnant women in Britain will receive a £190 ($420) tax-free "baby bonus" from the government from next week. The bonus is intended to help moth-ers-to-be stay healthy and to meet extra costs during the later stages of pregnancy. Women must
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      Lock icon Electric dreams
      355 28 THENEWYORKTIMES CHINA'S CAR INDUSTRY Govt-backed plan to turn China into top maker of hybrids TIANJIN (China) Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, a move that will make it the
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      Lock icon Harvard to cut capital spending on expansion
      170 30 BLOOMBERG CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts) Harvard University is planning to cut yearly capital spending by as much as half as it faces a 30-per-cent drop in its endowment. Harvard, the world's richest school, planned to spend US$l billion ($1.5 billion) yearly forthree to four years
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      Lock icon Go local for IT: Senators
      358 30 AFP US H-iB VISA CAP US lawmakers want companies to hire fewer foreigners to weather recession WASHINGTON The United States began taking visa applications on Wednesday for highly skilled foreigners, with lawmakers pressing to close the door to some of the longcoveted workers amid the
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      Lock icon Pakistani militant poses growing threat to United States
      241 32 AP ISLAMABAD The son of a poor potato farmer who once worked as a fitness instructor has grown into one of the most powerful militant leaders along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud threatened to attack the White House earlier
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      Lock icon $4.5b in aid for Pakistan sought
      441 32 AP US MILITARY SPENDING WASHINGTON The Obama administration plans to seek as much as US$3 billion ($4.5 billion) over the next five years to train and equip Pakistan's military and is considering sending 10,000 more troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, defence officials
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      291 38  -  DRJAMES DOBSON ...BY IF YOU WANT TO GIVE UP... I want to tell you today about a courageous lady who recently passed away at 75 years of age. Her name was Marian Manwell, and I admired her greatly. When she was an infant, she was sitting
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      521 41 V V/illin Low, chef-owner ofWild Rocket, Wild I V V Oats and Relish puts foiegras in ngoh hiang, grews banana trees at his bar, Wild Oats, and includes Chinese peanut candy in his dessert menu. It is hardly surprising, then, that the 36-year-olds approach to food has
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        76 42 Life Before Death -The Documentary takes an honest but sincere look at how three very different terminally-ill people choose to live. This is the English version of the Mandarin documentary Living Well, Leaving Well, which was hosted by Dongfang Billy. Both productions are part of the Lien
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        107 42 In celebration of the television premiere of True Blood, the award-winning HBO Original Series, there will be a party at Balaclava at Suntec City tonight from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Get a taste of the specially concocted True Blood cocktail (complimentary for the first 300 patrons).
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      407 42  -  MAYO MARTIN LAURA FYGI mayo@mediacorp.com.sg NAUGHTY, naughty, Laura Fygi... "Watching Michael Buble perform really gets me excited. Not necessarily horny, but he's got something," she said with a laugh. To be fair, it was the 53-year-old Dutch singer's game response to our question pertaining to
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      90 44 THE END OFTHE (U)BLUES One of Singapore's top blues bands, Üblues (Universal Blues Band), is giving its final performance this month. Üblues has chalked up quite a few firsts including being the first Asian band to perform at the Festival de Barcelona in Spain. "We feel it's
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      353 44 THE NEWYORKTIMES MOVIE LEAK Piracy puts film online one month before opening day IT SEEMS even a tough mutant like Wolverine is no match for pirates. In a case of piracy that some analysts called unprecedented, thousands of people watched a version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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      71 48 Apparently, Staind went into the studio intending to record their heaviest album yet. But if you're the type who thinks "the more decibels the better", don't hold your breath. Not only is this not the heaviest thing Staind has released (try Chapter V), this could
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      77 48 _^_§P I If you didn't watch the movie and just heard this I collection, you'd think that whoever compiled this I was schizophrenic, as the album flits from Unforget'^MijiraWjll table by Nat King Cole to Philip Glass' Pruit Igoe and jfllju^*? Prophecies to My
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      56 48 First things first: If you're looking for more of the Chris Cornell of Soundgarden or Audioslave, you won't find him here. Oh, the iconic voice is still there, but all the songs sound more like what you'll find on a Timbaland, with Cornell as the featured vocalist, rather
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      48 48 She might be a former President's daughter, but this is no political offering. It's Kris Aquino's way of acknowledging all that her mum has done. It's all very happy-happy, joy-joy, feel-good land of album that hits all the right spots. 3/5 TV LISTINGS
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      495 52  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE SPORT Rugby chief Low resolves walk-out protest by nine national players shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THE one-and-a-half week player-protest, which saw nine local-born players from Singapore's national rugby team boycott training, ended last night. After a two-hour meeting between the nine players and five
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      489 52  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg FROM next year, budding young athletes enrolling in the Singapore Sports School will have the option of pursuing their A levels or International Baccalaureate there, beyond the current four-year GCE 0 levels. The Ministry of Community Development, Youth
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      572 54 AFP FORMULAi Driver disqualified for giving misleading info, but McLaren deny wrongdoing SEPANG McLaren-Mercedes boss Martin Whitmarsh denied yesterday that Lewis Hamilton lied about an incident at the Australian Grand Prix after the Briton was stripped of his third-place result. The world champion was fourth in
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      369 56 AP MEXICO CITY Mexico coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was sacked yesterday, a day after a 3-1 loss to Honduras in a World Cup qualifier. "We told Mr Eriksson that his term with the national team has finished," said Justino Compean, president of the Mexican Football Federation in
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      376 56 ehgohe AFTERNOON LATEST ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal v Manchester City LONDON Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is set to make his comeback, after three months out injured, in tomorrow's Premier League match against Manchester City. Spain midfielder Fabregas, 21, has not played since Dec 21 when
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      663 57  -  ASDWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Unbeaten in the league, third-placed DPMM enjoy proving doubters wrong GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Tampines Rovers v DPMM FC Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm, live on Ch 5 sports@mediacorp.com.sg DPMM FC, who return to Jalan Besar Stadium for tonight's Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 match
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      332 57  -  AS DWIGHT TAMPINES Rovers' assistant coach Syed Faruk (picture) admits his team are underdogs going into tonight's Great EasternYeo's S-League 2009 clash with DPMM FC at Jalan Besar Stadium. Never mind that bookmakers Singapore Pools rate the Stags as 2-1 favourites, and DPMM as
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