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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday June 24, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday June 24, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    225 1 3 Iran's Guardian Council rules out annulling the disputed results, which could prompt protesters to adopt new tactics. 8 Opening a restaurant staffed mainly with fresh graduates is often risky, but Travis Masiero is doingjustthat. ■"1 A lifeguard who slashed L\J his friend and colleague is sentenced
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    762 1  - Close, open, close TEOXUANWEI 938 LIVE HINI IN SINGAPORE "Disruptive pattern' in schools possible even as MOE steps up efforts to keep HINI bug at bay xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN school reopens next Monday, all students and staff who exhibit fever or flu symptoms or who have just returned from HINI-affected countries
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    Firms gear up to tackle flu
    554 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg AS THE Government tweaks its strategies in the battle against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, many businesses have stepped up measures to deal with the outbreak. Most of the companies Today spoke to already have business continuity plans in place,
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      83 1 t Singaporeans bridge the romance gap ■b^E^^hl Would you date an older woman Would you date a younger man 51% said Yes 59% said Yes 1^ Date a woman who earns more? Date a man who earns less? A L 67% said Yes 28% said Yes A L Date a
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      Lock icon Father, son try to flee quarantine
      382 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA It happened once during Sars, and a man was jailed for flouting his home quarantine order. Yesterday, a father-and-son attempted to repeat history when they tried to leave the quarantine centre at the People's Association holiday chalets. It was one of several
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      Lock icon The Guardians have spoken ...
      468 3 The Guardians have spoken 1 AGENCIES IRANIAN POLITICS And the protesters may switch their tactics TEHRAN In a further sign that the powers that be in Iran were not in a mood to compromise, the top electoral body of the government yesterday ruled out annulling the election results that gave
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      S'porean terror suspect nabbed: Report
      317 3 JAKARTA A Singaporean wanted for alleged involvement in a plot to crash an aircraft into Changi Airport in 2001, has reportedly been arrested in Indonesia. Citing a local police official, Indonesia's Jakarta Globe newspaper said the police had arrested the terrorism suspect identified only as
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      Lock icon Actress allegedly molested in club
      115 4  -  LEONGWEE KEAT LOCAL comedienne Patricia Mok (picture) was allegedly molested early Monday morning during a night out at a disco in Clarke Quay. The 37-year-old was dancing when a man allegedly touched her buttocks, according to an unnamed eye-witness quoted by Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao.
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      Their flat, their source of income
      497 4  -  ONG DAI LIN HDB LEASE BUYBACK SCHEME dailin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS the only house that the couple have lived in since 1964 after they got married. So attached are the Ngs to their three-room flat at Commonwealth Crescent that they have refused to buy a
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      Casting a wider net?
      417 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN THE DATING SCENE chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg AGE IS proving to be less of a barrier in the Singaporean's search for love, with more women here now open to dating younger men and more men willing to date older women. According to a survey of 200 singles last
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      When passion trumps experience
      468 8  -  ESTHERNG 001 BOON KEONG BUDDING CHEFS estherng@mediacorp.com.sg OPENING a restaurant is often risky business, and few restaurant owners would be so bold as to mainly staff their kitchen with apprentices and fresh culinary graduates. But that is exactly what Mr Travis Masiero, chef and co-owner of
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      Lock icon 4 more young loansharks nabbed
      177 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FOUR more youth, aged between 16 and 24, have been arrested for suspected involvement in a series of loanshark harassment cases islandwide. Today reported last week how loan sharks are using younger runners to harass debtors, and on Monday, a tip-off helped the
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      Lock icon Australian TV journalist released
      244 10 AUSTRALIAN television journalist Peter Lloyd (picture) was released from jail yesterday after serving nearly seven months of his 10-month sentence for drug offences. Lloyd, a former New Delhibased correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was jailed on Dec 2 after pleading guilty to three drug charges.
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      Knife attack gets him 3 months' jail
      404 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT day's hearing. IN COURT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY were university mates in China and had come to Singapore to work as lifeguards. While on duty on Labour Day this year, the two lifeguards Zhu Lijun (picture) and Chi Xiang had a "heated argument" over
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      Lock icon Cabbie smoked out
      241 13 CONTRABAND CIGARETTES Transcab driver jailed for using taxi to deliver contraband cigarettes HE HAD started driving a taxi only in January this year but he used his cab to ferry more than just passengers. Colin Goh Zhengan, 45, was sentenced to 12 months in jail for committing
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        ANOTHER MALARIA CASE CONFIRMED
        111 14 Another case of vivax malaria has been confirmed in the Sungei Kadut/Mandai Estate area, bringing the total number of cases in the cluster to 14. A 24-year-old foreign construction worker staying at Sungei Kadut Street 2, and with no fixed worksite or recent travel history, has
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        Lock icon MINISTERS SEEK 'WIN-WIN' APPROACH
        103 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The foreign ministers of Malaysia and Singapore have discussed ways to move the issue of the Points of Agreement forward. A joint statement from Singapore's Foreign Ministry and Malaysia's Wisma Putra said Mr George Yeo and his Malaysian counterpart, Mr Anifah Aman, agreed to
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        Lock icon MORE THAN 100K TO GET 2ND JOBS CREDIT
        99 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA More than 100,000 employers will get the second Jobs Credit payment on Tuesday. The employers, with 1.4 million local workers on their payroll, will receive $900 million. A Finance Ministry statement said some employers might see adjustments to their first
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      Lock icon 'Not at the cost of environment'
      204 14 938 LIVE PM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE launch of the Changi Water Reclamation Plant shows that environmental sustainability the challenge for Singapore as the city grows is not incompatible with economic development, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday at the opening of the
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      Lock icon More aid for investors
      341 16  -  MOKFEIFEI 938 LIVE FINANCIAL LITERACY New financial consumers' association set up in Spore feifei@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW consumers' association started by insurance veteran Tan Kin Lian has been set up. The Financial Services Consumers Association (Fisca) aims to educate consumers on financial matters and help them find
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  • WORLD
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      'ALLOW MAIDS FROM CHINA'
      72 18 EYE ON ASIA Malaysia The Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies yesterday asked the government to allow Malaysians to employ maids from China, Bernama reported. Chinese maids would help reduce the dependence of Chinese Malaysians on Indonesian maids, said the Association's president, as well as cut
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      Lock icon TRAIN STRIKE ENDS
      67 18 DPA Thailand Thailand's train service resumed yesterday after the state enterprise's labour union ended a nationwide strike in protest against plans to restructure the money-losing public firm. Thai Vice Prime Minister Sanan Kajornprasart negotiated an agreement between the State Railways of Thailand and the union, which had
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      Lock icon Opposition says DNA Bill aimed at Anwar trial
      371 18 AP MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia passed a law yesterday that will force criminal suspects to provide DNA samples, despite opposition complaints that the Bill was aimed at legitimising evidence in the sodomy trial of their leader Anwar Ibrahim. Under the act,
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      Lock icon Malaysia's pedagogical failure
      162 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The teaching of maths and science in English over the last six years has not improved the performance of students in those subjects, according to the Malaysian education minister Muhyiddin Yassin. "There have been changes, but the difference is nominal," said Mr
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      Lock icon GOOSBYE BULGING WALLETS
      61 20 AFP South Korea yesterday issued its first highdenomination banknote for 36 years, ending an era of bulging wallets. The 50,000-won ($57) bill is the highest-value note since the 10,000-won bill was issued in 1973. It is also the first to carry the portrait of a woman, in
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      289 20 Plug pulled but AP RIGHT-TO-DIE CONTROVERSY South Korean in landmark case taken off life support SEOUL Doctors removed a comatose woman at the centre of a landmark right-to-die case from a life-supporting respirator yesterday. The 76-year-old patient, identified only by her surname Kirn, has been in a vegetative state since
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      Lock icon N Korea's 15-day ban on ships
      382 21 AGENCIES NUCLEAR STANDOFF SEOUL North Korea has banned ships from a wide area off its east coast, Japan's Coast Guard said yesterday, raising speculation of more missile launches amid a tense nuclear standoff. Washington's top military commander in South Korea, meanwhile, warned that the
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      Lock icon N KOREA SHIP PASSES CHINA
      146 21 AP A North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons cruised through the waters off Shanghai yesterday en route to Myanmar, as regional military officials and a United States destroyer was keeping a close eye on it. The Kang Nam, suspected of transporting illicit goods
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        Lock icon ASIAN TRAINEES DIED OF OVERWORK
        103 21 AFP JAPAN Sixteen Asian workers on training schemes in Japan have died within 12 months of health conditions linked to "overwork", a lawyer said yesterday. A record 34 workers from Asia, mainly Chinese nationals, have died in the financial yearto March. Sixteen trainees died of
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        Lock icon FAMILY OF DEAD COOK COMPENSATED
        96 21 AP CHINA The family of a chef whose death sparked violent clashes in central China has received U5544,000 ($64,000) in compensation from the local authorities, said the official China Daily yesterday. The body of MrTuYuangao, 24, was found outside the hotel where he worked, after
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      Lock icon Murdered in his sleep
      282 22 AFP TRIBAL WARFARE Rival to Pakistan Taliban chief assassinated PESHAWAR (Pakistan) The police said a tribal leader aligned against feared Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was shot dead yesterday, ahead of a planned military operation into Mehsud's wild north-west base. Mr Qari Zainuddin, a 26-year-old rising
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      Lock icon Software launch to go on unchanged
      258 24 AP CHINA WEB FILTERING BEIJING China is sticking to its planned launch of a controversial Internet censoring software in about one week, despite American concerns over its possible impact on trade and access to information. Citing an unnamed source from the Ministry of Industry
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      Lock icon 18 suspected child traffickers arrested
      96 24 AP BEIJING The authorities in central China have rescued 25 kidnapped children and detained 18 suspected child traffickers as part of a nationwide crackdown. Xinhua news agency reported yesterday that police in Wuhan city of Hubei province rescued the children all of whom were younger
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      THROWING MONEY AT THE PROBLEM
      636 25  -  MARIASIOW TODAY IN CHINA Reward awaits whistle blowers, but is it enough to curb corruption? east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg HUNAN residents now have a cool way of collecting a cool 200,000 yuan ($42,700). All they have to do is to report a corrupt official
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      Lock icon France sets up burqa inquiry
      118 26 AFP PARIS The French National Assembly decided yesterday to set up a fact-finding inquiry into the number of Muslim women who wear the burqa, after President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke out against the full Islamic veil. Mr Sarkozy said the burqa was "not a sign of
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      Lock icon What 'weak signal'?: France
      278 26 AFP AIR FRANCE CRASH PARIS —French search teams yesterday denied a report they had picked up a "very weak" signal from the flight recorders of the Air France jetliner that plunged into the Atlantic this month. Le Monde newspaper reported on its website that the Nautile
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      Lock icon Neda, 'the voice of Iran'
      626 27 AFP THENEWYORKTIMES WOMAN SHOT IN PROTEST Video of young music student's death turns her into an instant icon TEHRAN It was hot in the car, so the young woman and her singing instructor got out for a breath of fresh air on a quiet side
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      Lock icon Carry-on pets
      314 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH AIRTRAVEL Air Canada to allow dogs and cats on board flights TORONTO Air Canada has announced that passengers with dogs or cats will be allowed to take them on board as hand luggage. The flag carrier, and its regional airline Jazz, will allow customers to book a
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      Lock icon Deadly DC crash
      283 30 AP AGENCIES USTRAINACCIDENT WASHINGTON A commuter train smashed into the rear of another at the height of the capital city's Monday evening rush hour, killing seven people and injuring scores of others as the front end of the trailing train jack-knifed into the air and fell on
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        Lock icon GITMO DETAINEES STILL FEAR CHINA, SAYS PALAU PRESIDENT
        112 30 AP Some Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay who have been offered resettlement in Palau are wary of moving to the tiny Pacific island, said Palau's President yesterday. President Johnson Toribiong said the men were concerned about the island nation's size and
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        Lock icon CHRIS BROWN PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULT
        100 30 AP Chris Brown (picture), 20, pleaded guilty on Monday to assaulting Rihanna, 21, and the two were ordered to stay away from each other, in a deal that keeps the singer out of prison but requires him to clean up graffiti or roadside trash
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      Lock icon 25 arrested in Paris
      355 32 AGENCIES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR HEIST PARIS French police arrested 25 suspects on Monday in connection with last year's multi-million-dollar robbery at Harry Winston jewellers and recovered some of the €85 million ($172 million) worth of precious stones. The robbers had grabbed the loot on Dec 5 at
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      Lock icon 'A new chapter'
      373 33 AFP AFP BRITISH POLITICS PM Brown pledges fresh start as new Speaker elected LONDON Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged the start of a "new chapter" in British politics yesterday, the day after lawmakers elected a new Speaker on the promise of reform following a damaging expenses row.
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      Lock icon Obama signs tobacco Bill, says it's hard to kick habit
      189 34 AP WASHINGTON President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit smoking, which he got hooked on as a teenageras he signed the United States' strongest antismoking bill ever on Monday and praised it for providing criticallyneeded protection for
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      Lock icon 3 years on, Google still in the dock
      404 34 GOOGLETRIAL AP ROME Testimony began yesterday in the trial of four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. All four deny wrongdoing. The case could set the
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      Lock icon Business as usual as sex scandal rages on
      423 35 THEGUARDIAN SILVIO BERLUSCONI ROME If Mr Silvio Berlusconi (picture) fears four years of being a lame duck Prime Minister as a result of the sex scandal engulfing him, he was not showing it at the weekend as he went on a walkabout
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      178 44  -  MOVIE REVIEW GENEVIEVE LOH THREADS OF DESTINY YOU know we've reached a new level of the modern age when the immensely popular 2006 online serialised downloaded novel Akai /to which had Japanese youth reading off their mobiles has become a television series and now a big screen
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      363 48  -  LOW LIN FHOONG THE under-14 football teams of the Philippines and Hong Kong have been withdrawn from the Ist Asian Youth Games football competition, after it was reported earlier this week that 37 members from the squads including players, coaches and support staff
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      465 49  -  ASDWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL DPMM resume league campaign on a high after historic League Cup win GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 DPMM v Geylang United Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium, 8.15pm sports@newstoday.com.sg IN ONLY their first season in the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League, DPMM made history last Friday when
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      561 51 AGENCIES WIMBLEDON Former winners love the feel of grass and civility of Wimbledon LONDON Chile's Marcelo Rios famously decried Wimbledon's manicured lawns as being fit only for cows, while Spanish players once headed for Europe's beaches to escape tennis' brief grasscourt season. Andre Agassi won
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      162 52  -  THEGUARDIAN LONDON Liverpool are set to sign the England right-back Glen Johnson (picture) after confirming on Monday evening they have reached an agreement with the player and his club, Portsmouth. "Liverpool FC confirmed this evening that they had reached an agreement with Portsmouth
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      240 57 AP MINING company Anglo American has roundly rejected a merger proposal from its Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata, saying it makes little strategic sense and the terms are unacceptable. The board of Anglo said a tie-up with its competitor would be a big
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      332 57 BLOOMBERG FINANCIAL SERVICES CITIGROUP chief Vikram Pandit expects the bank's biggest operation by revenue, Citicorp, to derive half its future business from emerging markets, he said on Monday. "When you look at all of Citicorp, we are going to be half emerging markets," he said
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      290 59 BLOOMBERG CAPITALAND RETAIL Unit will delay land acquisitions and focus on shopping mall projects CAPITALAND Retail said China land remained too expensive for it to make acquisitions. Instead, the unit of South-east Asia's biggest developer will focus on completing its shopping mall projects in China. "I
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      232 59 AFP WASHINGTON The United States yesterday accused China of pursuing a "troubling" industrial policy as it launched World Trade Organization (WTO) action with the European Union against the Asian giant for restricting raw materials exports. The two Western powers requested WTO dispute settlement
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      343 60  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A LONG series of forced share sales over the past 11 months has reduced the stake of Mr John Lee Thian Guan, deputy chairman of Dayen Environmental, to 1.66 per cent from as much as 18.4 per cent mid last year. In a
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