Today, 29 June 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday June 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      afternoon latest
      129 1 1J" A coup in Honduras Iwl saw its President taken to Costa Rica by soldiers at gunpoint. 'It was a kidnapping,' he said. Q Brazil beat the US 3-2 £iZJ in the Confederations Cup final in South Africa, despite having been two goals down at half-time. Q Samuel
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      Lock icon M'sia pulls out most of its athletes
      766 1  -  TANYO-HINN IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES There's no right or wrong, says Spore sports minister yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg BARELY a day before the start of the inaugural Asian Youth Games in Singapore, the island's closest neighbour Malaysia has pulled out most of its 79 athletes
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      Lock icon Hotels step up the fight against H1N1
      512 2  -  ONGDAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THE four Australian teenagers arrived in Singapore last Wednesday for a two-week holiday, staying at the Summer View Hotel at Bencoolen Street. But one of them came down with a cough. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Peterson told Today: "We told the staff
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      SHOW THAT WE'RE FUN AND RUGGED
      528 3  -  LEONARD THOMAS sports editor honard@mediacorp.com.sg OVER the past few days, it has become clear that the first ever Asian Youth Games (AYG), which will be officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Singapore Indoor Stadium tonight, has become much more than
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      Two schools to remain closed...
      608 3 HINI IN SINGAPORE NEW CASES: 145 TOTAL CASES: 599 SCHOOLS re-open today after the onemonth holiday but at least two will remain closed for another week, while the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported yesterday the highest number of new Influenza A (H1N1) cases in Singapore
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      Lock icon The winners of the Gaia Life Challenge are ...
      290 4  - The winners of the Gaia Life Challenge are ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TWO friends, with a passion for the environment, set up a company, Sunworks, early last year to organise outreach programmes to schools and to promote green initiatives such as the use of solar panels. After seeing the advertisements
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      THE CLIMATE BILL...
      561 4  -  HJOSEFHEBERT NEWS ANALYSIS and what it means to the average Joe THE United States Congress has narrowly passed landmark legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global warming mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. Now the US Senate has the
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      182 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA PICTURE COURTESY ASIA MONTH-LONG FAMILY FESTIVITIES DRAWTO A CLOSE This year's National Family Celebrations ended yesterday with a pumped-up family rock jam as well as a leisurely 2.2-km walk along East Coast Park with popular cartoon characters Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star (picture). Thousands of families
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      Game to join me, grandma?
      480 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN FAMILY TIES They deem it important, but still some seniors hold back on having quality time with grandkids chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THEY believe cooking together and teaching their grandchildren a skill can help strengthen family bonds, but many grandparents are not doing it or other bonding
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  • WORLD
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      Saving during rainy days
      196 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN IT IS a message that could take two years to drive home, but Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman believes it is worth it. He launched yesterday a twoyear savings programme that will help 50 kindergarten children and their families save $200 in 17 months, after which
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      Lock icon SCALING NEW HEIGHTS
      68 8 987 DJ Daniel Ong was one of three DJs including SooWei and Ms Vendetta —who climbed the BorderX rock wall at an event jointly organised by Canon and BorderX at Orchard Central. The event coincided with the launch of the Canon Powershot DlO, a camera targeted at
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      Is improvement sustainable?
      336 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN RECOVERY OUTLOOK Halimah says not many are optimistic chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE Singapore's economy is likely to rebound in the second quarter, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) deputy sec-retary-general Halimah Yacob warned yesterday that few companies are optimistic that the higher demand can be sustained until the end
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      Lock icon 'It won't be tolerated'
      401 10 AFP NUCLEAR NORTH Japan, S Korea leaders agree to press Pyongyang TOKYO South Korea and Japan "will never tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said yesterday after summit talks in Tokyo with Prime Minister Taro Aso. At a news conference, both
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      Lock icon Saudis draw up H1N1 plan for haj
      422 10 AGENCIES RIYADH (Saudi Arabia) Experts from the United Nations and the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Saturday toured entry points into Saudi Arabia to assess how the kingdom plans to prevent the spread of HINI flu during the
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      Lock icon Myanmar horrors unabated: Laura Bush
      191 12 AFP WASHINGTON Former United States first lady Laura Bush called yesterday for new international pressure on Myanmar to force its military leaders to stop human rights abuses. "With United Nations Secretary General Ban Xi Moon planning to visit Burma this summer, it is crucial that
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon TALIBAN CHIEF WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
        130 12 AFP Pakistan Pakistan yesterday offered a U*****,000 ($898,000) reward for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of local Taliban head Baitullah Mehsud, currently holed up in the tribal belt. Newspapers carried an ad offering a reward for Mehsud and other amounts for
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        Lock icon MAN ARRESTED FOR DRUGS IN CUCUMBERS
        99 12 AFP Malaysia An Iranian man was arrested after trying to smuggle RM5.7 million ($2.36 million) worth of drugs disguised as pickled cucumbers into Malaysia, it was reported yesterday. The Iranian was detained with liquid methamphetamine at Kuala Lumpur's international airport on Friday after arriving
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        Lock icon 'MAIDS MAY START WORKING ILLEGALLY'
        99 12 AP Indonesia Indonesia's ban on supplying maids to Malaysia in protest over reported employer abuse could prompt more Indonesians to work illegally in Malaysia, said a group representing maid-sup-ply agencies yesterday. More than 300,000 Indonesian women work as maids in Malaysia. Mr Raja Zulkeply Dahalan,
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        Lock icon OFFICIALS JAILED FOR ROLES IN LANDSLIDE
        99 12 AFP China Twelve officials have been jailed for negligence and abuses of power that led to at least 277 people being killed in a landslide in northern China last September, said state media yesterday. The disaster in Shanxi province occurred when an illegal mine
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        Lock icon TAX CHARGES ROCK'QUEEN'OF UNTOUCHABLES
        99 12 THE GUARDIAN India Ms Mayawati, 53, the self-styled queen of the Dalits (untouchables), who became a political star in the run-up to the recent Indian general elections, is facing tax charges amid accusations that success has gone to her head. Her party lost heavily in the
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      Lock icon Honduras coup was a 'kidnapping'
      544 15 DPA AFTERNOON LATEST President says he was forced to Costa Rica at gunpoint TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras) Soldiers yesterday staged a coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, evicting him to Costa Rica and confiscating documents from the executive mansion. Honduras' unicameral National Congress later agreed to remove
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      Lock icon From the streets to corridors of power
      710 17 THEGUARDIAN IRAN PROTESTS Supreme Leader's support for the President sees moderates and hard-liners plotting against him THE power struggle in Iran appears to be moving from the streets into the heart of the regime itself amid reports that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani is plotting
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      Lock icon Doctor found MJ with a pulse
      613 18 AGENCIES MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009) AFTERNOON LATEST LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson's personal physician had found the pop star still had a pulse when he found him in bed on Thursday, the doctor's attorney told The Associated Press on yesterday. Mr Edward Chernoff, the attorney for
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      Which group do you fall into?
      275 20  -  Dr Lee Hock Seng Letter from THREE schools of thought have arisen in response to the current HI Nl outbreak. The first I will call Pandemic Catastrophists, with the WHO at the vanguard. They had raised the WHO Pandemic Alert level to Phase 6,
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      More changes may be premature
      615 20  -  Lim Kian Lee LAND TITLES STRATA ACT Amendments yet to be rigorously tested given current downturn Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Narayana Narayana, "Not collectively speaking" (June 26). Mr Narayana was clearly against en bloc sales of private properties and he
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      MOH explains list of H1N1 countries
      120 21  -  Karen Tan Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Ministry of Health IN "WHAT is MOE's criteria?" (June 27), Ms Dhanaletchmi Pillay was puzzled why Malaysia, with 68 confirmed cases of HINI (as reported by the World Health Organization, June 26), was not listed as a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      163 21  -  DR BILL MAIER ...BY WHEN KIDS ACT OUT Would you be able to tell if your child was struggling with depression or other dangerous emotions? One mother emailed me about her daughter's unusual behavior. Her husband had taken a job out of town, and wasn't spending
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        From dimples to wrinkles
        834 22  -  MAY SEAH LIFE IN HD It's tough to look good on the telly when you are exposed in high-definition may@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE old days, the neighbourhood kids used to gather in the house of whoever had a colour TV. These days, your neighbour's precious little tyke
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        Lock icon Local duo sets world record
        372 24  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MAGIC MOMENTS A magical spectacular end to the S #pore River Festival christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THEIR act lasted only five minutes but that was enough for popular local magician duo J C Sum and "Magic Babe" Ning to set a new world record. Hundreds were thrilled
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      1047 25 TV LISTINGS ONMEDI AC OR P CHANNEL |f 9. N_* 9. A. C. 0...? DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES V HUMAN SPIRIT T r S.ooAM Entertainment Tonight 5.00 The Rachael Ray Show 111 Singapore 2009 Daily t-i 1 Look Into Their Eyes And You See What 5 30 Prime Time Morning s.oo Entertainment-Light
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  • sports
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      Lock icon North Koreans make a point
      479 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES Saudis let slip a comfortable lead, as Pack's boys show great resolve to fight back shamir@mediacorp.com. sg TWO weeks ago, North Korea posted a tough 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia in Group Two of the Asian zone Fifa
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      Lock icon Up to schools to give pupils time off for Games
      518 26  -  LAN DECOTTA ian@mediacorp.com. sg DIVING, athletics and sailing get underway tomorrow on the first day of official competition at the inaugural Asian Youth Games here. Over the next 10 days, about 1,400 athletes aged between 14 to 17 years will
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      Lock icon Liu Xiang is his inspiration
      956 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG THE IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES China's Jiateng eyes gold, and the extra pocket money his parents promised linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg LU JIATENG has an Olympic dream, and the 110-metre hurdler already has a headstart over his peers. Jiateng hails from the city of
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      Lock icon Different Sengkang, same problems
      523 28  -  SHAMIR OSMAN Nazri to join struggling Sengkang as the club focuses on youth GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Super Reds v Sengkang Punggol Yishun Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Sengkang Punggol line up tonight for their Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 encounter against the Super Reds at Yishun Stadium,
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      Lock icon Sivalingam stands tall as Singapore lose the crown
      501 28  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SRI Lanka's 2.06-metre tall shooter, Tharjini Sivalingam, proved to be Singapore's nemesis again as the defending champions were trounced 77-48 in the Asian Netball Championships Final in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. At last year's Fisher Paykel Nations Cup, hosts Singapore had
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    • Article
      Lock icon Torres wants Reds to go Spanish
      196 29 THEGUARDIAN FERNANDO Torres has revealed he has recommended three fellow Spaniards to his Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez. The striker believes the Reds need "small players with quality" to finally wrest the Premier League title from Manchester United and would like Benitez to sign David
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      Lock icon 'Stratospheric offer' for Eto'o
      229 29 THEGUARDIAN MANCHESTER City have made a £25.5-million ($61.3-billion) bid for Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o (picture) and put together a "stratospheric offer" to make him the highest-paid player in English football. Eto'o, one of the most prolific attackers of his generation and the scorer of the first
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      Lock icon Player power a problem: Scolari
      185 29 THEGUARDIAN CARLO Ancelotti begins work at Chelsea this week with Luiz Felipe Scolari, the Brazilian sacked midway last season, offering a warning that player power is rife at the Premier League club and it served to undermine his authority during his brief spell at Stamford
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      Lock icon Brazils golden comeback
      605 29 DPA AFTERNOON LATEST Two goals down against US Selecao rallies to win Confederations Cup JOHANNESBURG Five-time world champions Brazil came from two goals down to defeat the United States 3-2 in the final of the Confederations Cup in Johannesburg last night (this morning, Singapore time). Defender Lucio
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