Today, 14 September 2009

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    20 1 TODAY Monday September 14, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Monday September 14, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    164 1 2Jhomar Orilla came to Singapore in search of a cruise-ship job, but ended up on a fishing vessel and his relatives have not heard from him since. ""1 f\ Thousands of protesters 1 \J marched to the US Capitol to rally against President Barack Obama's healthcare plan.
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    Lock icon NOT AN END, BUTA BEGINNING
    126 1 OOI BOON KEONG While the second- and third-generation cable cars may have made their last trips last night, that moment marked the start of a journey for a special couple. Diving instructor Rezza Khan, 29, proposed to his girlfriend Sufia Yusri, 25, as they dined
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    Getting to the route of the matter
    723 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CENTRALISED BUS PLANNING LTA begins consultation process and places the spotlight on bus routes and connectivity issues weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Mr William Lim first moved into Pek Kio housing estate, there was only one public bus service plying the area. Some 30 years
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    Lock icon Taiwan govt seeks Chen's Swiss stash
    481 1 TAIPEI Taiwan officials are seeking Switzerland's consent to returnJJSs?l million ($3O million) frozen in two bank accounts that a court said former President Chen Shui-bian illegally obtained and laundered. The Taipei District Court sentenced Chen and his wife Wu Shu-chen on Friday to life
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      Lock icon The search for a missing brother
      883 2  -  NEOCHAICHIN MIGRANTWORKERS JhomarOrilla's relatives have not heard from him for months, but who can they turn to for help? chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a cross-border tale of vulnerable migrant workers unskilled foreign seafarers who get work on board overseas-registered vessels through local manning agencies. Last
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      Lock icon Samy's MIC on a 'collision course' with BN
      430 3 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S Samy Vellu basked in the glow of victory yesterday, after the candidates he supported won in the party polls held on Saturday, but trouble could be brewing within the ruling coalition. In his
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      CAG signs with Beijing counterpart
      122 4 CHANGI Airport Group (CAG) has signed a "sister airports" arrangement with Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA). Their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) provides a framework for the two airports to share information and knowledge, and to strengthen their relationship. Both parties will collaborate through joint projects,
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      WE HAVE A WINNER!
      82 4 A fan of Class 95FM, Derrick Lee, star-jumped his way to a $500 Jetstar Asia voucher at the MediaCorp radio station's Movies In The Park on Saturday night. He was one of 10 participants selected via a lucky draw to do the star-jump on stage, with
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      Lock icon Quality over quantity is the current agenda
      345 4  -  SRAMESH CHANNEL NEWSASIA HOME PALLIATIVE CARE rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg THE "slow medicine movement" an alternative approach to healthcare which emphasises quality over quantity of life spent or comfort over high-risk medical treatment is gaining appeal among elderly Singaporeans, according to the Minister in the Prime
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      Lock icon MediaCorp and Mazda do their part
      223 6  -  LINYANQIN TYPHOON RELIEF yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER 88 hours of driving and canvassing for donations, the Radio 88-hour Drive-a-thon jointly organised by MediaCorp and WorldVision to raise funds for the victims of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan ended last night. An estimated $50,000 was collected from the
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      Lock icon A HARI RAYA GIFT FROM THE GOH KENG SWEE FOUNDATION
      135 6 001 BOON KEONG For retiree Ahmad Bin Kassim, this year's Hari Raya Puasa will be a little more festive, with a $300 hongbao he received from the Goh Keng Swee Foundation yesterday. "It's very good of them, and I can
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon DEBTOR-TURNED-RUNNER CAUGHT
        72 8 938LIVE Police have arrested a 26-year-old for loan-shark harassment in the vicinity of Hougang Ave 7. During a search on Saturday, they found a bicycle chain lock, suspected debtors' records and marker pens in the suspect's possession. Preliminary investigations indicated that the man was a debtor who became
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        Lock icon MAKEYOUR POWER BILLS LESS OF A TURN-OFF
        177 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The standby power on a computer is said to take up about 10 per cent of an average household electricity bill, and one way to save energy is to turn off the hard disk when the computer is idle. But a
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        Lock icon NSMAN HELPS NAB ROBBER
        115 8 938LIVE An off-duty national serviceman with the Civil Defence helped detain a 24-year-old suspect who assaulted and robbed a woman. The 36-year-old victim was near Block 409 Serangoon Central when she was attacked at about 12.30am yesterday. The suspect snatched her handphone after she fell to
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      Lock icon PERFECT TO AT
      76 8 Sixteen-year-old ballerina Claudia Dean from Australia warming up backstage attheGenee International Ballet Competition 2009 on Saturday night. She later won the gold medal in front of a sell-out crowd at the NUS Centre of the Arts. Dedicated to promoting and rewarding standards of excellence in young international
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      Lock icon Thousands protest plans
      526 10 AGENCIES US HEALTHCARE REFORMS WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama is working to reclaim the initiative from critics of his healthcare initiative and boost momentum to push his chief domestic priority through Congress, while tens of thousands of protesters rallied against his healthcare plan on Saturday. Mr
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        Lock icon US AIDES AT DALAI LAMA'S HQ
        89 10 AFP Three senior officials from United States President Barack Obama's government held talks yesterday with the premier of the Tibetan government in exile, MrSamdhong Rinpoche, ahead of a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama today. The Dalai Lama was scheduled to return to Dharamshala
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        PENANG CIVIL SERVANTS TO GET HELP TO QUIT SMOKING
        105 10 Civil servants who smoke are eligible to receive free nicotine treatment provided by the state government in a bid to turn Penang into a smoke-free state, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. The State Health, Welfare, Caring Society and Environment Committee chairman
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        Lock icon COCA-COLA SAYS CHINESE EX-EMPLOYEE IN POLICE PROBE
        81 10 AP A former employee of a Coca-Cola Co bottling plant in China has been detained by police, a company official said yesterday, amid news reports that the person was being investigated for allegedly accepting bribes of more than 10 million yuan ($2 million).
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      Lock icon Propaganda campaign for successor
      382 12 AP N KOREASUCCESSION SEOUL North Korea has launched a public propaganda campaign to prepare its people forthe succession of Mr Kimjong IPs youngest son as its leader, a news report said yesterday. North Korea has mentioned Mr Kimjong Un by his full name which it had
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      Lock icon Direct talks are fine: S Korea
      257 12 AP SEOUL South Korea said it is not against the United States holding direct talks with North Korea, to persuade the communist regime to rejoin stalled international nuclear disarmament negotiations. The comments came a day after US State Department spokesman P J Crowley said
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      Lock icon Online patrol to begin next year
      146 12 AFP SEOUL South Korea plans to train 3,000 "cyber sheriffs" by next year to protect businesses after a spate of attacks on state and private websites. The "cyber sheriffs" will "protect corporate information and prevent the leaks of industrial secrets", according to a Yonhap
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      Lock icon Kashmir police offers reward for leads
      100 14 AFP SRINAGAR (India) Police in Indian-ruled Kashmir have announced a US$2O,OOO ($28,400) reward for information on those responsible for a car bomb that left four people dead and 15 others injured. The attack in the region's summer capital, Srinagar, late Saturday was one of
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      Lock icon 'Pain in the rear' ends
      395 14 AP BANGKOK AIRPORT MAKEOVER BANGKOK Baggage handlers at Thailand's main airport now wear uniforms with pockets sewn shut to prevent pilfering. Police are hauling away illegal taxi touts. And cushions are being added to metal seats at departure gates derided as a "pain in the
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      Lock icon A new era of fascism?
      295 16 AGENCIES UKUNREST Britain troubled by anti-Islam rallies, counter-protests LONDON Violent clashes between anti-Islam demonstrators and Muslim counter-protesters in English cities are worrying the government. The violence that has hit Luton, Birmingham and London in the last few months has involved a loose collection of far-right
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      Lock icon WHAT NOW FOR CHEN SHUI-BIAN?
      837 17  -  DANNY LEE CHANNEL NEWSASIA NEWS ANALYSIS The verdict against Taiwan's former President and what it means for DPP dannylee@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS a highly-anticipated court session, and even before judges announced the verdict for Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian last Friday, some two hundred of his
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      Lock icon Reporters protest beatings
      209 18 AFP TURMOIL IN XINJIANG Hong Kong journalists unhappy with police brutality in Urumqi HONG KONG Hundreds of journalists protested in Hong Kong yesterday over alleged police brutality towards three of their colleagues covering syringe attacks in China's restive Xinjiang region. Around 700 people, wearing black and holding
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      Lock icon 6 die after lift plunges in IIK's tallest building
      124 18 AGENCIES HONG KONG Six workers died yesterday after plunging 20 floors down a lift shaft in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper and the fourth tallest building in the world. A police spokesman said emergency workers called to the International Commerce Centre in
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      Lock icon Afghan detainees allowed to question detention
      266 19 AP WASHINGTON The Pentagon has begun putting into place a new programme under which hundreds of prisoners being held by the United States military in Afghanistan will be given the right to challenge their detentions, a defence official said yesterday. Prisoners at the Bagram
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      Lock icon A murky issue
      535 19 AFP ELECTORAL FRAUD KABUL The allegations in Afghanistan's post-election fray come thick and fast: Intimidation, ballot-box stuffing, suspiciously high turnout, incredible numbers of votes for one candidate at polling stations. Contenders hoping to unseat President Hamid Karzai are crying foul, but in a nation where democracy is
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      Lock icon Yemeni 12-year-old dies giving birth
      178 20 AP SAN'A (Yemen) A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said. Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 223
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      Lock icon He wanted a 'cute, blonde girl'
      415 20 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH DUGARD'S KIDNAPPER ANTIOCH (California) Phillip Garrido (picture) selected the pretty blonde girl as his prey during a "child shopping" trip because she looked "cute", his wife Nancy has told investigators in California, as prosecutors put together the case for multiple charges of
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      Lock icon Facing a future without Ho
      645 21 AFP MACAU CASINOS HONG KONG As 87-year-old casino tycoon Stanley Ho convalesces after a serious fall at home in Macau, his rivals are speculating as to who will fill the power vacuum when he eventually dies. Mr Ho's heir is far from apparent, analysts argue,
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        Lock icon VIETNAMESE BLOGGER RELEASED
        88 21 AFP The last of three bloggers arrested in Vietnam and accused of national security violations said yesterday she has been released on Saturday, but ordered to give up her online writing. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 31, had spent about 10 days in custody. Two other bloggers, arrested
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        Lock icon FRENCH UNEASE ATTELCO SUICIDES
        94 21 AP France Telecom said on Saturday a female employee threw herself from a sixth-floor window last week in the 23rd suicide of an employee in 18 months. Labour Minister Xavier Darcos expressed his "very strong concern" about the situation and called for a meeting early this
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      324 13 15 Aug 09-19 Sept 09 £m Every Saturday 9.30pm, Channel 8 Visible Results GUARANTEED in 1 Session! Catch Bee Bee on Episode 6 of "Result Is All", 19 Sep 09 kj^^ Skin scan before treatment Skin scan after treatment l^fe* i fc^ i i Dull and uneven Bright and radiant
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      Cockroach capers
      189 22  -  Lau Wai Leong PEST CONTROL Let's look for better ways to eliminate pests Letter from DEAD or staggering cockroaches in the vicinity of a rubbish chute are a common sight in Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates in the aftermath of a fogging exercise. Once, I saw a
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      Knowledge matters
      703 24  -  Lynette Koh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg Knowledge is power —and this is particularly true when a salesperson is attempting to convince me to part with hundreds of hard-earned dollars. More than once, I found myself buying a certain product because a salesperson was able to detail and demonstrate the innumerable ways
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      172 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY FLATTERY Flattery will get you nowhere, we're told. That's not necessarily true in most areas of life, but it's surprisingly accurate when you're dealing with children When it comes to children, flattery or inflationary praise is unnecessary, and it'll get you nowhere.
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      Barriers of apathy
      359 24  -  Dr Ow Chee Chung ENABLINGTHE DISABLED Letter from Executive Director, Society for the Physically Disabled THE pedestrian crossing between lon Orchard and Wheelock Place was closed from July 28. A new underground passageway now links the two buildings. The link is accessible using escalators. Wheelchair users, parents
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      SHORT TAKES
      76 24  -  Roland Ang NO PROOF OF RETURN Letter from Recently, I went to the Bedok Library and checked over the counter if I had any outstanding fines. I was told there was none. This week, I received a reminder that I had unpaid fees incurred in May 2008. How
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      Motorcyclists are a danger to public
      134 24  -  M Lukshumayeh Letter from MANY instances of cyclists riding on pedestrian footpaths causing danger to pedestrians had been cited in the past. On Friday, Sept 11, at about 8.30pm a motorcyclist was riding his motorcycle on the pedestrian footpath along Jalan Bahagia leading to
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      96 22 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices Quality is James Cook University V Mr- Abhishek Bhati Mr. Noel Richards AmS^^ "Business Course Structure" "Managing Generation X and Ys" j MM Testimonial Presentations Included I Date: 15 September 2009 (Tuesday) II W Time: 7pm B:3opm I II PI 1 II
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      299 23 Dengue and You You have tried many preventive methods. What else can you do? In the fight against dengue, immunization is the new frontier. No dengue vaccine is commercially available yet. Now there is a clinical trial in Singapore investigating a potential vaccine that may help to protect against dengue.
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      Heidi the Great
      747 26  -  MAY SEAH IJ rl* 11 im Brill' ""\M LAUAXM Fifteen years and three kids later, this tireless supermodel still has a figure to die for may@mediacorp.com.sg HEIDI Klum seems to have a knack for over-H coming the odds. H Firstly, she's German. Frau Klum rose out I
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      Aid for a local legend
      388 27  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CHARITYGIG Plans are on to raise funds for TheThunderbirds Derrick Fitzgerald LOCAL musicians: No matter what you call them, there's one thing that can't be denied you can always call them for help. Pauline Chong, who used to front indie pop band Sideshow Judy,
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      Boyz II Men
      344 28  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE REVIEW MANHOOD A breezy, fun look at what it means to have that thing between your legs mayo@mediacorp.com.sg gherkin sizes, and lots of belching, farting and all that band-of-brothers schtick. But all that happens mostly during the first scene, as Action Theatre's play goes,
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      58 26 k r*y^~} 100 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS I I (J JM. ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF SINGAPORE I \^^^\^^F^^^^^ <&.' Mp Diocesan Family Day St. Andrew's Cathedral 21st September 2009 HIS GLORY x HIS NAME x HIS HONOUR Intergenerational Family Service Suntec City 29th November 2009 (10 am) Thanksgiving and Dedication Service
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      596 30  -  lAN DE COTTA ITALIAN GRAND PRIX Barrichello reigns in Italy to set up an exciting title fight with team-mate Button fl correspondent in Monza ian@mediacorp.com.sg YOU'VE got to give it to the tifosi. Nothing can dampen their passion when it comes to motor
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      408 30 AGENCIES LONDON It will be the mostwatched Manchester derby in the history of the English Premier League when City meet United next Sunday, but it is not the kind of build-up Mark Hughes would want. The Manchester City boss woke yesterday
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      527 32  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE SPORTS SCHOOL Sports School players make an impression as Safuwan and Madhu eye SEA Games shamir@mediacorp.com. sg INDONESIA-BOUND Singapore defenders Baihakki Khaizan and Precious Emuejeraye are both graduates of the Young Lions team. Baihakki, 25, starred for the under-23 team in
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        100 38 Neutral $2.15 Nomura keeps rating and target price of $2.35. "EPL remains an overhang," says Nomura, adding that "the sentiment impact of losing EPL could be significant as this is a key part of its hubbing strategy. We also believe there is a risk the regulator could intervene if
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        64 38 Thursday 2,682.02 A 1.19% Wednesday 2,650.48 T 0.39% Tuesday 2,660.91 A 0.64% Monday 2,643.95 A 0.81% Hang Seng 21,161.42 A 0.44% Nikkei 10,444.33 T 0.66% Shanghai 2,989.79 A 2.22% Seoul 1,651.70 A 0.43% Mumbai 16,264.30 A 0.29% Malaysia 1,208.28 A 0.58% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi $1,422
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      331 38 AGENCIES DALIAN China's stimulus plan has come under attack from economists. Meeting in the north-eastern Chinese city of Dalian, the economists say the massive government spending is aggravating imbalances in the economy. Beijing had said it was on track to meet its target of 8
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