Today, 26 October 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday October 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Lock icon 'Outrageous, savage murder
      542 1 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Baghdad bombs which targetted civil servants will only strengthen Iraq, US resilience: Obama BAGHDAD United States President Barack Obama said yesterday's "outrageous attacks" outside government offices in the Iraqi capital "reveal the hateful and destructive agenda of those who would deny the Iraqi people
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      Lock icon Pulling a fast one on anxious parents?
      854 2  -  ESTHER NG PSLETUITIONAD estherng@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The advertisement read: "PSLE revision by this year (sic) exam setter. '0' Level revision by SEAB teachers Oct 1 st". It was enough to prompt Madam Tay (not her real name), a parent of a 12 year
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      Foreigners and permanent residents a more common sight in the heartlands
      735 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ONGDAI LIN AND weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A Singaporean walking around Boon Lay Shopping Centre could be forgiven for thinking he is in a foreign land. It has six minimarts four Myanmarese, one Thai and one Indian while seven remittance
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      Lock icon 'PR DISTRIBUTION IN HDB ESTATES WILL BE MONITORED'
      362 3  -  KEAT LEONGWEE ONG DAI LIN The Housing and Development Board will consider measures to prevent the congregation of permanent residents, if necessary. MediaCorp had contacted the statutory board after Member of Parliament Lim Wee Kiak filed a parliamentary question on the total
      ONG DAI LIN  -  362 words
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      A WELCOME KIT FOR NEW STORE CITIZENS?
      140 3  -  LEONGWEE KEAT Integration among citizens and the new arrivals is increasingly on the minds of policymakers. Besides a $io-million Community Integration Fund launched last month to foster such interaction, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts called a public tender last Thursday
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      BREAST-SCREENING MARATHON A SUCCESS
      133 4 The first marathon mammogram screening session by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) took place overthe weekend. The NCCS Mammography Suite, normally for referred patients only, was opened to the public for screening. The idea was to reach out to those who had not gone for
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      A tough balancing act
      541 4  -  ALICIA WONG WORKING MUMS alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government and the labour movement have a job on their hands if they want more mothers to rejoin or stay in the workforce, if a survey of working mums is anything to go by. If they had a choice,
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      PROGRESS, BUT AT A PRICE
      677 6  -  CONRAD RAJ POINTOFVIEW editor-at-large conrad@ mediacorp. com.sg Consumers, it seems, are losing out following the introduction of new contactless cards THE new contactless cards, using the Singapore Standard for Contactless ePurse Applications (Cepas), being issued by the EZ-Link and the Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets)
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      Wet markets: No change unless there's a signal
      172 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN SINGAPORE The National Environment Agency (NEA) may have no plans now to change the use or management of the 82 wet markets it operates, but the Housing and Development Board, which provides the facilities, will allow the sale or conversion to
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      First meat, now eggs
      454 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN FOOD SUPPLY chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Encouraged by its success in getting more consumers to eat frozen meat instead of chilled meat, the authorities are now setting their sights on another food staple: Eggs. By March, the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) will launch a new
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      Up-and-coming doc drowns
      237 10  -  ASHA POPATLAL asha@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE A 37-year-old eye doctor died on Saturday in a diving accident off Pulau Aur in Malaysia. Details of the incident remain sketchy, but MediaCorp understands that Dr Marcus Lim, a rising star in the medical profession here, was part of a group
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      Lock icon A recreational link to nature
      320 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE PARK CONNECTORS SINGAPORE A wide range of exciting recreational experiences await residents in western Singapore, following the completion of the Western Adventure Park Connector Network (PCN). The 23km PCN joins eight parks in western Singapore, namely Choa Chu Rang Park, Villa Verde
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  320 words
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      Lock icon Tell your GP if you want the H1N1 jab
      201 12 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Singapore will receive 1 million doses of the HINI flu vaccine before Christmas. And the first batch will arrive in two weeks' time. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan gave this update yesterday when he spoke to reporters on
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      Lock icon Time to bone up on osteoporosis
      384 12  -  ALICIA WONG PREVENTING BRITTLE BONES Only one in 10 know how to prevent this vsilent condition alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Many may understand the dangers of osteoporosis, but only one in 10 know that regular exercise and a high-cal-cium diet can help prevent this condition, revealed
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      Lock icon HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VASANTHAM!
      55 13 DONWONG (Starting second from left) MsOng Lay Hong, managing director, Vasantham; Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Prof S Jayakumar, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security; and Mr Lucas Chow, CEO of MediaCorp posing with performers shortly after the live
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      Lock icon MEDIACORP GETS WETAND WILD ... BUT IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE
      130 13 MEDIACORP GETS WETAND WILD BUT IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE We kicked the FHM Girls' air-brushed asses! Some 38 MediaCorp artistes including the casts of Fighting Spiders, First Class and Polo Boys as well as FHM Girls and Singapore Idols past and present, battled to hose down the most cars
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      29 6 NEWS FLASH: TODAY, NEWS IS FREE ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE! Catch all the best TV news coverage for free. Details on page 15. TO SIPPING THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS
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      374 10 GOT YOUR NEWS FIX? NOW HOW ABOUT A LITTLE FUN. Must-see TV entertainment, now FREE on your mobile phone. Details on page 15. jtfstarHub Log on to to find out more! *w¥ *iT w* i_*r_ z ilidiAlliiiiHiiUli' V I *^l It only takes one heart to make a start in
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      129 12 CHECK THE MOVIE LISTINGS. CATCH ONE FOR LESS. Enjoy $1 OFF Golden Village movies, just because it's Monday. Details on page 15. SQDSO Singapore to Clark /ufr^r^^k Sale Period: October 24-27,2009 I Travel Period: December 1,2009 February 28,2010 ''/irif/'i Promo is non-refundable Add SGD 4 to fare if traveling with
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      Lock icon Rival visions for East Asia
      190 14 AGENCIES HUA HIN Asian leaders heard competing plans from Australia and Japan for a massive European Union-style bloc covering half the world's population as they wrapped up their annual summit yesterday. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's scheme includes direct involvement of the United States, measures
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      Lock icon Junta sees role for Suu Kyi
      411 14 AFP 15TH ASEAN SUMMIT HUA HIN Myanmar's prime minister told Asian leaders yesterday that the ruling junta sees a role for democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in fostering reconciliation ahead of elections in 2010. Premier Them Sein's comments to the Association of South-east
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      Lock icon One club too many
      418 15 AP POLYGAMY JAKARTA Plans to open branches of a Malaysian "Polygamy Club" in Indonesia have upset women's groups and religious leaders in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Under Islamic law, Muslim men are permitted four wives. The club claims a noble aim of helping single
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      Lock icon Seeking a common padi ground
      274 15 AFP HUA HIN Thailand and the Philippines held talks on Saturday aimed at ending a row over rice tariffs which threatens to delay a trade agreement seen as key to regional integration, a Thai minister said. Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter, has said it
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      Lock icon Into the 'secret' reactor
      616 16 AP AFTERNOON LATEST lAEA inspectors enter Iran's uranium enrichment plant TEHRAN United Nations inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran's nuclear programme. The visit Sunday by the four-member
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      Lock icon Opposition infighting
      334 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR A veteran Malaysian lawmaker warned yesterday the opposition alliance was suffering from a "bout of loss of public confidence" after it enjoyed unprecedented success in national polls last year. The three parties in the unlikely opposition alliance the conservative Parti Islam
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      Lock icon Malaysian Chinese leader reverses pledge to quit
      199 17 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The embattled leader of Malaysia's top Chinese political party said he will stay on, according to a report yesterday, reversing his earlier pledge to resign. The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), the sec-ond-largest party in the ruling coalition, has been divided
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      Lock icon Teoh's family wants body exhumed for second autopsy
      183 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The family of Teoh Beng Hock wants his body to be exhumed so a second post-mor-tem can be carried out by renowned Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand. Dr Pornthip, who testified at the inquest on Wednesday, caused
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      Lock icon Hatoyama in a bind
      255 18 AFP JAPAN POLITICAL DONATIONS SCANDAL TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama incorrectly reported ¥200 million ($3 million) in political donations, a local daily said yesterday. Mr Hatoyama, who was sworn in last month, admitted in June to keeping sloppy accounts for his fundraising body which included
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        Lock icon AFGHANS FURIOUS OVER 'QURAN ABUSE'CLAIMS
        96 18 AFP About 1,000 Afghans torched an effigy of US President BarackObama (picture) and hurled stones at police yesterday during a protest over allegations that Western troops burned a copy of the Quran. The protest follows widely-circulated rumours that international troops part of a 100,000-strong Western
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        Lock icon ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER
        104 18 AP A spokeswoman for Andrew Lloyd Webber says the composer has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The announcement came in a statement yesterday which said "the condition is in its very early stages. Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back
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        Lock icon KUWAITI ISLAMIST MPS PRESS FOR HIJAB RULING
        108 18 AFP Kuwaiti Islamist lawmakers are pressing the authorities to force women to wear the hijab headscarf ahead of a court ruling on Wednesday concerning two women Members of Parliament who refused to wear it. In early October, the oil rich emirate's Fatwa Department,
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        Lock icon AN EX-GUERILLA LEADER FOR URUGUAY'S PRESIDENT?
        101 18 AGENCIES Uruguayans voted yesterday in a presidential election that could bring to power an ex-guerrilla leader who was shot nine times and twice escaped from jail during the military dictatorship. Mr Jose Mujica, 74, a candidate for the incumbent Broad Front party, needs more
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        Lock icon MILITANTS DECLARE CEASEFIRE
        94 18 AGENCIES Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite ceasefire yesterday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after nearly three years of hostilities. While the group has declared ceasefires before, this indefinite truce has greater significance as it comes soon after several high-profile militant
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      Lock icon Israeli police storm shrine
      491 19 AGENCIES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN UNREST JERUSALEM Israeli forces stormed the most sensitive holy shrine in Jerusalem yesterday, firing water cannons and stun grenades to disperse a crowd of hundreds of Palestinian protesters that had pelted security forces with stones. Although there were no serious injuries, it was one
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      Lock icon Blair 'will stop traffic', make things happen
      199 19 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair won strong backing from Britain to become the first president of the European Council when Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared that the EU needed a big hitter who could stop the traffic in world
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      Lock icon Mars rocket test is a go: Nasa
      198 20 AFP WASHINGTON Nasa is set to blastoff a prototype rocket tomorrow that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the programme's future. The space agency said everything is in order for
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      Lock icon Buffalo causes pile up
      379 20 AGENCIES EGYPTIANTRAIN COLLISION CAIRO An errant water buffalo caused two Egyptian passenger trains to collide at high speed south of Cairo, killing 18 people and wounding 39, the Health Ministry announced yesterday. The first passenger train stopped after hitting the buffalo, which had wandered onto the
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      Lock icon Britons tired of constantly being watched
      523 23 THENEWYORKTIMES SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY POOLE It has become commonplace to call Britain a "surveillance society", a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government has extraordinary powers to intrude into citizens' lives. A report
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      Lock icon German politicians agree to form new government
      168 23 AP BERLIN Germany's new centreright coalition government pledged on Saturday to reform the healthcare system, cut taxes and withdraw all remaining nuclear weapons from the country, a promise that could hurt relations with Nato already strained over the military deployment in Afghanistan. Guido
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      Lock icon A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL
      686 25  -  DIARMAID MACCULLOCH THE GUARDIAN POINTOFVIEW Pope Benedict has offered Anglican clergy the option to switch to the Vatican OVER the centuries, the great church councils of Christian history have normally been held in magnificent echoing basilicas and stately palaces but the church moves with the
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      120 20 LIVE AND WORK AT 100% *m Supersizing HI NO SIKSAH ADDED your meals means having -y'^J to supersize your clothes. 2 t^m Think before you order. "™=d iss PnhUr T prtiirp SptiVq Vimlw Australia J^ U-Ullv -L/VVIU-lv VjVl ltd IJ^U^^^ SINGAPORE CAMPUS The Influence of Climate Change on Tfci Maritime
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      Let s applaud them
      285 26  -  Ang Chee Meng EMERGENCY PERSONNEL We should appreciate our firemen, police and paramedics more Letter from I REFER to today's report on Singapore Civil Defence Force officers performing two heroic acts to save lives in a single day ("SCDF saves the day", Oct 23). I feel
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      The aim is to balance visitors' parking needs
      238 26  -  Lim Ah Hiat Letter from Head, AngMo Kio Branch Office, HDB I REFER to the letter "Keep residents' lots reserved only at night" (Oct 20) by Mr Tan Kin Lian. Housing and Development Board car parks cater primarily to the parking needs
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      FOCUS ON THE FAIMILY
      233 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ....BY PREMARITAL COUNSELLING Premarital counselling can make a great contribution to the stability of the marriage to come. My friend, Dr Archibald Hart, is a great believer in the value of six to eight counselling sessions before the bride and groom meet at
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      Bouquet for Sing Post
      368 28  -  TSChitra POSTAL SERVICE Kind gesture of compensation for stolen item is comforting Letter from I AM writing to share a pleasant memory that I have of Sing Post. A few years ago, when I was doing my postgraduate studies in Australia, my husband sent me a
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      Recent upgrading affected delivery
      230 28  -  Ms PatsieTan Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Sing Post WE REFER to the feedback by Mr Douglas Tan, Dr Vincent Chia and Ms Hua Yi-Ting (Oct 21 and 23, 2009). We have since been in contact with them to provide full assistance. Dr Vincent Chia
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        91 35 AGENCIES LONDON Singer Morrissey (picture) was rushed to a hospital Saturday night after he collapsed on stage just one song into his concert in Swindon, London. The 50-year-old former Smiths frontman appeared to be straining to perform the band's 1983 hit This Charming Man. He slumped
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    723 38 [EMiMiniMjDOlEa ENGINEERING SERVICES Sum pumnwmm HI he engineering services industry in I Singapore currently accounts for 1.2 percent of GDP and the industry is expected to grow by 5 to 6 per cent annually from now until 2020. Comprising engineering design project management, and control automation,
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    576 39 ABB INDUSTRY PTE LTD DEREK LI, 28 Why did you decide to join this company? studied control engineering in Nanyang Technological University and was looking for an opportunity to apply my technical knowledge. I had two job offers and between the two, I decided to join
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    356 40 EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT RODLEY TEO, 41 What has your career path been like since you joined Emerson? I started as a service engineer 15 years ago. After about five years in that role, I worked as a diagnostic engineer for two years. I was subsequently
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    550 43 YOKOGAWA ENGINEERING ASIA JANE LIM, 28 What got you interested in engineering and what does your job at Yokogawa Engineering Asia entail? I was interested to know how pressure is controlled when drilling for oil and that led me to control and instrumentation. My role in the
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    529 44 CHI YODA SINGAPOI JOEVEN CHONGw 29 What made you decide to work in this industry? I was looking for a challenging job that would allow me to add to the engineering knowledge that I acquired in school. I also wanted a job that would give me the
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    497 45 DESIGN&PROJECT MANAGEMENT KBR INC YIP CHOON KIT, 30 What are you currently working on? lam working as an electrical design engineer for an ammonia nitrate plant project. My tasks include designing the electrical system for the plant, doing the calculations to verify the design of the electrical system
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    511 46 PUNJ LLOYD GROUP JEFF CHONG, 27 What are you working on right now? I am part of a team that is involved in the construction of Labrador Park Station, one of the stations on the Circle Line. My job entails planning the sequence of work, allocating resources
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    491 47 ROTARY ENGINEERING LTD RINA CHOW, 50 What is it like being one of the few female engineers at a job site? I am the first female project manager that the company has taken on. At the beginning, I had to convince the workers and some of
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    537 48 WORLEY PARSONS HONG YANGZHONG, 27 PB®@SS© UMM) Pt®M Why did you choose to join this company? It was obvious to me how serious WorleyParsons is about grooming young graduates. Their Graduate Development Programme bears testimony to this. Fresh graduates are inducted into the programme, where there is
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      614 50  -  DAVID NGIAU POINTOFVIEW: LIVERPOOL Liverpool turn on the heat to deflate United and revive title challenge deputy sports editor david@mediacorp.com.sg THE roar was deafening. Harry's at Chijmes erupted just before midnight yesterday, after Liverpool's 2-0 win over arch rivals Manchester United, and it was louder than
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      486 51 THEGUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST Opposing boss Zola has harsh words for Chris Foy, too in our job, you don't have the luxury to miss opportunities. You need to get points when you deserve to get them and, sometimes, when you don't deserve them. We didn't get
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      321 51 BARCELONA Mali international Seydou Keita (picture) scored his first hat-trick ever as champions Barcelona got back to their best, crushing Real Zaragoza 6-1 at Camp Nou on Sunday to move three points clear of Real Madrid at the top of the table. Barca had experienced a blip
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      205 52  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE National swimmer Zach Ong (picture) has become the first Singaporean male to go under 51 seconds in the 100 m freestyle. Yesterday, Ong, who turns 19 next month, set a national record of 50.99s in finishing first at the
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      239 52  -  LAN DECOTTA LINZ (Austria) As expected China retained the women's World Cup Team crown in Austria yesterday, cruising 3-0 past Singapore. There was no stopping the defending champions as Ding Ning first picked off Feng Tianwei 3-1 before compatriot Guo Yue,
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      453 52  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Thais could exploit lapses if Lions lose focus, says Vietnam coach Calisto shamir@mediacorp.com.sg HO CHI MINH CITY Contrary to what Vietnam and Singapore had said earlier, last week's Ho Chi Minh Cup quadrangular was more than just a kick-about for the Asian
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      465 53  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPOR-E FOOTBALL That's TTM's weapon in Thai derby against Bangkok Glass RHB STORE CUP SEMI-FINAL, IST LEG TTM Samut Sakhon v Bangkok Glass Jurong West Stadium, j.^spm ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two foreign sides will meet in the semi-finals of the RHB Singapore Cup for the
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    733 57  -  MELODYTAN Through the SIM I Toastmasters Club, this married duo found ways to enrich both their professional and social lives SOMETIMES, professional development can be personal, too. Just ask Chin Cheow Liang and Michelle Lo. The couple, who have been married for 20 years, are riding
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      573 58 AFP US ECONOMY WASHINGTON The United States economy is poised to show growth in the third quarter, rebounding from its worst slump in decades. The first official estimate due Thursday on gross domestic product (GDP), or output of goods and services, is expected to show
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      314 58 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI China may face an economic slowdown in the middle of next year because the nation's growth model is unsustainable. That's the assessment of the Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Mr Stephen Roach. Economic growth in China accelerated to 8.9 per cent last
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      587 59 AFP HONG KONG INVESTORS Investors eye rare vintages as good bet for capital growth HONG KONG Investors in Hong Kong are turning to rare vintages as an alternative bet for good capital growth, a trend driven by an insatiable demand for imported wine in
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      118 61 It was a night of beautiful models and dazzling fireworks as lON Orchard the new kid on Singapore's shopping belt brought its week-long opening celebrations to a spectacular finale. Some 2,000 invited guests were treated to a concert, fashion show and fireworks display, as hundreds of passers-by
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