Today, 24 March 2010, Afternoon Edition

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    22 2 TODAY afternoon edition MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 Wednesday March 24, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon No need for alarm over Rotarix: HSA
    503 2 AGENCIES, ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are working to determine if any local batches of the Rotarix vaccine have been contaminated with bits of an apparently benign pig virus. This comes as
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    When smoke gets in your dice
    678 2  -  lIgHtIng uP In CASInoS NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE When the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) integrated resort opens its doors on April 27, smokers will get the run of the entire lower gaming floor. But non-smoking patrons can also breathe easy the main
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    Lock icon The one that got away — by a single vote
    219 2 The one that got away by a single vote THE NEW YORK TIMES DOHA Delegates to a United Nations conference on endangered species voted down all but one of four proposals to protect sharks yesterday, handing another victory to Japan and countries opposed to the involvement of the international authorities
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  • NEWS
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      No rush for quick cash
      392 5  -  PawnshOPs a few customers come in to get money for the gaming tables, but they make up just 1 per cent of his shop’s clientele, said owner Mr Lam Peng Kee. NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At 80-year-old Wing Teck Pawnshop, there has not yet
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      Lock icon An unnatural disaster
      326 6 Freak weaTher AGENCIES PERTH The state of Western Austra~ia has dec~ared a natura~ disaster after a storm s~ept over the capita~ Perth and surrounding districts on Monday, causing ~idespread f~ooding. The freak storm hur~ed hai~stones the size of tennis ba~~s as ~inds of more than 120kmh tore
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      Lock icon No 3D glasses for Nintendo console
      174 7 AGENCIES TOKYO Looking for its next big hit, Nintendo said yesterday it would begin selling a 3D version of its popular handheld console within a year. The “Nintendo 3DS” will feature a 3D display without the need for special 3D glasses. The new portable
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      Are employers being chEAP?
      550 7  -  eMPLOyMent assIstance PayMent ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If they had to, they would just pay the minimum amount of $4,500 for each older employee they are not re-hiring. Citing profit margins, some employers told MediaCorp that the employment assistance payment (EAP) would only add to their
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      A call for media firms to submit their pitches
      381 9  -  InTeGraTed MedIa FUnd ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE It has taken slightly over a year but media companies can now apply for a $100-million Integrated Media Fund (IMF). Film production company Salon Films HK, which set up the fund, yesterday called
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      Lock icon Things to do when darkness descends
      249 9 SINGAPORE Orchard Road may be a little dim on Saturday but shoppers and visitors will not be shortchanged for want of things to do. They can, for example, watch the inaugural Earth Hour concert at 313@Somerset, which will use used cooking oil converted into
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    • S'PORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HIGHER RENTS AT FIVE WET MARKETS FROM NEXT MONTH
        141 9 SHARON SEE Stallholders at five wet markets in Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok and Serangoon North will have to pay 30 per cent more in rent from next month. They were informed of the increase by supermarket chain Sheng Siong, which
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        Lock icon NUMBER OF HFMD CASES UP
        139 9 IMeLda saad and LIanG There has been an increasing number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases here, which hit or exceeded the warning level of 500 cases in the preceding three weeks before dipping slightly to 496 in the week ended March 20.
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      Complicated questions earn lawyer a rebuke
      254 11  -  Sexual abuSe caSe ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The law~~er of a man on trial for sexuall~~ a~using an eight-~~ear-old ~o~~ was ticked off the trial judge ~~esterda~~ for asking the victim complicated questions~~ Justice Kan Ting Chiu told law~~er Wee Pan Lee that
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      Lock icon 987FM to join Orchard Rd's 'land-scape'
      241 11 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE Listeners will get a closer look at their favourite 987FM DJs spinning the hottest hits in the heart of Orchard Road when the MediaCorp radio station moves to its new home at *Scape ~~~the middle of this ~~ear~ The radio station
      SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB; KOH MUI FONG  -  241 words
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      Lock icon Help for needy closer to home
      177 11 HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE The North West District has seen the num~er of cases of lower-income families in chronic need of assistance more than dou~le, in the past eight ~~ears~~ So its Communit~~ Development Council (CDC) will now take a more coordinated, localised approach~~ The
      HETTY MUSFIRAH  -  177 words
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      Beware of get-rich-quick offers, warn Police
      267 13 SINGAPORE The victims get an SMS, telling them they have won some £925,000 ($1.9 million) in a worldwide Phone Top-Up Win Promotion and that the money is ready to be sent to them. To claim the prize, they have to liaise with the organiser’s
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        JOBS CREDIT PAYS $460M MORE TO EMPLOYERS
        135 13 More than 100,000 employers will receive another $460 million in total from the first extended payment of the Jobs Credit on March 31. Eligible employers will get a letter by March 24 from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. Until the end of
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        Lock icon BOOST FOR CONSTRUCTION, MARINE SECTORS
        144 13 SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL A 10-year plan to improve work safety in the construction and marine industry benefitting more than half a million workers has been launched, with key strategies to cut deaths in the sectors from 2.8 per 100,000 employees in 2008 to fewer than 1.8
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        Lock icon 'HUGGING SAINT' POSTPONES TRIP HERE
        93 13 Due to be in Singapore from today, the woman famously known as the “hugging saint” has had to postpone her visit because of her father’s death on Monday. Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (picture, left), or simply “Amma”, 56, was scheduled to hold her sessions at
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        Lock icon NEW PLATFORM FOR HR
        100 13 SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL Human resource practitioners will now have an informal way to stay engaged and keep abreast of the latest developments in their field, with the new platform called the Communities of Practice, launched by Human Capital Singapore (HCS). The scheme targets busy executives who may
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      30 6 Today is taking part in the IFRA International Newspaper Colors Quality Club 2010-2012 for print quality. This colour patch is part of the entry requirements. are employers being cheap? 4
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      99 9 WE CARE. School of Linguistics School of Linguistics is a premier higher education training institution for Allied Health Educators ADHDAND DISORDERED ATTACHMENT Date 26 March 2010 Time 7pm 10pm Ms. Andrea Mayrhofer M.Ed, B.Sc. Psychology (Hons) SFT Certified Therapist CCPC Child Behavioural Mgmt Diplomo in Learning Disorders fre e Management
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon China slams Google's bi
      286 15 censOrshIP War BEIJING China’s government reacted testily yesterday to Google’s decision to stop censoring its China-based search engine, calling the move “totally wrong” and accusing the company of violating its promises. Google said on Monday it would no longer filter results on China-based Google.cn and was
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      Lock icon d to defy censors
      235 16 AGENCIES The announcement came after two months of tension sparked by Google’s revelation of coordinated cyberattacks on the Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents. Google’s top lawyer David Drummond said the firm hoped China would respect its decision “though we are well aware that it could at
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      Lock icon Thai govt complex hit by blasts
      253 16 AFP BANGKOK Two small blasts hit a Thai ministry complex, where the Cabinet met yesterday, causing minor damage but no injuries. Three cars were slightly damaged by the blasts, which went off behind a Public Health Ministry building guarded by thousands of security personnel
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      Lock icon Mentally-ill doctor hacks eight children to death
      173 16 AFP BEIJING A former doctor with a history of mental illness hacked eight children to death with a machete yesterday and injured five others at a primary school in southeast China, state media reported. The attacker was identified as Zheng Minsheng, a 41-year-old
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      Lock icon Netanyahu, Clinton show no sign that Israeli-US gap has narrowed
      267 18 AFP WASHINGTON Israel and the United States showed scant sign on Monday that they had narrowed their gap over Jewish settlement activity, but they glossed over the major US-Israeli rift it has caused. In speeches to a pro-Israel lobby group,
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      Lock icon UK to expel Israeli diplomat
      418 18 duBaI assassInatIon expulsion comes after use of fake British passports by Mossad agents a senior Israeli diplomat would be expelled as a mark of the ‘anger’ within the Government that British passport holders had been put at risk as a result of the AGENCIES LONDON
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      Lock icon Pakistan pushes US for nuclear technology deal
      177 19 THE GUARDIAN ISLAMABAD Pakistan wants the United States to provide it with nuclear technology for a civilian energy programme and is to push the Obama administration this week for a deal. Islamabad seeks a civilian nuclear deal to mirror the package granted to
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      Lock icon UK sees terror at its door
      355 19 aL qaeda ThreaT THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Britain faces an increased threat of a nuclear attack by Al Qaeda terrorists following a rise in the trafficking of radiological material, a government report has warned. Bomb-makers who have been active in Afghanistan may already have
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      Lock icon Karzai mulls peace plan offer
      184 19 AP KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai held an unprecedented meeting on Monday with representatives of a major Taliban-linked militant group, boosting his outreach to insurgency leaders to end the eightyear war. The Hizb-i-Islami group, led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, presented a 15-point peace plan, calling
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      Lock icon Taiwan lets Russian bomber fly away
      175 21 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s air force faced anger yesterday for not intercepting a Russian bomber that entered its airspace in January a plane that could have dropped tonnes of explosives on the island. Taiwanese radars detected the aircraft, a Tupolev TU-95 longrange strategic bomber, 285km
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      Lock icon Teachers' tormentors
      375 21 JaPanese ‘MOnsTeRs’ AFP TOKYO Breakfast for parents at day-care centres, laundry and nail-clipping done at school, a pick-up service by teachers these are some of the requests from Japan’s socalled “monster parents”. The increasingly outrageous demands have driven teachers’ stress levels to record heights and led the Tokyo
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      Lock icon NLDs lawsuit rejected
      343 22 MyanMaR eLecTiOn Opposition party’s bid to quash restrictive election laws thrown out by court AP YANGON Myanmar’s highest court has refused to accept a lawsuit by Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, which sought to revoke laws that bar the detained leader and other opposition members from
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      Lock icon Perlis MCA legislator quits
      237 22 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The assemblyman for the Titi Tinggi state seat in Perlis has quit his post, possibly paving the way for an- other by-election. Mr Yip Sun Onn (picture) of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) handed in his letter of resignation on Monday afternoon. But
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      Lock icon Free HPV shots for Malaysian girls
      149 22 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will offer free vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) to 13-year-old girls starting this year, said Deputy Health Minister Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin. “The Cabinet approved the programme in September 2009 and the vaccination process will start by mid-year,” she
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      Lock icon The last thing Gordon Brown needs now...
      551 23 Lobbying-for-cash scandaL Britain’s Labour suspends ex-ministers in lobbying row weeks before elections AFP LONDON Britain’s ruling Labour Party has suspended three former ministers over claims they were prepared to influence policy in exchange for cash, a scandal that has erupted just weeks before
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      Lock icon Signed and sealed, now to deliver
      384 24 Us heaLTh care reFOrM BILL AGENCIES WASHINGTON President Barack Obama capped a year-long political drama yesterday by signing into law a landmark health care reform Bill that had been seen as impossible just two months ago. Now, he must sell the law’s merits to
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      Lock icon Measures to prevent 'libel tourism' in UK
      224 24 AGENCIES LONDON Britain’s government is unveiling an overhaul of libel laws to guard against “libel tourism” when foreigners bring cases to courts in the United Kingdom in hopes of a more favourable judgment than they might get in their home countries. Justice Secretary
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      Lock icon Brunei 'booze zone' will invite God's wrath
      195 25 AP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Brunei’s Religious Affairs Minister has poured cold water on a plan to set up an “alcohol zone” for tourists in the Muslim country, saying it would invite God’s wrath. Brunei’s laws ban the public sale and consumption of alcohol
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      Lock icon SIGN OF BIGGER THINGS TO COME?
      87 25 Blasts of lava and ash shot out of the ey~af~alla~okull volcano in southern iceland, and small tremors rocked the ground on Monday, a surge in activity that forced at least ~00 ~eo~le to flee their homes over the weekend. scientists warned that ey~af~alla~okull’s eru~tion
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      Lock icon Vote disaster leads to strikes
      349 25 French poLitics Labour minister sacked; country’s cabinet reshuffled AFP PARIS French public sector workers unleashed nationwide strikes yesterday, disrupting train services and schools in another challenge to President Nicolas Sarkozy after his party’s elections defeat. On Monday, Mr Sarkozy dismissed his labour minister and reshuffled
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      Lock icon Taiwan teens torch 'abusive' father to death
      174 27 the siblings defended their actions by saying they were victims of domestic violence. AFP TAIPEI Two Taiwanese teenagers have been arrested for allegedly burning their 45-year-old father to death in revenge for what they described as severe physical abuse, police said yesterday. The
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        INDONESIA LAUNCHES NEW BIOMETRIC SCREENING SYSTEM AT BORDERS
        105 27 Indonesia’s immigration department yesterday rolled out a new biometric system to screen visitors arriving at 27 of its air and sea ports. Facial images and fingerprints will be captured to verify the identity of travellers, according to a press release by air
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        Lock icon SRI LANKAN GROUPS PROTEST OVER COURT MARTIAL OF EX-ARMY CHIEF
        107 27 AFP Sri Lankan opposition groups demonstrated in Colombo yesterday, demanding the release of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who attempted to unseat the president in recent elections. Hundreds of activists from the JVP, or People’s Liberation Front, which backed Mr
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        Lock icon 'SCHINDLER'S LIST' IS UP FOR SALE
        101 27 AFP The only privately-held copy of a list that Mr Oskar Schindler drew up of Jews to be saved from Hitler’s concentration camps is on sale for US$2.2 million ($3.1 million). “It’s the only one remaining in private hands,” said historic document sales specialist
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      Lock icon A royal life on rails
      295 28 TraIn rIde In IndIa AFP KOLKATA India has launched its most luxurious and expensive train service yet, seeking to attract well-heeled foreign rail enthusiasts prepared to pay the minimum US$800-a-night ($1,120) price tag. The backers of the Maharajas’ Express, which began its maiden journey from
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      Lock icon Tourists, the spaceship is ready
      229 28 AFP LOS ANGELES Virgin Galactic’s experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert on Monday. The spacecraft, brainchild of British entrepreneur Richard Branson, took off nestled under the wing of its
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      310 15 HOW PROFESSIONAL TRADERS TRADE AND WHAT THEY KNOW AND WHY AMATEUR TRADERS ALWAYS GET BEATEN "The first step must be on the correct footing and Conrad's Wealth Academy Trader (WAT) was an excellent -and more importantlyproper start to my journey. It taught me the background, tools, philosophy, psychology and technical
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      134 16 Hepatitis B trial: skipping cockles not the answer Experts recommend vaccination to prevent Hepatitis B THE COCKLES CASE TRIAL "We hope that people will now go for their Hepatitis B vaccination and not be afraid of us all the time," commented Mr and Mrs Cockle. Contrary to popular belief, avoiding
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      101 24 What should you look for when you hire? Hire on Merit. Be a Fair Employer. Skill and ability are basic qualities that make a good employee. Hiring on merit means looking at whether a person can do the job well. It is not about the wrinkles on the face or
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