Today, 29 March 2010, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 Monday March 29, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon A hospital where your heart rate will not go up
    507 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE As he guided Yishun residents around the outpatient clinics of the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), chief executive Liak Teng Lit spelled out his guarantee to them. “When you come to this hospital,
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    Coming to the end of the long route
    585 1  -  PublIC trAnSPort Existing cross-country bus routes to be reviewed, no new ones will be added TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE In time to come, those long bus services that traverse the island could become a thing of the past, giving way to
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Talks with Thai PM to continue today
      531 3 ProTeST by red ShIrTS AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and leaders of anti-government protests said they would try again this evening, after failing to reach an agreement yesterday in nationally-televised talks on how to solve the country’s political crisis. The talks
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      Lock icon A RUN FOR THE MONEY
      139 3 Three Singapore records were set in the nTU run round Singapore event among them, the longest distance of 218km. Physics teacher yong yuen cheng, 38, became the fastest runner over that distance, completing it in 31 hours, 28 minutes and 51 seconds. Teaching fellow adeline
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  139 words
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      Lock icon The choice is yours
      434 4 cpf InvEsTMEnT schEME TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE Should the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) be stopped so that members will not risk losing their retirement nest egg? Yes, said a resident who claimed that he had lost some $350,000 in his CPF account after investing in shares. The
      TEO XUANWEI  -  434 words
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      Lock icon PARKWAY NOVENA TAPS FOREIGN HOSPITAL STAFF
      258 4 MEO CHAI CHIN Hoping to tap a foreign pool of nurses and allied health professionals to staff its upcoming hospital and specialist centre in Novena is Parkway Holdings. This, the health care provider can do through its new shareholder, Indian hospital chain Fortis Healthcare,
      MEO CHAI CHIN  -  258 words
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      Lock icon Being green for more than just one hour
      669 5  -  Earth hour ESTHER NG AND TEOXUAN WEI estherng@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE It is not every day that shipyard workers dine by candlelight, and travellers at Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 check in in a darkened hall. This year, the 400 Earth Hour participants in
      PHOTOS: KEPPEL GROUP, ECO SINGAPORE AND CONCORDE HOTEL  -  669 words
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      WETLANDS AT PANDAN
      48 7 Some 200 students from commonwealth Secondary School, children from darul ihsan orphanage and staff from Sony group of companies releasing ‘floating wetlands’ in Pandan reservoir. The wetlands reduce water pollution by increasing biological activity under and around the wetlands, thereby improving the reservoir’s water quality.
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      Lock icon Lift HIV travel bans, says Unaids
      262 7 AFP BANGKOK Unaids, backed by hundreds of parliamentarians, called yesterday for the lifting of travel restrictions on HIV-positive people still by imposed by 52 countries. Complete entry bans on HIV-positive visitors are in place in 11 countries, including Singapore and China; while other restrictions
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        12 NABBED FOR DRINK DRIVING
        101 7 A dozen motorists were arrested for drink driving in a four-and-a-half-hour islandwide operation which ended early yesterday. Of the 12 arrested, three were women aged between 21 and 45 years old. In all, 83 motorists took the breathalyser test. Road blocks were set up at
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        YOUTH TRY THEIR HANDS AT COMMUNITY SERVICE
        129 7 Community service took on a new meaning yesterday when more than 1,000 youth helped the less fortunate for a day. For the first time, schools also worked with grassroots organisations in this aspect. The youth were mobilised under the annualYouth Hands-On! Initiative organised
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      130 5 PREMIUM l_Asik SuRCjERy Clirsiic r I Forum by Associate Professor Leonard Ang Medical Director Cornea Refractive Surgery Fellowship, Singapore Harvard Medical School, USA Cornea Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, USA Cornea, Refractive Surgery Stem Cell Treatment Fellowship, Kyoto, Japan Dates: 1 Apr 2010 (Thurs) 8:00pm English Forum 8 Apr 2010 (Thurs)
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 152 trapped in flooded coal mine
      179 9 AFP BEIJING At least 152 workers were trapped when a vast coal mine being built in northern China flooded yesterday, in the latest accident to hit the country’s notoriously dangerous mining industry. A total of 261 people were working in the Wangjialing mine in
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      Lock icon Chua triumphs
      386 9 Mca polls Former party no 2 elected as Mca president THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) deputy president Chua Soi Lek, once suspended from the party over a sex scandal, was yesterday elected party president. In polls called in hopes of ending a year-long
      THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER  -  386 words
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      Lock icon Google goes it alone
      440 11 chIna cEnSorShIP AFP WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a major speech on Internet freedom two months ago, called on American technology firms not to support online censorship. “I hope that refusal to support politically motivated censorship will become a trademark characteristic of
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      Lock icon Bund reborn ahead of expo
      177 11 AFP SHANGHAI The Bund reopened yesterday after a threeyear project to restore the riverfront to its ’30s glory as the city prepares to welcome tens of millions of visitors for the World Expo. The promenade between the colonial-style buildings and the river has been widened
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      Lock icon Families visit site of sunken ship
      230 11 AGENCIES BAENGNYEONG ISLAND Weeping, angry relatives of 46 crew members missing after a mysterious explosion sank a South Korean navy ship sailed around the site yesterday as rescue teams struggled to search for survivors. None has been found since an initial rescue of 58
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      Lock icon Chief of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund missing after crash
      241 13 RABAT (Morocco) Rescue workers are searching for the head of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund the world’s largest who went missing after his glider crashed into a lake in Morocco. Morocco’s official MAP news agency said that the glider went
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      Lock icon Iran may have more site plans in store
      311 13 nUcLEar PLanTS THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations
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      Lock icon Regional elections are a test for Italy's Berlusconi
      182 15 AGENCIES ROME Italians began voting yesterday in regional elections seen as a referendum on embattled Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi two years into his mandate. Pollsters predict gains for Mr Berlusconi’s troublesome coalition partner, the anti-immigration Northern League, and a low turnout reflecting
      AGENCIES  -  182 words
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      Lock icon More victims may speak up
      471 15 clerical child abuse in iTaly THE GUARDIAN, AP ROME The Pope faces growing pressure over his handling of clerical sex abuse cases as new cover-ups are expected to surface in Italy, the country with the greatest concentration of Roman Catholic clerics. After the latest allegations
      THE GUARDIAN, AP  -  471 words
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      Lock icon PM faces 'Spring of Discontent'
      499 16 strikes in the Uk AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a wave of strikes that threaten to hurt his chances at an impending election, including a second round of walkouts by British Airways staff over the weekend. The bitter BA dispute, alongside
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      Lock icon Ex-ministers in 'cash for influence' row under fire
      182 16 AFP LONDON Two more former British ministers were dragged into the cash-for-lobbying scandal after being secretly taped offering to use their government contacts to help commercial clients. Mr Adam Ingram, a former Armed Forces Minister, and Mr Richard Caborn, a former Sports
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      Lock icon Palin brings things to a boil
      394 17 uS tEa party AGENCIES NEVADA Republican politician Sarah Palin urged thousands of conservative Tea Party activists to kick Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and other Democrats in Congress out of office in the November mid-term elections. The “Showdown in Searchlight” was the kickoff event
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      Lock icon 'Special' UK-US bond no more
      202 17 AP LONDON The “special relationship’’ is not so special any more. That is the word from a committee of lawmakers in Britain who say the phrase coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the country’s close ties with the United States should no longer
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  • voices
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      Inadequate to 'just add more teeth'
      417 19  -  MaINTeNaNCe oF PareNTs aCT Letter from Philip Kwek I REFER to recent Parliament reports that Member of Parliament (MP) for Marine Parade GRC Seah Kian Peng will lead a team of MPs to review and re-arm the Maintenance of Parents Act (MPA). It is
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      HOW TO USE GLOVES ...
      68 19  - HOW TO USE GLOVES SHORT TAKE Letter from Lim Poh seng Most hawkers are now using gloves but are they more hygienic? I suggest that NEA comes out with some simple illustrations for hawkers on how to use their gloves and make it mandatory for these to be displayed prominently.
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      199 21  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON TALKING ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM If self-esteem is something we value for our sons and daughters, maybe it would be helpful to assist them in achieving it. It seems like every teenager has to come along today and bump his head on the same
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      Lock icon None the wiser about rules
      404 21  -  SMoKInG In caSInoS Letter from Stephen Tan Today Caldecott we set you thinking todayonline.com Tel 6236 4888 Fax 6534 4217 today@mediacorp.com.sg I REFER to “It’s allowed but (March 26). todayonline.comtoday@mediacorp.co I am a non-smoker who is neutral in my userpeditorWalterFernan views towards smoking. Deputy e
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      The route has not been eliminated, but criteria tightened
      158 21  -  Letter from chia hui Keng Head, Public Internal Communications Branch Corporate Communications Division Immigration Checkpoints Authority WE REFER to “One less route to becoming a PR” (Mar 23) from Ms Djeni Lee. Singapore citizens can still apply for permanent residence (PR),
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      252 19 Have your say. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices VENTIS G RADUATE SCHOOL FOR. PROFESSIONALS 6W 1 (/t/n/it ji) V -A There were a couple of different programmes that were offered in Singapore, but what I wanted was short duration course that is very specialized in specifically what I needed to
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  • plus TELEVISION
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      Everyone's favourite dweebs
      1148 23  -  Today EXcLUSIVE are the stars of The Big Bang Theory as dorky in real life? May SEah in los angeles may@mediacorp.com.sg PUT four Halo-playing, technology-worship-ping, action-figure-collecting, girlfriend-chal-lenged geeks next door to a hot blonde babe, and what do you get? The Big Bang Theory, one of the
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      Lock icon Inaugural fest a success
      230 27  -  TiMBre rocK rooTs FesTiVaL organisers Timbre say they’re ‘satisfied’ with first one, looking forward to next year CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg ABOUT 8,500 people turned up for the inaugural Timbre Rock Roots Festival, organised by Timbre and Bluesfest over the weekend. On Friday night, Singapore’s own Blues
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      Lock icon Undying Love
      785 28 MUSicaL MaeSTro andrew Lloyd Webber talks about his sequel to the Phantom TranScriPT coUrTeSy of UniverSaL MUSic It has been 24 years since Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera has trodden the boards, making it one of the most enduring musicals of all time. In
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      1220 29 oN MedIaCorP FLaSH Forward Channel 5,10pm Flash Forward continues after its thrilling midseason break. In order to return to the FBI, a suspended Mark must meet with a Bureauappointed therapist. That doesn’t stop him from investigating Lloyd’s abduction, of course. Meanwhile, a reluctant Demetri teams with CIA agent Vogel; Simon
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  • sports
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      Lock icon Liverpool keep Euro hopes alive
      750 32 English football torres stars as reds rise to fifth spot AFP English PrEmiErshiP Liverpool 3 Sunderland 0 LIVERPOOL Fernando Torres was at his lethal best as he scored a sublime double to help Liverpool overwhelm Sunderland 3-0 last night and keep alive their challenge for
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      Lock icon Dunn pushes Burnley closer to relegation
      169 32 English PrEmiErshiP Burnley 0 Blackburn 1 AFP BURNLEY Blackburn pushed bitter rivals Burnley closer to relegation from the Premier League as David Dunn’s controversial penalty secured a 1-0 win at Turf Moor last night. Dunn struck from the spot midway through the first half
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      Lock icon Koh warms up in style for Asian Games
      312 33 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Celeb~ations sta~ted ea~ly in the Singapo~e camp at the 14th Asian Sailing Championships in Shanwei, China, afte~ Lase~ Radial sailo~ Koh Seng Leong and men’s 420 pai~ ~ustin Liu and She~man Cheng clinched victo~ies on the penultimate day
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      Lock icon Bridge too far
      388 33  -  TabLe Tennis Gao ning’s asian cup dream ends, but coach chen’s upbeat LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE If Gao Ning had pulled it off, it would have been one of his biggest scalps, but China’s ~hang~i~e,thewo~ldNo~,was in no mood fo~ an upset. Playing in f~ont of
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      Lock icon Malaysia's Arowanas show bite
      193 34 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Norashikin Kamal Zaman and Izyan Syazana Wazir proved virtually unstoppable over the weekend as the Malaysian Arowanas consolidated their position at the top of the table in the FairPrice Foundation Netball Super League 2010. Led by the duo, the visitors romped to
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      233 36 AP ORLANDO Winless for two years, Ernie Els put himself in position on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) for his second straight victory. Els made sure the last two holes did not unravel a solid day of work at Bay Hill. He made a
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      235 43 THE GUARDIAN with examples of financial boom and bust. The challenge is to make sure that the financial system itself is not, as it has been recently, a prime cause of such instability, and to ensure that, as far as possible, financial institutions bear the consequences of their own actions.”
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      120 43 about 6,800 employees of United overseas Bank (UoB) across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia raised a total of $600,000 for charity by participating in the UoB heartbeat run/Walk charity marathon yesterday. This is part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility initiative and it is the first time
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