The Straits Times, 21 August 2007

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 120 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 581 1  -  Sandra Davie D Tech university B Liberal arts college B Specialised-degree institution By Education Correspondent COMING: More university places and more universities to choose from. A government panel set up to bring this about will study different university models the technical universities of Europe, the
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  • 87 1 A China Airlines jet exploded into flames at an airport in Okinawa after arriving from Taiwan yesterday, but all 165 people aboard got out alive. The passengers fled the Boeing 737-800 unhurt on inflated emergency slides just minutes before the plane burst into a fireball.
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  • 599 1  -  Goh Eng Yeow By INVESTORS who could not exit fast enough last week rushed back into Asia stock markets yesterday, sending share prices soaring. The gains stunned even hardened traders. Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI) rocketed 191.67 points, or 6.12 per cent, to 3,322.38,
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  • UPFRONT
    • 876 1  -  Leslie Lopez By South-east Asia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur EIGHT years ago, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad envisioned creating a free trade zone (FTZ) to turn Malaysia into a cost-effective logistics and manufacturing hub that would rival China. His government tapped on
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    • 311 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 HDB helps fund retirement "Sla o-lo HDB's new plan to buy back partial World 16-19 leases will provide modest but Review 20-23 helpful payouts to older home FYI 24 owners from lower income groups, i__ki t ia7/_ allowing them to fund their own SECTION TWO
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  • PRIME
    • 796 3  -  Peh Shing Huei Keith Lin Many polled worried if they can live long enough to get savings, but know move is to address ageing By ME, LIVE past 80? That was the big question that gripped Singaporeans yesterday as they reacted to
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    • 532 3 He's 85, and does not want public help THIRTY years ago, Mr Leong Wing Wong, 85, collected his CPF savings on retirement "several thousand dollars only" and put them in the bank. "It was rare to get CPF if you worked in
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    • 433 4  - Govt agency buys island in cyberspace Tham Yuen-C Chua Hian Hou By AN IT-SAVVY government agency here owns an island but one which does not exist in the real world. Along with at least two other agencies, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has bought real estate to operate in a
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    • 446 4  -  AZHAR GHANI Tokyo underscores energy supply from Jakarta in wide-ranging pact By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta INDONESIA and its biggest trade partner, Japan, yesterday signed a landmark economic pact, sealing what Tokyo hopes would be a trade-for-energy deal. The wide-ranging Economic Partnership
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    • 223 4 REUTERS Beijing TRAFFIC flowed more smoothly but the sun was still shrouded by smog yesterday, the fourth and final day of Beijing's Olympic pollution prevention test. To see if the city's poor air quality could be improved at least temporarily during the Olympics next August, the
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  • ASIA
    • 839 6  -  Tracy Quek Squeezed by low profit margins and higher costs, manufacturers sacrifice quality to stay afloat By China Correspondent In Foshan LI DA Toy Company in Foshan city in Guangdong province is ground zero for the first massive global recall of lead-tainted
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    • 252 6  -  TRACY QUEK TOYMAKERS in China are facing an uncertain future, following a spate of safety scares. Five Guangdong-based toy companies told The Straits Times that while they have not been affected in the immediate aftermath of two massive toy recalls this month, they do not
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    • 249 6  -  REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHINA has sent back a shipment of pacemakers imported from the United States because of quality problems, the country's standards watchdog reported yesterday, in the latest tit-for-tat measure over product safety. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said the
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    • CHINA
      • 443 7 BLOOMBERG Govt to help Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning catch up with rest of country Beijing THE Chinese government will build more factories, roads and infrastructure in the three north-eastern provinces to revive a flagging industrial centre with the country's highest jobless rate,
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      • 373 7 REUTERS Hong Kong A RARE strike by hundreds of bar-bending Hong Kong construction workers has grounded work at construction sites for the last two weeks, flustering property tycoons and highlighting the struggle of labourers in the capitalist tiub. While previous strikes have
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      • 622 8  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Blast rips through China Airlines plane shortly after landing in Okinawa By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei THREE minutes. That was all the time 165 people had to flee from a China Airlines plane that burst into flames
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 609 9  -  Lee Tee Jong Lee Myung Bak wins GNP election despite allegations of irregular real estate deals By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul FORMER Seoul mayor Lee Myung Bak yesterday narrowly defeated the daughter of a late president to become the front runner
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
        • 76 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said yesterday that he had dismissed a staff member for embezzlement in the latest dirty money case for embattled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government. Mr Shiozaki said a staff member in his constituency embezzled 6.2 million yen
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        • 74 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFURT: A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said yesterday. The worldwide outage
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        • 110 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA: Turkey's Parliament failed to elect a President yesterday as front runner Abdullah Gul did not secure the two-thirds of votes needed in the first round of voting. The Foreign Minister, a devout Muslim, received 341 votes from the 550-member chamber, 26 short
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        • 91 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA: Protests from parents have forced an Indonesian district chief to abandon plans to check whether female high school students in his jurisdiction are virgins, the Detikcom online news service reported. Mr Irianto Safiudin, head of West Java's Indramayu district, unveiled his plan
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    • INDIA / SOUTH ASIA
      • 516 10 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG He says oil bill will put an unbearable burden on the booming economy New Delhi INDIA is committed to developing its nuclear energy capability and other sources of power because its oil bill will impose an "unbearable burden" as growth continues, its
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      • 252 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sydney THE Australian government has backed a plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with India, a move which would radically reshape relations with the South Asian power, a report said yesterday. The conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard wants
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 293 11 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIA'S Supreme Court has granted bail to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on a technicality, weeks after he was found guilty of receiving guns from gangsters involved in the country's worst bombings. He received bail yesterday because the Mumbai court that convicted
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      • 166 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE international police organisation Interpol has issued a wanted notice for Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter, who the Iraqi government is seeking on suspicion of terrorism. But the authorities in Jordan, where Ms Raghad Hussein has been living since July 2003, have ruled out
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      • 115 11 XINHUA VIETNAMESE Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is now the proud owner of his own webpage on the government's website. According to a report in the local newspaper Pioneer yesterday, Mr Dung's Internet page which will have information in both English and Vietnamese will
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 853 13  -  Nirmal Ghosh NEWS ANALYSIS But low voter turnout and slim margin show deep divisions remain By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAILAND'S approval for a new Constitution has paved the way for a return to democracy, but the votes also showed that
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      • 245 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS Bangkok POLITICIANS in Thailand yesterday began gearing up for elections after a new Constitution won approval in a national referendum. Electoral officials indicated that a general election would likely be held in the second half of December, easing the military from its
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
      • 518 14  -  Chow Kum Hor Some hope to learn about their roots, others want to do business in China By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur TWICE a week over the past year, Ms Chok Kwee Bee has been spending her lunch hour hunched over Chineselanguage books. Ms
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      • 103 14 AFP Labrador retrievers Flo (left) and Lucky getting their paws imprinted in plaster at a ceremony in honour of their services yesterday. The two dogs are ending a six-month assignment in Malaysia after helping the police net 1.6 million pirated movie discs. The world's first
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      • 285 14 JOHOR BARU MALAYSIA'S Foreign Ministry yesterday held a meeting with top Johor officials on the overlapping claims with Singapore over Pedra Branca island and its rocky outcrops. Present at the 90-minute closed-door meeting were Johor Menteri Besar Ghani Oth- man, Johor
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      • 227 14 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Jakarta LAVA and hot gas clouds have started erupting from an Indonesian volcano, threatening hundreds of people living in nearby villages, an official said yesterday. Mr Saut Simatupang, the head of Indonesia's Vulcanology Survey, said nearly 600 people had
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  • WORLD
    • 575 15 NEW YORK TIMES Countries are offering fat salaries, tax breaks and even citizenships as bait to professionals Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) N THIS country where foreigners, io most of the work, there are nigrant maids and migrant masons, migrant tea boys and migrant typists, all
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    • 484 15  -  Roger Maynard By Australia Correspondent In Sydney AUSTRALIA is to target young, skilled, professional migrants to fill the gap in a rapidly ageing population caused by retiring baby boomers. The latest policy initiative aims to avert a serious shortage of workers in Australia
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    • 455 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS He is the second provincial leader to be killed in 2 weeks in intra-Shi'ite strife Baghdad AN IRAQI governor was blown up by a roadside bomb yesterday in what appeared to be an escalation of a power struggle between rival
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    • 234 16 REUTERS Dubai A ONE-LEGGED Emirati father of 78 is lining up his next two wives in a bid to reach his target of 100 children by 2015, Emirates Today reported yesterday. Mr Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, 60, has already had 15 brides,
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    • 453 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pregnant German freed after police surround building used by abductors Kabul AFGHAN police rescued a pregnant German aid worker in a pre-dawn swoop early yesterday, hours after she appeared in a video asking for help. Ms Christina Meier, 31,
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    • 420 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG US state mobilises emergency operations as storm forecast to strengthen to Category 5 Houston (Texas) OFFICIALS opened emergency operations centres, moved inmates to prisons deeper inland and passed out sandbags along the coast yesterday as Hurricane Dean barrelled towards Texas and Mexico.
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    • 202 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS TORRENTIAL rain brought misery to thousands in various parts of Asia over the weekend. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless in Myanmar's Ayeyawaddy River delta after unusually heavy rains triggered floods in the low-lying region,
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    • 26 15 Pregnant hostage freed Afghan police rescue Ms Christina Meier, a pregnant German aid worker, hours after she appears in a video asking for help. PAGE 18
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  • REVIEW
    • 457 19 THERE is little point in arguing over demographic trends. Instead, what is required is to assess them in a level-headed manner and decide what policy directions they call for. These trends for Singapore, in fact, are positive. Taken together, they show that Singaporeans are living
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    • 910 19  -  Hany Besada By For The Straits Times THE sacking of South Africa's deputy minister of health by President Thabo Mbeki last week is indicative of what is tragically going wrong with Africa's economic giant. The sacking of Ms Nozizwe Madla-la-Routledge comes after media
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    • 1199 19  -  Michael Vatikiotis BOOK REVIEW The Islamic Threat In Southeast Asia: A Reassessment by John T. Sidel Published by Policy Studies (Southeast Asia), East West Centre, Washington and ISEAS Singapore By For The Straits Times AT LAST, the academic community is standing up.
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    • 965 20  -  Masahiro Matsumura ►> REFORM OF JAPAN'S CIVIL SERVICE By MUCH has been made of the massive defeat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered in Japan's recent Upper House election. But as the smoke dissipates from that vote, it has become clear
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    • 1658 22  -  John Mcßeth By Senior Writer PAPUA Governor Barnabas Suebu appears to have put the brakes on a major palm oil plantation expansion that would have transformed the demographic balance in Indonesia's easternmost province and raised the spectre of widespread land disputes and a reinvigorated independence movement.
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    • 39 19 Papua plantation on hold Governor Suebu seems to have put the brakes on a major palm oil plantation expansion in Indonesia's Papua province. PAGE 23 PUNCHLINES M'M 50 PROUD ffiv OF YOU! Y/\ THAILAND V I ELECTIONS l| I
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    • 1038 23 Singapore today 1|3[ p^s^ mW*m^mirT^r/7r*^ Showers with thunder are likely m. 0 0 ///X > afternoon over many areas. THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 2007 _i__ wnm n wf4thfb USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN asia&world weather Emergency lines DO TODAY *AA\ SE 0UL o Clear PoliceHotiine.'.'.'.'.^ *M <N
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  • HOME
    • 663 24  -  Tan Hui Yee HOUSING LEASE BUYBACK PLAN Experts: Scheme a big help to elderly with little or no retirement income By Housing Correspondent PAYOUTS from a new plan to help Housing Board owners fund their retirement are likely to be modest but
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    • 646 25  -  Lynn Lee ►>CPF CHANGES Hike will add up to hefty amount of extra savings over work life By TECHNICAL officer Subhas B. spoke for many polled yesterday when he welcomed the proposed 1 percentage point increase in Central Provident Fund (CPF) interest rates. "It
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    • 475 25  -  Grace Ng By SOME financial services experts were not as overjoyed as Central Provident Fund (CPF) members with the news on Sunday that the first $60,000 of people's nest eggs will earn higher interest. Fund managers, banks and other players selling
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    • 524 25 Higher sums in 2 accounts MR MOHAMAD NAHARUDIN Age: 35 Job: Security guard Salary: $1,300 CPF BALANCES Ordinary Account: $200.08 Special Account: $4,000.95 Medisave: $11,000 Has no plans to invest nor buy a new home soon. Gains from higher interest: $10,000 Mr Naharudin has little in
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    • 510 25 A quick guide to what the different Central Provident Fund (CPF) terms mean CPF contribution rates Working Singaporeans contribute a portion of their monthly salary to their CPF account and their employers also give an amount to the account. For workers aged 35 and below,
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    • 584 25  -  Jeremy Au Yong By COMMUNICATIONS manager Mary Yeo likes the idea that she will be compelled to buy an annuity for her old age. "I am quite risk-averse and if it means my money works a little harder for me,
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    • 548 26  -  Ho Ai Li BONUS POINTS FOR MALAY 3rd language incentives offered for JC entry to stem high dropout rate before 0 levels By EACH year, about 300 students sign up for Malay as a third language at Secondary 1, but only one
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    • 252 26  -  HO AI LI FOUR schools Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) and Victoria School will offer the Regional Studies Programme (RSP) next year. About 120 students are expected to sign up each year. They will take Malay or Bahasa Indonesia as a third language
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    • 593 28  -  Jessica Jaganathan But impact on the environment will be minimal, say experts By A GOVERNMENT move to stockpile granite at Lim Chu Kang has upset some of the area's farmers, who are concerned about potential damage to the environment and their businesses. Experts, however, say that
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    • 770 29  -  Tania Tan Arti Mulchand TAN IA TAN REGIONAL DIALOGUE That's a key hurdle, say panellists, including those from Indonesia By THE rainy weather may be keeping the skies clear of haze for now, but the region is not breathing easy yet. A year after
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    • 74 29 ONLINE social networks are no longer just hangouts for teens who flock there to post pictures and chat with friends. These sites have added features geared towards the older, professional set and businesses too. Digital Life talks to some of these users about how they use
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    • 151 29 Three cars and 19 motorcycles went up in flames in a multi-storey carpark in Jurong West early yesterday. The 2am blaze on the second deck of the carpark Block 660 in Jurong West Street 64 was accompanied by explosions, which awoke many residents from
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    • 608 29  - Fires, haze the global implications Arti Mulchand NEWS ANALYSIS By UNLIKE the song, this one is not just about earth, wind and fire. It is about saving our planet. Annual fires and haze resulting from land-clear-ing in Indonesia portend serious implications for global warming, experts at the second Regional Dialogue
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    • 404 29  -  Chong Chee Kin By THE Vietnamese woman convicted of bigamy and other offences last week lied repeatedly to immigration authorities over her five years here to prolong her stay. Yesterday, Husband No. 3 was found guilty of abetting her in
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    • CASE FILE
      • 129 29 A MAN who slashed another man in his face with a fruit knife was sentenced to two years in jail and three strokes of the cane yesterday. Kothandom Shivakumar, 32, a general worker, attacked Mr Robert Ardkiasamy Udayar, 39, at a Bishan coffee shop
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      • 82 29 A MOTORCYCLIST died instantly early yesterday, following a collision with a taxi. The 24-year-old is believed to have been riding home at about lam after watching soccer at his girlfriend's home in Choa Chu Kang. The accident happened at the junction of Choa Chu
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    • 345 30  -  Tracy Sua By FOUR young men who were inspired by the noble call to protect others were at the Istana yesterday to receive the Singapore Police Force (SPF) Overseas Scholarship. One of them, Mr Sergius Wat, has the President's Scholarship as well. The four 19-year-olds
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    • 591 30  -  Tham Yuen-C It has appealed against verdict after Singapore Land Authority sued it over copyright on maps By ROUND No. 1 in a copyright battle between an online street map company and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is over and the government agency has
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    • 546 31  -  Cheong Suk-Wai A key aim is to beef up Asean's support pillars economic integration, regional security and socio-cultural ties By Assistant Foreign Editor AS ASEAN forges ahead 40 years on, a key task would be strengthening its three supporting pillars that
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    • 130 31  -  CHEONG SUK-WAI ASEAN has a snazzy new rice-and-ribbon logo to mark Singapore's year-long chairmanship of the 10-member regional body, as well as the 13th Asean Summit here in November. Foreign Minister George Yeo unveiled the chilli-red and mustard-yellow logo at the start of the
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    • QUICK NEWS
      • 128 31 UNITED States Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter is here on a three-day visit, which will end today. During his visit, he called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and met other Singapore leaders. He will call on Minister Mentor Lee Kuan
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      • 56 31 FpREIGN Minister George Yeo will visit Brazil and Portugal in the next fortnight. In Brazil, he will attend the Forum For East Asia-Latin America Cooperation's Foreign Ministers' Meeting. Then, he will visit Portugal which currently holds the presidency of the European Union and meet the
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      • 66 31 VIOLIN virtuoso Min Lee will be performing to help needy children afford lunch in school. On Sept 7, the 21-year-old Singaporean will perform with the Prague Sinfonia Orchestra at the Esplanade. Monies raised will go to The Straits Times School Pocket Money
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    • 30 24 Wife's bigamy: Man guilty The third husband of a Vietnamese woman jailed for bigamy will be sentenced today after being found guilty of helping her in her crimes. PAGE H6
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  • FORUM
    • 419 32  -  Edward lon SINGAPORE SCHOOLS VERSUS WESTERN ONES AS A Briton who is a long-time permanent resident in Singapore, I was surprised by the comments of the head mistress of an in-ner-London primary school who extolled the virtues of the UK primary education system over
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    • 338 32  -  Ong Wooi-Chin AS AN educator of 20 years, the letters on education in Singapore and the West by Mr S. Ganesamoorthy ("Teachers do more than teach and educate"; ST, Aug 14) and Ms Bavaani Vadi-vale-Nanthabalan ("How Singapore schools compare with UK's"; ST, Aug 18) beckon
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    • 98 32  -  Goh Chee Leng (Mdm) I WENT to the toilet for the handicapped in Expo Hall 5 on Aug 12 to change my baby's diaper. Water was flowing from the tap. I tried to turn the tap off but managed only to reduce
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    • 311 32  -  Ameerali Abdeali THE Muslim Kidney Action Association (MKAC Association) welcomes and is heartened by the announcement by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally that the Human Organ Transplant Act will be amended to include Muslims. Since 1990, MKAC has
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    • 277 32  -  Teo Cheng Peow YET another unpleasant experience with property agents was highlighted in Ms Laura Thornton-Olivry's letter, "Signed and sealed with a handshake, yet no deal" (ST, Aug 18). There have been many complaints against unethical agents recently, and the only
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    • 275 32  -  Vincent Teo THE National Environment Agency (NEA) and PUB, the national water agency, thank Mr Sim Kian Wee for his feedback, "Do more to recycle Newater bottles at NDP" (ST, Aug 14). We would like to reassure Mr Sim that much care and
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    • 272 32  -  Seah Seng Choon MS ELAINE Ong Mei Lin ("Calling brunobear"; ST, Aug 16) recounted her experience of making an online purchase and having the payment deducted from her account, without receiving the goods and not being able to contact the company via phone,
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    • 93 32 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. Great politicians able to see the inner qualities beneath skin colour S'pore Chinese Orchestra did great by playing with renowned jazz trio Singapore's education system promotes critical and creative thinking Muzzling dogs not a good
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  • SPORTS
    • 1072 33 SOCCER: ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Styles won't officiate this weekend after his errors cost Reds victory over Chelsea London REFEREE Rob Styles has been suspended over his baffling decisions in Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Sunday. English Premiership referees' chief Keith Hackett has confirmed that Styles will
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    • 283 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SVEN-Goran Eriksson has tempered enthusiasm over Manchester City's unbeaten start to the new Premier League season, saying his new team have "a long way to go" before they can be taken seriously as title contenders. His comments followed their shock 1-0 win
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    • 450 33 Manchester THREE matches and not a win yet. It may be early days in the English Premiership season. But Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has admitted that his side face an uphill task in retaining their title. United have picked up only two points
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    • 227 33 London ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has slammed Blackburn Rovers for being violent in the wake of Sunday's bruising 1-1 Premiership draw. The Gunners had led the encounter 1-0 before a howler by goalkeeper Jens Lehmann handed Blackburn the equaliser. But Wenger was more concerned with Rovers'
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    • 122 33 /lan City 3 3 0 0 4 0 9 Ihelsea 3 2 10 6 4 7 Vigan 3 2 0 15 2 6 iverton 3 2 0 15 3 6 .rtsmouth 3 12 0 6 4 5 lewcastle 2 110 3 1 4 .iverpool 2 110 3 2 4
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    • 657 34  - Find yourself a real striker, Fergie and do it real quick Terrence Voon WILD WEEKEND By WHEN Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson makes out his Christmas-card list in December, he would do well to remember Rob Styles and Jens Lehmann. Thanks to gaffes from those two, the Red Devils have
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    • 262 34 Statistic of the week 3 Wigan: Three goals in three games from 33-year-old has-been Antoine Sibierski (above) have propelled Wigan to third. Manchester City: Three wins by new manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, three goals created by new signing Elano. Three clean sheets by new goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
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    • 561 34 »SOCCER Hargreaves and Gerrard are major England doubts after weekend's Premiership matches London ENGLAND will be forced to field a makeshift midfield when they host Germany in their international friendly at Wembley tomorrow. Owen Hargreaves and Steven Gerrard became the latest injury casualties, following Sunday's English
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    • 319 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin THERE is some good news for England coach Steve McClaren. His Germany counterpart Joachim Loew is having just as hard a time getting a squad together. Germany will be missing 10 regulars when they visit England for an international friendly at
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    • 308 34 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Milan IT WAS sweet revenge for AS Roma on Sunday when they lifted Italy's Super Cup. Daniele de Rossi's sec-ond-half penalty gave them a 1-0 win over Inter Milan in the curtain-raiser to the Italian league season. Twelve months ago, Roma led 3-0, only
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    • SOCCER SHORTS
      • 79 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Tottenham have denied they want Sevilla coach Juande Ramos to replace manager Martin Jol. However, vice-chairman Paul Kemsley and secretary John Alexander were photographed on Friday meeting Ramos in Spain. Tottenham had lost their first two league games before beating Derby
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      • 38 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS LISBON: Benfica fired their coach Fernando Santos yesterday, after only two official games this season. The club were criticised widely by fans for disappointing performances in recent games, including friendlies.
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    • 530 35  -  Terrence Voon SOCCER They thump tired Home United, who play their third game in seven days By HOME United coach Vincent Subramaniam's pre-match assessment that his side were "dead meat" proved to be rather accurate yesterday. They were playing their third match in seven days,
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    • 357 35  -  Leonard Lim By THE Young Lions' Khairul Amri and Gombak United's Agu Casmir have an opportunity to work on their partnership ahead of December's South-east Asia Games in Thailand. Both will start up front as the Singapore Under-23 side begin their Merdeka Cup campaign
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    • 225 35 REUTERS »TENNIS Cincinnati ROGER Federer described his Cincinnati Masters victory on Sunday as the perfect preparation for his bid to win a fourth consecutive US Open title. The world's best tennis player crushed American James Blake 6-1, 6-4 to win his 14th Masters Series title
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    • 551 35  -  Leonard Lim »SPORTS IN SCHOOLS By THE weight on Low Zhende's broad shoulders was enormous. Each captain in the last decade had delivered, and now it was the Secondary 2 student's turn at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium yesterday. Lose against St Andrew's School, and
      JOSEPH NAIR; MINISTRY OF EDUCATION; LIM WUI LIANG  -  551 words
    • 247 35 CRICKET DEFENDING champions Nepal powered past Singapore in the opening match of the Asian Cricket Council Under-19 tournament in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Republic made 107 after electing to bat, and Nepal surpassed that total in only 20.4 of the allotted 50 overs,
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 76 35 OSAKA: Singapore won seven medals at the Japan Paralympic Swimming Championships over the weekend. Theresa Goh won three golds in the 50m butterfly (S5), 100m breast (SB4) and 200m individual medley (SMS) all in meet record times. She also won silver in the 200m
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      • 52 35 SINGAPORE won a team silver at the Asian Youth Bowling Championships in Beijing yesterday. Cherie Tan, Daphne Tan, Sabrina Lim and Amanda Ng racked up 4,787 pinfalls to finish behind champions Korea (4,840 pinfalls). Hosts China took third spot with a score of
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      • 55 35 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE EDMONTON (Canada): Mexico's Lorena Ochoa fired a two-under 69 on Sunday, finishing three strokes ahead of Paula Creamer (68) to win the Women's Canadian Open. The world's top-ranked woman golfer, who won the British Open last week, finished on 16-under 268 at the
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    • 419 36 REUTERS BADMINTON VP Verma says officials disagree only with president's approach to decision-making Kuala Lumpur FHE Badminton World Federation has refuted daims that its house is in disorder. On Sunday, four of its top officials deputy president Punch Gunalan, chairman of international relations Roger
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    • 447 36 BASEBALL MLB: Atlanta 6 Arizona 2, NY Yankees 9 Detroit 3, San Francisco 6 Florida 5, Toronto 3 Baltimore 2, NY Mets 8 Washington 2, Pittsburgh 8 Philadelphia 4, Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 3, LA Angels 3 Boston 1, Cincinnati 7 Milwaukee 6, Minnesota 1 Texas 0, Seattle 11
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 27 33 No big internal rift The Badminton World Federation insists it is not falling apart, despite the ouster of its president Kang Young Joong on Saturday. PAGE Hl3
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 138 34 Euro 2008 qualifiers Tomorrow Group A Armenia v Portugal Live, Ch22, 11.55pm Belgium v Serbia Live, Ch21, Thursday, 2.40am Finland v Kazakhstan Group D San Marino v Cyprus Group E Estonia v Andorra Group F Northern Ireland v Liechtenstein International friendlies Albania v Malta Austria v Czech Republic Belarus v
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    • 83 35 TV times BASEBALL Little League World Series: Asia-Pacific v Mexico (Live, Ch23, Bam). CRICKET: Pavilion Series, Ist ODI: England v India (Live, Ch9s, 9.30pm). SOCCER: U-21 Int'l friendly: England v Romania (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 2.30am). Events SEPAK TAKRAW: Telok Ayer Hong Lim Green CC Invitational C'ship: Yio Chu Kang v
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 54 36 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to 1 MR MATHIA NALAPPAN t and Family M Vice President of NOKIA ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS APAC on the demise of his beloved mother r MDM P. VANGALEYEE On 19 August 2007 J b FROM: Management and Staff of M. TECH GROUP OF COMPANIES M.TECH
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      121 36 m P VANGALEYEE Age: 71 Passed away peacefully on 19 August 2007 Sadly missed by all loved ones. (Husband: Marappan Nalappan, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Mariappan Slochanah Mathialagan Saroja Sivananthan Susila Gunasekaran Tamil Selvee Balasundaram Daughters: Sons-in-law: Thanaletchumi Perumal Tamil Silvee Kanagasaba Grandsons: Granddaughters-in-law: Sivapalan Thiru Selvl Muthuraj Tina Granddaughter: Grandson-in-law:
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      67 36 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of ROYSTON TAN 800 LAT Departed 21 Aug 2006 You left behind a void that cannot be filled, and a love that cannot be replaced, Fond memories of our moments together bring tears to our eyes. But knowing that you're in His care and that
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      93 36 NARAYANASWAMI MAR I YAM MA (Blk 19 Naval Base) Age: 84 passed away peacefully on 20 August 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Marimuthu Thumbusamy, deceased) Sons: Daughters: Karma Pappa Thumbu Kantha Pakiri (Chitra, deceased) Rama Vethavalli Raja Jora (Saro) Asokan Padma Mogan Dcvi Jayaram Sons-in-law,
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      103 36 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 WONG SOH TEE WONG SUZIE Age: 58 was called home to be with the Lord on 20 Aug 2007. dearly missed by: Brothers: Slster-ln-law: Wong Swee Foo Wong Tui Jong Tan
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      159 36 ""Even when I walk through a dark valley, I fear no harm for you are at my side, My Lord is with me." Psalm 23:4 AIYATHORAI STEVEN Age: 45 passed away peacefully on 20 Aug 2007. Dearly missed and always remembered by family friends. (Father: Mother: Aiyathorai Thorarajoo, deceased) Yagammal
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      75 36 The Family of The Late LIM AH CHOO Departed 15 Aug 2007 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Grassroot leaders, relatives, friends, business associates and colleagues for their kind attendance, assistance, condolences, prayers, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Mr. Gan Kirn Yong-Minister
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      70 36 CHAN HUA NIO ©CATHRINE MARIA Age: 91 passed away peacefully on 17 Aug 2007, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Joseph Lee (Deceased) Daughter: Lee Bee Lian Liana Josephine Son: Daughter-in-law: Robert Moo Jessie Chan Grandsons: Granddaughter-in-law: Adrian Moo Evelyn Chong Brian Moo and all relatives. Body resting at 20 Rosebum
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      80 36 Sj* 10th ANNIVERSARY In Sweet Loving Memories Of ANDREA TAN GUAT SUAN Departed 21st August 1997 vjui ueaiesi. mummy and Loving Wife, ten years has passed, words cannot express the sorrow in our hearts. The only consolation we have is the sweet remembrance and fond memories of you. We always
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    • 281 39 BLOOMBERG NEWS, REUTERS Washington UNITED States Federal Reserve vicechairman Donald Kohn said the subprime crisis' effect on US consumer spending will likely be "modest", though there is risk of a bigger slump. "The number of troubled subprime borrowers may be sufficiently small
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    • 511 39  -  Chua Chin Hon Beijing eases capital controls as part of moves to widen investment options By China Bureau Chief In Beijing MAINLAND China residents will, for the first time, be allowed to invest directly in Hong Kong stocks. Beijing yesterday unveiled a
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    • 39 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 15,732.48 (+458.8 points) »Japanese stocks staged a powerful rally in tandem with other global markets, pushing the benchmark Nikkei index up by the most points in one day for more than a year.
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    • 31 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 21,595.63 (+1,208.5 points) Hong Kong stocks soared 5.9 per cent, alongside a massive regional rebound, enjoying the market's single-biggest one-day points gain since 1998.
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    • 38 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 4,904.86 (+248.28 points) Chinese share prices surged 5.33 per cent to a record closing high, amid a rally on global markets following the sell-off triggered by worries over the US credit crunch.
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    • 37 39 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,932.6 (+261.6 points) Australian stocks bounced back from recent losses to close 4.6 per cent higher after the US Federal Reserve acted to stabilise markets shaken by the sub-prime woes.
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    • 37 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,243.39 (+51.84 points) Malaysian share prices closed 4.4 per cent higher in line with regional bourses after the US Federal Reserve cut the interest rate it uses to lend to banks.
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      36 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,427.55 (+286.03 points) »Indian stocks closed up 2.02 per cent to snap three days of losses on a global rally sparked by a US Federal Reserve discount rate cut last week.
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    • 38 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,041.58 (+132.95 points) »Indonesian stocks closed 7 per cent higher in line with a strong regional rebound after the US Federal Reserve cut its discount rate on loans to banks last week.
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    • 39 39 AFP Yesterday's close: 792.02 (+33.6 points) Thai stocks closed 4.43 per cent higher, lifted by a strong regional rebound as investors took heart from a surprise US interest rate cut aimed at easing a credit squeeze.
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      • 404 40  -  Gabriel Chen By A MAGAZINE that used satire to poke fun at international politics clinched the Best Of Show award the top prize at the Crowbar Awards last week. The awards recognise creative students from across the Asia-Pacific who use the competition to display
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    • 746 43  -  Alvin Foo TAKING STOCK Both blue chips and penny stocks find strength in Fed's rate move By THE shot of adrenaline that the United States Federal Reserve injected into Wall Street last Friday hit the Singapore market yesterday and propelled it to its sec-ond-highest
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      • 381 49  -  Loh Keng Fatt Five teams danced their way into the finals of Life! Takes You Places contest THE emcee reminded the contestants: Think of going to Seoul. And so the members of 10 two-man teams literally put their best foot forward on Sunday to impress the
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        • 889 51 Krabi in Southern Thailand is great for a getaway, Mallika Naguran discovers YOU get a surreal sense of ancient things harbouring life when you lie on the beaches of Krabi in southern Thailand. The smooth, powdery sand flanking the clear waters of the Andaman Sea is
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    • 426 59  -  Stephanie Yap Classical pieces written by Singaporeans will get an airing in Hanoi ARTS REPORTER MUSIC lovers in Vietnam will be able to listen to classical music written by Singaporean composers played by a Vietnamese orchestra in Hanoi. Tonight, tunes like Jubilation by Cultural Medallion recipient
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      • 195 61 GET ready for some Crime scene investigation on Jan 19. That's when fans of American singer Suzanne Vega (right) can analyse her body of work at her first gig here. Known for her intensely personal lyrics with compelling, short story-like narratives, she will perform
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      • 98 61 MAD ABOUT TO: Johnnie To's Mad Detective has gained entry to the Venice Film Festival competition, a month after the line-up was announced. The Hong Kong movie starring Lau Ching Wan, Andy On and Kelly Lin was finished late but organisers were so impressed by it, they added it
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    • 457 89 SOCIAL NETWORKING Social networking sites are no longer just virtual cafes for Generation Y. Older people are there, too. Reports by TH AM YUEN-C IF YOU have e-mail messages from people asking you to join Facebook, Friendster or MySpace, don't delete them as trash.
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      • 297 89 GENERAL SITES: GENERATING BUSINESS An accessories boutique has discovered a free, effective way of advertising MS SARAH Loke, 28, is logged on to Facebook and MySpace everyday when at work. But the business development manager of designer accessories boutique L'ArtiChaut is not slacking. In fact, she
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      • 408 89  -  ALFRED SIEW GENERAL SITES: PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING Some journalists are using social networking sites to make contacts, debate ideas and share articles. By While most people only use the Internet to share pictures and yak, senior reporter Cristina Chen also uses it to get contacts and bounce ideas
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      • 665 90 A slew of niche social networking sites are sprouting up. Their targets: people who have specific interests, and advertisers too. THAM YUEN-C reports. MR ADRIAN Lee, 30, has gone on sites like MySpace and Multiply, but it was on photo sharing network, Flickr,
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      • 1428 91 Moving from fear to freedom accountability IBM-DIGITAL LIFE DISCUSSION ON CORPORATE USE OF SOCIAL COMPUTING TOOLS Businesses fear that blogs, wikis and instant messaging might lead to the wrong information getting into the wrong hands. Yet these tools have much to offer them, reports GRACE CHNG Who's who The panel
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      • 468 93 New York Times News Service The phone bill sent out by AT&T to subscribers runs to several dozen pages, itemising every call, text message and data transfer First came the iPhone. Now comes the ißill. Many AT&T wireless subscribers who
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      • 788 94 New York Times News Service Computers are more than just information devices they now house multimedia content, and their displays are changing accordingly We've come a long way from the hulking putty-coloured computer monitors that used to dominate our desks. But when it comes to the future
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        • 95 96 Hardware The new Aztech DSL605 Ethernet Wireless G++ 4-Port Router comes in a sleek white and dark silver chassis and boasts a high-powered wireless G++ speed of up to 125Mbps. In addition, the two detachable antennae ensure strong signal strength and fast Web surfing. Other key features include
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        • 96 96 Desktop computers Apple has unveiled a new iMac line featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, upgraded specifications and a new ultra-thin aluminium keyboard. Encased in an elegant aluminium and glass enclosure, the new iMacs offer processing speeds running up to 2.BGHz, memory space of
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        • 81 96 Hardware That's what the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive has one full terabyte of space for you to store all your movies, photos and documents. The Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drive features a ramp load design for increased shock protection and three low-power idle modes to boost
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          109 96 Accessories Get the best out of your graphics-inten-sive games with the new EAH2900XT AquaTank, which bundles the powerful EAG2900XT graphics card with AquaTank liquid cooling technology. The AquaTank comes with thicker water pipes to carry away more heat and a larger tank to store more coolant. The air
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        • 79 96 Mobile phones The Nokia 6120 classic is a no-frills phone geared to suit the perpetually busy. The design may be simple, but the phone crams plenty of functions into its compact frame. Key features include 3.5G for faster downloads, e-mail messaging and two cameras a 2.0-megapixel
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        • 100 96 Mobile phones The Nokia Prism collection will appeal to the trendy with its ul-tra-modern look, incorporating glossy black facades with angled lines and light-refract-ing colour. The Nokia Prism 7500 is the quirky one of the lot, with three plastic coloured trims for the side of the
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        156 96 GEEK ZONERS TALK about the PlayStation Portable (PSP) games that they are currently hooked on universalstrikers: "Burnout Legends.. Awesome game.. Just that need to charge once in a while for long term play.. "But still need to rest my eyes.." ForstNinja: "Alternating between Burnout dominator and Ghost Rider. Its
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      • 668 97 -Reuters His job is to find out whether there is inflation in the virtual world Like many central bankers, Dr Eyjolfur Gudmundsson (left) spends his days fretting about inflation, making sure monetary growth is reasonable and trying to collect data about the economy. The
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      • 154 97 -AP Indiana University (IU) and the human-powered Internet search engine ChaCha are partnering to create a one-stop virtual reference desk that connects students with experts and other help. They will debut a Web-based search platform this semester allowing students, faculty and others to look for
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    • INTERNET
      • 600 99 LIM YEE HUNG trawls the local blogosphere to get a behind-the-scenes look at the performers at the recent National Day Parade Setting the standard "National Day Parade (NDP) 2007 marks a new milestone in NDP history. This is the first time that the Parade will be
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      • 716 102  -  MIKE LEE PART 4: SWITCHING TO THE MAC Your Mac need not live in isolation. You can link it up to your Windows PC or printer. By Getting a Macintosh doesn't mean isolation from the Windows majority. Be it the download-cum-file-server machine in the living room
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        • 193 103 Dodge the bullet blizzard HERE'S HOW TO survive the bullet blizzard: Although using the tactical map to move your team is slower than using the heads-up display (HUD), it allows for more precision and better coordination. Using the HUD to point to locations can be extremely imprecise. Advance slowly
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        • 221 103 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 Listen up: This is Scott Mitchell, captain of the Ghost Team in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (Graw2). In this game, my team of three other Ghosts are again called to quell rebels in Mexico. Unlike the X 360
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        • 261 103 Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle Oh, the horrors of this game. Is it the brainless artificial intelligence? The cheap enemy tactics? The utter lack of development? All of the above? This version puts you as one of three heroes fighting to free the land. There's
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        • 383 104 Taiko No Tatsujin DS The DS's touch screen is not capable of registering multiple points of simultaneous input. Nevertheless, the creators of Japanese traditional drum game Taiko No Tatsujin has deemed it fit to include a pair of specially designed styli like a pair
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        • 485 105 Brain Age 2: More Training In Minutes A Day Brain Age the game that lets you keep those brain neurons firing in tip-top condition is back, in Brain Age 2, with new ways to keep you mentally agile. Imagine playing a game of rock, paper and scissors.
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        • 341 105 Deal Or No Deal If you think you will win a million dollars by playing the Deal Or No Deal game, yes, you will but the money is not yours to spend. The game is a take-off on Deal Or No Deal, the TV game show
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      • PRODUCT REVIEWS
        • 416 106 NEC Versa E6310 Price to be announced Get it from authorised NEC dealers It looks like a serious, no-nonsense business notebook PC. And operates like one too. But with little" touches like a wide screen LCD, a leather-like skin and a good gaming engine, the NEC Versa E6310
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        • 321 106 Canon ImageClass MF4680 .$999 Toner cartridge: $122.25 Get it from authorised Canon dealers If you work in a small- or medium-size office, the net-work-ready Canon ImageClass MF4680 multifunction printer should meet your needs. Apart from the usual print, copy, scan and fax functions,
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        • 581 107 Sony Ericsson Pli $988 (with two-year plan), $1,088 (without plan) Available at all authorised Sony Ericsson dealers If you've been on the lookout for a compact phone with both a Qwerty keyboard and a touch screen, check out Sony Ericsson's new Pli. Although it's
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        • 349 107 Olympus mju: 780 .$630 Buy it at authorised dealers or visit www.olympus.com.sg for more information One of the alto singers in my choir is a pint-sized lady. But her size belies her voice she can easily outsing one entire section of the choir. The
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        • 784 108 Replace the onboard battery 9 Whenever I switch on my PC, I get an error message half-way while booting up informing me must change the onboard battery. Where's that? I also need to press F1 to carry on booting up. Also, the PC's date and time
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        • 124 109 Software Office productivity software StarOffice will now be available through the Google Pack download service. StarOffice software from Sun Microsystems includes essential productivity applications such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and chart programs. Google Pack is a collection of free essential software which provides tools
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        • 106 109 Software Mac users can now run practically any software application using VMware's virtualisation software, VMware Fusion, for Apple's Intel Mac computers. It allows the Mac OS X to run more than 60 operating systems, among them Windows, Linux and Solaris. The software allows images
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        • 129 109 Hardware LaCie's Ethernet Big Disk hard drive is targeted at professional users, Sohos (small office, home office) and small networks. With 2TB of storage, the 7,200rpm device allows Windows, Mac and Linux systems to share files over a network using Gigabit Ethernet. It can also
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        • 218 109 PRODUCT OF THE WEEK Services PACIFIC INTERNET HAS launched its all-in-one suite of business and Internet tools targeted at small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). The tools allow businesses to reach out to customers and let their staff members work away from their office and access office e-mail
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        • 104 109 Network tools Symantec has improved its application performance management software that monitors and diagnoses performance bottlenecks in applications. Its Symantec i3 is now easier to use for IT managers, and can resolve application problems, such as those occurring on Sybase and Microsoft SQL server databases, faster. A
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        • 92 109 Software Business software solutions provider Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) has launched a payroll management software targeted at SMEs. MYOB Payroll automatically calculates wages and allowances, produces pay advices and transmits payments to employees' bank accounts. Customised for the Singapore market, the software provides for changes
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      • 342 111  -  LESLIE GOH A new centre teaches IT specialists how to test programs for security risks and write good code. By Software developers who want to test if their programs are up to scratch can now do so with best practices in mind. At the Centre
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      • 452 112 They will get help buying computers, going online, and setting up websites, at shops to be set up by private IT firms. ALFRED SIEW reports Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will soon be able to get plugged into the infocomm technology scene with help
        M. BASHEER  -  452 words
    • PEOPLE
      • 857 114  -  ALLEN LEW 52, Sing Tel CEO for Singapore Mr Lew, SingTel's point man here, talks to ALFRED SIEW about the company's growth and moving on to next-gen broadband technologies When Mr Allen Lew, a 27-year SingTel veteran, took up the newly created position of Singapore
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    • 132 89 Contents DIGITAL LIVING 9 Here comes the ißill The iPhone bill runs into dozens of pages 10 Monitors are evolving As computers become more advanced, so are displays 14 A real economist... ...in a virtual world Digital Life EDITORIAL Editor Grace Chng Writers Alfred Siew, Chua Hian Hou, Leung Wai-Leng,
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  • LITTLE red dot
    • BIGATHOME
      • 672 117 'Cute or not?' By Melody Zaccheus (The Sunday Times, Aug 12, 2007) Singaporean youth are putting themselves under the scrutiny of strangers by posting pictures of themselves on Internet rating communities in order to get stamped as "cute" or "hot". Undergraduate Valerie Lim, 22, recently posted her
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      • 426 118  -  ANDREW DUFFY The five Ws and an H of Asean's 40th birthday. BY WHAT IS ASEAN? It is a group of 10 countries it stands for Association of South-east Asian Nations. It includes Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
        AFP  -  426 words
      • 245 118 Howwould you rate the news items below: HOT, WARM, COOL or COLD? Write down the category in the spaces provided, then answer the quiz questions. Last Saturday, some new Singaporeans were welcomed with a national ceremony to give them their citizenship papers. The ceremony
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    • BIGINASIA
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        152 119 Ferdinand Marcos Jr What he is doing The son of former Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos has been subpoenaed to appear in court. He is a star witness in a case brought by the government to recover a fortune suspected to be held by one of the Philippines'
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      • 30 119 Choose an issue from the Asia pages of The Straits Times and write a short story on 1) What the issue is and 2) Why it matters.
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        148 119 1,300,000 What it is The number of cars slated to be banned from the roads in the Chinese capital of Beijing for four days this month. The ban is designed to test its air pollution control measures, in preparation for the Olympic Games next year. Even though
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        134 119 Taiwan What is happening The university admission rate in Taiwan hit a record high of 96.3 per cent this year as some tertiary institutions lowered entry requirements to get more students. That means almost all who applied for a place in a university got in. What is
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        121 119 Flooding in South Asia What happened Unusually heavy rains caused massive floods in India, and thousands were forced to flee their homes. The floods also wreaked havoc in Bangladesh and Nepal. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that up to 300,000 people were
        AFP  -  121 words
    • BIGALERT
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        339 120 Taking drugs to get the wrong type of high makes people do silly things. CASSANDRA CHEW explains. One of the best feelings to have is the "high" we experience engaging in our favourite sport. We feel so good when we exercise because of hormones called endorphins, released
        AP  -  339 words
      • 111 120 Two weeks ago, Narcotics officers smashed two drug syndicates and arrested nine suspects including their leaders. A total of 1.38kg of heroin was confiscated after the suspects were caught red-handed, in the middle of an exchange of drugs and money. Further investigations led to the arrest
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    • BIGBUCKS
      • 114 121 Below is a list of five words. Tell us the meaning(s) of each word: 1. Unabashed 2. Thresh 3. Skeet 4. Non sequitur 5. Jowl The person who sends in the first entry with all-correct answers will win a Besta e-dictionary. The Besta
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      • 478 121  -  EMILY LEK With a lead role in the much-talked-about movie Hairspray, High School Musical star Zac Efron is all set for even greater fame. BY He was cast only as a newspaper boy in his first musical, Gypsy, in 1998. But that was enough for Zac Efron
        AP  -  478 words
    • THEBIGTHING
      • 661 122  -  MALINI NATHAN Imagine being able to get this close to nature. Soon more primary schools could let their pupils do just that. BY What better way to learn about mud skippers, sea cucumbers, nipa palms and the like than to touch them, smell them and watch them
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    • BIGBIGWORLD
      • 221 123 Five students from Fuxin, China, have been dismissed from school for not flushing the toilet. The headmaster of the Ethnic Mongolian Experimental Middle School, Mr Shi, explained: "Every year we sign a commitment paper with each parent and child, to make sure students behave
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        124 123 President George W. Bush (left) hosted French President Nicholas Sarkozy to a "casual family lunch" on Aug I I, in an effort to foster closer ties between the two countries. US-France relations had been chilly till now, because of France's refusal to support the US in the Iraq war,
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      • 124 123 The religious establishment is upset that fatwas, or religious decrees, are increasingly being issued through new media like the Internet, satellite TV and telephone. It fears that its authority will be eroded by those without theological credentials. The new media has been helping to distribute fatwas on issues such
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        103 123 Leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan have pledged to unite against terrorism and stop extremists from operating in their countries.The joint declaration was made on Aug 12 at the closing session of a four-day tribal council meeting in Kabul. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (right in picture, with Afghan President Hamid
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        131 123 The government accused Russia of attacking the country on Aug 6 by allowing two fighter jets to intrude on its airspace and firing a missile, which landed about 60km from the capital ofTbilisi.The Russian government has denied this, and has even accused Georgia of faking the attack. Georgian President
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        94 123 A Chinese food association has called for a stop to the use of disposable chopsticks. This is to tie in with Beijing's pledge that the 2008 Olympic Games would be an environmentally friendly event. About 25 million trees are used to manufacture disposable wooden chopsticks, according to China Cuisine
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        113 123 Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has pledged to stop giving out logging licences. About 40 per cent of Sabah's rainforest has been lost to deforestation, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has also appealed to Asean to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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    • INTHEDOTLIGHT
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        290 124 We showcase more entries for the Little Red Dot second anniversary contests last month. There are two entries for the birthday photography contest, two for the acrostic poems contest and one for the "draw around the Dot" contest. Each person whose work is featured here gets a Media
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      • 246 124 Hairspray, a high-energy comedy musical film, is about the triumph of the teen spirit. It is about being true to yourself and fighting for what you believe in. The movie, adapted from a critically acclaimed Broadway show, is set in the 1960s and revolves around a
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    • BIGOUTSIDE
      • 505 125  -  ELLEN WHYTE We have learnt how rising sea levels can result in destructive floods and can sink islands, but they also threaten freshwater supplies in coastal communities around the world. BY Rising global temperatures are melting land ice and causing ocean waters to warm up and expand.
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    • BIGINSIDE
      • 533 126 Ever wondered what happens to the blood people donate to blood banks? How does it help save lives? alison de souza explains. People donate or give their blood away because others need extra blood when they are sick or hurt. In every country there is at
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    • THEBIGSTORY
      • 402 127 HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES* Sept 20, 1893, Christchurch, New Zealand Yesterday, New Zealand became the first country in the world to let women vote in elections. Thousands of women crammed City Hall yesterday, waving handkerchiefs to celebrate. It was the end of a long fight one
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      • 85 127 What do these words mean? Tick the answers below. Vote: a) Fight b) Choose c) Speak Petition: a) A request signed by many people b) A person who supports a cause c) A flower Opposed: a) Supported b) Were against c) Did not have an opinion about Parliament: a)
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      • 108 127 It was 1820s America in which women first began campaigning for the right to vote. Throughout history and in many countries, this right has been withheld from various groups sometimes it was women who were not allowed to vote, sometimes it was poor people, and sometimes those of a
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    • BIGWINNERS
      • 159 128 Here are the winners of the Little Red Dot second anniversary contests held last month. Each winner gets an LRD hamper and a 100 Borders voucher. ACROSTIC POEM CONTEST ABBOTT HANNAH LIEN, PRIMAY 4, METHODIST GIRLS' SCHOOL ittle Red Dot, Little Red Dot I like to read The Little
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        195 128 SHARE YOUR POCKET MONEY Download the Big Helper's Calendar from www.nicksplat. com/thebighelp. On the form, you will find a space to keep track of your allowance for sharing. Remember that no amount is too little and that every cent counts. Step I: For each day on
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    • BIGNEWSWORKS
      • 324 129  -  MALINI NATHAN Try it the Dot way! Every week, we brew up Dot-flavoured lessons from a vast collection of classroom recipes. This week, students learn about neighbourly ties and playing host. BY DOT TREAT Group work, two periods DOT MISSION How to maintain friendly ties with
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        384 129  -  KIM MAX BY ARE YOU A NEWSHOUND? 1. You watch the news: a. Regularly to get my news fix. b. Every now and then, if it's on. c. Rarely and only if I can't be bothered to switch channels. 2. A major news story breaks, you find out:
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    • CREATURESBIGANDSMALL
      • 586 130 You are never too young to make a positive difference and do your part for wildlife conservation. The pupils of Gongshang Primary School and Changkat Primary School have great stories to share and hopefully their enriching experience will inspire you and your classmates to care
        SINGAPORE ZOO; FONG CHEE WAI; CHRIS SAM  -  586 words