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  • 882 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS S RAJARATNAM 1915-2006 Editor-at-Large clement@newstoday.com.sg THIS Saturday, he would have turned 91. Instead Singapore's first Foreign Minister S Rajaratnam, the man who gave Singapore a louder voice than its size or geopolitical significance suggested, died yesterday of heart failure. His last few years
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    • 593 2  - A man who loved his country, his wife and a good hot curry TORCHING LI S RAJARATNAM 1915-2006 chingli@newstoday.com. sg WHERE words fail to describe the measure of a man like former Second Deputy Prime Minister (Foreign Affairs) S Rajaratnam, perhaps one should let his favourite movie and songs do
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    • 449 2 IN A stirring tribute to a man from whom he said he got "an education in the art of diplomacy", President S R Nathan said that it was through the efforts of Mr S Rajaratnam that Singapore secured the international recognition it needed to
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    • 709 3  -  TAN HUI LENG SERENECHUA JEREMY LUA Twice as many qualify for aid; bigger fee waivers AND huileng@newstoday.com. sg FROM March 1, more needy students will get help when the Ministry of Education (MOE) relaxes the income ceiling needed to qualify for the Financial Assistance Scheme
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  • Singapore news
    • 413 4  -  CHEOWXINYI Various eye-care brands report a surge in demand, sales xinyic@newstoday.com.sg AS BAUSCH Lomb's ReNu multi-pur-pose solution is taken off the shelves following the eye infection scare, so are the bottles of other rival brands this time by the consumers. Eye-care companies like CIBA
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    • 561 4  -  JASMINE YIN CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg TALK about meeting targets. The Industrial Relations department of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) more than met a one-year target set by Labour chief Lim Boon Heng just less than a fortnight ago. It was given
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    • 512 6  -  TEOXUANWEI Police will only alert parents of teens who are 'exposing themselves to crime risk or bad influence' xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg PARENTS who are expecting the police to impose a blanket 11pm curfew on gallivanting youth will be disappointed. As it turns out, the police
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    • 446 6  -  VINITARAMANI vinita@newstoday.com.sg THIS "pet" has been the pride of Pare Palais condominium on Hume Avenue for five years, but an issue has suddenly arisen over whether the residents can keep it In a tank alongside the condo's swimming pool is not one
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    • 225 8 —AGENCIES JAKARTA Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday called on former Indonesian presidents Suharto and Megawati Sukarnoputri, whom he described as old friends. During his brief visit to Mr Suharto at his home in Central Jakarta, both men, who were wearing golden-brown batik
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    • 601 8  - Hawking show space in the rival's backyard LOH CHEE KONG Rousing response by exhibitors to Spore Airshow pitch at Asian Aerospace cheekong@newstoday.com.sg RESERVATIONS for exhibition space at Singapore's new airshow are flying in ironically, via the very show it will be replacing. The Singapore Airshow, to be held in 2008,
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    • 215 10  -  ■VINITARAMANI OVER the past three days, 169 suspected drug offenders ranging from a 16-year-old Sri Lankan boy to a 58-year-old Malay man were rounded up in an islandwide raid by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). Drugs with a street value of more than $56,000 were
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    • 673 10  -  UNYANQIN For little Luke, Yaya was the first thing he ever said ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg WHEN little Luke Chia uttered his first word two years ago, Miss Marina Bayabay Garcia was close to tears. The emotions surged not only because the 34-month-old's first word was
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    • 104 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CERTIFICATES of Entitlement for cars are now back to above the $10,000 level. The latest bidding exercise saw prices rise across all categories except for small cars. COE prices for cars of 1,600 cc and below dropped by $181 to
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  • world news
    • 164 12 —AFP HANOI Vietnamese police have issued an international warrant for the arrest of a Taiwanese accused of fraud after the sudden shutdown of several English-language centres. Michael Yu, head of Singapore International Teaching Consultancy (SITC), is considered the key figure in a scandal that left
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 70 12 -DPA Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday reasserted his determination to scrap the National Unification Council (NUC) despite a United States warning that the move would raise cross-Strait tension and cause trouble for Taiwan. "The NUC and the guidelines for national unification are absurd legacies from
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      • 72 12 -AGENCIES Sri Lanka's warring parties yesterday marked the formal end to a three-year deadlock in efforts to end the conflict by kicking off talks at a peaceful Swiss chateau in Geneva. The Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tiger rebels sat down to talk about
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    • 504 12 -AFP Canberra wants to explain ban on SIA flying lucrative Australia-US route SYDNEY Australia will seek talks with Singapore after the city state took the unusual step of publicly rebuking Canberra for maintaining a trans-Pacific ban on Singapore Airlines (SIA). While the main beneficiary of
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    • 117 12 —AFP BAGHDAD Six minority Sunnis were killed and 27 of their mosques attacked in Baghdad yesterday after the bombing of a revered Shia shrine north of the capital. Those killed included three prayer leaders and three faithful who were praying in one of the mosques. One
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    • 233 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Muslim groups have lodged police reports against the Malaysian gov-ernment-linked New Straits Times (NST) for printing a cartoon about the controversy over the Prophet Mohammed caricatures. The newspaper, however, defended the cartoon, saying in an editorial yesterday that it will let the government
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    • 213 12 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has widened its bird flu surveillance around a village just north of the capital to include the Petronas Twin Towers, officials said yesterday, a day after announcing its first outbreak in poultry in more than a year.
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    • 495 14 Terror organisation offers paltry wages, paid holidays, child benefits, and other perks LONDON It's like any other company. It has an employment contract stating salary, paid leave, grievance procedures except that the employer is Al Qaeda, the world's top terrorist network. But the pay is less
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    • 173 14 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian police are investigating former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim for possible sedition following a public speech during an election campaign, according to his lawyer. "The police have summoned Anwar for a statement following a police report believed to be related
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    • 186 16 AGENCIES BANGKOK Facing mounting pressure from his opponents to quit, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has decided to take the battle to the streets. Pro-govern-ment rallies have been planned in Bangkok and other provinces to blunt charges that Dr Thaksin put the interests of
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    • 337 16 -AFP Proposed deal sparks uproar in Congress WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush on Tuesday locked horns with a virtually united Congress over plans by an Arab company to take over operations at six major US ports, threatening to veto any Bill that could
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    • 190 16 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO A condemned United States inmate's execution was cancelled on Tuesday after prison officials in California could not find a doctor or nurse willing to administer the lethal injection. Officials notified a federal appeals court that they could not comply with
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    • this quirky world
      • 66 18 San Francisco city officials have directed their contracted trash-handling firm to devise a way of turning pet droppings into methane gas that could be used as fuel for home heating and electricity generation. The directive was issued after a study revealed that 3.8 per cent
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      • 90 18 I O AFP A Japanese burglar dubbed the "King of the Night" stole luxury items from women's apartments by sniffing the fragrances emanating from behind the doors of their homes. Seiichi Shirota, 46, allegedly stole 3.65 million yen ($50,200) worth of luxury watches and
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      • 60 18 Following a string of international victories for Dutch darts players, the number of injuries have increased as more people take up the game at home, according to the Dutch consumer safety association. A spokeswoman told Reutersthat overeagerness caused a lot of the injuries, with players
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    • 154 18 -AP JAKARTA Production at the world's largest gold and copper mine was suspended yesterday after illegal miners blocked the road leading to the site in Indonesia's remote Papua province. Around 400 illegal miners had set up wood and stone barricades on the road
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    • 754 18  -  AMITY SHLAES Harvard president quits because university didn't back him the way Clinton did news@newstoday.com.sg HARVARD forced Larry Summers overboard after all. On Tuesday, Mr Summers announced he was leaving the post of Harvard president after five stormy years trying to row the oldest university
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 66 20 —AFP Heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides in central Indonesia, killing at least 31 people in the past week, a government official said yesterday. Most of the deaths occurred on Tuesday in Manado, the capital of north Sulawesi province, where 19 bodies were pulled from the
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      • 70 20 -AFP Chinese prosecutors have transferred an espionage case against Mr Ching Cheong, a China correspondent for The Straits Times, to a state security body for further investigation, supporters of the reporter said yesterday. Mr Ching was arrested in August for allegedly buying a huge volume
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      • 78 20 -DPA Writers from around the world plan to mark March 20, the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the "day of political lies". The Berlin-based Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics, which organises the annual Berlin Literature Festival, said yesterday that
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    • 471 20 —AFP They were killed, tortured in Iraq, Afghanistan, says rights group LONDON Nearly 100 prisoners have died in United States custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, the Human Rights First watchdog said yesterday. At least 98 deaths occurred, with at least
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    • 104 21 -AFP LONDON A young British bride walked down the aisle on Tuesday flanked by a mob of machine gun-toting cops. Following rumours that the teenager's father would shoot his daughter if she got hitched, armed police officers staked out the church in Bournemouth, southern England. One
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    • 254 21 -AFP Court hears of his self-image as he pursues bid to block publication of diaries LONDON Britain's Prince Charles calls himself a "dissident", it was revealed in the country's High Court, which was also told that he had flouted the convention of
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    • 132 21 AGENCIES GAZA CITY Hamas leaders held talks with leaders of the vanquished Fatah faction yesterday about forming a coalition after the radical Islamist group was formally handed the task of forming the next Palestinian government Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday appointed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah
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    • 141 21 HARARE Zimbabwe's long-serving President Robert Mugabe, who turned 82 on Tuesday, was showered with birthday praises by his followers despite presiding over a nation reeling under worsening economic crises. The state-owned Herald newspaper published a 16-page supplement of pictures of Mr Mugabe, as
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      • 115 22  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I refer to the report, "PAP to field Eurasians in elections soon" (Feb 22). Since the retirement of former Minister E W Barker, there has been no Eurasian MP in Parliament. The Eurasian community has contributed greatly to the
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      • 135 22  -  STEVE KNGO I refer to the news "No deal, just an offer of'marriage'for SIA" (Feb 22). Qantas is happily "married" and would not consider a "Singapore(an) Girl". Why is SIA so disappointed? The Australia-United States route accounts for 20 per cent of Qantas' profits, so why
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    • 707 22  -  Jeremy Lim RECENTLY, I participated in a re- search project on I Singapore being an inclusive society. I found the I questions thoughtprovoking. I was asked: "Do you feel that Singapore is an inclusive society?" An appropriate answer would be: Obviously not yet Otherwise, there would
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    • 252 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I GRANDMA'S OFF HER ROCKER There was a time when uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters were available to give parents a helping hand with child-rearing. But more typically today, the extended family is spread all overthe country and might not even be
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    • 313 24  - No Budget joy for stay-home mums ANGELINA PHILLIPS Their contributions to society should be recognised, too Letter from I AM a member of Singapore's marginalised community the stuck-at-home, trying-to-make-ends-meet graduate mother. It is a luxury that few can afford, and a sacrifice that few would make. I gave up a
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    • 248 24  -  LUMCHOONGEU Letter from SINGAPOREANS with elderly parents had lots of great news recently with the Government announcing a slew of programme for the ageing population. My father, 80, fell and was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Dec 31 with
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    • 542 24  -  TONY KING Letter from Club Coach Bedok Kings Rugby Football Club I WOULD like to respond to several inaccurate statements made in Jason Chen's letter, "Time to maul alternative SRU" (Feb 20). Our club members were concerned to see our name associated
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    • 814 26  -  TAMMY TAN SBS explains why adding buses, having 'spare' drivers can't solve vagaries of traffic conditions Letter from Director, Corporate Communications SBS Transit Ltd I REFER to the letters "Buses all bunched up, I've nowhere to go" by Huang Pengxie (Feb 7), "Conduct survey to assess bus
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    • 213 28  -  SOHTIONGBOON THAT'S WHAT I CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE We have read a lot of negative things about retail staff in Singapore. I would like to share a good experience when I purchased a printer from Harvey Norman at Jurong Point. The salesman, Mr Liang Zhi Wei, was very polite and
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    • 1141 28 Tsunami survivors look beyond devastation in the crowd KARTINIALI 35, Volunteer Singaporean Kartini AH, 35, first visited Nias in January 2005 after the tsunami. What she saw there and in Banda Aceh touched her profoundly. Then a contract staff with the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), she
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    • 300 29 Advertisement 6pike in contact lens infection casss TIIERE has been an increase in disposable lenses, which were contact lens related infections, cleaned and stored with a the Ministry of Health (MOH) multi-purpose solution, has said. Eighteen of the 19 patients The Singapore National Eye seen by SNEC as well as
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  • Businesstoday
    • 466 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE DBS, UOB increase board rates by 0.5% and 0.25% respectively, effective March pennnee@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as homeowners face the pinch of banks raising their mortgage loan rates, some analysts are saying that the trend of rising interest rates could end soon.
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    • 299 30  -  —VALERIE LAW UNZA Holdings, a maker of personal care and household products, yesterday said it scrapped its second attempt at listing, just one day before its shares were scheduled to trade on the main board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). In November
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    • 259 30 Engineering services firm Advanced Holdings reported a net profit of $6.9 million, or 7.47 cents per share, for the year ended Dec 31, up from $2.6 million, or 3.56 cents a share, in the year earlier. Revenue more than doubled to $38.85 million from $17.09 million. Investment firm Haw
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    • business news
      • 249 32  -  BLOOMBERG SHIN Corp shareholders should accept a tender offer by Singapore's Temasek Holdings for its shares, the Thai company said in a statement filed yesterday with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Temasek has offered 49.25 baht ($2.04) for each Shin Corp share.
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      • 390 32 DOW JONES Sales outside Asia boost performance, company proposes 1-for-5 bonus issue OSIM International yesterday said its fourth-quarter net profit rose 54 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier, as the retailer of massage chairs and other lifestyle products got a boost
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      • marketbuzz
        • 127 32 JOHNNIE WALKER has entered the international world of Formula 1 with Team McLaren Mercedes and its drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya. To celebrate this sponsorship, Johnnie Walker is holding a special promotion that will give one lucky winner (and
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        • 99 32 YOU DO not have to be an aerobics or kick-boxing expert to enjoy the demonstrations at IMM this weekend. As part of the Singapore Sports Council's Be An Active Woman campaign, you can expect these demonstrations as well as hip hop performances, interesting
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      • marketwatch
        • 141 32 -AFP SHARES fell yesterday following Wall Street's decline overnight and on a lack of new buying leads, dealers said. They said Creative Technology, which fell 20 cents to $12.90, dragged the key index down, while other technology shares also retreated. The ST Index closed down 15.67 points, or 0.64
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        • 56 32 Nikkei 225 15,781.78 -113.16 -8.71 Hang Seng 15,635.72 +8.48 +8.85 Australia ASX 4,886.78 +7.68 +8.16 Taiwan Wtd 6,538.78 -188.81 -1.52 Korea Comp 1,348.58 -5.91 -8.44 KLCI 924.48 -1.27 -8.14 SET Index 728.68 +8.84 +8.12 Jakarta Comp 1,231.25 -4.83 -8.39 Phils Comp 2,867.88 -8.93 -8.43 Shenzhen B 251.55 -8.43
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    • 637 46  -  CHIAEEKHIM Lots to see, lots to eat, and getting around is a breeze traveller@newstoday.com.sg FOR many, Macau still conjures the image of a gambler's paradise. However, as I discovered during a recent visit, this former Portuguese colony, whose grand Baroque-styled buildings and quaint pastel-coloured
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    • 554 47 No visit Down Under can be complete without making a pilgrimage to see the world's largest natural wonder. Like the splendid Taj Mahal of India and the imposing Great Wall of China, the Great Barrier Reef is a must-see in Australia. Think crystal clear waters, sunny
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    • 493 48  -  LEE HUI SHAN Resort life and history meet in the southern state of India huisha nl@newstoday.com. sg A BEAUTIFUL seaside city built on seven hills. A trading port bustling with energy. These two cities Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi can be found inside "God's own country", Kerala
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    • 488 50  -  LEE HUI SHAN Promotions, prizes as SIA celebrates service to Russia's capital huisha nl@newstoday.com. sg THERE is now a great way to fly to Moscow. Starting March 1, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will launch a thrice-weekly service to the capital of Russia. In conjunction with this new service, SIA
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