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    13 1 TODAY share your free newspaper Tuesday August 15, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006 /A=DIJ\CORP
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    Lock icon Guns silent, but who won?
    629 1 Lebanon, Israel count the costs as fragile ceasefire takes effect JERUSALEM After wringing its hands for 34 days, the United Nations finally managed to orchestrate the appearance of peace in the Middle East. Israel stopped pummelling the Hezbollah while Lebanon agreed to make sure that
    —AGENCIES  -  629 words
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    Lock icon After 50 memorable years, it's farewell Caldecott for MediaCorp
    559 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg AFTER more than half a century, MediaCorp will bid farewell to the site on which a single radio station eventually blossomed into a major broadcasting and publishing entity. Over the years, the media company has undergone several
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      MPs focus on health
      684 2  -  TAN HUI LENG Focus group sessions to help patients, public prioritise huileng@newstoday.com.sg WITH ageing parents, in-laws and three school-going children to care for, Mr Muhamad Saif already had his hands full trying to cope with daily expenses with his driver salary. Then came the shocker: His
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      PARADE POMP AND POIGNANT PODCASTS
      776 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG Many ways to celebrate being Singaporean, but the spontaneous ones are best AS I watched the pomp and grandeur of the National Day Parade on television, I could not help but wonder: What is the best way to celebrate the occasion? The parade, and
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  • Singapore news
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      Subutex suspects arrested
      491 4  -  ANSLEYNG CNB makes first arrests after new drug laws a nsley@newstoday.com.sg JUST 20 minutes after tougher laws on Subutex kicked in, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) launched a pre-dawn swoop on those trying to flout them. During the 11-hour crackdown yesterday, CNB arrested three suspected traffickers and
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      Seeing myopia through infants' eyes
      417 4  -  SHERALYNTAY COULD there be something during infancy that puts our children at higher risk of myopia? That's the question Singaporean researchers want to solve by launching a threeyear research project, which will start next month. According to Associate Professor Saw Seang Mci from the Yong
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      Decomposing infant's body found in FairPrice branch
      213 6 A HIGHLY-DECOMPOSED infant was discovered yesterday at a locker room in NTUC Fair Price's Bishan Junction 8 branch. The grisly find of the premature baby was triggered by a stench coming from the staff locker room of the popular supermarket Alerted at 11am,
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      Holiday at school – overseas
      574 6  - Holiday at school overseas LEE U-WEN NTU students get a taste of HK, German or US campus life u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHILE most undergraduates go on holiday, work part-time or simply put their feet up during their three-month vacation, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has an entirely different plan for its students.
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      Judge named to hear Chee cases
      437 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE Supreme Court has appointed a new judge, Justice Belinda Ang, to hear the defamation suits filed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew against the Chee siblings. The hearings will take place tomorrow, after
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      Lock icon Getting charities to share
      662 8  -  TORCHING LI New NCSS president wants VWOs to train each other, make references chingli@newstoday.com. sg THE Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWO) network will be a more closely knit one, if retired Rear-Admiral Kwek Siew Jin has his way. The new president of the National Council of Social
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      Latest plot in UK shows terrorists are developing new tactics
      302 8  -  -LOHCHEEKONG THE latest foiled terror plot in United Kingdom was a "vivid demonstration" that terrorists are constantly developing new tactics to outfox the authorities, said Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee. Speaking
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      Lock icon 48 Asean students become Singapore Scholars
      260 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FORTY-EIGHT students from the Southeast Asian region have just become Singapore Scholars. They will be doing their undergraduate studies under the Singapore Cooperation Programme, which was set up to bring the Asean (Association of South-east Asian Nations) member-states closer and boost understanding
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  260 words
    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon SLIGHT HAZE LIKELY TILL OCT
        86 8 938 LIVE For the second time in three days, parts of Singapore experienced slight haze. The PSI reading reached 52 as at 4pm yesterday, a level last recorded on Saturday. This means the air quality here was in the "moderate" range. The local metereological service
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        Lock icon POLICE IDENTIFY DEAD MAN
        83 8 -938UVE Police have identified a man found dead in the waters off East Coast Park last Saturday morning as 31-year-old Tan Boon Kwang. He was not carrying any identification papers when he was found. He was spotted lying face down near the shoreline off Bedok Jetty.
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      Lock icon M'sia-S'pore train services disrupted
      216 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TRAIN services between Singapore and Malaysia were disrupted after a cargo train overturned near Lower Delta Road yesterday, blocking railway transportation lines between the two countries. It was around 5.40pm when workers in the factories near Lower Delta Road heard a loud bang. Six
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      Lock icon Asean eyes faster open skies deal
      316 10 —AFP KUALALUMPUR-Some Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) members are considering bringing forward an open-skies agreement due to be implemented in the region by 2008, Malaysian Trade Minister Chan Kong Choy said yesterday. "We are open (to the idea). Some countries say yes, some
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      Lock icon Blackout hits Tokyo
      237 10 -AFP TOKYO A blackout briefly hit the Tokyo metropolitan area yesterday, disrupting rail services and road traffic, officials and reports said. The blackout, which occurred at 7.38 am (6.38 am Singapore time), struck Tokyo as well as parts of Chiba prefecture east of the Japanese capital and
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      Lock icon A parting shot from Koizumi
      343 10 -AFP PM set to anger Japan's neighbours one last time with visit today to war shrine TOKYO With stubborn defiance, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to visit the Yasukuni war shrine today on a significant anniversary, angering Asian neighbours one last time before
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      Lock icon DIVISIVESYMBOL
      134 10 —AFP The Yasukuni shrine lists the names of 2,466,532 "eternal souls", mostly soldiers killed in 11 wars, two of them domestic and the others with Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Controversially, the names include 14 top war criminals from World War II secretly enshrined in 1978
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      Lock icon Cuba's presidency may go to brother
      234 11 —AP HAVANA Cuban leader Fidel Castro sent his countrymen a sober greeting on his 80th birthday last Sunday, saying he faces a long recovery from surgery and warning they should be prepared for "adverse news". But he encouraged them to be optimistic and said
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      Lock icon Permanent peace plans for Aceh
      244 11 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's President yesterday warned more work was needed to solidify peace in Aceh as global leaders praised Indonesia and ex-rebels from the province for reaching the first anniversary of their conflict's end. The Acehnese are set to celebrate a year of peace today
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      Temple replica to be built
      64 11 YANGON Military-ruled Myanmar plans to build a replica of Yangon's world-famous Shwedagon pagoda in the newly-built administrative capital of Nay Pyi Taw, The Weekly Eleven journal reported. The 98-meter (320-foot) Shwedagon pagoda is about 2,500 years old and its distinctive gold zedi the bell-shaped monument-
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      Lock icon N Korean leader appears in public
      158 11 -AP SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn Jong II has made his first public appearance since his country testlaunched a barrage of missiles more than a month ago, official media reported. Mr Kirn toured a rabbit and goat farm producing food for the military the
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      Lock icon Obesity now a global disease
      111 11 —AFP SYDNEY The world now has more overweight people than hungry ones and governments should design economic strategies to influence national diets, a conference of international experts heard yesterday. The transition from a starving world to an obese one had hap- pened with dramatic speed,
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      Lock icon 61 children killed in Lankan violence
      315 12 -AFP COLOMBO Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka escaped a bomb attack which killed seven people in the Sri Lankan capital yesterday as Tamil Tigers said the air force bombed an orphanage in rebel territory killing 61 schoolgirls. The unprecedented Claymore mine attack on a
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      Lock icon Dr M's bridge to keeping silent
      369 12 —AFP He says he will stop his barbs if PM Abdullah resumes bridge project KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denied allegations he was trying to topple the government which he has bitterly criticised in recent months. Influential cabinet minister Nazri Abdul
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      Lock icon HK reporter's spy trial to start today?
      135 12 —AFP BEIJING A Hong Kong journalist who has been detained in China for nearly 16 months on spying charges, will face trial today, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy group. The Hong Kong-based center citing prosecution sources said the
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      Lock icon Threat level downgraded
      483 14 DPA But terrorist attack still 'highly likely', say British authorities LONDON Britain yesterday downgraded its threat level from "critical" the highest- to "severe," British Home Secretary John Reid announced in a statement The move was followed by the United States, which similarly downgraded its threat level from
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      Lock icon Plane plot linked to Al Qaeda
      268 14 -THE GUARDIAN ISLAMABAD The suspected ringleader of the alleged plot to blow up flights out of Heathrow has provided details that directly link the conspiracy to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, said Pakistani officials. Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said Rashid Rauf had given investigators
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FILIPINO VILLAGES BURIED BY BOULDERS
        52 14 —AFP Heavy rain triggered landslides which buried 10 villages on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, displacing thousands of residents, rescuers said yesterday. There were no reports of casualties from the affected area near the town of Kapatagan following the landslides, which took place on
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        M'SIAN WOMEN WANT BETTER SEX FOR ESTEEM
        103 14 Three out of five Malaysian women above the age of 45 said better sex would put more zing into their lives, reported The New Straits Times, citing a new survey by Synovate Healthcare. Nearly half of the 300 women who took part in
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        Lock icon HK MAN FOUND EATEN ALIVE BY MAGGOTS
        115 14 —AFP An elderly Hong Kong man is in hospital after doctors found he was being eaten alive by maggots, health officials said yesterday. They said the 67-year-old could have been gnawed to death by the parasites had he not been rushed into care.
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        Lock icon TWO GET LIFE FOR KILLING FILIPINO DIPLOMAT
        89 14 -AFP Two men were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for the killing of a senior Philippines diplomat during a burglary last year, a lower court said. In April 2005, Alicia Ramos was found dead in her Manila home with masking tape over
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        HUMAN BIRD FLU CASE CONFIRMED IN CHINA
        81 14 A new case of bird flu affecting humans has been confirmed in China yesterday as a 62-year-old farmer who died last month, state media said. The victim from the northwestern region of Xinjiang fell ill on June 19 and died on July 12,
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      Lock icon Iranian president takes to blogging
      370 16 —THE GUARDIAN TEHRAN His political approach has become a byword for populism and on Sunday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with a hi-tech dimension by launching his own weblog. The hardline Iranian leader's debut on the international blogosphere came in the form of a 2,300-word
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      Lock icon How fast can you give away $4.7b?
      525 16 NYT NEWS SERVICES That's the challenge the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will face every year from 2009 WASHINGTON Although it has long been the largest grant-making foundation in the United States, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing an unparalleled challenge:
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        THEY HELP YOU GET DIVORCED
        60 16 A German firm, run by a twice divorced man, has come up with a novel idea to help separated couples divorce planners, reported ananova.com. The Agentur Rosenkrieg, or War of the Roses Agency, offers to mediate between spouses, giving them advice and arranging all the
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        Lock icon OVER THEIR DEAD BODY ...
        77 16 OVER THEIR DEAD BODY —AFP The Beijing city government has turned down an undertaker's application to send human ashes into space, the Xinhua news agency reported. A funeral home's proposal to charge 100,000 yuan ($19,800) each for sending two clients' ashes into space was turned down on the grounds that
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        ELECTION OFFICIALS ARE NOT SMILING
        84 16 It might have been a campaign to put a smile on Venezuelan faces but the election authority are not smiling. The official are probing a local toothpaste maker for illegally promoting President Hugo Chavez's campaign to get reelected on Dec 3 polls, according to Reuters.
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      SHORTTAKE
      71 18  -  DAISY TAN: SOW SEATS OF RESPECT A notice on a train from the Gold Coast to Brisbane, Australia, states: "Students on concessional cards must not occupy seats whilst adults are standing." It's sad that our students seldom offer their seats to adults, even the elderly or pregnant. It would
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      Lock icon Make room to enjoy fireworks
      251 18  -  KAREN GOH MEI MEI Close roads so more can watch the show Letter from THERE is just no substitute for watching fireworks live and at close range. No matter how good the video footage or photograph, the experience is just different. At the Fireworks Festival
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    • Consider banning smoking outright
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        Have laws against possession
        296 18  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Letter from I REFER to the report, "Its promise distorted, Subutex fades on a low" (Aug 11). Instead of curing heroin addiction, users are addicted to Subutex itself. So, Subutex has now been listed as a Class A Controlled Drug, with its distribution,
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        Set up addicts'centres
        136 18  -  ROBERT WSTRAUGHAN Letter from IT IS good that the Government has taken steps to ban smoking in public places but, on the whole, its actions and intentions confuse me. We all know underaged smoking (below 18), is illegal. The fact that the young may not be mature
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      253 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON NO, NO, NO, YES! "No, you can't go out. No, you can't have a cookie. No, you can't use the telephone. And no, you can't go to Susie's house!" No, no, no, no. How many times each day do we use that small,
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      Lock icon Let's make a deal
      1018 20  -  LOONG SENG ONN 41, executive director, Singapore Mediation Centre WHEN tempers rise during talks at the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), the mediator either calms irate parties down... "or there is blood on the floor", warns the centre's executive director Loong Seng Onn. No, he's just joking.
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      No auto-discharge
      294 21  -  MOEYWENG FOO Majority of undischarged bankrupts are uncooperative, make little effort to repay debts Letter from Assistant Official Assignee Insolvency Public Trustee's Office WE REFER to Mr Leong Sze Hian's letter "The mystery of debtor pile-up" (Aug 9). Credit is as vital as capital to the economy. Credit
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      Service as it should be
      161 21  -  ERIC CHUNG Letter from I VISITED DFS Galleria Scottswalk a few days ago, during lunch, to grab a gift for a friend. I got what I wanted from the fragrance department but no one was at the cashier's when I walked over to pay. But
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      Not just a humourist, a good tour guide too
      243 21  -  HARRY CHIA Letter from I REFER to Neil Humphreys' column, "Never sick of NDP Par-TEE!" (Aug 12). I have just finished reading Neil's latest book and I had a ball of a time. I exploded with laughter every now and then,
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      Why's there noisy construction on Sundays?
      264 21  -  LIONEL DESOUZA Letter from I AM the chairman of my condominium's management council. It appears to be a ritual for noisy road works to take place every Sunday at the junction of New Upper Changi Road and Bedok Road, opposite the condominium. I believe
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      Audio ads on trains were a trial run
      126 21  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter "Loud audio ad is no fun on trains" by Sim Choon Chye (Aug 7). The audio advertisements were initiated as part of a trial
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      Collision highlights need for seatbelts on buses
      204 22  -  MURALI SHARMA Letter from THE three-bus collision outside the Lakeside MRT station on Aug 10 raises a number of disturbing questions. Were the bus drivers adequately qualified, how long had they been driving their routes, were they familiar with the area, and so
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      A separation, not a birth
      383 22  -  STEVE KNGO Aug 9 more rightly commemorated as a day of thanksgiving than a birthday celebration Letter from People's Action Party (PAP) already did significant and considerable work as the Government of Singapore, post-Mr David Marshall and Mr Lim Yew Hock. There is no doubt
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        ONE NAME, MANY PRONUNCIATIONS
        93 22  -  LUDWIG TAN: Michael Wee is wrong to suggest (Say Again, Aug 10) that there is only one possible pronunciation for "Singapore". In fact, dictionaries by Cambridge and Longman list several possibilities. First, it is not wrong to begin the second syllable with a hard "g"- an
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        ANIMALS DESERVE A HOME, TOO
        74 22  -  JUDITH LINDLEY: Clarence Ti ("Heart makes a concrete city a home", Aug 10) has singled out some exemplary Singaporeans who reach out, on their own initiative, to Singapore and beyond, and make their community a true home. I'm touched that he has included the animals
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        IMPRESSIVE EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO ALL
        77 22  -  ALOYSIOUS CONZAGA: I had the privilege of attending a National Day celebration on Saturday at Bukit Merah View, where the speech by our Member of Parliament, Ms Indranee Rajah, was conveyed in four languages. I was impressed with the effort put in to
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      Lock icon isay TIME TO PUT THE GHOSTS TO REST
      756 24  -  LIANG DINGZI WHAT has Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni shrine which honours Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals to do with a Singaporean man-in-the-street like me who belongs to the post-war generation? Until recently, I had thought,
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      151 24 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES The young minister wrote to the Premier 'Such an honour I'll never forget I'm thrilled to have the opportunism To serve in your great cabinet!' MUSES If Constantine had not dreamed Of the Cross's victory in store There would have been no Christianity To plant it on
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      518 26 -BLOOMBERG More than doubles to $795 m on asset stake, property sales OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp's (OCBC) second-quarter net profit more than doubled after the company sold non-banking assets to comply with Government regulations. Profit surged to $795 million, or annualised earnings per share of 99.8 cents, from
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      274 26 BLOOMBERG LAS Vegas Sands Corp hired seven banks for a US$l.4-billion ($2.2-billion) loan for its Singapore casino project, a banker involved in the deal said. The banks hired are Citigroup, DBS Group Holdings, Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley,
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        120 26 -DOW JONES SHARE prices closed flat despite strength in technology stocks, with many investors waiting for further cues from data from the United States before taking new positions, traders said. The ST Index closed down 0.13 points at 2,450.50. Yesterday, 985 million shares worth $1 billion were traded. "Investors
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        57 26 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.11 +292.09 +1.88 Hang Seng ASX *****.01 +40.06 4971.30 +22.10 +0.23 +0.45 Taiwan Wtd 6611.90 +40.80 +0.62 Korea Comp 1295.11 +3.01 +0.23 KLCI 946.00 +3.73 +0.40 SET Index Jakarta Comp 1415.22 +13.03 +0.93 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2327.50 -13.96 282.36 -3.82
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        70 26 APB 14.600 +1.600 Bukit Sem 18.900 +1.500 OmegaNav 50 Creative 50 24.500 +0.500 9.100 +0.350 Jardine C8C 11.100 +0.300 SIA200 13.200 +0.200 Venture NOL 11.800 +0.200 2.060 +0.180 KS Energy Wilmar 100 2.350 +0.120 1.050 +0.110 CharteredDBS***** 0.010 +100.0 CreativeBNP*****6 0.010 +100.0 HSI*****SGA*****0 0.010 +100.0 MAEEnggW*****8 500
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        67 26 UOB 15.500 -0.200 JMH 400USS 18.000 -0.100 KepCorp 15.500 SembCorp 3.160 Shang Asia 2kHK$ 15.000 -0.100 -0.100 -0.100 Sp Land 6.300 N0LMBLePW*****9 0.170 -0.100 -0.090 SZSI100SGA*****4 0.530 -0.085 SembCorpBBS***** 0.235 SembMarSGA*****4 0.345 -0.080 -0.080 HSCB6300SGAePW***** 0.010 -87.5 BBSCAePW*****0 0.005 -50.0 SembCoroMBLeCW***** 0.010 SinjTelWBLeCW*****7 0.005 UOBBBSeCW*****2 0.100 -50.0
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        36 26 US$ 0.6332 UK£ 0.3350 Yen 73.647 HK$ 4.9240 RM 2.3272 Euro 0.4977 Rupiah 5745.4 Baht 23.684 Peso 32.431 AS 0.8262 Indian Rs 29.455 Won 608.95 C$ 0.7123 Yuan 5.0502 NZS 0.9996 NT$ 20.667
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        20 26 Gold US$/oz 644.40 Silver US$/oz 11.89 Platinum US$/oz 1,254.40 Rubber cents/kg 357.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,633.50 Brant US$/barrel 75.66
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      295 27 BLOOMBERG Recovers well from effects of 2004 tsunami BANYAN Tree Holdings, which runs luxury resorts from the Seychelles to Phuket, said that second-quarter losses narrowed as business picked up following a decline in tourists after the 2004 tsunami. Losses narrowed to $2.7 million, or 0.42 cent
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      205 27 BLOOMBERG NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL), which operates Asia's fourth-largest container shipping company, said that its profit dropped 66 per cent in the second quarter because of higher fuel costs and falling freight rates. Net profit in the three months ended
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      341 28 BLOOMBERG It helps developer's second-quarter profit to double CITY Developments, Singapore's secondbiggest developer, said that second-quarter profit almost doubled, reflecting rising demand for homes amid accelerating economic growth here. Net profit rose to $44.9 million, or 4.2 cents a share, in the three months ended June
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      229 28 DOW JONES JAPAN'S Mitsui Chemicals will open a research and development centre on Singapore's Jurong Island on Oct 1 to develop a catalyst to produce benzene from natural gas. The company is doing this in its bid to reduce its raw
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      354 28 Wheelock Properties chalked up a net profit of $26.5 million, or 2.22 cents per share, for its first quarter ended June 30, up 42 per cent from $18.7 million, or 2.14 cents a share, a year earlier. Sales jumped 88 per cent to $156 million, mainly due to profit
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      211 29  -  CHOW PENN NEE EIGHT Singapore-based water treatment companies are joining hands to bid for $500 million worth of water and wastewater treatment projects in the Middle East by the end of 2009. The consortium was unveiled yesterday by Minister of State
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      338 29  -  CHRISTIE LOH Advertising firms accept to pay for the info christi e@newstoday.com.sg ADVERTISING agencies have finally agreed to pay for viewership data from free-to-air television operator MediaCorp, ending a five-month deadlock. But the exact fee amount remains unfixed, as MediaCorp and the Association
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      119 29  -  CHRISTIE LOH MORE loans to small businesses helped push up Hong Leong Finance's earnings for the second quarter ended June 30. Net profit rose 17.3 per cent from a year ago to $22.3 million as interest income, including that from hire-purchase loans, grew 24.2 per
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        760 30  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ Expressions International celebrates 17 years of promoting health for the mind, body and spirit ja nec@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S most renowned health, beauty, and spa provider, Expressions International, celebrates 17 years of helping more than 200,000 customers achieve wellness this month. The number surges to half
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        458 30  -  -JANECHIAPOCO CARLSBERG Singapore last month edged out 140 global markets, including its Copenhagen headquarters, to be the first to premiere the brand's tagline in a television commercial. "Our latest campaign is part of a broad effort to reappraise the Carlsberg brand image
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        184 30 HOUSEHOLD CLEANING PRODUCTS A HIT IN DEVELOPING MARKETS MORE than two-thirds of the worldwide dollar value growth in the household cleaning products came from developing markets, according to a recent study by AC Nielsen. According to the survey, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam recorded more than 10 per cent
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        Citizen advertising: The next big thing?
        776 31  -  DERRICK A PAULO Fans and consumers may soon have a part to play in defining ad campaigns through blogs and podcasts derrick@newstoday.com.sg CITIZEN journalism is a phenomenon Singaporeans are just starting to take to, thanks to the Internet and the growth of the blogosphere.
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        818 34  -  ARIELTAM Mr Kelvin Low, Manage your software assets to gain a competitive edge, optimise IT costs and ensure legal compliance a riel@newstoday.com.sg I MANAGING software licences in a corporate enviI ronment is troublesome and every IT administrator can attest to that. Software is somewhat
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        266 34  -  Joanna Urn I In a fix over IT matters? I Bugged by software I I glitches? I I Send your questions to I I infotech@newstoday.com.sg I OUTLOOK MAPI ERROR Q: Every time I open my Microsoft Outlook, this error message will appear on the screen: "Managed MAPI Service Catastrophic
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          102 35 Sun Microsystems has taken the wraps off the first two products in its Sun StorageTek modular storage family: The Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 arrays. The StorageTek 6140 is a 4 gigabits-per-second fibre channel array designed for direct-attached and SAN (storage area network) storage. The system
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          EMC UNIFIES DATA RIGHTS, RECORDS MANAGEMENT
          106 35 EMC Corp has introduced EMC Documentum Information Rights Management (IRM) Services and EMC Documentum Records Manager 5.3 two complementary content management software offerings designed to help companies respond faster to changing regulatory requirements while enabling secure information sharing and disposal. Documentum IRM Services gives
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        435 35 —AP New Microsoft program taps creative skills I DALLAS Hop- I ing to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox
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      292 29 An Exciting and Wider range of quality products for a good life Look out for our new lineup at Toa Payoh HDB Hub tomorrow. New High Speed Slimming Pill Effective, Affordable Safe Slimming Pill hits Singapore! 1 9 (H 1 O 3OT 9 1 It's Singapore's M LMI M iHI
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      178 31 INFORMATICS learning redefined Quahly accredited education. Anytime. Everywhere. Listen to the Experts y^K Managers and Challenges Ahead Design Patterns for Enterprise Software PRIFYSCOL I IS CYMRU Development Wofwale? University of Wales (UK) September Intake September Intake Bmim||MN*mPJ Master of Business Master of Science in Administration Business Information KjjN|jujpp9|)|li[i|j|^^ Technology THE
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      85 35 jri'VE GOT ROOM TO SPARE I EVEN THOUGH I LIVE OUT OF MY SUITCASE Because when I hit the road, I take all my photos, videos and music with me. Some might say I have www my whole world in the palm of my hand. fir/ WL [ifu '7 —"^H^^^7
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      1281 36  -  Rahul Venkit IDAYEXCLUSIVE SHE'S GOT HER MAN, A MAKEOVER AND A HELLUVA VOICE, BUT ALL CHRISTINA AGUILERA NEEDS IS BRIGHT RED LIPSTICK ALL 12 of her once-defini-tive body piercings are ancient history, as are the black dreads of the Dirrty and Lady Marmalade era. After all, Christina Aguilera
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      236 37 THEY might rule the roost, but these pop tarts have a habit of grabbing headlines fo the wrong reasons, says ZUL OTHMAN. Once pop music's reigning Lolita, things have gone downhill fo the 24-year-old. Spear is now on a selfimposed hiatus and spends her time with son Scan
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        96 38 The surprise guest at a free concert of classical works by Billy Joel was Billy Joel. The headliner at the show in New York was Richard Joo, a British-Korean pianist who arranged and performed Joel's music on 2001's Fantasies and Delusions. Joel strolled
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        62 38 K-drama star Mi Kyung Yang, who played Lady Han on Jewel in the Palace, and up-and-coming K-pop and movie star Lee An will be in Singapore tomorrow as part of the Korean Wave Stars Tour. The duo will arrive here tomorrow on Flight OZ-751 at 9.25pm and
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      THE SHINDIG SPECIALIST
      518 38  -  JUSTIN CHEONG Party planner to stars such as Elton John and Jennifer Lopez, David Tutera is the go-to guy to boost your bash justin@newstoday.com.sg FOR most Singaporeans, attending a party is far more appealing than throwing one. All the planning, decorations and logistics of getting a party
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      243 38 —AGENCIES MUSIC mogul Simon Cowell has revealed he prefers the classic songs of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin to modern pop. Cowell only included one recent tune in his list of eight favourite tracks on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Daniel Bedingfield's
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      165 40 HAD enough bad Madonna films? So has Madonna (picture). Convinced that the media is determined to ensure her film projects are flops, the Material Girl has announced plans to abandon her movie career. The singer was praised for her performance in the bigscreen adaptation of
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      352 40  -  JEANINETAN Actress Chen Liping returns to roots as terminally-ill teacher in new film jea nine@newstoday.com.sg CHEN Liping may play a teacher in her new film, but this instructor is a far cry from the bumbling, goodhearted "Aiyoyo" that was her breakout role in the late 1980s
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      316 40  -  EUSACHIA elisa@newstoday.com.sg UP-AND-COMING star Elvin Ng has found himself a new admirer in My Sassy Neighbour star Patrick Mok. For this year's President's Star Charity, the hunky Elvin has been paired with actress Huang Biren for a tango dance item. "Pat kept asking if
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        98 41 Dusk Summer AS ONE of the architects of emo-rock (think Bridget Jones' Diary meets punk), Floridian outfit Dashboard Confessional's chart success has resulted in several ill-conceived side effects shouty, make-up wearing misfits My Chemical Romance and Singapore Idol miscreant Paul Twohill among them. Playing to an enlarged fan
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        169 41 Smile... It Confuses People POPULAR legend has it that Scottish lass Sandi Thorn performed a virtual concert for more than 70,000 people from the basement of her flat in London one evening and, through the magic of the Internet, apparently won fans as far away as Russia and
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        122 41 The Great Western NEARLY 20 years in the business and James Dean Bradfield, vocalist for Britpop pioneers Manic Street Preachers, fashions his first solo outing at last. The reason it took so long, he claims, is his lack of confidence. It is not a far-fetched declaration: Much
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      83 41 This week, we ask jazz singer Claressa Monteiro for the record she'd take to a desert island. CLARESSA MONTEIRO ON DUKE ELLINGTON'S ELLINGTON 55: It's my favourite album because no matter how tired or crabby I am, this album makes me want to get up and dance!
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      123 41  -  KOH MUI FONG Celebrated Taiwanese funnymen Huang Zi Jiao and Jiu Kong will take the hotseat as judges in The Ultimate Comedian, the latest television star search. Together with a mystery judge, they will account for 50 per cent of the contestants' results. The rest will
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        115 42 THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM CHICKEN POX OR HAVE OPEN WOUNDS SHOULD NOT EAT DARK SOYA SAUCE AS IT DARKENS SCARS REALLY? THIS is a common belief among many of my patients. There is, however, no scientific evidence to prove that such foodstuff can affect the chicken pox
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        820 42  -  REETA RAMAN Cardiac abnormalities may last even long after runners finish a marathon: Study hea lth@newstoday.com.sg SO YOU have been bitten by the running bug and you are eagerly starting to lace up for a marathon at the end of the year. That's great. Running is
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          67 43 Suitable for parents with babies up to 12 months, this talk discusses the techniques for nurturing junior's language and communication skills. Parents will learn how to stimulate their babies to optimise bonding and learning. Date: Thursday Time: Ipm to 2pm Venue: National University
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          103 43 Pick up tips on what to do when your child has problems with bedwetting, urinary infection, headaches or if you have problems feeding him. Also, find out when to get help and what kind of help is available. The talk is open to parents
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        620 44  -  -JANICE GOH Fibre may reduce the risk of gum disease DIABETICS who eat more whole grains may reduce their risk of developing gum disease, one of the major complications associated with diabetes. Non-diabetics may also reap similar benefits, according to an observational study that examined over 34,000 men
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        556 45  -  JANICE GOH Build up your child's immune system by controlling his diet ja nice@newstoday.com.sg IT'S only natural that, as parents, we worry when our children fall ill. And children have a tendency to fall ill fairly regularly, especially when they first attend childcare centres or nurseries.
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        628 46 -KRT Radioactive scorpion venom is a possible cure for neuro disease THE search for cancer cures can, at times, include curious elements, but the latest study might just stun you. Neurosurgeons at St Louis University (SLU) in Mississippi in the United States are among
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      466 49 -AGENCIES TENNIS Rogers Cup TORONTO Roger Federer won his second Rogers Cup in three years on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), recovering in the second set to rally past Richard Gasquet 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Federer won the event when it was last played in Toronto in 2004 but
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      557 54 -AGENCIES Liverpool prove they have plenty in their armoury to match Chelsea CARDIFF The Liverpool starting XI that took to the Millennium Stadium on Sunday had an unfamiliar look one that's capable of unsettling Chelsea. Rafa Benitez might have refused to shake Jose Mourinho's hand after
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