The New Paper, 23 December 2008

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1 47 The New Paper
  • 26 1 the new paper 23 Dec 08 ■r mm Singapore V I mm Press r warn Holdings 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 mini i 8 *****1 *****1
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    • 127 1 On the cover and...nude Jennifer Aniston's daring pictures get tongues wagging PAGE 23 FREE MRT, BUS RIDES BUT HIGHER GST? G*^ N v i 4 I People polled get cold feet over free transport scenario. Why? PAGE 6 y 2±lil Oh my goodness! Flavouriul mushroom sauce and melting Swiss cheese,
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  • News
    • 1014 2 7 S'POREANS STAY IN A PORT CONTAINER Group claims contractor sacked them without giving reason or salaries due REPORT: TAN MAY PING maypingGsph.com.sg YET another group of workers has ended up camping out, penniless and waiting to be paid. And, for a change,
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    • 332 2 REPORT: TAN MAY PING maypjng.com.sg THERE appears to be a rise in the number of cases of workers complaining of unpaid wages and lack of work. Certainly, more of them are being reported in the media. The situation is likely to get worse in
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    • 664 3 OTHER RECENT CASES 1 Earlier this month, three marine engineering companies were ordered by the Manpower Ministry to pay their Bangladeshi labourers (in picture at right) an undisclosed amount in back salaries, following an investigation. The firms San's Marine Engineering Service, Han's Marine and K7 Engineering improperly
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    • 53 2 Back on Ms ffMt (TOP, 22 Doc) The Singapore Federation Of Chinese Clan Association was the venue for the chanty dinner held on Sunday. Businesswoman Alice Sim and her friends organised the event Hotline: isoo-2 33 44 55 Website: tnp.sg j Email: tnp@sph.c0m.s9 Fax: 6319 8266 Operations desk: 6319 5544
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  • News
    • 742 5  -  While free public transport is welcome, most well aware that something has to give REPORT: LEDIATI TAN lecftan@sph.com .sg PEOPLE WE POLLED SAY: COMPARED with other countries, public transport here might be efficient and relatively cheap. But many want it to be even cheaper,
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    • 595 5 REPORT: DESMOND NG dwnwncfciOqli.oomjQ BE careful what you wish for. The notion of freo bus and train rides may be an appealing one but it has to be paid for ultimately. It will amount to a biHion-doHar bin. Transport Minister Raymond Urn said that
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  • News
    • 709 7  -  FAMILY HIT BY DOUBLE TRAGEDY REPORT: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg THEY were ecstatic over news they would soon be first-time parents. A new life was on the way; their four-month marriage was at a joyous new juncture. But it was at a
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    • 686 8  -  Reason: She was not compensated for losing money on High Notes 5 REPORT: ELAINE YEO yelaine@sph.com.sg HER plight had already been reported in the press, but she decided to take it one step further. Yesterday, the elderly woman with crutches took to the
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    • 121 8 A FIDREC spokesman clarified that the disputes resolution centre does assist Mandarin-speakers. He said: "Fidrec is committed to helping ali consumers to file their complaints. "In instances where the consumer is unable to file their complaint in English, Fidrec officers are present to provide
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    • 576 9  -  Police alerted after banner with escaped JI detainee's face on it hung at Toa Payoh REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg FOR almost a week now, residents in Toa Payoh have been wondering about a big banner outside a shop front. The banner about 2m long
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  • 258 10 WAGE CONTROL DURING DOWNTURN FORMER labour chief Lim Boon Heng (right) has said that reducing contributions to the Central Provident Fund (CPF), the national savings scheme, is not justified for now. Last week, the National Wages Council had announced that it would
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  • News watch
    • 129 10 Local ON SHU Kio, the wife of former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong, has become the biggest casualty in the long-running NKF saga despite not being linked to the running of the charity. On, 66, who had
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    • 123 10 THE global market meltdown have dealt a blow to those who invested their retirement savings in stocks and units trusts made under the Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme (CPFIS). •Nearly half of all CPFIS investors who sold their Ordinary Account (OA) in the
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    • 82 10 MORE employers are establishing better worklife balance in the office by adopting family-friendly policies, a report by the Manpower Ministry showed. The report released yesterday j said that more employers are adopting flexible working hours, granting more leave benefits such as maternity and paternity
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 70 10 CALVIN AND HOBBES BILLWATTERSON I'M PBEEZW6! WW DO CRAHK. Of 1UE TIWAVE A /T^(OK, STEP I |M A FW WNVJ1ES X I'M SINGAPORE WE WEEP TWS HfiOSt 90 THERMOSTAT I BETTER. \0EK- CQO OUTSIDE. 7 lou OH Q3ME IH, TElUHt DARK CAD?/ AKO BUILD A CMERE. kb-T V M€ THEN
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  • News
    • 443 11 He hides underwater and swims across Thai-M'sia river EVEN after three bullets hit him, a businessman from Kelantan managed to swim to safety and crawl towards a house for help. Af about 4am on Sunday morning Mr Darns Mohd Daud had got into
      PICTURE: NEW STRAITS TIMES  -  443 words
    • 309 11 THE name of this coffee has a catchy ring to it and demand for it is hot. But the long-term effects of "kopi reggae" is anything but. Transsexuals in Kedah reportedly seek this coffee, laced with drugs and known for boosting sexual energy.
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    • 621 12 Hospitals in Queensland experiencing exodus Wr 1 HEY claim that they were overI worked and poorly-paid, ex--L hausted and demoralised. So, some nurses have chosen to quit their work in hospitals in Queensland for prostitution, reported The Courier Mail in Australia. The paper reported one former
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    • 377 12 A TOP Premier League footballer has reportedly become the target of a sex tape blackmail plot. British tabloid The Sun reported that its reporters have seen footage of the player, who is a married international, having a tryst with a mystery blonde. In
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    • 638 13 Hairstylists send DVDs, hair products and resumes to Mrs Obama AP. HAIR salon owner Barry Fletcher sent incoming first lady Michelle Obama a 17-min DVD about himself. Hairdresser Keith Harley uploaded his resume to President-elect Barack Obama's website. And salon owner Nicole Cober-Blake plans
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    • Article, Illustration
      801 14 NIP TUCK ForS'pore, cutting cost to save jobs is not new. Now, US companies are doing the same JUST a little nip here and a little tuck there, and someone does not go home in despair. Some employers have found an alternative to slashing their workforce even as layoffs are
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    • Mumbai Aftermath
      • 754 15 SCULPTURE MARKS EMOTIONAL RE-OPENING OF INDIAN HOTELS THE Tree of Life has become a memorial to the dead. When the Taj Mahal Tower hotel reopened on Sunday evening, it unveiled a poignant memorial to the victims of the terror attack in its lobby
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      • 354 15 T>E terrorist is from Pakistan. Former Pakistan president Nawaz Sharif created a controversy when he contradicted current premier Asif Ali Zardari's assertion that there was no proof that the arrested Mumbai attacker hailed 'I have checked it myself. His (Ajmal Amir Kasab's) house and village has
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  • 242 16 PAS pledges to work with coalition partners Bemama. PARTI Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) has admitted that the implementation of Islamic Hudud and Qisas laws would have to be postponed even if Pakatan Rakyat, the opposition alliance, takes over the government. This is because it will
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  • 110 16 JAPAN'S biggest carmaker Toyota has forecast its first annual loss in 71 years due to plummeting sales and a surge in the value of the yen. The firm said it expected a loss of 150 billion yen ($2.5b) in yearly operating profits
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  • 106 16 THAILAND'S monarch called on the new government to make peace a priority yesterday, ending his long silence on months of political unrest in the capital of Bangkok. The ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 81, spoke slowly and with a hoarse voice as he
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  • 112 16 HIV carriers should not be allowed to marry, to avoid having sick children, a Malaysian politician said. Chief minister of Perak state Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said: "Somebodv who is verv sick like that should not be allowed to get married. If there's
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  • 80 16 MALAYSIA will retrench about 4,700 workers in the coming three months, most of them fron\ the electronics sector, news reports said yesterday. Malaysian Human Resource Minister S Subramaniam said that about 102 companies had filed their retrenchment plans with his ministry.
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  • Article, Illustration
    47 16 Global A STING IN HER MOUTH: Thai Nong Na holds a scorpion during a successful world record attempt at a shopping mall in Pattaya, eastern Thailand, yesterday. Nong held a live scorpion in her mouth for over two minutes, setting a world record. PICTURE AFP
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 80 16 DILBERT SCOn ADAMS hi m REGIONAL TOPPER, RETURNS T DONATED ALL OF I VT wen ORGANS TO SICK SEE lAY WEATHER I DREAfAED f PEOPLE. NOW I USE TRIED ZIPPER? I I WAS 3 HOLLOUJ TORSO TO GO TOOK IN A Thunderstorms RARING TH AI"S 1 LIKE A J ON*
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    • 283 17 FROM READER SALEHA PARMAN USE OFMEDISAVE T HE government has allowed us to use our Medisave for the treatment of some chronic diseases such as diabetes. But what about other common conditions like rheumatism? This is a painful chronic illness that
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    • 93 17 FROM READER WONG YC I REFER to the recent articles in the New Paper regarding motorcycle helmets. I noted that nothing was mentioned about the type of helmets that many Harley-Davidson riders wear. Why is it that all these Harley riders seem to
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    • 184 18 SPEAK How are you controlling your budget during the festive period? Comments on the Government building more smaller HDB flats over the next two years to meet with demand: "HDB should've done this a long time ago. A lot of youngsters don't want to live with their
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    • 843 20 MEN.STYLE.COM From PAGE23 Why the turnaround? Top of the heap is a sexy photo spread Aniston did for the January issue of GQ magazine, where she is wearing nothing but a tie. The other pictures in the magazine show her with that same striped tie covering her
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    • 57 20 CURRENT POST: Postwoman Germaine Lim writes about Christmas shopping during the current economic downturn. Instead of splurging this year, she plans to make gifts for her loved ones. What are your penny-pinching tips for this festive season? Post your comments on www.tnppostwoman.com or e-mail us at tnpshow@sph.com.sg Include your
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    • 421 21  -  Our New Face finalists tuck into a yummy but affordable Xmas meal REPORTS: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg I FEEL a little guilty about spending too much money now. I refused to even step into a Club 21 boutique where there was
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    • 124 21 IT is two days to Christmas, and if you have not bought your Christmas sweets and dishes,' it is time to move it. Or if you are deciding where to have your Christmas dinner, consider Ristorante Bologna at Marina Mandarin. The restaurant is known for its
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    • 75 22 AT Pan Pacific Singapore, there is a nice selection of Christmas sweets from pastry chef Winnie Goh. The recommended cakes are the Green Tea Azuki Red Bean Log Cake and the Salted Caramel, Banana Chocolate Log Cake. Both are slightly off the beaten track,
      PICTURE: PAN PACIFIC SINGAPORE  -  75 words
    • 76 22 IF you are headed towards Novena for Mass, you may want to have your Christmas eye dinner at Sheraton 2f Towers. f At the Dining Room, you can have a buffet meal for $128, complete with free flow of wine. The buffet line
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    • 88 22 RENDEZVOUS Hotel has a non-traditional way of cooking turkey, offering up the Roast Osmanther Wine Turkey. It has Asian ingredients such as osmanther wine, blue ginger, star anise stuffed with glutinous rice, Chinese mushroom, Taiwan sausage, dry shrimp, lotus seeds and gingko nuts. The turkey
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    • 84 22 ST REGIS Singapore is offering Yule logs in four flavours. They are available till the end of the year. The Vanilla log cake has vanilla mousse with almond biscuit and fresh berries jelly, while the Caramel one is fancy with caramel mousse, lady's fingers and
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    • 603 23  -  Holiday cheer is about friendship and belonging KF SEETOH RHHBflH I FILE this story as I stare at a Manhattan snowstorm. It's an experience I've never had on previous visits to New York. But this time, it came down like I was standing
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      361 35 TIS' THE season to be jolly, and Lam Chih Bing has more than one reason to rejoice going into the festive season. The 31-year-old Singaporean made die biggest breakthrough of his nine-year professional career when he won the season-end-ing Volvo Masters of Asia in Bangkok on Sunday. Winning the Tour
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    • 269 35 He has a reputation of being one of the longest hitters on the Tour, but his short game has always been not up to par. That changed after he engaged the services of Australian coach Andrew Welsford about one and a half years ago. The Singapore
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    • 313 35 SINGAPORE was a winner at the Asian Tour's Awards 2008 on Sunday night. The Sentosa Golf Club, venue of this year's Barclays Singapore Open, was voted by the players as the Host Venue of the Year for the third successive year, reported asiantour.com. India's Jeev Milkha
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    • 258 35 IF YOU are a Singaporean and play to a handicap of two or less, then here's your chance to play alongside some of the top women golfers in the world. Entry for the HSBC Women's Champions 2009 local qualifying tournament opened yesterday. This year, national
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    • 153 35 SINGAPORE'S Levine Tan narrowly missed out on a semi-final spot at the 12th Asia Pacific Matchplay Golf Championship in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Haying in the Under-18 category, the 14-year-old from Singapore island Country dub put up a good fight against older boys before losing 1 down
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  • 1441 36 Sports Euro Kick-off EPL: Saturday Blackburn 3 Stoke 0 Bolton 2 Portsmouth 1 Fulham 3 Middlesbrough 0 Hull 1 Sunderland 4 West Ham 0 Aston Villa 1 Sunday Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 Newcastle 2 Tottenham 1 West Brom 2 Man Cfty 1 Friday (26 Dec): Aston Via vAisenal Chelsea
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    349 37  - COMMENT ERNEST T AS THE AFF Suzuki Cup fever hit town over the weekend, The New Paper had one question for its regional organisers. If the Singapore Lions have to defend their Asean Football Federation (AFF) Championships title every two years, then why are Tampines Rovers still the defending champions
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  • 264 37 "And we're still waiting for our challengers." In 2005, the title came with a US$20,000 ($29,162) cheque (as compared to the AFF Suzuki Cup's winners' cheque of US$100,000). Good principle After all, AFF's premise was to start a tournament that
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    • 604 38  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg X TIFTNAM were worrying if the fans would show up for their V clash with Singapore in the Suzuki Cup semi-finals. Hiey need not have. Last Wednesday, 35,000 of them showed up in the 40,000-capacity My Dinh Stadium to watch
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    • 623 39  -  GARY LIM npsporttCtephxoiTijg SO, SINGAPORE failed to make the Suzuki Cup final after all. Ravaged by a string of injuries, the Lions succumbed 1-0 on aggregate to Vietnam in the semi-finals on Sunday. It was an upset of sorts, for they were favourites to
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  • Sports Postman
    • 523 40 The majority of our readers decided that Robbie Keane should stay at Liverpool and show his class, but our Letter of the Weekend writer says Benitez is to blame for the Irishman's stuttering start atAnfield LETTER OF THE WEEKEND ROBBIE Keane has no future at AnfiekL
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    • 385 40 FOOTBALLERS THIS week, I was riding pillion through the streets of Singapore on a Hariey Davidson 'Rocker'. In biker land, the name is important No idea why. I say that I rode pillion but it was actually up my bottom rather than under it Now as
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    • 115 40 Give us your post-mortem of the Lions' exit from the AFF Suzuki Cup semi-fi-nal. Assess the team as well as your chosen players individually. For example: Are some players only capable of scoring against minnows like Cambodia and Myanmar or are they up to the mark
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    • 74 40 THE WINNER of The Postman's Letter of the Week will win a $200 games hamper from lAHGames. lAHGames has launched the world's first offipially-licensed English online football game, EA Sports Fifa Online 2. loin more than 600,000 people from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and
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  • 830 41 Sports EPL Betting Brian: If ever there was a reason to smile other than it being Christmas it was for Blackburn's win. Okay, so it was against Stoke. No great shakes there. But just think. Their manager had been sacked. Someone stepped in. They were
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    • 483 42 PA Sport. MARTIN O'Neill believes football is in the age of the "disposable manager". And the Aston Villa manager insists he is "not fire-proof despite the success he is enjoying this season. Villa have climbed into third place in the Premier League and are
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    • 699 43 wire Services. FOR ROBBIE Keane, his strike against Arsenal was more than just die equalising goal It was also his way of responding to speculation linking him away from Anfield. The 28-year-old scored a superb half-vol-ley in Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Arsenal at The Emirates on
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    • 384 44 Football analyst TOHARIPJUJAN tells ARUN RAJ that Robbie Keane should have been removed earlier even though he equalised for the Reds in the 1-1 drawwith Arsenal ROBBIE Keane started and scorad the crucial goal before being substituted in the second half .Is this the start of
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    • 638 45  -  They must take risks if they want the title, says Your English Kaki IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports©sph.com.Bfl ARSENALI (Van Persie 24) LIVERPOOL 1 (Keane 42) ALAN Hansen mined it for everyone. Before his infamous "you'll not win anything with kids" moment on the BBC in
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    • 240 45 Wire Services. IT WAS billed as a do-or-die clash for Arsenal. Pundits all across England had declared that anything but three points would end the Gunners' hopes of claiming a fourth Premiership title. But Sammy Lee, who stood in for the
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    • 728 46 SPORTS TV 'Ail tulec.asts hvt' unless stated otherwise For latest, please check ivtwv starhuti com cahletv ■'ICiUHE'i Ar EPL Friday (Boxing Day): STOKE v MAN UTO Ch 27,8.45pm After winning the Fifa World Club Cup in Japan on Sunday, can jet-lagged Manchester United still come up with the goods to
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  • 606 47  -  Sports BEN GLADWELL PA Sport IT'S NOT every day you land in paradise. When you are one of the richest and most famous sportsmen in the world, paradise seems to be a way of life, but even David Beckham could not have chosen a more suitable heaven
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