The Straits Times, 23 August 2005

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    24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 104 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 2005 •f^A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Baby Bonus can go into higher education
    658 1  -  Theresa Tan Undrawn funds can be used m later years, with siblings sharing it too By THE Government is building upon the Baby Bonus scheme introduced m 2001 to make sure that any unused money meant to cover a child's expenses can be
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    Lock icon I WAS NEVER SHY OF WEARING MY ITE UNIFORM
    125 1 Sideway glances. Condescending tones. These are part and parcel of responses that Institute of Tech- nical Education (TTE) students receive. "It is the wrong perception from the public that the ITE is a place for dropouts or good-for-nothings/' said Mr Eric
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    Lock icon Polytechnics looking at foreign link-ups for specialised degrees
    515 1  -  Sandra Davie By Education Correspondent A DEGREE m early childhood development, digital animation or film studies will no longer be an expensive dream for polytechnic graduates. The five polytechnics here are looking for ways to link up with foreign speciality schools to
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    Lock icon Happily ever after for HK Disney?
    1022 1  -  By VINCE CHONG Hong Kong Correspondent IT WILL be almost a fairytale come true when Hong Kong Disneyland opens on Sept 12, six years after Walt Disney Co picked the city for its third theme park outside the United States. Test-runs are on track
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    Lock icon POSING WITH MICKEY... FANTASY WINS OUT
    72 2 PHOTO: Unlike m the American parks, where visitors rate the thrilling rides No. 1, polls of mainland and Hong Kong visitors showed they prefer taking photographs, watching fireworks, live stage shows and enjoying the scenery. So the Hong Kong park's Fantasyland, for example, has
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  • IN A FLASH
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      32 2 Office politics Plannea government complex m Bangkok and new v-p's office m Jakarta raise eyebrows. PAGE 6 Social concerns China's rapidly widening income gap risks social instability by 2010. PAGE 8
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      32 2 Equal opportunity Reader suggests remaking employment landscape to remove age and race discrimination. PAGEHB Wrong information Ministry of Defence corrects letter writer's claims over sudden cardiac deaths among SAF servicemen. PAGEHB
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      38 2 Quota squeeze Piles of Chinese clothing are stuck at EU ports, prompting warnings of retail stock shortages. PAGE 13 Air safety Despite the recent rash of plane crashes, air travel is still safe, say experts. PAGE 16
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      15 2 New mindset Aceh's peace pact reflects the new nationalist thinking m Asia. PAGE 17
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      55 2 Took friend's money Woman who impersonated a friend and withdrew $50,000 from her account is jailed for 21 months for bank fraud. PAGEH3 ITE mega-campuses Two giant campuses for ITE Colleges will be ready ahead of schedule. PAGEH4 Revised curriculum Revised normal stream curriculum m Secondary School will help
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      Lock icon MONEY
      19 2 PR problem The public relations industry is grappling with the perception that their work is not vital. PAGEH2O
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      16 2 Mourinho's policies Chelsea boss Mourinho defends his selection policies after his players defeat Arsenal. PAGEH9
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      Lock icon WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
      64 2 In our report last Saturday, "NKF patients to pay less for dialysis", we said that private centre Asia Renal Care charges $283 per dialysis session. Asia Renal Care has clarified that its $283 rate applies only to hospital-based dialysis performed at its Mount Elizabeth Hospital
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      459 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-12 World 13-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H7 Forum H8 Sports H9-Hl2 Obituaries.... Hl2-Hl3 Money Hl4-H2O LIFE! Buzz L2,L10 Arts L3-L4 Life L 5 Travel L 6 Events TV LB-L9 mmu*^^^^^^^m-->>^^^Bl^^^^HK^^~~z~^^^K^K!'M~"~-~ Company incorporated m the USA liHwY TliOt IN©MiH? \mL W JlSSyS^m^^
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Reality bites kept Rally watchers rapt
      560 3  -  Sue-Ann Chia Peh Shing Huei Many like the people and stories featured, but some wished for more policy details By Hi MARKETING manager Vivian Yuan felt she was sitting m on a board meeting, as slide after slide showed views of a future Singapore
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      Lock icon AUSSIE MODEL ARRESTED IN BALI DRUG RAID
      317 3 Denpasar (Indonesia) AN AUSTRALIAN lingerie model allegedly caught with drugs at a Bali nightclub faces up to 10 years behind bars if convicted. Michelle Leslie, a 24--year-old who also works under the name of Michelle Lee, was among five people detained on Saturday
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      Lock icon Genetic weapon could help fight Sars
      369 3 Washington AN EXPERIMENTAL treatment using fragments of genetic material has been found to reduce the severity of Sars infections m monkeys. The treatment, called RNA interference, is thought to work by preventing the Sars virus from infecting cells and perhaps also from spreading from
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      Lock icon PORTUGAL IN A FIERY GRIP
      163 4 PHOTO: People fled homes yesterday as wildfires fanned by high winds burned out of control m Portugal. More than 3,000 firefighters battled 27 blazes racing across tinder-dry forests and threatened built-up areas. Dozens of people were evacuated from suburban Coimbra, Portugal's third-largest city of 100,000,
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      Lock icon ComfortDelGro expands into Australia
      520 4  -  Roger Maynard AZRIN ASMANI It joins forces with Aussie company to buy a private bus firm for 133 m By Total fleet size Singapore 20,751 UK Ireland 5,781 Vietnam 1,010 Malaysia 378 Total 38,356 THE Singapore-based transport group ComfortDelGro is expanding into Australia. It joined forces
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  • ASIA
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      541 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh THAILAND: Thaksin's plan for own 'White House' complex raises eyebrows By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok A PLAN by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to build a new government complex, dubbed by the media as a Thai version of the White House, has run into controversy. The
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      Lock icon INDONESIA: V-P's new office shows his rising influence in government
      560 6  - INDONESIA: V-P's new office shows his rising influence in government Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta VICE-PRESIDENT Jusuf Kalla will soon move into a new office featuring a semi-circular courtyard with Roman columns and a garden. But most important of all, it will be located right next to Istana
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      428 7 Exactly how flexible is your IT system? Make sure your IT system can adapt to fit any servers. Not only does this high-end platform give you situation. There was a time when proprietary the flexibility of running on Linux or Windows, but it's also rfiin hardware and software did the
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon China risks social unrest as income gap widens
      669 8  - China risks social unrest as income gap widens Chua Chin Hon NEW WARNING Government has five years to narrow the divide or face instability: Study By China Bureau Chief In Beijing "We are going to hit the red-alert scenario...if there are no effective solutions m the next few years." INSTITUTE
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      Lock icon HK cancer alert over fish from China
      428 8 Hong Kong THE Hong Kong authorities have found a possible cancer-causing substance m freshwater fish imports, renewing fears yesterday about the hygiene of food from mainland China. The latest food scare came m the wake of jitters over Chinese imports of pork and
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      Lock icon Foreign workers in Taiwan riot over working conditions
      353 8 Foreign workers in Taiwan riot over working conditions Taipei DOZENS of foreign labourers burned cars and attacked police with slings and stones m a dispute over working conditions m Taiwan's southern port city of Kaohsiung, police reported yesterday. No one was injured m the confrontation, Taiwanese media reported, m which
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      Lock icon HK woman with pig disease critical
      126 8 HONG KONG yesterday reported that an elderly woman infected with the deadly pig-borne disease that recently killed 39 people m China was m critical condition. The 79-year-old was admitted to a Hong Kong hospital last Thursday after she developed a fever, pain and swelling
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon S. Korea calls for more babies in policy reversal
      594 9 Incentives aimed at halting declining births that have hit rural places hard Wando (South Korea) AFTER Mr Park Pil Soo's second child was born nine years ago, he followed national family planning entreaties to limit families to two children by undergoing
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      Lock icon Asia's declining numbers
      74 9 SUCCESSFUL family planning, coupled with changing mores, led South Korea's birthrate to drop below the ideal population replacement level of 2.1 m the 1980s and then more precipitously m the mid-*****. Now, on average, a South Korean woman will have 1.19 children m her lifetime a rate
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      Lock icon Tokyo 'not giving up bid for UN seat'
      347 9 Tokyo JAPAN has not given up its bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but will not push for an early vote on its proposal along with Brazil, Germany and India to expand the council, a government official said
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      Lock icon Japan's Komeito says it will stick with ruling LDP
      278 9 Tokyo JAPAN'S New Komeito will maintain its alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) even if the ruling group loses power m next month's elections, party leader Takenori Kanzaki said, adding that his party will reject offers to join a rival
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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      Lock icon World Bank pledges $ 15b aid to India
      426 10  - World Bank pledges 15b aid to India P. JAYARAM Money will be used to improve infrastructure m rural areas and help reduce poverty By India Correspondent In New Delhi THE World Bank has pledged US$9 billion (Ssls billion) to help India develop its woefully inade- quate rural infrastructure that is
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      Lock icon 'Hugging saint' escapes knife attack
      336 10 'Hugging saint' escapes knife attack New Delhi A MAN wielding a knife has tried to attack religious leader Mata Amntanandamayi, better known as the "hugging saint", during a prayer meeting m southern India. But she escaped unhurt as he was overpowered by her followers. The incident occurred on Sunday night
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      Lock icon GOING THE DISTANCE
      50 10 Dressed as Hindu god Shiva, Mr Tapan Mondol travels 220 km every day for alms from shopkeepers. He makes the daily journey between his village of Tarakeshwar and the metropolis of Kolkata, India, which are about 110 km more than twice the length of Singapore island apart.
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      Lock icon President's brother is new minister
      246 10 Colombo THE brother of Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was sworn m as Foreign Minister yesterday to replace Mr Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was assassinated by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, the government said. Mr Anura Bandaranaike will also retain his portfolio as Tourism Minister, Mrs kumaratunga's
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      Lock icon New Delhi needs to raise fuel prices: Officials
      319 10 New Delhi INDIA will have to raise retail prices of petrol and diesel to bridge the widening gap with higher world oil prices that is bleeding state-run oil refiners, senior government officials said yesterday. "Quite clearly, on a sustained basis, it is
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indonesian troops begin Aceh pullout
      295 11  -  ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO: Lhokseumawe (Aceh) INDONESIA started withdrawing soldiers from war-torn Aceh province yesterday as part of an agreement reached last week to end almost three decades of separatist fighting. More than 1,250 troops stationed near Lhokseumawe, the second-largest city m Aceh, left port on
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      Lock icon Arroyo's move to mend fences criticised
      384 11  - Arroyo's move to mend fences criticised Luz Baguioro Her reconciliation gestures towards Estrada and others dismissed as mere politicking By Philippines Correspondent In Manila PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo tried to mend fences with her main political foe and estranged allies over the weekend, drawing criticism that it was just a ploy
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      Lock icon Cambodia opposition ends parliament boycott
      104 11  -  Phnom Penh CAMBODIA'S beleaguered opposition returned to parliament yesterday, ending a sixmonth boycott called after three of its members were stripped of parliamentary immunity from prosecution. Parliament voted m February to scrap immunity measures for opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his deputies Cheam Channy and
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Online postings help cops nab traffic offenders
      554 12 Members of public are invited to post photos of traffic violations Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian authorities have issued summonses to some 40 motorists whose alleged road offences were exposed m an online Hall of Shame. Members of the public are invited to upload
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      Lock icon Man admits sending bomb hoax via SMS
      216 12 Kuala Lumpur AN INDONESIAN man faces jail after admitting to sending hoax SMS messages to Malaysian police m which he claimed to be an Al-Qaeda member warning of a hijack and bomb plot. The 23 -year-old, named Kurniawan, admitted sending the SMS messages
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      Lock icon PIN IN THROAT
      67 12 This lcm pin was removed by doctors from the throat of eight-year-old K.P. Vaethes- PHOTO: Vary m Butterworth, Penang, on Saturday. She said she was forced by five classmates to swallow the pin when her teacher left the classroom. Her parents immediately brought her to a hospital
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      Lock icon No Cabinet reshuffle on the cards: Abdullah
      291 12 PUTRAJAYA PRIME Minister Abdullah Badawi poured cold water on speculation of a Cabinet reshuffle, saying that the party elections of Barisan Nasional component members are not government matters. "(Elections) are party matters. Party affairs are different from government affairs," he said. "You know
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      Lock icon Abdullah's anti-graft campaign nets old friend
      182 12 Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian Prime Minister's anti-graft campaign netted one of his old friends yesterday when a court sentenced former senior politician Azman Mahalan to two years' jail for corruption. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi referred to the case obliquely last year when, accused
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
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        Lock icon N. KOREA 'WILL GIVE UP N-ARMS'
        115 12 WASHINGTON: North Korea is apparently willing to abandon its nuclear weapons programmes, and a breakthrough is possible m the current round of sixparty nuclear talks, according to South Korea's Foreign Minister. Mr Ban Xi Moon, m Washington to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza
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        Lock icon S. KOREA AND U.S. HOLD WAR GAMES
        149 12 SEOUL: US and South Korean forces yesterday kicked off annual computer-simulated military exercises that North Korea routinely criticises as a rehearsal for an imminent invasion of the communist state. About 10,000 US troops, half of them from bases outside South Korea, are participating
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        Lock icon ILLEGAL TRADING IN WON BUSTED
        116 12 SHANGHAI: The authorities m northern China have closed down three illegal banks and arrested nine people for unauthorised trading m South Korean won, state media reported yesterday. About 900,000 yuan (S$189,000) m cash was seized m the raids and 200 bank accounts containing about 2
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        Lock icon RAIN IN HK BECOMING MORE ACIDIC
        159 12 HONG KONG: The acidity level of rain m Hong Kong last year was the worst m five years. Almost as acidic as vinegar, the rain was worse than that recorded m Guangdong, Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department figures revealed. The average annual pH level
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        Lock icon MALAYSIA TO STICK TO VISION 2010
        113 12 PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said yesterday all policies related to making Malaysia a developed nation m line with Vision 2020 would remain unchanged. Some adjustments would have to be made to the strategies to achieve that objective by taking into account current developments,
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        Lock icon PIRATES ATTACK MALAYSIAN BOAT
        151 12 KUALA LUMPUR: Pirates have attacked a Malaysian tugboat m Indonesian waters m the second incident of its type m recent days, but the crew managed to escape unhurt, an anti-piracy watchdog said yesterday. Mr Noel Choong, head of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the International Maritime
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Piles of Chinese clothing stuck at EU ports
      610 13 RETAILER'S HEADACHE "If I don't deliver, then I don't get paid." KNITWEAR IMPORTER STUART PETERS CAUGHT OFF-GUARD "We knew the quotas would fill up one day, but we didn't expect it to happen so quickly." EC SPOKESMAN RUPERT KRIETEMEYER Europeans admit underestimating
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      Lock icon HELL FIRES
      420 13 Lisbon FORTY major fires raged across Portugal over the weekend, prompting its European neighbours to respond to an urgent appeal for help by sending water-dropping aircraft. "This is a very serious moment for Portugal," Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio told reporters during a visit to the headquarters of the
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      Lock icon Saudi king plans social spending spree
      482 14 Billions of dollars earmarked to improve oil giant's living conditions Riyadh NEW Saudi monarch King Abdullah yesterday ordered a raft of measures aimed at improving living conditions, including a 15 per cent hike m public sector salaries and multi-billion-dollar handouts for social projects. Helped
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      Lock icon Iraqi Shi'ites set to force draft charter through parliament
      464 14 Baghdad IRAQ'S ruling Shi'ite Islamists prepared yesterday to force a dran Constitution through the interim parliament they dominate, brushing off fierce objections from minorities. A draft prepared without the participation of minority Sunni Arab delegates appeared nonetheless to give ground to
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      Lock icon S'pore, Australia hold talks on terrorism
      443 14  -  Lynn Lee By In Perth SINGAPORE'S Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday met his Australian counterpart Robert Hill to discuss new ways to work together m fighting terrorism. Meeting ahead of a joint official meeting today between leaders of the two countries, they spent
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      Lock icon Last Gaza settlement evacuated peacefully
      251 14 Netzarim (Gaza Strip) TROOPS went from house to house clearing out Gaza's last Jewish settlement yesterday to wrap up Israel's historic pullout from the coastal strip, even as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would expand large West Bank settlements. There were insults and tears
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon 300 CAUGHT IN EGYPT SECURITY SWEEP
        84 14 CAIRO: Police arrested 300 people m a security sweep of the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday. Some 2,100 men backed by armoured vehicles were deployed m search of terrorists involved m a series of recent bombings, security officials said. Most of the arrests took place
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        Lock icon NORTHWEST MECHANICS ON STRIKE
        83 14 NEW YORK: Northwest Airlines mechanics walked the picket line for a second day on Sunday, but the carrier kept flying without any major disruptions as it called m 1,500 replacement workers. In the first US airline strike since 2001, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) workers walked
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        Lock icon LONDON POLICE CHIEF 'UNDETERRED'
        119 14 LONDON: The shooting of an innocent man mistaken for a suicide bomber should not deter police m the anti-terrorism fight, London's police chief told a Sunday newspaper amid a growing row over the Brazilian's death. "I am not going to be distracted from the main job
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        Lock icon LIBYA TO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS
        87 14 TRIPOLI: The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said that 131 political prisoners, including a number from the banned Muslim Brotherhood, could be released as early as next month. Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who runs the Gaddafi International Association for Charitable Organisations, said on Saturday
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        Lock icon RUSSIA GROUNDS LONG-HAUL PLANES
        73 14 MOSCOW: Russia grounded all long-distance Ilyushin 96-300 passenger aircraft yesterday due to safety problems similar to the one that disrupted a trip by President Vladimir Putin earlier this month, transport officials said. Flag carrier Aeroflot which has six of the 13 planes currently m use said
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        99 15 A MYSTERIOUS pianist found wandering on an English beach four months ago, triggering a global hunt for clues to his identity, is a 20-year-old German. The German Foreign Ministry said yesterday the man, who did not break his silence for months but was dubbed
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        134 15 PHOTO: A FEW weeks ago, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg let slip to a room full of reporters that his home number was listed. And almost immediately, about 100 calls a day, some from overseas, began pouring into his Manhattan townhouse. It now seems that the
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      190 15 FORMER Polish communist strongman Wojciech Jaruzelski has apologised to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for Poland's role m the Sovi-et-led invasion m August 1968 that crushed a prodemocracy movement. "I have felt bad, I have been tormented by that," said Mr Jaruzelski during a
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      809 16 They say airline safety has improved over the years due to better technology London THREE fatal plane crashes m just over a week m Greece, Venezuela and Italy have claimed the lives of hundreds of people. Despite grim reports of few, if
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      400 17 THIS year's National Day Rally speech was packed with more examples than usual of ordinary citizens of varied backgrounds and motivations who have contributed to Singapore's cause, except that these were all m a day's work for them. There was the hospital X-ray technician Ng
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      1135 17  -  Anthony Reid PEACE AGREEMENT By For The Straits Times PRACTICAL ACCORD The eight-page Memorandum of Understanding is encouragingly pragmatic rather than declamatory THE Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), signed m Helsinki on Aug 15, marks
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      710 17  -  Tony Blair By BRITAIN is proud of its global and deserved reputation as a tolerant, multicultural society where people of all nationalities, backgrounds and faiths live m peace and friendship. The unified and calm response of the British people to the terrorist attacks m London
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      1207 18  -  Leonard S. Spector By In Washington EFFORTS to rein m the nuclearweapon potential of Iran and North Korea have been hampered by their clever manipulation of their rights to exploit nuclear energy under the nuclear Non-prolif-eration Treaty (NPT), and the deep difference among
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      2697 19  -  Peter Maass AVOIDING THE CWORD Back m the 70s, then-US president Jimmy Carter called for the moral equivalent of war to reduce dependence on foreign oil; he was not re-elected. Since then, few politicians have spoken of an energy crisis or suggested that
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      194 17 Nuclear threats Iran and North Korea are exploiting loopholes m the Non-proliferation Treaty. PAGE 18 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS. NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North. Podium Level 2, 3 ***** ST INTERACTIVE; http: /straitstimes.asia 1 com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice-President Alan Chan Heng Loon (Marketing) Editor-in-Chief
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      343 20 Singapore today Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder and strong winds will affect many areas m the morning. THE DOCUMENT COMPANY FUJI XEROX Apeos INTELLIGENT FIELD BH II INI I I II mm ||l I m SMART! SECURITY! CUSTOMIZE! Now, mission-critical digital data can be Even though an open network, the
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      272 20 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY 1 Attend a talk about volunteerism m relation to active ageing by Mr Ngiam Tong Yuen. RSVP Singapore, 75 Bukit Timah Road. 2pm-4pm. Free but registration required. Tel: 6336-0640 or e-mail general@rsvp.org.sg. 2 Journey into the past with the Shepherdson family as they trace
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      316 1 PM's poster boy An expelled student who made good, Eric Chen hopes Singaporeans recognise that ITEs offer late developers a second chance. PAGE H4 MAKE A DIFFERENCE New scheme for youths keen to implement one-off community projects. PageH2 MORE VARIETY FOR STUDENTS Enhanced Normal (Technical) curriculum includes more "real-world" learning.
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      412 1  -  Selina Lum By DEATH OF SINDEE NEO Expert's experiments using bags of pork tipped over or thrown from block flawed, says Chee's lawyer THE trial of Constance Chee Cheong Hin, the woman accused of flinging four-year-old Sindee Neo to her death from a block of
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      157 1 IN HIS experiments, Health Sciences Authority analyst Michael Tay Ming Kiong (below) had a policewoman tip over or throw bags of pork weighing the same as Sindee Neo from various levels of the block (left) to see where they would hit the ground. From the results,
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        424 2  -  Vivi Zainol By Youths with ideas for one-off community projects can get up to $3,000 m funding YOUTHS who have ideas for oneoff community projects now have access to a new government funding scheme. The Young Change Makers grant, announced yesterday, has been
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        377 2  -  EMINENT local scientist Ariff Bongso has been picked as Asean Outstanding Scientist, from a shortlist of 10 finalists m the region. He and Indonesian scientist Sangkot Marzuki, head of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology m Jakarta, were named joint winners. Presented once every
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        406 2  -  Krist Boo By WHEN Mr Jimmy Wong began organising the Singapore Buskers' Festival eight years ago, he knocked on 260 doors before he found a sponsor. The success of the annual free festival since has made it easier now, but each year, he still
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        276 2  -  VIVI ZAINOL THE training arm of Muslim community self-help group Mendaki has launched a series of business management programmes. Yesterday, the Social Enterprise Network Singapore, or Sense, signed an agreement to run the programmes jointly with the National University of Singapore's continuing
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        383 3  -  K.C.VIJAYAN By Photographer jailed for forgery, theft and misusing NRIC of businesswoman Crime Correspondent A WOMAN who impersonated a friend and withdrew nearly $50,000 from her account and then falsely claimed that they were lovers was sentenced to one year and nine
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        187 3 ANOTHER man was caught smuggling cigarettes into Singapore over the weekend using his family as decoys. The 40-year-old Singaporean was travelling m a car with his two-month-old baby, his wife and sister-in-law when he was stopped for a routine check on Sunday. He had
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        209 3 A FOREIGN worker was injured at a sewage tunnel construction site m Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1, near Block 220, yesterday morning. The man, who suffered neck, shoulder and thigh injuries, was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital by ambulance after a 20-minute rescue
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        314 3  -  Chong Chee Kin By A WOMAN who tried to smuggle two girls to Paris for a child trafficker, was caught m the act because the children could not speak Malay. Yesterday, Kamala Sinniah was jailed for 20 weeks. The
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        535 4  -  Li Xueying By JUST a decade ago, electronics students at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) were learning how to repair radios and television sets. Such skills are not needed any more as more affluent Singaporeans just throw away sets that
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        580 4  - Two new ITE colleges to be ready by 20 1 1 Jane Ng By Choa Chu Kang and Ang Mo Kio campuses will open ahead of schedule TWO giant campuses, being built for 17-year-olds who show less inclination for academic learning, are going to be ready ahead of schedule. These
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        474 4  -  Arlina Arshad By NUMBERS give 15-year-old Sharon Tan a headache. But when the Secondary 3 Normal (Technical) student from Shuqun Secondary had to use mathematics m real-life situations* during an office administration course, she found doing sums much easier. "It was all so interesting,
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        489 4  -  Marcel Lee Pereira By BIG companies here, such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM, regularly turn to students at polytechnics and ITEs to help develop new products. In fact, most of the polys and ITEs have tie-ups with companies and can boast
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        601 5  - Home grant will help low earners Joyce Teo By SHOT IN THE ARM "If the grant is higher... it will definitely increase the morale of the low-income group." DENNIS WEE PROPERTIES DIRECTOR CHRIS KOH It will enable poor families who live m subsidised rental flats to buy their own property
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        97 5 With children m tow, hundreds of families across Toa Pay oh gathered for an evening of music and song on Sunday. They filled the open space PHOTO: m front of Toa Payoh Library to listen to familiar Western classics as well as local melodies such as Chan Mali
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        118 5 IF YOU want a quiet time to catch up on work, the best place may be a long-haul flight. Connexion by Boeing, a company equipping airlines with Internet access, is installing its system on more than 100 planes this year and some
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        145 5 THE Manpower Ministry will conduct its Labour Force Survey from tomorrow to Oct 7, covering some 9,800 households during that time. The survey to collect data on employment, unemployment and other economic characteristics of the population, will help m the planning and formulation
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      5340 6 RETIREMENT We can't retire at 55 and then live on till 80 or more. I think you will go ga-ga. You'll have to work longer. If s not easy but the key to changing this is attitudes the workers' attitudes as well as
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        278 8 REACTIONS TO NATIONAL DAY RALLY SPEECH PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong must have won the hearts of many of our greying population when he made a passionate plea for employers not to discriminate based on age. Speaking about changing the mindset of employees,
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        419 8 THE Prime Minister emphasised the importance of changing the mindset with regard to older Singaporeans, both from the employer's as well as from the employee's point of view. I want to take it one step further and suggest a change of mindset m
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        342 8 I REFER to the recent reports on poor service standards m Singapore and the Government's decision to launch a major initiative to improve service standards. Singapore has, m recent years, put m a lot of effort to inject vitality and buzz into the country,
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        131 8 MUCH has been recorded lately about the lack of a service culture m Singapore. I am pleased to tell readers that customer service is indeed alive and well at one local department store. A product that I purchased some time ago at
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        348 8 You can also mail your letters to Forum Editor, The Straits Times, Singapore Press Holdings, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, Singapore *****4. Fax: 6319-8289. Please keep your letter to no more than 500 words. I SAT m front of the
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        354 8 I REFER to Mr Oliver Tan Kok Song's letter, "Take hard-to-detect heart disorder seriously" (ST, Aug 17). Mr Tan makes a number of claims which are erroneous. First, he states that "there has been a spike m sudden deaths" among SAF servicemen.
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        468 8 I WOULD like to clarify some Eoints m the letter, "Take ard-to-detect heart disorder seriously" (ST, Aug 17), from Mr Oliver Tan Kok Song. Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a disorder m which the heart's mitral valve (which separates the left upper chamber from
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        173 8 I REFER to Ms Sally Tan Bee Khuan's letter, "Prompt scan, surgery at Mt Alvernia saved man" (ST, Aug 20). Our CT and other scans are available 24 hours, seven days a week, including public holidays. Any urgent scans which are clinically
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        131 8 I REFER to the letters commenting on the service at the A&E departments of Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. My experience at Alexandra Hospital's A&E was certainly commendable. I had to seek help at the A&E twice recently. On the night
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        678 9  -  Alvin Foo »JUDO By Melvynna may not go to Manila, despite being a medal prospect SHE may be the nations best, and has been tipped as a South-east Asia Games medal prospect, but judoka Melvynna Tambunan, 23, may not represent Singapore
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        207 9 PRESIDENTS R Nathan congratulates Singapore sailor Teo Wee Chin (left, with glasses) at an Istana tea reception yesterday. Looking on is Dr Vivian Balakrishhan, the Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister. Wee Chin and his team-mate Terence Koh became the first Asians to win a title
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        580 9 SOCCER London CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho wants to draw a line under the furore over his selection policies after watching his team beat English Premiership title rivals Arsenal 1-0 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. He had faced the first seeds of discontent m midweek
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        356 9 London FOR weeks, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been telling any one who cared to listen that he has a squad of talented players capable of challenging English Premiership champions Chelsea for honours. It appears he is the only one who believes it. The manager, after
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        140 9 P W D L f APts Tottenham 2 2 0 0 4 0 6 Charlton 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Man United 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 Chelsea 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 West Ham 2 110 3 1 4 Man City 2
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        45 9 Today Birmingham v Middlesbrough Portsmouth v Aston Villa »Uve,Ch24, tomorrow, 2.40 am Sunderland v Manchester City »live,Ch23, tomorrow, 2.40 am Tomorrow Arsenal v Fulham live, Ch24, Thursday, 2.40 am Chelsea v West Brom Live, Ch23, Thursday, 2.40 am Blackburn v Tottenham Bolton v Newcastle
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        715 10  -  WILD WEEKEND By Marc Lim LOOKING at the English Premiership's top-scorers' list over the weekend, one might be forgiven for thinking they had their eyes on The Championship instead. No sight of Didier Drogba, Hernan Crespo or even last season's top gun, Thierry
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        570 10 SOCCER Reds' under-fire strikers need to get the goals against CSKA Sofia Liverpool LIVERPOOL are one match away from the Champions League group phase, but manager Rafael Benitez still has not solved his striker dilemma. The European champions entertain CSKA Sofia at Anfield today,
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        486 10 MOTOR RACING Berlin GERMANY'S seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has refused to quash speculation that he had met McLaren sporting chief Norbert Haug to discuss a possible move from Ferrari. A report m Bild, the country's most popular newspaper, claimed the 36-year-old
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        217 10 London THE Champions League group stage and its attendant riches appears just 90 minutes away for Manchester United and Inter Milan, while Swiss outsiders Thun are poised to bring fresh faces to the party. United travel to Hungary's Debrecen with a 3-0
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          48 10 ALBIREX Niigata beat Geylang United 3-2 m an SLeague soccer match at the Bedok Stadium yesterday. Kosei Nakamura (22nd minute, 33rd) gave Niigata a 2-0 lead, but Geylang drew level via Pitipong Kuldilog (45th, 69th). Hidetoshi Wakui got Niigata's winner two minutes from time.
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          87 10 SINGAPORE won two golds, two silvers and four bronzes at the Asian Age-Group Swimming Championships m Bangkok yesterday, ending the meet with eight golds, five silvers and seven bronzes. The Republic's golds came from Ng Tze Kang (boys' U-14 50m and 100 m butterfly), Katrina
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        117 10 A THIRD-division provincial girls' football team entered the annals of Belgian soccer over the weekend after suffering a crushing 1-50 defeat because of the absence of a single but crucial player their music-loving goalkeeper. SK Berlaar's goal was left unguarded m a match with FC Malines after
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        736 11 »GOLF Determined world No 1 edges out DiMarco at the NEC Invitational Akron (Ohio) THIS may well turn out to be Tiger Woods' most satisfying year. In a season when his reworked swine is slowly paying dividends he has two Major titles and
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        391 11 Portland (Oregon) SOUTH Korea's Kang Soo Yun finally won her first United States LPGA Tour title with a four-stroke victory m the Safeway Classic on Sunday. She shot a final round of three-under 69 for a 15-under 201 total m brilliant sunny conditions at Columbia
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          73 11 TORONTO: Martina Navratilova, 48, nabbed her 351 st Women's Tennis Association Tour title on Sunday, pairing up with Anna-Lena Groenefeld to win the women's doubles at the Rogers Cup. The duo beat Spain's Conchita Martinez and Virginia Ruano-Pascual 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Navratilova won her
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          79 11 LIVERPOOL: China international Li Tie, 27, is worried that his career with English Premiership soccer club Everton could be sabotaged by a recurrence of injury. He broke a leg m February last year. The injury sidelinedl him for 18 months. He told the
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          53 11 SHEFFIELD: Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes limped home m a disappointing eighth place at athletics' British Grand Prix on Sunday. The Athens 800- and 1,500-metre gold medallist struggled to complete the 800 m on Sunday, hampered by the Achilles tendon problem which had kept her out
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        415 11 TENNIS Miami MARIA Sharapova's combination of dazzling looks and steely determination have turned the Russian tennis star into a sports phenomenon who transcends her game. Little more than a year after she shot to stardom with her 2004 triumph at Wimbledon, the 18-year-old has become the fifth-youngest
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        298 11 ROGER Federer emphasised the gulf at the top of men's tennis on Sunday when he beat Andy Roddick 6-3, 7-5 to win the Cincinnati Masters, his ninth title of the year. Though Spaniard Rafael Nadal has also collected nine titles this year, Federer's victories have come
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        576 12 BADMINTON He thrashes top seed, and is the first to hold Olympic and World titles Anaheim (California) OLYMPIC champion Taufik Hidayat became the first man to hold the Olympic and World titles at the same time on Sunday. The Indonesian blitzed world No 1 Lin Dan 15-3,
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        327 12 THE International Badminton Federation is calling on its women athletes to wear more glamorous outfits, complaining that the traditional attire is too old-fashioned. Speaking during the World Championships m Anaheim on Sunday, IBF deputy president Punch Gunalan said he wished the women shuttlers would dress
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        1442 12 ATHLETICS lAAF Super Gran* Pm me* m Sheffield Men's 100 m: 1 Kirn Collins (Skn) lO.Olsec 2 Leonard Scott (USA) 10.10 3 Michael Frater (Jam) 10.11. 200 m: 1 Justin Gathn (USA) 20.04 2 Tyson Gay (USA) 20.09 3 Stephan Buckland (Mn) 20.39. 400 m: 1 Michael Blackwood (Jam)
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        358 12 The family of the late CHEW NGEH LUN Departed 16 August 2005 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks to Mr Seng Han Thong, MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, Yio Chu Kang GRC, Ang Mo Kio Constituency Merchants' Association, Singapore Private School Bus Owners' Association, Pastor Philip Ong of Trinity
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        986 13 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell m the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6 CHIANG KUN VOW Age: 85 Was called home to be with the LoitJ on 21 August 2005. Dearly missed and always remembered by loved
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        587 15 Australia's Toll makes $7. 7b play for Patrick If bid is successful, it would create world's No. 4 transport and logistics firm Sydney AUSTRALIAN logistics group Toll Holdings launched a hostile US$4.6 billion (557.7 billion) takeover bid yesterday for rival rail, ports and airline group Patrick Corp, m a move
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        426 15 Frankfurt TUI, the German tourism and shipping group, on Sunday announced plans to buy CP Ships, its Anglo-Canadian rival, for 1.7 billion euros (553.5 billion) m cas"h, m a deal that would propel its container shipping business into the world's top
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        248 15 August 22 Stock Name Wl Close Change Allgreensoc 0.31 1.270 +0.010 Ascendatrtit 1.02 2.210 -0.020 BIL Intl US2Oc 0.51 1250 +0.020 Capitaland 1.82 2.900 -0.010 Capita Mall 0.77 2.420 -0.060 Chart SemiCond 21c 079 1.180+0.010 Cityoevsoc< 2.61 8.850 +0.200 Comf ortDelGro 25e 1.75 1.600 +0.010 Cosco
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        147 15 August 22 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (SAM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2480 ***** Can dollar 1.3680 1 3840 Un 2.0190 2.0420 Malaysian ringg it* 0.4424 0.4428 NZ dollar 1.1460 1.1720 Sterling pound 2 9800 3
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        215 15 New York RIPPLEWOOp Holdings has decided against raising its bid for appliance maker Maytag, clearing a path for Whirlpool's US$l.7 billion (552.9 billion) rival takeover offer, the Wall Street Journal's website reported late on Sunday. Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Journal report
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        497 16 CNPCs $7b acquisition will mark China's first takeover of a foreign listed energy company LONDON STATE-OWNED China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has agreed to buy PetroKazakhstan for US$4.lB billion (Ss7 billion) m China's largest foreign takeover, beating rivalbidders including top Indian oil
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        358 16 Kuala Lumpur THE chief of Malaysia's flag carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS), stepped down yesterday, taking retirement a little over a year into the job, as high fuel prices dragged the firm's results into the red. Managing director (MD) Ahmad Fuaad Dahlan had taken the helm m
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        426 16 Carlyle set to pay $671m for 25% of China insurer Hong Kong CARLYLE is poised to acquire 25 per cent of China Pacific Life Insurance (CPLI) for about US$4OO million (*****.2 million) m one of the country's largest private equity deals, the chairman of the Chinese company's parent group said.
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        72 16 MR WANG has quashed media speculation that Temasek would scupper Carlyle's two-year bid to buy into CPLI. He explains that Temasek is m talks over taking a stake m CPLI's state-owned parent group, which also owns a general insurance firm. "A few foreign investors, including Temasek, have contacted
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        316 16 Shanghai DEUTSCHE Bank is expected to pay US$llO million (SslBs million) for about 5 per cent of China's Huaxia Bank, the second-smallest of five mainland-listed lenders, Huaxia bankers said yesterday. Huaxia executives said Singapore's OCBC Bank and France's Societe Generale had
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        144 16 New York THE Chinese authorities are investigating a company connected to News Corp over its leasing of satellite TV channels m China, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The investigation of Beijing Rejian Hulian Advertisement, also known as Beijing Hotkey Internet, began
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        420 17  -  Audrey Tan MEDIA MARKETING By Assistant Money Editor Sony takes top spot, while other names m region fill nearly half of top 20 slots ASIAN brands have continued to hold their own against internationally famous names such as Coca-Cola and Nokia, a survey by
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        347 17 OCBC Bank is pulling no punches m its fight for a slice of the lucrative wealth management market, with a new $1 million campaign to get the average Joe to think about managing his money. By posing thought-pro-vokers such as "9
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        342 17  - Local ad agency scores global deal Fiona Chan By FOR the first time m about 30 years, a home-grown advertising agency has landed the glittering prize of a highly lucrative global advertising account. Local player Crush Advertising, which counts Samsung and Panasonic among its key clients, was picked to develop
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        421 18  - 5 ex- Prebon workers told not to join rival firm till notice period is up Lorna Tan By Fi nance Correspondent They can start only after Oct 25: High Court injunction BROKERAGE Tullett Prebon Singapore won a High Court injunction yesterday preventing five for- mer employees from joining a rival
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        530 18  -  Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent EVEN as DaimlerChrysler grapples with changes at the very top at its German headquarters, consolidation is afoot at the Singapore office of the global vehicle group. The earliest and most significant change is at DaimlerChrysler South-east
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        369 18  -  Erica Tay By IF YOU think putting up $10 million of free money for local business people would spark a stampede, think again. The pot of cash has been sitting around for a year now and only a small number of bosses
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          83 18 FINANCIAL software specialist Axis Systems Holdings yesterday reported that its full-year net profit dropped 9 per cent to RM16.6 million (Ss7.l million). For the year ended June 30, its revenue dived 16 per cent to RM27.8 million. Earnings per share remained unchanged at
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          69 18 BANK software firm System Access has posted a net profit of $7.4 million, up 11.5 per cent from previously. For the year ended June 30, revenue leapt 21.3 per cent to $39.7 million. Earnings per share fell to 2.93 cents from 5.84 cents, while net
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          87 18 CHINA Lifestyle, a Chinabased maker and distributor of food and snacks, yesterday announced that all the 87.5 million placement shares m its initial public offering (IPO) have been fully subscribed. The IPO attracted main-board-listed Super Coffeemix Manufacturing which subscribed for 15 million placement shares. This
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          90 18 GREAT Eastern Holdings (GE) yesterday announced that as part of the merger between its asset management subsidiary and that of OCBC Bank, Straits Lion Asset Management (Slam) and OCBC Asset Management (OAM) have agreed to integrate their operations. The asset management operations of
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        279 18 CHINA'S Ningbo Commercial Bank the largest bank m Zhejiang province has reportedly chosen OCBC Bank as its "overseas strategic partner". It will initially tap the areas of personal financing, private housing loans and other services, according to a report from Asia
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        316 19  -  By Erica Tay MAINBOARD-LISTED shipbuilder and operator Jaya Holdings is the latest marine industry player to turn m a stellar set of results, with its net earnings up 86 per cent to $86.1 million for the year ended June 30.
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        897 19  -  Goh Eng Yeow COMMENTARY By Management should shed more light on overstatement of revenues and profits IT'S been a long time coming, but next week shareholders of Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) get the chance to confront management over the firm's troubles.
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        55 19 ONE question that repeatedly came up at the company's press conference held two weeks ago centred on the nature of the overstatements. Citing PHOTO: the CAD probe, Mr Nicky Tan (right), with Mr Eng, revealed only that it concerned invoices for sales which may
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        458 19 TAKING STOCK NOTHING stirs a market into action more quickly than a good rumour. This was borne out yesterday, when United Industrial Corp (UIC) suddenly came into play m the afternoon. Traders were thick m the action, snapping up any UIC shares m sieht,
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        211 19 WARRANT WATCH STOCK-PICKING m a market that lacks direction is a hit and miss strategy, but local punters who yesterday placed their bets on midcapitalised stocks, such as STX Pan Ocean, can thank their lucky stars. STX, a South Korean dry bulk shipping company,
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        574 20  - Public relations industry facing a... well, PR problem Kelvin Wong By Many firms think the function is good to have, but not vital: Survey THE public relations (PR) industry, whose primary job is to manage public perceptions of its clients, appears to be grappling with a perception problem of its
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        266 20 PHOTO: BAD things sometimes happen to good companies. And when they do, it is often good public relations (PR) that saves the day. Indeed, this lifeline will preserve a company's reputation and goodwill that takes years to build up. Take the case of DBS Bank.
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        203 20 WASTE AND WATER TREATMENT A KEPPEL Corp unit has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the West Java government to look at handling waste and water treatment projects there. Keppel Integrated Engineering (KIE) said yesterday that the MOU related to the provision of
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      8 1 life! THE STRAITS TIMES Tuesday August 23 2005
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        194 2 KELLY AT HER POLY: Project SuperStar finalist Kelly Poon sang and signed CDs for her fans at her alma mater the Singapore Polytechnic yesterday. She and fellow finalist Kelvin Tan also showed up at West Man for an autograph session on Sunday, which drew about 5,000 fans despite
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        477 2 TAIPEI Many of his mid-dle-aged Taiwanese female fans could not make it to the airport when Korean heartthrob Bae Yong Joon landed m Taiwan last Friday. They had to be home to observe the 15th night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, said United Daily News. Still,
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        247 10 PHOTOS: WOODY CREEK (Colorado) Hunter S. Thompson's (right) grand finale went off as planned: The American writer's ashes were blasted into the sky last Saturday m an explosion befitting his over-the-top career. He had shot himself m his kitchen on Feb 20, apparently despondent over
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        197 10 LOS ANGELES Don Cheadle has finally visited Hotel Rwanda. The 40-year-old American actor visited the Hotel des Milles Collines m Rwanda's capital Kigali last month and spoke to several of the more than 1,000 people who were sheltered there by manager Paul Rusesabagina during the country's 1994
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        529 3  -  Clara Chow ARTS REPORTER WHEN Vincent Yong Wee Long decided to quit school to train as a dancer, a brouhaha broke out at home. Then a 19-year-old electronics engineering student at Temasek Polytechnic, he had to convince his mother his passion for dance was the right path.
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        263 4  -  Clara Chow DR BALAJI Sadasivan got a chance to axe-amine a mixed media artwork called Untitled by Singapore artist Tang Da Wu yesterday. The Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and The Arts, and Health was visiting the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) to check out two
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        1154 6  -  Benjamin Robertson It is worth buying clothes that are oversized as they will shrink m tne wash. In a land of giants, it's often tine little things that matter LifelTravel on Tuesday Homages to Buddhism leap out and are a reassuring sight on the nail-biting journey
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        301 8 INEXILf Is one's home the place where you were bom or is it where you reside now? Rnd out how photographers Gilles Massot and Tay Kay Chin depict this dilemma. PAMERANPOSTKAD 7pm. Froo.Tol:ea37 IJ4« This exhibition features beautiful postcard-size art works by 131 artists from around the world. Among
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        45 8 WHIZZ THE MUSICAL The money raised through this musical, adapted from Frank Baums The Wizard Of Oz. will go towards rebuilding an orphanage m Aceh and launching a Key Club for youths here. Staged by the Kiwanis Club of Singapore Delta Chapter and CHlJToaPayoh.
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        120 8 NATIONAL PIANO VIOUN COMPETITION fi«M«» »fc.» **»*lnn^ li~t ■f* II ii ill ill i#nmi^ %Bmy \OOfflf I, Tat* HIIIT OfiU a* assail cnfWVMC.|4V.I| Are you Singapore's next classical music prodigy? Sign up for this competition and you could win cash prizes of as much as $5,000. The event has
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        107 8 SCREEN SINGAPORE TKs Arts Housa, OM Parliament, Screening Room, Till Autf 31: Various tlma*, Ttcfcsts: $8 (students), *8. Tal: 6332-6919 Celebrate the nations 40th anniversary with Singapore films past and present. At 4.30pm today, catch They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong by George Richardson. At 9.30pm, catch Labu Dan Labi
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        83 8 JOURNEY OF FAITH Asian Civilisations Muiaum baproa* Mac*, TW Oct 1 7pm (Men), tarn 7pm (Tm« -Urn), •mm »p«i(FH),Tlcfc«ts:M(stu<kHrts*s«iU>fcltlzans),s«,Fri: 7 tpac $2 far m*4mmt* s«Wor cWimm, $4, Ft— for cMMran brtow six. Tal: 6333-7798 Discover art and history from the Vatican Collections at this must-see exhibition. Besides seeing art
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        118 8 ROBIN 0188 MAGNETIC TOUR J tmi" tl i |lMl>i l>lw ll w Robin Gibb, who's here with a 30 piece orchestra and band, performs evergreen numbers from the Bee Gees, including hit songs like Staying Alive, I Started A Joke and Massachusetts. He will also perform songs from his
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        182 8 DISCOVERING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY Lee Kong Chian Reference Library, 100 Victoria Street, Laval 9, Proniefiade, nil Sun: 10am -9|>m dairy (library hours), except pyfeHc holidays, Rwt, Tel: 6332-3255 Get pointers on how to trace your family history at this exhibition featuring the Shepherdsons, a Singapore Eurasian family which has
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        151 8 BETRAYAL DBSArt*Contro,TlllSopt4.Bpm,wlthanoxtra4pm»howon Sat, Tickets: $44 $70 (Bpm on Frt Sat), $40 $65 (Bpm on Tue to Thu, 4pm on Sat* 8 pm on Sun), Tol: 6348-5555 The Singapore Repertory Theatre's production of Betrayal by playwright Harold Pinter is a serviceable revival that dips into the degrees of old-fashioned adultery.
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        163 8 HOLLYWOOD MOVIE CASTING Fly Entortalnmont, 133 Noil Road, Till Oct 14 (thoso koon should make an appointment for an audition with Roger SpottUwoodo), Tafc 6224-3188 or ■m«H naomiefly .com.sg Chinese boys aged 13 to 15 are invited to audition for the upcoming Hollywood movie The Children Of Huang Shi.
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        257 8 Want to create your own batik Batik painter IkaZahri, who has exhibited his works at the New York Art Expo and m Singapore, will offer pointers on batik painting, one of the forms m South-east Asia. His course will teach the basic techniques of v its ai v,
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      744 8 DOver PARKVIEW. W sqft. Nice decor. Near MRT/ Science PK/ Holland V $2.2 K. Aqt *****606 HERITAGE VIEW. M Nice cosy MRT unbiocKed view. High fir. F/ furn Good Hurry! *****175 RIVER PLACE. 1/2/3/ 4 rms Choice unit. Pool/ river/ city view. Owner's rep 9635 3738 ■XARUANK NCAR OUTRAM Pk
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      398 8 don'tXmiss CHARLESTON 3*l Penthse 3+l. Pte lift, security, pool. Part/ f/furn. Near Gt World/ Orchard. Owner *****952 office hrs THE TENERtFFE/ BINJAI Crest 3143/ 3777; 3035/ 3777 sq.ft. 3 storey cluster hse. F/facilities Part or f/furn 10 unit 9387-6499 PETER FONG 9695-6866 DtT~ Spring Grove 3 rms $3.9K Nassim Park
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      740 8 SEVEN NASSIM PENTHSE. 4800sqft, 6 bdrms, spacious, quiet. Exclusive location, mins to Orchard Rd. *****570. D.09 THE OUAYSIDE. New listing! High fir. 3+l. 1400 sqft. P/furn. Windy. River view/ amenities. $4500. Immed. Ling 9459-9990 X- -k*-! j is FONTANA HGTS 3455 sqft 4+l High fir. Panoramic view. Double balcony. F/aircon/
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      824 8 ■fcV Dll ft 21 NEWTON/ ■p PTEAPTS-RENT OVER 800 CONDO UNITS Avail Maplewoods 2/ 3/ 4 rms immed Blossomvale 2 /3 rms Beautiful The Shelford 21 3/ 4/ Penthse. Tressarina 3/ 4 rms Resort style The Stirling 2/ 3/ 4 rms Serene i The Hillside/ Springdale 3/ 4 rmsßent from
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      554 8 PffSDi 5-1 6 EAST COAST UP PTE APTS -RENT BRAND NEW COTE d'AZUR. BESIDE Parkway Parade/ ECP. I+l/ 2+l/ 3+l/ 4+l/ Penthse. Sea/ Pool view. Furn. Immed. *****228 Teck Chuan 52.5K SECURES) COSTA Del Sol Blk 80, 3-bdrms. Full sea view/ renovated. High fir. Furn/ unfurn. Immed. Bring cheque! *****966
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      923 8 P!hD1 5-1 6 EAST COAST I!*/ PTE APTS -RENT AOUARIUS <t> BEDOK Res 900 sqft. New interior, 2rm, mid fir, p/furn. $1450, avail immed *****318 THE BAYSHORE. 4*l. 1432 sqft. High fir. Sea view. Facilities. P/furn. $2.3 K. Land+ 9007-1033 KEW CRESCENT 3500 sqft. 4+l townhse. Gdn. Rooftop Jacuzzi P/furn.
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      925 9 ■k DO9- 10 ORCHARD/ LJi] TANGLIN/ HOLLAND V HOUSES -SALE BUNGLW UNO FOR REBUILD Andrtw Rd ***** sqft, hilltop, panoramic view, can sub-divide into 3 plot Blshopgatt ***** sqft, quiet, panoramic view, greenery, 3 plot Cornwall Gdn *****sqft elevated Lttdon Pk *****,*****, *****, ***** sqft. Nasslm Rd *****,***** sqft Off
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      832 9 Pfh DO9- 10 ORCHARD/ MM TANGLIN/ HOLLAND V PTEAPTS-SALE "LUXURIOUS F'HOLD CONDO** Ardmort Park 2885 sqft. City/ sea view. Tenanted ntq Calrnhlll New! 2700 sqft ground fir with gdn. Renovated.... 53.28 M Calrnhlll Brand new penthse. 2422 sqft. Great view! $4.2 M Calrnhlll New 1733/ 2013 sqft, 3/ 4 rms.
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      928 9 ifh 009- W ORCHARD/ MM TANGLIN/ HOLLAND V PTEAPTS-SALE RIDGEWOOD 3+1. 1722 sqft. Newly renovated. Corner unit. Good facing. Full condo facilities. S9BOK. Also for rent. 9176-7453 ASTRID MEADOWS 2600 sqft (Approx) 4+l. Living/ dining/ family. Choice unit! Face pool/ greenery. Resort. $2.xxM. Sam 9691-8737 RIDGEWOOD CONDO 1700/ 2000 sqft.
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      907 9 asdfasdfasdf ■kDI Ift 21 NEWTON/ yl BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTEAPTS-SALE COSY SHELFORD REGENCY m a prestigious location! Buy now before price rises! 1302 sqft. 3+l. Tenanted. Joyce 9699-3210 DW PINE GR MAIS. 1668 sqft. 3 bdrms. Parquet fir. F/facilities. Various units by corp. seller. 9650 4035 ARCADIA GROUND FLR Apt 4+l rm
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      691 10 iftV HDB APTS FOR SALE ■pP (BEDOK/ CHAI CHEE) 3'A' 59 CHAI Chee. High fir. 200% move-in. Can buy recess area. Low cash. 9455-2022 McR 3'NG' 8LK.103 BEDOK N #14 Be low value. Unblocked, windy. Mkt/ sch/ hawker. *****573 3'NG' BLK 525. High fir. Lift level. Unblocked. Well kept. Near
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      753 11 Rh HDB APTS FOR SALE U|f (WOODLANDS) 3'A' 313. HIGH tlr Renovated. 4'A' 787 C. Mid floor. Unblocked. 5V 609 High fir Unblock. 4bdrm 1 call Simon Tong *****123 C&H 4'A' SBB/ 897 C/ 427 Below value. S'l 1 732/ 538/ 522 High fir. low Exec Apt 8938/ 514/ 536
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      154 2 COVER STORY A Surf's up *T Surf the Net io,ooom m the air j DIGITAL LIVING Q Mail call O Read your e-mail wherever you are i on your 3G phone i PEOPLE Works of imagination Bloggers have taken to blogging pure fiction i A race of endurance j
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        160 11 Life is great when you have $10,000 play IT SERENE LUO meets the winners of the Great Eastern photo competition With prizes of up to $10,000, no wonder "Singapore's top photographers scurry around to look for photos". Senior parliamentary secretary for Information, Communications and the Arts YatimanYiisof was joking about
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        160 11 Mr Willy Foo, 30, caught a pair of siblings frolicking m the grass m a tea plantation m Jakarta, m his photo It Takes Two. The IT consultant and freelance photographer, who won $10,000 for his efforts, attributed the blissful grins of the brother and sister to
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        116 11 Technician Yap Kirn Hock, 34, won $6,000 for his entry, Splash. He had a "Just a few seconds" to capture a shot of some Thai boys engaged m a water fight with two elephants. He felt "so rushed" to take the photo so as not to miss
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        115 11 Housewife Esther Tan, 36, had "hundreds and hundreds of pictures" of her son Natanael, and didn't know which one to submit for the competition. It was her husband, a photography enthusiast who got her hooked on photography when they were dating. Finally, he picked the toothy, drooling
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        235 17 Even as RFID technology begins to take root m the logistics and transportation industries, a great deal of testing is needed before the perfect solution presents itself. With the opening of the NOLSun Advanced Technology Centre m Alexandra Road last month, companies m Asia can
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        387 17 DISCOVERY CATHAY PACIFIC V fls^es and pets to track their whereI abouts, but implanted into humans and using the tags as a cashless payment system is highly unusual. That's what some 80 regular customers of the Baja Beach Club m Barcelona, Spain, have done. They've gotten
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        425 18 »apply IT Local multimedia production companies are targeting a global audience via the Web. Three new age animators share their new world ambitions with LEUNG WAI-LENG Local band Electrico will soon be playing to global audiences. Or, at least, their online alter egos will be. Working
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        171 21 »geek notes !iicrosoft's new Xbox 360 game console will ill for US$299 (Ss49*) In the United States wf will be launched simultaneously m the S, Japan and Europe "m plenty of time for ie Christmas market", Microsoft's European ome and entertainment head, Mr Chris Microsoft,
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        117 21 Lloyd's of London, the oldest insurance organisation m the world, may soon underwrite open-source software against claims of intellectual property infringement. The insurance would be available through brokers to companies that fear being sued over their use of open-source software such as Linux by companies that might claim
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        107 21 Stores m Japan are taking orders for the Roborior, a house-sitter robot armed with a digital camera, infrared sensors and a videophone. The Roborior, a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that glows purple, blue and orange, can function as interior decor, but also as a virtual guard
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        83 22 »test »windows vista beta i MOK HENG NGEE checks out Windows Vista, Microsoft's next operating system, previously codenamed Longhorn, which is expected to be m PCs next year V Available m 2006 t More information at www.microsoft.com/ windowsvista Virtual folders make it easy to put all
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        678 22 FIRST LOOKS m m m hen Microsoft ylf announced Longhorn's W W name last month, I pulled out my Webster to check out the relationship between computers and the word. "Vista- means "distant view" and what an appropriate name, I mused, considering the lengthy hiatus between Inception and roll-out. I
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        909 24 »Lcd monitor round-up Since I last did a round-up for Digital Life of 19-inch LCD monitors m June, there have been some technological advances. For instance, models with 4 millisecond (ms) response times are now available. Also, all the monitors m this test have DVI (Digital Visual
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        391 26 »games »burnout revenge (xbox, ps 2) Burnout Revenge is little more than an update for Burnout 3. LEUNG WAILENG checks out the near-final beta version to see if it will be worth opening your wallets for next month Release date: Sept 19 Price to be announced
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        506 27 »games »nintendogs And you're m charge. But these are virtual dogs, so you don't have to walk them or take them to the vet, writes SIM CHENG KAI $69.90 Get it from games stores PLOT Nintendogs is similar to The Sims 2 PC game it's like
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        542 31 »tech me He's not out to be nasty, just honest. Producer and songwriter Amir Masoh, better known as the "harsh judge" at the recent Straits Times' School of Rock competition, invites SERENE LUO into his studio, formerly his bedroom, to see how he applies technology
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        193 3 I^^ Two months ago, four boys got lost •n c jungles of Malaysia for four days"Last week they went backTh 'S time thou Sh« Jeremy Tio, eight, Chew Tsyr Yee, 16, Tsyr Han, 14, and Ts/r Men S- °'ail we "t with 30 ac^u'ts»trail uvic es and other children "and
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        175 4 1 0,000,000,000 That's the amount of money that foreign investors or people who buy bits of companies m foreign countries have put into Asian stock markets m late July and early August. This flood of cash is flowing m everywhere, including into Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and
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        177 4 Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Prime Minister What he's done Plenty, The popular leader with rock star appeal shocked Japanese politicians, especially those m his own party, when he called a snap election that's when a poll is held much earlier than it is scheduled for Sept 1 1
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        142 4 Sri Lankan Foreign Minister assassinated What happened Mr Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, was shot on Aug 1 2 by snipers gunmen trained to hit their target from a long distance away who had holed up m a bathroom just two doors away from his Colombo residence. The assassins
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        141 4 PHOTOS: Sumatra, m Indonesia What happened there Forest fires deliberately lit by plantation owners to clear land have caused a terrible haze to spread over the region. Now, the haze has spread to Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Kelantan. Several schools have been shut because of
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        175 5 PHOTO: Son of the Mask ■HErd This is one crazy movie. Hfe A would-be cartoonist jH^k^^V finds a magical wooden S&tfl mask and tries it on b^JPi and The Mask is born! Al^%i He and his wife then have a baby, who turns out to have
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        330 5 Show your love Show your love for grandma and grandpa with a card and stand a chance to win a competition. Just enter your design to the Grandparents' Day Card Design Competition 2005. You can use any medium, including digital design, and send m your work with entry
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        548 6  -  LIAW WY-CIN BY LONDONERS were shaken last month its public transport suffered bomb attacks. Not once, but twice. Police called the bomb explosions "terror attacks" and "acts of terrorism" which were carried out by "terrorists". But what exactly is terrorism? Well, terrorism causes people to be so terrified
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        108 7 John wants to go to Britain on vacation, and he has a budget of S$ 1 00 for food. If the price of a Big Mac there is £2, how many days can he stay there, assuming he only eats Big Macs for all three meals every day? (Use
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        348 7 ANGEL TURNED CRAZY CHICK FAMOUS FORTUNES HER debut album was the aptly titled Voice Of An Angel, and it brought international acclaim, not to mention mega-bucks to the then 1 3-year-old warbler. With international record sales topping 1 0 million albums, Charlotte Church is the world's most successful classical crossover
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        37 7 UOB junior savers account M Save money and get some exercise, ride vk^ X a or r <>llerblade W0 ¥7J^k r short trips and m w j save on bus/ JllL* m Hir U Nft OV6ftS#A9 BANK
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      260 8 WEIRD NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD YOU'VE GOT NO MAIL A lazy Italian postman is facing up to 10 years in jail after he filled his home with thousands of letters he never delivered. Every room in Antonio Piras 1 home, in Ittiri on Sardinia, was jammed with sacks full
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        32 12 Toa Payoh New Town is one of Singapore's most well-known housing estates, for a number of reasons. It counts Britain's Queen Elizabeth II among its many famous visitors.
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          39 12 1965 BLESSED EARTH HOME IS THE LONE SAILOR LONDON Bob Manry received cheers from thousands who welcomed him as he stepped ashore at Falmouth, Cornwall. He finally made it home after sailing solo for 78 days across the Atlantic.
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          39 12 1975 CHILDREN OF 1 2 TO BE ALLOWED TO WORK IN FACTORIES SINGAPORE Children aged 1 2 and above will be allowed to work m any industrial undertaking under a proposed amendment to the Employment Act now before Parliament.
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          39 12 1985 54 KILLED IN AIRLINER FIRE IN MANCHESTER MANCHESTER At least 54 people died and scores were injured when a chartered Boeing 737 packed with holiday-makers burst into flames on take-off m the fourth airliner disaster m two months.
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          89 12 1995 LI PENG URGES STORE TO INVEST IN HEBEI HEBEI China's Premier Li Peng urged Singapore to invest m its northern coastal province of Hebei for mutual benefit to the two countries. GETSTARTED Get students m small groups to read through, carefully, the Asia and World sections of The Straits
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        58 12 Toa Payoh New Town was the first new town to be constructed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). It was originally home to thousands of attap huts, but many of the hut owners moved away m time for building work for the new town central
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        39 12 The rooftop of Block 53 used to house a special viewing gallery to provide a bird's-eye view of the housing estate. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family visited this gallery m February 1 972.
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        35 12 Toa Payoh has Singapore's first air-conditioned bus interchange. The estate is also home to four of the tallest HDB blocks of flats m Singapore, the 40-storey skyscrapers along Toa Payoh Lorong 2.
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        108 13 By Mohd Haziq Bin Mohd Husni (left) and Luqman Al-Hakim both 11, Woodlands Primary School T Two hundred pages a day (sometimes) H Home section for what's happening here E Excellent writing S Stands out T Tells us what is happening m the whole world R
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        132 13 Three students from Qihua Primary School put themselves m their teachers' shoes and found a way to make learning addition and subtraction easier for lower primary pupils. Primary 5 students (from left) Umar Mohd Noor, 1 2; Norizwan Abdullah; 12, Sathyavani, 12 and Kelvin Gan, 1
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        78 13 Pint-sized Catholic High Primary pupil Shearn Chua, nine, stood tall among a field of 101 competitors at the Callaway World Junior Golf Championships m San Diego, California. He finished eighth m the boys' nine- 10 age group, hitting a three-day total of 1 95, only 14 strokes
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        114 13 By Vanessa Sim, 10, Ai Tong School This book is about insects and creepy-crawlies such as cockroaches, snails, earthworms, spiders and such also known as "mini beasts". It explains things such as how cockroaches and snails are born, and introduces to us
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        421 14 Bring Smallville Water! Smallville has a problem. When the sun hits the ocean surface, water turns into vapour, rises and forms clouds. These clouds release water droplets when they hit the cold mountains that surround Smallville. There is lots of water coming down from the mountains, but the
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        624 15 NEWS ANALYSIS/ SPECIAL REPORT BY OLDEE ENGLISH* The man who once saved a community from a killer dog became a hero once again on Saturday, when he rescued his own town from a komodo dragon. Only this time, his bravery cost him his life. Years
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        90 15 Beowulf is a very, very old tale it is one of the oldest surviving poems m the English language, written around AD 1 000, and composed even earlier. It is fictional, but mentions real people and events that took place m Denmark and Sweden, m a period
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        47 15 Rampaging: acting violently, angrily or destructively Deal: A business agreement At a loss: Puzzled, or not knowing what to do Avenge: To punish someone m return for something he did to you, or to someone else Mourn: To feel sad about Fatal: Leading to death
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        386 16  - VOCAB ATT ACK LIN ZHAOWEI BY I GETSTARTED Divide yourselves into groups. Look m a copy of The Straits Times to find articles that touch on the ideas of "a fight to the finish", "an axe to grind", "m cold blood" and/or "on the mend". Write down the who, what,
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        313 17  -  SOO KIM BEE BY (LITERACYPLUS) Try it the Dot way! Every week, our panel of teachers from the Red Circle brew up Dot-flavoured lessons from their vast collection of classroom recipes. This week, we look at a fun mini-lesson on adventurous adjectives and vibrant verbs. DOT
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        290 17  - COOL DESERT! ROBIN GANGULY BY It's a desert, and yet it's cold. The land is hard and unfriendly, but the people are warm and welcoming. Summer temperatures go as high as 27 deg C, and to as low as minus 20 deg C m winter. That's pretty cold, considering that
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        278 17 FACT BOX: Area: 98,000sqkm Altitude: 7,500 m maximum. Population: 250,000 Religions: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism Best time to visit: Between May and October Getting there: Fly to New Delhi, then take another flight to Leh, Ladakh's capital FABVOCAB Find five adjectives that are used to describe Ladakh m today's Life! section.
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        343 18 Perfectly camouflaged, the ornate horned toad (left) sits and waits for its prey. Passing insects, mice and other small animals are caught by surprise! Many tree frogs (below) are bright green and, therefore, can hide among the leaves well. Some, however, are brightly coloured a warning to their
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        163 18 After Singapore Zoo let the fun continue non-ston at WmHcPfflHd Just when you thought the 3200 animals at Singapore zoo were iiun-biop ai tumnjginuß more than you bargajned for tne Njght Safan boasts another^g ■h B^^^^^BBBB^^^^m unique stars of its own The best news here is you dont haye to
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        39 18 The Singapore Zoo has a new show Wonders of the Wild -at 1 0.30 am and 1 .30pm daily. Each performance highlights the natural behaviour of animals m the wild, such as the orang utan and the sea lion.
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