The Straits Times, 31 December 2005

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 136 PAGES IN SIX PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31 2005 i yff*A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 556 1  -  Arlina Arshad One-stop portal for charities to send a 'single, simple reporting form' is being considered By. THE office of the Commissioner of Charities looks set to be beefed up to regulate charities more effectively. This could take the form of a committee
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  • 7 1 SATURDAY SPECIAL REPORT 1 GRAPHICS:. JEFFREY LIM
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  • 309 1  -  Erica Tay By A DAY after Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew urged that the nation's flagship carrier, Singapore Airlines (SIA), shed its catering and aircraft servicing arms, shares in all three listed companies rose. So far, the airline has kept mum
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  • »INSIGHT
    • 267 1  -  Leslie Koh By IF 2005 was a year of casinos, charities and white elephants, then 2006 will be a year of. well, casinos, chanties and white elephants. Yes, some things just will not go away not that quickly, anyway. Some matters have been
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    • 139 1 Calendar of Cross-strait Vroom the straits TiMt? sports events talks H^O service Z&tfA 1 f^P^ events, at home i-- s;_ after the deaths pHj |UB Jj in these j "^**f^i^L^*j^ V J r r y p>h 1 i ericatay@sph.com. sg IS SIA'S PREMIUM IMAGE HURTING BUSINESS?, HOME: H6 EDITED EXCERPTS
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  • PRIME
    • 127 2 At least 1 0 Sudanese, including a young girl, died yesterday after Egyptian police swinging truncheons dispersed a protest by thousands of refugees demanding to be relocated to another country. The deadly clash at the Sudanese refugee protest camp, located in a small park alongside a
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    • 519 2  -  Christopher Tan Annual fee more than four times higher than for equivalent petrol car instead of six By Old formula A 2.4-litre diesei car owner paid nearly $15,000 in annual taxes. New formula Owner of a similar car that meets Euro IV emission
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    • 364 3 LISTEN, YOUR HEARING IS AT RISK "By its very construction, the earbud increases signal intensity over a muff. It's worn further down the ear canal, closer to the cochlea." DRDEANGARSTECKI, of Northwestern University in the US New York THE buds are popping
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    • 580 3  - Undergrad turned software pirate of high- end fakes Chua Hian Hou By He gets four-month jail term after deceiving buyers with realistic-looking copies A NANYANG Technological University (NTU) computer engineering undergraduate thought he had found the most lucrative extracurricular activity on campus importing counterfeit Microsoft software for about $80 a
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    • 195 4 Kuala Lumpur THE United States embassy in Kuala Lumpur was shut down yesterday because of what the mission described as an unspecified security threat directed at it. "The embassy will close effective today... until further notice due to a security threat to the embassy,"
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; AFP  -  195 words
    • 463 4  -  Salim Osman Matching bullet casings lead Indonesian police to link Noordin to gold heist By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta INDONESIA'S most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammad Top, orchestrated a murderous armed robbery at a goldsmith shop in Central Java this month, a
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  • ASIA
    • 805 6  - Farewell. to the end of an era Clarissa Oon DEATH OF WANG DAOHAN Top cross-strait negotiator's fine diplomatic skills will be missed By China Correspondent In Beiiing SINCERE THANKS "With your husband's passing at the start of the year, and now elder Wang's, I feel a lot of pain and
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    • CHINA
      • DEATH OF WANG DAOHAN
        • 656 7  - Impasse in talks likely to remain Goh Sui Noi NEWS ANALYSIS China and Taiwan will both be hard put to find replacements for their veteran negotiators B\ THE death of Chinese cross-strait negotiator Wang Daohan last Saturday following that of his Taiwanese counterpart almost a year earlier has thrown into
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        • 290 7  -  Ong Hwee Hwee By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei THERE is "no room" for optimism about a thaw in cross-strait ties, Taiwan's top mainland policy-making body said yesterday, citing China's refusal to deal directly with the island's government. Beijing's decision to bar Taipei
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      • 645 8  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Newspaper poll shows public dissatisfaction is at a 9-year high By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei TROUBLED TIMES "Taiwanese in their 50s are at a loss over whether to retire early, those in their 40s are troubled by their children's education, while
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      • 319 8 Beijing CHINA'S third confirmed bird flu death highlights the danger of small, undetected HSNI outbreaks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, as the authorities probed how the victim fell ill. The 41-year-old woman factory worker, who died on Dec 21, lived in
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      • 122 8 Beijing CHINA should introduce an appraisal system for officials to cool a frenzy for rosy growth data to which promotions are now pegged, a prominent economist has said. Local officials below the provincial level should stop compiling their own gross domestic product (GDP) figures and
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 510 10 Growing demand for flat-screen TVs and holidays abroad bodes well for growth Tokyo A YEAR-END spending splurge by Japanese consumers on flatpanel TV sets, overseas holidays and other luxuries is helping to underpin an upbeat outlook for the world's No. 2 economy. Enticed by
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      • 369 10 Tokyo AT A run-down Tokyo junior school, portraits of North Korean dictator Kim Jong II cast a watchful gaze over the pupils. But after the bell, the children share frank opinions about the Dear Leader. 'He's kind of fat," second-grad-er Lee Miyong Hee
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      • 249 10 Washington THE United States cannot continue food aid for thousands of hungry North Koreans until Pyongyang allows international relief workers to monitor its distribution, the State Department said. In a rebuke to North Korea's rejection of World Food Programme monitoring. State
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      • 441 12 Report cites diplomatic rows as reason why banker wants to skip talks TOKYO CHINA'S central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan wants to cancel a trip to Tokyo next month, partly because of recent diplomatic rows between the two countries, Ja- pan's Mainichi newspaper reported
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      • ASIA QUICKLY
        • 89 12 SEOUL: The US journal Science said it would retract a May article in which disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk claimed a major breakthrough in tailoring stem cells. The move came after an investigation panel of the Seoul National University said on Thursday
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        • 126 12 SEOUL: South Korea's point man on North Korea yesterday submitted his resignation to President Roh Moo Hyun, hoping to win the ruling Uri Party's nomination for presidential race in late 2007. Mr Chung Dong Young, 52, was chairman of the Uri Party before taking
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        • 74 12 BANGKOK: Hundreds of road accidents left 37 people dead and many more injured as Thais began their New Year revelry, a government agency said. Thailand's roads are plagued with drunk-driving accidents during long holidays, when millions of Thais leave cities to return
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      • 48 12 Firemen battling flames at the Seomun market in Daegu, a town 300km south-east of Seoul, yesterday. Around 1,000 firemen and 116 fire engines were sent to the scene. While no casualties were reported, more than 1,000 shops were destroyed by the blaze. PHOTO: AFP
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      • 249 12 Beijing SOME 100 reporters about one-third of the editorial staff at a Beijing newspaper known for its bold coverage of sensitive topics walked off the job after its top editor was removed this week. Reporters stopped filing articles on Thursday after the
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 428 13  -  P. Jayaram Latest is a shock move by party leader Vajpayee to stop contesting polls By India Correspondent In New Delhi INDIA'S main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), tainted by corruption and sex scandals, has been plunged into further turmoil with former prime minister
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      • 523 16  -  P. Jayaram NEWS ANALYSIS Escalating violence worries New Delhi but its previous bid to help had been a disaster By India Correspondent In New Delhi INDIA is unlikely to involve itself in Sri Lanka's stalled peace process despite worries here about a
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      • 286 16 Bangalore POLICE in the southern Indian city of Bangalore have stepped up security after local media reported receiving letters threatening attacks on New Year's revellers and the state's Chief Minister Dharam Singh. A letter from a previously unknown group outlining the threatened
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      • 204 16 Tokyo A MEMBER of an Islamist extremist group banned in Pakistan entered Japan two years ago to try to establish a foothold in the country, a Japanese newspaper said yesterday. Japanese police had warned this month that Islamist extremists may tempt Muslim communities
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 62 17 A Filipino boy crouches among the ashes of what was his makeshift home after fire swept through a large "informal" housing area in the Tondo district of Manila on Thursday. Arson investigators have yet to say how the blaze started. Property damage is estimated at
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      • 458 17  -  Luz Baguioro Pilot volunteer scheme to help locals teach science and maths useful By Philippines Correspondent In Manila "Our teachers fare poorly when it comes to analysis and logic. Exposure to good teaching will hopefully help them become better." MS ALICE PANARES, director of
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      • 229 17 Hanoi VIETNAM has asked Taiwan to stop building a runway in the disputed Spratly Islands immediately, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday, saying the work violated Vietnamese sovereignty. 'Taiwan will have to take full responsibility for any consequences of its actions," ministry spokesman Le Dung
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      • 637 18  -  Salim Osman Most Indonesian areas have raised the bar by 9 per cent, but eight are lagging By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta REGIONAL administrators were rushing yesterday to meet a deadline for setting basic minimum monthly wages for next year amid union demands for
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      • 263 18 Prostitute charged with hiring man to kill husband Adelaide A PHILIPPINE-BORN prostitute is alleged to have hired a hitman to kill her husband so that she could claim A5400,000 (S$488,000) in life insurance. Jennifer Remigio, 30, was charged by prosecutors in the South Australian city of Adelaide yesterday with conspiring
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      • 265 18 Jakarta INDONESIA'S ailing flag carrier Garuda has announced that it will not meet repayments due at the end of the year on the principal of an unspecified sum of debt. In a statement released late on Thursday, the carrier said it would continue
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      • Article, Illustration
        57 18 A Myanmar woman, Jayee, rocks her one-year-old, Heeu, to sleep in Thailand's Phang Nga province, nearly 130km north of Phuket. She is one of thousands of illegal migrant workers who, one year on, still dare not search for relatives believed killed in last year's tsunami for fear
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      • 327 20 EU-led team will oversee crucial elections that include ex-rebels Jakarta AN EU-led team monitoring a peace deal in tsuna-mi-ravaged Aceh province is to extend its mission by at least three months to oversee crucial local elections. "We have agreed that the mission
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      • 253 20 Jakarta THE Indonesian government ordered the country's military commanders in 2000 to stop taking payoffs from companies whose sites they were guarding, The Jakarta Post quoted the country's defence minister as saying yesterday. Mr Juwono Sudarsono was reacting to admissions by military commanders that
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 526 21 Minister defuses tension over climb er s burial dispute 'Better way' needed to settle Islamic matters affecting non-Muslims: Nazri By Kuala Lumpur A CABINET minister has said justice may not have been served when the Islamic authorities were allowed to bury a Mount Everest climber according to Muslim rites against
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      • 340 21 Petaling Jaya THE National Registration Department's nightmare has come true. Despite giving Malaysians three years to apply for MyKads which are like identity cards thousands left it to the last minute. Long lines formed at the offices of the registration department (NRD) nationwide
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      • 235 21 SINGAPORE'S Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo has sent a condolence letter to the wife of Tan Sri Noordin Sopiee, one of Malaysia's most respected individuals, who died on Thursday, after a long battle, with thyroid cancer. In his message to Puan Sri Shamsiah Md Hashim. Mr
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    • 269 22  -  Jonathan Eyal A weekly wrap of events of the past seven days and their significance By Scienceand politics just don't mix A RULING by a panel from South Korea's top university that stem-cell expert Hwang Woo Suk fabricated the results of his research has shocked the country.
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    • 985 22 ■-fHSBIJIBf f3l Wmmmf fi||QL i^jQW B IW VmIBU^^IpID^P Asian governments enjoying a head-start in such fields must not be discouraged by the dubious actions of one professor. It is perfectly possible to allow academics their freedom while still maintaining ethical controls. What may not be possible, however,
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    • 637 23 Men seek facts, women bond on the Net Surveys find Internet use an increasingly accepted way of life, with women being bigger users of e-mail New York 'Give me the facts' On the Internet, men tend to: Go for news, stocks, sports and pornography Surf to pass time Fix own
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    • 483 24 On political front, multinational team is set up to look into claims of poll fraud Baghdad UNDER a mounting insurgent offensive against Iraq's petrol supply, the country's largest fuel refinery has shut down. Petrol station owners in surrounding communities have had
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    • 127 24 SOUTH Korea's Parliament approved a Bill yesterday to cut by about one-third the size of its troop deployment in Iraq. It has the third-largest foreign contingent there. The National Assembly voted by 110 to 31 to extend the country's troop deployment in Iraq
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    • 239 24 Gaza EUROPEAN Union (EU) monitors withdrew from Gaza's border with Egypt yesterday after Palestinian police imposed an armed blockade to protest against the killing of a colleague in spiralling internal violence. Already busy searching for three Britons ab ducted nearby on Wednesday, officials scram
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        249 26 MOMENTS 2005 From disaster and tragedy to celebration and triumph, the drama that unfolded during the year has been captured through the lens of the photographer. People of all ages and backgrounds have made it to the album of change. As the world bids goodbye to 2005, The Straits Times
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    • 362 27 BUSHISMS OF THE YEAR ALTHOUGH US President George W. Bush did not come up with any new words this yez he had several notable statements, said Mr Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. These are: "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and
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    • 393 27 Despite outcry over tactics, the spy agency is expanding its anti-terror programme Washington THE US effort to fight Al-Qaeda after the Sept 11 attacks has grown into the largest CIA covert action programme since the height of the Cold War, expanding in
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      • 353 28 A FAMILY man once regarded as a pillar of the community was sentenced to 40 years in prison for a string of bank robberies after being turned in by his sons, who recognised him in a surveillance photo. The judge
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      • 187 28 A MALAYSIAN tuition teacher is claiming a new world record for teaching nonstop for 88 hours and 18 minutes, in a feat involving 333 students which left him with a sore back and high blood pressure. Dr Annamalai Elanthevan, 42. began the marathon at Bpm on
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      • 136 28 LYNNDIE England, the American soldier incarcerated for abusing detainees in Iraq, has been badly burnt in a prison accident. England, who was pictured holding a leash to a naked, hooded Iraqi inmate at the Abu Ghraib prison, was jailed for three years in September for
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      • 114 28 THE Washington couple at the heart of the CIA leak investigation had their cover blown by their young son as they tried to sneak away on holiday. "My daddy's famous, my mummy's a secret spy," declared the five-year-old of his parents, former diplomat
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      • 140 28 BRITISH politician David Cameron is so determined to prove his green credentials that he has commissioned aneco-architect to make over his new house in London, complete with wind turbine on the roof. The Conservative leader hopes the fee of more than £10,000 (S$30,000) for
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    • 8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 31, 2005
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    • 642 1  -  Chong Chee Kin Cop shot himself playing Police NSman had a habit of toying with his revolver while on duty, say colleagues By< POLICE national serviceman Arvin Rangoonathan was fascinated with his Taurus service revolver and shot himself in various poses with his camera phone. The 20-year-old pointed
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    • 364 3 Members of Parliament were puzzled at how 24-year-old Second Sergeant Ong Jia Hui a trained lifeguard and strong swimmer died on June 1 5. He sank 9m to the seabed off Changi Naval Base while on a military exercise, despite the presence of four
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    • 566 3  - MPs puzzled by safety lapses David Boey Ben Nadarajan SOLDIER'S DROWNING Defence GPC head plans to raise issue with Mindef By A YOUNG soldier's death has once again cast the spotlight on training safety in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Members of Parliament interviewed yesterday were puzzled and dismayed at
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    • 586 4  - 1 0kg of equipment too much even for a lifeguard Ben Nadarajan David Boey SOLDIER'S DROWNING Experts express concern over heavy loads in training at sea B\ THE soldier who drowned in a training accident in June was a qualified lifeguard, yet he still sank 9m to the bottom of
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    • 88 4 Second Sergeant Ong Jia Hui wore a pair of green overalls, a bulletproof vest, had an unloaded pistol strapped to his thigh and carried an MP-5 9mm submachine gun similar to the garb of this soldier (above) who is armed with an MP-5 fitted with
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    • 202 4  -  CHONG CHEE KIN PASTOR Cheah Fook Meng, who had dengue fever, died a week after he admitted himself to hospital complaining of fever, nausea and aches all over his body. The doctors at Alexandra Hospital tried to draw a blood sample from his veins,
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    • 569 6  -  Peh Shing Huei MM LEE'S MEETING WITH SIA Cost-conscious travellers are posing a serious challenge to the airline, says MM By WHEN Ms Joyce Poon went to Hong Kong earlier this year on a shopping trip, she did not even consider flying Singapore Airlines,
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    • 284 6 HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan was in such a bad mood over a scathing auditor's report on the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) last week that he was tempted to withdraw from a Chinese calligraphy charity exhibition. "If your mind is restless," he said,
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    • 558 6  -  Aaron Low By THE average age of the union leaders at three of the five Singapore Airlines (SIA) unions is 55 while at the other two, it is around 43. The unionists interviewed yesterday are not proud of this fact but seem
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    • 377 6 KEY TO SUCCESS "The greater the connectivity, the better transfer point we become." TRANSPORT MINISTER YEO CHEOWTONG (right) FIRST, China. Now, the rest of the world. After inking a deal last month for unlimited flights between Singapore and China, Transport Minister
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    • 456 6 On Thursday, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met unions and management of Singapore Airlines to discuss challenges ahead for the airline. Below are extracts of what he said: ONE COHESIVE TEAM As the standards of other airlines go up, service and safety, SI A will
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    • 500 7  -  Christopher Tan Celebrations include a morning mass jog to the station. First train to roll in at 1 pm By Senior Correspondent ABOUT 3,000 residents living as far as I.6km from Buangkok MRT station will jog to the nowfamous white building on the morning
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    • 292 7  -  Arlina Arshad By FROM next month, 32 childcare centres will offer Tamil as a second language more than twice as many as now in a bid to boost the number of Indian children enrolled with them. Currently, about 5 per cent of the
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    • 150 7 SEVERAL roads in the central and western parts of Singapore will bi closed today and early tomorrow for the New Year's Eve celebrations. Esplanade Drive, also known as the Esplanade Bridge, will be closed from 9pm to 3am for the Manna Ba\ oounl down.
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        207 9 then now THEN Credit cards were the thing to have. Living in a pre-liberalised credit spending environment meant your first car was probably a 20-year-old Mazda that had air-con. Bate shoes were the norm in secondary school. Saving for Game Watch, which was the most-wanted Christmas toy then. It
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      • 683 9  - Poster boy for the youth consumer ARTI MULCHAND Self-confessed spendthrift Rajesh Misir gets up to $600 in monthly allowance, owns 14 pairs of shoes, and can blow $100 'within minutes' ONE of four television sets in the Misir home is a plasma set, and the 26-inch Toshiba belongs to the
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    • CHARITY AT HOME
      • 253 10 RISING to the top It was a year of ups and downs for Singapore's charities. Highlights include how Singaporeans opened their hearts and wallets to victims of the Dec 26 tsunami last year and then gave generously to the President's Star Charity FEBRUARY: Regulations are changed to allow sporting groups
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      • 720 10  -  Theresa Tan It started with flood of donations for tsunami victims but ended with a damning report on NKFs functioning under the T.T. Durai team Bv r IT HAS been a turbulent year for charities. The year got off to a grim start in
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      • 186 11 FALLING from grace But the charity sector also hogged the headlines this year for all the wrong reasons. Several organisations came under intense public scrutiny, shaking public confidence in the process JULY-DECEMBER: Furore erupts after damaging revelations about the exNational Kidney Foundation CEO's pay and perks in court. The NKF
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      • 181 11 Heartfelt calls Donors can still make pledges to the Singapore Heart Foundation until next Friday. The foundation needs funds to open a new wellness centre, and extend its Heart Support Fund, which helps patients pay for much needed medication. When: Call 1900-112-8808 to donate $8 or 1900-112-8838 to
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    • 554 12  -  Selina Lum BRIDE-FOR-SEX SCAM Judge blasts con man, urges agencies to be more responsible By COBBLER Fan Kiet Teng, 64, cooked up a scam to have sex with foreign women looking for a Singaporean husband. He did so by duping marriage agencies into releasing prospective
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    • 339 12 THE managing director of the matchmaking agency that matched 64-year-old Fan Kiet Teng with a young Vietnamese woman has resolved to conduct more vigorous checks on the men who walk through his door. Mr Mark Lin, from Vietnam Brides International Matchmaker, admitted making
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    • 310 12  -  Khushwant Singh By MEMBERS of Parliament have reached into their own pockets to donate $133,700 to the Harun Ghani Education Fund to help motivate children of drug offenders to continue their education. After presenting the cheque to the fund's committee yesterday,
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    • FORUM
      • 599 13 TO ADD to the litany of woes outlined by Mrs Ng Kim Yong ("Don't deter students less strong in Chinese"; ST, Dec 29) is the little-known policy that students in the Special stream taking Higher Chinese Language (HCL) must pass the subject and English or
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      • 290 13 I COMPLETED my O levels last month and was posted to a junior college (JC) through the Provisional Admission Exercise. Under current guidelines, students who take Higher Mother Tongue can get two bonus points deducted from their JC entry score.
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      • 302 13 I REFER to Mrs Ng Kim Yong's letter, "Don't deter students less strong in Chinese" (ST, Dec 29). Though she must have meant well, we must understand that her anecdotes are not representative of all Chinese language teachers. I agree that a teacher is
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      • 303 13 YESTERDAY, The Straits Times carried the sad news of the death of Tan Sri Noordin Sopiee at the age of 61. It also reported that he was a great Malaysian and South-east Asian intellectual, and that among his many well-known abilities, was
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      • 341 14 Steps in place to prevent repeat of check- in error I REFER to Mr Ee Yik Khoon's letter, "Security loophole in SlA's check-in system?" (ST, Dec 29). Singapore Airlines (SIA) takes the security and safety of our customers very seriously. Let me assure your readers that the mistake, which occurred
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      • 338 14 IT IS Ms Carol Chua Siew Gek's prerogative to defend her former boss T.T. Durai in the face of unrelenting criticisms against him ("Durai has done far more good than bad for NKF"; ST, Dec 29). However, her defence trivialises and fails to
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      • 337 14 I WISH to express my appreciation to The Straits Times for its recounting of the memorable events of the year, and if I may do so here, also extend the same gratitude to Channel News Asia. Since the start of this millennium, every year
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      • 189 14 WE REFER to the letter, "Why levy GST on donations in Ren Ci show?" (ST, Dec 28). Outright cash donations with no benefits received in return are not subject to goods and services tax (GST). It is only when the contributions
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      • 288 14 I REFER to the article. "School bus fares going up by $5 to $10 next month' (ST. Dec 28). Being a secondary school student, I get to enjoy the convenience of taking a school bus every day only because an affiliated primary
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    • 173 1 RUNNING FOR THE TRAIN About 3,000 residents will jog toßuangkokMßT station on the morning of Jan 15, to mark its opening. Page H7 FOCUS ON SAF SAFETY Soldier's death casts spotlight on train ing safety in Singapore Armed Forces. PageH3 TOP MARKS NOT ENOUGH Perfect score in 0 levels failed
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    • 8 1 SATURDAY THE STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 31, 2005
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      • 25 HOT NEWSMAKERS OF 2005
        • 42 2 The man who dealt a body blow to a charity Former NKF chief T.T. Durai Australian drug courier Nguyen Tuong Van Alleged double-murderer Michael McCrea Huang Na killer Took Leng How Everitt Road resident Chan Cheng Khoon A PHOTO: LIM WUI LIANG
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        • 377 2  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH K. C. VIJAYAN NGUYEN TUONG VAN THE Dec 2 hanging of Australian salesman-turned-drug courier Nguyen Tuong Van thrust Singapore's capital punishment system into the international spotlight. In the weeks leading up to the execution, Australian media pressed for an eleventh-hour move to save his
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        • 380 2  -  K.C. VIJAYAN MICHAEL McCREA FROM a jail in Melbourne, alleged double-murderer Michael McCrea, 45, strenuously resisted attempts to be brought back to Singapore. His three-year quest to avoid extradition ended when he was finally flown back in September. This came about after the Singapore Government
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        • 267 2  -  TANYA FONG TOOK LENG HOW THE 14-day High Court trial of Malaysian Took Leng How saw curious onlookers queueing up to grab one of the 60 seats in the courtroom. There were hecklers and those who trailed the family of the late Huang Na, who
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        • 183 2  -  SELINA LUM »CHAN CHENG KHOON HE IS a central player in the de-cade-old Everitt Road saga of unhappy neighbours who started out squabbling over parking space, and have defied numerous attempts at mediation Yet, retiree Chan Cheng Khoon, 71, never seems to mind the attention.
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        • 300 4  - Pardon his French LIONEL SEAH Advertising guru Neil French DBS Bank chief executive Jackson Tai Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon Former top entrepreneur Victor Tan Former Internet entrepreneur Dinesh Bhatia NEIL FRENCH WHEN word spread over the Internet that he had declared women advertising executives "crap" because "they wimp out and
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        • 314 4  -  KELVIN WONG JACKSON TAI TO PROVE his point, DBS Bank chief executive Jackson Tai alluded to the competition, and found himself at the receiving end of a riposte couched in Shakespearean prose. At a conference in October, he had questioned the value of quarterly reporting, saying
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        • 141 4  -  AZRIN ASMANI VICTOR TAN FROM high-flying poster boy to fallen angel, one of Corporate Singapore's bright sparks fizzled out this year. At 31, Victor Tan was the youngest ever to become chief executive of a listed firm here when he took Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS),
          WONG KWAI CHOW  -  141 words
        • 251 4  -  KARAMJIT KAUR GEOFF DIXON AFTER more than a decade of lobbying, Singapore Airlines (SIA) still has no access to the potentially lucrative Australia-US sector. Things were looking up this year, but Qantas' chief executive officer Geoff Dixon ensured the idea did not fly. In February.
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        • 185 4  -  BEN NADARAJAN »DINESHBHATIA HE TOOK cocaine, was among 14 people caught in the first high-profile cocaine bust in Singapore, and served an eightmonth jail term. Out of prison, former Internet entrepreneur Dinesh Bhatia lost no time moving on and starting anew selling fancy sports cars.
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        • 349 5  - The big surprise LESLIE KOH Singapore presidential hopeful Andrew Kuan "The elephant men" of Buangkok ANDREW KUAN *t THE man who wanted to ■k be president now just seeks to return to the relative obscurity he once enjoyed. "I just want to go on with my life, to return to
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        • 389 5  -  AARON LOW ELEPHANT MEN OF BUANGKOK THEY are grassroots leaders of a different ilk, turning a municipal issue into a national controversy. It helped that what they did got people talking and chuckling. It also earned them a cheeky moniker: the elephant men of Buangkok. They
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        • 27 6 Stem cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad PHOTO AP
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        • 430 6  -  KWAN WENG KIN JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI IN JAPAN, this is the year that will be remembered for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's thumping Sept 11 election victory. It gave the 63-year-old leader a fresh mandate to push through his controversial postal privatisation plans, and gave his ruling Liberal
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        • 349 6  -  NIRMAL GHOSH THAKSIN SHINAWATRA HE IS brash, abrasive and immensely popular. And Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is changing the landscape of Thai politics. Confounding critics, his can-do decisiveness and populist schemes got him back into power when Thais went to the polls in February. They re-elected
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        • 167 6 MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD YOU could say Iran's new president has taken the shortest time to make himself known around the world. In just six months, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks about Israel and Nazi treatment of the Jews have managed to spark in stant international outrage.
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        • 31 7 Singapore-born pianist Melvyn Tan Private school student Gan Huai Shi Award-winning blogger Wendy Cheng Mumbai-based actor Rehaan Engineer "Sexy Singapore" pioneers PHOTO: ALAN LI M
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        • 217 7  -  TRACY SUA GAN HUAI SHI REHABILITATE rather than punish seemed to be the court's preferred course of action for private school student Gan Huai Shi, 17. Gan made headlines this year for being one of the first few individuals ever charged under the
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        • 279 7  -  SERENE LUO XIAXUE ONLINE personality Xiaxue (Miss Wendy Cheng, 21) courts controversy and it boosts the number of hits on her blogsite. Readership of her awardwinning weblog (http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/) has skyrocketed from 3,000 readers last year to 20,000. Her unchecked use of vulgarity and no-holds-barred opinions
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        • 294 7  - Dare- to -bare actor stands out on stage HONG XINYI REHAAN ENGINEER THAT Quills was staged at all was a feather in Singapore theatre's cap. That is considering its plethora of racy and controversial references to sex, religion and censorship, and the time spent on stage in the buff by
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        • 337 7  -  SANDRA LEONG 'SEXY SINGAPORE' PIONEERS THIS year, sex finally came to the city in a big way. Sexpo 2005, Singapore's first adults-only exhibition at the Singapore Expo, began with a bang on Nov 18 as a crowd of 43,000 flocked to the event.
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        • 31 8 Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney Football Association of Singapore women's committee chairman Jeanette Sim Ex-Singapore Rugby Union executive Sean Lee Singapore Ladies Golf Association chief Winifred Lim PHOTO: REUTERS
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        • 205 8  -  TAY CHENG KHOON »JEANETTESIM WHEN the Singapore National Olympic Council said "no" to sending her footballing girls to the Manila SEA Games, Mrs Jeanette Sim fumed. But the anger of the chairman of the Football Association of Singapore's women's committee soon turned
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        • 199 8  -  NICHOLAS FANG SEAN LEE FOR AN association of big men playing one of the most physically challenging games around, the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) was overcome by surprise when one of its former employees disappeared along with more than $300,000 from its coffers. The money was found
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        • 219 8  -  TAY CHENG KHOON WINIFRED LIM SINCE its inception some 25 years ago, the Singapore Ladies Golf Association (SLGA) -has been functioning as an autonomous body looking after the welfare of female golfers. So when this independence was threatened, Mrs Winifred Lim bristled. The storm in
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    • INSIGHT
      • 362 10 ONE of the biggest debates in 2005 revolved around whether allowing a casino here would turn Singapore into a nation of gamblers. With the decision made and tenders out, the debate has moved from one of having casi-no-or-not to one of how-to. For the remaining
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      • 265 10 THE NKF saga of 2005 is one that will not die off so quickly, nor be so easily overtaken bj^r "There is a I need for a f^ truly 7 j^ indepen- f 0^ dent body \V^ if there is T to be real I transpa-
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        64 10 High 5 in '06 Rjf From white elephants and scandal-hit charities to plans for new casinos, 2005 6 ■L has been a year of political ups and clowns. What's likely to be big in the next Mm 365 days? Leslie Koh and Peh Shing Huei pick out five issues from
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      • 353 10 political expression: Speaking up THIS year has been a year of white elephants, a silent banner/T-shirt protest and a documentary on an opposition politician. The results so far: Several police investigations and a warning, leading to criticism of a clampdown on political expression. Will similar attempts be made next year?
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      • 181 10 HOW the four issues pan out will have a significant bearing on the fifth big issue for 2006 that is. if the Government calls for a general election in the next 365 days. An election has to be held before June 2007, but many
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      • 398 10 NEXT month, a ministerial committee is due to release its recommendations on giving a boost to low-wage workers. A tripartite panel is expected to do the Hune for older workers soon after, also in January. They will very likely tnggei long debates on what
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      • 46 10 DO you agree with the five top picks? What other issue do you think deserves attention next year? Tell us what you think. E-mail stpol@sph.com.sg or SMS 9827-7514. For SMS messages, type stpol, followed by a space, your message and full name.
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      • 1165 11  -  Bertha Henson THINKING ALOUD By Supervising Editor (Home) THERE is a man who deserves some credit in helping to expose the excesses of the old National Kidney Foundation, except that few know who he is. He is the 54-year-old retired contractor
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      • 415 11 YOUR INSIGHTS Last week, Insight asked several MPs to reflect on their most memorable moments in 2005. They range from the NKF scandal and tsunami relief work to quiet moments in their private lives. Here are some of our readers' thoughts: MR LOW Thia Khiang's story reveals his humane character.
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    • REVIEW
      • 399 12 F" 1 HE year closing out had been better than hoped for. Job JL groivtli was the strongest since the 2000 boom. Corporate profits were spread more evenly across sectors, which brought pay rises and bigger bonuses to a broader spectrum of workers. These developments
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      • 1063 12 What SIA can do to battle the challenges ahead Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met SlA's management and unions on Thursday. Here are the edited excerpts of his i remarks. THE objective of the meeting is to consolidate the gains that have been made by Singapore Airlines management and unions
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      • 1028 12  - S'pore-Jakarta ties warm... Adianto P. Simamora By WOOING INVESTORS Dr Yudhoyono is also hoping to attract more investment from Singapore. The tiny but prosperous neighbour is currently the fourth-largest foreign investor in Indonesia. DESPITE the changes in leadership in Indonesia and its tiny neighbour Singapore, relations between both countries have
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      • 1574 14 In the last of three excerpts from The Eagle In The Lion City: America, Americans and Singapore, author Jim Baker talks about Americans in present-day Singapore and their role in the country as Singapore evolves. LEGAL EAGLES In true American fashion, the
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      • 944 14  -  Kevin Hassett By (DISCLAIMER: The author has a relationship to S. Claus, a party with a significant interest in this article. He has, according to the citizen snoops at North Pole Watch, visited Mr Claus both as a child, and
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    • SPORTS
      • 925 16 SOCCER Chelsea's challengers Liverpool Strengths: Rock-solid defence based on the reliability of goalkeeper Jose Reina, who kept eight successive clean sheets until beaten by Everton's James Beattie on Wednesday. Back four are led with pride by local hero Jamie Carragher and are protected from midfield
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      • 1697 16 [PNIDVM 3SHOH Singapore Racing 1 Results 1 Track: Soft Race 1 Class 5 (2) 1200m 1 lOWORKINGCLASSMAN.KBSoo. 1 1 ast Tycoon. App A Ng 2. I '2 Good Benefit BVorster 1 I Margins: Heat! x 1-14 len. Tme i I 12 8 Nos. 10. 1.12. Win. $53 Place:
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      • 235 17 Monday Charlton Athletic 0 Arsenal 1 Chelsea 3 Fulham2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Birmingham City 0 Liverpool 2 Newcastle United 0 Manchester United 3 West Bromwich Albion 0 Middlesbrough 0 Blackburn Rovers 2 Portsmouth 1 West Ham United 1 Sunderland 0 Bolton Wanderers 0 Wigan Athletic 4 Manchester City 3
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      • 169 17 P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 19 17 1 1 41 9 52 Man United 19 12 5 2 36 16 41 Liverpool 17 11 4 2 25 9 37 Tottenham 19 9 7 3 27 18 34 Wigan 19 11 1 7 25 21 34 Arsenal
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      • 849 17 SOCCER Liverpool skipper says staying injury-free is critical to his success in scoring this season Liverpool STEVEN Gerrard puts his scoring prowess for Liverpool this season down to the fact he has avoided injury. The England midfielder has struck 14 times in 28 matches
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      • 547 17 London BIRMINGHAM City may already have played a decisive role in the English Premiership title race, foiling secondplaced Manchester United's chances with a 2-2 draw in midweek. But, at leaders Chelsea today, Steve Bruce's men will once again want to try and
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      • 361 17 London THE Premier League has promised to revise its scheduling for Christmas and New Year next season, after coming under government pressure following fan unhappiness over cancelled matches. Newcastle United's home match against Charlton on Wednesday was postponed only 20 minutes before kick-off because
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      • 516 18 Spurs need to get over West Brom loss quickly SOCCER They need to win next two tough games to stay in fourth place London TOTTENHAM midfielder Michael Carrick has exhorted his team not to dwell on their defeat by West Bromwich Albion, if they are to get maximum points from
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      • 644 18 London ASTON Villa goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen believes his team have to become unbeatable at home if they are to earn a European spot. But the call comes at a bad time. They have not beaten today's visitors, Arsenal, since December 1998 and
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      • 603 18 Manchester BOLTON'S Ivan Campo has been accused of "plain stupidity" by his manager Sam Allardyce, for getting sent off in the reserves. The former Real Madrid defender will miss today's match against Manchester United at Old Trafford, as he begins a three-match suspension
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      • 455 18 LONDON THE African Nations Cup is becoming a big headache for many Premiership clubs. Only six top-flight clubs are not affected by the tournament, which begins on Jan 20. Those depleted of the services of their African players are desperate
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      • 524 18 Hanoi VIETNAM football officials are determined to continue fighting deep-rooted corruption in the sport, after four key players were arrested on match-fixing allegations and others put under investigation this month. The leading striker, two midfielders and a defender from the national Under-23
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      • 777 19  -  John Dykes FOOTBALL FOCUS Big boys dominate again but debutants show there're lots to be positive about league By] WITH one outrageous flick of his boot at West Ham on Wednesday night, Henri Camara reminded us why we keep coming back to the English
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      • 997 19  -  Rob Hughes IN GOOD CONSCIENCE By IF YOU had ventured into the bars of Molly Malone's or Father Flanagan's since Tuesday, it's a fair bet that the "craic" the banter was all about Roger Loughran. We scarcely heard the name
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        1365 20 SPORTS 2006 j^ IMPORTANT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS NEXT YEAR American Football Jan 22: NFL conference championships Badminton Jan 1 8-22: Yonex All-England 1 Championships i Bowling Ja n 5-8 ABT Tou ma ment of j Champions, Macau 5 Football *Jan 3: Arsenal v Man United I Jan 7: FA
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      • 218 20 iwmmmanm i j June 9: KH Germany v Costa Rica Pof and y Ecuador June \(k England v Paraguay Trinidad Tobago v Sweden Argentina v Ivory Coast JuneTlsJ Serbia Montenegro v Holland Mexico v Iran Angola v Portugal June 12: USA v Czech Republic Italy v
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      • 527 22 LOOKING BACK AT 2005 HE'S FREE TO DANCE "Is he entitled to go dance with his wife at a do? Yes he is. Does he need some help with his dance moves? Obviously he does. We will do some more movement to music in training." IAIN DOWIE,
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      • 718 22 LOOKING FORWARD TO 2006 They could win the World Cup, though that would be only one of many highlights THE next year, packed with highprofile events around the globe, will re-ignite fresh debates over best teams and greatest players. Brazil, England or Argentina for
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      • 369 22 TABLE TENNIS Name: Zena Sim Age: 15 School: Singapore Sports Schooi Achievements: Won Asian Junior Championships in New Delhi Sports hero: Joo Se Hyuk (Kor) 2006's target: "Next year, I'll be competing in the Under-18 for the first time, so I hope to be champion in at
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      • 384 22  -  Chan Yi Shen YOUNG SINGAPOREAN HOPEFULS FOR 2006 By JOEY Poh may have just completed her PSLE but she is already knocking on the door of the national women's golf squad. The 12-year-old could become the youngest female golfer in Singapore colours
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      • 472 23  -  Terence Lim WINDSURFING By HONG Kong's Ho Chi Ho has been thwarted twice in his bid to be Asia's top windsurfer in the Mistral One-design class. At both the 1998 and 2002 Asian Games, he lost out to the same rival Indonesian Oka Sulaksana.
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      • 519 23 SATURDAY FEATURE By challenging administrators, he changed the face of the game forever New York FOR all of Kerry Packer's global stature in the world of business, sports fans will likely remember the Australian media entrepreneur who died this week at the age of 68 for
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      • 522 23 BASKETBALL Auburn Hills (Michigan) THE Detroit Pistons' continuity was too much for the changing Miami Heat. Chauncey Billups scored 30 and Richard Hamilton had 25 points and a season-high nine assists on Thursday to lead the Pistons past the new-look Heat 106-101 in a rematch
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 53 23 LONDON: British Sports Minister Richard Caborn has called for the imposition of a salary cap in European football to combat spiralling costs. hi his role as chairman of European Sports Ministers, he is also urging for controls on agents and an investigation into money laundering in
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        • 61 23 ALMATY: The Kazakhstan capital of Almaty will host the 2011 Winter Asian Games, the city's mayor, Imangali Tasmagambetov, announced yesterday. He said that a delegation from the central Asian country would travel to Kuwait on Wednesday to be present at an official announcement. Almaty
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      • 251 23 BASKETBALL NBA: Detroit 106 Miami 101, San Antonio 111 Oklahoma City 84, Seattle 112 Denver 105. GWCKET Fifth day of 2nd Test in Melbourne: Australia 355 and 321-7 dec. South Africa 311 and 181 in 74 overs (S. Pollock n.o. 67; McGrath 3-44, Warne 4-74). Australia win by 184
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    • OBITUARIES
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        475 23 MARY P PEREIRA i Age: 90 (Wife of the late Peter Pereira) passed away peacefully on 30 Dec 2005 Mourned by: Sons: Daughters-in-law Cyril Jane Ong Sai Geok Wilfred Gemma Pereira Geoffrey Sam Ran Boolsambatra Daughters: Sons-in-law: Philomina (Bridget) Christopher Miranda Erasma Gerald Gomez Matilda Rachel Yap Lip Kee Nelly
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        534 24 Lim Joo Hong Technologist entrepreneur, artist, friend 4 Your sudden departure makes us realise how fragile life is. We will always treasure your friendship and the privilege of having worked with you. Sadly missed by colleagues from Systems Et Computer Organisation, National Computer Board, Mentor Graphics, Asiacontent.com, Epigram, Singapore Computer
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        230 24 rWith Deepest Sympathy and Iff Heartfelt Condolences to 4LEONGMUNSUM f on the demise of his beloved wife NG KWAN CHEONG Departed on 28 December 2005 From: L Vice-Chairman I Members of School Advisory Committee Principal, 4| l_ Staff Pupils of Henderson Secondary School J^fl 1 2nd Anniversary I In Loving
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    • MONEY
      • SGX SECURITIES
        • 6342 25 TRANSACTION DATE: DECEMBER 30. 2005 52 NEB TEL CUUKHCY LAST 'VOL MY 6HS NET mMP HISH LOW CBH COMPMIY TRUED SAlt +0«- *000 M6M LOW OIV PTE JHII 7 5 2 5716 Ist Software 5c 2.5 unch 300 2.5 2 5 10.1 22 6 SMI BTeiecomUS2c 7.5
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        • 1852 25 una in camucT uqt m day are »ti iw HISH LW COOE COHPUY TRADED Wl tM HIGH lON MV% ME Mil 21.5 15 1181 AAGrpl3c 21 6.2 20.2 25.5 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 5c 19.5 unch 144 20 19 5 10 117 37 6 19 14 23!- AdampakBc
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        • 72 25 52-WB m. CURMSCY UST T»l MY M~ KT M CAP HIGH tBW CODE CMHHff TRADED SMi +M- "600 MM l*W UN% P* SMU ***** ***** 6065 Diamonds USlolsocd 6095 IS DJ US Tech U***** 6097 IS MSCI Spore U5555 6101 ISS&PSOO U***** ***** ***** 6170 SPDRS USII2OO 2449
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      • 401 26  -  Kelvin Wong It clarifies position after reports that Jakarta is keen to buy back part of indosat stake By SINGAPORE Technologies (ST) Telemedia made it clear yesterday that it does not intend to sell down its majority stake in Indonesia's second-largest telecommunications
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      • 472 26 RESTORING FAITH "It will be a very hard job. I am not sure anyone can succeed in regaining confidence, but Mr Draghi can play some good cards." MR LUIGI BUTTIGLIONE, a former official of the Bank of Italy when Mr Draghi served
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      • 351 26 Taipei UMC, the world's No. 2 contract chipmaker, faced more criticism over management share sales yesterday, but denied a newspaper report that said its vice-chairman had indulged in insider trading. The report came one day after Mr Robert Tsao, the chairman of United
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      • 43 26 Yesterday's close: 16,111.43 (-232.77 points) Japanese shares eased back 1.42 per cent in a quiet, half-day session. Investors locked in prof its a day after the index ended above 16.300 points for the first time in over five years. AFP
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      • 42 26 Yesterday's close: 14,876.43 (-169.16 points) Hong Kong stocks ended lower on the last trading day of this year, following the lead of other regional markets, leaving the Hang Seng with only a modest gain for the year. REUTERS
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      • 32 26 Yesterday's close: 1,161.06 (-8.81 points) Chinese stocks closed lower. Huaneng Power paced yesterday's decline, as investors felt its recent gam was overdone relative to potential earnings growth. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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      • 30 26 Yesterday's close: 4,763.4 (-9.1 points) Australian stocks fell 0.19 per cent, ending a three-day record-breaking run in subdued trade for the last session of the year. AFP
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      • 27 26 Yesterday's close: 899.79 (-0.7 point) Malaysian stocks closed flat on the last trading day of the year, as selling pressure offset window-dressing activities. AFP
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        35 26 Yesterday's close: 9,397.93 (+74.68 points) The Sensex rose to a record, posting its fourth consecutive year of gains. It was the index's longest annual winning streak in more than a decade. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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      • 19 26 Thursday's close: 1,162.63 (-1.5 points) The markets were shut yesterday for the New Year holidays. AFP
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      • 26 26 Yesterday's close: 713.73 (+3.51 points) Thai shares ended 0.49 per cent higher as local institutional investors bought blue-chip stocks for year-end window-dressing. AFP
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      • 253 26 December 30 Stock Name Wt Close Change Allgreen 50c 0.31 1.300 -0.010 Ascendasreit 0.96 1.950 +0.020 BIL Intl US2Oc 0.55 1.380 -0.010 CapitaLand 3.34 3.440 CapitaMall 0.79 2.240 +0.010 Chart SemiCond 26c 0.84 1.300 -0.010 CityOev 50c 2.48 8.700 ComfortDelGro 25c .1.70 1.600 +0.030 Cosco Corp
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      • 63 26 December 30 GlobalVoice 5c 18,448,000 UniFiberlOc 17.537,000 DBS DB eCWOGO4O3 12,347.000 MediaßinglOc 11,551,000 Bio-Treat HK4Oc 11,492,000 SingTel 15c 11,119,000 MultiVis HK7c 10,518,000 China HongHKlOc 9,797.000 Rotary EngglOc 9,291,000 Celestial US6c 9,087,000 DBS DB eCW*****5 8,670.000 MFSTecIt 10c 8,664.000 China Sun HK25c 8.386,000 CapitalandDßeCW6o424 8,310,000 CapitaLand 7,624,000 STATSChP 25c
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      • 145 26 December 30 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS I H h FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2130 1.2280 Can dollar 1.4240 1.4410 Euro 1.9630 1.9860 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4398 0.4401 NZ dollar 1.1300 1.1550 Sterling pound 2.8580 2.8900
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      • 1898 26 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE DECEMBEI) 31 200t 52-WH ra MMCT LAST HUME 27 13 5 422K A!lgreenßNPeCWo6o324 7...13.5 -2 990 59.5 11.5 4047 AscendasCA eCW*****4 20 -1.5 20 4 2 4105 Asiatravel W*****7 2 unch 500' 3 1 4278 AustonWoBO9os 2.5 unch 303 12.5 3.5 4287 Bio-TrtatßHPeCW6o42! 10 +1.5
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      • 516 27 Its offer of $5.4b for an 85% stake trumps rival bids by ABM Amro and SG Shanghai A CITIGROUP-LED consortium has won the right to buy 85 per cent of China's Guangdong Development Bank for US$3.2 billion (555.4 billion), beating rival groups led by
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      • 192 27 Beijing CHINA has granted approval for 13 foreign and domestic banks to act as pioneering market-makers for yuan trading, marking another step towards greater flexibility for the currency, banking sources said. The sources said the marketmakers could begin their roles as early as next
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      • 578 28  -  Fiona Chan Supplier of dairy genetic products seeks funds to tap China market By Milking demand DEMAND for dairy products in China has been increasing steadily as the country's 1.3 billion consumers grow more affluent. This demand is expected to expand by
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      • 296 28  -  Grace Ng By THE former chief executive officer of Singapore Computer Systems (SCS), Mr Lim Joo Hong, died suddenly of heart complications on Wednesday at the age of 53. Mr Lim had helmed SCS, which provides computer consulting services, for seven months in
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      • 342 28  - New CapitaLand unit to launch syariah- compliant services Joyce Teo B\ Property Correspondent PROPERTY giant CapitaLand has set up a unit to develop real estate investment products in Asia that are compliant with Islamic law. The unit wili invest in and provide advisory services such as asset management for prop-
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      • 531 29  -  Grace Ng Stake in investment holding firm ditto 10%, in line with rule on non-core assets By OCBC BANK now has one less non-core asset to sell off to meet the central bank's looming July deadline for such disposals: It has
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      • COMPANIES IN BRIEF
        • 105 29 TUNG Lok Restaurants' appetite for expansion in India is growing as it sets up a new unit called Tung Lok India and inks a management contract with ITC, an Indian conglomerate. Tung Lok will have a 70 per cent stake in Tung Lok India, which
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        • 114 29 CHINA flexible Packaging Holdings yesterday posted a 10.5 per cent drop in net profits to 166.1 million yuan (Ss3s million) for the year ended Oct 31. Revenues rose 26.7 per cent to 830.8 million yuan, but this was offset by a 48.3 per cent surge
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        • 68 29 JADE Technologies Singapore yesterday drew shareholders' attention to an auditors' report that indicated uncertainty about the firm's ability to continue as a going concern. In a note to the financial statements in Jade's annual report, the auditors pointed out the company had suffered recurring losses
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