The Straits Times, 11 January 2006

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  • 676 1  -  Lee Tee Jong Revelation dashes hopes that Hwang Woo Suk's research could lead to cures for incurable diseases By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul A major setback for science A SHARP setback that's the actual effect on therapeutic cloning after the finding
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  • 530 1  - Korban rites draw Singaporeans of all religions Lim Wei Chean Lee Hui Chieh By HARI Raya Haji may be a Muslim festival, but yesterday's celebrations attracted Singaporeans from across the religious spectrum. At the Al-Istiqamah Mosque, the Mufti, Syed Isa Semait, led the prayers among a congregation that included the
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  • 1052 1  -  Tracy Quek UPFRONT I By China Correspondent In Beijing AN EXPLOSION at a benzene factory unleashes tonnes of toxic chemicals into north-eastern China's Songhua River, causing massive water pollution. Downstream, Harbin city goes without running water for five days. A government attempt to cover up
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  • PRIME
    • 700 3  -  Serene Luo Barcodes on them will be scanned at show venue; Sistic will issue 'm-tickets 1 from April By PAPER CUT "Theoretically it sounds like a great idea... but there's nothing like holding real tickets." Lawyer Michael Loh, on the inevitable
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    • 312 3  -  SERENE LUO MOBILE ticketing and voucher services are not new, having been used in countries like Japan and the United States for the past five years. They are not new in Singapore either. Another local company, Instant Gift Vouchers or iGV.com, has been sending out
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    • 251 4  -  San Diego SOME 200 Japanese soldiers stormed a California beach on Monday at the start of a new military exercise with US troops. The simulated beach landing near San Diego launched Iron Fist, a three-week-long military exercise involving members of the
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    • 461 4 But the infections were mild, suggests a study by Swedish and Vietnamese researchers Washington HUMAN cases of bird flu may be both more common but less lethal than has been reported, say Swedish and Vietnamese researchers. A new study suggests
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    • 257 4 SEVERAL hundred shoppers and diners had to be evacuated from the Ngee Ann City shopping centre yesterday evening after a small fire broke out at the Seoul Garden restaurant there. The trouble started at around 9pm, when smoke began emerging from a stove at
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  • ASIA
    • 786 6 JAPAN'S 2007 PROBLEM Japanese baby boomers will be leaving workforce en masse next year Tokyo Tokyo plans financial incentives to boost birth rate JAPAN is studying financial incentives to encourage people to have more children after the nation's population shrank last year for the first time, a newspaper said yesterday.
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    • 703 9  -  Chua Chin Hon Rumoured trip comes at a time when hopes of resuming six-way talks are low By < China Bureau Chief In Brijinc; RECLUSIVE North Korean leader Kim Jong II reportedly made a secretive trip to China yesterday amid growing pessimism about
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    • 385 9 Beijing- FORMER Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was ousted from power and put under house arrest for 15 years, and there are still fears that a similar fate awaits anyone in China who dares to publish anything about him. But Mr
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 71 9 CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Vegetables from Malaysia will cost up to 100 per cent more this Chinese New Year due to short supplies, industry insiders say. The rainy spell has caused production of some local vege tables to drop by as much as 40 per cent.
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      • 70 9 BEIJING: China and India agreed yesterday to meet in India at the end of next month for negotiations on their disputed border, wrapping up two days of talks which China described as "friendly and practical". China and India fought a brief but bloody
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      • 56 9 TAIPEI: Taiwan's opposition leader James Soong has strongly hinted that he would run in {he Taipei mayoral election later this year. He dropped the hint while speaking to reporters on Mon day after a gathering with several Taipei city councillors from his People First
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      • 64 9 BEIJING: With two years to go before the Beijing Olympic Games, the city is again trying to stop the long-standing habit of spitting in public places. Beijing will set up trash boxes every 100m in major streets and provide sanitary bags for people
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      • 74 9 BEIJING: China is ready to expand its military relations with the United States, Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan said yes terday. Me said in a meeting with a delegation from the US House Of Representatives that both sides should make efforts to up grade
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      • 59 9 MANILA: US forces will hold military exercises in the Philip pines despite a controversy over four US marines accused ol raping a Filipino woman after the last such exercise in November last year. The exercises, involving some 5,500 US personnel, will be conducted
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  • CHINA
    • 445 10  -  VINCE CHONG 'No comment 1 on speculation that move was linked to poor visitor numbers By Hong Kong Correspondent HONG Kong Disneyland has replaced its managing director just four months after the international theme park opened in September last year amid conaroversy. Mr
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    • 236 10 Beijing THE Chinese authorities are playing down the severity of the latest in a series of river pollution scares and have failed to stop further contamination, the China Youth Daily said yesterday. A project to clean up a stretch of the Xiangjiang River in
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    • 350 10 Beijing POLICE in western China detained more than 40 people .and sentenced several, including an 81-year-old village representative, to a year of hard labour after a protest late last year, a local official revealed yesterday. Thousands of former residents of 11 villages around Huaying city
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 514 11  -  Lee Tee Jong The country still has other brilliant stem-eell scientists By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul SOUTH Korea's stem-cell research community has been dealt a heavy blow by yesterday's report that confirmed their star scientist Hwang Woo Suk as a fraud.
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    • 275 11 The two papers published in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005: The data in the May 2005 article including test results from DNA fingerprinting, photographs of teratoma, embryoid bodies, MHC-HLA isotype matches and karyotyping was fabricated. Prof Hwang's research team does not possess patient-specific
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    • 341 11 Nanjing A MAN in eastern China is suing a student he saved from drowning after incurring expensive hospital bills from severe arthritis that he claims is a result of his "heroic" act. Mr Yang Yong, from Changzhou, a city in eastern Jiangsu province,
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 539 12 With no signs of respite, doctors fear for lives of quake survivors New Delhi Aid flights resume THE UN said it was resuming aid flights yesterday to a quake-hit part of Pakistani Kashmir where survivors had mobbed its helicopters, but would avoid flying
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    • 175 12 Amritsar (India) MORE than 100 hand grenades were recovered from Sikhism's holiest shrine here yesterday, causing a brief security scare before police realised the cache was probably hidden by militants supporting an insurgency two decades ago. The cache of 114 grenades packed in two
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 503 13  -  Devi Asmarani Yudhoyono planning new website on which the people can have dialogue with him By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta AFTER inviting Indonesians to send text messages to him via their cellphones, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may soon be available for live discussions
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    • 236 13 Bangkok HUNDREDS of residents on the Thai resort island of Koh Samui have protested against the killing of a British tourist, with some breaking through a police barrier and punching the suspects as police escorted them back to the scene of the crime yesterday.
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    • 282 13 Loei (Thailand) THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday promised that his government would listen to protests against a free-trade deal with the United States as 6,000 demonstrators broke through a barricade around the hotel where negotiators from both countries were meeting. "It is
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
    • 475 14  -  Luz Baguioro Despite her family's poverty, she returns lost bundles of cash By Philippines Correspondent In Manila IN A country where endemic corruption has confounded a succession of presidents, a poor 12-year-old girl has become a celebrity overnight after she returned more than 300,000
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    • 344 14 S'porean 'made $1m after stealing dead man's ID' Kuaia Lumpur A SINGAPOREAN has been charged with stealing a dead man's identity, selling his house and cheating the Malaysian government in land scams worth RM2.42 million (551.05 million), a newspaper reported yesterday. Former scrap metal dealer and Johor Baru resident Chan
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 779 15  - Lebanese makes more rich claims Carolyn Hong He tells of grand projects as complaints pour in from creditors and ex-staff By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur Fact or fiction HE CLAIMS: He is worth more than US$46.5 billion (S$76.9 billion), and he has RM4 billion (S$1.75 billion) in Malaysian banks.
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  • WORLD
    • 521 18 New study claims proof that violent games make users more aggressive Columbia (Missouri) ITHE DEBATE CONTINUES... "As far as I'm aware, this is the first study to show that exposure to violent games has effects on the brain that predict aggressive behaviour." PSYCHOLOGIST BRUCE BARTHOLOW,
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    • 198 18 Washington OVER-the-counter cough medicines do little good and may harm children, US experts said in new guidelines. Adults are better off using older-generation nonprescription antihistamines and decongestants to stop the flow of mucus that causes coughs due to colds, the American College of Chest Physicians
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    • 399 19 Teheran breaks UN seals at uranium plant ignoring Western outcry Teheran IRAN removed UN seals at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant and resumed research on nuclear fuel yesterday, ignoring Western calls to stop any work that could help it to develop atomic weapons. The United States
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    • 270 19 Washington THE US Army took initial steps to expel dozens of reservists who failed to report for active duty, in effect warning hundreds of others that they too could be penalised if they do not heed orders to return to active service.
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    • 487 20 Country 'risks sliding back into tyranny' if old grievances fester Washington PRESIDENT George W. Bush has urged Iraqis to put aside political, religious and sectarian differences to form a government of national unity, warning that the country "risks sliding back into tyranny" if
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    • 235 20 New York A NEW study suggests that the longer infants are breastfed, the lower the likelihood that they will be overweight as adolescents, a relationship that does not appear to be influenced by sociocultural factors. The findings, published in the journal Epidemiology,
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    • 618 21  -  Jonathan Eyal West hopes to ease religious friction by giving support to annual pilgrimage By Straits Times Europe bureau In London UNDER a scorching sun, more than two million Muslims from 178 countries have gathered this week at Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia
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    • 431 22 They arc said to be plotting an attack in Europe and recruiting fighters Madkid SPANISH police yesterday arrested 20 people suspected of planning an attack in Europe and recruiting Muslim militants to fight for Al Qaeda in Iraq, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso
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    • 315 22 Gbnshagbn (Gi-kmany) CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel's Cabinet has agreed on a multibillion-euro investment package aimed at stimulating Europe's biggest economy. Details were clue to be announced at a news conference later yesterday. Planned investments through 2009 are expected to include spending on transport, research,
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 22 Visitors relaxing in the new Light Lounge at the London Science Museum on Monday. The lounge, an ambient white space containing four specially designed light boxes, provides light therapy to help people beat the winter blues, a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. It is a mood disorder
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 159 22 JERUSALEM: Israeli leader Ariel Shan... moved the lelt side ol his body yesterday as d(»( ton continued to wake him from COmi -Hid assess the extent ol damage to Ins brain following his massive stroke The 77 year old I'rnne Minister, whose late is
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      • 93 22 KIEV: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushcheiiko s.nd yesterday that the parliament*! vote to sat k I'iiine Minister Yuri Yekhanurov's gOVfinHlWill was im constitutional. Lawmakers hacked a no confidence (potion as they were angry over a dial with Moscow which will force Ukraine to pay nearly Iwuc as
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      • 105 22 SYDNEY: Australia has ruled out military interval tion in an escalating row with atiti whaling activists who threatened yesterday to ram Japanese whal ers hunting m Antarctic waters. "It's a civilian issue. We don't sec an Australian military role," Delence Minister Robert Hill said in response
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      • 121 22 BRUSSELS: European airlines lost legal hid yester day to strike down new El J rules guaranteeing p;is senders compensation for flight delays <n cancellations. The European Court said the rules were I lan penalty that did not discriminate against low cost carriers. The new
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    • 430 23 Measures to stop anti-soeial acts include eviction and parenting lessons London BRITISH police could be given powers to evict nuisance neighbours from their homes and problem parents will get lessons on raising children under a new government drive to crack down
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    • 170 23 Sydney AN AUSTRALIAN man had to be rescued after becoming wedged in a washing machine while playing with his children. Mr Robin Toom, 30, had to be rescued from the Bkg-capacity machine by a fire officer after he became trapped while playing hide-and-seek with
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    • 568 24 US giants, already facing market share and money woes, lose out at big show Detroit US CARMAKERS laid on the razzmatazz at the world's premier motor show here on Monday, but it was Asian companies including a new player from
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    • 246 24 Wellington A DRUNKEN woman unleashed a pair of pit bull terriers on two New Zealand policemen responding to a domestic dispute, sending them scrambling to their patrol car, where she kicked in the windscreen. Gunshots and pepper spray could not deter
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    • 173 25 SWOLLEN-LIPPED California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has brushed off a motorcycle accident that left him with 15 stitches on his mouth. "Normally. ..when you see someone in Hollywood with swollen lips, it's collagen shots," the former action movie star told reporters while tour- ing
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    • 173 25 AN EX-LOVER of former United States president43ill Clinton has lost her effort to revive a defamation case against his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, and two of his top aides. Former cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers grabbed public attention during the 1992 presidential campaign when she described a
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    • 173 25 Rowling's loss is Potter's loss too TEARFUL British author J.K. Rowling revealed that her mother's death at the time when she was creating her hugely successful Harry Potter character led her to make the boy wizard an orphan. Joanne Kathleen Rowling was 25 when her mother died at age 45
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    • 90 25 A WOMAN, not content with having merely a dusty demise, has become the first Canadian to donate her body for public display after she dies. Toronto mutual fund worker Stephanie Chapu, 30, said the Body Worlds exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre, which
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    • 355 26 MEDICAL researchers planning a large-scale epidemiological study here say they are running into a wall of resistance. Some 10,000 volunteers are required for a start, with the programme projected to involve 250,000 people eventually through decades of intergenerational tracking of research subjects' health. Feedback gathered by focus
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    • 880 27  -  By Alan Oxley For The Straits Times FASHION affects diplomacy and public policy like everything else. For example, 30 years ago it was fashionable for governments to believe they could match the power of world markets. The United Nations (UN) set up a
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    • 1095 28  -  Rohan Gunaratna Iraq will be epicentre for production of global terrorism and Zarqawi will build a network that rivals Al-Qaeda's By For The Straits Times ESCALATING THREAT The threat of politically motivated violence will grow in the Middle East and Asia while
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    • 709 29  - India Inc going global Sanchita Basu Das By For The Straits Times INDIAN investments abroad have been increasing by leaps and bounds. Between 1999 and March 2004, they jumped from US$3l9 million (***** million) to more than US$l.45 billion. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), India's
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    • 211 26 More days of terror Terrorism will be the foremost security threat for most countries this year as tne frequency and lethality of attacks rise. PAGE 28 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2,*****4 ST INTERACnVE: http:/ /straitstimes.asial .com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer
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    • 275 30 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY ISign up as a volunteer with the Singapore Red Cross, which provides assistance to the needy in health and welfare services. Red Cross House, 15 Penang Lane. Tel: 6336-0269. 2 Want to quit smoking? Female smokers can call a hotline managed by an ex-smoker
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    • 16 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11, 2006 MONEY THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11, 2006
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    • 578 1  -  Da ryl Loo What would-be buyers of 'private' HDB flats want from developers Pilot Tampines site can aceommodate about 500 flats. Expected to be ready in 2010 By BALCONIES and planter boxes for every unit, childcare facilities and tuition centres, and playgrounds with security
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    • 550 2  -  Tracy Sua Two robbed of part of CDC help money in less than a week By IN LESS than a week, two elderly men who live alone on financial assistance were robbed of their help money through very similar ruses. Both were duped by men,
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    • CASE FILE
      • 81 2 THE Police Coast Guard spied two men swimming towards Singapore's coast yesterday at about 3.15am. Surveillance equipment picked out the men on the northern coas* off Senoko. Both were fished out of the water and arrested. Neither had any valid travel documents.
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      • 104 2 A WOMAN in her mid-30s was robbed of $1,000 worth of jewellery and $80 in cash at Block 700C near Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 last Thursday. She was walking along the void deck when she was suddenly hit on the head, and
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      • 63 2 A TOA PAYOH Lorong 1 coffee shop owner discovered on Monday morning that the shop had been broken into. The metal gate at the rear had been ripped off and the storeroom door was ajar. About $6,000 worth of cigarettes and $4,000 in
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      • 58 2 A MOTORCYCLIST in his early 30s was seriously injured when his vehicle apparently skidded while travelling along the Pan-Island Expressway on Monday. He was riding towards Tuas at about 5.10pm when it happened. He suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Alexandra Hospital, but
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    • 688 5  - Singapore goes for record number of... errr... records Lim Wei Chean It has 38 in Guinness Book Of World Records, with at least two more pending By And the record breakers are- Busiest port (by cargo volume) In 2004, 393 million tonnes of cargo passed through Singapore's port, making it
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    • 54 6 After Hari Ray a prayers yesterday at Jamae Chulia mosque in South Bridge Road, Muslims making donations got packets of basmati rice, appalam crackers and newspapers, distributed free by Syed Mohamed Sons. Some 1,500 copies of Berita Harian and 500 copies of Tamil Murasu were given
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    • 623 6  - 2005 fourth hottest year here on record Radha Basu May 1 was hottest day last year with temperature close to that of hottest day ever recorded here By SINGAPORE was spared headline-grabbing climatic calamities last year but the ongoing global warming trend that had sent thermometers soaring worldwide also made
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    • 578 7  -  Elaine Young 50 grassroots leaders trained to deal with such crises 'acted' in terror drill By THE 50 "actors" who played the victims' next of kin in Sunday's Operation Northstar V exercise pulled out all the stops with their hysterical demands, tears, fainting
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    • 247 7 EARLY next month, thousands of young Pakistani victims of last October's earthquake should each receive a brightly coloured backpack containing toys, stationery, toothbrushes, toothpaste and combs, to help them get back on track to normal life. Volunteer group Mercy Relief, which is assembling
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    • 107 8 Rains rail to dampen the festive spirit The continuous downpour during the past few days could not keep shoppers away from Chinatown, where the wet weather failed to rein in the festive mood. Crowds; braved the rains and went about buying goodies for the Chinese New Year PHOTOS ALBERT SIM
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    • 325 10 A CLOSE aide to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for talks yesterday. Mr Taku Yamasaki, who is a former vice-president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, called on PM Lee at the Istana yesterday morning as part
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    • 137 10 COMPUTER games have been blamed over the years for anything from shortsightedness to violent psychosis. Yet there are those who believe that research into the effects of playing computer games is often trivialised and warped by moral agendas. There are also those who believe
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    • 545 10  - Giant A380 to don SIA colours at Asian air show David Boey The world's biggest aircraft will fly in all six aerial displays from Feb 21 to 26 By THE world's largest airliner, the Airbus A3BO, will be making its debut in Singapore Airlines (SIA) colours at next month's Asian
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    • 477 11  - Great BMW sale 300 cars at a discount of at leasts 10k Christopher Tan Only one condition buyers must let their ears be used by air show delegates By Senior Correspondent IT IS here again BMW's take on the Great Singapore Sale. Performance Motors, the local retailer for the German
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    • 119 11 HOT on the heels of Caltex's petrol price hike on Monday night, ExxonMobil, Shell and Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) all raised their pump prices yesterday evening. All three raised the prices of their three grades of petrol by four cents a litre, to between
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    • FORUM
      • 252 12 THE Forum has recently been filled with letters arguing the case against estate duty and often questioning its very morality. It is time to air the counterargument. Many feel that estate duty is, in fact, the most moral of taxes. The
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      • 369 12 I AM glad that action is being taken by the new National Kidney Foundation (NKF) to right some of the wrongs committed by the previous management. However, I am sad that most Singaporeans have been deeply hurt and felt betrayed by the old management's
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      • 323 12 I REFER to the editorial, "NKF regroups but beware" (ST, Jan 6). I have been a patient with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) for more than five years. I understand that many of its patients are very upset with the fact that, under
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      • 253 12 Later start to school day ensures pupils get enough rest MY SON started primary school a week ago and complains about being tired when awakened at 5.50am on school days. The school bus picks him up at 6.35am and he usually goes to bed between Bpm and 9pm. My concern
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      • 322 12 IN SINGAPORE, the Ministry of Health has widely publicised its response plans as well as a guide to business and companies on infection control in the event of a flu pandemic. On the other hand, the US Department of Health and Home
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      • 188 12 I REFER to the letter, "Don't restrict height of buildings" (ST, Jan 2), by Mr Chia Wenn Teck. A city-state, Singapore has to accommodate all infrastructure uses, including airports and airbases, within our small island. The airports and airbases impose height constraints on the
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      • 299 12 Student leaders organising treks should be made aware of the danger on the roads, and their responsibility to ensure safety. I WRITE to highlight a situation that is of particular danger to students camping and trekking in the Lim Chu
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      • 297 12 I REFER to Dr Lim Boon Hee's letter, "Training safety lapses: Punish top officers" (ST, Jan 3), in which he cited the incident where a police national serviceman shot himself with his service revolver. At the recent coroner's inquiry into the officer's
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    • SPORTS
      • 897 13 SOCCER Transfer window to close with United's signing of two young defenders only Manchester BLACK HUMOUR 'The only thing to come out of the Burton game is the chance to look at Nemanja in the replay." ALEX FERGUSON (left, with Nemanja Vidic at their Carrington
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        104 13 Patrice Eyra (above) Nationality: French Age: 24 Position: Left-back, though he can play in midfield. From: Monaco Born in Senegal, the France Under-21 international won the last of his five senior caps in 2002. He has since been ignored by France coach Raymond Domenech. Hoping to reignite
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      • 513 13 Manchester MANCHESTER United risk another cup upset today when they face Blackburn Rovers in the League Cup semi-finals. Three days after United's humiliating 0-0 FA Cup draw against minor league Burton Albion, manager Alex Ferguson has to find a team capable of avoiding defeat
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      • 409 14 Dublin BOBBY Robson will return to football at the age of 72. The former England boss will mentor Ireland's most capped international, Steve Staunton, who will be named his country's new team manager this week, a Football Association of Ireland (FAI) source
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      • 583 14 Arsenal prepare bumper Henry deal SOCCER But Barcelona are still keen on getting the striker over to Spain Barcelona "The board of directors has not informed me of any necessity to sell. On the contrary. In addition, no player wants to move from here." TXIKI BEGIRISTAIN, Barcelona sporting director REPORTS
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      • 528 14 London Everton confirm Anelka interest EVERTON manager David Moyes is chasing French striker Nicolas Anelka to solve his side's goalscoring problems. The Toffees have struggled to find the net on a regular basis so far this season and are looking to sign a proven
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      • 360 14 Oslo (Norway) JOHN Obi Mikel has lost the court case he hoped would push through his projected move from Lyn Oslo to the English Premiership. The 18-year-old Nigerian midfielder, wanted by Manchester United and Chelsea, had asked Oslo's city court to rule in a
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      • 295 14 MOTOR RACING Berlin MICHAEL Schumacher's manager hinted in a German newspaper interview yesterday that the former world champion could move to big-spending Toyota after Ferrari. After Schumacher complained about Ferrari's lack of competitiveness last year in a separate interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Willi Weber reminded Bild
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      • 422 15  - Singapore bids to host World Youth contest Alvin Foo SAILING Republic seen with a good chance of hosting the major international event By SINGAPORE will bid to host the World Youth Sailing Championships in 2007, SingaporeSailing president Low Teo Ping announced yesterday. It is believed that it would be the
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      • 350 15  -  ALVIN FOO SINGAPORE'S young sailors overcame tricky wind conditions to win two titles at the Australian Youth Championships in Brisbane yesterday. Colin Cheng, 16, bagged the boys' Laser Radial title, while the pair of Sarah Tan and Lim Tze Ting, both 16, clinched the
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      • 598 15  -  Chan Yi Shen SOCCER By SINGAPORE midfielder Itimi Dickson could be dropped from the national squad after he skipped the Lions' first training session of the year yesterday. He was one of two players absent at Jalan Besar Stadium. The other, Home
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      • 302 15  -  Nicholas Fang COMMONWEALTH GAMES By SINGAPORE'S women gymnasts might just make it to Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games in March if an appeal lodged by their federation is successful. The team were told last month that they had not been selected for the
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      • 469 16 RUGBY Wellington NEW Zealand captain Tana Umaga drew the curtain on a glittering eight-year international rugby career yesterday. He announced his retirement from playing for his country. He wants to spend more time with his family. Umaga, 32, played 74
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      • 377 16 Top scorer Bryant equals 42 -year- old record BASKETBALL Los Angeles KOBE Bryant accomplished something Michael Jordan never did. Or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Or Larry Bird. Or anyone else in 42 years. Bryant scored 45 points, making him the first player to score at least that many in four consecutive games
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      • 1277 16  -  Chia Han Keong IN THE HOOP It's already clear which teams have a chance of catching the Pistons and which don't By WITH a third of the NBA season gone, the Detroit Pistons have emerged as this year's team to beat. After last year's
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      • 259 16 Nadal out of Australian Open TENNIS Sydney WORLD No 2 Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open with a foot injury, the Spaniard announced on his website yesterday. The Australian Open, the first of the year's four Grand Slam tournaments, starts in Melbourne next Monday. The Majorcan, 19, who
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      • 288 16 BASKETBALL NBA: Philadelphia 107 Seattle 98, Utah 97 Washington 89, Dallas 104 Boston 102, Chicago 113 Toronto 104, LA Lakers 96 Indiana 90. CRICKET Twenty2o International in Brisbane-. Australia 209-3 in 20 overs (D. Martyn 96, A. Symonds n.o. 54). South Africa 114 in 18.3 overs (Bracken 2-9, Lewis
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    • OBITUARIES
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        507 17 HOON SIANG IOON Age: 96 passed away peacefully on 10 January 2006, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Hung Soon Boey Son: Daughter-in-law: Hoon Tai Meng Wu Fan Daughters: Sons-in-law: Hoon Ah Chee Helen Ang Hong Huat Hoon Juat Too Eng Jee Nam God-daughter: Foo Shi Leng Grandsons: Hoon Wee How
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        352 17 The Umi is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1 TEO GUAN SONG Age: 77 was called home to be with the Lord on Tue, 10 Jan 2006, leaving behind loved ones Wife: Tang Ah Way Daughters: Sons-in-law: Susie Teo Soo Sing Steven Heng Ten I ilk Sim Vincent
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        274 17 i We are greatly saddened by the passing of our I Management member and we want to send our dee i I condolences to Anthony's parents: Yen Wing long Lum Siak Har We will miss him greatly P ANTHONY YEN JENN YAW on 10 January 2006 From The Management, Managers
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    • MONEY
      • 416 18 Dow breaks 11,000 for first time in 4½ years Milestone reflects market's optimism on earnings and interest rates New York Mental boost "It is more psychological than anything else. The average investor is now going to be impressed with the market's new high... That is going to bring new money
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      • 168 18 New York UNITED States employees of a German bank filed a US$l.4 billion (552.3 billion) discrimination lawsuit on Monday, portraying the firm as a sexist playland where women were hired as "eye candy" and one was referred to as "the Pamela Anderson of trading".
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      • 359 18 New Delhi INDIA and China, competing worldwide in their search for oil and gas reserves, will jointly bid for, explore and produce energy under an agreement to be signed this week, India's oil minister said yesterday. Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said
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      • 619 20 Central bank official dismisses speculation that arose from forex regulator's statement Beijing CHINA said yesterday it has no plans to sell US dollars from its more than US$BOO billion (551.32 trillion) of foreign reserves, dismissing speculation that had startled investors and led
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      • 191 20 Tokyo THE Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) said yesterday it had raised its systems capacity by 20 per cent, as it tries to cope with a sharp increase in orders from individual investors. The world's second-biggest exchange, which has suffered a series of technical problems of late,
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      • 402 20 Matsushita ups ante with $2. 6b plasma display plant Tokyo "This is an aggressive move by Matsushita. ..l would expect it to get more difficult for some players to keep up." MR HARIYA, a securities analyst MATSUSHITA Electric Industrial said yesterday it will invest about US$l.6 billion (552.6 billion) to
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      • 540 21  - WBL chief exec got $700,000 sign- on bonus Lee Su Shyan Move may signal return of perk which was popular during tech boom By Companies Correspondent REWARDING TALENT: Mr Tan (right), who replaced Mr Tang as CEO in December 2004, earned between $2.25 million and $2.5 million for the year
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      • 393 21  -  Grace Ng By IN A bid to consolidate its position in the chip industry, mainboard-listed Asti Holdings yesterday made an offer to purchase Flextech Holdings in a one-for-one share swap. Asti, which offers chipmaking equipment and semi-conductor-related services, said in a statement to
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      • 206 21 HONGKONG Land Holdings, one of Singapore's biggest downtown landlords, has increased its interest in fellow developer MCL Land to more than 50 per cent, it said in a statement. Hongkong Land, which last month offered to pay $1.75 per share for
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      • 453 21 Kuala Lumpur FUND-RAISING MEASURE Malaysia's national carrier is selling most of its local and overseas properties, including Its 35-storey headquarters in downtown Kuala Lumpur, as it risks a cash crunch. The unprofitable airline is set to report its third straight quarter of losses
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      • 816 22  -  Grace Ng It takes the lead among S'pore rivals with $11 7m Ningbo bank deal By Great fit right size NINGBO Commercial Bank is a great fit for OCBC as it has a successful franchise among SMEs, which make up
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      • 324 22 Asian markets retreat from peaks on profit- taking HK IS SOLE GAINER ASIAN markets largely shrugged off the United States market barometer breaking the 11,000 barrier overnight, pulling back from new peaks amid profit-taking and worries about strong regional currencies. Japan's Nikkei average up 40 per cent last year suffered
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      • 1346 6 Game for more Watch out for downside Computer games can boost the brain and help you make decisions faster, Leung Wai-Leng finds out. RULING THE WAVES A study by Korean psychologists found that professional gamers' production of theta brainwaves increased dramatically when they played computer games. Theta brainwaves are often
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      • 104 2 4 SIBLINGS LINKED TO HEART PROBLEM RISK If your siblings have cardiovascular disease, you are more at risk than if your parents have it VEGETARIAN FARE THAT'S JUST GREAT Take a break from the festive feasting with a meal at the Just Greens Vegetarian restaurant 17 GETTING STARTED: TABLE TENNIS
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      • 116 2 1 Supervising Editor Bertha Henson Editor Sharon Loh Coordinator Judith Tan Art and Design Janice Tay, Loh Wai Sum Cover Rishad Patel Writers Judith Tan, Leung Wai-Leng, Elaine Young, Stephanie Yap, Lee Hui Chieh, Theresa Tan, Tracy Sua Contributors KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore, Parkway Group
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      • 630 14 Food Finds It is just one of the mouth-watering and healthier Sichuan dishes Theresa Tan samples at Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant. The hot and sour soup is arguably Sichuan cuisine's most prominent dish. Perhaps that is why many people (myself included) have come to
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        • 215 18 CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE: SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL This public forum is organised by the Singapore Association of Occupational Therapists as part of a series of events commemorating the first Occupational Therapy Day in Singapore today. Occupational Therapy is based on the
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        • 380 18 How to deal with a child who sleepwalks Q: saw my eight-year-old sister walk to my bedroom and sleep on my bed. 1 suspect she was sleepwalking. The next morning, I asked her whether she remembered walking to my bedroom, and she said she could not remember.
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        • 144 19 HEALTH TALKS AT THE LIBRARY: How to restore beautiful skin and hair Dr Eileen Tan, a consultant dermatologist, will share some tips on how to maintain beautiful skin and hair. Some aspects of common surgical treatments for skin and hair such as botox, lasers for scars and hair
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        • 134 20 PUBLIC TALK ON AUTISM: RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION Educational psychologists Bimal Rai and Genevieve Chua will speak about Relationship Development Intervention, an intervention strategy developed by Dr Steven Gutstein, which opens the door for autistic children and adults, enabling them to have: more meaningful relationships and friendships success at
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        • 87 22 Some children were lined up in the canteen of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. A nun made a note and stuck it on the apple tray. The note said: "Take only one. God is
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