The Straits Times, 2 May 2006

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  • 24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 114 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 219/03/2006 TUESDAY, MAY 2 2006 •5*A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 781 1  -  Chua Mui Hoong Worst is over for workers; new and better jobs to benefit all streaming m 'Willingness to make painful adjustments' helped turnaround By SEND RIGHT SIGNAL TO INVESTORS "Before they (investors) put m more billions of dollars, they will watch to see whether
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  • 357 1  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAILAND'S Constitutional Court appeared set to annul the country's controversial April 2 snap polls yesterday. But left Thais still m suspense over its final decision. The court said yesterday it would consider three complaints about
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  • UPFRONT
    • 932 1  -  Erica Tay By THE first taste of success is always the sweetest, and teenager Wong King Jie remembers it well. The fledgling T-shirt business he started with two polytechnic mates had its first customers. "They were a couple of Australian tourists who walked
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    • IN A FLASH
      • 45 2 HK's white collar woes The acute shortage of educated workers m Hong Kong forces a rethink of immigration policies. PAGE 7 India's Afghan stakes The murder of an Indian engineer by the Taliban underscores the stakes New Delhi has developed m Afghanistan. PAGE 10
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      • 43 2 Teheran's payouts Critics say President Ahmedinejad's plans to share oil wealth could backfire and drive up inflation rate. PAGE 13 New Cold War Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the US and Russia could slide into a new Cold War. PAGEHI6
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      • 33 2 China overheating A hike m interest rates can cool growth, but it will crimp consumption, which China is pushing for. It just shows how complex its runaway economy has become. PAGE 18
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      • 23 2 After Annan UN chief Kofi Annan's successor needs a vision of higher purpose, while being aware of the post's limitations. PAGE 18
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      • 20 2 Short hospital stays Changi General Hospital cuts down on long stays by elderly patients with home care arrangements PAGEHII
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      • 48 2 Kudos to PAP Hong Konger who has lived m the US, China and the UK says he would vote for the PAP if he could. PAGEHI2 Gomez saga Reader says the Gomez saga is a serious matter as it questions the integrity of the Elections Department. PAGEHI2
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      • 50 2 Rooney decision England coach Sven Goran Eriksson says he will pick Wayne Rooney if he thinks the injured player can play m the World Cup. PAGE Hl3 Suns eclipsed Kobe Bryant nailed the game-winner m overtime, giving the LA Lakers a 3-1 playoff lead over the Phoenix Suns. PAGEHI6
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      • 39 2 Knee-jerk buying With oil prices surging to new highs, investors are snapping up any oil-related stocks. PAGEH2I Easier loans to SMEs Banks are ready to take greater credit risks, giving larger loans without collateral to SMEs. PAGE H22
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    • 647 2 "Singapore's Leadership Crisis" The single biggest challenge facing Singapore what this requires, neither do they have the skills, attitude m 2006 and beyond is the unprecedented lack of or support to make the transition. These skills, education personal leadership within our public and private sector and support are now available
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    • 256 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-12 World 13-17 Review 18-20 FYI 21 SECTION TWO Home Hl-Hll Forum Hl2 Sports Hl3-Hl6 Obituaries Hl7 Money HlB-H22 LIFE! Travel L7-LlO Events TV. Ll2-Ll3 SINGAPORE CELEBRATES VESAK 2550 ITV GROWING COMPASSION K^ HARVESTING HARMONY U#/ mm' BP^' Lady Compassion ipß^l^^^^^l Kym Ng k^^^HM^.^ y
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  • PRIME
    • 736 3  - WP stands by Gomez, wants to move on Ken Kwek T. Rajan THE JAMES GOMEZ SAGA But DPM Wong tells party to stop dodging questions that are still hanging over episode By a THE Workers' Party insists integrity is not an issue m the Jamez Gomez affair and wants to
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    • 113 3 Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang (left) and People's Action Party MP Ong Ah Heng (right) were all smiles when they bumped into each other during their respective parties' walkabout m Nee Soon Central yesterday. After Mr Low introduced Mr Lian Chin Way (centre), the WP
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    • 435 3  -  Laurel Teo By A CHAT with Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng convinced Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong that it is necessary get to the bottom of the blunder by Workers' Party (WP) candidate James Gomez. Mr Goh said last
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    • 655 4  -  Tracy Sua Jessica Lim Serene Luo But some also used money for shopping; businesses report better than usual sales over the weekend By FLUSH with cash from the Progress Package payouts, some Singaporeans hit the stores over the
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    • Article, Illustration
      100 4 Thousands of workers across Indonesia marked May Day yesterday by holding protests to demand improvements to their welfare and call on the government not to change the labour law. Clad m the red, green and yellow colours of their trade unions, they gathered at different spots and
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  • ASIA
    • 559 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh Attempting to topple democracy Inciting unrest Trespassing at Government House > > Obstructing traffic PAD's top five turn themselves m to avoid trouble at Bangkok rally today By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok HITTING BACK "It's clear that police are discriminating against us."
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    • 668 6 Labour calls Across South-east Asia, workers march on Labour Day to demand greater rights and wages. PAGE 12 SMART GsjG^^r^@ International Property Expo SINGAPORE I■■ iII I I jM all 111 1 I 1 VaV'^B %W*E%T*BrJm^ T* J JH SmMIMaM 16 30-17 00,6 May 2006 a^B^B^B^a^P jjmwf M Chua Yang
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  • CHINA
    • 747 7 Govt rethinks immigration policy m a bid to woo professionals Hong Kong BUSINESS is booming m China and Hong Kong for accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, but it presents a problem for partner Dave McCann, who looks after hiring. While heavy merger-and-acquisition activity m China and a rush
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    • 102 7 Xiang Xiang the panda and Yangzi alligators were released into the wild m China at the weekend. Xiang Xiang is the first captive-bred panda to be released into the wild. Scientists have trained the male panda for nearly three years to fend for itself. Xiang Xiang
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    • 154 7 Beijing CONSTRUCTION on what is expected to be the world's tallest television tower got under way yesterday m Guangzhou, capital of China's booming southern Guangdong province, state media reported. The 1.6 billion yuan (Ss3l6 million) tower will stand at 610 m upon
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    • 508 7 Beijing LOUIS Vuitton, Chanel and Adidas are among big names that have hired a US firm to take legal action m China against producers and retailers of counterfeit goods. "As of now, 21 brand names have endorsed the action and
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 95 7 TOKYO: Two women and a man died when an avalanche m central Japan buried them yesterday, police said. Rescuers are trying to reach another woman entombed m the snow. The avalanche occurred m the mountains of Nagano prefecture, burying at least five hikers, said local
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      • 96 7 BEIJING: China has successfully tested a locally made magnetic levitation train, the first time the country has achieved the feat without using foreign technology, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The 18-tonne test maglev train ran steadily on Sunday on a 425m-long experimental line
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      • 91 7 ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani scientist suspected of helping to peddle nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea was released last week after two years m detention, the army said. Mohammed Farooq, who worked at Pakistan's top nuclear arms facility Khan Research Laboratories, and 10
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      • 97 7 YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has been hit by a spate of resignations it blames on pressure from Myanmar's military junta, which has threatened to ban the party. An NLD spokesman confirmed reports m statecontrolled newspapers that 17 party officials
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      • 84 7 BEIJING: Four Chinese fishermen were killed and three injured when they were attacked and robbed by pirates m disputed waters of the South China Sea, state press reported yesterday. The attack occurred last Thursday near the southern reaches of the Spratly Islands archipelago when 13
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    • 94 8 RINGING IN GOLDEN WEEK This female performer got China's seven-day Labour Day holiday off to a whirling start with her hula hoop act m Hefei, eastern Anhui province. China began giving its citizens "golden week" holidays m 1999 m a bid to stimulate spending, and has gradually expanded the vacations
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    • 232 8 Second consecration m a week could trigger biggest crisis m Sino-Vatican ties for years Hong Kong AFTER ordaining a new bishop on Sunday despite opposition from the Vatican, China may consecrate a second bishop this week m a move that could trigger the
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    • 336 8 On Sunday, the secretary-general of China's official Council of Bishops, Father Ma Yinglin, was ordained a bishop. Father Liv Xinhong, a church administrator m Anhui, may be made a bishop this week. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported. Kunming is the capital of
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 52 9 Forget confetti. Throwing teddy bears is the latest trend at wedding receptions m Japan. Local entrepreneurs are cashing m on the nuptial craze by way of this gunshapea toy which lobs a teddy bear with parachute at the pull of a cracker, the Mainichi Shimbun
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    • 511 9 Foreign ministers could meet at regional forum this month Seoul SOUTH Korea's Foreign Minister will consider holding talks with his Japanese counterpart at a regional meeting this month, an official said yesterday, amid a war of words over islets claimed by both
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    • 217 9 Tokyo WORKERS at Japan's Health Ministry are being asked to take the stairs instead of the lift. The idea is to conserve energy and reduce the risk of obesity and health-related problems among ministry employees. From yesterday onwards, staff and visitors to the
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    • 97 9 Tokyo THE Japanese subsidiary of Coca-Cola said yesterday that it will recall about 830,000 bottles of soft drinks sold m Japan after confirming that a small amount of iron powder had been found m some drinks. Although there will be no health hazards even if
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 605 10  -  Ravi Velloor Taleban murder of Indian hostage underscores Delhi's involvement By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi THE murder of an Indian telecom engineer by the Taleban has underscored the high stakes New Delhi has developed m Afghanistan, its strategic springboard to reach over
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    • 275 10 'No Maoists' for Nepal's interim Cabinet Kathmandu NEPAL'S top politicians met yesterday to determine the make-up of an interim administration but a senior leader said the Maoist rebels who had helped them topple the king's government would not be asked to join it. A seven-party alliance called on the Maoists,
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    • 200 10 Kashmir militants execute 22 Hindu villagers Jammu (India) SUSPECTED Islamic militants raided a village m Kashmir and killed 22 Hindus, lining them up outside their homes and shooting them execu-tion-style, police said yesterday. One survivor said some of the assailants were wearing army uniforms and coaxed people out of their
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
    • 473 11 Backpack bomb found in Java town Tip-off leads police to Bali-type explosives and raises spectre of further AI-Qaeda-linked strikes Jakarta AN INDONESIAN anti-terrorism unit has found a backpack filled with explosives similar to those used m the 2005 Bali bombings, raising concerns that militants linked to Al-Qaeda are planning more
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    • 252 11 Semporna (Sabah) A SINGAPOREAN tourist drowned while diving off Sipadan island m Sabah on Sunday. District police chief Abdul Latif Ibrahim said that Mr Bernard Lo Terk, 28, went missing while diving with six other tourists under the supervision of a local diving instructor
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    • 71 11 The catch was all impressive, but it was a 97kg marlin (centre) that caught the eye of Mr Yahaya Hassan and his daughter Nureen Syazwanie. Among the other entries m the Labuan International Game Fishing Tournament were a 29kg dogtooth shark and 26kg grouper. The event
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • MAY DAY PROTESTS
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        660 12  -  Devi Asmarani INDONESIA: Masses march m major cities against reform plans By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta Workers across Asia marked Labour Day yesterday with rallies for higher pay, better conditions and greater rights THOUSANDS of protesters took to the streets across Asia yesterday demanding better working conditions and
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      • 193 12 PHILIPPINES: Protesters call for Arroyo ouster Manila TENS of thousands of protesters fanned out across the Philippines yesterday, marking Labour Day with a series of demonstrations calling for the ouster of President Gloria Arroyo. In the capital, some 5,000 antiriot police backed by around 2,000 soldiers were on standby to
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      • 197 12 Dhaka THOUSANDS of mostly garment factory workers rallied m the Bangladeshi capital yesterday to demand that the United States and Europe drop tariffs on their products, saying they could eventually cause the industry's collapse. Others among the estimated 5,000 Labour Day protesters called
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      • 195 12 Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government yesterday promised to cut labour strikes to zero, saying work stoppages hurt economic growth, even as 2,000 workers marched m the streets of Kuala Lumpur to demand greater labour rights. Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn said that
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  • WORLD
    • 548 13 lAhmadinejad's plans to create jobs could fuel inflation, analysts warn Teheran I PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's move to distribute Iran's increasing oil wealth among its citizens has led to fears that it could do more to irritate social and economic tensions than to soothe them.
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    • 647 14 Big show of support expected for call to legalise 12 million illegal immigrants EU to decide on labour market access THE European Union's 15 older members yesterday faced a deadline to decide whether to lift restrictions on the movement of workers from the
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    • 297 14 Washington IT IS time for the White House to go on the offensive and "get our mojo back", President George W. Bush's new chief of staff Josh Bolten says. In his first interview since taking the position, Mr Bolten said he and
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 245 15 THE French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant says she has complete feeling m the new tissue five months after the operation. "The scars have healed considerably. The doctors are confident. In addition, I have recovered total feeling," Ms Isabelle Dinoire told
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      • 175 15 A CHINESE businessman has bought a MiG-21F plane from a US seller on the online auction webite eßay for U5524,730 (5539,000) and plans to use it to decorate his office. The Beijing News newspaper identified the Chinese buyer as Mr Zhang Cheng.
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      • 193 15 HOLOCAUST survivor Paul Spiegel, president of the Central Council of Jews m Germany, has died at the age of 68 after a long illness, the council said. He had headed the council since 2000. It represents some 100,000 Jews m the country that once tried
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      • 162 15 NEW Orleans adopted New Jersey's favourite son on Sunday, as Bruce Springsteen through speeches and song vocalised the anger, pain and resilience of this hurricane-battered city at the Jazz Heritage Festival. Perhaps the most pointed moment came as he prepared to sing an old song
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    • 807 16 Strains m US-Russia ties ISSUES that have set Moscow and Washington at odds this year include: Feb 9: Russia's President Vladimir Putin invites leaders of the militant group Hamas for talks m Moscow after they sweep Palestinian elections. The move breaks with American and European policy of
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    • 405 16 Italy MR SILVIO Berlusconi will finally bow out today as Italian premier after a bitter election, but the stage is set for more acrimony as his successor Romano Prodi seeks to consolidate his shaky new hold on power. Mr Berlusconi was
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 16 Russian dancer Sofia Arzhakovskaya (above) was crowned Mrs World 2006 m St Petersburg last Saturday but only after judges mistakenly gave the title to Mrs Andrea Bermudez Romero (left) from Costa Rica. The Costa Rican shed tears of delight, but her joy turned to anguish when judges announced
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    • 527 17 With support from Shas party, Olmert now has a 67-seat majority Jerusalem AFTER three weeks of negotiations, interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday put together a coalition government that backs his plan to pull out of parts of the West Bank and draw Israel's final
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 122 17 LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was on the rack yesterday, three days before local elections, with his deputy and interior ministers under pressure to quit m separate sex and prisoner scandals. Commentators expect Mr Blair to reshuffle the Cabinet after England-wide polls on Thursday
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      • 84 17 BUCHAREST: Hundreds of Romanians fled their homes overnight when the swollen Danube river breached waterlogged dykes m a south-west-ern region, the authorities said yesterday. "Waters unleashed by broken dams threaten several villages m low-lying Danube plains," Mayor Constantin Raicea of Bistret village said. The risk of
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      • 126 17 LONDON: The Mayor of London hit out at US diplomats yesterday for not paying a vehicle levy after figures showed the American Embassy was the worst fine-dodger m the past six months, racking up £271,000 (*****,000) m fines. Mayor Ken Livingstone said: "It really is
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      • 82 17 WELLINGTON: A high-level political mission from South Pacific nations will visit the Solomon Islands once a new government is m place to discuss economic support and security, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday. Rioting, arson and looting broke out m the Solomons'
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    • 289 17 Beaconsfield (Australia) RESCUERS yesterday managed to get food and water to two miners who have survived for more than five days trapped deep m an Australian gold mine. Mr Todd Russell, 34, and Mr Brant Webb, 37, were trapped last Tuesday nearly lkm underground when
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  • REVIEW
    • 412 18 CAN there be too much good news? One wouldn't think so. Then again, look at China. The numbers are m for the first quarter: GDP rose 10.2 per cent from a year ago, while the trade surplus ballooned to US$23 billion (Ss36 billion), a 41
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    • 780 18  -  Ifzal Ali WORLD TRADE NEGOTIATIONS By For The Straits Times DEVELOPING Asia has a vital stake m the outcome of the troubled Doha "development round" of trade negotiations. Ingredients of a good deal would include reduction of tariffs m manufactured goods by developing countries; meaningful
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    • 8 23 HOME THE STRAITS TIM«ES TUESDAY MAY 2, 2006
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    • 633 23  - Factory rejects? Govt spends more on ITE students than JC ones Tracy Quek Tharman takes Chiam See Tong to task for criticising school streaming system By ELECTION 051 IT COSTS the Government more to educate a student m an Institute of Technical Education than m a junior college, said Education
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    • MAY DAY RALLY
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        114 112 1. Derrick Ow He and a colleague won the silver medal m the 2006 Food Hotel Asia competition. 2. Shunmugam Vellasamy A tailor who is now a security guard, he has been picked for training to become a supervisor 3. lim Ching With the age limit for
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      • 1328 112  -  Li Xueying After the storm, the sun is out for these workers. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday singled them out m his May Day Rally speech, saying: 'Today's rally is a tribute to all who gathered together and pulled Singapore
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      • 528 112 IN HIS May Day Rally address, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned against going the way of Europe, where rigid labour laws and a crippling welfare system have slowed growth: "We have something unique m Singapore. People warit to learn our secrets.
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      • 348 112  -  LYNN LEE SINGAPORE will ink a pact with Indonesia to help it set up new economic zones m Batam and Bintan, after Saturday's elections, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. The agreement will be signed by Mr Lee and Indonesian President
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      • 666 113  -  Sue-Ann Chia PM Lee counters demand that ministers not hold union positions By THE Workers' Party is not thinking of workers' interests when it argues that government ministers should not hold office m trade unions, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. "They make
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      • 254 113 Ms Cvi Hui Mm (above), 32, helps her son Chu Yuan, six, put on a raincoat during the Istana Open House yesterday. Ms Cvi said the showers did not deter her because "visiting the Istana is a rare opportunity". Also unfazed by the drizzle were first-time
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      • 656 113  - Workers' champ battling cancer Lynn Lee By OUR COMMON FOCUS HAS BEEN JOBS "The PAP is NTUC's political party, although we keep the institutions separate. I myself joined NTUC m 1981, shortly after being elected to Parliament. Over the years, more than 40 persons have been 'labour MPs'. Our unions
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      • 215 113 LUXURY Lexus and Mercedes cars, as well as $12,000 watches, helped sweeten the deal for donors at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) May Day Charity fund-raising drive yesterday. Avid golfers who entered the open charity golf tournament stood to win luxury cars, travel packages
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    • ELECTION 06
      • 925 114  -  Azrin Asmani Ben Nadarajan MARC LIM Team leader Chee SiokChin reassures residents of their resolve to fight on By ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY Did Chee address crowd illegally? POLICE are investigating if Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan had broken the law
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      • 495 114  -  Ken Kwek By THEY are separated by age, experience and differing political ideals and loyalties. But when the rival candidates m the single-seat ward of Nee Soon Central People's Action Party incumbent Ong Ah Heng and Workers' Party challenger Lian Chin Way bumped into
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      • 1356 114  -  Peh Shing Huei NEWS ANALYSIS By THE NEW WORKERS' PARTY Under secretary-general Low ThiaKhiang.theWPhas moved into an era of better organisation, tighter discipline and greater credibility. One might even be tempted to call it the New Workers' Party, a rebranding much
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      • 671 115 The James Gomez saga had Workers' Party leaders Sylvia Lim and Low Thia Khiang saying yesterday that it was time to move on, while candidate Gomez himself was saying nothing more. DPM Wong Kan Seng, meanwhile, said the opposition party should not dodge the
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      • 515 115 DPM Wong Kan Seng has said that if it is really a question of Mr James Gomez's integrity, the WP should withdraw him as a candidate and offer an apology. Mr Low Thia Khiang: I don't see where
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      • 94 115 Mr Gomez, can you say what happened at the Elections Department? Mr James Gomez: Collectively on the list of questions you put forward (from Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng), I just want to say, "no comment". The indications are that you
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      • 624 115  -  Sim Chi Yin NICHOLAS FANG By ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY IF THE Workers' Party continues to dodge questions on Mr James Gomez's botched minority certificate application, Singaporeans are entitled to conclude it is very worried about something, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said yesterday. In
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      • 726 115  -  Peh Suing Huei Tracy Quek T. RAJ AN By ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY THE concerted attack by the People's Action Party (PAP) on opposition candidate James Gomez's nomination paperwork has left Singaporeans wondering about its game plan. Is it making a mountain
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      • 730 116  - WPputs spotlight on cost of living Ken Kwek Candidates' concerns include rising transport, medical costs, lift upgrading By WORKERS' Party (WP) candidates for East Coast GRC raised cost-of-living issues at a rally last night and gave suggestions on how to reduce transport and medical costs. Mr Chia Ti Lik elaborated
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      • 469 116  -  Salma Khalik By IN THE last general election, the Workers' Party raised the problem of the "New Poor", only to be ignored by the Government. In the past five years, this problem has deepened, said Mr James Gomez, a WP candidate m
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      • 646 116  -  Arlina Arshad Chong Chee Kin AZHAR GHANI By ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ON LABOUR Day yesterday, concern about jobs was the top issue raised by Singapore Democratic Alliance candidates. The party's five-man team m Tampines GRC launched a jobmatching portal www.unemployment.com.sg to help unemployed Tampines residents
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      • 209 116 WORKERS' Party candidate for Joo Chiat Tan Bin Seng says he will "take away" the licences of the bars m Joo Chiat and clean up the sleaze m the area if elected into Parliament. Speaking at the WP rally m East Coast last
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      • 556 117  -  Laurel Teo Voters must read between the lines of the party's manifesto, he says By THE Workers' Party (WP) says it wants to act as a check on the Government, but that might not be the whole truth, according to Senior Minister Goh Chok
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      • 461 117  -  Goh Chin Lian Erica Tay By THE flats m Hougang are ageing and so are its people. With fewer younger people moving m, Hougang could become a slum m years to come if there is no serious effort to upgrade the estate, said Senior Minister
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      • 194 117 WORKERS' Party candidate for Aljunied GRC, Mr Tan Wui-Hua, is confident he can do his PAP opponent Lim Hwee Hua's job as Minister of State for Finance and Transport. "I can do this job and adequately handle the affairs of any
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      • 517 117  -  Audrey Tan By GO for the tried and tested, rather than new faces put up by Mr Chiam See Tong who has a poor record of recruiting candidates. People's Action Party (PAP) members told supporters at a rally for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC
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      • 1699 118 CONSTITUENCY CLOSE-UP: EAST COAST GRC First contest m three GEs for East Coast GRC COST OF LI VING WORRIES "Prices of goods and transport costs have been increasing over the years and many low-income workers have been affected. Who is going to put a stop to that?
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      • 856 119  -  Natalie Soh NATALIE SOH SEMBAWANG GRC Health Minister says he won't rush it through and promises affordable health care for everyone By THE Health Minister defended Singapore's health-care system yesterday and said he will implement means testing only after he has
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      • 193 119 THE divided Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan wondering how it would unite the people, especially m times of crisis. "If your party itself, your leadership, the CEC is divided, are you sure you are able to unite Singaporeans? "Once
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      • 485 119  -  Radha Basu JALAN BESAR GRC By THE People's Action Party (PAP) team m Jalan Besar GRC is going all out to court the area's grey vote. Among the promised improvements are wheelchair ramps for the Chinatown food centre and lifts for even the
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      • 824 1110  -  Tracy Quek Quietly, behind the scenes, hundreds of supporters toil for the candidates By MR SWEE Kay Seng no longer lives m Yio Chu Kang, but for this election, he is back m his "old kampung" shoring up support for the ward's MP Seng Han
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      • 424 1110 4 polling stations to be changed Loss of Poll Card All voters should get their Poll Cards by today. If you have not received yours or have lost it, you can check on where to go at the Elections Department's website at www.elections.gov.sg You can also call its enquiry hotline
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      • ELECTION TAKES
        • 296 1110  -  LEE HUI CHIEH NOT building lifts that stop on every floor m older HDB blocks was not a mistake on the Government's part, said Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan. Flats built before 1990 did not have lifts on
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        • 263 1110 ABOUT 70 per cent of all Housing Board blocks m Aljunied GRC already have, or will soon get, lifts which stop at every floor. The rest should join the queue for approval soon, said Madam Cynthia Phua, who is chairman
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    • 509 1111  -  Salma Khalik Study shows 40% of such cases stay on for 'social' reasons and also catch infections By Health Correspondent MADAM Badal Bivi, 78, spent more than three weeks at Changi General Hospital after a fall. But at one stage, it seemed
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    • 193 1111 BY THE end of this month, the Flu Pandemic Guide containing tips on individual preparedness and basic information about bird flu will be delivered free to all Singapore households. The guide highlights the differences between normal flu and bird flu, explains what a
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    • 116 1111 With food and beverage giant Nestle planning to give away some 22,000 tins of Milo yesterday, throngs of people, dressed m green and armed with copies of The Straits Times, gathered at Suntec City to redeem their free I.skg tins of the drink. Nestle gave
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    • 426 1111  -  Maria Almenoar By WHILE still a student at Temasek Polytechnic, Mr Andrew Koh made more money than many young university graduates do m a year. The communications and media management student started an events management company with his friend Alfred Wong, whom he
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    • 148 1111 LIFE for civil servants all 160,000 of them is set to get easier and more convenient once the project to implement a standardised network and computer environment is completed. Digital Life finds out what the public service can expect from the $2 billion revamp. And
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      • 70 1111 A MAN suffered serious head injuries when his motorcycle collided with a bus just after midnight yesterday. Both vehicles were travelling along Airport Road towards Eunos Link when the motorcycle crashed into the side of the bus and skidded. The injured man, m his
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      • 63 1111 A BAR and an ice-cream stall on Sentosa were broken into after closing time on Saturday night. Drawers and cupboards were forced open at the ice-cream stall and a cash register worth $300 was stolen. The bar was robbed of $2,760 m cash, cigarettes, liquor and
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    • FORUM
      • 467 1112 I AM one of those lucky foreigners who have been given the privilege to reside m this metropolis called Singapore. I am sure I speak for a lot of us who enjoy very much living m this First World Asian country which
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      • 273 1112 THE Workers' Party's Low Thia Khiang asks why the Government did not have older HDB flats designed to have lifts stopping on every floor, resulting m the need for lift upgrading, and says that someone needs to be accountable for
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      • 129 1112 I REFER to the article, "Lift upgrading: Who gets it first" (ST, April 30). I am encouraged by the Minister for National Development, Mr Mah Bow Tan's clear restatement of some of the factors considered, other than the level of support for the ruling party, when upgrading
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      • 279 1112 CLEMENTI Polyclinic thanks Mr Chua Hak Liang for his feedback, "Show birth cert or pay higher fee" (ST, April 28). Based on his feedback, we have since improved our processes to be more patient-centred. The registration process has been streamlined as follows: For
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      • 140 1112 DESPITE the short election notice, those who missed voting will have to apply for their names to be put back on the register, and be fined $5. Only those with official commitments or attending to urgent personal matters would be considered for a
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      • 427 1112 THE JAMES GOMEZ SAGA WHEN the Workers' Party's James Gomez and party leader Low Thia Khiang were told it was Mr Gomez who did not hand m his minority-candi-date form, they thought it was a light matter not worth apologising and explaining
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      • 114 1112 Time to move on to larger issues WORKERS' Party candidate James Gomez has apologised over the minority-candidate form. Enough furore has been sparked by this administrative issue, and we should now leave judgment to the electorate. As a voter, I wish to see all of us move on to more
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      • 135 1112 Help for retirees seeking jobs I REFER to the letter from Mr Heng Cho Choon, "MOM can help match retirees to jobs" (ST, April 28). The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), m partnership with the National Trades Union Congress, community development councils and self-help groups, runs the Distributed Careerlink Network
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      • 170 1112 Over 27,000 job seekers were placed last year; over 1 ,000 were over the age of 60. 2 7,000 JOBS FILLED employers to encourage them to hire and retain older workers. A key initiative that we introduced m January this year is the Advantage! scheme which encourages companies to employ
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      • 629 1113 SOCCER Injured striker will go to Germany if he has a chance of playing some part London BETTER a hobbling Wayne Rooney than none at all. England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, faced with the prospect of having to play the World Cup without his most lethal
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      • 378 1113 LONDON HOPEFUL as England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson may be about having his best player for the World Cup, he must plan for life without Wayne Rooney. The striker is out of action for at least six weeks after breaking the fourth metatarsal m his right foot
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      • 334 1114 •SOCCER London STEVE McClaren is set to be named the new England coach. And depending on which British newspaper is to be believed, the Middlesbrough manager could be named officially by the Football Association as early as this morning. Most though,
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      • 392 1114 London TOTTENHAM Hotspur manager Martin Jol believes it would be an injustice if his side finish fourth m the Premiership and still miss out on a Champions League spot next season. Spurs beat Bolton 1-0 at White Hart Lane on
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      • 647 1114 Facing stiffer challenges next season, Blues can't afford to stay pat London RIVALS beware, Chelsea are intent on getting even better. Manager Jose Mourinho is aware that there is still much room for improvement for the club, despite winning their second straight
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      • 942 1114  -  Wilfred Yeo WILD WEEKEND By Deputy Sports Editor JOSE Mourinho may have thrown his Premiership winners' medal to a lucky fan after Chelsea's coronation as champions on Saturday, giving the impression that it did not matter to him. But don't let that
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      • 334 1114 London NO ONE at Arsenal, not even chairman Peter Hill-Wood, has any clue if Thierry Henry will remain after this season. Hill- Wood said the Frenchman's mood makes it difficult to predict his intentions. The Gunners captain has a further season to run
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      • 479 1115 ■BADMINTON They blank New Zealand 3-0, but face powerhouses Denmark next Sendai (Japan) INDIA celebrated like they had won the Thomas Cup. But it was just the quarter-finals that they reached yesterday. They got there by sweeping New Zealand 3-0 m the men's
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      • 270 1115  -  CHAN YI SHEN SINGAPORE beat New Zealand 3-0 to reach the Über Cup quarter-finals m Sendai, Japan, yesterday. The women shuttlers had finished bottom of their group after losing to South Korea and Germany last week. But they recorded their first win of the
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      • 400 1115  -  Chan Yi Shen SOCCER By WIN or bust. That is the situation Tampines Rovers face m their AFC Cup clash against Selangor at the Tampines Stadium tonight. The S-League champions are second m Group F with nine points from four games, three behind
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 118 1115 BREMEN (Germany): China won the men's World Table Tennis Team Championship yesterday with a 3-0 victory over South Korea. It was the 15th world title for the holders, who have not been beaten m team championships since losing to Sweden m 2000. Wang Hao started
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        • 72 1115 NEW DELHI: Asia's cricket chiefs celebrated the awarding of the 2011 World Cup by vowing yesterday that it will be a spectacular event that will be "as big as the one for football". A joint bid by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh defeated the rival
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      • 22 1115 Tampines v Selangor (Tampines Stadium, 7.30pm) Adults: $5 Children: $1 (including students) Tickets available at Tampines Stadium today from 5.30pm
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      • 487 1115 Madrid VALENCIA prevented Barcelona from wrapping up the Spanish Primera Liga title for a second week m a row when they claimed a 3-0 win over relegation-threatened Alaves at the Mestalla on Sunday. Valencia closed the gap at the top to eight points with three matches left
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      • 147 1116 THREE years after considering quitting the game and becoming a dub professional, American Chris Couch finally realised his talent with a maiden United States PGA Tour victory at the New Orleans Classic on Sunday. A remarkable chip-in from 50 feet at the final hole earned him
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      • 353 1116 'GOLF Orlando ANOTHER tournament, another South Korean winner. On Sunday, Kirn Mi Hyun became the fourth champion on the United States LPGA Tour this year to hail from South Korea. That gives them a remarkable success rate of 50 per
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      • 503 1116 BASKETBALL Lakers win 99-98, take 3-1 lead m the first-round play-off series Los Angeles THE Los Angeles Lakers needed two last-gasp shots from Kobe Bryant to beat the Phoenix Suns on Sunday. They were also aided by Phoenix star Steve Nash's
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      • 387 1116 Sacramento THEY had a 2-0 series lead but now National Basketball Association champions San Antonio Spurs find themselves back to square one. The Sacramento Kings handed the defending champions one of their worst beatings of the season with a 102-84 victory m their
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      • 387 1116 BADMINTON Thomas Cup prelims: Japan 3 USA 0, England 3 South Africa 0, India 3 New Zealand 0. South Korea 3 Germany 0. Über Cup prelims: Singapore 3 New Zealand 0 (Li Li bt Rachel Hmdley 21-16 21-14, King Aiying bt Renee Flavell 21-8 21-1 1. Jiang Yanmei bt
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      320 1116 HARIOM E.V.N. NAIR, MBE (Retiree, British High Commission) Age: 87 passed away peacefully on Monday 1 May 2006 at 8.35pm leaving behind (Wife: MR I^kshmikutty, deceased) Children: Ravindran, Balamani, Suresh, Narayana Das, I.atha, Mahes, Vijayalakshmi, Shobana and Vijayan Spouses, 14 grandchildren, relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Body
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      1069 1117 CHONG MEE LIANG Age: 85 passed away peacefully on 30 April 2006. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Ho Lee Fong Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chong Chye Keong Phua Yi- Jia Chong Chye Shing James Lee May La May Chong Chai Wong David Lim Chong Heng Joyce Chong
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    • MEDIA & MARKETING
      • 319 1120  - Ogilvy Mather clinches top spot in ad agency rankings Gabriel Chen By ADVERTISING heavyweight Ogilvy Mather has come from nowhere to snag top spot m the ST-R3 Advertising League for the first time since the montly rankings started two years ago. It picked up the coveted accounts of the Infocomm
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      • 453 1120  -  Grace Ng The Leading Edge picks Singapore to reach out to the numerous MNCs based here By GETTING CLOSER TO CLIENTS "All the major drug companies as well as top financial institutions have offices here which drive decision-making for the region." MR LEFEBVRE,
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    • MONEY
      • 204 1118 New York WITH a US$lO billion (Ssl6 billion) advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft is wielding control over Internet searching m its new Web browser. Google expressed its concerns m
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      • 340 1118 EU slaps more penalties onUS $1 5m m duties is response to illegal anti-dumping measures meant to protect US firms Brussels THE European Union has imposed US$9.l million (5514.5 million) m additional retaliatory sanctions against the United States, m response to anti-dumping measures meant to protect US companies. The World
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      • 206 1118 San Francisco YAHOO yesterday said it plans to unveil a new section aimed at helping consumers cope with the onslaught of new technology that is reshaping modern life. The new channel, dubbed "Yahoo Tech", represents the Internet powerhouse's latest effort to grab a
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      • 539 1119 Thai inflation accelerates to six- month high on fuel costs RISING RATES The Bank of Thailand has almost quadrupled its key interest rate m the past 20 months to control inflation amid surging energy costs. Central bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula wants higher rates to prompt commercial banks to increase the
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      • 558 1119 Jet may convert $6.7 b Boeing, Airbus options to firm orders New Delhi JET Airways (India), the nations biggest domestic airline, may convert an estimated US$4.2 billion (556.7 billion) of options to buy planes from Airbus and Boeing to firm orders as it aims to fly more overseas routes. Jet,
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      • 128 1119 GOING TO COURT The telco will contest the legality of the competition notice 'Telstra believes that the ACCC's actions fail the tests of fairness and transparency," said regulatory affairs general manager Tony Warren. Chief executive officer Sol Trujillo is waging a campaign to cut regulations that he says force Telstra
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      • 73 1119 Telstra challenges antitrust regulator's claim Canberra TELSTRA, Australia's largest telephone company, is challenging the nations antitrust regulator over a claim that it is hindering competition m the fixed-line pnone market. The Melbourne-based company said it is taking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to court to contest the legality
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      • 862 1121  - Analysts cautious over smaller oil-related plays Goh Eng Yeow Surging oil prices, more orders may not mean better profits, they warn By Markets Correspondent AS OIL prices surge to fresh record highs, a knee-jerk response nas increasingly kicked m among investors: Jump on any stock associated with the oil exploration
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      • 673 1121  -  Grace Ng COMMENTARY By THERE is strength m numbers, or so the conventional wisdom goes. And m the case of telecommunication firms, banding together with overseas partners means dialling up more profits for them but lower charges for consumers who use roaming
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      • 395 1121  -  Serene Luo By A RECOVERY m the domestic market has propelled Singapore's infocomm industry to a nve-year high for output, after it registered an 8.9 per cent rise m revenue last year to $37.89 billion. This was well up on the 5.9
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      • 195 1121  -  GABRIEL CHEN WARRANT WATCH A UNITED Test and Assembly Center (Utac) warrant issued by Macquarie Bank was among the most actively traded last week, with a combined volume of about 30 million units. Last Thursday, about 11.8 million units were traded the
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      • 235 2  -  Tay Suan Chiang CONCERT MAY DAY CONCERT 2006 Padang. Sunday IT WAS a more than 15 m one at this three-hour free concert. But with so many artists performing, each could do only two numbers m 15 minutes, not that the crowd of over 10.000 people, mostly
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    • 1241 4  -  June Cheong SDT boasts many firsts this season an opening act for Singapore Arts festival, a collaßoration with the Chinese orchestra and a new general manager 'What you see m a mirror is your present life but can you see your previous lives or
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      • 443 5  -  June Cheong This musical has it all romance, extra-marital affairs, threesomes and even casual flings THEATRE ASPECTS OF LOVE New Voice Company Drama Centre T^eatre. Sunday In all, the production scored on its eloquent use of the minimal set and cast, with the ensemble frequently
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          391 24 Hiding In Plain Sight: Steganography And The Art Of Covert Communication Eric Cole Indianapolis, Ind. Wiley Pub., c 2003 Call no: 005.8 COL-(COM) A DIGITAL IMAGE may no longer be as innocent as it seems. A search by an author of a well-known website revealed that more than
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      • 378 25 HP Compaq nx 6320 $2, 399 Get it from HP Compaq dealers The nx 6320 design is obviously targeted at business users because it is not finished m designer colours or configured with widescreen luxuries. It keeps with the standard 4:3 screen ratio with either the
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      • 420 25  -  Mike Lee By a freelance IT writer Olympus E-330 $1,999 with kit lens Get it from authorised Olympus dealers The 7.5-megapixel Olympus E-330 is the world's first digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera to feature a continuous live view on its LCD. Coupled with
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      • 428 27 Technology news from around the world Yahoo adds text translation service UNITED STATES INTERNET search engine Yahoo has added AltaVista's translation service, Babel Fish, to its menu of online services, the company announced last week. The Yahoo Babel Fish service is capable of translating as many as 150 words
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      • 1007 28 Small m size but big m potential, RFID chips will play a major role m helping Singapore maintain its position as a global trans-shipment hub, experts tell CHUA HIAN HOU Silfcon chips the size of a rice grain keep a watchful eye over $900 million worth
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      • 419 30 Special Internet phones, sponsored by Cisco Systems, will be developed for the IMF and World Bank meets later this year. GRACE CHN6 finds out how delegates will benefit from this service IMF and World Bank participants can get conference schedules, news updates and tourist information
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      • 908 114 FEVER HOT NEWS Taking the temperature of the news Election Day will be May 6. There are nine single-seat constituencies (with one Member of Parliament each) and 1 4 group representative constituencies (with up to six MPs). Candidates each pay a deposit of 1 3,500, which they
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      • 511 115 Eyes are on this guy The five Ws and one H of the charges against T.T. Durai. BY ANDREW DUFFY WHO IS HE? T.T. Durai is the former chief of Singapore's biggest charity, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). He helped build it up to what it is today, but resigned
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        179 115 Also m court was Ragini Vijayalingam, 43, who worked m the NKFs purchasing department. She faces 1 1 charges for taking bribes including seafood meals, massage sessions and bottles of perfume -from a medical equipment vendor. If found guilty, she will face a fine of 1 00,000
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        229 4 2,000,000 That is the number of people two million who went without water for more than 1 2 hours m Kuala Lumpur and the Malaysian province of Selangor on April 1 5. The water supply was cut off after heavy rain caused a landfill -where all sorts
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        165 4 King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dcv, King of Nepal What he did He announced on April 2 1 that he would stop controlling the country all by himself and hand over most power to a government chosen by the people. He did this after widespread protests that
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        114 4 Beijing, China What happened there A massive sandstorm lasting 1 0 days hit Beijing on April 1 6. A sandstorm is caused by dry wind so strong that it picks up sand and dust from deserts and blows it all over the place. It can get so
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        120 4 Indonesia acts against haze What happened Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has addressed the haze issue by ensuring that there are no major fires m the forests and farmlands before the dry season. Every year, between May and October, some formers m Sumatra and Kalimantan burn away
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      • 652 5 Your school bookshop is your hot spot for just about anything except books. JESSICA LIM peeks into schools islandwide to find out just what is on offer. Recess time at Zhenghua Primary School is v^en long queues form outside its bookshop. The students want to buy a
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        159 6 POEM WHAT IS WHITE? By Sarah Wong, Primary 5, Methodist Girls' School White is the start Of a new beginning White is sugar, Cream and icing White is clean, Innocent and gentle White is an exquisite Diamond jewel White is the snow On the window sill The snowman
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      • 139 6 YOU'RE INVITED! The talent page featuring special reviews, original art and contributions from Y-O-U. Send your contributions to stdot@sph.com.sg Tanjong Katong Primary School recently celebrated International Friendship Day at their school auditorium by taking their students on a "World Tour". Some students from Yoo Seok
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      • 340 6 TYCOON By Lav Xue Vi, 1 1 Primary 6, Yu Neng School If you have always dreamed of having a skateboard park of your very own, this is just the game for you. In Skateboard Park Tycoon a trial version of which can be downloaded from
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      • 235 7 FAMOUS FORTUNES Sisters Venus and Serena Williams have taken the tennis world by storm and look set to do the same m the business and TV World tOO. BY SAMUEL LIM With a total of 1 2 Grand Slam singles, six doubles titles, and millions of
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        230 7 Asset When accountants talk about a person's assets, they are referring to things which have economic value and can be converted to cash. Many things a person or company owns may be called assets such as cars, houses, stocks, office equipment, and even jewellery. The word asset has other
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        183 7 Another well-known tennis star is Maria Sharapova (right). She was born m the Russian town of Nyagan. In her country, the currency used is the rouble. It got its name from a Russian word which means "to chop" because roubles were originally pieces of silver chopped from a larger
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      • 255 8 WEIRD NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD PORKY PARADE Hundreds of pig-lovers gathered for the annual Pig Olympics m Moscow on Saturday, April 15. The pigs competed m three events pig-swimming, pig-racing and "pigball", where they pushed a sweet-tasting soccer ball around with their snouts and scored points when it went
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        280 12 You know that people come m different colours, but do you know why? ALISON DE SOUZA explains. Scientists believe that skin colour is linked to the amount of sunlight our ancestors got. People whose ancestors came from sunnier parts of the world mostly have darker skin, while
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      • 316 13 |i^^!|^^\/(V\^ C^ History began with our being able to record events. WHATYOU NEED: Pencil paper^your imagination S^^B^B^Bfc—^Bß^B^B^* ■■■'""""^^^F^l^^*^^^ M^^S^BMB^B^^^^^^ |^^>S^ Pj WZ^f&v*j<o>S£ Middle Ast, wwe lrao»ael and Iran arei WHATTO DO: Think of the sounds the letters of the B^^K \mf I fcl W RfV Xl C^r— r^—^^^^ Peo|p^top^Mis*ig pictures
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      • 465 14  -  CALLISTHENES SPECIAL REPORT BYC With a single stroke of the sword, a man has ruined the tourism industry of a small town. The residents of Gordium are still shaking from the shock of seeing an out-of-town visitor slash through their famous Gordian Knot, which for
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      • 76 15 ANSWER TO 'DANGEROUS MUD 9 WORD PUZZLE (From p. 10) II I |M| I 1 I I |G| |"n| U N_ O___ D I L j_j__ l il A__ I DT T ON __JE_G_ i D.U_.L > S- M i-~--LJ S E EL R _A^_ I R I W_ ]B
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      • 214 16  -  DAWN LIM BY With political parties fighting it out to win the hearts of the people m the upcoming general election, politics dominates most of the news these days. Newspapers serve the important aim of helping voters make informed decisions. This is why writing with objectivity
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        507 17  -  SAMUEL LIM BY GOOD RELATIONS Can you guess which of these animals are related to the tapirs? 1) Brazilian tapir 2) Elephant 3) Rhinoceros 4) Horse 5) Hippopotamus Answer: Before the Malayan tapir was discovered, the Brazilian tapirs were once mistakenly classified as a land-living hippopotamus. After the
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