The Straits Times, 27 July 2007

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  • 659 1  -  Zakir Hussain Religious edict paves way for Muslims here to come under Human Organ Transplant Act By ISLAMIC religious leaders here have issued a ruling allowing Muslims to submit to the same laws or. organ donation as other Singaporeans.
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  • 104 1 ANOTHER day, another scandal. The Tour de France was enveloped in more chaos and disgrace yesterday after the race leader, Michael Rasmussen, was kicked out from the event by his team for lying about his training whereabouts, and thus missing doping tests. Rasmussen's removal was the latest
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  • 516 1  -  Lim Wei Chean By HOTEL Phoenix famed for the roti prata and other local delicacies at its Phoenix Garden Cafe will close on Wednesday after a 35-year run. It is unclear if or when a new Phoenix will arise, but all 150 staff
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1144 1  -  Kwan Weng Kin By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo PRIME Minister Shinzo Abe is facing the toughest battle of his 10-month-old premiership, with his popularity plunging from an initial 70 per cent to just under 30 per cent now. Media polls are unanimous in
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    • IN A FLASH
      • 75 2 MM Lee on extradition pact Singapore was ready to sign an extradition treaty with Indonesia. But the latter had made several unfriendly attempts to force the Republic to backdate the effectiveness of the pact by 15 years. Mr Lee Kuan Yew said in Jakarta yesterday PAGE 6 Webmaster blames
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      • 31 2 Korean churches' zeal The South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan has put the spotlight on the evangelical zeal of South Korean churches, which compete to send missionaries abroad. PAGE 17
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      • 36 2 Health-care watch The proposed national registry for disease takes monitoring a stage further. Data protection, however, should be safeguarded and cost savings, if any. from the more efficient disease management should benefit patients. PAGE 22
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      • 41 2 Why operate on a 97-year-old? We need to accept human mortality and concentrate on improving older people's quality of life, rather than goinj? ahead with medical treatment that is burdensome and expensive, with a minuscule chance of success. PAGE 23
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      • 66 2 Gone in than 60 seconds Police say motorbikes are being stolen at a rate of two bikes a day, with 384 cases in the first half of this year, mostly from HDB estates. PAGE HI Anonymous HIV test A survey of two clinics reports that eight out of 678
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      • 33 2 Customs explains detention Singapore Customs says it acted properly in the case of a man who was detained for five months and later acquitted of cigarette smuggling by the court. PAGE Hl4
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      • 35 2 Tour's future in the balance The future of the Tour de France is grim after race leader Michael Rasmussen is unceremoniously sacked by his own team under a cloud of doping suspicion. PAGE Hl5
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      • 33 2 Expats relocating to suburbs Local removal firms say they are doing good business as soaring rents force expat families to move from pricey areas in favour of cheaper outlying suburbs. PAGE H2B
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      • 110 2 Our report yesterday, "UOB introduces new contactless credit card", incorrectly stated that there was a daily limit of $200 on the new Visa pay Wave service. Although each pay Wave transaction is subject to a maximum limit of $100, a cardmember may make as many
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 30 1 LIFE AFTER MFA What next? George Yeo ponders flk l^aflfe^^^Ui^^l the possibilities and muses about relations f^^^^^BS^^^^SsEl^3KKM^ti^(^^^^^^ with neighbours, Asean and religion J JffnTiiyTnWffffMßßl^^^B Zm&&t?~*^lm l INSIGHT PAGE 25 \W
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  • PRIME
    • 546 3  -  Khushwant Singh Police advise those above 60 not to wear jewellery, avoid isolated areas By Elena Chomg ELDERLY, frail and usually alone senior citizens have become a prime target for snatch thieves and cheats. In the first six months of
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    • 103 3 Overall crime rate in the first six months this year remained at the same level as the same period last year. There were 16,118 cases, a 0.2 per cent increase over the 16,093 cases recorded in the same period last year. 06 Jan-June 07 Jan-June Rape 1"
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    • 599 3 REUTERS. A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE Kabul A DAY after the killing of a South Korean hostage in Afghanistan, the Taleban's military chief has called for more foreigners to be kidnapped, describing it as a very successful policy. Mansour Dadullah, who took over
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    • 96 4 A pavilion lies partially submerged by the swollen Yangtze River in Wuhan, cap fal of central China's Hubei province. Water levels have risen to critical levels along vast Chinese rivers, and floods have spread to the north of the country. In the east, a tornado battered
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    • 551 4  -  RfcME Ahmad Landmark ruling a step forward in I:he Malaysian legal system, say law/ers By MALAYSIA'S highest court has held that disputes between a Muslim and a non-Muslim on family and religious matteis should be settled in a civil court. The
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  • ASIA
    • 854 6  -  AZHAR GHANI MM LEE'S VISIT TO INDONESIA But Indonesia made unfriendly bids to get it backdated, he says at dialogue Rv U I Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta SINGAPORE was ready to sign an extradition treaty with Indonesia. But the
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    • 61 6 Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Lee (far left) walking with former Indonesian president Suharto after they paid a brief visit to the Suharto residence in an upscale residential neighbourhood of Jakarta yesterday morning. They made no comment to the media waiting outside. MM Lee
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    • CHINA
      • 569 8  -  Tracy Quek He stands accused of illegally lending city funds, bribery and immoral behaviour By China Correspondent In Beijing DETAILS of Chen Liangyu's misconduct while he was Shanghai's top official were released yesterday as state TV media announced he had been expelled
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      • 264 8 REUTERS Beijing CHINA'S ruling Politburo agreed yesterday that its biggest economic priority is to prevent the world s fourth-largest economy from overheating, the Xinhua news agency reported. A meeting of the powerful committee, chaired by President Hu Jintao, reaffirmed the tightening bias to
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      • 190 8 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. REUTERS Beijing AMID spiralling food costs, the Chinese authorities are concerned about a sudden spike in the price of instant noodles, one of the country's most popular dishes, state press said yesterday. The price of a packet of instant
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      • 585 10 REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS Vast areas on flood alert while temperatures soar in the south Beijing CHINA is in the grip of extreme weather conditions. Water levels have risen to critical levels along vast Chinese rivers and floods have spread to the north from south-western
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      • 395 10 REUTERS. FINANCIAL TIMES. ASSOCIATED PRESS "ELSEWHERE... London LIKE China, Europe is suffering from scorching heat as well as massive flooding. Britain's Met Office issued a severe weather warning yesterday, saying it expected outbreaks of heavy rain across Wales, the west Midlands and
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 678 11  -  Kwan Weng Kin Japanese PM fails to pull in op-class celebrities to run in Sunday's parliamentary polls By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo A LACK of personal charisma has added to the problems of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is fighting an uphill
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      • 342 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS Panmunjom NORTH Korea walked out of military talks yesterday wi»h South Korea, mocking the other side and c ".ding three days of high-level negotiations with no agreement because of a lingering dispute over their sea border. "We've come to
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 421 12 REUTERS US officials say rooting out terror group will hinge on aid to Pakistan Washington AL-QAEDAS safe haven in north-western Pakistan is largely inaccessible to outside forces and unlikely to be eliminated soon by the US or Pakistani military, top intelligence officials said on Wednesday.
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      • 58 12 Pakistan held a successful test of its nuclear-capable, radar-dodging cruise missile at an undisclosed location yesterday. The Babur missile, which was developed locally, has a range of 700 km. President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz congratulated the scientists and engineers who worked on the
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      • 203 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS Gauhati HEALTH workers in India's remote north-east went house to house searching for sick people yesterday while workers began slaughtering 150,000 chickens near a farm where the deadly bird flu virus was found, officials said. The move comes a day
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      • 238 12 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Sydney AUSTRALIA is considering selling uranium to India after New Delhi finalises a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States, the government said yesterday. Australia has the world's largest known reserves of uranium and has been under pressure
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 449 13  -  Nirmal Ghosh Nine sentenced to detention as regime moves to shut down the coalition temporarily By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAILAND'S military-backed government yesterday moved in effect to temporarily shut down the anti-junta United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) by arresting and detaining
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      • 95 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THAILAND'S army-installed Parliament has approved a law that threatens jail for anyone convicted of obstructing the constitutional referendum next month, an election official said yesterday. Anyone convicted ot misleading the public about the referendum, blocking voters from the polls or damaging ballot papers could face
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      • 177 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS Manado (Indonesia) A POWERFUL earthqm ke rocked eastern Indonesia yesterday, sending people fleeing into the streets from swaying homes, offices and hospitals, the authorities and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of damage. The quake, which nad a magnitude of 6.9, triggered a
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      • 322 13 REUTERS Jakarta AN INDONESIAN court jailed 17 Christians for up to 14 years yesterday under anti-terrorism laws for the murder of two Muslims. The Muslim fishmongers were attacked in Poso. on Sulawesi Island, last September by a mob angry at the
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 235 16 BERNAMA KULAI A SINGAPOREAN has been lailed for 12 months and had his licence suspended for two years by .i court in Johor for racing illegally on the Second Link highwnty Rina Sophian Abdul Samad, 29, was also fined RM5.000 ($2,200) by
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      • 655 16  -  Chow Kum Hor Embattled webmaster turns the tables on his accusers in high-profile police probe By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur EMBATTLED webmaster Raja Petra Kamaruddin has turned the tables on his accusers, blaming Umno for flooding his controversial website with the inflammatory comments which
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      • 231 16 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Petaung Java THE Malaysian Foreign Ministry said it was surprised and puzzled by the decision of Culture Minister Rais Yatim to withdraw from the race for the post of Commonwealth secretary-gener-al. Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said yesterday
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 30 6 No Prince Charming Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's lack of charisma adds to his election woes, as he fails to get top celebrities to run on his party's ticket. PAGE 11
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  • WORLD
    • 581 17  -  Lee Tee Jong Country had 16,000 missionaries abroad at end 2006, many in Muslim nations By South Korea Correspondent I\ Seoul THE South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan has put the spotlight on the evangelical zeal of South Korean churches, which compete to
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    • 168 17 THE Korean government and the Saemmul Community Church in Bundang, near Seoul, which sent the team of 23 kidnapped volunteers have been quick to stress that its sole purpose was to provide medical aid to the needy in
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    • 466 17  -  LEE TEE JONS AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul SOUTH Korea is in mourning after the death of a pastor from the country at the hands of the Taleban. Almost all newspapers earned a picture of Mr Bae Ho Jung, the father of the
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    • 653 18  -  Derwin Pereira Beijing likely to gain most from top US official's decision to skip Asean meeting By I S Bureau Chief In Washington CHINA is winning by default. As the Bush administration becomes increasingly caught up with Iraq and the Middle East, observers see
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    • 551 19 BLOOMBERG. REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS This will counter growing imbalances with the US, says Russian President Moscow RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has vowed to expand Russia's spy network to counter "imbalances" with the US that include US President George W. Bush's plan to set
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 265 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS ISRAELI Defence Minister Ehud Barak is marrying his long-time sweetheart more than 40 years after they met in a top-secret ceremony. The Maanv newspaper reported yesterday that Mr Barak, who was divorced tour years ago. would marry Ms Nili Priel tomorrow in
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      • 226 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO PRESIDENT Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, which witnessed its worst air disaster last week, has confessed that he is scared to fly. Whenever he boards a plane, he says he delivers himself to God. "I surrender my fate to God
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      • 165 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS MR TONY BLAIR used his last 15 months as Britain's prime minister to entertain an array of minor celebrities at his official country retreat at taxpayers' expense, it has been revealed. Chequers, the retreat historically used to receive diplomats and ministers, played
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      • 133 20 THAILAND'S Central Labour Court has ordered Post Publishing, the publisher of the Bangkok Post, to reinstate former chief reporter Sermsuk Kasitipradit, who was sacked over a report about cracks in the runway at Suvarnabhumi airport two years ago. Mr Sermsuk had sued the company
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      • 92 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS A MAN who called the 911 emergency hotline nearly 300 times last month has been charged Cheveon Alonzo Ford, 21, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making obscene and harassing telephone calls in Pensacola, Florida. He told the authorities he
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    • 382 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS Obesity is socially contagious and the risk is highest among friends: Study Los Angeles IF YOUR friends get fat, chances are you will too, even if you live miles away from each other, researchers have found. The study, published
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    • 227 21 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Cairo HGYPT'S top religious adviser, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa. reaffirmed his belief yesterday that Muslims could choose their own religion after the local press carried apparently conflicting statements. He maintained that while it would be a 'grave sin"
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 99 21 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE DHAKA: A former Bangladeshi minister was \esterday jailed for 31 years for aiding Islamic militants. The militants were convicted of murdering two judges in a nationwide terror campaign to impose syanah law Aminul Hug, telecommunications minister in the emergency-ruled country's most recent
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      • 115 21 REUTERS DAMASCUS: An explosion at a military complex in northern Syria killed 15 soldiers and wounded 50 yesterday. The authorities said the blast, which was heard 20km away, was caused by the sweltering weather "There is a heat wave and temperatures reached close to 50
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      • 149 21 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court yesterday rejected an attempt to force a review of government environmental policies in the pollutionplagued city. The Clean Air Foundation, a local pressure had applied for a judicial review of the government's efforts to improve Hong
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 26 17 Barak to tie the knot Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is marrying his long-time sweetheart Nili Priel more than 40 years after they met. PAGE 20
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  • REVIEW
    • 402 22 r" "1 policy and research benefits of the proposed National RegisJL try of Diseases outweigh any inherent f)n 11 a ;i' risks, Ihe n igistr)' n 'ill centralise data doctors already gather. I or example, they hare submitted 100,000 patient records on cancer since l
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    • 1121 22  -  Janadas Devan "FOREIGN MATTERS By Senior Writer WHICH issue is likely to determine the 2008 US presidential election? The Iraq war dominates the headlines, but it may not be the decisive issue. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that 42 per cent of Americans
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    • 1023 22  -  LUTHFI ASSYAUKANIE FREEDOM OF BEUEF IN MALAYSIA BY For The Straits Times THE last-minute cancellation of an international inter-faith conference in mid-May underscored the current unease over issues related to religion in Malaysia. The inability of the conference to proceed as planned reflects a certain
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    • 941 23  - Major surgery for a 97-year-old? Muriel R. Gillick By IN A dramatic twist of fate, one of the world's premier heart surgeons. Dr Michael Deßakey, recently underwent cardiac surgery using a technique that he devised, at the hospital where he practised. What gave the story added interest was that Dr
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    • 1166 24  - Hmong a people left out in the cold John Mcßeth COLD WAR LEGACY By Senior Writer THIRTY-TWO years after the Pathet Lao completed their creeping takeover of land-locked Laos, legendary Hmong military leader Yang Pao and a collection of his aged followers are facing trial in a California court, accused
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 23 22 Unrealistic dreams The trial of Hmong military leader Yang Pao shows unrealistic expectations continue to exist among some in the diaspora. PUNCHLINES o
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  • INSIGHT FRIDAY
    • 1070 25 Signals officer. Head of Air Plans Department. Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry. At the helm in four different ministries. Mr George Yeo has spent his entire career in public service. What's next on his agenda? Dreams, it
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    • 1238 25 Excerpts from interview with Mr Yeo Singapore and Malaysia have had a tumultuous relationship. What is your vision of how relations can re.uh a stable equilibrium? I don't want to typify it as a love-hate relationship. I would say this is a
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    • 1057 26  -  Chua Mvi i ioo\(, FRIDAY MATTERS By Senior Writer IN MY other life, I could be a mystery shopper. It comes easily to me. Sitting in a hospital waiting room, 1 note the time I arrive, how long it takes to get
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    • 963 26  -  Ken Kwek »POST-65ERS By JOHANN S. Lee's 1992 novel, Peculiar Chris, has experienced something of a revival as the subject of a new play here. The book, written when Mr Lee was a 21-year-old national serviceman, depicts the growing pains of a gay youth, and
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    • 982 27 Partly cloudy; showers with thunder B^ M M afternoon over many areas. THE STRAITS TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 27 2007 ASIA WORLD WEATHER USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN r— w^mm^-- Emergency lines DO TODAY k Wl^^^^ <G£AT t z*^" Police.. 999 MM' A «i. ClMf Police Hotline 1800-255-0000 -l^^BflH^^raH^^^M ?M
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    • 140 28 Going for a song. Annual Clearance Now till 12 August 2007. i Shopping hours extended till 11pm every Friday and Saturday. p L-^ <•;-', Just For Kids IKEA p*^ Promotion FREE balloons and tattoo stickers for kids this National Receive double Bonus Points for purchases made during the IKEA Sale
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  • HOME
    • 423 29  -  Teh Joo Lin 384 cases in first half of year, making up 70% of vehicles reported stolen here By EVERY day, about two riders here return to their motorcycles only to discover their machines have vanished. Cases of thieves making off with two-wheelers are on
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    • 271 29 A GROUP of Pioneer Primary pupils have come down with vomiting and diarrhoea since Wednesday. Pupils began trickling into the school's sick bay on Wednesday morning. By 10am, about 20 pupils had reported sick. Yesterday, another 17 had taken ill with similar symptoms.
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    • 667 31  -  Klena Chong Bad weather to blame for woman hit by toppling tree, man struck by falling branch By Court Correspondent NO ONE is to blame for the recent accidental deaths of two people who were struck by a tree and a branch in
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    • 402 31  -  Chong Chee Kin By THERE was an added element of interest in a property cashback court case yesterday runaway lawyer David Rasif was fingered as a "prime mover" in the scam. In the dock was property agent Goh Chong Liang, 37, who admitted his role
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    • 513 32  -  Tracy Sua 342 workers injured, 12 died in such accidents last year By LIFTING equipment like cranes and cherry-pickers continues to be an area of safety concern, and Ministry of Manpower (MOM) figures testify to this. Last year, nearly four times more
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    • How it can turn deadly – when things are not done right
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        161 32 »CASE 1 ON JULY 7, 2004, a scrap electrical distribution board weighing 119 kg was hoisted by a lorry crane while a worker on the deck of the lorry guided the operation. He slipped and fell to the ground and the board slid from the lifting gear, crushing
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      • 115 32 CASE 2 A WORKER not even involved in a lifting operation was crushed to death by a load dislodged from a crane. On Oct 29, 2005, a 1,200 kg structure of metal bats called a rebar cage was built on a worksite. It was being hoisted when the
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    • 371 32  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent A CONTAINER treieht services man ager was fined $10,000 yesterday foi unsafe work operations that led to the death of a general worker. Steven Teo Peng Yong, 43, admitted to the offence under the Workplace Safety and Health
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    • ORGAN TRANSPLANT
      • 345 34 KIDNEY PATIENT 1 MADAM Norlea Hamid had almost given up hope of getting a new kidney when the National University Hospital gave her trie good news in February: A suitable match had been found. The 45-year-old was overjoyed that her 10-year wait had come
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      • 695 34  -  Zakir Hussain Mufti's office working closely with MOH to look into matters regarding transplant procedures By THE Islamic ruling allowing organ donations may at a glance be controversial to many Muslims, but there were no objections from some 200 religious leaders told about it this
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      • 362 35 KIDNEY PATIENT 2 THREE days a week, Madam Masri Haji Imam ge's up before dawn to catch the first bus to her dialysis centre in Lorong Ah Soo. The 59-year-old widow watches in stoic resignation as a dialysis machine cleans her blood of
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      • 213 35 A HISTORY ot rulings by the Fatwa Committee on organ transplants: 1973: The Fatwa Committee ruled that pledging one's organs was not allowed, given reasonable doubts over the success of transplants. 1987: Singapore passed the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) to assist kidney patients. The committee said
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    • 571 36  -  Jessica Jaganathan They are among 678 who took saliva-based test; all are men and half are S'porean By EIGHT out of 678 people who went for anonymous saliva-based Aias tests have been found HIV-positive. All eight are men, and half are Singaporean Of the
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    • 260 37 STUDENT leaders from top secondary schools in the Asia-Pacific and beyond visited Singapore Press Holdings on Wednesday as part of a youth leaders' summit here. They learnt about The Straits Times' interactive portal Stomp in a talk by Stomp editor Jennifer Lewis. She shared her views on journalism
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    • 400 37  -  Christopher Tan Its consultancy unit, MSI Global, is working on $50m in rail projects worldwide By Senior Correspondent EXPERTS in the consultancy arm of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) are making a splash in a dozen countries overseas even as the LTA has hired foreigners
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    • 161 37 SINGAPORE has appointed new ambassadors to Algeria and Cyprus, both of whom will be resident here. Mr Zulkifli Baharudin, 47, the Republic's ambassador to Algeria, is managing director of Global Business Integrators. A Nominated Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2001, he also used to
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    • 665 38  -  Jane Ng 71 now hold Singapore Quality Class for good business practices By NINE more private schools have achieved a quality stamp tor schools with good business practices. The increasing popularity of the Singapore Quality Class (SQC) for private education organisations here
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    • 449 38  -  Lee Hui Chieh By A MUCH-LOVED Roman Catholic pnest died in hospital yesterday a week shy of a celebration to mark the 70th anniversary of his ordination. Father Louis Fossion, 92, had been hospitalised with pneumonia at Mount Alvernia for trie last two weeks. His
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    • 287 38  -  CHONG CHEE KIN NEARLY four years ago, Singapore's Ministry of Defence (Mindef) received a bomb-threat e-mail sent from Bangkok, Thailand. It spoke of a possible attack in Singapore similar to the terror blast that hit the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Auc 5, 2003.
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    • CASE FILE
      • 108 38 THE Ministry of Health has confirmed that adventure racer lan Ng 25, died of dengue on Sunday. Mr Ng is the fourth person to die of the mos-quito-borne viral infection so far this year. He was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on Saturday, and died
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      • 78 38 A GENERAL manager died after his motorcycle collided with a taxi at Bam on Wednesday. French national Thierry Raymond Philippe Leroy was travelling towards Pioneer Road in the second lane when the taxi, which was in the first lane, tried to make a U-turn. Mr Leroy,
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      • 190 38 FIVE Chinese nationals who cheated an elderly woman of jewellery and cash totalling $26,618 were jailed yesterday. The three China women Liang Mci Ying, Lin Hui Fei, both 37, and Qin Fawei, 55 were also convicted of trying to cheat a 53-year-old victim of cash
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    • 328 40  -  Ken Kwek Over 9,600 union members, leaders and staff to join record bid By THE labour movement will celebrate National Day by forming the largest human flag of Singapore at the Padang. More than 9,600 union members and leaders, and staff
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    • 78 40 Israel's Minister of Education, Professor Yuli Tamir y visited River Valley High School yesterday, the last day of her three-day trip to learn more about the education system here, and to exchange ideas on developing thinking skills in students. She and her delegation had also
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    • 215 40  -  KARAMJIT KAUR FUEL surcharges at Singapore Airlines and its subsidiary Silk Air are going up again for the second time in about two months. The increase of between US$4 (556.05) and US$lB for a return flight will affect travellers with tickets issued on or
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    • 251 36 A weekly look at what to watch out for in the world of consumers. Figures, case study and tips come from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). The world of travel QA I No of cases filed QrT I (January to December 2006) Top complaints 1. Failure to honour contract
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  • FORUM
    • 415 42  -  Chew Lai Leng (Mrs) IN TOE article, "Innocent but kept in remand for 5 months" (ST, July 24). Mr Cboag Chee Kin suggests thai Singapore Customs had wrongly acted against Mr ()ng Sing Hoe. but did not explain fully the circumstances of his arrest.
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    • 307 42  -  Mark Rowley I REFER to the letters, "Don't penalise loan defaulter for too long" (ST, July 20) by Mr Camillus Yap Bin Chun and "Take discharged bankrupts off blacklist" (ST, July 24) by Mr Tan Kee Siong. The length of time for
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    • 254 42  -  Anthony Yeo I REFER to the report on the increased divorce rate .imong those aged 20-24 ("Number of couples splitting up at new high"; ST, July 25). Despite efforts at promoting marriage preparation and tamily-life programmes, there seems to be no way for u>
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    • 245 42  -  Lee Boon Leng THE article, "Why Bis-han-Toa Payoh is a model town council (ST, July 24), said that "To keep up these standards, Bishan-Toa Payoh pays one of the highest const rvanty service rates $11 for every household unit, which is twice what most
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    • 93 42 For more readers' views, logon to http://www. straitstimes.com Access te letters online is free. Whafs become of our youth? Many don't give up seats to the pregnant Use proper pinytn pronunciation in announcements of train stations Making our roads safer for all road users: Educate, educate, educate Bank
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    • 352 42  -  Jeannie Ong (Ms) I REFER to the letter by SingTel's Mr Peter Heng, "Broadband 'speed race'? No real need for one" (ST, July 24). In spite of Mr Heng's assertion that "any speed beyond 20Mbps today cannot be feasibly used by individual customers", our research
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    • 190 42  -  Kong Yin Peng (Ms) I REFER to Mr Chan Tee Seng's letter, "Income provides Letter of Guarantee" (ST, July 24). I would like to share my experience with Income's Letter of Guarantee (LOG) during my son's admission to a private hospital recently. I nad
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    • 82 43 Race leader Michael Rasmussen being sacked by his team for lying could be the death blow to the 'Clean Tour 1, which has already seen three doping cases "We cannot say that Rasmussen cheated, but his flippancy and his lies on his whereabouts had become unbearable."
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    • 725 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS THE FALLOUT: THE RACE Pau (France) AS OUTRAGE turned to discust, the death knell wa; sounded for the Tour de France after Michael Kasmussen was sacked by his team under a cloud of doping suspicion. Sunday's victory ride through the heart of
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    • 179 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEFORE Michael Rasmussen, there has been only one race leader expelled in the 104-year-old history of the Tour de France. That happened in 1978. Michel Pollentier, a tough 27-year-old Belgian, raced up the Alpe d'Huez and was handed the yellow jersey. His
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    • 408 43 THE NEW LEADER Castelsarrasin (France) ALBERTO Contador inherited the yellow jersey at the end of stage 17 of the Tour de France yesterday. Italian Daniele Bennati of the Lampre Fondital team claimed his first Tour victory with an easy sprint win in Castelsarrasin,
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      80 43 Results Stage 17,188.5 km from Pau to Castelsarrasin 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre 4hr 14min (Msec 2 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2R 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC same time 5 David Millar (Gbr) Saunier Duval +2:41. Overall classification 1 Alberto Contador (Esp,
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    • 459 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS THE FALLOUT: THE SPONSORS Paris \s RIDERS drop out of the lour de Franco for doping, sponsors are thinking about pulling their money out too. C.erman truck company Man has already backed out. The (ierman sportswear gi.int adidas
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    • 634 44 REUTERS MOTOR RACING British team could face sanctions if fresh proof of them using Ferrari's secret data appears Paris MCLAREN could yet be thrown out of the Formula One season. Yesterday, the British team escaped immediate punishment for their part in the spy
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    • 202 44 REUTERS Feb 1: Nigel Stepney, Ferrari's technical manager, says he is open to offers from rival teams after expressing discontent. June 21: Ferrari launch a criminal investigation against Stepney. June 24: Stepney says he is at the centre of "a dirty tricks campaign' after claims
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    • 445 45 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ASIAN CUP Hanoi SAUDI Arabia's star forwards Yasser Al Qahtani and Malek Maaz could play anywhere in the world, according to their Brazilian coach Helio dos Anjos. The dynamic strike duo shot down tournament favourites Japan 3-2 in
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    • 830 45  -  Leonard Ljm They set aside personal grief and sectarian differences to bring countrymen rare joy I FOR a team that have experienced so much personal trauma, the past two weeks must have seemed surreal. All 22 Iraqi players have lost loved ones because of
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    • 410 45 REUTERS. AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Hanoi JAPAN'S players were left to pick up the pieces yesterday, after their devastating defeat by Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup semi-finals. The defending champions' bid for a third straight title came to a shuddering halt in
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    • 425 45 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Kuala Lumpur COACH Pirn Verbeek says South Korea will recover from the anguish of their defeat by Iraq and regroup mentally for tomorrow's "terrible" play-off for third place. The Koreans were dumped from 'he Asian Cup 3-4 on penalties on Wednesday, as Iraq
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    • 1420 45 HORSE RACING] J Quartet Races 3, 5, 7& 9 Triple Trio Races 6, 7& 9. [MICHAEL ANDREW CRAIG MAXWORTHY FROST EVANS 4ENJ0YTHERIDE 7«TKLCUr 7STEaCUT 7Staa*Cut 4 Efi»ov Th« R*. 1 K~mn 1Oh«BB HQwiiazz 4EnfoyThaRrf« I 1 4 MUSCLES 3 MOUNTAIN RAIDER 3 MOUNTAIN RAIDER 3 Mountain RaioVr 4MuscIm
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    • 685 46  -  Tkrrence Voon SOCCER: SEEING REDS AND RED DEVILS IN ASIA Liverpool skipper feels they have the depth and quality to take Premiership by storm By In Hong Kong ON A day when temperatures reached a scorching 36 deg Celcius, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard
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    • 509 46 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. REUTERS I long Kong OVER-ENTHUSIASTIC Manchester United fans stormed the field, briefly interrupting the English champions' training session at Guangzhou Olympic Stadium yesterday. After Ryan Giggs and Co emerged from the dressing room to loud cheers, a sea of screaming
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    • 188 46 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ALEX Ferguson believes Chelsea manager Jose Mounnho is right to tone down his confrontational approach this season. "It's probably a good thing for him he nas said he will be less outspoken," said the Manchester United manager. "He was setting himself in all
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      • 54 46 OVER $250,000 was raised at the 6th Annual Heart Charity Golf event at the Raffles Country Club on Wednesday. Minister for Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, was the guest of honour at the event, organised by the Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF). The money raised will
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      • 70 46 TAMPINES Rovers have reached the Singapore Cup semi-finals with a 5-2 aggregate win over Sengkang Punggol. Leading 3-0 from the quar-ter-final first-leg encounter, they came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Sengkang in the second leg at the Hougang Stadium yesterday. Ross
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      • 72 46 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Manchester City have beaten Tottenham to winger Martin Petrov. The English football club signed the Bulgarian yesterday for £4.7 million (Ssls million) from Atletico Madrid. The 28-year-old became City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's fourth signing. The Swede has already brought in Rolando Bianchi,
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      • 57 46 LONDON: West Ham are reportedly lining up a £12 million bid for Bolton's Nicolas Anelka, reported The Daily Mail. The club have strikers Craig Bellamy and Dean Ashton in their ranks. But, with Marlon Harewood and Teddy Sheringham gone and Carlos Tevez likely
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      • 96 46 SALZBURG (Austria): Arsenal lost 0-1 to Salzburg in a friendly in Austria on Wednesday, but at least the match was not without positives. New signing Eduardo da Silva, the striker charged with replacing Thierry Henry, showed in his first start for the club that he
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    • 471 46 London SO WHAT if the big four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have made English football too predictable? The dominance keeps East Asian fans happy, according to English Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore Speaking from Hong Kong, where Liverpool are competing
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    • 296 47  -  JhANIITi: \\AN(i TRIATHLON By PARTICIPANTS' safety will be paramount at this weekend's Osim Singapore International Triathlon at East Coast Park The organiser. Triathlon issociatkM of Singapore (TAS), has taken additional measures following three deaths during endurance races in the last two years.
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    • 455 47  -  Royston Sim SPORTS IN SCHOOLS Unfancied MJC win all their games to claim Boys and Girls' A Div double By FLOORBALL at Meridian Junior College has traditionally played second fiddle to soccer. And for a good reason. Their soccer team won the A Division title in
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    • 104 47 PHOTO: PHOTO PHOTO ALBERT SIM NO STOPPING HIM: Despite close attention, this Meridian Junior College floorball player still manages to elude his Innova Junior College opponent during their Schools National A Division final. Meridian won 8-1 ASHLEIGH SIM ALL EYES ON HIM: A Raffles Junior College
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      242 47  -  CIIEAN YUFEI A weekly series on student-athletes, written by their fellow schoolmates Jasmine is a rare shooting star By Anderson JC Year 1 MOST Singaporean students return home irom school and gleefully tell their parents about their top exam marks. Not Jasmine Ser. More often than not,
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    • 117 47 SIMPLY write in to The Straits Times about an outstanding athlete in your school, how he or she has excelled in a particular sport. Articles must be no longer than 300 words. Please also send us a photograph of the athlete. The student with this
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    • 382 47 BASEBALL MLB: Toronto 13 Minnesota 1, Colorado 10 San Dtego 2, LA Angels 7 Oakland 6. Balti more 6 Tampa Bay 1. Cleveland 1 Boston 0. Philadelphia 7 Washington 5 (14 innings). NY Mets 6 Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati 7 Milwaukee Houston 2 LA Dodgers 1. NY Yankees 7 Kan
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    • 114 46 TV times BASEBALL MLB: NY Yankees v Kansas City 'Live, Ch23, Bam). NY Yankees v Baltimore (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 7am). CRICKET: England v India: 2nd Test, Day 1 (Live, Ch9s, 6pm). GOLF: LPGA Evian Masters: Day 2 (Live, Ch2l, Bpm). The Senior Open C'ship: 2nd rd (Live, Ch23, 11pm). EPGA
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    • 435 51 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG NEWS Other latest figures show new home sales dropping 6.6% and median prices falling Washington NEW orders for lone-lasting United States-made goods rose 1.4 per cent last month on a big rise in orders for non-defence aircraft, a US Commerce
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    • 504 51 NEW YORK TIMES San Francisco APPLE reported a 73 per cent jump in quarterly profit on strong sales of Macs and iPods, beating Wall Street forecasts. It also alleviated some concerns about early sales of the iPhone. Investors were sp»ooked
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    • 33 51 AFf YKtsntoys 17.702.09 (-158.33 poMs) »Japanese share pnces closed down 0 88 per cent at a tnHHnontti low. arrad nerwusness about onfung corporate eamngs and woes in the United States
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    • 502 52 FINANCIAL TIMES They fail to take up full allocation in clawback deal, part of revised ABN bid London MANY of Barclays' largest shareholders have failed to take up their full allocation of stock offered under a special clawback arrangement announced by the British lender
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    • 312 52 FINANCIAL TIMES Beijing BEUING raised on Wednesday the limits for overseas investment by Chinese insurance companies to 15 per cent of their assets, potentially adding up to US$5O billion (Ss7s billion) to the wall of money available. China's Insurance Regulatory Commission said it was raising
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    • 549 54  -  Robin Chan Pharmaceuticals and electronics lead 7.4% drop; economists still bullish about outlook By FACTORY output in Singapore last month was far worse than economists had expected but they are confident that strong economic growth will stay on track. Manufacturing production fell 7
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    • 379 54  -  Joyce Teo GETTING AN EXTENSION By Property Correspondent THE authorities have finetuned a ground-breaking move designed to help ease the severe office space shortage. A plot in Scotts Road, known as a "transitional office site", will now be offered with a
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    • 300 54  -  Alvin Foo By PIPE maker Fuuan Zhenyun Plastics Industry is the latest Chinese initial public offering (IPO) being sold to investors in Singapore. Set up in 1993, Fujian Zhenyun plans to raise $17.4 million in net proceeds, through an IPO of
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    • 373 54  -  Nicholas Fang By THE stand-off between the major shareholders of shark's fin restaurant chain Thai Village Holdings and Apex-Pal International has been settled amicably out of court. Thai Village's major shareholders founders Lee Tong Soon, Kok Nyong Patt and Lee Tong
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    • 538 55  -  Nicholas Fang Revenues surge to $4.5b; offshore unit accounts for 72% of group takings By KEPPEL Corp has posted a record half-year net profit of $510 million, thanks in part to booming business at its oil rig and shipbuilding unit. The
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    • 402 55  -  Ciiua Hian Hou By MICROCHIP tester Stats ChipPac has reported lacklustre results for the second quarter, citing "weak demand" from some large customers amid an industry-wide slump. Net profits for the three months to July 1 dived 59 per cent to US$7 43 million (5511.2
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    • 261 55  -  60H ENG YEOW DIRECTORS 1 TRADES INDONESIAN businessman Andree Halim has been tightening his grip on QAF since the star of the year. In a filing with the Singapore Exchange yesterday, QAF best known Tor its "Gardenia" bread products, said Mr Halim bought 282,000
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    • 315 55  -  Robin Chan By THE Ascott Group announced a 75 per cent jump in second-quarter profits to $88.1 million, on the back of gains from divestments. Ascott's net profit for the first half ended June 30 rose a more modest 6 per
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    • 408 55  -  Arthur Poon TAKING STOCK By IT WAS all going well yesterday with shares on course for another positive finish when manufacturing figures dashed in during the lunch break, gave the market a swift upper cut and down v went. The data showed that manufacturing output
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    • 654 56  -  Erica Tay Surge in moves leads to boom for movers, executive relocation firms By BUSINESS is booming for moving companies in Singapore as soaring rents force expat families to bail out of pncey areas in favour of cheaper outlying suburbs. Demand
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    • 92 57 For more than 30 years, influential British rockers The Cure have entertained fans. But wild-haired frontman Robert Smith says he may pull the plug on the band anytime. SUJIN THOMAS talks to him ahead of their first gig here next Wednesday. ST DfS.gn SAHY LAM Photos
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        1144 58  -  Sujin Thomas The Cure have been rocking since 1976, but frontman Robert Smith hints that the legendary British band might be near the end of their road IF Y(H "RE jaded with the local music scene and want an unforgettable nitzht out here is The Cure. Yes. tl.iIK
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      • 197 58 DESPITE three decades of playing around the world, The Cure (below) are Singapore virgins. Yes, it's the post-punkers' first time here. Life! wonders what they might get up to. IFrontman Robert Smith is famous for his wild hair. But he admits in his interview
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      • 373 58 THEY were big in the 19S()s and continue to entertain fans around the world. Here are five British acts that have stood the test of time: DURAN DURAN Achievements: The pop-rock band have sold over 85 million albums and are known for their countless hits including Girls
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        518 62  -  Yeow Kai Chai Interpol's Paul Banks invokes the gothic spirit of post-punk band Joy Division to brilliant effect in their third album soundbites ALBUM OF THE WEEK > post-punk OUR LOVE TO ADMIRE Interpol Partophooe I"W" T E MAY have hung himself back in I I 1980.
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        174 62 ABSOLUTE GARBAGE Garbage A&E Warner CALLING yourself Garbage is a questionable move lucky for ihem. nothing about this industrial pop-rock combo from Wisconsin comes close to throwaway junk. You could attribute the band's chart success to Scottish firebrand Shirley Manson she swiftly cast aside her girl-for-hire tag to become
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        130 62 coco Colbie Cailtat Urwersai Repubtc THIS 21-year-old Californian guitar-swing-ing lass has got pedigree her father Ken Caillat was an engineer and co-producer on Flectwood Mac's 1977 classic Rumours Naturally, Daddy is on hand to helm her major-label debut, and it's as beatific, sunny and laidback as you half-suspect
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        147 62 SALTBREAKERS Laura Veirs Nonesuch LONG before Al Gore proposed his Inconvenient Truth about global warming. Colora-do-born songsmith Laura Veirs has been a crusader for Mother Earth. After all, she has found her groove as a documentarian of nature's wonders her last two Nonesuch releases, 2004's Carbon Glacier and 2005's
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          488 63  -  Samuel Lee Samuel Lee Samuel Lee JUMP! THE WORLD 2007 Mayday THE inclusion of three spanking new. exciting tunes aside. Mayday's (above) latest release induces, yawn, deja vu. For. Jump! The World 2007 is, in essence, yet another pretty package of live audio recordings this time culled from
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          174 63  -  S.Y. Whang CLUBHOUSE Dexter Gordon Blue Note WHEN he was in good form. Dexter Gordon (1923-90) played bebop tenor saxophone with a wit and power few could match. But drink and drugs made him an inconsistent performer. Clubhouse, recorded in 1965, unites him with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Barry
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          121 63  -  Chang Tou Liang AMOUR Natasha Marsh. Soprano EMI Classes WELSH soprano Natasha Marsh is the new vocal flavour of the year. Blonde and beautiful what else could she be? she risks being typecast as the stereotypical crossover artist that Classic FM and the Brit Awards so adore. Her debut
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        93 64 1 don't have as much bounceback as I once did. but then I am not as much of a substance abuser as I once was" Singer Deborah Harry (above). 62, on feeling in good shape 1 feel awkward being in a club and not getting paid' Rapper Dizzee Rascal
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      • 709 64  -  Chris Ho American metal band Danzig's new anthology of lost tracks' contains hidden gems poplrfe DANZIG, the American band, have been around since 1988 and though they have built up a steady following through the years with Rick Rubin (Slayer, Beastie Boys) as producer on
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    • 336 59  -  WongPei Yo« A cable channel Sensasi dedicated to top shows from Malaysia and Indonesia to start on Aug 6 SCREAM if you like to watch horror shows on Thursday. That's the day of the week that Star Hubs new Malay cable channel. Sensasi. will dedicate to
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    • 160 59 FRENCH actress Leslie Coutterond (above, second from left), 22, and MTV VJ Max Loong (left), 27, were at Sentosa's KMB Bar at Tanjong Beach on Wednesday for the filming of the first Franco-Singapore production Deja Vu. The 26-episode TV serial is a partnership between
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    • 350 59 AP HONG KONG Hong Kong graffiti artist I sang Turn Choi, whose incoherent Chinese calligraphy writings on public walls ■avc been displayed in Venice and auctioned by Sotheby's, has died at the age of 86, friend said yesterday. He had been in and
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    • 774 60  -  Lee Sze Yong The gloves come off as SingTel's mio TV sparks a fight-fest for a bigger slice of the lucrative pay-TV pie MECMA RbPORTER TV VIEWERS have never had it so good. For 12 years. Star Hub has dominated the pay-TV scene here. But
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    • 463 60 Some questions you may be asking: 1. I'm a Star Hob Digital Cable MbiuMiti. Can I still get mio TV? Yes, if the only set of audio/video (AY) jacks in red, yellow and white on your TV has been used by the Star Hub set-top box, the
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      • 1025 61  -  Tay Yek Keak The family that argues together, stays together couchgrouch BEFORE it gets consigned to the dustbin of history, 1 timed the exact moment when David Bcckham made his super-hyped, zero-im-pact debut for his new American team, the 1 A Galaxy. It happened at 10.26 am our
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        186 61 n TV ttmg talking Aviel Tan FEMME POWER Three women on TV show that they don't need men anymore ZHOU XUAN played by Cecilia Cheung Appears on Zhou Xuan VV Orama (Star Hub Channel 55) Saturdays. 8 45pm No love lost: The 'egendary singer actress may have charmed
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      • 600 65  -  Trisha Suresh You've seen those oh-so-hip lounge beds in nighclubs. But not all clubbers think it's cool to have your drinks lying down SOME customers are not taking things lying down in bars and lounges with beds. Used to more traditional seats like bar stools or
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      • 56 65 YOU can cosy up at the following spots that boast bed-and-drink combos: Martini Finn (formerly known as Day Bed Bar), 15 Mohamed Sultan Road Balcony Bar, 260 Orchard Road Cafe del Mar, Siloso Beach, Sentosa Bar Cocoon Forbidden City, Clarke Quay Bar Savanh, Club Street Ministry
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      • 270 72 NEW YORK Brit ne\ Spean sat back and watched as her Yorkshire terrier puppy defecated on a lSsf>.7m (S$ 10.139) designer i!tmn at a photo shoot for ()K' maga/me. I wasn't in the room hut I \n.»n there to hear the upset shnek> of the stylist." edi-i»>i-in
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      • 146 72 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian singer Fauziah Latiff (left) has admitted that she is divorced from her businessman husband after a 10-year marriage. Her confirmation of the split to Berita Harian Malaysia comes after recent media speculation about the marriage. Fauziah, 36, would not say when she was
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      • 95 72 TAIPEI Taiwanese actress Kelly Lin, 31, has denied a report that rumoured beau Ken Chu took out a loan to buy her an apartment. Next Magazine reported in its latest issue that the 28-year-old actor-singer borrowed more than NT$2O million (*****,612) from the
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      • 114 72 MOO'S DATE: Singer Eric Moo will hold a concert at The Max Pavilion, Singapore Expo, on Oct 6. Tickets priced from $48 to $108 are available from Sistic... POSTPONED: This Sunday's Bangladesh Festival at Fort Canning Park has been postponed to Sept 8. A new venue and details about
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