The Straits Times, 30 June 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    26 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 70 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 MONDAY, JUNE 30 2008 •kW A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 1 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Anwar takes refuge in Turkish embassy
    793 1  -  Carolyn Hong NEW SEX ALLEGATION He claims sodomy report is aimed at ruining him and that his life is in danger PM Abdullah says ruling coalition not behind accusations By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has taken refuge
    PEOPLE'S JUSTICE PARTY, REUTERS  -  793 words
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    Lock icon Telcos slash prices for even the hottest cellphones
    468 1  -  Alfred Siew By Technology Correspondent TWO weeks into the latest round of competition in the cellphone market and already customers are turning out to be the big winners. All three telcos here are slashing prices for even the latest and most-wanted cellphones
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Green fuel of the future: Scientists look to algae
      968 1  -  Kwan Weng Kin By: Japan Correspondent In Tokyo ONIGIRI is a ball of cooked rice wrapped in a sheet of dried seaweed, and to the Japanese, this is food for the soul. Someday, seaweed may satisfy not only hunger pangs but
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      331 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Capable guides for nature tours Asia 6-14 By the end of next year, all nature World 15-19 guides at parks and reserves here Review 20-21 will need to be certified by the PYI 22 Government. SECTION TWO H°me uq Commandos win glory again r°rum mq'ui
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Jungle bungle: People do get lost in Singapore forests
      539 3  -  April Chong Park authorities get 18 calls for help a year; most lost for 3-4 hours By WHEN Dr Brian Takei, a 48-year-old Japanese working for the Royal Bank of Scotland, decided to jog at the Macßitchie Reservoir last Saturday, he
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      Lock icon Opposition politician's wife arrested on suspicion of murder
      416 3  -  K. C. VIJAYAN By Law Correspondent WHEN murder suspect Madam Wu Yun Yun showed up near the National Library on Victoria Street on Saturday afternoon, she was expecting to meet her husband. Instead, she was greeted by police, who arrested the 26-year-old
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      Lock icon China teen's death sparks massive riot
      659 4  -  Tracy Quek Mobs angry over alleged cover-up of girl's rape and murder attack govt buildings By China Correspondent In Beijing THOUSANDS of angry residents in a south-western Chinese county smashed government buildings and torched several police cars over the weekend to protest against an
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      35 4 'TOXIC ISSUES HIT SMALL CAPS A controversial debt instrument blamed overseas for sending small caps' share prices into a "death spiral" is raising a stink in the Singapore stock market TODAY IN THE BUSINESS TIMES
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY, SAYS ANWAR
      942 6  -  Leslie Lopez He wants PM Abdullah to guarantee his safety and claims there is a plot to assassinate him By South-east Asia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has sought refuge at the Turkish Embassy here, said yesterday that the allegations
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      Lock icon Man behind sodomy charge a mole, says PKR
      608 6  -  Reme Ahmad By Assistant Foreign Editor THE young man at the centre of a political storm in Malaysia was known inside Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) as someone who had been "planted by the other side", a senior party official claimed yesterday. The
      REUTERS  -  608 words
    • THE ANWAR SCANDAL
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        1123 8  -  Carolyn Hong 1998 Sodomy claim is back just as Anwar's star is rising By Malaysian Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur WHEN text messages began circulating late on Saturday evening that an aide of former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim had lodged a police report accusing him of sodomy,
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    • CHINA
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        Lock icon Beijing fires officials over tiger photo hoax
        455 10 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Farmer who faked picture of endangered South China tiger arrested for fraud Beijing CHINA has sacked government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that the local authorities had said was evidence a highly
        REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; XINHUA  -  455 words
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        Lock icon China-Dalai Lama talks to resume next month
        207 10 REUTERS Beijing CHINA and representatives of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will resume talks early next month, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Chinese officials met the Dalai Lama's representatives for talks on May 4, but further discussions originally set
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Seoul rally against US beef turns violent
        471 11 Over 200 injured as cops clash with protesters; govt warns of crackdown on further protests Seoul SOUTH KOREAN police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports here yesterday, leaving more than 200 people injured, officials and witnesses said. Police fired water cannon
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        Lock icon Rice visits China quake zone, praises relief effort
        531 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS China's acceptance of help contrasts with Myanmar's refusal, she says Dujiangyan (Sichuan) US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice praised China's post-earthquake recovery efforts during a visit to the disaster zone yesterday, saying it contrasted with Myanmar's reluctance
        ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS  -  531 words
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        Lock icon Japan hit by more pension fund errors
        306 12 Tokyo MORE incompetence at Japan's Social Insurance Agency has led to errors in an estimated 5.6 million computerised records in the govern-ment-managed pension plan for corporate employees, a Japanese newspaper said. The mistakes could result in people not receiving the full benefits they
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Sonia Gandhi tells Congress to gear up for polls
        273 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New Delhi THE leader of India's ruling Congress Party, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, has asked senior members to prepare for elections, her party said yesterday, indicating the possibility of early polls. Mrs Gandhi discussed preparations for a string of local
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        Lock icon India rocked by series of protests
        429 13 NEW YORK TIMES, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Public discontented over range of issues, from high fuel prices to caste and religious conflicts New Delhi DISCONTENT is sweeping through India, with widespread protests over land use, food, fuel and jobs. Indians have long embraced their constitutional right
        NEW YORK TIMES, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AFP  -  429 words
    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Thai-S'pore relations on upswing, says George Yeo
        440 14  -  Nirmal Ghosh Ties 'have survived interruption' under previous military govt in Bangkok By: Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THE relationship between Thailand and Singapore is on an upswing, and the fact that it survived an "interruption" under Thailand's military administration, which overthrew former premier
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        Lock icon Air crash dead flown to Jakarta military base
        189 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS Jakarta THE bodies of 18 people killed when an Indonesian air force plane crashed into a mountain were flown yesterday by helicopter to a military base in the capital. Three foreigners a Singaporean, an Indian and a Briton were among
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
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          Lock icon ROLLER COASTER DECAPITATES TEEN
          68 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS GEORGIA: A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after entering a restricted area at Six Flags Over Georgia, a theme park in Austell, in the United States on Saturday. The teen jumped the fence to retrieve a hat he lost while riding the
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          Lock icon $13B CLIMATE CHANGE FUND
          58 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: The Group of Eight industrialised nations will jointly invest more than US$lO billion (Ssl3 billion) a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming. Its planis included in a draft joint statement on economic policy to be adopted at the
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          Lock icon YUDHOYONO'S RATINGS PLUNGE
          74 14 REUTERS JAKARTA: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would likely lose if an election were held today, a new poll showed yesterday. Private pollster Indo Barometer's survey showed Dr Yudhoyono's popularity rating falling to just 36.5 per cent in the latest poll, down from 55.6 per cent in
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          Lock icon 40 OFFICERS FEARED DROWNED
          54 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS BHUBANESWAR (India): Forty police officers were feared drowned in Orissa state, eastern India, yesterday after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat carrying more than 50 officers, capsizing it in the Machakund River. The rebels, called Naxalites, have been fighting for
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      24 6 Rice visits quake zone US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets victims of the Sichuan quake and praises China's post-quake recovery efforts. PAGE 12
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Cities in the DESERT
      888 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Saudi Arabia has a major plan to build several economic cities aimed at attracting foreign investment and bolstering development. Here is a look at the projects: The Tabuk Economic City will have a university, a medical city, two hospitals and a number of technical
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      Lock icon Obama to visit Mid-East, Europe to boost credentials
      434 16 REUTERS Democrats' pick for US presidency to counter criticism from Republicans Washington US DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Barack Obama, looking to bolster his expertise in foreign policy, will travel to Europe and the Middle East to consult on issues such as terrorism and
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      Lock icon Conservative Anglicans won't break away
      329 16 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Jerusalem CONSERVATIVE Anglican leaders ended a summit yesterday without formally breaking away from the global Anglican communion, which they said included churches that preached a "false gospel" of immoral sexual behaviour. "We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican communion, and have
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      Lock icon Mugabe sworn-in for another five years
      466 17 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG He wins most votes in run-off polls that have been criticised as flawed Harare VETERAN Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe was inaugurated for a fresh five-year term yesterday after being declared the landslide winner of a widely condemned presidential run-off in
      REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG  -  466 words
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      Lock icon Chuck out razors – women love stubble
      309 17 Chuck out razors women love stubble London STUBBLE is the way to win a woman's heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards, the London Telegraph reported yesterday. Women participating in the research
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon $522,000 to Usher out an old life
        317 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A MAN in Australia who was selling his "life" over the Internet including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends said yesterday he had sold the lot for A 5399,000 (*****,000). British-born lan Usher, 44, decided to sell
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  317 words
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        Lock icon 16-year-old student finds his calling as headmaster
        276 18 FOR his classmates, the 4pm bell signals the end of the school day. But for 16-year-old Babur Ali, it means time to take off his uniform and assume a new role as probably the youngest headmaster in the world. Since he was 11
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        Lock icon The 'chief spy' of Terengganu
        253 18 BERNAMA, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK DONNING a T-shirt and a hat, Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said looked every bit a farmer as he spied on sand thieves on the riverbank in Kemaman district last week. Datuk Ahmad walked several kilometres into riverside jungle and was
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    • SINGAPORE AND THE WORLD THIS WEEK
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        27 19 BEIJING: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao. MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet visiting US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
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        23 19 WASHINGTON: IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn will present a global assessment of the impact of the surge in food and energy prices.
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        62 19 DUBAI: International Cricket Council will discuss suspending Zimbabwe from international cricket at an executive meeting. SEOUL: The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, a powerful South Korean labour group, will hold a one-day strike against President Lee Myung Bak's economic reform plans. NEW DELHI: Indian transporters have called for an
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        17 19 MEXICO CITY: US Republican presidential nominee John McCain visiting to highlight his support for free trade.
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        27 19 WASHINGTON: US Independence Day. BERLIN: Former US president George H.W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will preside over the opening of a new US Embassy.
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        6 19 SONKAJARVI (Finland): Annual wife-carrying championships.
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        19 19 TOKYO: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will arrive in Japan for a state visit and the G-8 summit.
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      Lock icon Time to feast at food festival
      253 19  -  AMELIA TAN SINGAPORE WHAT IT IS: THE annual celebration of Singapore food will start this Friday and run until July 27. This year will see Lav Pa Sat food centre being transformed into hawker settings of the 1950s and 1960s for the Singapore Food
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      Lock icon All set for China, Taiwan flights
      175 19  -  ONG HWEE HWEE CHINA WHAT IT IS TAIWAN and China will launch regular weekend flights from Friday, the first in nearly 60 years between the historic rivals, amid a dramatic thaw in tension. In a concurrent move, mainland tourists will be allowed to travel
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      Lock icon Protest against fuel price hike
      184 19  -  HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA WHAT IT IS ALL eyes this week will be on the plans of the opposition-backed Anti-fuel Price Hike Protest Coalition for a mammoth rally against the fuel price hikes. The July 6 protest is expected to be held at a field in
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      Lock icon France takes over as EU chief
      171 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WORLD WHAT IT IS FRANCE takes over the European Union's rotating presidency tomorrow, with the Irish "No" to the Lisbon Treaty overshadowing an ambitious French agenda. President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to use the next six months to clinch deals on immigration,
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      26 15 State chief turns spy Menteri Besar Ahmad Said took complaints about sand thieves so seriously that he went undercover to catch them in action. PAGE 18
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  • REVIEW
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      Lock icon The Net is cast wider
      423 20 THE Internet has again made a virtue of necessity. There are more innovative possibilities than adverse implications in the decision last week bylcann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to allow an unlimited number of top-level domains and to accommodate addresses in non-Latin
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      1235 20  -  Linda Lim »INFLATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH By Geh Mm For The Straits Times THE current bout of global inflation, mostly but not only in food and fuel prices, may be viewed, like global warming, as a wake-up call that the future of global and local economies
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      887 21  -  Robert Karniol REVIEW INTERVIEW: INDIA'S CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF By Defence Writer FOR Admiral Sureesh Mehta, the Indian navy (IN) has a pivotal role in supporting New Delhi's "look east" strategy. "It is essential for the IN to integrate with the navies of South-east Asia
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      794 21  -  Hui Yew-Foong MALAYSIAN POLITICS By For The Straits Times ON JUNE 18, the Sabah Progressive Party's (Sapp) president, Mr Yong Teck Lee, declared the party would either table or support a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi when Parliament sat on
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      39 20 Strategic policy India's Chief of Naval Staff says the navy has a pivotal role in Delhi's "look east" strategy focusing on ties with Asean, China and Japan. PAGE 21 PUNCHLINES NORTH KOREA atS BOMBS.. OWN A/UCLtAR Facility 2_TO SM(THE^BNS/p
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      200 21 Professor Richard Kerley, Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh #ffMt Queen Margaret University ASIA CAMPUS The QMU Asia Campus (Branch of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) The QMU Asia Campus is Singapore's latest Tertiary Education Institution.Together with East Asia Institute of Management (EASB), we bring you a wider range of
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      538 23  - He can read the menu and he's only three sumathi v. Selvaretnam More parents are introducing their kids to reading at an earlier age By WHEN three-year-old Alastair Shee goes to a restaurant, he has a knack for wowing waiters by ordering off the menu. The toddler, whose favourite a
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      143 24 Filipino maid Mijuri Cortezano (red T-shirt), 34, was delighted yesterday to receive a $500 grant for the education of her five children, aged four to 14. Her monthly wage of $400 supports eight people, including her mother, mother-in-law and disabled grandmother. She is one of 60
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      557 24  -  Judith Tan Drugs may contain ingredients that lead to side effects, warn health experts By LAST week, health officials revealed that two people showed up at a hospital, their hearts racing and their minds trapped in wild hallucinations. While they eventually recovered, the patients,
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      779 25  -  Shobana Kesava Proposed NParks rule designed to raise quality of guides By BY THE end of next year, all nature guides who show local and foreign tourists around Singapore's parks and reserves could need a certificate from the Government. The proposed rule,
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      245 25 THE National Parks Board (NParks) has turned to an Australian tourism body to help it establish what information guides should know about Singapore's nature reserves. Recommendations from the gov-ernment-linked William Angliss Institute Specialist Centre for Tourism are likely to form the
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      227 25  -  ARLINAARSHAD ELECTRICIAN Tan Ngee Hong, 43, received some relief this month in the form of free rice, biscuits and other groceries. "It is a nice gesture. Prices of things have gone up. At the very least, this will help to reduce my family's
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      616 26  -  Amelia Tan Ex-archbishop was upbeat and often made jokes despite his ill health, says nurse By INSIDE the packed chapel of a seniors' home in Jurong yesterday, there was an empty space underneath a window near the altar. For four years, the
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      247 26  -  Jane Ng By TEN blocks of flats in Geylang Bahru have been given a new lease of life with the completion of upgrading works that included covered linkways and fitness stations, among other things. Elderly residents who live in the 30-year-old Geylang Bahru Ville
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      447 27  -  Jermyn Chow 1 st Commando Battalion clinches award for 22nd time By THE afternoon calm of the jungle was shattered as some 12 commandos moved in to wrest control of the enemy's fortified territory. Within five minutes, the men from the Ist
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      299 27  -  JERMYN CHOW BARELY four months after its commissioning in May last year, the RSS Formidable sailed alongside vessels up to three times its size in its first major overseas exercise. Singapore's largest combat vessel turned in as good a performance as some of
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      315 27 WINNING the Best Fighter Squadron award was no overnight fluke for 149 Squadron. Nor was it a walk in the park, according to its commanding officer Foo Yang Ge, 41. Just back from Exercise Pitch Black a large-scale, 22-day multilateral air
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      27 23 Upbeat till his last breath Despite health problems, former archbishop Gregory Yong stayed cheerful, even asking what was for lunch on the day he died. PAGE H4
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      458 27 rVoltas Ltd a Tata Enterprise is Awarded Another Prestigious Project in Singapore. Voltas Limited, the electro-mechanical arm of the world-famous Tata group, has secured a contract in Singapore for the District Cooling Plant MEP project for the Resorts World at Sentosa Integrated Resort. On completion, the plant will provide Chilled
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      748 28  -  LYN CHAN Obesity is a growing health problem and lifestyle changes are needed to trim the waistline BY\ SIZE matters, and bigger does not always mean better. Take obesity. It's a growing problem with affluence in an age of plenty. In March, Health Minister Khaw Boon
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      348 28  -  KARON NG BY\ Check your blood pressure and glucose level at the Health You exhibition this weekend at Suntec City. It's free. You can also learn how to cook and dance away with a $1,500 cash prize. These are some of the freebies and fun
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      309 28  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL BY\ CITIBANK Singapore credit card holders can now have their purchases on United States websites delivered to a US address, bought on their behalf by a concierge if necessary, and billed to their Citibank Singapore credit cards only on delivery of the goods to
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      141 28 Hefty discounts At every weekend in July, get up to $500 discounts for tour packages at the Five Stars Tours head office at People's Park Complex #05-01. There will be games and prizes, performances, tour preview talks, and stars like Kym Ng and Adam Chen will make appearances. Guru
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      529 29  -  Jessica Lim SOAPBOX For healthier living during office hours, take control of what goes into the pantry By YOUTH in their first year of college often worry about gaining pounds, also known as the freshman 15. But even at work, there is the "cubicle bulge".
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      528 29 MY LIFE Youthlnk writers weigh in on how the arts here are and can be better promoted Obligation or enjoyment FROM my experiences living in New York, enjoying the arts is an inseparable aspect of one's lifestyle there. Students go to the theatre not because they are
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      369 29  -  Chew Zhi Wen MY THOUGHTS By THE gap year that period of time between graduating or completing national service and the next step presents a rare opportunity for youth to relish the emancipation from the hustle and bustle of
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      538 30  -  Jennifer Wong (Ms) ELECTRONIC ROAD PRICING I AM puzzled by the recent announcements on the impending Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rate changes, with effect from July 7. I vividly remember reading a Straits Times article in March or April this year on a
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      235 30  -  Tan Quee Hong I REFER to last Wednesday's letter, "Building noise driving this foreign talent away". The National Environment Agency (NEA) empathises with Mr Laurie K. Gilbert's situation where his neighbour's house is undergoing upgrading work. To control the noise level of construction works
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      120 30  -  Lim Fah Kiong I REFER to Thursday's report, "Rising to the challenge from Day 1", which described the massive clean-up of the Singapore and Kallang rivers, which Mr Lee Kuan Yew described as "sewers" in their previous incarnation. I remember
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      282 30  -  Van Dawei I MUST express my disappointment at the imminent demolition of the New 7th Storey Hotel in Rochor Road to make way for a Downtown Line MRT station. It seems another noteworthy building in the history of Singapore is being
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      172 30  -  Tan Khay Chee MY SISTER has held some almost-forgot-ten Clob securities ever since they were launched and has been charged $2 per counter every month all these years. After some trouble and effort (she is 80 years old), she opened a trading
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      171 30  -  Chin Kee Thou I WAS perplexed by last Thursday's article, "Man jailed for forging cheques", where it was reported that cheques were stolen from an unattended bag retrieved from the quick cheque deposit box while the box was being emptied by the
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      202 30  -  Tan Shao Ken I RECENTLY read about the Circle Line and am puzzled by the "bias" of the line from Harbour Front linking to West Coast areas such as Labrador Park and Kent Ridge. I followed the track and found it
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      348 30  -  Albert Teng I REFER to last Wednesday's letter by Mr Lim Keng Hian, "No help if HDB lift breaks down". First, we would like to assure Mr Lim that he need not worry if he is trapped in an HDB lift as
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      48 30 For more readers' views, log on to straitstimes.com. Access to letters online is free. GAMBLING'S BAD: So why is it accepted? STORE TOO STRICT? Just look at religious freedom BE PROUD: Says admiring British visitor FRAUD WEBSITE: UOB failed to block credit card EURO 2008: Disruptions in broadcast
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      154 31 Result not available at press time. Catch the full coverage of the Euro 2008 final in The Straits Times tomorrow "He has nothing to reproach himself for. My goal was impeccable!" MICHEL PLATINI (right), who scored in France's win over Spain in the Euro '84
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      773 31  -  Rob Hughes The future of mega soccer events is in jeopardy due to spiralling budgets By In Vienna WHERE do we go from here? The future of major football tournaments is supposed to be mapped out with South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup, then Poland and the Ukraine
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      280 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CROATIA have been fined nearly £10,000 (5527,000) for the racist behaviour of fans at the team's Euro 2008 quarter-final against Turkey. In the game that the Turks won 3-1 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, Croatian fans (right) displayed Nazi-style banners
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      166 31  -  Wang Meng Meng Vienna ONE of the must-do activities in Vienna is sampling its famous cafe culture. Inside one of these places with marble table tops and wood furnishing, customers are free to sit as long as they like, even if they have just one coffee.
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      573 31 THE Straits Times' Wang Meng Meng lists the worst players on display at Euro 2008, whose contributions (or lack thereof) led to their countries being bundled out. Goalkeeper Petr Cech (Czech Rep) It would seem harsh to criticise this usually reliable goalkeeper but Cech's amazing
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      568 32 LOS ANGELES TIMES »TENNIS London A CONVULSIVE first week at Wimbledon has left 16 women in the second week, their configuration strongly suggesting a final of Williams v Williams. That, remarkably, occurred for five of the six Grand Slams between the 2002 French Open and
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      382 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London ZHENG Jie's stunning Wimbledon run is just reward for her strong work ethic, according to Chinese Olympic teammate, Peng Shuai. Zheng thrashed world No 1 and French Open champion Ana Ivanovic to reach the fourth round at the All England
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      600 32 ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCCER It was his desire to join Madrid that fuelled last season's 42-goal performance London CRISTIANO Ronaldo believes Manchester United should show their gratitude for an amazing season by allowing him a "dream" move to Real Madrid. His 42 goals led
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      137 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London ARSENAL striker Emmanuel Adebayor, in an about-turn, has given the clearest indication yet that he will leave the Emirates Stadium. After claiming that he would be happy to remain at Arsenal, where he has a three-year contract, he then promptly welcomed interest
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      166 32 Chelsea's England midfielder Frank Lampard, 30, has agreed personal terms with former boss Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan. He will complete a £7 million (Ssl9 million) move, reported The Sunday Mirror. Liverpool are lining up a £20 million deal for Tottenham striker Robbie Keane that will see Peter
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      634 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG NEWS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing CHINA'S pledge of a "Green Olympics" has taken on a worrying meaning at the sailing venue of Qingdao, where an algae bloom is plaguing the coastline. Officials have drafted 3,000 people and 400 boats to clean up the
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      424 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS Sprinter eases up with 30m to go, recovers and later rewrites US mark Eugene (Oregon) SPRINTER Tyson Gay came close to being America's biggest laughing stock in his heat at the US Olympic trials on Saturday, before ending the day as the
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      76 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WORLD champion Veronica Campbell failed to qualify for the Beijing Games in her signature event the 100 metres at the Jamaican Olympic trials. She equalled her season-best of 10.88 seconds but managed only a shock fourth in the final on Saturday. Kerron
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      494 33 Athletes turning to Viagra for a lift in sporting endeavours ASSOCIATED PRESS London ATHLETES looking for a performance boost are increasingly turning to a little blue pill more usually taken for its off-the-field benefits: Viagra. Some sports authorities say the drug is now finding a following among athletes. It is
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      439 34  -  Terrence Voon »SOCCER First time in recent years players paid to endorse products not related to sportswear By SINCE Singapore's Malaysia Cup heyday in the *****, personal endorsement deals for the nation's top footballers have been rare. Local food and beverage giant Yeo Hiap Seng
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      498 34 »SPORTSPEOPLE London LEWIS Hamilton may be the hottest property in Formula One, but Miss Grenada had no qualms dumping him for two-timing her. Vivian Burkhardt also revealed the lonely life of the 23-year-old McLaren driver. "His life away from the track is far from glamorous," she
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        85 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS KARACHI: India's cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has criticised the Asia Cup schedule after his team played three matches in four days. "We played 36 hours of cricket in the last 84 hours, and it's really getting tough on the players," he
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        55 34 SINGAPORE golfer Lam Chih Bing shot a two-under 70 at the US$3OO,OOO (*****,500) Thailand PGA Championship yesterday. He finished tied-31st with a 286 total 19 strokes behind winner Mo Joong Kyung of South Korea. Mo shot a 65 to beat Filipino Juvic
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      424 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS »GOLF Edina (Minnesota) FOUR years ago, Stacy Lewis was not sure whether her golf career was even going to happen. Back surgery for scoliosis can make a person wonder a lot, but the 23-year-old American is answering all the questions so far. Lewis,
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      73 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS Manny Pacquiao (far right) became the first Asian to win major titles in four weights by stopping David Diaz in the ninth round of their World Boxing Council lightweight bout in Las Vegas on Saturday. After starting out 13 years ago as a flyweight, Pacquiao (47-3-2,
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      452 34 ATHLETICS Jamaican Olympic trials Men's 1OOm: 1 Usain Bolt 9.Bssec 2 Asafa Powell 9.97 3 Michael Frater 10.04. Women's 100 m: 1 Kerron Stewart 10.80 2 Shelley-Ann Fraser 10.85 3 Sherone Simpson 10.87. US Olympic trials, finals Men's shot put: 1 Reese Hoffa 22.10 m 2 Christian Cantwell 21.71
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      101 34 BERITA HARIAN SPORTS BETTING with the legal bookmaker PPIQ SIWVC S.League Albirex Young Lions Mon, 30/06/08 7.45pm I IS Hi 119 S.League Combak Super Reds Tue, 01/07/08 7.45pm *f" r S.League Geylang Home United Tue, 01/07/08 7.45pm raise $350,000 _J. =i_ /AT AW Draw No. 2340/2008 3X ITS Cldld //y/y
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      64 34 TV times CRICKET: Asia Cup, 9th ODI: Bangladesh v Sri Lanka (Live, ChllO, 6pm). TENNIS: Wimbledon: Day 8 (Live, Ch24, 6.30pm). Event S-League: Albirex v Young Lions (Jurong East, 7.45pm). S-League Today Albirex Niigata v Young Lions (Jurong East, 7.45pm). Tomorrow Gombak United v Super Reds (Jurong West), Geylang United
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      109 35 ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS GREGORY YONG, D.D. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Singapore 1977-2000 Passed away peacefully on 28th June 2008 at 2.40pm. i His body is at present in the Chapel of St. Joseph's Home, i 921 Jurong Road, and will be brought to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, 31 Victoria
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      125 35 ONG THIAN BIN, SENAKA (CHETTY) Age: 78 (passed away peacefully on 29 June 2008. Wife: Rose Tay Son: Daughter-in-law: Ong Eng Hin Vincent Tang Yoke Khum Chris Daughters: Sons-in-law: Ong Swee Lian Amy Chua Keng Mok Ong Peck Leng Peggy Steven Lee Webb Grandsons: Granddaughter-in-law: Ong Wei Huat Alex Ong
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      83 35 "For I know that my Redeemer liveth..yetin my flesh shall I see God" Job 19:25,26 SIMON IMADARAJAH S/O CHINNIAH Age: 48 was called home to be with the Lord on 29 June 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Lalitha Mother: Ponayee Son: Samuel Daughters: Abigail, Hazel Brothers, sister and relatives.
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      20 35 P I WAN SHOUNG YIN, PATRICK Departed: 30 June 2007 Your heartbeat cherished by living memories Always, I aa —tig
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      168 35 LIM KAH PEO Age: 87 went home to be with the Lord on 29 June 2008 Sadly missed by loved ones. (Husband: Tan Ah Sim, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tan 800 Hock, Philip Yong Siew Hong Tan 800 Khee Low Beng Choo, Molly Tan 800 Chye Deni Tan 800 Thiam Daughters:
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      92 35 VASUNDA D/O GOVINDAN TEG ERAJAN (Customs: Port Branch) Age: 52 passed away peacefully on 28/06/08. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Naderson Raja (APB(S)) Sons: Devaraj s/o Naderson Raja Arvinraj s/o Naderson Raja Daughter: Saraswathi d/o Naderson Raja Mother: Chinnaponnu Brother: Kokilavanan s/ o Tegerajan Sisters: Maliga
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      134 35 T 1 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 GUI SOO TECK Age: 89 was called home to be with the Lord on 28 June 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Beloved Wife: Tan Yut Ooi Sons: Daughters-in-law: Gui
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      211 35 Sometimes when I think of all the times that we shared I feel your selfless love, I hear your laugh These memories, I can't forget And now that you've to go It hurts to leave you so I can't imagine how life would be If you ain't a part of
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      126 35 CAPT LEONG MING SEN (MS) Age: 88 passed away peacefully on 28 June 2008 (Saturday). Dearly missed and always fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Diana Leong Daughters: Sons-in-law: Leslie Labor, nee Leong Yoke Chin Philip Labor Vicki Vim, nee Leong Wai Chin Richard Vim Son: Derrick Leong Weng Ho
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      173 35 "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." John 11:25-26 TAN KIM CHYE Age: 48 was called home to be with the Lord on 28 June 2008. Dearly missed and
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      125 35 "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6 SYLVAN JOSEPH DE SOUZA Age: 76 passed away peacefully on 29 June 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Delia Brother
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      80 36 Where S$ stands Jun 27 CHNG YR 2008 CLOSE FR Jun 26 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.3617 +0.26 1.4542 1.3457 Euro 2.1467 -0.35 2.2064 2.0474 2.7047 -0.20 2.8431 2.6568 A$ 1.3095 +0.04 1.3235 1.2349 Yen* 1.2814 -1.20 1.4484 1.2619 Rupiah* .0.***** +0.37 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.0611 +0.17 4.4299
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      335 37 ALMOST two months after the Sichuan earthquake, OCBC Bank's China subsidiary is expanding its presence in the province. The Shanghai Gardens branch will be OCBC China's second sub-branch in Sichuan's capital Chengdu. The first is located in the Shangrila Hotel. OCBC China added
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      382 37 BLOOMBERG NEWS Me nas not soia any snares and is thinking of going in again after huge correction Beijing COMMODITIES expert Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted that oil would reach US$lOO a barrel and gold US$l,OOO an ounce, told
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      148 37 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Berlin THE head of German engineering group Siemens has confirmed that a major restructuring is on the cards, after earlier reports said the company wanted to lay off 17,000 workers. "At the end of last week, we presented our plans to the board.
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      450 38  -  Grace Ng Despite cooldown in industry, HSBC plans to expand team to support its growth By Finance Correspondent WHILE private banks have turned cautious in their growth outlook this year, some like HSBC still see the need to selectively hire
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        47 38 MICHAEL FLYNN: Appointed managing director for institutional business in Asia at international property fund manager Cordea Savills. Mr Flynn (right), 38, will have overall responsibility for institutional investor relations throughout Asia and Australasia. The Singapore office is its first in South-east Asia
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        56 38 MIKE BATCHELOR: appointed managing director for Asia investment sales at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' Singapore office. Mr Batchelor, 42, takes over from Mr Craig Collins, who is relocating to Australia to assume Mr Batch- elor's previous post of managing director for investment sales for
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        42 38 PETER ONG: Appointed chief financial officer (CFO) at Apple-brand retailer Afor with effect from last Monday. Mr Ong, 37, who has 14 years of experience in accounting and finance, was previously CFO and executive director at Esmart Holdings.
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        51 38 AMY BALAN: Appointed senior vice-president and head of corporate communications at Singapore Exchange (SGX), from July 10. She will be responsible for the SGX's investor relations strategy, as well as corporate communications. Its outgoing corp comms head, Ms Kelly Long, is leaving "to pursue other
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      564 39  -  Lee Su Shyan TAKING STOCK Outlook remains uncertain as growth, inflation worries persist By Assistant Money Editor INVESTORS will be going into this week with the spectre of the Dow Jones Industrial Average having slid 3 per cent last Thursday, briefly
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        79 39 CHINA Fishery Group is a deep-sea fishing company with a 20 per cent share of Russia's total allowable catch for Alaskan Pollock. Demand for fish will grow as a result of rising affluence, changing dietary habits and the limited overall supply of wild fish in
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        116 39 EXPANSION plans seem to be on track while management is confident of passing on the bulk of the foreseeable increase in material cost to customers. A new product, SR nylon, will undergo trial production next month, while growth will come from its recent
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        63 39 THE dispute between Keppel Corp's offshore and marine (O&M) unit and Fred Olsen Energy reflects growing tensions in the industry over customer demands, cost escalation and lengthening delivery schedules, said Credit Suisse. The bank is keeping its under perform rating because of slowing O&M
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      374 39 WARRANT WATCH AS THE Straits Times Index (STI) continues its fall, the local banks, in particular OCBC Bank, are proving to be fairly resilient to the downward pressure. While the STI is down about 14.7 per cent to date, OCBC
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      799 40  -  Yang Huiwen Bargains can be found, say analysts, despite impact of volatile mainland By INVESTORS might imagine that Singapore-listed China companies would offer some form of a safe haven from current stock market turbulence. After all, China's economy is still expanding
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      300 40  -  JOYCE TEO LEASEHOLD PROJECT IN A welcome departure from the generally quiet market so far this year, the latest property launch of the 616-unit Clover by the Park has generated sales of 195 units so far. Sim Lian Group, which is developing
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      1216 40  -  Dennis Chan By Deputy Money Editor THE way Mr Wong Fong Fui tells it, one may be forgiven for mistaking Boustead Singapore's founder as Chinese. That is, if his name wasn't such a dead giveaway. The number eight plays a prominent
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      28 40 Gearing up HSBC private banking chief finds talent shortage to be a key challenge in Asia, so the bank is hiring staff to support its growth. PAGE Hl6
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        914 42  -  Frankie Chee Malaysian writer Mark Beau de Silver says his play, Mama's Wedding, is based on some dark moments in his life LIFE doesn't always treat you well, but bitter experiences can sometimes help shape your life and offer plenty of opportunities that is what
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        222 43 AP LOS ANGELES MTV isn't ruling out giving viewers more Britney Spears at this year's Video Music Awards. "Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?" Mr Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group, playfully told The Associated Press during a telephone interview last
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        493 43  -  Tara Tan A new staging of the Shakespearean play has the cast training in the Suzuki technique of movement ARTS REPORTER IT IS a theatrical superstition to refer to Shakespeare's Macbeth as The Scottish Play, for fear of invoking the curse if one mentions the
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        2341 44  -  Stephanie Yap the monday interview Criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan believes that everyone deserves his day in court. He himself was once put behind bars without trial THEY say you must walk a mile in another man's shoes before you can judge him. Legal eagle Subhas Anandan, 60,
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        123 44 1 told my father that I had to take three buses to get to the university and that if he wanted me to go, he should get me a car. So he got me a car and I had no choice but to go to university' On how his
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        93 46 1 don't know which part of me he wants to cut off, but that's a whole 'nother thing' American Idol judge Randy Jackson (above right, with Simon Cowell), on Cowell giving him a sword for his birthday It's funny, offstage I hardly ever use profanity. My favourite four letter
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        470 46  -  Jasmine Teo The women in Malaysian singer Pin Guan's life are the inspiration for his latest album LONG-DISTANCE relationships are not Victor Wong's cup of tea. "A hundred phone calls a day can never be compared to one hug from the one you love," said
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        430 46 AP LOS ANGELES The buzz over Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight for the last few months is justified. With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career. A
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        377 47  -  Tara Tan Not hills and rivers, but flats and MRT stations. Artist marries Chinese ink painting with local and contemporary subjects ARTS REPORTER SINGAPORE'S landscape of HDB flats, MRT stations and overhead bridges are turned into a seductive labyrinth in Chinese ink artist Hong Sek Chern's
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        470 47  -  Jasmine Teo CHANCES are, you've probably bopped along to Jamie Scott's song Made from the Step Up original soundtrack. But the sing-er-songwriter's musical credentials and influences go beyond just radio-friendly tunes. "The first record I picked up was Carole King's Tapestry when I was about
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        249 50 -W- -W- ONG KONG Singer_L _L actress Gillian Chung (right) of Hong Kong girl duo Twins is finally going solo to Hollywood. After months of lying low following her involvement in Hong Kong's sex photo scandal in January, Chung took off last Saturday to the
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        163 50 AFP, AP LOS ANGELES Actress Uma Thurman is engaged to marry the Swiss multi-millionaire ex-boyfriend of supermodel Elle MacPherson, reports said. People magazine said Thurman, 38, is to wed financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, 45, who fathered two children with MacPherson before the couple split in 2005. "I
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        62 50 DEATH FALL: Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova (left), 20, fell to her death from a Manhattan apartment last Saturday in an apparent suicide. She was hailed by Vogue magazine as "a face to De excited about"... JULY WEDDING? Celebrity couple Carina Lav and Tony Leung Chiu Wai will marry in
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      309 45  -  Geh Mm Life!'s report on the Singapore Arts Festival, Why Was The Arts Fest A Flop, last Thursday has drawn more responses I WAS surprised to read in Life! that this year's Arts Festival was considered by some to be a failure since I attended
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      216 45  -  Aisha Mostafa I REFER to Adeline Chia's article on the Arts Festival (Forget Cutting Edge, Show Musicals?) on June 26. As someone in arts management and working in a prominent arts venue, I look upon the festival with trepidation. In fact, I agree with
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      456 48  -  Brandon Voo Anoushka Shankar's sitar music blended with sounds from other instruments to the delight of the audience > concert DAZZLING VIRTUOSITY The Anoushka Shankar Project Last Saturday/Esplanade Concert Hall IF LACKLUSTRE ticket sales for the recent Singapore Arts Festival are taken as an indicator of
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      548 48  -  Tara Tan > theatre BILIK AHMAD Teater Ekamatra The Substation Guinness Theatre/ Last Friday A MAN sharpens his knife on a belt, the yowl of metal against fabric strangely hypnotic. Another man, kneeling, trickles a relentless stream of hot water into a bowl. Three others sit at
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        490 76 I YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES: MEET THE CHAMPS Liane Wong, one of Singapore's hopes for the Youth Olympic Games, shares J her winning secrets with Lim Pow Hong While most six-year-old girls pick up dolls to play, Liane Wong picked up a sword. Eight years later,
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