The Straits Times, 5 October 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 2009 S|sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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      Lock icon Ex-minister found dead
      51 1 FORMER Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was forced to resign over his apparently drunken behaviour at a Group of Seven news conference in February, has been found dead at home, police said yesterday. There was no suicide note and no suggestion of foul play. PRIME PAGE
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      Lock icon Promoting pre-school
      45 1 THE Education Ministry is stepping up efforts to reduce the number of children not attending pre-school here. It has engaged the Singapore Children's Society to persuade and help parents from 60 families see the merits of early childhood education. PRIME PAGE A 8
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      Lock icon MIS kept tabs on ex-PM
      59 1 A NEW book has revealed that British domestic spy agency MIS kept a secret dossier on former Prime Minister Harold Wilson (left) during his time in office. There had been concerns over his ties with East European businessmen and a belief that he may have
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      Lock icon Brawl in mid-air
      57 1 THE pilots and cabin crew of an Air India flight exchanged blows and verbal abuse in front of 160 startled passengers as the plane flew over Pakistan on its way to Delhi from Sharjah. The fight broke out after a female attendant accused one of the pilots
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      Lock icon SIA pilot makes hero list
      69 1 A SINGAPORE Airlines pilot was named CNN's Hero Of The Week and one of its Top 10 Heroes of 2009 on Friday. Mr Budi Soehardi, 53, founded Roslin Orphanage in West Timor, which today provides food, shelter and education to 47 children. The Indonesian, who
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    Lock icon ANGELS IN GREEN
    69 1 ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM Captain Clive Tan from the Singapore Armed Forces medical team examines an earthquake victim at the Pariaman Hospital yesterday. He is part of a 54-member team that arrived in the quake-hit region on Saturday. Meanwhile, a 42-strong team from the Singapore Civil Defence
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    Lock icon Dollah collapses in mid-game
    257 1  -  Terrence Voon By FORMER Singapore international Dollah Kassim was in hospital last night after suffering a heart attack at a veterans' football game. Dollah, 60, collapsed at half-time during the annual Sultan of Selangor Cup curtain-raiser match between the veterans of Singapore and Selangor at the
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    Lock icon Property agents to be regulated
    698 1  -  Jessica Cheam Measures to include monitoring body and dispute resolution By THE Government is moving quickly on a plan to regulate real estate agents in the wake of growing calls to improve the standards of the industry. The Straits Times understands that an independent body
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      52 1 the other half M^M A Nantah i^B Singapore BTBE^II J^^^^^ffil Mark Lee's wife A wF% grad teams in EE on life with J remembers action in EiNPVfpQs^fl^S BE the comedian Lee Siew Choh M earthquake zone mi^BttiiHwM LIFE! PAGE C 4 REVIEW, PAGE A2O 'ffi, J PRIME, PAGE A 6
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        Lock icon Giving cyber attacks their dues
        85 2 WE SAY In setting up the Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority, the Government is taking a pre-emptive step to protect against such dangers as cyber espionage and cyber terrorism. The more accurate the agency's threat perception, the greater the level of cyber security awareness it
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        Lock icon East Asian bloc soon?
        26 2 COLUMNS The gradually improving relationship between China, Japan and South Korea has implications for regional cooperation, says Michael Richardson. REVIEW PAGE A2l
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        Lock icon Lacking crucial resources
        20 2 Indonesia remains ill-prepared when it comes to dealing with major disasters, says Lynn Lee. WORLD PAGE AlO
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        24 2 OUR READER SAYS Kwong Hui Hen says EZ-Link's Cepas card is a step backwards. FORUM PAGE A 22
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        23 2 www.straitstimes.com Elizabeth Looi says a dish doesn't have to be a part of the national heritage as long as it's good.
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      45 2 IN THE article, Director or GM? in Life! on Sept 30, we said that Mr Benson Puah is the chairman of the National Arts Council. This is incorrect. He is the chief executive officer. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Thaw in US-Myanmar ties
      936 2  -  Chua Chin Hon As US ties with China grow, junta seeks to engage Washington By US BUREAU CHIEF THE unexpected thaw in US-Myanmar ties in recent months has raised a host of intriguing questions. The most obvious are perhaps the trickiest: Why do Myanmar's military rulers
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      Lock icon North Korea 'open to nuclear talks'
      682 3 A NEED NOW FOR STABILITY "North Korea has found that there is a need to stabilise the situation now, as it has done everything it wanted to do, such as a nuclear test." North Korea expert professor Paik Hak-soon Goal of denuclearisation was 'never
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      Lock icon Ex-Japan finance minister found dead
      378 3 TOKYO: A former Japanese finance minister who stepped down after appearing to be drunk at an overseas news conference was found dead at his home yesterday morning. Mr Shoichi Nakagawa was lying face down on a bed at his home in Tokyo's residential district of
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      79 4  -  Caroline Chia It's that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. By PHOTOJOURNALIST A man reads a
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      Lock icon S'pore must understand changes in Japan, says PM
      992 4  -  Jeremy Au Yong PM Lee is first foreign leader to visit Japan since new party took over By POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CHANGES PROFOUND "Like other countries, Japan was hit by the global economic crisis. It now has a new, non-LDP government. It is
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      Lock icon Youth stuck on video games
      612 7  -  Chua Hian Hou Young Singaporeans spend 27 hours a week playing games, which raises fears over impaci By 'LIKE A NEW GIRLFRIEND' "I slept and studied only when my parents forced me to, I even skipped brushing my teeth in the morning occasionally...It is the
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      Lock icon And the loudest cheers go to...
      184 7 THE VENUE was a modest tent next to the MacPherson Community Club, but the entertainment was a glitzy line-up of Singapore's most popular stars. Residents of Marine Parade and MacPherson constituencies were treated to performances by winners of three television singing contests at a
      JEREMY AU YONG; SHAHRIYA YAHAYA  -  184 words
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      Lock icon Jobs Credit buys S'pore time to upgrade: Swee Say
      361 7  -  Cai Haoxiang By LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say wants the Government to send a clear signal to employers that the Jobs Credit scheme is not here to stay. By doing so, it would signal to employers that the wage subsidy scheme
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      Lock icon Govt steps up Push to get kids into pre-school
      591 8  -  Theresa Tan Social workers will aim to strip away obstacles so children can attend By THE Education Ministry (MOE) is stepping up its push to get more children into pre-school and its latest move is to get social workers to persuade
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      Lock icon Vaccine would have saved him some pain
      667 8  -  Salma Khalik By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT MUM'S ANGUISH "It was a nightmare. It was so disheartening to see him just lying there." Madam Kalai Thayalan, whose four-year-old came down with pneumococcal disease last month TWO children are currently in hospital battling serious infections which
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      495 9 mm Brown agrees in principle to US-style TV election debates LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed in principle to go head-to-head with main opposition leaders in US-style television debates in the run-up to next year's general election. Potential prime ministers have never debated each other on
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      Lock icon Book reveals Britain's MI5 kept tabs on PM
      398 9 LONDON: A new book shows that Britain's domestic spy agency kept a secret file on former prime minister Harold Wilson a leader who had Eastern European contacts and who had long believed MIS was bugging him. The file was kept not to
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      Lock icon Help arrives from S'pore
      648 6  -  Salim Osman Reme Ahmad Medical, rescue teams arrive in quake-wracked areas to render help By IN PARIAMAN (WEST SUMATRA) IN PADANG (WEST SUMATRA) SINGAPORE medical and rescue teams swung into action yesterday as relief supplies and international rescue teams flowed into Indonesia, even as hopes of
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      Lock icon Ballroom now a relief warehouse
      351 6  -  REME AHMAD PADANG: A marbled ballroom with two beautiful chandeliers has been turned into a warehouse for relief goods, as officials in this capital of West Sumatra province strive to rush supplies to areas outside earthquake-hit Padang. The ballroom, located behind the official residence of
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      Lock icon Fewer deaths at Mariani hotel
      361 6  -  REME AHMAD PADANG: The five-storey wing of a hotel here which collapsed and trapped Singaporean John Lee was just over a year old, according to its owner, Madam Conny Leniwati. It was built at a cost of five billion rupiah (*****,000). The older wing, built
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      Lock icon INDONESIA Disaster prone but ill-prepared
      1007 10  -  Lynn Lee Govt must improve aid, warning systems before Big One hits: Experts By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT Two other quakes yesterday, but no casualties JAKARTA: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia yesterday, centred on the far east of the country about 3,500 km from the Sumatra quake
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        Lock icon SAF medic team expects many fracture cases
        439 11  -  Salim Osman By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT PARIAMAN (West Sumatra): The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) medical team, now in this coastal town closest to the epicentre of last week's massive earthquake, expects to be kept busy over the next week with patients suffering fractures, judging
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        Lock icon SCDF dogs sniff for survivors under rubble
        434 11  -  Reme Ahmad By PADANG (West Sumatra): Four Singapore search and rescue dogs were put to work in the quake-hit city of Padang yesterday, sniffing for signs of life under the rubble of a collapsed library and hotel. The canines came with the 42-member
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        Lock icon Haphazard building leads to lake overflow
        692 12 FLOODS IN MANILA It may take 3 months for waterlogged homes of 2 million people to dry out TAGUIG (Philippines): Two million people living around a huge lake east of the Philippine capital could spend Christmas with their homes partly submerged, after haphazard development
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        Lock icon India floods receding, death toll hits 200
        287 12 BANGALORE: Thousands of people in southern India were evacuated after torrential rain and floods swept away homes, leaving at least 207 people dead, officials said yesterday. Floodwater levels were receding and rainfall had returned to normal in some areas, but dams continued to
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        Lock icon Public cheers China's curbs on bosses' pay
        711 14  -  Grace Ng SALARIES AT STATE-OWNED FIRMS Top executives to get less as enterprises are hit by financial crisis By CHINA CORRESPONDENT Among highest-paid SOE bosses BEIJING: China's recent moves to slap salary caps on the head honchos of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have
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        Lock icon Green cars: Fugitive tycoon seeks funds
        144 14 HONG KONG: Mr Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street. Then, seven years ago, fearing arrest for alleged economic crimes, he fled to the United States. Mr Yang, who
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        Lock icon India probes mid-air 'brawl' among crew
        451 15 FLIGHT TURBULENCE "Blows were exchanged and abuse hurled by pilots and crew mid-air, with bewildered passengers looking on." Times of India newspaper Two Air India pilots and two flight attendants allegedly fight on plane NEW DELHI: Indian police yesterday began probing an alleged mid-air
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        41 15 Computer mouse devices (above) and keyboards (left) have gone green. A bamboo flooring company in Tonggu county in east China's Jiangxi province has come up with environmentally friendly IT products made of bamboo, of course. PHOTO: XINHUA
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        Lock icon Sri Lanka blast: Army bomb expert held
        238 15 COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police have arrested an army bomb expert after he admitted planting a bomb in a school van that killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded 12 others, mostly students. Police spokesman Nimal Mediwaka said an army sergeant admitted he planted the
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        Lock icon UN agency to inspect Iran's uranium plant
        514 16 lAEA chief praises cooperative shift in Teheran's ties with West TEHERAN (Iran): United Nations experts will inspect Iran's newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant on Oct 25, the lAEA nuclear agency chief said yesterday, praising a shift "from conspiracy to cooperation" in Teheran's dealings
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        Lock icon 'Inventive' Al-Qaeda still a threat
        366 16 LONDON: Anti-terrorism experts held an emergency meeting last month after an AlQaeda militant passed through several airline security checks with a bomb hidden in his intestine. The militant later detonated the bomb with a cellphone signal, but failed in his attempt to assassinate a prominent
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        Lock icon Push for more US school time
        831 17  -  Tracy Quek MEMO FROM WASHINGTON Some studies show longer days lead to better results, but critics cast doubts on linl By US CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON: It is 3.15pm on a school day, the moment the final bell rings at most public schools in Washington, DC.
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        709 18 NO TIME FOR PARTIES "The government is not engaged in any celebratory parties. We are in a very difficult place (economically) and that's precisely why people have voted 'yes'." Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan Economic crisis seen as key reason for 'yes'
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        Lock icon Doll based on homeless girl sparks outrage
        273 18 WASHINGTON: Many companies in America have found a way to profit from the recession, but the release of "Gwen", a doll based on a character who lives in a shelter, has caused howls of outrage. Gwen Thompson, a new addition to the increasingly
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        356 19 Surgeons offering to alter eyesight to suit a person's job, lifestyle LONDON: Would you like night vision or one eye customised to see into the distance and the other for reading? Such questions are the stuff of client consultations in leading eye clinics, with
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          Lock icon Taleban 'will not return'
          97 19 WASHINGTON: United States National Security Adviser James Jones yesterday said he does not expect the Taleban to return to power in Afghanistan despite its resurgence. General Jones' remarks followed an attack on Saturday on two outposts by militants, which killed eight US soldiers in the eastern
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          Lock icon Seoul boost for UN ops
          92 19 SEOUL: South Korea will launch a 3,000-strong military unit next year which can be swiftly deployed for United Nations peace-keeping operations. The unit would comprise a dedicated 1,000-strong special force from the country's Special Warfare Command, along with additional troops as back-up. Air force, navy
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          Lock icon Terengganu plans cruise
          81 19 KUALA TERENGGANU: The state of Terengganu bought a RMI.2 million (*****,400) double-decker ship to take tourists on a cruise down Sungai Terengganu. State Education, Higher Education, Science, Technology and Human Resource committee chairman Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman said the 150-seater ship would boost tourism and spur economic
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          Lock icon 'Bluehenge' discovered
          104 19 LONDON: Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge. Researchers have dubbed the site "Bluehenge" after the colour of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared, but the path of holes
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          Lock icon Peace gets its day in the sun
          65 19 Participants forming the word "peace" on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, yesterday to promote the World March for Peace and Non-violence. The march, which began on Friday and will take place in various countries over a period of 90 days, calls for the
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          127 19 NEW DELHI: An Indian man launched a legal challenge to halt the sale of pens engraved with the image of Mahatma Gandhi worth €17,000 (5535,000) each, saying they were an insult to the leader, a report said yesterday. Germany-based Montblanc unveiled the fountain pens plated with
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      116 10 pi WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm and support, it doesn't really matter..." MOST-READ ONLINE Humans are from Ardi, Lucy. YOUR SAY Former Japanese finance minister MOST COMMENTED ON Shoichi Nakagawa, who stepped down Leaders donate pay. Says after appearing to be drunk at a news rubberseed:
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      915 19 Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2009 £|f IM ll 4 1 111 Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among females. In o^\ i"mky™F IHIIA L^LHfatt IHIU^^IA Al I mKfro/rAf Singapore, for every 1,300* women diagnosed, 313 of Z 9|l|||^ 3T P Illlv %^-m!^/ /them died from the disease eacn year-
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      390 20 INCREASINGLY sophisticated cyber threats to national and commercial security require increasingly sophisticated safeguards. In setting up the Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority (Sitsa), the Government has taken an early step in protecting against such dangers as cyber espionage and cyber terrorism. Sitsa will be responsible
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      881 20 FUTURE OF MALAY-MUSLIMS Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, gave a speech at the Hari Raya gathering at the Istana on Friday. This is an excerpt of his address. THE Malay-Muslim community has responded well
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      963 20  -  Giam Meng Tuck By believe Dr Lee was just being Dr Lee. He was true to himself from the start till the end. Whenever I recall the three years I watched him display his gift of the gab as an NCMP, I could
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        943 21  -  John McBeth By SENIOR WRITER LAST week, I was jolted awake soon after dawn one day by an earthquake that gave our newly built Bali house a couple of savage shakes not at all like the rolling motion I have become almost used
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        809 21  -  Robert Karniol By DEFENCE WRITER THE International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) has concerns over the lethal dangers inherent in human intrusion at nuclear waste storage sites, but has yet to provide guidance on how to warn off future generations. Perhaps audaciously,
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        816 21  -  Michael Richardson By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES If Japan is now inclined towards the East Asia-centric approach, how will other countries, including the US, react? Will Japan's new preference give regional security architecture a permanent East Asian tilt? WHEN the leaders of China,
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        364 22 SWITCHING EZ-LINK CARDS EZ-LINK has spared no effort to promote its new Cepas ez-link card. But I am not sure if convenience and lower cost to the consumer were what it had in mind. Consider these: Under the Contactless e-Purse Application Standard (Cepas) card which EZ-Link dubs
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        323 22 I REFER to recent letters discussing whether traffic light arrangements that permit turning by vehicles while pedestrians are crossing is a safe practice, in the light of the recent accident near the junction of Buangkok Drive and Punggol Road ("Model pupil on her
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        182 22 I DO not know whether to cheer or lament our rapid population growth. We have so far not experienced the woes of overpopulation, which was once blamed for the misery of the Third World. The main argument for increasing our population is that an
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        377 22 I REFER to last Wednesday's letter by Mr Lim Beo Thiam, "Assessing town councils: Focus on needs of residents, not profit". Jalan Besar Town Council (JBTC) agrees with Mr Lim that town councils should not focus on making a profit. Our mission is
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      648 23  -  Yen Feng Traditionally non-English-speaking religions turning bilingual to woo youth By CHANGING times have forced religious leaders in traditionally non-Eng-lish-speaking faith groups to reconsider how best to reach new devotees, many of whom are young and English-speaking. The speed of such religions adopting
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      434 24  -  Goh Chin Lian By SERVING others is a growing passion for Temasek Polytechnic student Kelvin Ong. The 19-year-old goes the extra mile for guests staying at the Fairmont Singapore hotel, where he is an intern at the concierge desk. Some of his unusual
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      437 24  -  Nicholas Yong They will co-sponsor up to four years of PhD studies for six students By PLUS POINTS "Singapore has a unique position as a research and technology hub, and it is extremely important that we are a part of the hub. It
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      502 25  -  Serene Luo They will still have access to fresh meat and produce aftei Sembawang market shuts By SEMBAWANG residents will still be able to get fresh cuts of meat and produce, Health Minister and Sembawang constituency adviser Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. He reassured
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        108 25 DR NG Eng Hen, Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence, is heading to Europe today. His first stop is France, where he will deliver a statement at the 35th United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) General Conference, in his capacity
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        91 25 SENIOR Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed will visit the United Arab Emirates from today to Saturday. During the visit, he is scheduled to call on ministers and senior officials. Mr Zainul will also visit Ras Al Khaimah and Dubai. In
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      615 26  -  Serene Luo Those with good CSR track records seem to fare better during crisis By Two-day CSR summit SINGAPORE Compact will hold the inaugural International Singapore Compact CSR Summit tomorrow and on Wednesday at Orchard Hotel. It is aimed at increasing awareness and adoption of
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      373 27  -  Grace Chua Kidney group gives $5,400 in aid; Malay Heritage Centre holds photo exhibition By' BANKING and finance student Muhhamad Ismail Teo, 23, was already struggling to pay his school fees when another challenge came his way. His mother was diagnosed with kidney failure. Yesterday, Mr
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      206 27 NEARLY all the $270 she earns a month as a domestic worker here is sent back to India to support her family, including four children aged eight to 18. Ms G. Rajendran Indrani, 41, who borrowed money to come to Singapore to work in January
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        682 28  -  ZACKARIA ABDUL RAHIM The Health Promotion Board is stepping up its campaign to get people to eat more wholegrain foods for the sake of good health BY IT IS a truth generally acknowledged that diets rich in unrefined carbohydrates or wholegrain foods are good for the
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        308 28 TAKING self-portraits comes easy with the Samsung STSSO and STSOO digital cameras, which feature a second LCD screen on the front of the camera. It gets even easier with Samsung's Smart Gesture User Interface (Ul), which employs a built-in gravity sensor to set the camera
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        205 28  -  LAI YI MING BY ZBBZ, Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) newest addition to its stable of publications, was launched last Friday. Zbßz stands for Zaobao Bao Zhi or"newsgazine", which is a play on the Chinese words for "newspaper" and "magazine". From people profiles to lifestyle
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        169 28 NEXT month, the classic Broadway hit Victor/Victoria is set to take the Esplanade Theatre back into the glitz and glamour of Paris in the *****. Starring international jazz sensation Laura Fygi who plays the title lead Victor/Victoria, the musical revolves around Victoria Grant, who arrives
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        166 28  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim AMERICAN Express Platinum Series cardmembers now have ten times more reasons to shop at lON Orchard, with the 10 Times Membership Rewards at lON. Launched last Friday at lON Orchard, it allows cardmembers to earn 10 Membership Rewards points for every $1.60
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        352 28 White factor Vichy Laboratoires introduces Bi-White Reveal, a double-correc-tive whitening range that reduces brown spots and improves skin radiance. It includes Ceremade White, which is a strong natural melanin inhibitor and a cell communication factor that helps control the cellular signal at the origin of melanin production. Available at
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      642 29  -  Eisen Teo 2 Independent' varsity newspapers have few volunteers and no funds By QUESTION marks hang over the future of two "independent" student newspapers here. The Campus Observer (TCO) and The Enquirer online university newspapers led and staffed solely by undergraduates are finding it
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      467 29  -  Jennani Durai By WHEN Singapore Airlines captain Budi Soehardi (right) takes off each month to the United States, 50 children anxiously await the return of their "Pa". Only three of them are biologically his. The other 47 are cared for by Mr
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      429 29  -  Teh Joo Lin By FRAIL, hard of hearing and prone to falling down, Ms Kwok Mun Yin hardly leaves her two-room rental flat in Telok Blangah to meet people any more. But yesterday, the 76-year-old spinster got a pleasant surprise when visitors turned
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      280 29  -  TESSA WONG MORE than 2,000 seniors greeted the sun yesterday morning with a brisk walk around Bedok Reservoir, topping off a campaign to give rice away to needy families. Over the past month, supermarket chain NTUC Fair Price and the South East Community Development
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        504 30  -  Jonathan Kwok SOAPBOX Being multilingual has helped me in my job and my love life By My parents had me learn three languages and a dialect... Ten years on, though, the wisdom of my parents is finally beginning to hit me though for reasons other
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        99 30 In an ST straw poll of 100 Singaporeans between the ages of 13 and 24, younger youths those between 13 and 18 are found to be more accepting of foreigners in Singapore. Compared to their older peers aged 19 to 24, they are more likely to
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        1058 30 MY LIFE Singapore may technically have left the recession behind, but the financial turmoil looks to have had a far more lasting impact on Youthlnk writers. Learning the value of information I USED to roll my eyes whenever I heard cliched phrases from my father, such
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      102 23 M WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm visit way before closing time..." MOST-READ ONLINE I want to be Miss Singapore: YOUR SAY Claire Lee. Singapore students spend 27 hours a week playing online games, more than MOST COMMENTED ON double the time spent by their US Zhang
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      186 30 The Amazing Health Benefits Of Fish Oils jkv\ fell-I^| Fish Oils may change your behavior Omega-3 fatty acids in human •Is Cholesterol Bad for You? ft nutrition, cardiovascular ProfTomohitoHamazaki, disease and infant development I MD, PhD. Chairman, I Mr. Peter Clough, L Department of Clinical Sciences MSc t. Institute of
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      633 31  -  Terrence Voon BATTLE AT THE BRIDGE: Chelsea 2 Liverpool 0 Page 810 FAS urges players to ensure they are fit and well before stepping onto field By The Gelek King Dollah Kassim, along with the likes of S. Rajagopal, Quah Kirn Song and Mohammad Noh, was a
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      138 31  -  TERRENCE VOON Singapore Selection 3 Selangor Selection 0 A SINGAPORE Selection reclaimed the annual Sultan of Selangor Cup in style yesterday, after hammering a Selangor Selection 3-0 at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Indra Sahdan Daud, who captained the hosts, opened the scoring in the 28th
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      502 32  -  Richard Jolly Anelka and Malouda on target as Chelsea rise to the big occasion By Chelsea 2 Liverpool 0 LONDON: For a few months in 2002, Nicolas Anelka was briefly a Liverpool player. Since then, both Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have lamented Gerard Houllier's decision
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      511 32 LONDON: England coach Fabio Capello has sent a message to Michael Owen and Ledley King telling them that, no matter how talented they are, they will not be going to the World Cup unless they prove they are fit enough to play every
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      640 32 Arsenal 6 Blackburn Rovers 2 LONDON: Arsenal celebrated a landmark week for manager Arsene Wenger with a 6-2 thrashing of Blackburn in a Premier League game at the Emirates yesterday. Wenger became Arsenal's long-est-serving manager on Thursday with 13 years' service, which began in October 1996
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      568 33 "He actually walked after the second goal, needing a rest. You see referees from abroad who are as fit as butchers' dogs. And there are some referees in this country who are fit, but he wasn't fit." ALEX FERGUSON, attacking referee Alan Wiley after the game
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      292 33 LONDON: Hard-up Portsmouth are set for a major financial rescue. The club's new owner, Sulaiman Al-Fahim, looks set to sell most of his stake to Saudi property tycoon Ali Al-Faraj and his brother in the next few days. Al-Fahim, who has been at
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        93 33 SINGAPORE golfer Mardan Mamat struggled to a five-over 77 yesterday at the Taiwan Masters to tie for 31st place. His 298 total in Taipei put him 18 shots behind winner Lin Wen-tang (72). In Scotland, fellow Singaporean Lam Chih Bing was at six-under
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        88 33 LONDON: England midfielder David Beckham is close to clinching a return to AC Milan for a second loan spell. "There are other options available but none that will stop me going to Milan," the Los Angeles Galaxy player told The Mail on Sunday. "It
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      414 33  -  Jonathan Wong By ONE of the first things national cyclist Low Ji Wen said to his friends after crossing the finishing line yesterday was: "See, I told you I would win it." But the 19-year-olds victory in the Men's Open category at the
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      72 33 LODZ (Poland): Francesca Piccinini (left) and her Italian teammates reacting after beating Germany 25-10, 22-25, 25-12, 25-22 in Saturday's semi-final of the European Women's Volleyball Championship. They will face the Netherlands in the final. "I'd be realjy happy if I win one Major a year
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      451 33 Cricket Champions Trophy In Johannesburg, semi-final: Pakistan 233-9 in 50 overs (U. Akmal 55: I. Butler 4-44, D. Vettori 3-43). New Zealand 234-5 in 47.5 overs (G. Elliott 75 n.o: S. Ajmal 2-39). New Zealand won by five wickets. Football Dutch Erediyisie Den Haag 1 Groningen 1, Willem II1
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      783 34 JAPANESE GRAND PRM Japanese GP Results 1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull lhr 28min 20.443 sec 2 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota +4.8775 ec 3 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren +6.472 4 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari +7.940 5 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams +8.793 6 Nick Heidfeld
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        103 34 KIMI Raikkonen, who is leaving Ferrari to make way for Fernando Alonso, is widely thought to be on his way back to McLaren, where he is expected to replace fellow Finn Heikki Kovalainen. However, team principal Martin Whitmarsh said Kovalainen may yet remain for 2010. "We
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        121 34 FORMULA One teams are set to block attempts to expand the competition to 14 teams next year, leaving the remnants of the BMW Sauber team in limbo. The Swiss-based team had been listed as first reserve should any of the other current
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      424 34 JOHANNESBURG: Grant Elliott braved a thumb injury with an impressive half-cen-tury as New Zealand stormed into the Champions Trophy cricket tournament final with a five-wicket victory over Pakistan on Saturday. He cracked an unbeaten 75 to help his injury-hit team reach a 234-run target with
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      353 34 BEIJING: Russia's Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova struggled to find their rhythm but advanced to the second round of tennis' China Open yesterday. Safina, the top seed looking to bounce back after an embarrassing loss last week in Japan to an unknown teenage
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      207 31 HL WHAI'S UIMLIIMt X) A MOST VIEWED, mE 9 MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Why StarHub lost ESPN too It will be baby first for Rooney Pay-TV price ranks high MOST COMMENTED Singapore may not host SEA Games Said kokoobird: "Please consider upgrading works for the existing
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      87 33 Today Cricket Champions Trophy: Final (Live, Chill, 8.15pm). Football Singapore Cup s-final, 1st leg: Albirex v Geylang (Jurong East, 7.45pm). English Premier League: Aston Villa v Manchester City (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 2.55am). Tennis WTA Tournament: Beijing (Live, Chll3, 3pm). Tomorrow Golf Singapore Open Senior Amateur C'ship: 1st rd (Sembawang Country
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      129 34 A League Sydney FC Central Coast Mon, 05/10/09 12.00pm A League Adelaide Newcastle jets Mon, OS/10/09 2.00pm Singapore Cup Albirex Ceylang Mon, 05/10/09 7.45pm E Premier matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. k /fl Draw No. 2472/2009 MLJLJ Draw Today! Monday, 5 October
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      156 35 "The Lord is my shepherd; I have everything I need. He lets me rest infields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water. I will not be afraid Lord, for you are with me." 28/9/46 4/10/09 was called Home to be with the Lord, leaving behind
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      43 35 BENNY ANG WEE NEE passed away peacefully on 3 Oct 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Body is resting at Blkll3PasirRisStll. Cortege will leave on 7 Oct 2009 (Wed) at 2pm for Bright Hill Crematorium for v cremation at 3pm.
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      124 35 («/sa v to the Lor( i, you are my Lord, apart from you I have no good thing." Psalms 16:2 TEOH HONG CHENG Age: 80 hT* 3 October 2009, dearly missed by: (Husband: Tan Khye Teik, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tan Cheok Chye, Joshua Ler Meow Eng Tan Cheok Huat, Colin
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      179 35 TAN SWEE KUM fKfff^' i\^\ -t*O^' passed away peacefully on 3 October 2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Wong Cheong Sons: Daughters-in-law: John Wong Hong Foo Woo Choi Yeng Desmond Wong Hong Kiong Vivien Ng Kar Leng Alan Wong Hong Wai Ruth Lee Kum Ying choa^Tpoon
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      45 35 w The family of the late REX PEK HOCK ANN Departed 30 September 2009 w;'s/z fo express, their heartfelt thanks a«d appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent ereavementSpecial thanks to SinSTrThlir^porl ati°n ==l
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      40 35 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our General Manager, Ms Catherine Ng ana*ncr famity on the demise of her beloved mother TEOH HOMG CHENG Departed on 3 October 2009 T<TOYY) list 11, The Management Staff of Cadbury Singapore Pte Ltd
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      94 35 ANBESIVAM JL SAHAJANANDAM S/O SUIMDARUM fGAIVAPATHY ATI AIVTI A passed away peacefully on 04-10-2009. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wlfe: chelamma d/o chellaih (Saras) Sons: Daughter-in-law: s Na^thaZmar Lydia Selva Daughters: son-in-law: E£, 2Z.,.« r. Prasanth R.Maheswary T- "™n n law Slsters ln law S^' KriZUa"^ 1
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      59 35 Memory wanders as shadows rail Sack to the days or happiness, Daus beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Or her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep. For the loved ones whom you remember. "In Memoriam" Jf g V^T |T|
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      373 50  -  chang tou liang RARE OCCASION Singapore Symphony Orchestra Esplanade Concert Hall Last Friday Classical music lovers here have rarely had it so good, with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler's Resurrection Symphony followed by Bruckner's Sixth Symphony in consecutive concerts. One thing is
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        324 54 Los Angeles Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay the victim in his child sex case at least US$5OO,OOO as part of a civil settlement reached years after he fled the United States. But he failed to live up to the agreement with Samantha Geimer,
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        142 54 GARY CHAW ARRESTED Gary Chaw was arrested in Hong Kong last Friday for alleged common assault, a week after he admitted attacking fellow singer Justin Lo in a rampage that was caught on film. He was freed on bail, a police spokesman said. He was not immediately charged and
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        163 54 Los Angeles Michael Jackson's children seem to be "doing wonderfully" in their grandmother's care, a judge said last Friday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said he received a probate investigator's report detailing how the three children are adjusting roughly three months after their father's
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      2221 67 Notices :i3 THE STRAITS TIMES Monday, October5 2009 A P O L O G Y NOTICE OF ADJOURNED EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING We, SIN YUAN INT'L TRADING PTE LTD (Reg. no. *****2003H) of 14A a sub fund o Df^wl Premi^Mnvestments Funds LOPOng 7 Toa PayOh #07-235 Singapore *****4, dO Unreservedly apologise
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    561 72 Do men or women make better mentors? FEMALE mentors appear to be better role models, but male mentors may be better at leading the way to the top of the corporate ladder. That's the conclusion of a Pennsylvania State University study that involved 200 "mentees" all
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        525 74 After a stint as a pre-school teacher, Mahirah Law is in n hurry to be an adult Many of us complain about the demanding lives that we lead as students and wish that we could immediately set out into the adult world to earn cold, hard
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        195 74 If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a reporter, join the IN Crowd and be part of this magazine. Have your say and meet student-writers from overseas, get into the front seats of exciting events such as the F1 races and interview
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        541 76 Mohd Shamir Roslan is slim for a rugby player, but has led his team to fifth place in the National Inter-Schools Rugby Championships. By Lim Pow Hong W w I was scared of bigger boys. And playing against people double my size, I was lifted
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        605 77 Corrie Tan reviews the 30-year-old classic and its spin-offs The book that made comedy science fiction hip turns 30 on Oct 12. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy spun off a radio series, a comic book series, a computer game and a blockbuster movie.
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        729 78 AMANDA TAN has some ideas about what you can do and buy this holidays *3m 4 Jamie Archer The X Factor 2009 Auditions Admit it, few of us are impressed with the talent in the latest Singapore Idol instalment. But before you give up on non-talent shows, give 33-year-old
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        765 79 'jßSm^SS^mESsm^s^Tf ***************8 ***************8 r DALIF ROOS HEILIGji^ 22, the Romantic Metalhead He was 14 then, grossly overweight at 104kg, and thought himself ugly. Worse still, he had no friends in school. Others ostracised him because of how he looked and spoke. "I knew only English, so my
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        366 80 WHAT ARE THE MORE COMMON TYPES OF GOTH OUT THERE? W Traditional Goth, characterised by ghostly white make-up, black eyeliner, eyeshadow and nail polish, H and accessories like ankhs, crucifixes and studs. Romantic Goths favour Victorian or mediaeval-style clothing, with lace and velvet. Cyber Goths combine goth and
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        389 80 .i 7ftl%« English writer Horace Walpole pens I DO. jhe Castle of Otranto. It is considered the first ever "gothic story", because of its settings (castles, churches, graveyards) and I use of mystery and the supernatural. Late 1700S to early 1800s: Rise and spread of gothic
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        569 81 HO-H0... It is a retro and now rather geeky dance style, but robot dancing is making a comeback. Or at least trying to. A group at the University of Melbourne tried to set a world record for the biggest group of people "doing the robot" together,
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        677 82 PAST Video games are not just the stuff of the future they can carry you back in time, too. World Of Temasek is a Singapore-produced video game that allows students to learn about Singapore's history in a fun-filled way. The 3-D game allows
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        1848 84 MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS By Bruce Gale, The Straits Times, Sept 25, 2009 "Cigarettes are a legal commodity," declared Indonesian Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud on Sept 10. "For that reason, cigarette promotion should also be seen as a legal action."
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      126 74 SUPERVISING EDITOR Bertha Henson EDITOR Serene Goh JOURNALISTS Lim Pow Hong, Malini Nathan, Eisen Teo INTERN Eunice Ng CONTRIBUTORS Alison de Souza, Andrew Duffy, Mardiana Abu Bakar ART DESIGN Samir Shridhar, Lee Xiuhui, Jaster Ngui, Zulaiha Jumari, Lim Kaili COVER DESIGN CONCEPT Jaster Ngui EDITORIAL PROJECTS UNIT Peter Khoo, Shahrena
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      93 82 SUMMARY In 100 words or fewer, summarise the main points of the story. S9WB6 |BOO| AjJ ÜBO 9|dO9d 9J9IJM XB|A|33@XOg 9WBO p9||Bo 90B|d M9U B OS|B S| 9J9HJ_« OJUj 6U|>(OO| 0L PUB S9LUB6 9S9HJ 6U|>(BLU S9|UBdLUOO X|S 9J9M 9J9LJI p|BS ÜBLUS9>(OdS VaiAl uv« 6u!U|bji ,s9sjnu d|9Lj p|no/v\ s9lub6 am pjbs
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      325 83 ••vtmTlfTf T i HH II i^* P*" ■i n i I I n i i i ißwl 4 But the facts came out just after Piquet Jr-son of three-time world F1 champion Nelson A V^-JTWkSm m Piquet Sr-was dropped from the Renault team in August. He told the sport's governing
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      534 85 Match these digits to the reasons they made the news m 1) Singapore's total population at the end of June, according to the Population Trends 2009 report released by the Department of Statistics. 2) About this percentage of Singapore's population are citizens and permanent residents (the rest are non-residents). b)3.5
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