Today, 25 August 2005

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  • 491 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg ON MONDAY, this newspaper carried a report on the latest buzz in physics a manuscript on quantum theory written by Albert Einstein that had been hidden from the world for decades. Soon after, we heard from the man who
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  • 759 1  -  JASMINE YIN More pregnant women complain of discrimination by employers jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg AS SHE entered the maternity ward earlier this month, Ms Teh couldn't help thinking her boss was penalising her for being pregnant. The trouble is that like many women in similar situations she
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  • hot news
    • 502 2  -  TAN HUI LENG Poly tie-ups overseas will open windows for a different breed of students huileng@newstoday.com. sg AS POLYTECHNICS look to link up with specialised institutes overseas, the move goes far beyond merely creating more degree opportunities for students, said Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Explaining the rationale
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    • 699 3  -  Vincent Chia Let civil servants compete and come up with innovative business plans. Winners will get capital to start up ventures WE are all aware of the need for more entrepreneurs in Singapore to build and lead more innovative and sustainable companies. The
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  • Singapore news
    • 266 4 -938 LIVE A SURGE in dengue cases has prompted the National Environment Agency (NEA) to roll out a series of measures to keep mosquitoes away. Statistics show the number of dengue cases this year is at 7,400 almost twice the figure for the same period
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    • 665 4  -  TORCHING LI Composed, she re-enacts events leading to Sindee's fall chingli@newstoday.com.sg CALL it apt or cruel irony, but former air stewardess Constance Chee spent the whole of yesterday showing a packed courtroom that she was no pushover in any sense of the word. Taking the witness
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    • 538 6 -938 LIVE Gaming and tourism expert says Singapore will have trouble filling job vacancies for IRs SINGAPORE will face a major challenge supplying the manpower for the two planned Integrated Resorts (IRs), says an expert on casino gaming and tourism management. The Singapore Government has
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    • 223 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SEVEN outstanding students have been given the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Award for All-Round Excellence. It is a new national-level award to recognise students who have excelled in both academic and non-academic spheres, and exemplify positive character, strong leadership and commitment to
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    • 463 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG No fancy malls but'more life'for AMK, Bedok, Clementi cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IN HIS recent National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long revealed the Ang Mo Kio, Bedok and Clementi estates will be renewed as Singapore transforms itself into a global
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    • 306 8  -  -JASMINE YIN IN THE next 10 years, the Asia-Pacific region will be a key driver of the global tourism industry. And judging by on-going efforts to boost tourism, Singapore is primed to ride this wave. The thumbs-up came from Dr Clint Laurent, director of
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    • 381 10  -  LOHCHEEKONG Those aged between 30 and 49 not exercising enough cheekong@newstoday.com. sg WHILE the recent National Health Survey showed that Singaporeans are exercising more, it also found that a large group of working adults exercise the least. According to the survey, the average percentage of those
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    • 349 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) has unveiled a new programme to encourage Singaporeans to care for waterways, reservoirs and reservoir parks. Called Our Waters, it allows individuals and groups to "adopt" a specific area and take care of it in various ways. This
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  • world news
    • 192 12 Size does matter in the Thai Cabinet -AP BANGKOK- Thailand's prime minister is trying to ferret out a government minister who allegedly had a penis enlargement procedure, saying news of it is affecting the Cabinet's reputation. "Who did it? Tell me," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) asked his ministers at
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    • 162 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has labelled a costly U5526.5 million ($44.3 million) anti-smoking campaign a failure, with the number of female smokers doubling since its launch last year, reports said yesterday. Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said the five-year Tak Nak (Don't Want) campaign launched
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    • 403 12 LONDON Three fatal plane crashes in just over a week are sending jitters among some members of the flying public. These disasters came after at least 13 passengers and crew were killed when a Tunisian passenger plane made an emergency landing in the sea off the
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 52 12 ■AFP Brunei's ruler Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah will host a party next month to seal his marriage to 26-year-old former Malaysian television journalist Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, reported the Berita Harian. The party is expected to be held at one of his four palaces, including the 1,788-room Istana
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      • 48 12 The shortlist for the first Malaysian astronaut now stands at 894, the New Straits Times reported. Under a Malaysian deal with Russia, the chosen one will get to stay six to eight days at the International Space Station in the second half of 2007.
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      • 50 12 AP Hong Kong judge Michael Hartmann has ruled that laws against gay sex including one that demands a life sentence for men aged under 21 who engage in sodomy are unconstitutional and discriminatory. The ruling was made after a 20-year-old homosexual, challenged the laws.
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    • 703 14  -  THANG D NGUYEN Unrest in southern Thailand can end, just like in Aceh news@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY sound unlikely, but there is a lesson about peace that Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra should learn from Indonesia, which applies to the conflict in southern Thailand. Since
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    • this quirky world
      • 51 16 Two Romanian drug dealers were arrested when they accepted a lift from a passing drugs squad officer, reported ananova.com. They were carrying cannabis and were hitch-hiking when it started to rain. They got a lift from an off-duty police officer who soon recognised the distinctive
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      • 82 16 A Brazilian maid has won a legal battle with her wealthy bosses to keep the Mercedes car she won in a raffle, according to ananova.com. She had won the car in a draw after buying groceries at a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro. Her employers,
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      • 67 16 A Guatemalan man faked his own kidnapping to get out of his wedding, reported ananova.com. The 25-year-old disappeared on the day of his wedding and appeared again hours later, claiming he had been kidnapped. A police spokesman said: "We soon
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    • 325 16 —AGENCIES Local Muslims who want Islamic law should get out: Minister SYDNEY Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should get out of Australia, a senior government minister has said, hinting that some radical clerics might be asked to leave. Australia is a secular state
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    • 148 16 LONDON Police marksmen and army surveillance teams following Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on to a London Tube train could not receive orders in the vital moments before he was shot dead because their radios did not work underground, The Times newspaper reported. The
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    • 207 18 —THE GUARDIAN VIENNA Iran is poised to notch up an important victory in its dispute with the West over its nuclear programmes as United Nations experts found that traces of highly-enriched uranium collected in the country were probably not of Iranian.
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    • 538 18 —AGENCIES Washington red-faced by Bush supporter's call to assassinate the Venezuelan President WASHINGTON A leading American tele-evangelist appeared to take Christian fundamentalism into uncharted territory when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's President, Mr Hugo Chavez. The White House swiftly distanced itself from the
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    • 41 20 I 1 Opinions. Thoughts. I 1 Concerns. What moves you? I 1 What irks you? Tell us. I 1 Write, email or fax us a letter I I with your full name, contact H^^J^ number and address. we want your voice
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  • Voices
    • 333 20  -  I LAN BEN-DOV Stop blaming Israel for all Palestinian problems, says ambassador-designate Letter from Ambassador-designate Embassy of Israel, Singapore I WAS surprised to read the report in your newspaper, "Palestinians starve as Israelis get cash" (Aug 24). To begin with, I would like to suggest that
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    • 326 20  -  CHIAKOKHWEE Letter from THE Prime Minister's speech at the National Day Rally is something I always look forward to. It sets the pace for new developments and changes in Singapore that we can expect in the years to come. I was overwhelmed by the
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    • Article, Illustration
      102 20 WALKING THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW These members of the Singapore Navy are expected to serve the country with courage and integrity-always walking the straight and narrow. Thus, Today photographer Wee TeckHian felt that this picture, taken from the 35th floor of Swissotel The Stamford during the National Day
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    • 232 22  -  FIONA TAN Letter from I REFER to Jeremy Lim's article, "The chain in the way of change" (Aug 23). I agree with him about the heavy workload. But I do not agree that teachers should be blamed for the amount of homework we have.
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    • 289 22  -  TAN KENG ANN Letter from I WOULD like to thank Mr Gerard Ec for his commentary, "Games gone, it's time for a rethink" (Aug 24). The response to the tsunami disaster was not unique to Singapore. It was worldwide as it involved a scale
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    • 315 23  -  LEE KWOK KEONG Most road accidents occur because motorists and motorcyclists ignore the law Letter from [DR] I AM a doctor in the emergency department of a local hospital. During the course of my work, I have seen many horrific, and very often fatal,
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    • 197 23  -  JESSICA CHAN Letter from I WOULD like to congratulate our Prime Minister for his fabulous National Day Rally speech last Sunday. I had thought that nobody would be able to match Minisj ter Mentor Lee Kuan Yew or Senior Minister
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    • 271 23  -  KATHRYN LAU Letter from Assistant Corporate Communications Manager, Transit Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to Tay Sok Khoon's letter, "ez-link card shows 'New Ride' instead of 'Transfer'" (Aug 23). Please allow us to explain that the transfer rebate was introduced after the massive is-land-wide network
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    • 289 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON Byerghhb MARIAN MANWELL I want to tell you today about a courageous lady who recently passed away at 75 years of age. Her name was Marian Manwell, and I admired her greatly. When she was an infant, she was sitting in a halter
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    • PRs job-hop for good reason
      • 199 24  -  EBENEZERJEYARAJ Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Curb PRs from job hopping" by Ms Liow Gwee Cheng (Aug 23). I am an Indian national who was granted PR status just a year after joining my present company and I have remained with it
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      • 96 24  -  JOHN LUCAS Letter from A LETTER of employment can be used to personalise the terms of agreement without the need to create a heavy-fisted law that would discourage talented people from seeking employment in Singapore. The privilege to change jobs and to receive
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      • 159 24  -  HENDRICKLEE Letter from MS LIOW Gwee Cheng gives the impression that the employer helps the employee to obtain PR status. In fact, PR is based on the applicant's merits, not company sponsorship. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority website states that company sponsorship
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    • 306 24  -  TANKOKTIM Letter from' SOME years back, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) rejected my suggestion of a two-way reversal road system to improve traffic flow. Recently, someone wrote to the media about this. I had suggested LTA should study the road system of Sydney
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    • Article, Illustration
      702 26  -  SEBASTIAN TAN -AS TOLD TO CHEN SIVA Face in the crowd BcKMiiirffiftHaiißiiM ALMOST 20 years ago, a clash in a rugby match left Mr Sebastian Tan wheelchair-bound. It happened at a training session for the under-20 Rugby Nationals in May 1986. Then a 19-year-old with only a few more
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    • 385 26  -  i KHOO LIH-HAN UMBOONHEE Letter from I REFER to Karen Goh's letter, "Why not have real-time LED maps on our train network?" (Aug 24). I recently made the same point to our train operators. Their reply as expected was: "No, we consider this
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  • Businesstoday
    • 501 28 -AFP India aims to collaborate with China for the purchase of oil and gas assets worldwide NEW DELHI India will seek to jointly bid with China for energy resources in other countries after losing out to its giant neighbour in a bid for
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    • 186 28 A NEW $500-million industrial real estate investment trust (Reit) is expected to list on the Singapore Exchange by year's end, according to a report in the Edge Singapore. To be called Cambridge Industrial Reit, the property trust will be the first in Singapore that
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    • 263 28 BLOOMBERG INDONESIA'S rupiah plunged the most in 15 months on speculation that surging oil prices will force the government and companies to buy more US dollars. The rupiah extended a five-day slide, dropping 1.8 per cent to the lowest since
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    • business news
      • 246 30 DOW JONES OIL PRICES will average US$57 a barrel this year and fall to an average of US$54 a barrel next year, according to Deustche Bank chief economist Norbert Walter. "The oil price has reached its cyclical peak of this cycle," Mr Walter
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      • 387 30  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA After foray into Kolkata, budget carrier wants to widen its reach further shobha@newstoday.com.sg JETSTAR Asia, which last week marked a new chapter in Singapore aviation as the country's first budget airline to fly to India, is already contemplating tying up with
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      • 218 30 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Petroleum Company (SPC), the only oil refiner traded on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), said its wholly-owned subsidiary paid an undisclosed amount for the right to explore for oil and gas in an area off the coast of
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      • market watch
        • 71 31 SHARES fell for the second consecutive session yesterday as New York benchmark crude oil crossed above the US$66-a-barrel level in Asian trade. Sentiment was also hit by weakness on the Hong Kong bourse, where property stocks lost ground and investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of market heavyweights Hutchison
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        • 36 31 US$ 0.5979 UK£ 0.3333 Yen 66.015 HK$ 4.6475 RM 2.2538 Euro 0.4895 Rupiah 6,139.1 Baht 24.607 Peso 33.498 A$ 0.7919 Indian Rs 26.143 Won 614.87 C$ 0.7157 Yuan 4.8425 NZ$ 0.8571 NT$ 19.924
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        • 59 31 ST Index 2,278.35 -11.31 Dow Jones the index," a trader said, referring to losses in index stocks like Jardine Cycle Carriage and Jardine Strategic Holdings. The ST Index ended 11.31 points, or 0.5 per cent, lower at 2,278.35. In the broad market, losers led gainers 312 to 157, while volume
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        • 56 31 Nikkei 225 12,502.26 +29.33 +0.24 Hang Seng 14,873.85 -100.04 -0.67 All Ordinaries 4,424.200 -27.400 -0.62 Taiwan Wtd 6,127.24 -67.94 -1.10 Korea Comp 1,094.21 -21.63 -1.94 KtCI 926.08 +2.29 +0.25 SET Index 695.67 +5.28 +0.76 Jakarta Comp 1,035.44 -30.64 -2.87 Phils Comp 1,924.15 -19.61 -1.01 Shenzhen B 226.69 +0.72
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      • 416 31 BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings may double its investment in China Construction Bank to US$2.4 billion ($4 billion) as part of a plan to expand overseas and reduce shareholdings in Singapore as the pace of the citystate's economic growth slows, people familiar with the proposal
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      • 124 32  -  CHOW PENN NEE MAINBOARD-listed LindetevesJacoberg has entered into a nonbinding agreement with a European strategic investor to secure additional funding for its working capital needs. Lindeteves chairman Lim Say Hui said in the statement "that a short-term infusion of working capital was necessary". Investors responded
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      • 223 32 Informatics Holdings' chief financial officer, Mr Raymond Quek Hiong How, has resigned. He will be replaced on Sept 15 by Ms Cecilia Tong Chiu Fai, who has been the financial controller at the education services company since 2001. Adroit Innovations has dropped a $478-million deal to buy Hai Yue
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      • 381 33 -AFP RHB, Southern, EON are likely targets: Report KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's banking sector may be heading for another round of consolidation after a lull of three years and six banks are potential takeover targets, US banking giant JP Morgan said. Current conditions
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      • 453 64 -AGENCIES But Souness still has to persuade striker Newcastle can be his new home NEWCASTLE English Premiership side Newcastle United will break the bank to bring England striker Michael Owen home. Newcastle said yesterday they had agreed to a "record transfer fee" with Spanish giants Real
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