Today, 21 July 2006

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    13 1 TODAY //\=DIJ\COKiP share your free newspaper Friday July 21, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Mr HDB, Lim Kirn San, passes away
    787 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS EDITOR-AT-LARGE clem ent@newstoday.com.sg ONE of Singapore's founding fathers, former Cabinet Minister Lim Kirn San, died peacefully at his home yesterday at the age of 89. Mr Lim (picture), who has often been described as the man who broke the back of
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    Lock icon As the bombs drop
    723 1 AGENCIES Lebanese leaders ask for respite, say nation is on its knees BEIRUT Israel dropped 23 metric tons of explosives on the compound of Hezbollah headquarters in South Beirut yesterday in an undisguised attempt to kill Hezbol- lah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. But a defiant Hezbollah issued
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      43 1 I hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 24 business 32 plus 44 1v 58 classad 59 traveller today 62 sports 64 we set you thinking I GEEK MOVIE CHICf I Move over hunks, here come the dorky leading menmU
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon EXODUS FROM LEBANON
      721 2  -  LAN LYE IN BEIRUT, LEBANON Singaporeans evacuated from Beirut, only one of five registered with consulate remain news@newstoday.com.sg FIGHTING back tears, 18-year-old Singaporean Samantha Kudus embraced her boyfriend for one last time, before getting into the waiting taxi that would take her to the safety of Syria.
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    • Article
      Clearer terms in ink for maids, employers
      683 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO Come Sept 15, two standard contracts spelling out hours of work, rest days and refund policies come into force derrick@newstoday.com.sg THINKING of hiring foreign domestic help? Soon, before you do so, you must state in writing how many rest hours
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      Lock icon Clinics ready for any 'patient surge' in flu pandemic
      258 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA EVEN though Singapore doesn't have a single bird flu case, some 1,500 General Practitioners (GP) who run clinics across Singapore have been quietly preparing for a flu pandemic. Required procedures include setting aside a room to isolate flu patients
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      S'porean held over 'explosion' in KL hotel
      382 4  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg A SINGAPOREAN has been detained by Malaysian police to help them in a probe into a minor explosion at a Kuala Lumpur hotel two weeks ago. The unidentified Chinese man was arrested on Monday at his home in Simei
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      Lock icon TB outbreak and an outcry
      533 6  -  SHERALYN TAY Staff are upset with the home's handling of the situation shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg AN ELDERLY patient at the Ling Kwang Nursing Home for Senior Citizens, who recently came down with tuberculosis (TB), has possibly spread the infection to 10 of the staff. The Ministry
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      Blogger gets 'stern warning' for offensive caricatures of Christ
      337 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg THE 21-year-old youth who was being investigated by the police for publishing offensive caricatures of Jesus Christ on his blog escaped prosecution and was let off with a "stern warning", the police said yesterday. According to the police,
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon VIVOCITY JOB FAIR ATTRACTS 15,000 APPLICATIONS
        95 6 938 LIVE The Vivo City job fair has attracted 15,000 applications for jobs -five times the number of jobs on offer. Of the 3,000 jobs on offer for Singapore's biggest mall, many were for sales and customer service crew, bartenders, manicurists and hair assistants.
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        Lock icon THREE S'POREANS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING IN M'SIA
        102 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Three Singaporean men have been charged in a Malaysian court with kidnapping a 68-year-old businessman. Gan Eng Choon, Lim Yu Xiong and Kok Chiew Leong had allegedly abducted Mr Tan Siong Pek on June 30 and demanded a $200,000 ransom. The
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        Lock icon ALL SPICED UP FOR STORE'S FIRST MULTICULTURAL COOKING CHALLENGE
        122 6 938 LIVE Local chefs have gathered to compete in Singapore's first multicultural culinary competition. Organised by the Restaurant Association of Singapore, the competition aims to whip up a uniquely Singapore cuisine that will appeal to both local and international tastes. President
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      Tracking it all over
      404 8  -  LEE U-WEN Cisco's new system lets businesses keep watch over assets, workers u-wen@newstoday.com.sg BUSINESSES can soon keep tabs on the whereabouts of their employees, goods and vehicles no matter where they are in Singapore. From this October, companies who subscribe to security company Cisco's new Track
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      Court sets aside assets-freeze injunction
      278 8  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg A HIGH Court judge yesterday set aside an injunction application sought by an expatriate couple who were clients of runaway lawyer David Rasif (picture) to freeze the assets of a jewellery firm and its director. The couple had taken out an injunction
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      Lock icon Private homes on NEA's dengue check list
      316 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE National Environment Agency (NEA) is targeting landed homes and private apartments in the second phase of its dengue prevention campaign. It is now focusing its efforts on 74 private estates and condominiums that were not affected last year by dengue
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      Lock icon Not just men to carry condoms anymore
      187 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A NEW six-month campaign has kicked off in various pubs to educate young single women about protecting themselves against HIV infection. Action for Aids (AFA), a non-government organisation, is behind this campaign. According to the Ministry of Health, one in two
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      Lock icon Flying high red and white
      540 10  -  TAN HWEE HWEE AtNDP'O6, pilots will carry the Spore flag with sharp precision hweehwee@newstoday.com.sg VIEWERS, get ready to be wowed as the Apache advanced attack helicopter makes its debut appearance at this year's National Day Parade. But while the normal average speed for the aircraft
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      Lock icon FairPrice's attempt to get fresh
      323 10 —TANHWEEHWEE TO MAKE your grocery shopping more enjoyable, supermarket chain NTUC Fair Price will be investing $1.2 million to improve the customer service skills of its entire front-line staff by 2007. The training will include listening skills, personal presentation and service standards even professional grooming
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Malaysia, Indonesia join forces to battle haze
      256 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to join forces to stamp out fires in oil palm plantations which are contributing to the region's annual haze problem, a Malaysian minister said yesterday. Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin said plantation owners
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon JAPANESE WAR-TIME EMPEROR OPPOSED SHRINE
        94 12 -AFP Japan s war-time Emperor Hirohito opposed the Yasukuni Shrine s decision to honour Class-Awar criminals of World War 11, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday, citing a memorandum kept by a former Imperial Household Agency grand steward. "That's why I have not visited the
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        Lock icon VILLAGERS PREPARE TO EVACUATE AS VOLCANO SPEWS ASH
        52 12 -AFP Villagers on the slopes of Mayon volcano prepared to evacuate yesterday as minor eruptions and a cloud of ash indicated it was building up for a major eruption, officials said. The 2,400-metre volcano southeast of Manila has been spewing lava since
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        Lock icon TAIWAN ARMY OFFICERS FEARED ARRESTED BY CHINA
        55 12 ■AFP Two Taiwanese intelligence officers have gone missing on the China-Vietnam border and may have been arrested by China. The colonels worked for military intelligence and went to Vietnam in late May, allegedly to make contact with informants in China's People's Liberation Army,
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        Lock icon MODERATE EARTHQUAKE ROCKS PNG
        34 12 AFP A moderate quake measuring 5.7 shook the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea early yesterday, meteorologists in Sydney said There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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      Lock icon Aid efforts intensify
      621 12 -AGENCIES Jittery residents stay on high ground after Wednesday's tsunami scare PANGANDARAN (Indonesia) Aid efforts for tsunami survivors intensified yesterday, a day after another tsunami alert triggered panic on the country's main island of Java. The death toll has risen to more than 550, with about 330
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      Lock icon Indonesia draws level with bird flu record
      210 14 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday became the nation worst hit by human fatalities from bird flu along with Vietnam, as it confirmed its 42nd death from the HSNI virus. Health ministry official Joko Suyono said a test by a World Health Organizationaffiliated (WHO) laboratory
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      Kissing in public is 'unacceptable'
      317 14 It contradicts Eastern values, Malaysian court told KUALA LUMPUR A police officer who caught a couple kissing in public has told a Malaysian court such behaviour run counter to Eastern values. Officer Mohamad Nor Abdul Manaf, who arrested students Siow Ai Wei, 23, and Ooi
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      Lock icon Kelantan lifts ban on Thai kickboxing
      219 14 DPA KUALA LUMPUR Islamic officials in Kelantan plan to lift a 16-year ban on Thai kickboxing but the sport will have strict conditions imposed on the players and audience, a report said yesterday. Thai kickboxing, also known as muay thai, was banned in 1990
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon SHE'S MORE THAN A COP
        60 17 —AFP A New Zealand policewoman is receiving counselling after the discovery that she had been moonlighting as a prostitute but has kept her job on the force, police said yesterday. The Auckland officer had taken up part-time work as a prostitute "for a limited time",
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        ROBBER'S GAMBLE BACKFIRES
        75 17 A Croatian armed robber who held up a string of betting shops was arrested after he returned to one to place a bet, reported ananova.com. But the 28-year-old did not cover his face during the robberies and was recognised when he returned to place a bet. "It
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        Lock icon A SICK WAY TO ADVERTISE?
        60 17 —AP US Airways wants to make the most out of a nauseating situation. The airline plans to sell advertisements on its air-sickness bags —those pint-sized expandable envelopes tucked between the in-flight magazines and safety cards. "They're in every back seat pocket," said a spokesman. "We
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      Lock icon Will Condi give Asean a miss, again?
      512 17 -AFP I Washington hints she might make it WASHINGTON The United States yesterday sent a strong hint that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would still go to next week's Asian security forum, despite her possible Middle East peace mission. Host Malaysia had earlier
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      Lock icon Army chief deals 'counter punch' to Thaksin
      352 18 -DPA Removes many officers under command of generals loyal to Thai Prime Minister BANGKOK Thailand's army chief has transferred most of the middle-ranking officers under generals deemed loyal to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in what observers described yesterday as a "counter punch" to
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      Lock icon Alkatiri questioned about death squads
      203 18 -AFP DILI Timor Leste's former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri was questioned by the prosecutor general's office yesterday over allegations he authorised the arming of a hit squad tasked with eliminating his rivals. Sacked interior minister and Alkatiri ally Rogerio Lobato faces criminal charges over distributing
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      Lock icon Self-immolation bid on Tiananmen
      246 18 -AFP BEIJING A Chinese man set himself on fire on Tiananmen Square yesterday, carrying out a rare and dramatic act of protest in the nation's political heart. The authorities said he was protesting against unpaid wages. Mr Wang Cong'an, a 53-year-old native of Jiangsu province in
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      WHY NO ONE'S TURNING AGAINST HEZBOLLAH
      823 20  -  JOHNGEE Bombing civilians is counter-productive for Israel TRIPOLI, Lebanon's second largest city, spreads between the mountains and the sea far to the north of the troubled border with Israel. Hezbollah, the party now engaged in a bloody confrontation across that line, is respected for
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      Lock icon ENRICHING IRAN
      813 22  -  EMANUELSHAHAF If the world doesn't wake up to the danger Tehran poses, the regime could go the North Korean way IN JERUSALEM ISRAELI Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it all on Wednesday: Iran has succeeded in removing its nuclear ambitions from the international agenda by manipulating Hezbollah's attack
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      Lock icon China can't force change on North Korea: General
      175 22 AGENCIES WASHINGTON China's top military officer has said that Beijing is doing all it can to persuade North Korea to reach agreement on its nuclear and missile programmes, but cannot force it to change course. "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is
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  • Voices
    • Stop NDP ticket profiteering
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        Verification process may help curb cyber-touting
        353 24  -  KRIS LEE WAI LOON Letter from I WAS disturbed to read the report, "Free NDP tickets fetch premium prices online" (July 20). The National Day Parade (NDP) is an annual opportunity for Singaporeans to gather and celebrate the birth of our Nation. While the
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        Give priority to those who have not attended NDPs
        183 24  -  COLIN ONG TAU SHIEN Letter from THE method of allocating tickets for the annual NDP will always be hotly debated because demand is considerably greater than supply. There is the element of luck involved since there is no current quota on
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    • Letter
      Help for abused hubbies at $1
      167 24  -  DANNYCHUA Letter from I REFER to the report, "Reaching out to males in abuse cases" (July 19). It took a long time to find out that conventional family violence programmes targeting women and children have missed out on the men. Last year, out of
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    • Road to safety for cyclists, drivers
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        Sentence errant drivers to take a turn as cyclists
        137 26  -  POHYUSEUNG Letter from I THIS is with regard to the relatively light sentence passed on the driver that caused the death of a cyclist. The sentence was a fine of $7,000 and a six-year ban from driving. How about, in cases
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        Cycling groups, stay on the straight and narrow
        153 26  -  THOMAS LEE ZHIZHI Letter from" I AM saddened to learn of a cyclist who was killed when he was knocked down during a cycling trip with his friends. I notice that groups of cyclists often do not ride in safe single file.
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      Let MOE review English guides
      96 26  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from, I SHARE Mr Colin Ong Tau Shien's concern in "Hidden traps in grammar jungle" (July 20) about mistakes in English model composition books. During the 1950s and 60s, we learned English from competent and dedicated teachers, and good textbooks.
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      DPS already covers the family
      121 26  -  CHANG LONG KIAT Letter from I Director (Housing Healthcare) Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board GOH Kian Huat, in "Allow Dependents Protection Scheme (DPS) to cover family members" (July 17), suggested CPF members be allowed to use their CPF to cover their family members under DPS.
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    • Good to hear voices from both Mid-E camps
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        No room for neutrality in commentary on crisis
        141 26  -  ANGTOKWOON Letter from GERALD Giam, in his letter decrying the choice of Israeli Emanuel Shahaf as a Middle East commentator ("Unbiased opinions", July 20), already shows his own less-than-neutral stand on the Middle East crisis. Neutrality is a figment of the imagination
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        Lock icon The Anglo-Saxon world view is not forever
        200 26  -  WONG HOONG HOOI Letter from THANK you for the News Comment, "Don't Arabs have a right to self-defence?" (July 20), which was an enjoyable read, not least because of the style in which it was written. There is little point pleading for what
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        HOW TO PARK FOR FREE
        82 28  -  UM BOON HEE: I HAVE noticed how some people are able to park for free the whole day in CBD car parks. They are smart enough to beat the Achilles heel of barrier parking. Bytailgating an exiting car at the barrier, the car park cheat
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        S'POREANS, TREAT YOURSELVES BETTER
        74 28  -  LEONG KUM CHUEN: AT A pharmacy in Marina Square, I saw a cashier serve a foreigner and his female partner courteously. Unfortunately for the other customers in the queue, we did not enjoy the same standard of service. I wonder, with so much hype given to
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        PUT UP SIGNS TO WARN MOTORISTS
        82 28  -  MURUGESAN SUPPAYYAN: FURTHER to Ben Ong's letter "Wrong timing for works" (July 20), last Saturday at around 11am, there was a traffic jam along the CTE exiting to Braddell Road thanks to tree pruning works there. Couldn't the work have been done when there
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      A painful wait
      396 28  -  MAGGIE CHUA How red tape added to three-year-old's dental sufferings Letter from WITH reference to the article, "The dentist is swamped" (July 19), I would like to relate my encounters with the polyclinic dental service and the National Dental Centre (NDC). My three-year-old son had a toothache
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      A COLD STORAGE MANAGER'S HEART OF GOLD
      76 28  -  DERICKCHANPOHSENG: ACCOLADE LAST Sunday night, my 60-year-old father fell outside the Cold Storage supermarket at Funan Centre. The manager, Clement, ran up to help my father, gave him a drink and called the ambulance. While waiting, he kindly attended to my father's needs.
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      FOCUA ON THE FAMILY
      248 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... WHAT'S A GRANDMOTHER? Some years ago a nine year old girl wrote a wonderful essay called "What is a Grandmother?" and whenever I read it, it reminds me all over again just how perceptive children can be. This is what the child
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    • That elusive search for happiness
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        The real cures are contentment, compassion
        161 30  -  LAI YEW CHAN Letter from MAKING bus or train rides comfortable, facilitating home-sourcing, promoting marriage, and keeping psychological medicine affordable as Mr Adrian Tan suggests in his News Comment are just symptomatic measures. In the long run, the root causes of unhappiness among Singaporeans
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        You can't tailor happiness with one-size-fits-all policies
        171 30  -  JOLENETAN Letter from AS A general rule, governments that do not randomly detain, execute or oppress their people are likely to be governing happier citizens. Similarly, basic standards of food, shelter, healthcare and amenities are probably necessary for most people to feel secure,
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        Who says we're unhappy?
        112 30  -  PHILUPTANFONGUP Letter from I HAVE the greatest reservations as to the the index's assertion that Singaporeans are a most unhappy lot. Firstly, how can one measure happiness? It is not only intangible but also variable. How can you measure to what degree one is happy, for
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        No smiles in Singapore
        123 30  -  JUNAIDAH BEGUM Letter from. I DO agree we lack happiness here in Singapore. People are trying to keep up with the rising cost of living so much so that there is no time for smiles and joy. There is no warmth in the man on the
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        Be poor to be happy
        111 30  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I OUR self-centredness is the main cause of all our unhappiness. We are always busy doing our own things for selfish gains and have no time for others. We are so lost in life's external activities that we rarely have time
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        It's time to stop letting our lives revolve around money
        228 30  -  PETER LOON Letter from AS NATIONAL Day approaches, perhaps we should reconsider the manner in which our ship gets to our destination. Are we hurtling along too quickly and losing people their ability to be content along the way? Let's
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      isay REDUCE, REUSE, REJOICE
      533 31  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN LET'S get one thing straight the Happy Planet Index (HPI) that ranked Singapore 131 st out of 178 countries does not actually measure happiness as we know it It is an innovative measure of how efficiently a nation converts the planet's natural
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      Prickly penalty for durian smugglers
      147 31  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "No durians, please" by Ace Kindred Cheong (July 18). We thank the writer for his feedback. As he has pointed out, durians emit a strong smell which
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      71 28 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES 'What sex life?'grumbles the virgin 'What a sex life!' exclaims the tart The intrusion of a little article Is what makes them worlds apart! MUSES The more we know, the less we do It's the greatest of paradoxes Truth lies within truth within truth Like nested Chinese
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      S'pore resilient to oil price hikes
      507 32  -  CHRISTIE LOH MAS says GDP growth on track, inflation impact damped by strong local currency christie@newstoday.com.sg THE raging battle in the Middle East is not ruffling the feathers of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Although the tensions have pushed up oil prices on
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      MAS' PROFIT PLUNGES TWO-THIRDS TO $1.28
      365 32  -  Christie Loh RISING interest rates have hurt the profitability of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the banking and financial markets regulator that also manages part of the country's foreign reserves. In the year ended March 31, 2006, the MAS' net profit on paper
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      Lock icon Fears over Middle East, hurricane underpin crude
      260 32 -AGENCIES CRUDE oil prices rose yesterday after the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a tropical storm watch and the United Nations failed to agree on a resolution to demand that Iran suspend its nuclear research, while the fighting between Israel and
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      Lock icon K-Reit shines
      167 32 DOWJONES K-REIT Asia, a Keppel Land-managed real estate investment trust that owns office property in Singapore, yesterday reported a high-er-than-forecast income for the period from April 26 to June 30 due to higher occupancy levels and strong demand for office space. K-Reit said unitholders would be entitled to
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      Lock icon Tiger Airways wants 'cubs'
      488 34  -  TORCHING LI One or two bases outside of Singapore as part of airline's groundwork for future listing chingli@newstoday.com. sg TIGER Airways, the budget airline coowned by Singapore Airlines (SIA), plans to evolve into a pan-Asian budget carrier by setting up "one or two" bases outside of
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      Lock icon No deal made with China Eastern: SIA
      187 34 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said yesterday that it had been in discussions with China Eastern Airlines Corp but had not made any deal. "Singapore Airlines wishes to state that it has been in discussions at various times with a number of airlines,
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      Lock icon Middle East investors boost Singapore's Islamic finance
      320 39 -AFP MIDDLE East investors are boosting Singapore's effort to become a regional centre for Islamic finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. "We have seen strong interest from the region, especially from the Middle East for various reasons," said MAS managing
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        ST Index — 2,383.54+41.75
        3 39 ST Index 2,383.54+41.75
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        Lock icon Singapore
        104 39 Agencies SHARES surged yesterday, boosted by the Wall Street rally after US Federal Reserve chairman's Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony on Wednesday suggesting that the central bank was almost done raising interest rates. The ST Index rose 41.75 points, or 1.8 per cent, to close at 2,383.54, after touching an
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        Lock icon World markets
        66 39 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Information provided by and Nikkei 225 14,946.84 +446.58 +3.88 HK Hang Seng 16,472.62 +375.88 +2.33 Australia ASX200 4,996.58 +96.48 +1.97 Korea Comp Thailand SET 1,273.38 +39.65 668.96 +8.85 +3.21 +1.34 Jakarta Comp 1,315.59 +35.89 +2.74 Phils Comp 2,247.48 +65.83 +3.82 Shenzhen B 289.48 +2.95
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 39 US$ 0.6304 UK£ 0.3415 Yen 73.629 HK$ 4.9037 RM 2.3209 Euro 0.5005 Rupiah 5,781.1 Baht 23.998 Peso 32.978 A$ 0.8407 Indian Rs 29.541 Won 600.34 C$ 0.7145 Yuan 5.0398 NZ$ 1.0171 NT$ 20.648
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        Commodities
        20 39 Gold US$/oz 643.50 Silver US$/oz 11.15 Platinum US$/oz 1,232.70 Rubber cents/kg 388.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,456.50 Brant US$/barrel 74.28
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      CORPORATE BRIEFS
      136 40 KeppelLand has raised its stake in Dragon Land to 71.37 percent from 66.78 per cent after buying 23.3 million Dragon Land shares from Capitalfield Holdings for U553.27 million ($5.2 million). —DOW JONES Mapletree Logistics Trust has issued, via a special purpose vehicle, HK$l.2 billion ($203 million) worth of
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      Lock icon Sony takes digital imaging to higher level
      225 40 Its compact alOO camera promises high performance to bring vivid, sharp images JAPANESE consumer electronics giant Sony entered the high-end digital camera market with the launch of its first digital Digital Single-Lens Reflex (D-SLR) camera in Singapore earlier this week. Catering to high-level
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      Lock icon Nissan's S'pore office to head South-east Asia export ops
      137 40 —AFP THE Singapore office of Nissan Motor will manage the company's export operations as it seeks increased growth in South-east Asia, Japan's sec-ond-biggest automaker said yesterday. The Singapore base, which opened last year, will manage commercial transactions from Nissan's new export
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      CAPITALAND BUILDS UP AS CHINA PLAYER
      818 42  -  ADRIAN TAN news@newstoday.com.sg THE Chinese economy is growing by more than 9 per cent a year, and China's authorities project future growth of 7 per cent per annum. If one believes that all this is not going to end in tears, then for small
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      132 43 Tak&time/tfrfaU/ Cn/love/ with/ a/ Lonely Com). New Zealand is a lush,green country with a warm and gentle climate, 'CSS tideal for agriculture and horticulture. We have many splendid iH&ilifJi m\ vineyards and a lot of sheep and cows. However, there are millions r<Bfc B more sheep than cows, which sometimes
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      MACHO LIBRE!
      891 44  -  Jeanine Tan It's not all about chiselled good looks anymore in Hollywood LET'S start with a question: If you could choose any of these men to go out with, whom would it be? Your choices are Jack Black, Paul Giamatti and Steve Carrell. Based on looks alone, it's
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      Lock icon HI-TECH HELL
      639 46  -  Felix Cheong From Ringu to Stay Alive, denizens of Hades have found a way into our world BE AFRAID. Be very afraid the next time you surf the net, launch into instant messaging or plug into a videogame. For if recent films are anything to go by, there
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      119 46 GOODBYE GIRL: Gayle Nerva is the second contestant to bid Singapore Idol goodbye, after she failed to secure enough viewer votes in yesterday's results show to continue in the competition. The 17-year-old had sung, ironically enough, the Billboard No 1 hit song Leave (Get Out) by JoJo on Wednesday's Spectacular
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      Lock icon Cold determination
      418 48  -  JEANINETAN Even passing out in sub-zero temperatures did not stop superstar Shawn Yue from completing Dragon Tiger Gate jea nine@newstoday.com.sg SHAWN Yue was so cold when filming a particular scene in the upcoming martial arts film Dragon Tiger Gate that he had an asthma attack and passed out.
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      Lock icon Diva Tsai tired but does her bit for charity
      265 48 TREVORTAN FOR a diva who has entertained thousands with her slick dance moves and captivating stage presence, Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai was a pale shadow of herself during a press conference here on Wednesday. Appearing tired and listless, the petite, 26-year-old
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      Musical based on acclaimed book has children questioning God
      272 50  -  DAVID CHEW INSPIRED by the bestseller Children's Letters to God, a musical version of the book will debut next week at the DBS Arts Centre. Addressing issues ranging from the death of a pet and divorce, to friends moving away and
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      Designed for TV
      394 50  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Project Runway's Santino Rice's telegenic personality makes up for his lack of flair plus@newstoday.com.sg VIEWERS will have to endure (or adore) Santino Rice for a while more. The guy everyone loves to hate on Project Runway is not ready to hang up his reality-show
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        SHORTSSHORTS
        95 52 The 3rd Singapore Short Cuts, a showcase of the best and latest in made-in-Singapore short films, kicks off on Saturday at the National Museum of Singapore. Some of the short films in the programme line-up include Colin Goh's 3 Meals, Jack Neo's Replacement Killers and Eric Khoo's No Day
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        Lock icon The next step
        349 52  -  DAVID CHEW Three at SDT get the chance to tell fellow dancers what to do David.chew@newstoday.com.sg ROBERT Mills of the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) had a rough 2005. The Australian dancer found himself down with dengue fever, leaving him out of action for almost three months. His
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        Wrestling for laughs
        325 54  -  Jeanine Tan Nacho Libre does not show Jack Black at his comedic best FILMREVIEW by Nacho Libre JACK Black is the least annoying he's ever been in his latest outing, Nacho Libre, and that's not a good thing, as this is one comedy that rarely provokes anything
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        Stay Alive
        251 54  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by WHEN the title of a movie is just one syllable shy of a famous disco song, you know that credibility is going to be a problem. As it turns out, Stay Alive does everything to live up to your preconceived ideas. For a start,
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        The business of love
        287 56  -  Jeanine Tan Monica Bellucci hots up the screen as a fantasy-fulfilling prostitute FILMREVIEW by. I How Much Do You Love Me? A BEAUTIFUL prostitute and her plain-looking suitor what would bring them together? It's money or so you think. French actor Bernard Campan an odd-looking actor
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        Hoodwinked
        259 56  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by I THE IDEA is not fresh but that takes nothing away from the entertainment value of Hoodwinked. Think of the irreverent humour of Shrek (2001) channelled through Little Red Riding Hood and what you get are 80 minutes of spot the pun, post modern fun.
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      464 64 HERE'S some advice for S-League fans who turn up at the stadiums on Fridays and Sundays: You should always have a bottle or can of H-TWO-0 with you. If you are selected to take part in the H-TWO-0 Double Your Money Dare Challenges at
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      533 64  -  CUBBYLEONG In-form Woodlands hope to continue unbeaten streak, at Home's expense NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Woodlands v Home cubby@newstoday.com.sg FREE-SCORING Woodlands Wellington are banking on their red-hot form in front of goal to take them past Home United when the two teams meet today at the Woodlands
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      343 66  -  CUBBYLEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg WITH the makeup of the Asian Games swim team almost done and dusted, our national swimmers will use two major meets in the coming weeks to kickstart preparations for the Doha extravaganza in December. Starting with the British ASA National Swimming Championships set for
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      533 66  -  DARREN LAI Ex-SAA president offers financial help to throwers Dv and Zhang darren@newstoday.com.sg HE MIGHT have resigned as president of the Singapore Athletics Association (SAA), but former chief Tang Weng Fei has returned to help two of his former charges. On Monday, this newspaper had exclusively
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      234 66  -  CUBBYLEONG AIMING to raise $300,000 to help disabled athletes like Theresa Goh in her preparations for Paralympics 2008, organisers of tomorrow's Olympic Dream Going for GOLD event at the Singapore Polytechnic are welcoming the public to show their support Organised by the
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      424 67  -  DARREN LAI SAFFC emerge biggest winners on the night as 10-man Tampines defeat Young Lions NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Tampines 3 Young Lions 2 Gombak United 2 SAFFC 3 darren@newstoday.com.sg ON A night when the top three teams in the league were in action, it was SAFFC who emerged
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      237 67  -  -L£ONGWEEKEAT SINGAPORESAILING claimed a bronze at the 2006 ISAF World Youth Championships which concluded yesterday. The Girls' 420 pair of Sarah Tan and Lim Tze Ting finished with a total of 37 points from nine races, settling for third, behind winners Belinda
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      666 68 BLOOMBERG McDowell shoots course record 66, but Woods is breathing down his neck GOLF British Open HOYLAKE Links master Graeme McDowell grabbed the first round lead in the British Open this morning (Singapore time) with a sizzling 6-under par course record of 66. The 26-year-old Ulsterman, who learned
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      478 68 —AFP HOYLAKE, England Led by Pak Se Ri, South Korea is more renowned for producing superstar golfers in the LPGA. But S X Ho yesterday managed to salvage some pride for the Korean male when he fired a four-under-par 68 to grab a share
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      591 69 AGENCIES Scholes puts Premiership success at the top of United's agenda JOHANNESBURG Now that he can see properly, Paul Scholes is setting his sights on Chelsea's Premiership crown. The Manchester United veteran is urging the Red Devils to mount a serious challenge for the Premiership title
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      395 69 -AFP LONDON The search for a new Aston Villa manager began yesterday, following the departure of David O'Leary, with Alan Curbishley, assistant manager Roy Aitken and Martin O'Neill linked with the role. O'Leary agreed an "amicable parting of the ways" with Villa
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      336 69 -AGENCIES LONDON England, who won the World Cup the last time the country hosted the tournament in 1966, could bid for the 2018 edition, British sports minister Richard Caborn (picture) said on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). "I think there would be
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      268 66 ASIAN GAMES SWIMMING CONTINGENT WOMEN: i^ 4xloo medley: Joscelin Joscelin Yeo: 50m -JM^^k- co ao Nicolette freestyle, 100 m afc. Teo, Mylene Ong freestyle, 50m butterfly, X 4xloo freestyle: Tao Li, 200 m IM Wf m Ho Shu Yong, Mylene Tao Li (picture): 100 m J5 f^-TJf Ong, Lynette Ng
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      141 67 PHILIPS SINGAPORE CUP 2006 11 -13 August Singapore Indoor Stadium WORLD CLASS BASKETBALL ACTION! NBA Players in Singapore! Get your tickets now! Argentina 2004 Olympic Gold Medalists, Serbia Montenegro 2002 FIBA World Champions, Spain ranked sth in the world, Slovenia ranked 22th in the world. Also featuring Singapore All-Stars, Malaysia
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      555 70 AGENCIES Alongside Italy captain Cannavaro and Emerson, up to five new signings could be unveiled next week MADRID After failing to secure a trophy in three seasons, their worst run in 53 years, the first pieces of the Real Madrid rebuilding project have been
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      376 70 -AGENCIES MADRID With Real Madrid having taken the first bite at the Juventus fire sale, fierce rivals Barcelona are determined that they will not be left behind. The European and Spanish champions said on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that they hoped
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      593 71 AGENCIES Coach's departure has left Brazil with a shortage of candidates to choose from RIO DE JANEIRO The word "crisis" is seldom associated with the Brazilian national team. After all, the Selecaos have won the World Cup five times and the number of world class
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      380 71 BLOOMBERG ZURICH Italy's Marco Materazzi was banned for two international games for provoking a headbutt from France's Zinedine Zidane in football's World Cup final. Zidane would miss three matches if he came out of retirement. Zidane, 34, was dismissed during extra time of his team's defeat
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