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  • 32 1 TODAY share your free newspaper Friday October 6, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006 a, to 1)1 N /fear I share your free newspaper! Friday October 6, 2006 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 192/07/2006 TODAY
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  • 680 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IN WHAT could be a "first" of sorts a young man who had sold Ecstasy pills to a friend was given a remarkable second chance by the Subordinate Courts. Ridzuan Mohamad Hanafi can barely believe it himself,
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  • 849 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Grammar returns to schools, oral skills to improve derrick@media corp.com.sg THE Ministry of Education is rolling back the years for English lessons. Under its new curriculum, pupils will go back to the basics of the language and back in time through
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  • hot news
    • 811 2  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE Left unchecked, developers' en bloc excesses could lead to a property bubble burst SINGAPORE'S housing market, dead for five years, is suddenly gripped by frenzy. Developers are falling over each other to buy older condominiums en bloc from their individual owners only to
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    • 308 3  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg THE haze caused visibility to drop to 2-3 km yesterday afternoon nearly a fifth that of the normal range of about 10km. According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the average Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) measured over a
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    • 600 3  -  LINYANQIN Nine in 10 men work, while only 63% of women here do yanqin@media corp.com.sg THE local employment rate has risen to its highest in 15 years. Of the resident population aged 25 to 64, more than three in four 76 per cent to be exact
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    • 384 4  -  -NG HUN WEI IT WAS the longest journey home for Singapore beauty pageant contestant Mia Tan. What was supposed to be a 12-hour flight from Italy turned into a hellish 72-hour journey after her Turkish Airlines flight was hijacked on Tuesday by
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    • 626 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG NUS among top 20 universities in Times' global ranking cheekong@mediacorp. com.sg ONE LOCAL university regained its top 20 honours while another tumbled out of the top 50 after taking a plunge of 13 places in the latest global universities ranking released yesterday. After its
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    • 596 5 Cool yet dramatic, modern yet timeless an apartment in the heart of Bukit Timah shows how the Samsung Bordeaux fits right in "IT'S cool," declared Delvyn Wong, 30, when asked why he and his wife, Gladys, 28, had requested for lots of greys to be incorporated into
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    • 18 3 FAST TIMES today: fc BREAK OF FAST A A% tomorrow: I WJm m START OF FAST V *Xw
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  • Singapore news
    • 765 6  -  TORCHING LI $2-billion Marina Bay Financial Centre to be in the same league as NY and London centres chingli@media corp.com.sg IT NOW has a name to go by and a towering ambition. The Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) will be a vibrant "live-work-play" focal point for
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    • 338 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE MANPOWER Ministry will implement new regulations to address the high accident rates in the construction industry. Speaking at a Construction Safety and Security Campaign yesterday, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Manpower Hawazi Daipi also unveiled long-term proposals to enhance safety over the next
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    • 246 6  -  TANHUILENG GASTRIC flu was the cause of the mass food poisoning at Ang Mo Kio Secondary School, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday. In a statement, it said that norovirus, which causes the condition, was found in the stool
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    • 253 8  -  DAVID CHEW THE Singapore architect behind the familiar facade of the Zara store along Orchard Road and the Museum of Toys on Seah Street has pipped other acclaimed architects in Asia to clinch the region's version of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. In being
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    • 391 8  -  CLEMENT MESENAS clement@media corp.com.sg HE BOWED out on a high note literally. At NTUC Income's 36th anniversary dinner last night, Mr Tan Kin Lian, the insurance cooperative's chief executive officer, formally announced his impending retirement from the company after 30 years at the helm
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    • 541 8  -  —ASHRAFSAFDAR CHANNEL NEWSASIA AUSTRIAN Erik Payrer loves to climb be it mountains, glaciers, or hills. But when he came to work in Singapore, he couldn't find an activity that would help him keep fit- until he discovered BukitTimahHill. Now, the vice-president of oil-and-gas
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    • 492 10  -  MIRAKASHINATH 'Cosplay' cafe with anime-inspired maids to open here next month mira@mediacorp.com.sg FANS of Japanese cosplay or costume play may soon get to dine at what is believed to be the first "maid" cafe here next month. Patrons at "Cosafe" (a play on the words "cosplay"
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    • 354 10  -  UNYANQIN FIRST the good news: Most skills training programmes sponsored by the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) have been effective in raising income for low-wage workers, a survey revealed. But, it also found that certain groups of workers like those without formal education are still missing
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 93 12 938 LIVE Those interested in obtaining a tourism diploma can take a new course that offers a chance of internship at casinos and hotels in Macau under a collaboration between the Tourism Management Institute of Singapore (TMIS) and Macau's Millennium College. The course
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      • 154 12 -938UVE Sixteen groups of final-year media students from Singapore Polytechnic have come up with innovative anti-smoking campaigns. At stake was $3,000 cash. Going by the top two winners alone, the idea is that scare tactics do not work. Instead, Marcus
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    • 579 12  -  SHERALYN TAY 53% more dial kids' counselling helpline sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg MORE primary school children are calling up counsellors to get help on bullying. So said Singapore Children's Society's Tinkle Friend helpline, which has seen a 53-per-cent increase in bully-ing-related calls. From January to
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    • 797 16 —AGENCIES —AFP Former Thai ruling party at sea after top members refuse to step in and take helm BANGKOK The Thai Rak Thai Party was in complete disarray yesterday, as none of its senior party members were prepared to step in and take the helm, following
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    • 256 16 —AFP BAGHDAD Iraqi and United States officials yesterday denied reports that US forces had killed the new chief of the Al Qaeda network in Iraq, Abu Ayyub Al Masri. Asked whether US forces had killed the Al Qaeda chief, as had been
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    • 186 16 —AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistani bomb disposal experts yesterday found and defused two rockets pointing towards President Pervez Musharraf's official residence in Islamabad, hours after a blast near his army residence. The rockets were fixed to launchers hidden in bushes at a building site about a kilometre
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    • 179 16 —AP JAKARTA Indonesia ordered a steppedup probe into the poisoning death of prominent rights activist Munir Thalib after the man convicted in the killing was acquitted. But rights workers were sceptical the case will ever be solved. The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the conviction
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    • 464 18 —AGENCIES —AFP Malaysia's PM Abdullah says he has nothing more to say on MM Lee's comments KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday ended the issue revolving around Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's remarks, saying he has nothing more to say on the
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    • 170 18 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association's Youth Wing has urged Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin to prove he has no intentions of hurting the feelings of the Chinese community. MCA Youth chief Liow Tiong Lai said Mr Khairy, who is the ruling
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    • 104 18 NEW DELHI An outbreak of dengue fever across northern India has touched Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's family, with a son-in-law and two grandsons admitted to hospital with symptoms of the disease, a Reuters report said. Mr Singh's son-in-law, Mr Vijay Tankha, and two grandsons, 11-year-old
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    • 378 20 —AFP Japan wants tough action while US accuses Russia, China of protecting the North TOKYO Japan yesterday called on a divided United Nations Security Council to impose tough sanctions on North Korea if it tests an atom bomb, but Pyongyang warned it would not back down
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    • 205 20 —AFP LONDON Britain is looking for top posts within the United Nations in exchange for supporting South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon as the next UN secretarygeneral, The Times reported yesterday. Citing unnamed diplomatic sources, it also said other permanent, veto-wielding members of
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    • 203 20 —AFP OTTAWA A judge looking into Canada's response to the 1985 bombing of an Air India jetliner opined on Wednesday that racism may have stalled Ottawa's help for victims' families and led to investigation blunders. Retired Supreme Court Justice John Major, who is
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      • 111 20 —AP Malaysia may levy fines on people who mangle the Malay language on signs and posters, and will deploy monitors to ensure that speakers at official functions don't improperly mix Malay with English, news reports said yesterday. Culture, arts and heritage minister Rais Yatim said
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      • 103 20 DPA Philippine security forces have detained an Indonesian woman believed to be the wife of a top Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) militant hiding in the country's southern region, officials said yesterday. The woman identified as Estidia Pitono, also known as Oemar or Amenah is reportedly the
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    • 790 22  -  EMANUELSHAHAF JERUSALEM Why Israel, Palestine aren't likely to get their act together soon IN... IT'S only been two weeks since most observers, including the undersigned, were fairly certain that a fragile unity government between Hamas and Fatah in Palestine, defective as it would have been, was
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    • 326 24 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON The job of the United States House of Representatives Speaker is on the line and a senior Capitol Hill aide resigned as a widening sex scandal pummelled President George W Bush's Republican party one month before national congressional
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      • 121 24 —AFP Japan's main opposition party leader Ichiro Ozawa was discharged from hospital last Friday, and said he felt healthy enough to fight new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in upcoming by-elections. The president of the Democratic Party of Japan was hospitalised on Sept
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      • 63 24 DPA Tens of thousands of Taiwanese staged a "flash mob" yesterday in their ongoing campaign to topple President Chen Shuibian. Wearing red T-shirts and shouting anti-Chen slogans, the protesters gathered for 15 minutes at public places around Taiwan. Taiwan opposition parties have launched the campaign
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      • 105 24 Brazilian authorities on Wednesday detained two US pilots to face possible manslaughter charges over a mid-air collision that caused a jet airliner to plunge into the Amazon jungle, killing 155. Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino were the pilot and co-pilot of an Embraer Legacy 600
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      • 104 24 —AFP —AFP Nato yesterday assumed command of foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan, taking over from the United States-led coalition thattoppled the Taliban regime in 2001 The formal transfer of command in 14 provinces in the east to Natos 37-nation International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took
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    • 213 26 —AFP JAKARTA More schools were shut in Indonesia yesterday, as travellers grappled with flight delays and face masks were donned to cope with worsening acrid haze from land-clearing fires, officials said. The annual illegal burn-off in Indonesia, which officials here have been accused
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    • 329 26 —AFP Privacy and state laws were violated in boardroom espionage scandal SAN FRANCISCO California announced indictments on Wednesday against HewlettPackard's ousted chairwoman Patricia Dunn and former ethics lawyer Kevin Hunsaker for their roles in a snowballing boardroom espionage scandal. "In this misguided effort, people inside and
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      • 54 26 —AFP Islamic youth in eastern Ethiopia stoned the homes and businesses of Christians on Wednesday after taking offence at what they said was the desecration of the Quran. The unrest started after Muslims discovered that a Christian-run restaurant was using pages of the Quran
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      • 75 26 —AP Madonna plans to adopt a child in Malawi, government officials said, as the pop star arrived in the southern African nation on a mission to help Aids orphans. "She told us she is looking for a baby boy," said Mr Andrina
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      • 76 26 A Malaysian man hit his wife with a hockey stick and divorced her because she failed to open a bottle of medicine meant for his gastric pain, reported The Star. The incident occurred at 1 am last Saturday in Kampung Getting in Tumpat,
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  • Voices
    • 186 28  -  TEO WEE SENG Letter from Director, Personnel Policy, Public Service Division, Prime Minister's Office I THANK Ms M Lukshumayeh for her letter "Pin yellow ribbon on civil service first" (Oct 4). The civil service supports the Government's policy to give ex-offenders a second chance.
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    • 745 28  -  BUDGET TAITAI A cooking class is meant to be fun but not for competitive S'poreans HAVING some time on my hands, I signed up for a bakery class recently. I thought it would be relaxing. Instead, it turned out to be one of the most
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    • 132 28  - Singapore dreaming a thriving Tanglin arts village EDMUND LIM WEE KIAT Letter from THE Singapore Biennale has injected variety and energy into the arts scene here. One of the sites is the conducive and convenient Tanglin Camp on Loewen Road. Located near the city, it is yet pleasant and peaceful.
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    • 237 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... NO MAGIC BULLETS Our commentaries this week have focused on building self-confidence in the child who is physically or emotionally different the one who faces a tough social challenge. Despite these wonderful suggestions that I've provided, let me conclude by acknowledging thatthere
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    • 304 32  - It's not like we hate babies JANICEWONGHUEIUNG 'I love children'campaign is off the mark; resources will be better channelled to helping parents Letter from OUR ageing population is a valid national concern, but the large-scale "I Love Children" campaign as a solution to keep Singapore young is off the mark.
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    • 449 32  -  RAVI AMRAN CUTTILAN Letter from READING the letter "Perspectives askew, on teachers and kids" (Oct 3), I felt there was something askew and outdated in Mr Joseph Khoo's perspectives. Perhaps, it is just the fact that I am
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    • 910 34  -  DAVINDER SINGH Senior Counsel Davinder Singh, 49, served four terms (1988-2006) as an MP'for Toa Payoh, now part ofßishan-Toa Payoh GRC. The CEO of law firm Drew Napier talks about what he learnt from it, in this article that first appeared in the September/October
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    • 772 36  -  RICK BRYANT I REFER to media reports and the letter from Leong Sze Hian, "Will they defend Singapore?" (Oct 5). It is quite natural for Singaporeans to question the motives of Permanent Residents (PRs) who do not opt for citizenship. And, gripped
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    • 604 38  -  ONG KENG KIAT Power tariff hikes based on actual traded forward fuel prices, not projections or forecast costs Letter from Managing Director SP Services Limited I REFER to the letters from Mr Lee Hwan Meng, Mr Lim Boon Hee, Ms Mumtaz A Wahab
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    • 243 38  -  ONG KENG KIAT Letter from Managing Director SP Services Limited I REFER to the letter, "Shortcircuited in our efforts to save electricity, we still pay more", from Ms Agnes Meurzec (Oct 3). I would like to clarify that utility meters are
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    • 202 38  -  LOHKOKLIN Letter from SOMETIME in the middle of last year, I gave a notice of partial repayment of my housing loan to the financing bank through the "Secured Mailbox" on its website. After waiting for a few days without hearing from anyone, I called
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    • 264 40  -  TAY BOON SUN Letter from Senior Public Relations Officer for Director (Corporate Development) Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter, "Better off renting?" by Mr Leong Sze Hian (Oct 2). HDB has always emphasised the need for HDB flat buyers to exercise
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    • 414 40  -  JOSEPH HUI Why the implementation of Euro IV emission standards should not be postponed Letter from Head, Pollution Control Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to Mr Mohamad Noor Abdullah's letter, "Diesel deadline not reasonable" (Sept 29). The ambient levels of participate matter less than 2.5
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  • Businesstoday
    • 274 42 —AGENCIES Petition claims foreign ownership laws were violated in deal BANGKOK A top Thai court agreed yesterday to hear a petition seeking to revoke the licences of three companies owned by Shin Corp over alleged violations of Thai foreign ownership laws. University law professor
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    • 240 42 MS CHUA Sock Koong, who will officially take over as group chief executive officer (CEO) of Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel) on April 1, has moved up from 50th position last year to the 17th spot in Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in International
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    • 152 42 -BLOOMBERG THE World Gold Council, a producer group supported by the biggest miners of the metal, will sell securities backed by the bullion in Singapore from Oct 11 the first such offering in Asia. The securities, known as an exchange-traded fund, are similar
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    • 163 42 AEM-Evertech Holdings former chief financial officer Anthony Yeo Beng Kiat has been fined $86,000 for insider trading of the company's stock, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a statement released yesterday. Yeo was found to have contravened the insider trading provisions under the Securities
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      • 403 44 BLOOMBERG West Paces targets the rich for its Capella Singapore hotel on Sentosa WEST Paces Hotel Group Asia a luxury hotel management company that will open its first property in Singapore in 2008 is targeting affluent travellers willing to pay rates four times that of
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      • 305 44 DOW JONES PLASTOFORM Holdings, which will list on the Singapore Exchange later this month, plans to launch a speaker system in January that connects with Apple Computer's iPod music player, said executive director Rick Weisman. The speakers will be similar to Apple's iPod
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      • 413 46  -  LEECHINGWERN OCBC Securities' speedy approval allows customers to seize trading opportunities chingwern® mediacorp.com.sg OCBC Securities will soon offer its customers trading access the same day they apply for share financing. Starting next Monday, OCBC Securities will become the first local brokerage to offer same-day trading, giving its
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      • 324 46 DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S central bank will likely maintain its slightly restrictive monetary policy as the risk of a global slowdown is not immediate and inflation remains within the bank's target range. Market watchers expect output growth to ease in coming months, but they say
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      • 303 47 DOW JONES THE vacancy rate in Singapore's central business district fell to 4.5 per cent in the third quarter from 7.1 per cent in the preceding quarter due to continued high demand for office space, real estate consultancy CB Richard
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        • 170 47 Dow Jones SHARES surged yesterday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a second straight record high overnight in New York. The ST Index gained 38.56 points, or 1.5 per cent, to close at 2,641.48. In the broad market, advancers outnumbered decliners 436 to 198, with 1.6 billion shares
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        • 36 47 uss 0.6314 UK£ 0.3348 Yen 74.239 HK$ 4.9178 RM 2.3257 Euro 0.4964 Rupiah 5,812.6 Baht 23.738 Peso 31.578 A$ 0.8451 Indian Rs 28.831 Won 599.12 C$ 0.7109 Yuan 4.9888 NZ$ 0.9486 NT$ 20.886
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      • 531 48 BLOOMBERG Apple CEO didn't benefit but may face sanction APPLE Computer chief executive Steve Jobs apologised to shareholders and acknowledged that he knew some stock-option grants were backdated to inflate their value. Apple said on Wednesday that an internal probe found grants were manipulated
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      • 112 49 DOW JONES SAMSUNG Corp and Microsoft Corp yesterday launched a new Internetenabled mobile phone, which they tout as the slimmest and lightest of its kind in Asia. The mobile device, called the SGH-i32ON (pic- ture), weighs 95 grams and has
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      • 803 49  -  ADRIAN TAN news@newstoday.com.sg WHOEVER thinks that being a shareholder-activist merely involves ranting in the media on the injustices being inflicted on minorities, should case-study Integra2ooo. An activist has to work hard, devote plenty of time, and be willing to pay lawyers' fees. Even then, victory is
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  • Page 50 Miscellaneous
    • 544 50 ARIES (March 21 April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) H You may find your jealousy and anger getting the Plan your next vacation or to get friends or better of you today. Try to contain how you feel W#W family together to catch up. The more you inor get
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  • Traveltoday
    • 602 52 -AP Businesses are cashing in on a lucrative new trend mancationing GENE Grabarnick longed for a hotel with all the things a man would want on a getaway with friends. Where requests from hand-rolled cigars to a favourite beer in the minibar— would be unflinchingly filled.
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    • 186 52 DPA HONG Kong's newest tourist attraction is a 5.7km-long cable-car ride to Lantau island's Big Buddha statue. The 25-minute ride in the cable car, called the Ngong Ping 360, takes visitors over Lantau the site of the airport and Disneyland and offers dramatic
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    • 411 53 NYT THE famously calm waters of Bora Bora have seen a lot of action lately. Once a far-flung hideaway for honeymooners and reclusive figures such as Marlon Brando, this French Polynesian island is now surprisingly accessible, thanks to new airline routes from the United
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    • 505 53  -  DR RICHARD A FRIEDMAN NYT Travel phobias can wreak havoc in your life but there are ways to overcome these fears WHO needs Snakes on a Plane? In August, a claustrophobic woman on a United Airlines flight from London to Washington made enough of a disturbance
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  • sports
    • 568 55 —AFP Younis rejects offer to lead Pakistan, Yousuf named as replacement LAHORE, Pakistan Younis Khan dramatically refused the cricket captaincy of Pakistan yesterday, just two days before the team were due to fly to India for the Champions Trophy. The stylish 28-year-old batsman was
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    • 307 55 —AFP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Mark Kotsay's inside-the-park tworun home run broke a deadlock and lifted Oakland past Minnesota 5-2 here Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), putting the A's on the brink of reaching the American League finals. Oakland grabbed a 2-0 lead in the
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    • 291 56  -  Darren Lai you I tbeserious ON SEPT 20, 4,212 fans paid between $11 to $20 to watch the Singapore Slingers beat the Adelaide 36ers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on their National Basketball League (NBL) debut. Last Wednesday, in the Slingers' second home match against
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      668 56 —AFP Alonso feels isc and letdown world title sen SUZUKA World champion Fernando Alonso said yesterday he felt isolated and let down by his Renault team as he goes into the final races of his scrap with Michael Schumacher for this year's title. The Spaniard told a news
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    • 220 56 —AFP SUZUKA Michael Schumacher remained calm and confident in his bid for an unprecedented eighth world championship title, despite arriving at rain-swept Suzuka with a slight cold yesterday. The retirement-bound German, who is tied on 116 points with defending champion Fernando Alonso but leads him
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    • 564 57 —THE GUARDIAN Fading midfield star may have to take a pay cut if he wants to stay at Real MADRID David Beckham's future at Real Madrid was thrown into doubt yesterday when the club's sporting director, Predrag Mijatovic, warned that the former England captain may have
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    • 283 57  -  -TANYOHINN TWO weeks ago, the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) caused a furore when they parted ways with former patron Tan Eng Liang via a two-paragraph letter addressed to his home. The manner in which it was conveyed angered the 69-year-old former Singapore Sports Council chairman.
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    • 440 57  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg IT'S not often that one gets to train with some of China's top athletes. National swimmer Bryan Tay was one of those rare few. The 18-year-old National Serviceman tipped by local swimming great Ang Peng Siong as the
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    • 662 58 THE GUARDIAN Good enough for England, but striker can't seem to get into Liverpool XI LONDON Peter Crouch is far too indebted to Rafael Benitez to criticise him with any vengeance but the Liverpool striker yesterday admitted his frustration at being a victim of his club manager's rotation
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    • 222 58 DPA LONDON Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has hit out at the Football Association over their refusal to overturn a three-game ban imposed for his red card during a pre-season tournament Rooney, who had already been suspended from two international matches for his
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    • 226 55 WEATHERTODAY Amsterdam 12/17 C showers London 11/18 C slight rain c Auckland ***** fair Los Angeles 13/21 C partly cloudy OlllgapOre Bali 23/31 C cloudy Manila 25/32 C thunderstorm 25/32 C BS Begawan 24/32 C showers Melbourne 09/20 C windy Bangkok 26/32 C thunderstorm New Delhi 20/37 C fair r
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    • 524 60 —AGENCIES England getjustthe motivation they need ahead of Euro qualifiers LONDON Croatia coach Slavin Bilic has launched an astonishing attack on England ahead of the two sides' Euro 2008 qualifier next Wednesday. The former West Ham and Everton defender was appalled at England's displays in Germany
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    • 392 60 —AP EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GROUP B Italy v Ukraine LONDON Andriy Shevchenko is ailing with a virus and can't seem to score for Chelsea. Shevchenko's poor form and ill health could be good news for struggling World Cup champions Italy, who host Ukraine when
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    • 1601 64  -  Zul Othman You, Me and Dupree star Owen Wilson plays for laughs as well as he writes it HE MAY be one of America's most versatile actors but nothing pleased Hollywood superstar Owen Wilson more than playing a slacker in his latest comedy You, Me and Dupree.
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    • 823 66  -  Felix Cheong Screenwriter Roger Avary might have an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction, but that's not what movies are about, he says A HORROR show based on a popular videogame is probably as remote from the Bible as you can imagine. But for screenwriter Roger Avary,
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    • 515 66  -  AMELYNN LIONG plus@newstoday.com.sg NOBODY said it was easy working with children on a movie set, especially when their habit of growing up fast means time is not on your side. Such was the experience of Chinese indie director and producer Zhang Yuan, whose
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    • 681 67  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS plus@newstodav.com. sq WOULD you pay 10 dollars to watch a "toddler" batter a stranger's testicles, molest an unsuspecting woman and allow a dog to pee on his face? It's a rhetorical question because some moviegoers here already have. The laughfree "comedy" Little Man, produced
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    • 522 68  -  ELI SA CHI A The day Stefanie buckled under pressure... elisa@mediacorp.com.sg STEFANIE Sun has been a fixture at awards shows celebrating the best of Mandarin pop since she shot to fame six years ago. Just don't ask her where she stores the many trophies she has
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    • 383 68  -  DAVID CHEW david. chew@m edia corp. com. sg THERE has been no shortage of child prodigy violinists in the classical music world, from Maxim Vengerov to Hilary Hahn. But one name that is often left off the list is Austrian Benjamin Schmid. Not that he lacks
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    • 443 70  -  DENYSETESSENSOHN Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is doing what he was born to do plus@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE should be prepared to enter guitar heaven when "the guitarist's guitarist" Tommy Emmanuel comes here for a show on Oct 23. The 53-year-old musician counts among his legions of admirers worldwide the
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    • 515 70  -  CLEMENT MESENAS clement@media corp.com.sg BOSSA nova chanteuse Lisa Ono has veered off the tracks somewhat with her latest album: Jambalaya Bossa Americana. As the title suggests, the album sees the 39-year-old singer lend her lilting voice to country and folk standards such
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    • 414 72  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Tall actor who plays title role in Phantom of the Opera wanted to be a professional basketball player ashraf@media corp.com.sg THE malleability of this musical might explain its phenomenal success: More than 50 major theatre awards, grosses of more that $5 billion and performances in
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    • 333 76  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR ashraf@media corp.com.sg IT MIGHT seem a tad ironic that Jacques Loussier, the same man who sued rap star Eminem for plagiarism in 2002, has made a career out of appropriating and improvising with the music of classical masters like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel.
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    • 283 76  -  —ASHRAFSAFDAR Artist JMS Mani to show 'global narrative'works THE Indian woman with a sari casually wrapped around her body has long been a picture of latent sexuality, and in an upcoming exhibition by JMS Mani, such images along with others of rural India will come
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    • 328 78  -  —ZULOTHMAN FOR millions of beer guzzlers and gastronomes around the world, Oktoberfest offers the chance to quaff litres of lager and ale and scarf down countless kilos of chicken and pork sausages. First held in Munich in 1810 to celebrate a royal Bavarian wedding,
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    • 284 78 in cinemas 500n... with JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg THE darkest book in tke Harry Potter se ties comes to life on the big screen in July next year, when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens in cinemas here. Order of the
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    • 367 79  -  ASHRAF SAFDAR ashraf@mediacorp.com.sg MACBETH has been adapted as a pornographic film (In the Flesh, 1998), a cinematic clash between titans of the Mumbai underworld (Maqbool, 2004) and even as a medieval Japanese epic (Throne of Blood, 1957). But never before has the Scottish setting of
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