Today, 9 February 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    29 1 TODAY /A=OiACORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Friday February 9, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY jV\=DJACORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Friday February 9, 2007 todayonline.com I
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Passport for lucrative KL-S'pore air route may be stamped this year
      409 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE buzz has been building for a while, but Singapore and Malaysia yesterday gave their clearest signal that cheaper flights to Kuala Lumpur (XL) and to the rest of Malaysia as well will become a reality
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      Lock icon From crony to main man
      938 1  -  LEE U-WEN LEE U WEN As defendants concede, main burden of settling NKF claims falls on former chairman u-wen@media corp. com. sg FROM the moment the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) civil suit got underway four weeks ago, it was focused, above all, on one man.
      — LEE U WEN; TODAY FILE PHOTO  -  938 words
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      113 1 -AFP ANNA NICOLE SMITH DIES: US modal and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith died yesterday after being found unconscious in a Florida hotel room, US media reported. The buxom, platinum-blonde Texan former Guess spokeswoman and Playboy Playmate, 39, was found unconscious in a room at the Seminole Hard Rock
      -AFP; AP  -  113 words
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Healthier wages for health workers
      778 2  -  TAN HUI LENG TREATING [THEM RIGHT NURSES: Training intake 8 to increase from 1,600 to 2,000 per year PHYSIOTHERAPISTS:' I Up from 45 to 80 per year OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS: Up from 45 to 60 per year PAY INCREMENT for nurses and allied health staff' Nurses
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      Lock icon Where did all those billions go?
      325 3 —THE GUARDIAN No one knows where America's biggest transfer of cash went WASHINGTON The United States flew nearly US$l2 billion ($18.4 billion) in shrink-wrapped US$lOO bills into Iraq and distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it
      —THE GUARDIAN  -  325 words
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      188 3 a basket case, with him. the Pig. So clean up and clear the clutter. What you can't bear to for squirreling stuff in one of which is ANTONIUS, a handsome ways to spruce up your home at the IKEA® store that's closer to you. day you buy it. And the
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  • Singapore news
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      Caught in a Nets bind
      401 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH Retailers upset over plans to raise Nets transaction fees to as much as 2% from April christie@media corp.com.sg AT ABOUT 5.30pm today, two opposing camps will square off in the halls of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI). The issue
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      That desperate swim to enter S'pore
      399 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as Singapore seeks to attract more foreigners to boost its economy and population size, a growing number are attempting to enter by the backdoor in sampans, no less. With the Police Coast Guard (PCG) crippling human trafficking syndicates in
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      In search of 10.2 million visitors this year
      371 6  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE is looking forward to another bumper year in tourist arrivals with a 2007 target of 10.2 million visitors spending $13.6 billion. The goals represent a 10-per-cent increase over last year's tourism receipts and a 5-per-cent increase in
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      Lock icon Where's Sands' next footprint ?
      631 6  - Where's Sands' next footprint JASMINE YIN There could be up to "10 Las Vegases' in Asia, says Adelson at Marina Bay IR ground-breaking ceremony jasmine@media corp.com.sg IT WAS an occasion to showcase the site that hogged headlines worldwide last year, but the people who penned those headlines were more eager
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      Getting on the bullet train to KL
      333 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE people behind the operating systems of the North-East and Circle MRT lines want to be the driving force behind the proposed bullet train rail linking Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Mr Philippe Mellier, president of Alstom Transport, said yesterday
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      Lock icon Real lessons in fighting terror
      447 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG First dedicated training centre drills soldiers in various attack scenarios cheekong@media corp.com.sg AN ABANDONED "dirty bomb" explodes in the aircraft on the runway. Passengers and crew are immediately evacuated. Troopers geared with protective suits and breathing masks storm the cabin with their radiation and
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      Major 'couldn't remember where he went' while missing
      255 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg THE Republic of Singapore Air Force major who went missing for more than 30 hours had reportedly blanked out and could not remember where he had been, according to a Chinese daily. A massive 20-hour
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      Lock icon Another $70m for ComCare
      390 10 938LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA Fund helped 90,000 needy S'poreans in first 18 months SINCE it was launched in July 2005, the ComCare Endowment Fund has disbursed $68 million to some 90,000 needy Singaporeans. And for the coming financial year starting April, the Government is setting aside another
      — 938LIVE,; CHANNEL NEWSASIA; TODAY FILE PHOTO  -  390 words
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      Lancet forum on cancer in April
      187 10 NEVER mind bird flu, Asia is set to see a rise in cancer cases. Projections suggest that new cases of cancer in Asia will almost double from 4.5 million in 2002 to 7.1 million by 2020, if current strategies remain unchanged. To "galvanise action
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      'S'PORE JOURNALISTS HAVE A DIFFICULT JOB'
      1205 12  -  Kishore Mahbubani OUR world is no longer black and white it is one of great moral ambiguity. For all of us, especially those who live in the media world, handling this moral ambiguity will be a major challenge. I'm going to illustrate this by
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    • SINGAPOREANIPPETS
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        Lock icon FOREIGN FIRMS AT NUS CAREER FAIR
        55 12 938LIVE The largest career fair ever organised by the National University of Singapore, with more than 1,000 job openings, has attracted five foreign companies for the first time. Dean of Students, Associate Professor Tan Teck Koon, said more students are looking for jobs outside
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        SAFRA PLANS STRATEGIC REVIEW
        86 12 SAFRA, the 35-year-old association for reservists from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), is planning a strategic review to chart its direction over the next five to seven years. Findings of the review will be out later this year. Safra held the groundbreaking ceremony for its sixth
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        Lock icon FORGERY GANG MEMBERS HELD
        83 12 938LIVE Two Bangladeshi members of a forging syndicate have been arrested in a raid by customs officers. They had been providing forged immigration passes and extension endorsements to foreigners. A Special Pass, believed to be forged, was found on one of the offenders who said he
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        Lock icon THAKSIN HIRES TWO AMERICAN LOBBY FIRMS
        95 14 -AFP Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra,who has been living in self-imposed exile abroad since a September coup, has hired two American lobbying firms, his legal adviser Noppadol Pattama said yesterday. Mr Noppadol said Mr Thaksin had hired Baker Botts LLP, a law firm whose
        -AFP  -  95 words
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        M'SIA DISTANCES ITSELF FROM DR M'S TRIBUNAL
        101 14 Malaysia's government sought to distance itself yesterday from a war crimes tribunal set up by Dr Mahathir Mohamad, but defended a speech by the former premier where he congratulated Iraqi insurgents. Dr Mahathir on Wednesday applauded the insurgents, urging them to ensure the
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        Lock icon NO STAMP FOR THE YEAR OF THE PIG
        97 14 -AFP Indonesia will next week issue a special set of stamps to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig but minus the star of the show. The set will feature all 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac with the exception of the
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      Lock icon Aceh governor's new fight
      190 14 -AFP BANDA ACEH Former rebel Irwandi Yusuf, who was yesterday inaugurated as governor of the Indonesian province of Aceh, said he now faced a new and lengthy fight for his people's welfare. Mr Yusuf, a former spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), won the first
      -AFP  -  190 words
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      Lock icon More misery in Jakarta
      482 14 -AGENCIES Overnight rain floods parts of city again as residents try to return to their homes JAKARTA Residents working in waist-high mud salvaged plates and family photos from washed-out neighbourhoods in Jakarta yesterday as fresh rains triggered more flooding, compounding the misery for hundreds of thousands
      -AGENCIES; AP  -  482 words
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      Lock icon Thai south could become 'terror breeding ground'
      317 14 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Thailand's insurgency-wracked southern provinces are in danger of becoming a breeding ground for regional Islamic terrorism, Malaysia's foreign minister Syed Hamid Albar said yesterday. Mr Syed Hamid said terrorist groups could seek to build bases in Thailand's restive south, where
      -AP  -  317 words
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      Lock icon M'sia and US to re-visit difficult areas in free trade talks
      274 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday said intractable "no-go" areas could be dropped from free trade talks with the United States as Washington races to strike a deal before the deadline next month. The two sides are embroiled in a
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      Lock icon Malaysia's mixed race ad message
      407 16 -AFP Government wants to see fewer'white mixed faces'in ads KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government's plan to reduce the number of pan-Asian faces in advertisements has triggered outrage among models and television presenters in the multicultural country. Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said last week he would
      -AFP; AFP  -  407 words
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      Lock icon Disarming is possible: North
      640 18 AFP Pyongyang willing to take initial steps, rest is up to Washington BEIJING North Korea said yesterday it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons as fresh sixnation talks began in Beijing amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was at
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      Lock icon Palestinian factions agree on national unity govt
      296 18 DPA MECCA Capping two days of intensive talks in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian rival Hamas and Fatah factions reached an agreement last night (early today, Singapore time) on the formation of a national unity government. Under the deal, Mr Ismail Haniya of
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      Lock icon A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE IN M'SIA?
      803 20  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Recent move to embrace Chinese Muslims has its pros and cons nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AN ATTITUDE change seems to be sweeping through Malaysia. In the name of multiculturalism, Malays in Malaysia are building up a case for embracing Chinese Muslims by backing their request to
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      Lock icon Austria busts porn ring spanning 77 countries
      240 26 -AP VIENNA Austria has uncovered a massive child pornography ring spanning 77 countries, involving at least 2,361 suspects, who tried to download videos described as "the worst kind of child sexual abuse" by Interior Minister Guenther Platter. The FBI was investigating about 600
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      Lock icon Lebanon, Israel in exchange of fire
      259 26 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel will intensify controversial military flights over Lebanon but yesterday stressed it wanted no armed escalation after the first cross-border shooting between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers in about three decades. "We are going to continue our flights and even bolster our aerial
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      Lock icon UK's $15m 'hearts and minds' battle
      298 28 -THE GUARDIAN New fund joins wider effort to combat Islamic extremism THE United Kingdom's Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly announced on Wednesday that the British government is launching a £5-million ($l5-million) fund to support its "hearts and minds" battle with Muslim extremism. Local councils will
      -THE GUARDIAN  -  298 words
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      Lock icon Road rage likely behind letter bombs
      314 28 —AGENCIES LONDON A spate of letter bombs in Britain may be motivated by an extreme case of road rage, reports said yesterday. Three women were injured following the explosion of a parcel bomb at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Swansea, Wales, on
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      Lock icon Extra suitcase will cost you $700: BA
      297 29 DPA LONDON British Airways (BA) is planning to introduce a charge of up to £240 pounds ($722) for long-haul passengers checking in an extra bag from Feb 13, the airline said yesterday. Travellers on shorter international flights will face a bill of £120
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      Lock icon FIRE POWER
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      India's $46b arms shopping spree
      264 31 NEW DELHI India will spend a staggering US$3O billion ($46 billion) on military hardware and software over the next five years. Most of the money will be spent on multi-role fighter jets and 155 mm howitzers to helicopters and long-range maritime spy aircraft. This will
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      Lock icon Cabbie resists lure of diamonds
      223 31 -AP NEW YORK- She gave him just a 30-US-cent (46 cents) tip, but a New York cabbie did not hesitate to track down a passenger and return 31 diamond rings that she had left in his taxi. "I'm not going to take someone else's money
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        Lock icon NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE WINNER ALAN MACDIARMID DIES
        72 31 -AFP Nobel Prize winner Alan MacDiarmid, who pioneered new generation video displays, died following a fall in Philadelphia, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday. New Zealand-born MacDiarmid, 79, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000, along with two others,
        -AFP  -  72 words
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        Lock icon IRAN IDENTIFIES 100 SPIES WORKING FOR US, ISRAEL
        79 31 -AFP Iran yesterday said it had identified 100 spies working for the United States and Israel in border areas of the Islamic state, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie was quoted as saying that a number
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        Lock icon GLOBAL WARMING WON'T STOP AUSTRALIA EXPORTING COAL
        72 31 -AP Australia will not end its biggest single export, coal, as part of the government's strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday. Though observers say Australia can no longer justify being the world's largest coal exporter given the
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      Lock icon WATER SUPPLIES DRY UP IN BIOFUELS BLAZE
      891 32  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE -BLOOMBERG As India and China thirst for more, food prices will soar IF WATER were a globally traded commodity, with unmet demand in China and India reflected in its price, the world might shed its new-found craze for biofuels. It is bad
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      Lock icon Astronaut's arrest prompts Nasa to review procedures
      210 34 -AFP HOUSTON (Texas) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said it will review screening procedures as the space agency reels from a scandal that left one of its astronauts facing attempted murder and kidnapping charges. Astronaut Lisa Nowak flew back to Houston,
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        Lock icon SENIOR HEALTH MINISTRY OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN IRAQ
        70 34 -AFP Hakim AlZamili, the No 2 atthe Iraqi health ministry, was arrested by Iraqi troops yesterday after being accused of aiding Shia militiamen and allowing ambulances to be used for terror attacks, the United States military said. A US military statement said Zamili
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        Lock icon CHEN WANTS SENSITIVE NAME CHANGE ON STAMPS
        67 34 -AP President Chen Shui-bian yesterday said the name "Taiwan" would soon replace "China" on the island's stamps, in a move that is likely to anger Beijing. Labels and titles are sensitive issues in both Taiwan and China, which split after civil war in
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        Lock icon DANGEROUS PILOTS GET STERN WARNING
        94 34 -AFP Irish budget airline Ryanair has threatened to sack pilots for making dangerous approaches to airports after a series of close shaves, according to an internal memo made public by a pilot trade union. The note stated that all pilots would be demoted the first
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      Lock icon He's been a green Bush all along
      386 34 -AFP President said to have made climate change a priority since taking office in 2001 WASHINGTON The White House on Wednesday issued a rare open letter defending United States President George W Bush's record on climate change, rejecting criticisms that he has only
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      574 36  -  JEAN CHUA I AM one of those who were among the first 50 in the now-controversial Housing and Development Board (HDB) Walk-in Selection (WIS) exercise for February. And I must clarify: There is no insider information given to anyone in the queue certainly not
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        210 41  -  TAN SWEE HUANG Letter from I BELIEVE the Housing and Development Board (HDB) requires some time to plan and prepare for each Walk-in Exercise (WIS). Yet, they expect applicants to make a decision on what is potentially the biggest financial commitment in
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        265 41  -  TERENCE LEONG Letter from I REFER to the letter published yesterday from the HDB's Mr Yap Chin Beng, on the board reviewing the WIS process. I applaud HDB for their prompt response and promising a review. I hope that when the processes are
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        151 41  -  TAN KIN LI AN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Leak of info? If so, HDB will fix it" (Feb 8). It was reported that a queue formed two days before the opening time, and that some applicants for the walk-in selection
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      762 42  -  Tabitha Wang With just one song, the resident loony is tipping me over the edge THESE days, I get serenaded from under my window as I work. It's a 1960s love song from an old P Ramlee movie so you'd think that I'd find the whole experience
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      254 44  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY niui ON THE LOOKOUT Author Linda Webertells about a big dinner party she had planned. She had stretched the dining-room table to its fullest length, setting all the leaves in place before hurrying on to other preparations. Before long, she heard a
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      305 44  -  ANG KELVIN The Lions'coach has taken Singapore soccer to new heights Letter from THE Lions deserve unstinting praise after the conclusion of the recent Asean Championship. But let us not forget the man who came up with the tactics and strategies for each game Radojko Avramovic. I
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      143 44  -  RASHID OSMAN Letter from I REFER to the article, "A grand send-off" (Feb 7), where it was mentioned that the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is planning events such as football matches as a buildup to the closure of the National Stadium.
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      363 47  -  HO KONG LOON Singapore can only benefit from an exchange between titans Letter from THE protagonists in the great biomed debate seem determined to hold their ground. Their hugely different professional background, mindset and focus dichotomise the entire discussion. One, gifted with an eye for
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      395 47  -  SITI MARIAM SAAD Letter from ON MONDAY, I surprised my daughter with a small gift a Barbie watch that she has been asking for. But as it turned out, the watch was a little too big for her. Seeing how disappointed she
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      294 49  -  HARRY CHIA Older Singaporeans working to pass their time should give way to those who need a job Letter from IN HELPING older Singaporeans to work for as long as they wish, the committee on ageing issues should distinguish between those who are really in
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      137 49  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I READ with interest the report, "Ageing but still 'actively engaged'" (Feb 8). I applaud NTUC Income for retaining older employees, especially those who are able to perform. As our population ages, there will be greater financial
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      85 49  -  SEBASTIAN KOH Letter from Company Secretary/Manager (Corporate Affairs), Changi International Airport Services WE REFER to Mr Terence Teo's letter, "Most still don't know the number's changed" oan 31). We thank Mr Teo for his feedback and apologise for the inconvenience caused to him. We are
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        474 51  -  TANYEOWSIEN Letter from I READ with interest the article written by retired ex-teacher Ho Kong Loon, "When kids go over the cliff nearly" (Feb 7). When it comes to the long-drawn debate over who is ultimately responsible for a
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        175 51  -  SHEILA KOH Letter from WHAT Ho Kong Loon did for Linda is remarkable and deserves praise. Even after two decades, she still cares about how Linda is doing now. I thank her for sharing her experiences. There have always been many youngsters like Linda who have
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      1229 52  -  HOWARD SHAW coffee with 36, Executive Director, Singapore Environment Council Last week, you -yes, you were found guilty by a jury for stubbornly, persistently, causing damage to public property. But you probably don't know that yet. After all, that pronouncement of guilt took
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      457 39 l!l FairPrice rfUflß^ Singapore's very own M^ivla HM y FairPrice brings you the best of Chile Blessed with a long coast of the Pacific Ocean on one side and backed by the grand Andes mountains on the other, Chile in South America is famous for its quality wines and seafood.
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      185 52 oJ~LI ICC 4fcs WDA 2F ent *2ffiss »WB The Premier International Academy in Culinary Arts, Hospitality Tourism Education INFORMATION SESS I O N |H Saturday, 10 th February 2007 <^^H^ 9JI @SHATEC Campus (Bukit Batok) ■fcj Morning Session: 10am 12noon t^tf K. ?^9 (Registration starts at 9.30am) Sim Sill Afternoon
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      488 54  -  TORCHING LI Cut in minimum capital requirement will give S'pore-incorporated banks greater flexibility chingli@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE-INCORPORATED banks can enjoy greater flexibility with their capital management as of March 1, following a cut in the minimum capital requirement that they have to set aside as a
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      Courts restructures Thai ops
      225 54 BOGGED down by its troubles in Thailand, retailer Courts (Singapore) has chalked up a loss of $2.4 million for the third quarter of its financial year. Despite a 5 per cent rise in sales in Singapore, the group's turnover fell by 1.7 per cent to $84
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      Profit warning from Westcomb
      216 54  -  CHOW PENN NEE WESTCOMB Financial Group the company once known for bringing the most initial public offerings into the market yesterday issued a profit warning for its full-year results ended Dec 31. The group's revenue and net profits for the 2006 financial year are estimated to
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        Tree-to-air will go high-definition ... in two years or 10 years?'
        278 56  - Tree-to-air will go high-definition in two years or 10 years?' HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg SINGAPOREANS can expect to see more high-definition (HD) content coming their way this year. Since StarHub has already launched its commercial HD service, major players like SingTel and MediaCorp are expected to join the foray this
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        Lock icon Flat out offer
        416 56  -  JOSEPH YADAO Property agent ERA plans 'guaranteed sale' scheme for public housing sector joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg OWNERS of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats could soon be guaranteed the sale of their units never mind how soft the market is if a scheme by property agency ERA is approved
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        Lock icon More customers, less profit
        676 58  -  CHRISTIE LOH CHRISTIE LOH SingTel's poor 3Q performance due to rising costs: Analysts christie@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS not been cheap for Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) to defend its pole position here. While the telco was pumping up customer numbers during the final months of last year, rising operating
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        Lock icon SIA may post record profit
        373 59 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), the world's largest carrier by market value, may report a record thirdquarter profit after it carried more passengers and gained from the sale of its stake in a leasing unit. Net income probably rose 53 per cent to $608 million in
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        Lock icon Qantas: No plans to cut investment
        376 59 —AGENCIES Assurance on Jetstar Asia comes after latter cancels flights due to pilot shortages QANTAS Airways is not planning to cut its investment in Jetstar Asia after the Singapore-based budget carrier reportedly cancelled flights because of pilot shortages. "Jetstar Asia is, and will continue
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        Tiger denies tie-up with Skywest
        161 59  -  TORCHING LI TIGER Airways has denied that it is clawing its way into the Australian domestic market via Skywest, a Perth-based budget airline that mainly flies domestic routes. Its response came after the Australian Financial Review yesterday reported that the Singapore-based budget carrier will make
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          4 60 ST Index 3,217.8 -18.8
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          28 60 SunVic Unionmet SingTel Yongnam StarCrusUSS 0.925 +0.065 +7.6 62.530 0.895 -0.015 -1.6 47.708 3.460 -0.040 -1.1 45.232 0.220 +0.005 +2.3 29.552 0.435 -0.015 -3.3 25.079
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          21 60 SGX ML *****8 0.895+118.3 Digiland 0.015 +50.0 SP Corp 0.140 +40.0 OlamMBL *****5 0.695 +39.0 GulTech 0.130 +36.8
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          102 60 -DOWJONES SHARE prices ended lower on a pullback in property shares and fourth-quarter results from Singapore Telecommunications that were slightly below market expectations. The ST Index fell 18.8 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 3,217.8. In the broad market, decliners led advancers by 429 to 301 as 2.2 billion
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          20 60 Gold US$/oz 657.30 Silver US$/oz 13.71 Platinum US$/oz 1,203.00 Rubber cents/kg 360.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1391.00 Brent US$/barrel 56.84
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          28 60 USS 0.6518 UK£ 0.3313 Yen 78.929 HKS 5.0945 RM 2.2776 Euro 0.5019 Rupiah 5899.9 Baht 22.417 Peso 31.546 AS 0.8362 Indian Rs 28.759 Yuan 5.0508
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        404 60  -  CHOW PENN NEE -93BUVE pennnee@media corp.com.sg THE first underground oil storage facility in Singapore and Southeast Asia got off to a smooth start yesterday, paving the way for more land to be freed up for other uses on Jurong Island. Breaking ground yesterday to kick off the
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        391 61  -  CHOW PENN NEE Emerging economies give Singapore businesses room for expansion pennnee@media corp.com.sg SINGAPOREAN businesses are now among the top exporters to India and China. According to the Grant Thornton International Business Report, Singaporean businessmen said their exports to India and China increased to 17
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        UOB launches new home loan
        333 61  -  TO ADDRESS the issue of transparency in housing loan rates, United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the third bank to introduce a new home loan pegged to external rates instead of its internal board rates. The home loan, called UOB CostPlus Home Loan, will be
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        203 62 —AGENCIES Employees will know their fate today PARIS Newly merged telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly to announce 12,000 to 13,000 job cuts when it reveals its annual results today. The figures from the French newspaper Le Monde, which quoted "sources close to the
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        365 62 -BLOOMBERG MALAYSIA'S industrial production rose at a slower pace in December as overseas demand for the country's semiconductors and other manufactured goods faltered. Overall production at factories, utilities and mines rose 6.3 per cent from a year earlier down from a revised
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        139 62 CHINESE NEW YEAR SPRING CLEANING SALE AT AUDIO HOUSE AUDIO House is doing its Chinese New Year spring cleaning too, clearing all its display sets from tomorrow until Monday only at its Sims Drive outlet at 118 Lorong 23 Geylang #01-01, SCN Industrial Building (Front door facing Sims Drive).
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      440 65 -AGENCIES All eyes on Real Madrid coach Capello's squad list, which is due out today MADRID David Beckham insists he is desperate to play for Real Madrid again, despite seemingly being blackballed by Fabio Capello. Beckham's decision to sign a contract with Major League Soccer side LA
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      291 65 ■AFP BEIJING Chinese officials have apologised and told their players to cool it, after a violent brawl in a match between their Olympic team and Queen's Park Rangers left a Chinese player hospitalised. Police were called after the game at Rangers' training ground in London
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      594 66 —AFP Second seed breezes into quarter-finals after disappointing start to season PARIS Second seed Amelie Mauresmo showed she was in no mood to give up her title lightly as she breezed into the quarterfinals of the US$6OO,OOO ($919,770) WTA Paris Indoor Open here yesterday (early
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      246 66 ■AFP JEREZ (Spain) Reigning champion Fernando Alonso said yesterday he believed his McLaren-Mercedes had some way to go before it could deliver victories in the new season, starting next month in Australia. Swapping Renault, for whom he delivered the drivers title
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      224 66 -BLOOMBERG ENGLAND'S Football Association is investigating a brawl that forced the referee to call off a match yesterday between Queens Park Rangers and China's under--23 soccer team. Police were called after the mass fight involving players and substitutes at the training field near
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      139 66 —AFP LONDON Liverpool were fined £14,000 ($42,000) and Everton £10,000 by a Football Association disciplinary commission here yesterday following a mass confrontation involving players from both sides in a reserve match last October. The Merseyside clubs admitted charges of failing to ensure their players conducted
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      240 67 It was a lacklustre performance and Spain beat us at a canter. They controlled everything and the fans were right to boo. They've come out tonight it was freezing but they didn't deserve that. former England and Arsenal striker lan Wright It was a poor display from
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      651 67 -THE GUARDIAN Stakes in Israel game rise, as McClaren points to underperforming players for latest disaster FOOTBALL FRIENDLY England 0 Spain 1 LONDON Steve McClaren's tenure as England manager is threatening to descend into open mutiny and, bruised and beaten, he was forced
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      559 70 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL George Gillett and Tom Hicks may have talked evolution rather than revolution when they were introduced as Liverpool's new owners on Tuesday, but the two Americans may prove rather more radical than they initially appeared. As Rafael Benftez plots for the return of
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      482 70 BLOOMBERG LONDON Barcelona ousted Premiership giants Manchester United as football's second-richest team behind Spanish rivals Real Madrid after winning the European Cup for the first time since 1992, accountancy firm Deloitte Touche LLP reported yesterday. Barcelona's revenue rose 25
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      295 72 DPA Boston 79 Miami 91 BOSTON The Miami Heat are starting to warm up and the Boston Celtics remain in deep freeze. Dwyane Wade had 30 points and nine assists to lead the Heat to their fifth consecutive victory, as they extended the
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      575 72 -AFP Game could be in the doghouse again as Indian police target West Indies'all-rounder NEW DELHI India's cricket chiefs yesterday passed the buck to the sport's world governing body after a fresh match-fixing scandal threatened to tarnish the game. Indian police stunned the cricket
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      468 74 -BLOOMBERG But there will be no games at a host of stadiums due to safety issues, including the San Siro ROME Italian football matches will resume this weekend, after the country's football federation approved the ending of a suspension imposed after the death of a policeman.
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      150 74 UHA ROME Police in Italy have placed a 17-year-old football fan under investigation in connection with the death of a policeman during clashes following a Sicilian derby between Catania and Palermo, officials said yesterday. The youth, a Catania fan identified only by his initials AS, is suspected of
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      500 74  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg HE MAY have been just 29 days into his new role as Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) deputy president, but Lee Yi Shyan insisted yesterday he knows the areas that need to be worked on for the national sports
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      575 75  -  JOSE RAYMOND Agu has not signed on with a new S-League club and the registration window has closed jose@media corp.com.sg HIS BAN from international football ends in three weeks, but Agu Casmir is hardly jumping for joy. Despite fulfilling his contractual obligations with Woodlands Wellington, the
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      407 75  -  DARREN LAI FOOTBALL 2007 SingTel League Cup darren@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S football fever is still on, as the Lions' triumph in the 2007 Asean Football Championship remains fresh in the memory. For fans who cannot get enough of their heroes, they will not have to wait
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      127 72 I HANNOVER IN SCORING MOOD! I Scored 9 goals in last 2 matches! German League Hannover Wolfsburg Sat, 10/02/07 3.30am E League Champ Southend QPR Sat, 10/02/07 3.45am German League Stuttgart W Bremen Sat, 10/02/07 10.30pm E League Champ Preston Wolverhampton Sat, 10/02/07 11.00pm E League Champ West Bromwich Southampton
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      33 75 SPORT Til 9am NBA Lakers v Pistons, Ch24 11.15am Cricket Commonwealth Bank Series Ist Final, Ch9s 2.30pm Golf Maybank Malaysian Open Day 2, Ch24 8.30pm Cricket S Africa v Pakistan3rd ODI, Ch 95
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      Lock icon Singapore's Gold standard for Sports Hub
      856 76  -  DARREN LAI EXCLUSIVE I Designer James promises an awe-inspiring stadium that will be the country's pride if his group gets bid nod darren@media corp.com.sg WHEN ready in mid-2011, the centrepiece of the Sports Hub at Kallang will undoubtedly be the national stadium. Already, Singaporeans
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      442 76 Singapore Gold Consortium design partners HOK Sport The new Wembley Stadium, set to be operational next month, will feature a retractable roof that closes to cover just the seating areas. Where most roofs are designed to offer shade, the new Wembley roof is intended specifically
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      636 77  - The Kallang Roar will return and louder too, says sports czar CLEMENT MESENAS Editor-At-Large clement@media corp.com.sg WHEN Singapore's new national stadium goes up at the upcoming Sports Hub, every young child will want to play in it, to borrow a line from what David Beckham said of the new Wembley
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      1413 80 NEW YORK TIMES They had critically acclaimed hit9. Then, they just vanished. la Hollywood or US culture to ttLame for this slump in productivity among generation of directors? I clock has been ticking for alI most seven years. That's how long I it has been
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      TAKING COMEDY SERIOUSLY
      687 82  -  Felix Cheong With Eddie Murphy and Steve Carell drawing critical acclaim, maybe there's hope yet for comedians like Adam Sandier LAUGHTER may be the best medicine, but why is it that the "doctors" dispensing it get no respect? That's the dilemma facing Japanese comedian Sonomamma Higashi. The
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      530 84  -  CYRIL WONG Playwright Stan Lai updates his acclaimed Chinese play, Secret Love in Peach Blossom, for the Huayi Festival plus@newstoday.com.sg IN A fast-changing world, 20 years ago is ancient history. And yet if anything, the two decades since American-born, Taipei-based playwright Stan Lai's laugh-filled but poignant Secret Love
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      597 86  -  ZULOTHMAN As if it isn't eclectic enough, this year's festival will include jazz for kids, Afro-funk and ska zul@media corp.com.sg THE Mosaic Music Festival 2007 the Esplanade's annual showcase of music and the visual arts may have gained a reputation for being cutting edge but
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      238 88 NO stranger to Singapore, Theatre du Pif is back with a new play based on Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat. Last year at the Esplanade, the group not only sold out their performances of Dance Me to the End of Love but also
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      515 88  -  JEANINETAN Royston Tan's new film, 881, captures the beauty of getai and Hokkien music jeanine@media corp.com.sg BY ALL accounts, Royston Tan is moving away from controversy with his upcoming film, 881. The $l-million production which will begin shooting in March and is slated for release during the Hungry
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      298 90 -WINSONTEO LUNAR New Year arrived early this year for popular twins May and Choy, who were handed $7,000 and two weeks as eßay's Style Ambassadors to give their two-bedroom rented condo at Telok Blangah a thorough makeover. The catch, of course,
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      393 90  -  JEANINETAN jeanine@media corp.com.sg ASK director Todd Field (above) for his thoughts on the Oscar buzz surrounding his latest film Little Children and he has little to say. But query him on his actors, like breakout star Jackie Earle Haley (below), who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at
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      593 92  -  DAVID CHEW Artistic director Benny Chia talks about life and works on the fringe in HONG KONG david. chew@media corp. com. sg THE Hong Kong Fringe Club is one of the territory's leading arts centres. Located at the heart of the business district, the venue has
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      371 94  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Fatal ending to The Swimming Instructor left lead actor with a bout of depression ashraf@media corp.com.sg BAYWATCH made the formula legend: Throw together heaving bosoms and folks parading about in skimpy attire, stir in plots about yearning and desire and voila, a hit With Desmond Sim's The
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        167 96 -AGENCIES NEW YORK United States mega retail chain Wal-Mart has reached an agreement with each of the major Hollywood motion picture studios to sell movies that can be downloaded from its website, www. walmart.com/videodownloads, the New York Times reported. Three other websites, including Amazon.com,
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        289 96  - in cinemas soon JEANINE UN with jeanine@mediacorp.com.sg SUNSHINE THE time is the future, and mankind faces its greatest crisis yet as the sun is slowly dying. It's up to a crew of scientists to re-ignite the great yellow orb and save the world from extinction. Sunshine opens in cinemas here
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        577 98  -  Jeanine Tan Film's look at despair a moving tour deforce FILMREVIEW by ■7 I Little Children RARE is the film that is so piercingly accurate about human foibles yet still maintains great compassion for the flawed characters whose troubled hearts it explores. Little Children is on
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          83 100 Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No I Ladies' Detective Agency series, will be in Singapore for a talk next Tuesday at the Playden at the Arts House from 7pm to 8.30pm. A presentation of the Singapore Writers Festival and Penguin Books
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          76 100 One of the most sought-after and charismatic musicians of her generation, Isabelle van Keulen will be in town to perform Elgar's Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of the English composer's birth. To be performed on Feb
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          65 100 Join MediaCorp artistes Felicia Chin and Adam Chen among others at an autograph session for MediaCorp's Lunar New Year album on Sunday at 3pm at Bishan Junction 8, in the open plaza on Level 3. Other artistes who will take part include male comperes Jeff Wang
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        478 100 Family's crazinesstoo pointless to be enjoyed FILMREVIEW by Jeanine Tan I Running with Scissors THERE is good weird and there is what-is-going-on weird. Good weird is something like The Royal Tenenbaums, the 2001 film about a dysfunctional family whose very dysfunction was the source of much dry humour
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        281 102  -  Felix Cheong Wife takes on ghost to win husband's affection in a tedious exercise in horror FILMREVIEW by mm™ The Matrimony TAKE a creepy housekeeper and put her inside a creepy house minding a master who can't forget his first love. What you get is The Matrimony,
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        118 102 WANT a souvenir of Daniel Wu (below, right) and Louis Koo's visit to Singapore on Monday to promote their new film Protege? Buy a Protege "I Don't Do Drugs" T-shirt for $18, with proceeds supporting the National Council Against Drug Abuse, and the acting
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