Today, 9 April 2007

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    13 1 jy\=OJACORP TODAY we set you thinking MICA(P) 314/10/2006 Monday April 9, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Question mark over benchmark
    1043 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO MPsto ask if formula for ministers'pay should be revised derrick@media corp.com.sg THEY accept the principle of paying competitive salaries for a good and honest government but they still have doubts over the benchmarking formula used to determine the final dollar figure. This was
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    Lock icon Green light for S'pore Fl race?
    496 1 LAN DE COTTA IN SEPANG, MALAYSIA ian@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the track surface hitting a scorching 57 degrees Celsius yesterday at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang, hints that Singapore would soon see a Formula 1 race of its own were sizzling. Giving the strongest signal
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  • hot news
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      JUST A GOOD DOSE OF PLAIN
      1122 2  -  TEO HWEE NAK The civil service pay debate has betrayed the chasm of opinion but will the Government heed public sentiments? COMMENTARY VOICES EDITOR hweenak@media corp.com.sg MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew never fails to rouse emotions when he speaks. On Wednesday, he fired off
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      Lock icon KL crime up 40%, police to answer
      240 3 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police will be made to explain a 40 per cent surge in crime this year in Kuala Lumpur, with fears it will undermine a drive to boost tourism, reports said yesterday. Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharum, who plans
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Thousands greet yogi, aged 4
      255 4  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg MORE than 10,000 people have turned up at 11 Buddhist temples and landmarks across the island to greet and seek blessings from four-year-old Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche since his arrival last Tuesday night The Nepalese boy was officially recognised by the Dalai
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      Oh mio, customers call for better service
      664 4  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN They've been told to expect disruptions, says Sing Tel hedirman@media corp. com. sg THREE months after it was first launched on Jan 8, technical glitches continue to hound subscribers of SingTel's Generation mio, the telco's next-generation communications technology for the masses.
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      Expect a modest pay hike
      582 6  -  LEE U-WEN UNYANQIN Employers' caution could keep increases in 2.8% to 3.2% range: Report and u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THE job market may be heating up in Singapore, but don't expect a huge jump this year when the boss reviews your salary. Real pay increases for some groups
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      V.Hive to donate furniture to needy
      205 6  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@mediacorp.com.sg SO THAT needy families need not use boxes to store their belongings, and their children need not do their homework on the floor, a Singapore retailer wants to give them furniture for free, for the month of April. Coinciding with V.Hive's
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      Lock icon Crossing borders
      683 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO Migration, global cities among six core research areas at NUS faculty derrick@media corp.com.sg SOME of Singapore's much-debated hot topics are now the core research activities at a university faculty. Migration, for example, is one area the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the
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      Lock icon Emergency info on your handphones
      119 8 -NAZRYBAHRAWI NOT sure what to do in case of an emergency? Help is at your fingertips. The Singapore Civil Defence Force's new Ready Mobile service lets mobile phone users download animation clips that advise them on how to respond to emergencies. The clips provide 3G
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  • world news
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      No easy fight for by-election
      747 10  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT Unhappiness among Chinese may swing votes in M'sia poll fawziah@mediacorp.com.sg WITH less three days to go before polling day for the Machap by-elec-tion on April 12, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition is intensifying its campaign to win the hearts and minds of
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      Lock icon Leader of M'sian coalition party retires after 26 years
      195 10 -AP KUALA LUMPUR The leader of a key component party in Malaysia's ruling Barisan National coalition retired yesterday after heading the party for 26 years, but will stay on as a government minister until the next general election. Gerakan party leader
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      Lock icon Pope decries world 'suffering' in Easter message
      215 12 AGENCIES VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI appealled for peace in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East in a traditional Easter message yesterday that included prayers in Arabic and Hebrew. The Pope, in his second Easter celebration, called for reconciliation in Afghanistan, where there
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      Lock icon Timor Leste's three-way race
      317 12 AFP Nobel laureate faces serious challenge in polls DILI An ex-political prisoner and a one-time guerrilla fighter, both little-known abroad, pose a serious challenge to the globetrotting Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in East Timor's presidential election today, analysts say. Mr Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres, 53, is running
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      Lock icon Bangkok on tourists' blacklist
      396 13 -AFP Asian travellers turned off by political unrest in Thailand BANGKOK Asian tourists are shying away from Thailand, official statistics show, prompting concern that holidaymakers might be avoiding the kingdom because of its continuing political woes. Tourist arrivals from East Asia dropped by 7.3 per cent
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      Lock icon ANOTHER INTERNET FAVOURITE FALLS FOUL OF THAI GOVERNMENT
      121 13 —AFP BANGKOK —Thailand's army-backed government has shut down a popular political online chat room, the website said yesterday, just days after You Tube was blocked for videos deemed insulting to the king. The political page of Pantip.com was closed for national security
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      Lock icon Mukherjee hurt in car accident
      180 13 -AFP KOLKATA (India) Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee was seriously injured but out of danger after his car and a truck collided in the east of the country, his secretary said yesterday. "Mr Mukherjee had a severe head injury after a stone-laden truck hit his
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon THE WORLD'S FIFTH SPACE TOURIST
        58 14 EPA -AFP A Soyuz TMA-10 space capsule bearing billionaire Microsoft pioneer Charles Simonyi (picture) hurtled towards the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, making him the world's fifth space tourist. Mr Simonyi, the partner of American homemaking guru Martha Stewart, was accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts.
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        Lock icon IRAN REFUSES TO LET IRAQI PRESIDENT FLY THROUGH AIRSPACE
        81 14 -AFP Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki's arrival in Tokyo was delayed yesterday amid reports that Iran had refused to allow his plane to fly through its airspace. It was the start of Mr Maliki's first tour to Japan and South
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        Lock icon NEW REGIONAL MEETING ON IRAQ
        73 14 -AFP The Iraqi government has agreed to a new meeting between its neighbours and world powers next month in a bid to help stabilise the country. "The Iraqi government agreed to hold the next ministerial meeting of Iraq neighbouring countries, plus the G5 (the veto-wielding
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      Lock icon Sailors allowed to cash in
      386 14 AGENCIES Freed British naval crew accused of behaving like reality TV contestants LONDON The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has allowed the 15 British military captives who were released by Iran to sell their stories. MoD officials claimed that the move to lift the ban on
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      Lock icon US denies torturing Iranian diplomat
      181 14 -AFP CRAWFORD (Texas) The United States has denied involvement in the detention of an Iranian diplomat who said he was tortured by his captors, some of whom were US intelligence agents. "The United States had nothing to do with Mr Sharafi's detention, and we welcome
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      232 17  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I SIX PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DISCIPLINE I want to talk today about the six basic steps to good child discipline. Let me list them very quickly. First, define the boundaries very clearly in advance. If you haven't spelt them out, don't try
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      Toy story
      251 17  -  HONGGEOKHUA Sungei Road vendor's generosity humbling and refreshing Letter from IN THE late afternoon on Good Friday, I was on a leisurely stroll with my son at Sungei Road, where often you would see vendors being quite brash in their dealings. Amid the crowd of people looking for
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      Benefits of having a Malay partner
      227 17  -  TEO KUEH LIANG Letter from I READ with interest the commentary, "Singapore's special-interest envoys" (April 6), and greatly appreciate the incisive exposition given in the article. If business leaders of the Malay and Chinese communities in Singapore can join hands and undertake business ventures
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      A track to groom our own Alonsos
      114 17  -  WILLIAM ONG Letter from THE article, "A permanent vroom" (April 2), mentioned the possibility of building a permanent race track here. It must be encouraging to local motorsport enthusiasts to learn that the government agencies are seriously conducting studies to build the track.
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Vietnam Southern Bank seeks MAS support for Singapore listing
      231 18 —DOW JONES ONE of Vietnam's top five joint stock banks with total assets worth US$6ll million ($925 million) has enlisted the help of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to seek a public listing here. Said Vietnam's Southern Commercial Joint Stock
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      Lock icon S'pore growth likely slowed in Ql
      496 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Technology slump and lower drug exports may be a drag on GDP: Analysts christie@media corp.com.sg AFTER a spectacular 2006, economic growth in the first three months of this year may be a bit of a letdown, said analysts. Due in part to
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      marketbuzz
      209 18 DON'T WORRY, BE SURE-A PARENTING SEMINAR FOR CONCERNED PARENTS ON APRIL 14 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Stamford Ballroom, paediatricians will offer parents guidance on the importance of nutrition, illness prevention and discipline on the growth and development of their toddlers and preschoolers. Dr Benny Kerzner, consultant paediatrician
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      Lock icon Citic Bank may raise $8.6b in IPO
      405 19 -AGENCIES CHINA'S seventh-biggest commercial bank, Citic Bank, is touted to launch the world's biggest stock sale so far this year, possibly raising as much as US$5.7 billion ($8.6 billion). Sources with knowledge of the public offering said the Bei-jing-based bank plans to offer
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE
        141 19 -AFP SHARE prices here are expected to trade within a narrow band this week as stock valuations appear stretched, dealers said. Last week, share prices touched new record highs, buoyed by a strong rally in United States stocks on Tuesday as well as robust performances of agriculture plantation and
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        Lock icon Your S$l buys
        33 19 SGX, Bloomberg USS 0.6603 UK£ 0.3359 Yen 78.749 HKS 5.1617 RM 2.2773 Euro 0.4935 Information provided by Rupiah 6010.2 Baht 21.409 Peso 31.631 AS 0.8089 Indian Rs 28.344 Yuan 5.1006
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        Commodities
        21 19 Gold US$/oz 679.40 Silver US$/oz 13.74 Platinum US$/oz 1,265.90 Rubber cents/kg 349.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 2,109.00 Brent crude US$/barrel 68.51
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      Lock icon Sold for $63,000: Leeson's coat
      196 19 -BLOOMBERG AFTER two weeks on eßay, rogue trader Nick Leeson's blue-and-yel-low striped trading jacket from Barings has been sold to a fund manager for £21,000 ($62,510). The Daily Telegraph reported Mr Paul Taylor, manager of the Three Delta fund, as the proud owner of the
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      the big question: what's the secret to retaining top talent in your firm?
      128 20 SEfilflJ MR YIP CHEE SENG, FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF OTO BODYCARE: Highly-motivated staff are easier to retain. It is people who make the brand. Thus, we give emphasis to employee programmes that give staff the support
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      Lock icon BIG IDEAS FOR ARTS STUDIES
      780 20  -  DERRICK A PAULO Highly relevant themes may help draw in funds for humanities research I tan tai yong derrick@media corp.com.sg WHEN Today ran a commentary on how humanities and the social sciences should not be neglected in Singapore's drive to nurture its research industry ("Giving
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        NOW, WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN?
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        CELEBRATING THE WORK OF ADMINISTRATORS
        87 20 The office and administrative personnel are the backbone of an organisation; they keep the corporate wheels turning, and often have to quickly adapt to current developments. This seminar by Effective Outsource Networks (EON) celebrates the work of administrators, and helps them to uncover their personal
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      Career Know-How
      193 21  -  LEE U-WEN BRAINFOOD www.careerknowhow.com We've all asked ourselves these questions at some point: Why am I not getting promoted? How can I win at office politics? Am I having fun at work? How do I survive the micro-manager? Find the answers and advice at Career Know-How, a fun,
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      132 21 M Before great people change the world for the better, they are students. We are committed to the creation of student experiences that encourage learning. As a research university, you'll learn from people forging new frontiers of knowledge. You'll be inspired by an environment where boundaries of nationality, culture and
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      LIGHT shines GOLD
      579 22  -  Stefanie Sun Winson Tea BVi > m'lilTvW THE NUMBERS FOR HER LATEST ALBUM AGAINST THELIGHTSM IT ALL: STEFANIE SUN IS TOPS Against the Light piano-heavy instrumentals. Not that the singer was ill-advised to join forces once again with Singapore pop maestros Li Weisong and Li Sisong, the
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      Pushing boundaries
      447 24  -  David Chew Play explores controversial porn star Annabel Chong's psyche while putting her sexual 'feat' in Spore performance context THEATREREVIEW by 251 ONE of the most talked-about plays of the year, Toy Factory's 251 shines a spotlight on what some might consider the most infamous figure in Singapore's
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      Lock icon Malay team-up a hit
      251 24  -  Juliana June Rasul by PERFORMANCEREVIEW Muzika Ekstravaganza THERE was nostalgia, dikir barat, jazz, rap and... Hady Mirza. Friday night's Muzika Ekstravaganza, which was broadcast live on MediaCorp TVI2 Suria, was a two-hour series of collaborations between Singapore artistes and their Malaysian counterparts. Among those joining forces:
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      Lock icon Chan's Disciple
      99 25 —AP BEIJING Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan on Saturday launched a Chinese TV competition aimed at finding action-movie talent, saying more than 100,000 people have already signed up for a shot at gongfu stardom. The TV show, whose English title is The Disciple, is jointly produced by
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      NOW YOU SEA IT
      647 26  -  SERENE HUANG CHEFALANKOH When a stiff, salty breeze whets your appetite, what better to quell it with than a touch of the Mediterranean? serene@media corp.com.sg IF YOU happen to be around Marina Bay, and spot something that resembles a Light Rapid Transport (LRT) station, it is
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    • FOOD NOTES
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        CHICKEN GOES CHEESY
        161 26  -  EVELINE GAN There's more than chicken at KFC. The fast food chain has added a new delectable item to its menu. The Cheesy BBQ Meltz is a nine-inch tortilla filled with easy-to-eat, bite-sized chicken fillet which is marinated with its signature secret blend of 11 herbs and
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