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  • 40 1 TODAY /y\=OJACORP MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday May 10, 2007 todayonline.com I TODAY Frew MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking o o _c "E o (0 o r^ o o CM o CO (0 ■o (A 3
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  • 650 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG Rift in sale committee, legal threats bog down proposed Neptune Court en bloc sale cheekong@media corp.com.sg IN STARK contrast to the serenity of the nearby East Coast Park, a stormy en bloc tussle is brewing at the 752-unit Neptune Court estate complete with threats of
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  • 370 1  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg PROPERTY tycoon Ong Beng Seng's dream to see Ferrari and McLaren cars roaring past the Padang is close to becoming a reality. Last Thursday, a company called Singapore GP Pte Ltd was registered with the Accounting Corporate Regulatory
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  • hot news
    • 478 2  - Don't send out hoax SMSes get the message? SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg A HARMLESS hoax? Hardly. Signalling that it is prepared to be tough on rumourmongers who stir up public alarm, the Criminal Investigation Department is stepping in to track down the source of a hoax SMS message
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    • 461 2  - Benedict Goh charged for drink-driving twice LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg FORMER television host Benedict Goh yesterday became the latest celebrity to be charged in court with drink-driving, capping a week that has seen the actions of inebriated drivers make the headlines. Goh, best known for his stint as host of game
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      507 3 —AP Spore edges out Hong Kong to rank 2nd in World Competitiveness Yearbook 2007 GENEVA When it comes to wealth management, Asia's little red dot is fast giving the world's sole superpower a run for its money, says an annual survey. "Singapore is challenging the United States
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    • 259 3 Everybody Needs A Holiday. Even You. There's a great holiday waiting for everyone at The Fullerton Hotel. go on, you know you deserve one. take a break, singapore. Simply choose from one of our exclusively created packages. Movie Mania Time For Two Spend the afternoon relaxing by the pool, dine
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  • singapore news
    • 667 4  -  LEE U-WEN IDA 1 EXCLUSIVE New provost wants to recruit top scientists to lead research efforts u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg BARELY three weeks after settling into his new office, the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) first provost, Professor Bertil Andersson, is already gunning to boost the university's
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    • 304 6  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg A SEVEN-year-old boy died yesterday after his heart stopped suddenly barely a week after routine checks showed it was defective. Guo Bing Hang, who was on medication and advised not to exert himself physically, was found slumped outside his school
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      121 6  - DAPHNECHUAH COURTESY OF DISABLED- AND FAMILY-FRIENDLY SHOPPING: These special shopping carts that attach to wheelchairs offer Ikea Tampines' customers with disabilities the freedom to go shopping independently. the innovation, among others, won the furniture store a Gold Award in the Building and Construction Authority's inaugural Universal Design Award for Built
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 111 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Indonesia yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding formalising a pilot project that will help Indonesia tackle bird flu. The project will also involve the United States and several international agencies, and its aim is to help Indonesia translate its national
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      • 62 8  -  ANSLEYNG Veteran criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan will leave Harry Elias Partnership on June 1 after seven years with the law firm. Mr Subhas, 59, will join Khattar Wong and Partners as a consultant, heading its criminal law department. In his 37-year career, Mr Subhas has
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    • 463 8  -  LEE U-WEN The GMP Group scrapped job application forms 2years ago u-wen@media corp.com.sg EVEN as companies are urged to tweak their job application forms to leave outfields such as age and gender, one employer has already gone the extra mile by doing away with such forms
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      84 10 PRISON BREAKTHROUGH: One of the competitors putting the finishing touches to his dishes as 12 inmates pit their culinary skills against one another in the Yellow Ribbon Cooking Competition. Three groups of four from Changi Prison Cluster A 4, Women's Prison and Sembawang Drug Rehabilitation Centre (SDRC) battled it out,
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    • 877 10  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE announcement by the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) last month to scrap a two-decade-old price guide was a bitter pill to swallow for many. The removal of fee guidelines leaves a gap in the information available to consumers and industry players
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  • world news
    • 509 12 —AGENCIES American jihadists plotted attack on military base NEW YORK Six Muslim men from New Jersey and Philadelphia have been arrested and charged with plotting to kill "as many soldiers as possible" at a United States military base, prosecutors said, in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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    • 273 12 Among the six suspects charged with plotting an attack on Fort Dix is a pizza delivery man, Serdar Tatar, who allegedly used his job to scout out the US army base for a possible attack, said New Jersey US Attorney Christopher Christie. Two undercover FBI informers
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    • 201 14 -DPA LONDON Four people, including the wife of the ringleader of the suicide bombings in London in July, 2005, have been arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism, Scotland Yard said yesterday. Hasina Patel, the 29-year-old wife of Sidique Khan, was arrested with two men
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    • 333 14 AP Govt urges Maybankto give work to non-bumiputera firms KUALA LUMPUR The government has urged Malaysia's biggest bank not to discriminate against ethnic minorities following an uproar over the bank's plans to give benefits to law firms that are substantially owned by ethnic Malays.
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    • 226 15 -AGENCIES RAMALLAH (West Bank) The only surviving child of Walt Disney has called Hamas "pure evil" for allegedly making a mockery of Mickey Mouse by turning the lovable icon into a propaganda tool for hate. Ms Diane Disney Miller said she was
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    • 419 15 —AP Human rights group urges Malaysia to disband volunteer corps, citing abuse KUALA LUMPUR Human Rights Watch has urged the Malaysian government to disband a feared volunteer force, saying its members are responsible for violence and numerous cases of illegal detentions, mainly against migrant workers. The
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    • 742 16 AFP -AGENCIES Nationwide clampdown comes after latest scandal BEIJING China has moved to contain a petfood scandal by announcing the launch of a nationwide clean-up of its food industry. It detained managers from two firms that exported contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein,
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    • 253 17 —AFP BAUCAU East Timor presidential candidate Jose Ramos-Horta said he was confident of victory as Timorese voted yesterday in the final round of the South-east Asian nation's first presidential election since it gained independence from Indonesia five years ago.
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    • 433 17 -AGENCIES World Bank chief accuses panel of leaks, unfair haste WASHINGTON World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz (picture) yesterday disparaged a bank panel probing his handling of a pay raise for his girlfriend, accusing investigators of poisoning the atmosphere with leaks while depriving him of sufficient
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    • 237 18 —AGENCIES COTABATO (Philippines) Security was tightened and all leave for soldiers was cancelled yesterday after eight people were killed in a bombing in the Philippines blamed on Muslim extremists linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). Five more deaths were recorded overnight after
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    • 509 18 -AP Spotlight falls on Michael Leung after daughter linked to Dow Jones scandal HONG KONG A recent newspaper profile of Hong Kong businessman Michael Leung said that when he got excited about a stock, he would call a family meeting with his mother, children,
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      56 20 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: People gather along the Los Angeles River to watch wildfires burn in the hills in the Griffith Park area in California, United States. The fires, which might have been intentionally set, have burned at least 300 acres and forced the evacuation of the Los Angeles Zoo as well
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    • 206 20 -AGENCIES NEW YORK Aids patients around the world are set to benefit from a deal struck by former United States President Bill Clinton and two drug manufacturers to provide HIV/Aids drugs to developing countries. Under the agreement, Cipla and Matrix Laboratories, two
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    • 161 20 DPA FORMER United States President Bill Clinton has backed Thailand and Brazil in their recent decisions to award compulsory licences to generic brands of anti-HIV/Aids drugs, said Thai Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla. He said in a telephone interview from
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  • Voices
    • A need to get priorities right
      • 342 22  -  YVONNEWONG Letter from IT BAFFLES me as to why the NTUC intends to double its current 40 childcare centres over the next three to five years ("NTUC aims high", May 8) when we are facing a declining birth rate. Wouldn't it be
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      • 288 22  -  OSCAR LEE SHING KIAN Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "Solving the baby puzzle" (May 9). We recently joined the ranks of new parents in Singapore. The experience has been great, to say the least Granted, it involves a lot of
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    • 245 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I BEAUTY IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE We were talking about stories in traditional children's literature that emphasise the importance of being gorgeous. I mentioned a few of them, including Sleeping Beauty, The Ugly Duckling, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Snow White, whose evil
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    • Are those cabs really 'on call'?
    • 168 26  -  S SATISH APPOO Letter from Director, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter, "Widen nosmoking rule at bus stops" (May 4). The smoking prohibition was extended to include bus shelters on Oct 1, 2005. As Mr Lukshumayeh has
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    • 212 26  -  ALEXTAY Install sensors to detect objects on rails Letter from I HOPE the Land Transport Authority will look into implementing preventive measures to curb MRT mishaps. For a start, all trains approaching the station platform should slow to almost a halt, and
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    • 142 26  -  S PARAMESWARAN Letter from Manager (Corporate Marketing Communications), Singapore Sports Council WE REFER to the letter, "'Sardine' swimmers" (April 24) with regard to the usage of the swimming pools. We welcome Mr Rick Lim's suggestion to reduce the number of coaching activities during the NASSA test
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    • 650 28  -  LIANG DINGZI serveus right A RECENT Today report, "When your cabbie is a civil servant" (April 3), tells the story of tens of thousands of low-in-come civil servants in Malaysia moonlighting in second jobs. Many of them became cab drivers. Some others worked as gardeners
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  • Businesstoday
    • 544 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Telco's three-month earnings dip for the first time in two years hedirman@media corp. com. sg LOWER earnings from Indonesia and the absence of a one-time gain led Sing Tel to register its first dip in fourth-quarter earnings in two years. The telco reported that
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    • 385 30  -  TORCHING LI chingli@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER days of doubts floated in the media over Rowsley's record $2.7 billion reverse takeover deal with China-based Perfect Field Investment, the companies stepped in to clear the air over claims such as an annual profit guarantee. In
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    • business news
      • 399 32 —AGENCIES OEL picks Johor port to handle most of its cargo ONE of India's largest feeder-ship operators has chosen Johor's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), Singapore's next-door rival, to handle more than half of its cargo. Orient Express Line (OEL) plans to relocate 60 per
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      • 204 33  -  —JOSEPH YADAO DAPHNECHUAH JOHNSON CHOO To woo younger Singaporeans, Maybank has launched May 2, an insurance scheme that addresses savings, lifelong insurance coverage and legacy needs in a single plan. It targets working adults between the ages of 25 and 45 and offers a combination of features found
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      • 391 33  -  JOSEPH YADAO Gains boosted by bank's investments, divestments joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg BANKS are continuing to post strong earnings and the Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation is no exception. The bank recorded a net profit of $647 million for the first quarter of this year, more than double its $318
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      • 168 34  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) has launched a probe into local engineering products company AEM Holdings. The listed company, which halted trading of its shares yesterday morning, said that it was "cooperating" with investigations, but did not elaborate on the nature of
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      • 251 34  -  TORCHING LI Their performances still closely linked chingli@mediacorp.com.sg ASIAN economies may be on the ascent, but they have yet to rise out of the shadow of the world's largest economy: America. At the opening of the Merrill Lynch Pan-Asia Rising Stars Conference, Monetary Authority of
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      • marketwatch
        • 4 34 ST Index 3,452.72 +13.51
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        • 53 34 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.12 +91.28 +0.52 HK Hang Seng *****.78 +138.43 +0.67 Australia ASX200 6341.00 +36.60 +0.58 Korea Camp 1593.42 +10.77 +0.68 Thailand SET 706.29 -6.58 -0.92 Jakarta Camp 2037.97 +15.18 +0.75 Shenzhen B 713.53 +32.96 +4.84 Mumbai Sensex *****.51 +16.05 +0.12 Malaysia KLCI
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        • 121 34 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed higher on gains in property stocks and news that OCBC's firstquarter net profit doubled year-on-year, dealers said. The ST Index closed up 13.51 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 3452.72 with advancers outpacing decliners 412 to 366 on the broader market. Volume was 2.4
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        • 20 34 Gold US$/oz 687.40 Silver US$/oz 13.60 Platinum US$/oz 1,343.20 Rubber cents/kg 356.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 2,420.00 Brent US$/barrel 64.85
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        • 23 34 JSS JK£ 'en m 0.6589 0.3308 79.040 5.1519 2.2423 Rupiah 5808.3 Baht 21.520 Peso 31.153 AS 0.7955 Indian Rs 26.985
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      • 394 36 Plans include buying into overseas carriers THE bungled takeover bid for Qantas Airways has left its senior management tarnished by association but chief executive Geoff Dixon has no plans to resign. Instead, he pledges to accelerate plans to revitalise the "Flying Kangaroo". He said that
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      • 749 37  -  WILLIAM PESEK Asia has come a long way, but it is too soon to talk of decoupling from the US economy TEN years after the Asian crisis, the region is revelling in strong growth and booming markets. The exuberance was palpable over the weekend
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