Today, 5 June 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    29 1 TODAY /A=£j]j-\Corp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 uve set you thinking Tuesday June 5, 2007 todayonline.com I TODAY Frew MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Tuesday June 5, 2007 todayonline.com
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      Lock icon Shroud on model's death stays 0n...
      894 1 -AGENCIES Trial postponed as new prosecutor named, victim's family sues for RMIOO million SHAH ALAM A well-connected political analyst, two policemen who protected the country's top politicians, and a dead Mongolian model shot twice and her body blown up with military grade explosives. It's
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      Nets fee hike: Case of unfair monopoly?
      559 1  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY not seem, atfirst, to affect your pocket directly. But when the Network of Electronic Transfers (Nets) raises its levy on businesses offering it as a mode of payment, the increased burden on retailers could lead to higher prices for
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      Lock icon Set aircons no lower than 26° C: Beijing
      218 2 ■AFP BEIJING Air conditioners in China's public buildings must not be set below 26° C, dictated the government yesterday as it ramped up efforts to cut energy use. The measures are part of China's first national strategy for tackling global warming, which
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      Lock icon The long green mile
      586 2  -  SHERALYN TAY Only 30 firms sign up for first nation-wide eco company plan sheralyn@media corp. com. sg IT TAKES as little as turning off the lights and air-conditioner during lunch hour but this tiny effort to go green seems monumental for most Singapore companies. The first
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      A few hours' gap did it
      440 3  -  DERRICK A PAULO Ex-NKF chairman fled just before ICA could blacklist him derrick@media corp.com.sg IT WAS only a matter of hours, but it was enough for Richard Yong (picture) to slip out of the grasp of the authorities and the National Kidney Foundation. Three
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      292 2 FINANCIAL GENIUSES TO SHARE THEIR \^y In L\ I l~l Special Article MONEY makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that wealth is created by a small group of people whilst the lower income group is barely struggling along. This is because
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      266 3 APMI KAPLAN^ AtAPMI, we say YES. Asia pacific management institute Sometimes, getting an education overseas is just not practical. So how can you get a world-class education without leaving Singapore? UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA cucosooihb MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Most established Australian MBA (Edupoll Singapore 2005 and 2006 MBA Citations).
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  • Singapore news
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      Hoax callers in the dock
      464 4  -  ANSLEYNG 44 months for pub owner who wrongly tipped off police ansley@mediacorp.com.sg A CANADIAN pub owner was sent to jail for 44 months yesterday for falsely tipping off the Singapore police about an alleged terror plot. In a separate case, a Singaporean man was also
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      Interpol shares its criminal database with SEA police
      270 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg SOUTH-EAST Asian police forces will link up their criminal database with Interpol to counter transnational threats of crime and terrorism, said Singapore Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar (picture) yesterday. The tie-up with the Francebased international police organisation would give more
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      Lock icon No QC for Feer case, rules judge
      382 6  -  001 BOON KEONG AGENCIES Defamation suit against it'not complex enough' THE Singapore High Court has rejected the Far Eastern Economic Review's {Feer) application to use a British Queen's Counsel to represent the magazine in a defamation case. According to court documents obtained yesterday,
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      BYO Bag Day gets bigger and better
      227 6  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@media corp.com.sg SUPERMARKETS are not the only ones encouraging shoppers to bring their own grocery bags schools, corporations and other retail stores are chipping in for tomorrow's third Bring Your Own Bag Day (BYOBD). Launched on April 18 and held every
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      Lock icon The uncommon soldiers
      350 8  -  DAPHNE CHUAH Women take on tough role in leading the men daphne@mediacorp.com.sg SHE has more than 600 sons under her care only three of whom are biologically related to her. As the first female Regimental Sergeant Major in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), First Warrant Officer (1WO)
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      WOMEN IN THE SAF
      91 8 1967: Provided clerical support in the mass enlistment at the start of NS. Filled mainly logistics and manpower vocations. *****-1980s: Began to undertake roles of combat instructors and training specialists. 1994: Filled combat vocations including, later on, physically-chal-lenging ones such as guardsmen and naval divers. 2000:
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    • SINGAPORE
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        Lock icon ABOUT 330 APPLICATIONS TO LOCAL UNIS FROM UNSW ASIA STUDENTS
        100 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Applications to the three local universities have closed for UNSW Asia students, with more than 330 applications received from 148 students. The National University of Singapore got more than 100 applications as of last Friday, the Nanyang Technological
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        Lock icon SLA AND NTU MAY DEVELOP GPS TO BETTER TRACK TAXIS, BUSES
        73 8 938 LIVE The Singapore Land Authority and Nanyang Technological University have inked an agreement to research and develop geospatial technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS). Both will likely look into how GPS can achieve greater accuracy and reliability
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      Stunt was exploitative and inappropriate, says MDA
      409 8 THE Media Development Authority (MDA) has said that the "No Bra Days with the Muttons" stunt on 987FM in mid-March contained "exploitative and inappropriate" content In a statement yesterday, the media regulator also added that it was "entirely inappropriate for MediaCorp Radio to
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      449 4 Ride on the wave of success with U X's leading business school. -««E3 I INIVFRSITYOF Ful|-Time MBA ranked 10* in UKand among top 100 in the world (Financial Times, 2007) /f!!Q nnAnCADn School of Management ranked 2 nd in UK and Bth8 th in Europe (Financial Times, 2006) M PflH?
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Junta launches SMS blitz to call for calm
      405 10 -AGENCIES Meanwhile, coup leader apologises for suggesting amnesty for politicians BANGKOK Thailand's military junta has been sending text messages to mobile phones in the kingdom to try to persuade people not to join growing demonstrations, a spokesman said yesterday. Many people in
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        Lock icon NEARLY 1,000 AFTERSHOCKS IN CHINA
        80 10 -AFP South-west China has been rocked by nearly 1,000 aftershocks following an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale that displaced more than 65,000 people, the local government said yesterday. A total of 935 aftershocks had struck the tea-growing Pu'er region of Yunnan province by
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        Lock icon MILITANTS STORM CHURCH IN INDONESIA
        68 10 ■AFP Some 100 Muslim hardliners stormed a church in Indonesia during its services. smashing images of Jesus Christ and demanding that it be closed down, its pastor said yesterday. Dozens of churches have had to be closed in the country in recent years, and Sunday's
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        Lock icon BOY KILLED BY KOMODO DRAGON
        71 10 -AFP A Komodo Dragon has mauled a boy to death on an island that is part of the Komodo national park in eastern Indonesia. Mansur, nine, was defecating in a bush area on Komodo island on Saturday when he was attacked by a Komodo Dragon,
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      Lock icon China releases green strategy
      461 11 -AFP A positive move, say environmentalists BEIJING China has said it is committed to fighting climate change but insisted its economic development must come first and that rich nations should shoulder the main burden. Unveiling its first national strategy for tackling global warming, China also maintained
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      GREEN BATTLE POINTS
      59 11 China's 62-page report contains 'comprehensive strategy': Greenpeace Economic development comes first Won't commit to caps on greenhouse gas emissions •Aimsto boost energy efficiency by 20 per cent by 2010 Will try to increase forest cover to soak up greenhouse gases Lays out specific measures to address the
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      Lock icon TIANANMEN VIGIL 18 YEARS ON
      88 11 -AFP Tens of thousands turned up at Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil yesterday to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square clampdown, the only such commemoration on China's territory. The event took on special resonance this year after local pro-Beijing politician, Mr Ma Lik, took exception to
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      Lock icon Tsunami warning a false alarm
      150 12 -AP BANDA ACEH A tsunami warning siren went off accidentally in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday, causing residents to flee their homes and run to higher ground, officials said. The authorities were investigating why the siren rang out for about 30 minutes in the provincial capital,
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      Lock icon Thai rebels derail train
      222 12 -AGENCIES Sabotage in southern region injures 16; rail services suspended indefinitely BANGKOK- Separatist rebels derailed a train in southern Thailand yesterday, police and railway officials said, injuring at least 16 people and forcing the suspension of services in the region. The commuter train left a station
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      Lock icon Say 'Bahasa Malaysia' again
      169 12 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's government has changed the name of the national language back to "Bahasa Malaysia", or the "Malaysian language", to promote a sense of belonging among multiracial communities, national news agency Bernama reported yesterday. "Bahasa Malaysia" had been the name for the national language
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        Lock icon Gl BLUES FOR S KOREAN POP SINGER?
        106 13 -AFP Prosecutors yesterday questioned South Korean pop star Psy on suspicion of dodging mandatory military service. The questioning focuses on whether Psy- Park Jae-Sang -was qualified for a job in a software firm which he took as an alternative to military service, said
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        Lock icon A BREAK FROM WORK, AT KNIFEPOINT
        69 13 -AP A Japanese policeman, distraught by working long hours and weekends for two months, stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife to get some time off, police said yesterday. The 44-year-old officer knifed himself at his home in northwestern Japan on May 23,
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      Lock icon Deadly fighting grips 2nd Lebanon camp
      191 13 AGENCIES SIDON (Lebanon) Lebanese troops fought Islamic militants in a northern Palestinian refugee camp and clashed with another group in a southern camp yesterday, as the violence spawned by a two-week-old confrontation with Al Qaeda-inspired fighters appeared to be spreading. Two soldiers and two
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      Lock icon The new Cold War
      472 13 —THE GUARDIAN Putin's tit-for-tat stance on missiles MOSCOW Russia President Vladimir Putin (picture) declared that a new arms race and Cold War with the West has begun. He announced that Russia would retaliate against United States missile defence plans in Europe by pointing its missiles at
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      Lock icon Guantanamo rulings a setback for US govt
      207 14 -AFP GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE (Cuba) The legal front of the US government's "war on terror" suffered a stunning reversal yesterday (early today, Singapore time) when military judges threw out prosecution charges against a Canadian-born foot soldier for Al Qaeda and against
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      Lock icon Caste us down
      316 14 -AP Protesters want their social status lowered NEW DELHI Hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in India's capital and neighbouring states, demanding their caste be officially reclassified at the lowest level in order to get government jobs reserved for such groups, police said. Members of the lower-caste Gujjar
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      Lock icon Nigeria sues over drug test
      190 14 -AFP ABUJA Nigeria filed a lawsuit yesterday for US$7 billion ($10.6 billion) in damages from Pfizer over a drug test in which about 200 children were either killed or deformed, court officials said. The federal government suit says the children suffered various degrees of adverse
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      225 12 WflSl I Jailed for stealing I 111 I $178k of cheques I I I/I I &om Post boxes IB ~^^_M Hi I m*3r ne scam was uncovered in^V" tm*f March after several financial instiI J tutions complained to the police 1 that many cheques had the 1. ■~*V names of
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      76 13 Nominations are Open Nomination forms for the President's Award for the Environment are available at: http://www.mewr.gov.sg/presidentsaward and NEA and PUB Customer Service Centre, Environment Building, 40 Scotts Road #02-00 Nominations close at 6pm on 31 July 2007. For enquiries, please contact the President's Award for the Environment Secretariat at 6731
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      358 15 YUN NAM® H A I R C A R E resolves our hair problems! before M before Z^ I MM JB Sb. I Hr -Jfl after^g« p^ after i I f i—il 1/ Joseph Vun Corinne Chan 38 years old, In Direct Sales V 43 years old, Secretary Experienced Drastic
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      A time and place to speak Singlish
      498 16  -  THOMAS DAVIES Embrace Singlish as a local flavour and use it in Spore for effective communication Letter from I READ with interest the report, "Singlish good English? Can like that mehl (June 4), about an English language professor's views on why the Singlish-English
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    • Letter
      Service sector needs good training, better policies
      266 17  -  MOHDYAZIDSALUM Letter from WHILE I agree with Ms Chan Xue Li in her letter, "The rise of the ugly customer" (June 4), on the need for a change in customers' attitude, I suspect her responses also reflect the general lack of customer service
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      isay THE GREEN SPIRIT
      373 17  -  EUGENE TAY WORLD Environment Day is marked globally today, with activities to remind us of our impact on the environment and also what we can do to improve and protect it. Everyone can do something. For a start, we could consider these six steps: One: Respect
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      227 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON SDFDF HOLD FAMILY MEETINGS IN CRISIS The process of caring for aging parents can be a time that draws families closer together. Unfortunately, it usually becomes a time that tears them apart. Typically, the sister who lives nearby feels she is sacrificing her
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      Lock icon 30 SMEs take eco-action to save
      390 18  -  iwmi jm coffee with 28, Assistant Sales Manager, DMX Asia WHO says small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can't play their part in saving the environment? Today being World Environment Day, DMX Asia a lock and construction firm will do their bit to show their
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      the environment
      335 19 What were some challenges you or other companies faced when deciding to take part in Eco Action? We are lucky to have received plenty of support from colleagues as well as my boss who has always been keen on energy conservation. But other companies have said that it
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      Not feasible to axe all comics which hint of sex and violence
      250 19  -  NG KIAT HAN Letter from I REFER to the letter by Ms Amy Gay from the National Library Board (NLB), "National Library will re-examine its selection processes" (June 4). Ms Gay has said the NLB will re-examine its
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      Make it legal for vehicles to stop at postboxes along roads
      141 19  -  BASIL LEE Letter from MANY postboxes for dropping off mail are currently located at the side of main roads. Placing them at more prominent and convenient areas, say beside a mailbox at the void deck of an HDB flat,
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      366 18 enriching families 6«6 urn FocusontheFamily 33 trt Singapore Limited www.family.org.sg Founder Dr James Dob Son ©COMPLETE" Amo^ /advanced medical optics VOLUNTARY PRODUCT RECALL AND REFUND ANNOUNCEMENT Advanced Medical Optics Voluntary Recall of COMPLETE™ MoisturePLUS™ Contact Lens Care Solutions Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has announced a voluntary and global recall of
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  • Business
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      TV plant flattened by LCD whirlwind
      455 20  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN 400 will lose their jobs when Asahi shuts its glass panel unit at month-end hedirman@media corp.com.sg SOME 400 workers in Singapore will lose their jobs when Asahi Techno Vision (ATV) will shut down its production base here by the end of this
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      Lock icon CORPORATE EFS
      342 20 BLOOMBERG Jurong Island will soon house a US$llO-million ($l6B-million) normal-paraffin petrochemical plant jointly owned by India, Kuwait and Singapore's Economic Development Board. The project's first phase will hire 80 persons, mostly skilled engineers and technicians, according to a joint statement issued by Tamilnadu Petroproducts' unit Certus Investment Trading
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      Champions of education
      324 21  -  JOSEPH YADAO Property mogul ventures into education business joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg BETTER known for money-spinning ventures in the red-hot property market, tycoon Kwek Leng Beng (picture) is now stepping into the education business. Through his company Hong Leong Group, where he is executive chairman, Mr Kwek has teamed
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      Lock icon CORPORATE
      134 21 —AGENCIES Tiger Airways has received an Indian air permit to fly between Singapore and India, the budget carrier said yesterday in a statement. With rights to fly to six Indian destinations including Chennai, Goa and Kolkata, Tiger would be the first Singapore low-cost carrier to ply routes between both
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Thai think-tank lowers economic growth forecast
        211 22 ■AFP THE Thai government's economic think-tank yesterday trimmed down the nation's growth projections for 2007, saying political uncertainty would affect domestic consumption and investment. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) said the economy could grow in a range of 4.0 to 4.5
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tag, you're fake
        225 22 —AFP Microchip ID expansion to nab fakes in China HIGH-TECH giants Hitachi and Oracle plan to expand their IC tag business to help China fight rampant counterfeiting, a company official said yesterday. IC tags are microchips containing special identification codes and other data, which can help track
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        Back to feeling good
        353 23 Banish backache and other muscle strain with Osim uPapa Power Drum Back Massager RESEARCH shows that more than 80 per cent of Singaporean adults suffer back pain at some point in their lives. Backaches are often caused by lifestyle poor body posture, a lack of exercise
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        Your S$1 buys
        28 23 USS 0.6540 UK£ 0.3286 Yen 79.6155 HKS 5.1042 RM 2.2206 Euro 0.4848 Rupiah 5,738.6698 Baht 21.5159 Peso 29.6743 AS 0.7847 Indian Rs 26.4992 Yuan 5.0041
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE
        106 23 ■AFP Share prices powered to an all-time closing high yesterday, fuelled by Wall Street's record gains last week, dealers said. Sentiment was further boosted by gains in key regional bourses despite a sharp slide in China's stock markets, they added. The ST index closed up 31.03 points or 0.87
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        World markets
        58 23 Nikkei 225 17.973.42 +14.54 +0.08 HK Hang Seng 20.729.59 +120.72 +0.02 Australia ASX200 0.392.9 +59.4 +0.94 Korea Camp 1.737.59 +21.35 +1.2 Thailand SET 770.01 +10.08 +2.2 Jakarta Camp 2.111.75 +27.428 +1.31 Phils Comp 3.022.94 +75.59 +2.13 Shenzhen B 200.32 -22.01 -7.8 Mumbai Sensex 14.495.77 -74.98 -0.51 Malaysia KLCI
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      • Infotech
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          The power of touch
          179 24  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg TAPPING on a touchscreen with a single stylus might soon go the way of the dodo following the advent of multi-touch technology. Conventional touchscreen technology on tablet computers and smartphones only allows one point of input. By comparison, multi-touch technology recognises several touch
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      • MULTI-TOUCH TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE
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          Jefferson Han from Perceptive Pixel
          125 24 FEBRUARY 2006 Despite having a 25-year history, multi-touch technology only started picking up momentum when Jefferson Han, a research scientist from New York University, presented his work at a conference in early 2006. As specially made cameras tracked his movements, Han showed how he could
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          Apple iPhone
          93 24 JANUARY 2007 Apple's iPhone (right) is the first commercial product with I multi-touch technology that will be available to the mass- es. The mobile phone was first announced in January and will be launched in the United States by the end of this month. Apple's application of the
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          Microsoft Surface
          117 24 MAY 2007 Launched last week, Microsoft's Surface (left) computing concept harnesses multi-touch technology through a tabletop-shaped computer. Like Jefferson Han's application, it also uses special cameras to track movements onscreen. Apart from recognising movements, it also allows devices to interact wirelessly with the touchscreen. In a demonstration, Microsoft
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      674 26  -  WINSONTEO Finding the next big thing in acting has meant changes for Star Search as it returns to the small screen this year winson@media corp.com.sg STAR Search is back, and its organisers are pulling out the stops to ensure that it nets the brightest talent in
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      86 26 The competition has taken a break since 2003 when it was last held because MediaCorp decided to explore other genres of talent competitions such as Project Superstar, Paul Chan, vice-president of network programming and promotions said. Last year, Star Idol was the most watched variety show on
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      144 26 'I WANNABE Underaged the last time Star Search was held, Zhou Xv Feng, 19 (top), and Koh Yah Hwee, 20 (below), were eager to prove themselves at last weekend's auditions. Zhou turned up in an outfit and hairstyle reminiscent of homegrown R&B singer JJ Lin, whom he said he admired.
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      548 28  -  JEANINETAN Bad reviews and Jack Neo comparisons for Men in White don't bother Kelvin Tong jeanine@media corp.com.sg NEVERMIND if reviewers don't like it, Kelvin Tong just wanted to make "an Ang Mo Kio Aye 4 film" when it came to his latest
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        148 29  -  Young Modern Previously known as Australia's premiere Nirvana copyists, album number five from the trio known as Silverchair mines the fields of pop and rock with interesting results. Singer Daniel Johns is clearly trying to make a statement with his latest batch of tunes. Now 28 and husband to
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        254 30  -  —ZULOTHMAN ANBERLIN'S lead singer and guitarist Stephen Christian couldn't contain his exhilaration when the American quintet played in Singapore last week. "We're from a small town in Florida so it's thrilling to know there are people on the other side of the world
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        441 30 AGENCIES Depp wins big at MTV Movie Awards CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was named best movie and its star, Johnny Depp, won for best performance. Depp joined Pirates producer Jerry
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      679 31  -  JOANNEYAP Prolonged diarrhoea, fever could be symptoms of Crohn's disease, a chronic condition that leads to malnutrition joanne@media corp.com.sg WHEN 52-year-old taxi driver Tony Ang* experienced bouts of diarrhoea and high fever that lasted two months, he initially thought that it was a bad case of food poisoning.
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      1434 33 ITHTEI SPELL CAST THE NUMBERS GAME I MIDNIGHT MANIA: JIGOKU SHOUJO JEWELS IN OUR MIDST Premiere Last Episode Arts Central, 12am Channel NewsAsia, 8.32pm the ages of 9 Wti fc—^^J u K|M HR a grudge there, and greater share of the lucrative ■BB^g *VBaaif who has the B about her,
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      648 34  -  TANYO-HINN After some good results, table tennis coach Liv eyes a medal at Beijing Olympics yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER so many years of hurt, glory beckoned at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when Jing Junhong reached the semi-finals of the women's singles in table tennis. Four years later, at
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      287 34  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg BOWLERS from eight nations will lock horns when they roll off today at the first Singapore Sports School International Under-18 Tenpin Bowling Championships. Scheduled to end on Friday, 90 youngsters from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the
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      549 35  -  DARREN LAI On fire Murakami and Sueoka out to show Albirex what they're missing INTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO7 Balestier Khalsa v Albirex Niigata Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.45pm darren@mediacorp.com.sg RYUJI Sueoka starred for Albirex Niigata in their maiden S-League season in 2004, finishing as the club's joint top
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      350 35  -  DARREN LAI darren@mediacorp.com.sg THE Korean Super Reds may be languishing at the foot of the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2007 table, but four of their players stole the show on Saturday. Kirn Se Hun, Cho Se Mm, Park Byung Woo and Lee Gyu
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      573 36  -  TANYO-HINN After a second-place finish in Wales, Mardan can smell a triumph on European soil yohinn@media corp.com.sg ON SUNDAY, he collected a cool 147,215 euros ($303,582) after a second-place finish at the Celtic Manor Wales Open. It was Mardan Mamat's biggest payday ever, more than the
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      386 36 -AFP TENNIS French Open PARIS Two-time champion Rafael Nadal moved closer to a possible French Open trophy hat-trick as he crushed Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) yesterday to reach the quarter-finals. Nadal, who celebrated his 21st birthday on Sunday, won 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (7/5) and
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      322 37 -AFP New four-year contracts mean that players will remain at Anfield until at least 2011 LONDON Liverpool's Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have given manager Rafael Benitez a post-Champions League boost by signing new four-year contracts with the club. Club captain Gerrard and vice-skipper Carragher have
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      201 37 —AFP PARIS Uefa president Michel Platini will meet British Sports Minister Richard Caborn today to discuss the behaviour of Liverpool fans at last month's Champions League final in Athens. Uefa spokesman William Gaillard said early today that such was Uefa's concern about
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      222 37 AGENCIES TURIN Juventus have appointed former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri as their new coach when they play in the Serie A in the new season, reported BBC Sport. Ranieri, 56, who resigned as Parma coach last week, had been linked with the vacant Manchester City job.
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