Today, 11 July 2007

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    14 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday July 11, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon A SURPRISE TO BUILD ON
    709 1 —AGENCIES GDP estimates could be revised with 'astonishing' growth of construction sector SINGAPORE'S economic script for the second quarter and more importantly, the entire year was thrown out the window yesterday. Economists are revising their 2007 growth projections after crunching the latest Gross Domestic Product
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    Lock icon Indra Sahdan could face Beckham in US league
    436 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND >i'W EXCLUSIVE jose@media corp.com.sg WHEN LA Galaxy hosts Real Salt Lake at their Los Angeles stadium on Sept 1, the club's latest multi-mil-lion-dollar signing England international David Beckham could well face an attacking tandem of American prodigy Freddy Adu and
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    Lock icon BLOODSHED AT THE RED MOSQUE
    495 1 ISLAMABAD A rebel cleric who led a standoff by militants at the controversial Red Mosque was killed in the crossfire after Pakistani troops stormed the complex to end a week-long siege. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, who had earlier vowed to die rather than surrender, died
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      27 1 L 9 wm DEFENCE PACT: JAKARTA'S READY TO TALK AGAIN 2 $10M TRAINING BOOST FOR BUSINESSES 22 POSH? MORE LIKE -NORMAL'SPICE j, BAMBANGAND ITHEINDONS STUN BAHRAIN 35
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      Lock icon Jakarta ready to talk again
      618 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Indonesian minister hopes defence pact can be ratified next year nazry@media corp.com.sg AFTER accusing Singapore last week of trying to undermine a defence pact with Indonesia, Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono has said that talks between the two countries will resume. He even expressed hope
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      New plans for Suzhou
      477 3  -  JOHNSONCHOO Joint industrial park looks to next decade johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg THE 13-year-old Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has set its sights on becoming more relevant in an increasingly high-tech and high-value-added economy. This new 10-year target was set during the ninth Joint Steering Council Meeting yesterday, a high-level
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      Lock icon A new page for ex-MPs ... PAP and Opposition
      734 4  - A new page for ex-MPs PAP and Opposition CLEMENT MESENAS Iseas book lets former parliamentarians share stories from the heart EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN Mr J B Jeyaretnam, Singapore's first post-1965 Opposition parliamentarian, will get the chance to tell his story, as a local thinktank starts the ball rolling to get
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      Lock icon Their deeds go beyond call of duty
      698 6  -  LIN YANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg WHEN a distressed grandmother came seeking help because she was afraid to bring her grandson home to his mentally unstable father, child protection officer Wong Meng Kong was not in the office, but he rushed to her side immediately.
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon COMFORTDELGRO BUYS BUS OPERATOR IN NSW
        98 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA ComfortDelGro is boosting its presence in Australia with a $19 million acquisition of Toronto Bus Services, a bus operator in New South Wales which operates 80 buses, some coaches and a few depots. Its operations complement ComfortDelGro's existing Hunter Valley fleet of
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        RECORD DENGUE HOTLINE CALLS
        34 6 The number of phone calls to the National Environment Agency Dengue Hotline hit its highest level last month, where it received over 4,800 calls, up from 2,687 calls in May.
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        MOE PILOTS STAFF DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
        80 6 The Education Ministry is looking at appointing School Staff Developers in every school a senior member of the staff whose role is dedicated to planning and implementing professional development for staff. It is prototyping the concept in eight primary schools, 13 secondary schools and four
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        WORLD CYBER GAMES RETURNS
        140 6  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN The Asian championship for the World Cyber Games will be hosted here next month for the second consecutive time. To be held at Suntec Singapore from Aug 2 to 5, it will see 120 gamers from 12 countries taking part. Participants will compete in
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      Lock icon HONG KONG NEEDS A GLOBAL IDENTITY
      832 8  -  SIMON TAY AT ONE point, only a narrow canal separates Hong Kong from the mainland. On one side, tall city towers rise up from bustling streets. On the other, rural lanes wind along high fences under the gaze of surveillance cameras. But the crowded
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      47 9  - -TANHUILENG LOFTY IDEALS: Nepal's tallest man Rajan Adhikari caused a stir at Raffles Place yesterday on his way to the Today office. The 2.21m-tall 28-year-old is in Singapore for a week to 'promote love and dsbcb'. The tour is exDected to end in 2016.- KOH MUI FONG
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      Get fresh
      250 9  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg JUST 22 smokers have been caught lighting up since the smoking ban was implemented in pubs and clubs this month. Of these, all complied with nightspot managements' warnings to stop smoking. As such, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has not yet
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      Watch this year's NDP live from wherever you are
      236 9  -  DAPHNE CHUAH daphne@mediacorp.com.sg FAILED to get a ticket to the National Day Parade (NDP) at Marina Bay? Fret not You can now watch the parade even while you are on the move the only prerequisite is an Internet connection. This year,
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      269 6 AVIVA guaranteed till 30 Sep 07 2on your CPF savings. BIG 6 is a single premium endowment plan that offers: Interest that's always higher than CPF's existing rate 3 100% capital sum guaranteed No lock-in period No sales charges and withdrawal fees Existing BIG c customers, you'll enjoy this rate
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      192 7 Cook Your Food Wen! Ik Authority of Singapore Cooking our food well is just as important as buying, handling and storing food properly. Harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning can be found on raw or undercooked food, especially meat, poultry, seafood, eggs and dairy products. Heat kills bacteria. You can
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      344 8 Advertising Feature 11,600 MILLIONAIRES IN SINGAPORE WHY AREN'T YOU ONE OF THEM? MONEY MAKES MONEY is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that the rich is getting richer whilst the lower income group is struggling along. This is because the lower income group is
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      335 9 i OCBC Smart Change J With Smart Change, my child's savings account grows everytime I use my OCBC Debit Card. OCBC Smart Change helps you save automatically by rounding up every OCBC Debit Card purchase you make to the nearest dollar. This spare change will then be directed into your
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Analysts sceptical suit against Suharto will amount to anything
      314 10 -AFP JAKARTA A US$l.5-billion ($2.3-bil-lion) civil suit filed against Indonesia's former President Suharto (picture) is a political move to appease government critics, and comes too late to retrieve missing money, analysts said yesterday. The suit was filed on Monday against Mr
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      Lock icon Court to hear Thaksin case
      369 10 -AGENCIES But ousted Thai PM and wife to stay away, says lawyer, citing safety fears BANGKOK Thailand's Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear corruption charges against toppled Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, in the first graft case against him to reach court since last year's coup. Mr
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      Lock icon M'sia still needs bumi policy: PM
      310 11 -AP Affirmative action ensures unity, Abdullah says KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's leader has defended the country's decades-old affirmative action policy for majority Malays, saying yesterday that it was still needed to narrow income disparity among ethnic groups and ensure national unity. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
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      Lock icon Cop's murder confession can't be used as evidence
      265 11 -AFP SHAH ALAM A Malaysian police officer's confession was coerced and will not be allowed as evidence at his trial for murdering a Mongolian woman, a judge ruled yesterday. Judge Mohammed ZaM Mohammed Yasin rejected a bid by prosecutors to introduce the
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      Lock icon Indian suspect in UK terror plot linked to Al Qaeda
      244 11 AFP BANGALORE An Indian man who allegedly drove a jeep into Glasgow airport had links to the Al Qaeda terror network, The Times of India reported yesterday, citing evidence found at his Bangalore home. Three CDs and a computer hard
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      126 12 -AFP DANGER ZONE: Some 8,500 people have fled the slopes of Mount Gamkonora after it spewed ash, smoke and debris yesterday, prompting the volcanology office to raise its warning to the highest level. The office said activity atthe Indonesian volcano, about 2,700 km north-east of Jakarta, indicated that an eruption
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      Lock icon China executes ex-food and drug czar
      506 12 -AP Authorities say they are tightening quality control amid product safety crisis BEIJING China executed the former chief of its food and drug watchdog which has become a symbol of the country's product safety crisis following his conviction of taking bribes to approve substandard
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        Lock icon N KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS SET FOR JULY 18
        93 13 -DPA The six-way talks to address North Korea's nuclear programme is likely to resume on July 18 in Beijing, the Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. The diplomatic source in Beijing was quoted as saying that the next round of the talk will
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        Lock icon MILITARY SET TO RETAKE EASTERN SRI LANKA
        88 13 —AP The Sri Lankan army should complete the capture of eastern Sri Lanka by the end of this month, it said. The military action would bring all of eastern Sri Lanka under government control for the first time since 1994, dealing a major
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        Lock icon CLONED DOGS IN FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS
        100 13 -AFP South Korean scientists are to clone drug-sniffing dogs as early as this month, for the country's customs service in the world's first commercial canine cloning deal, officials and reports said yesterday. "In the near future, we plan to establish an animal cloning centre
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        Lock icon US PARENTS AGAINST THEIR CHILDREN JOINING ARMY
        92 13 -AFP Growing public disenchantment with the war in Iraq now appears to be taking a toll with parents increasingly reluctant to encourage their sons or daughters to enlist in the United States Army. The US Army fell short of its recruiting goal last
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      Lock icon No cigs, drinks for me, I'm on the pill
      395 13 -AP L Anti-smoking tablet may help curb drinking too WASHINGTON A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, said researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure centre in the
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      167 12 Singaporeans Are Becoming Richer, Are You Getting Your Fair Share?j Asia's Top Success Coach SS&BS339 IjQ^^y^^^ Master The 7 Essential Money Skills *1 National VTTCTT' l"l^rfflH! <T"??^^^^^^^^B Wgr Best-Selling KfBHiHBiMI "^g Author rTMr CTr i "After experiencing 3 major flBK) failures in 5 years, Conrad declared bankruptcy In 2001 I
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      197 12 RESEARCH STUDY... Novartis is conducting a research study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 2 medications in the treatment of high blood pressure. These 2 medications have already been approved for use in Singapore and many other countries around the world. WHO IS ELIGIBLE? You may be able to
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      350 13 If you'd like to start investing and you're wondering how to begin, here's a free tip. (In fact, here are ten of them.) t I Our Top Ten Tips on Investing For more information on investing, Xop s an invaluable guide to the please visit any UOB branch today or
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      Putting the house in order
      343 16  -  TEO CHENG PEOW Property agents should be regulated by Ministry of National Development Letter from THE current buoyant property market is creating a new set of problems for wouldbe buyers and tenants. We now hear of unscrupulous agents. Many are becoming greedy. They do not
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      Can fund managers terminate CPF investments now without offering Jan 1 switch?
      290 16  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from ABOUT six years ago, I invested some of my Central Provident Fund (CPF) money in a unit-trust investment fund, through an online financial adviser in Singapore. I was suffering a loss when it
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      Lock icon isay GOODBYE TEACHER, HELLO PROBLEMS
      640 17  -  HO KONG LOON WHEN I was in Secondary Two some 40 years ago, my class had no less than four changes of mathematics teachers. One of them, with a minimal grasp of English, taught us for only two weeks and we made no sense at
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      222 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE MARRIAGE TRAIN Do you ever feel like you just don't love your spouse any more? Well, welcome to the club. The fact is love is not dependent on our feelings and emotions. The fact is feelings come and go. None of
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      10 ways to be green every day
      227 18  -  GILBERT GOHKEOWWAH Following Live Earth, daily measures to live an environmentally friendlier life Letter from I WAS impressed with last weekend's Live Earth concerts, and felt it was an effective way to spread the message about global warming. The impact of those concerts
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      91 18 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give yourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. PIECES OF HISTORY: Today photographer Koh Mvi Fong snapped this picture nearthe old
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        CAMERAS AT CAR PARKS
        92 18  -  DAVID KWOKNG KAN: Past attempts at discouraging vehicle theft and vandalism at HDB multi-storey car parks have been met with little success till date. I would like to suggest that closed-circuit TVs and cameras be installed at all these car parks. This is, in fact, a
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        WHY ARE PRICES HIGHER?
        92 18  -  LILIAN LEE PEI LIN: I recently went to the Shop n Save supermarket at Tampines and saw many signboards announcing that the chain would be absorbing the two-percentage-point hike in Goods and Services Tax (GST). However, when I picked up a box of 30 eggs, I
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      Any guidelines for VSS scheme?
      231 19  -  LIEW MENG FATT Contrary to what firm said, staff who left under voluntary plan had their posts refilled Letter from A COMPANY recently implemented a voluntary separation scheme (VSS). Nearly 40 per cent of the staff who applied for the scheme had their applications granted.
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      LTA will monitor junction
      142 19  -  NALEEZAEBRAHIM Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority I REFER to the letter by Ms Linda Foo, "Busy AMK junction needs traffic lights to keep pedestrians safe" (June 29), in which she suggested that a pedestrian crossing across Ang Mo Kio (AMK) Central 2
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      7 18 FocusontheFamily Singapore Limited Founder: Dr James Dobson
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      44 18 mkMtk for a NEW Singapore-based TjJHj Company officially launching *ST.2> in August 2007! VYou are invited to our PRE-LAUNCH BUSINESS PREVIEW on 14 or 28 July 2007,2pm or 7pm at the Main Auditorium #02-03 Haw Par Technocentre KS™e www.soenta,wor. rm National Day Parade 2007
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      159 20 11 I HMY BEAUTIFUL LIFE i i I Unveiling the secret to I jirFLjTjff a beautiful transformation l/sj rr^i Real life case studies, first-hand revelations Will you get pimples from exercise? Why do you lose hair when you j^£^ I^^?^^^ hit menopause? Is it a sin if you love to
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      370 21 I I A CONTEST ;j I Watch My Beautiful Life —flzlL WIN FABULOUS ZTI I" PRIZES EVERY WEEK! mediacorp jf% Tune in t0 Cnannel 8 > every Wednesday night at 10.30pm for My Beautiful Life. ?ft? d, li!i iei, nnT Answer simple questions and send in your answers by phone,
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      $10m training fund set up
      404 22  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Part of initiatives to spur local firms' growth, along with advisory portal, three new consortiums hedirman@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE companies are in for a treat a $10 million training fund and an online advisory portal have been launched to spur their growth in the
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      Just one more shopping mall to come up this year
      197 22  -  ■JOSEPH YADAO THE cash registers may be ringing during the Great Singapore Sale, but Singaporeans may have to wait a while before they have a new place to shop, with the revamped Kallang Leisure Park being the only major shopping
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      Virgin may buy back stake
      385 23  -  CHEOWXINYI Branson open if SIA offers 49% stake cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines' stock climbed further yesterday as anticipation that the carrier could sell its stake in the London-based Virgin Atlantic strengthened. SIA shares rose as much as 30 cents, before ending 10 cents or 0.5 per
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      Lock icon Singapore stocks fall, reversing gains; UOB slides
      156 23 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE stocks fell, led by United Overseas Bank, as investors judged recent gains to be excessive. The benchmark fell 6.4, or 0.2 per cent, to 3,620.32 at the close, after rising as much as 0.7 per cent About five stocks advanced for
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        Lock icon China's June trade surplus hits record $41b
        306 24 DOW JONES Undervalued yuan root cause of expanding figures: Goldman Sachs CHINA'S trade surplus in June surged to a record high, surprising even the most bullish observers. It signals that the country's second quarter economic growth likely stayed as red-hot as in the
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        Lock icon IEA: Strong demand but weak supply of oil beyond 2010
        257 24 -AFP PARIS The International Energy Agency (lEA) warned of increased tension on global oil markets after 2010, as spare capacity in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) production cartel shrivels at a time when buoyant economic growth is driving
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        51 24 WEETECK HIAN NEW TOPIC: "Now everyone is talking about 0i1... but in 10 years, everyone will be talking about water,' said Mr Bo Xilai, China's Minister of Commerce, during his visit to the Newater Visitor Centre. He is here as part of an official Chinese team led by Vice-Premier Wu
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        Lock icon Nand demand raises problem for Hynix
        666 25  -  KEVIN CHO -BLOOMBERG Toils to keep pace with rising need for chip news@newstoday.com.sg HYNIX Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory chipmaker, is struggling to keep pace with demand from consumer products including Apple's iPhone as the company shifts to a new manufacturing process. "We have
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