Today, 1 August 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=DJj-\CofiP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday August 1, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY ffaftfZf we set you thinking Wednesday August 1, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 795 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT More frequent buses during peak hours with new standards weekeat@media corp.com.sg COMING to a bus stop near you if all goes according to schedule are shorter waiting times for buses during weekday peak hours. The Public Transport Council (PTC) announced yesterday that the two
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    • 548 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO tDAYEXCLUSIVE derrick@media corp. com. sg PERHAPS your home renovations have gone wrong, or you have a dispute with your landlord. Or maybe, your employer has breached your employment contract How can you resolve this without going to court? The Law
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    • 34 1 MURDOCH'S NEWS CORP 'WILL BUY DOWJONES' 14 WHERE WERE THE REAL MADRID STRIKERS? 44 NO REFUNDS IN TORONTO IF BECKHAM ISANO-SHOW 44 ROSSI LEAVES MAN UNITED FORVILIARREAL 44 LITTLE BENEFIT FROM BARCELONA TOUR:THURAM 44
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  • hot news
    • 566 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO GIC ready for possible dark clouds despite economy's present bright outlook derrick@media corp.com.sg IT IS a Goldilocks global economy now not too hot, not too cold, but just right according to some economists, and the bears have not come home. Yet Yesterday,
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    • 669 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG But beware inflationary concerns, caution analysts cheekong@media corp. com. sg A RECORD-BREAKING quarter in the job market in which the unemployment rate fell to its lowest in six years provided much to cheer about, but economists have flagged off inflationary concerns as Singapore's economy
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    • 248 3 SCHOLARSHIPS: ANOTHER VIEW IN YOUR WEEKEND TODAY AN XTRA PERSPECTIVE ftn'Jßlwo/3 wliii VISA •*> __>~ $10 S4O $50 $100 Book by 7 August 2007 andtra vel between 10ctober and 30 November 2007. V^^^Sfl *Fro/77 13 August 2007, Jetstar passengers will check in at Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 for
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  • Singapore news
    • 423 4  -  SHARON VASOO 13th Summit to be held in Spore on Nov2o, focus on environment IN MANILA DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sharon@media corp.com.sg THE 13th Asean Summit in Singapore has been fixed for Nov 20, officials at an annual foreign ministers meeting here said yesterday. Singapore will take
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    • 319 4  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp.com.sg POLYTECHNICS and their graduates, already earning high praise here and abroad, can look forward to more international exposure, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the official opening of the five-year-old Republic Polytechnic (RP) yesterday. From next year, at
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    • 170 4 ARABIC news channel Al-Jazeera, which hopes to have a presence in Singapore, has been in talks with the Republic's authorities since early this year, said its managing director. "We understand we have to be patient," Mr Nigel Parsons, the managing director of the Qatarbased
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    • Article, Illustration
      61 6 GET YOUR CUPPA HERE: Workers at Raffles Place heading to their offices on Monday morning were greeted by the sight of a human mocha machine dispensing free mocha and giving out mugs outside OUB centre. The promotion was part of a publicity campaign for mocca,the newly-launched MediaCorp online classifieds and
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    • 404 6  -  JASMINE YIN Spore placed third among economies in Asia-Pacific jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE may be the second-largest economy after Brunei in the AsiaPacific region. But when it comes to economic wellbeing, the Republic lags behind Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to a recent study by the Asian Development
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 174 6 -ANSLEYNG Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan failed in his bid to lodge an appeal against a judge's decision that he had defamed two of Singapore's leaders. Last September, High Court judge Belinda Ang passed a default judgment in favour of Prime Minister Lee
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      • 65 6 -938 LIVE From Monday, the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates at 10 gantries, including the one at YMCA and Fort Canning Tunnel, will go up by 50 cents between 6.30pm to Bpm. For motorcycles, the rise is 25 cents. For buses and goods vehicles, it will be
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      • 99 6 -ANSLEYNG The Subordinate Courts will have a new District Judge and a new Magistrate on the Bench from today, with the appointment of District Judge John Ng and Magistrate Carrie Chan Su-Lin by Presidents R Nathan. Mr Ng served as a District Judge and Coroner. He
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      • 69 6 An unemployed couple in their early 20s was arrested for a spate of robberies and thefts in Sembawang and Woodlands. Between May and June, at least 11 cases were reported, involving items including jewellery and SIM cards estimated to be valued at more than $10,000. They
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    • 1007 7  -  JASON HO NEOCHAICHIN With a holistic life sciences curriculum, MDIS prepares its students for careers within and beyond the laboratory TEXT PHOTOGRAPH An out-of-the-box thinker, independent and knowledgeable these were some of the keywords that Dr Andrew Lucy used to describe graduates from the
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    • 323 8  -  UNYANQIN Social service agencies link up online to share expertise, resources yanqin@media corp.com.sg GIVING aid to a resident who needs help across several social service agencies just got easier, with the launch of an online forum. Instead of having to correspond endlessly
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    • 195 8  -  -SHERALYNTAY THE Varsity Park construction site opposite the National University of Singapore has become the second most active dengue cluster here with 33 dengue cases. And it appears that the construction company responsible for the site is no stranger to censure.
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 8 Singapore Zoo's icon, orang irtan Ah Meng, taking a stroll on the boardwalk- part of the newly-opened Sumatra n orangutan habitat which has been unveiled along with the Bornean orangutan exhibit. The new exhibits allow visitors to see the primates at close range. Ah Meng, now 47,
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    • 300 8  -  DAPHNECHUAH daphne@mediacorp.com.sg GUM disease could become a bigger reason than old age for people to lose their teeth, unless awareness is heightened. A recent study commissioned by Colgate revealed that only 6 per cent of 316 Singaporeans (aged 15 to 64)
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    • 437 6 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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  • world news
    • 555 10  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ Drawn from Asean nations, it can bankroll infrastructure for the region, says the incoming secretary-general aziz@media corp.com.sg THE incoming head of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) has proposed the possibility of a US$5OO-million ($757-million) fund, drawn from Asean countries, which could be used
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    • 196 10 -AFP MANILA Concern about their international image helped convince South-east Asian nations to announce the creation of a new human rights body, diplomats who took part in the negotiations said yesterday. The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) on Monday said
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    • 467 12 -AP -AFP Thai junta orders security forces to campaign for referendum BANGKOK- Thailand's junta leader has ordered the nation's 700,000 security officers to encourage people to vote in a constitutional referendum later this month, officials said yesterday. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who seized power in a coup
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 67 12 -AFP A tuberculosis-infected Taiwan couple who sparked a health scare by flying to China last week have been brought back from the mainland, a health official said. Centre for Disease Control official Wang Tsung-hsi confirmed that the couple, identified only their fami ly
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      • 119 12 ■AFP A former Khmer Rouge prison chief has been handed over to Cambodia's United Nations-backed tribunal for questioning, in the most concrete move yet to try those responsible for the country's genocide. Duch, whose real name is Kang Kek leu, was the only
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      • 97 12 -AFP An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rattled Myanmar's new capital Naypyidaw early yesterday, but there were no reports of casualties or property damage, officials said. The quake struck 176 km south of Meiktila town, the United States Geological Survey said, placing its epicentre just
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      • 94 12 Malaysia should ban the Kuala Lumpur leg of Gwen Stefani's upcoming Asian tour because of her indecent dressing and obscenities, a Muslim students' group was reported as saying by Antara news agency yesterday. The 10,000-strong National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students said
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    • 343 13 AFP Taliban sets new deadline as 2nd S Korean hostage killed area last Wednesday. South Korea's foreign ministry identified the latest victim as Shim Sung-min, 29, as the country reacted with outrage. "The Korean government strongly condemns and urges an immediate end to these heinous acts of
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    • 135 14 KUALA LUMPUR A 33-year-old woman has been remanded for a week in connection with the murder of a man whose body was chopped into 11 parts and stuffed inside a fridge at a luxury condominium near Kuala Lumpur, The Star reported yesterday. The woman
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    • 133 14 -AFP SYDNEY An Australian minister who cancelled the visa of an Indian doctor who was detained over failed British car bombings said yesterday that an Internet chat room conversation helped prompt his decision. Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews gave some details of an Internet conversation
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    • 178 14 KUALA LUMPUR A letter sent by the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to its lawmakers has generated further speculation that snap polls are around the corner. In a letter, BN secretarygeneral Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad asked BN's elected representatives and senators to update
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    • 207 14 BLOOMBERG MEDIA mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to buy Dow Jones Co for US$6O ($90.96) a share, gaining control of the Wall Street Journal and ending the Bancroft family's 105 years of stewardship, according to two people with knowledge of the
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    • 502 16 -AGENCIES Hefty US military aid for Arab allies in bid to keep Iran at bay SHAEM EL-SHEIKH (Egypt) United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates kicked off a regional tour in Egypt yesterday, seeking to unite Arab allies against
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    • 126 18 A SINGAPOREAN woman has been appointed head of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap), a United Nations commission. "Singapore had strongly supported her candidacy and we have every confidence in her leadership," said Foreign Minister George Yeo on Ms Noeleen
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    • 874 18  -  00NYE0H news*views*analysis WHEN former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad unveiled his vision of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1996, one of the biggest surprises was a guarantee of no censorship of the Internet This was not because he had suddenly become a liberal advocate
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    • 188 19 -AFP WASHINGTON A panel of independent experts on Monday told US drug regulators to keep diabetes drug Avandia on the market despite an increased risk of heart problems, a spokesman said. By a 20-3 vote, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee agreed that
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    • 87 19 -AFP Bollywood movie star Sanjay Dutt (left) was sentenced yesterday to six years in jail for illegal weapons possession in connection with serial bombings in Mumbai in 1993. The sentencing sent Shockwaves through Bollywood. Dutt, who has been out on bail, was last
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  • Voices
    • 339 20  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Personal mailers to all Muslims could get response without resorting to Hota Letter from THE Muslim community here is fortunate to have a responsive and progressive/ataz (religious ruling) committee. Previously, Muslim patients needed two next-of-kin as witnesses (later amended to two male
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    • 392 20  -  SHIRLEY LIM MOHD LATIFF Letter from Deputy Director, Corporate Marketing Communications Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and Deputy Manager, Skills Training Department Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) WE REFER to Ms Julie Kay Beng Neo's letter, "Help, I want to upgrade my skills" (July 26).
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    • 605 22 THE old adage, "it's the journey that matters, not the destination", has taken on a literal sheen with the introduction of Queensland's new touring route. The Great Sunshine Way. As Y.E.S. 93.3FM radio presenter Bukoh Mary found out on a recent holiday there, the journey promises
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    • 217 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... SAFE HARBOUR FOR CHILDREN Does your home provide an emotional safe harbourforyour children a place where theyfeel protected and nurtured? The measure of emotional safety at home can have lasting effects on the psychological well-being of your kids. A classic study of
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    • 294 24  -  WONGSIEWHOONG MOE working with schools, parents to lighten bags Letter from Director, Schools Ministry of Education (MOE) WE THANK Ms Trisha Fine, "Teacher: Shocked by the burden they have to bear" (July 26), and Mr Philip Ang, "Ministry of Silence?" (July 27), for their concern for our
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    • 356 24  -  TRACY PHILLIPS Letter from Marketing Manager, Zouk I REFER to the letter by Ms Lesley Chew Mm Hui, "Practising what you can preach is the best cure: Fan tells Zouk" (July 28-29). Zouk prides itself on rewarding our supporters with the best entertainment experience possible, complete
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    • 301 26  -  TAN HENG HUAY LEE LENG KIONG Measures are in place to enforce industry standards Letter from Deputy Director (Public Affairs) Housing Development Board (HDB) Director (Corporate Communications), Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) WE REFER to the letter by Mr Teo Cheng Peow, "Putting the house
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    • 224 26  - and looking out for consumers Letter from MANISAHJALIL Secretariat, Spore Accredited Estate Agencies WE REFER to the letter "Putting the house in order" (July 11). We understand the writer's concern that is also shared by the public. Our approach to assist in resolving problems involving unprofessional real estate agent conduct
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  • Business
    • 487 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO JOHNSONCHOO EDB poll also shows manufacturers are wary about H2 business climate and johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg JTC has benefited from the office sector crunch as businesses priced out of the traditional corporate space seek out new locations to house
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    • 284 30  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg THE Urban Redevelopment Authority yesterday offered a O.&hectare land parcel at prime site Marina View (picture) for tender. It estimates that at least 60 per cent of its gross floor area will be developed for office use, 25 per cent
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    • 192 31  -  -HEDIRMANSUPIAN EMBRAER, a leading maker of small jets, has opened a regional training centre in Singapore as part of its US$4O-mi]lion ($60.4-mil-lion) investment and expansion plans for the Asia Pacific. The region represents one of the company's fastest growth areas, with profits
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    • 296 31  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg CITYSPRING Infrastructure Trust won the right to acquire 100 per cent of Basslink for A 51.175 billion ($1.5 billion), beating three other bidders (a consortium comprising APA Group and Macquarie Bank, Industry Funds Management, and Transfield Services) in a tender exercise that
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    • 611 32 Seminar gives SMEs technology, finance updates to grow their businesses FROM free consultation services on security and financing to networking opportunities and health checkups for laptops, the Today-HP Total Care seminar last Friday turned out to be a buffet spread of benefits for small
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    • 578 33 IT upgrade aids artiste management firm's business expansion HUMBLE beginnings marked the start of Singapore's first artiste management agency. "I started Fly Entertainment with just $2,000, a fax machine and two employees in 1999," said Ms Irene Ang, chief executive officer of Fly
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    • business news
      • 348 34 Property stocks rise after Government announces non-interventionist policy SINGAPORE stocks rose yesterday after National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan (picture) said the Government will depend on "non-interventionist" measures such as providing more information and increasing supply to keep property prices and rentals in check Stocks were also
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      • 466 34  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN CHEOWXINYI BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG CHEOWXINYI Although it is the last to join the 3.5G mobile broadband race, Star Hub will up the ante on its competitors by launching one providing the fastest speeds islandwide. Its Max Mobile service will be the fastest 3.5G offering in South-east Asia to
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