Today, 10 August 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\COFIP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday August 10, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY //\=£>JA.CORP Friday August 10, 2007 todayonline.com we set you thinking MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 540 1 THE Ministry of Trade and Industry announced today that the economy is expected to grow by 7.0-8.0 per cent this year, riding on the momentum of the second quarter and supported by a favourable external environment and broad-based growth across the major
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    • 559 1 -AFP Investors spooked by signs that subprime loan crisis is spreading to global financial sector NEW YORK US shares plummeted yesterday amid fresh credit fears linked to the troubled subprime US mortgage sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 387.18 points (2.83 per
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  • hot news
    • 525 2 -AP Whites outnumbered in 1 in 10 US counties, straining race relations WASHINGTON Fuelled by immigration, higher birth rates among blacks and Hispanics and an explosion of jobs attracting immigrants to the nation's suburbs, the American ethnic landscape now features whites as a minority in nearly
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    • 669 3  -  DERRICK A PAULO OS Portal has 9,000 users a year after launch derrick@media corp.com.sg THERE are hardly any Singaporeans in the faraway city of Bogota, Colombia. Yet, Ms Kemmy Lim, the head of secondary at Colegio Gran Bretana, an international school, managed to contact a
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      452 5  -  LEONGWEEKIAT FLORAL bursts of colour and streaks of light pierced the August night sky, signalling that the end was near. But while the dazzling extravaganza must come to a close, yesterday's first-ever Parade by the Bay to mark Singapore's 42nd birthday has opened a new chapter in the history
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    • 470 6  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg THEY were far away from the roar of the crowds, the glow of fireworks and the smell of gunpowder. Still, this year's National Day Parade for the Jagadeeshes (picture, inset) could not have been more memorable even if
      PHOTOS KOH MUI FONG, SHERALYNTAY  -  470 words
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  • Singapore news
    • 266 8  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp.com.sg WHILE they are gearing up to offer even bigger pay packets in the war for talent, Singapore companies are also looking into longer-term retention strategies. According to a survey of 500 firms here by Mercer Human Resource Consulting,
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    • 615 8  -  Concourse clearout: Several tenants seek compensation, others unfazed by notice NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp. com. sg THE notice to vacate is legitimate, but several tenants at The Concourse Shopping Mall are up in arms over the notice that was served on them ordering them to move out
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 65 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore Polytechnic freshmen students managed to raise $137,263.80 for this years' President's Challenge. The polytechnic announced the amount collected on Wednesday, as part of its National Day celebrations. Guest-of-honour and MP for West Coast GRC Arthur Fong presented the cheque to the Ministry of
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      • 80 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A bus diver and four passengers were slightly injured when the bus they were on was involved in an accident at the Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange. It happened at about 7am yesterday, when the SBS Transit bus service number 161 was leaving
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      • 54 10 A baby boy (picture) delivered at the XX Women's and Children's Hospital yesterday morning, earned the honour of being Singapore's first National Day baby this year. The bundle of joy arrived for Mr Desmond Koh and Madam Fransisca Mujiastuthi, 11 minutes past midnight. The Kohs also
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    • 240 10  -  -TAN HUI LENG THE next time you are down with flu, you may be required to provide a swab from your nose or throat when you visit your private GP. This will come about after the Ministry of Health
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    • 523 10  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp. com. sg IN THE event of an accident or crime, the instinct for many people is to pick up the phone and dial "999" for the police. Authorities are now planning to extend a similar service for those in
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  • world news
    • 379 12 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia will not share bird flu samples with the United Nation's health body until it is guaranteed access to affordable medicine to treat victims of the deadly virus, a government official said yesterday. The comments come after
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    • 462 12 —AGENCIES Unlikely he'll be recalled from Taiwan for alleged sedition: M'sia KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia faces hurdles in its attempt to prosecute a student for rapping in a You Tube video to the national anthem using allegedly seditious lyrics, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar
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    • 300 15 -AFP ISLAMABAD Embattled President Pervez Musharraf yesterday decided not to impose a state of emergency in Pakistan, ignoring the advice of aides who wanted strong action to prevent more instability in the nation. The military ruler, facing the greatest challenge to
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    • 249 15 -AGENCIES Pakistani leader stays away from tribal meet amid security fears KABUL (Afghanistan) Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders opened a peace council yesterday on combating terrorism on the border, as President Pervez Musharraf, facing deteriorating security in Pakistan, said he was unable to attend the meeting. At
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    • 223 17 -AGENCIES Residentsflee homes as powerful quake sparks fresh fears of volcanic activity JAKARTA A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's main island of Java yesterday, including the capital Jakarta, could trigger volcanic activity, experts said. The undersea quake, centred about 110 km east of Jakarta and off
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      29 17 Indonesian residents wait outside their homes after a powerful earthquake struck Jakarta early yesterday. The quake shook tall buildings and sent residents fleeing into the streets. EPA
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    • 161 17 as tremors hit Taiwan, Japan and US on same day —AFP ON THE same day that a powerful earthquake struck Indonesia, tremors also shook Taiwan, southern Japan and the west coast of the United States. But there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in any of the localities,
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    • 218 18 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea yesterday said its upcoming summit with North Korea will bolster efforts to persuade the communist state to scrap its nuclear programmes. "(The summit) will be an important opportunity for the heads of the two sides to actively engage
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    • 313 18 -AGENCIES NEW JERSEY A tyre importer said yesterday it would recall 255,000 Chinese-made tyres it claims were defective because they lack a safety feature that prevents tread separation. The recall involves half the number of tyres that the importer, Foreign Tire Sales, had identified in June
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
      • 81 20 Nagasaki's Mayor Tomihisa Taue warned of a breakdown in world efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation as the Japanese city marked 62 years since it was flattened by a United States atomic bomb. At the memorial service for the atomic bomb victims at
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      • 68 20 -AFP A Japanese nuclear plant was hit by the latest in a series of suspicious small-scale fires, the operator said yesterday, amid rising public concern about the country's nuclear industry. Six suspected arson incidents have been reported since July 3 at the Tomari
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      • 73 20 ■AFP Georgia released yesterday what it called an internal report by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, demonstrating that a plane that fired a missile into Georgian territory came from Russia. Georgia's minister for conflict resolution David Bakradze said this proved Georgia's
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    • 302 20 —AGENCIES Toll on the rise even as waters in South Asia recede NEW DELHI The death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2,000 yesterday even as torrents of muddy water recede from stretches of farmland. "We are
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 54 22 AGENCIES The ban on the movement of British livestock from farms to slaughterhouses was eased yesterday but the directive excludes a zone around farms in southern England where the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was detected. The lifting of the ban stems from
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      • 87 22 ■AFP Nasas space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Wednesday, sending the first teacher into space 21 years after the Challenger explosion ended the dream of another pioneering teacher. Teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55, is the star of the second shuttle mission to the International Space
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      • 79 22 -AFP A British woman gave birth on Monday to identical triplets, something that only happens in one out of 200 million births, her doctor said on Wednesday. The baby girls Amy, Kirn and Zoe, each weighing I.skg -were born in Austria to their
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    • 312 22 'Flaw' in fallen bridge -NYT MINNEAPOLIS Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis (picture) a week ago in the steel parts that connect girders raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country. The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) investigation is
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  • Voices
    • 493 24  -  CHIN LI FEN Receipts are not the only way to keep track of sales Letter from Assistant Commissioner (Corporate Services Division) Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) I REFER to the letters, "A ploy to evade the tax man?" by Mr Chi Han-Hsuan (Aug 2)
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    • 205 24  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications SBS Transit I REFER to the letter, "Student made to pay adult fare" by Ms Ang Su Sze Carolyn (Aug 7). Concessionary travel is a privilege accorded only to holders of concessionary cards. Transit
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    • 260 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY...... THE RISKS OF COMPULSIVE PARENTING We've spoken on several occasions about parents who couldn't care less about their children, but today I want to address those at the other end of the continuum, referring to mothers and fathers for whom the kids
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      825 28  -  Tabitha Wang Here are some fun places in Singapore for belows2s "I REGRET asking for a long National Day weekend," my friend remarked. "Flights are fully booked so I'm condemned to staying put in Singapore. There's nothing to do. Even if you can find something, it's so
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  • AUDIO HOUSE 42ND NATIONAL DAY SALE
    • 353 32 -BLOOMBERG BORSE Dubai, owner of the emirate's two stock exchanges, plans to buy at least 2 5 per cent of Sweden's OMX, potentially derailing a 25.1 billion-kronor ($5.6 billion) takeover by Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. The exchange "is in the process" of purchasing OMX
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    • 378 33  -  CHRISTIE LOH Spore textile firm Ban Joo sets sights on acquiring China media company christie@media corp. com. sg TWO years ago, family-run Ban Joo Co was busy sewing up deals to buy garment factories both at home and overseas. Now, the mainboard-listed company is moving further away
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    • business news
      • 290 34 BLOOMBERG ■AFP Australian airline Skywest Airlines hopes to launch its first route to Singapore before the year's end, Australian newspapers reported. Mr Jeff Chatfield, chairman of London-listed parent company Advent Air, was quoted as saying: "I'd like to consider Singapore services this year. There is growth there." Reports did
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      • marketbuzz
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    • Technology
      • 513 36  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg WATCHING Apple launch its new iMac is akin to the season's latest runway fashion show featuring the latest sartorial trends. The first iMac was iconic. It's all-in-one, Internet-friendly design marked the resurgence of Apple in the consumer space and ushered in a new phase
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      • techgadgets&gaming
        • 371 38  -  TREVOR TAN trevor@media corp.com.sg THE Pli is the latest smartphone from Sony Ericsson and it trashes the image of its dull and bulky predecessors, like the PBooi, by undergoing a major facelift. Though not exactly super thin or petite, its solid sleek silver and
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        • 161 38  -  -HEDIRMANSUPIAN The new Razr is an incredibly simple yet stunning phone. At 11.9 mm, the svelte Razr2 V 8 is 15 per cent slimmer than its predecessor and has a new glossy metallic skin. In a word: "Chic". But it also sports a software makeover,
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    • 307 39  -  GENEVIEVE TANG Stunning graphics, exciting gameplay are enough to satisfy technology@newstoday.com.sg THE moment I sent my first enemy to hell, I was hooked. As Ryu Hayabusa, a ninja bent on revenge in the latest Ninja Gaiden instalment on Play Station 3,1 spent the first
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      • 819 44 Rush Hour 3proves that Jackie Chanthe persona now transcends any movie he stars in. Gareth Goh (gareth@mediacorp.com.sg) looks at how far the gongfu star has come. JACKIE Chan's life represents a success story in almost every sense of the phrase. Truly an international superstar,
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      • 549 46  -  Felix Cheong And we are not talking sequels NUMBERS, numbers everywhere. And a pattern where you want to find it Royston Tan's latest film, which began its run in theatres yesterday, is agetai musical titled 881. It follows the precedent set by his first
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    • 566 48  -  DARREN LAI Ridhwan hopes to use Sultan of Selangor's Cup to get into contention for SEA Games squad FOOTBALL Sultan of Selangor Cup darren@mediacorp.com.sg SINCE the age of 12 he has been playing football in the various national youth teams, alongside the likes of current
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    • 342 48  -  DARREN LAI FRANK Teo, a management consultant, felt that his son, Amos, was not getting enough time on the football pitch. So the Anglo Chinese School (ACS) old boy decided to start a football programme at the school. The ACS (P) recreational
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    • 849 49  -  Rohit Brijnath Formula 1 struggles with the idea of team, sadly, these days sport is all about winning AFTER the McLaren-Mer-cedes soap opera in Hungary was over, Lewis Hamilton was asked if he had respect for Fernando Alonso, and he said yes. It would have been
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    • 555 50 -AFP GOLF PGA Championship TULSA (Oklahoma) Englishman Graeme Storm, who worked four years in a creamcake factory to finance his golf career, proved he was no cream-puff yesterday (early today, Singapore time), seizing the lead during round one of the PGA Championship. Storm,
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    • 516 50  -  Cubby Leong China mobilises more than 80,000-strong security force for Olympics, but they will be 'invisible' THE 1972 Olympic Games in Munich is a stark reminder of how terrorism can hurt sports' greatest spectacle. The world was in shock when 11 Israelis were
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    • 319 52 BIRMINGHAM Steve Bruce (picture) says he will quit as boss of Birmingham City if the club's biggest shareholder, Carson Yeung, interferes in team selection at St Andrews. Yeung, who bought a 29.9 per cent share in the Blues in July, has
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    • 477 52 -GUARDIAN Honeymoon is over for Liverpool manager LONDON Jaws dropped when, earlier in the summer, the normally ultra-conservative Rafael Benitez (picture) first revealed his new, uncharacteristically trendy, goateestyle beard. Liverpool fans trust the new look will prove symbolic of the Spaniard's reinvention as a manager
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    • 406 52 -AFP Castro bans team for world championships costing Cuban boxers Olympic shot HAVANA President Fidel Castro announced on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that Cuba will not compete in the World Boxing Championship in Chicago after two Cuban boxers defected in Brazil last week. The tourney
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    • 289 53 -AP MADRID The Spanish press reported yesterday that Real Madrid completed the signings of Chelsea's Dutch international Arjen Robben (picture) and Feyenoord's Royston Drenthe. Spanish radio station Cadena SER said both players would be presented today and would be available to play
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