Today, 3 October 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY jA^djaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday October 3, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 92 1 —AFP MANCHESTER Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo needed four stitches after being elbowed in the face several minutes before the end of Tuesday night's Champions League match here, United manager Alex Ferguson said. Ronaldo left the pitch in the 85th minute with his face covered in blood
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    • 173 1 —AFP LONDON—Eleven jurors were selected yesterday {early today, Singapore time) to decide if there is any truth to claims that Britain's royal family ordered the murder of Princess Diana, as a formal inquest into her death in 1997 finally opened. Coroner Lord
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    • 694 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp. com. sg ONE was a corporate banker. Another was a lawyer. A third was a civil engineer. These high-flying professionals were among those who took substantial pay cuts when they joined the education service as teachers. To ensure that they get
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    • 44 1 MYANMAR MESS HOW MUCH HEADWAY DID THE UN ENVOY MAKE? HOT NEWS PAGE 2 JUDGE TO BRITNEY: GIVE UP YOUR KIDS FEDERLINE HAS CONTROL OF SONS PLUS PAGE 32 IT COULD BE HIS LAST RACE FUTURE BLEAK FOR LOCAL KART HOPEFUL SPORTS PAGE 42
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    • 65 1 BBMBBw^^^^^^ m i KEY CHANGES (NOKMALGQUKSESTUDBsftS) Those who do well in the N levels can skip the 0 levels and go straight into their ITE-courses From 2009, MOE will lift the cap on the number of O-level subjects that Normal (Academic) students in Sec 4 can sit for Three schools
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    • 7 1 STUDENTS BENEFIT, TOO NEWS ANALYSIS «PAGE 2
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  • hot news
    • 478 2 —AGENCIES YANGON After a four-day stay in Myanmar, United Nations' special envoy Ibrahim Gambari finally had a chance to meet junta chief Senior General Than Shwe yesterday. And in a surprise development, he held a second meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu
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    • 697 2  -  DAPHNECHUAH news@newstoday.com.sg IN TODAY'S wired world, where a click of the mouse can yield answers in a matter of seconds, one's classroom can be anywhere from the bedroom to the fast-food outlet, where the laptop shares space with greasy french fries. So, why attend school
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    • 813 3  -  LEE U-WEN -LEE U-WEN MOE initiatives give N-level students greater variety of choices u-wen@media corp.com.sg CAPABLE Normal (Academic) students who score well in their N levels will now be allowed to skip their 0 levels the following year. Instead, they can start their Institute of
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  • singapore news
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      • 137 4 A 99-year leasehold condo plot in the Upper Serangoon area has fetched a top bid of $290 million from Duke Development, which edged out higher profile developers such as Frasers Centrepoint and Allgreen Properties when the tender closed yesterday. The Urban Redevelopment Authority
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      • 132 4 Mr Bean (picture) made a surprise appearance at Raffles Place MRT Station yesterdaybut only on screen. As part of a blood donation drive, SMRT screened a Mr Bean movie to "make the experience more pleasant and enjoyable". It is the transport operators' fourth such drive
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    • 294 4  -  TIFFANY TAN WHEN a Singaporean medical team embarked on an eight-day trip to Zambia on Sept 22 to treat locals with malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and other illnesses, they did not expect to spend nearly four hours treating a man who was attacked
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    • 500 4  -  SHERALYN TAY It entertains inpatients, helps doctors, nurses to better treat patients sheralyn@media corp.com.sg BEING warded in a hospital does not necessarily mean you will be disconnected from the outside world. Thanks to a pilot trial of a Patient Bedside Terminal (PBT) equipped with Web and
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    • 825 5 MDIS' Mass Communications programme lets students tap on Oklahoma City University's strength in the field Mass communications, as a field of study, is only a few decades old. But the pervasiveness of the mass media andthe Internet has transformed it into a respected subject that generates much
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    • 394 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg WAS the bank eyeing fixed deposits worth "hundred millions of dollars" that it missed a red flag from the start? Asia Pacific Breweries Singapore (APBS) lawyer, Senior Counsel Davinder Singh, suggested in court yesterday that the
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    • 436 6  -  ANSLEY NG Lawyer calls error of missing pages a'serious breach' ansley@mediacorp.com.sg TO SENIOR Counsel X Shanmugam, who represents the prospective buyer in the botched $500-million en bloc sale of Horizon Towers, it was simply a matter of picking up where the deal fell apart due to
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    • 421 8  - WHAT WOMEN NEED NAZRYBAHRAWI UN committee focuses on anti-discrimination; Singapore stresses work-life balance nazry@media corp.com.sg THE United Nations might be concerned about gender segregation in employment practices here but the Singapore Government's top priority for women is harmonious work-life balance. Speaking to reporters two months after meeting the UN Committee
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    • 399 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG THE next time you walk along the glittering streets in one of the gateway cities of the world, you may well encounter a slice of Singapore. Raffles City the iconic development at the heart of Singapore that once
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    • 289 6 I^SCM^H L; fcydJjn Jowl htam I have a savings account of 555,000 where the Haul* begins in Oct 2006. When the Haul is completed in Oct 2007, the savings Doa for Zakat blessing left is 553,200 only. How much Zakat do I have to pay? "Oh Allah please make my
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  • world news
    • 689 10 S Korean leader walks across the border that divides the 2 Koreas SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn Jong II greeted South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in Pyongyang in a surprise appearance before thousands of cheering residents yesterday, to open the
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    • 225 11 -AFP BANGKOK—Thai government spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp resigned yesterday, becoming the latest official to quit for contravening anti-graft laws which limit shareholdings in companies. Mr Mayalarp said he held more than a 5-per-cent share in a television production company, and had consulted with Prime
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    • 401 11 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan yesterday named a new army chief and said it would grant amnesty to a former Prime Minister. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday appointed the former head of the country's main spy agency to succeed him as army chief if he steps
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    • 459 12  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ Words are not enough, EUMPs tell Asean aziz@media corp.com.sg SEVERAL visiting European Union parliamentarians have urged the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to go beyond just criticising Myanmar for its brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters and to take "concrete steps" to put pressure on its
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
      • 118 14  -  THE DAILY TELEGRAPH An Italian convent has been closed down after a dispute between its three remaining nuns resulted in a violent attack on the Mother Superior. Enraged by their Superior's domineering behaviour, the three exchanged blows, before the Mother Superior was pushed to the
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      • 136 14 —AFP Admiral Michael Mullen was sworn in on Monday as the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. He promised to refocus the US military for challenges beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr Mullen replaced General Peter Pace as
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      • 81 14 -AFP A 6.4-magnitude quake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert and sending people running from their homes, officials said. The quake rattled the same area hit by a massive 8.4-magni-tude quake and a multitude of
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    • 442 14 -AFP First comic based on Islamic culture launched in Indonesia JAKARTA An apparent explosion has levelled high-rise buildings in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, triggering a security alert. It's the work of an Islamic superhero a giant, confused teenager who sneezed. Jabbar the Powerful, the
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    • 198 15 —AP ;< KLIPPAN (Sweden) Swedish artist Lars Vilks has said he has no regrets about portraying the Prophet Mohammed in a cartoon, despite offending Muslims world- S*Q wide and receiving death threats from Al Qaeda. Mr Vilks, 61, said he even plans
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    • 280 16 -AGENCIES BAGHDAD Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on an unannounced visit to Iraq, said 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by year's end. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki told reporters yesterday after a meeting with Mr Brown that
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    • 751 16  -  OONYEOH A MASS demonstration by lawyers last week in Putrajaya underlined the serious questions raised about the integrity of the Malaysian judiciary, following a press conference by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, during which a controversial video clip was made public. The eight-minute video, said
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    • 331 16 -AFP WASHINGTON Private security firm Blackwater USA has been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, according to a United States Congress report that depicts the company's employees as being dangerously out of control. The report, released on
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  • Voices
    • 372 18  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Proposed HIV legislation will only be as effective as it can be enforced Letter from I REFER to the report, "Knowordon't know, it's still illegal" (Sept 29-30). Until a cure is found, a person infected with the HIV virus has effectively been given
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    • 123 18  -  CHENG SHOONG TAT Letter from I READ with concern reports that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has withdrawn recognition of the medical degree from an Indian medical school, only after being informed by the Indian authorities that they intend to stop recognising the degree.
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    • 258 18  -  HARRY CHI A Letter from I REFER to the letter, "(Medi)save us" (Oct 1). The suggestion to allow the use of Medisave to cover health screenings for those 55 years or older merits serious consideration. First, health checks are supposed to detect medical
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    • 152 20  -  TAN JACKTHIAN Letter from Chief Operating Officer, XX Women's and Children's Hospital I REFER to Ong Lip Sing's letter, "Why have recycling bins if they're not used properly?" (Oct 1). We would like to assure Mr Ong that cleaners at XX
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    • 394 20  -  AHMAD SUMANTRISELAMAT Private storage of baby's blood has many demerits Letter from AS WE live in a medical hub like Singapore, we are more conscious of the dynamic, fast-changing world of medicine and science. Hence, we should be more responsive to research and findings
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    • 225 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON SDadBY FACING THE WINTER My mother and father were married for 43 years in one of the most beautiful, loving relationships the world has ever seen. When my mum turned 50, my father was beginning to think about the passage of time. And
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    • 167 22  -  ENGSOHSENG Letter from Deputy Director (Car Parks) for Director (Housing Administration) Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter by Lee Yung Chih, "Why not extend family parking scheme to non-HDB residents?" (Sept 25). Some HDB residents require two Season Parking Tickets (SPT)
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    • 409 22  -  SIOW JIA FUJI There are other avenues to have your voice heard Letter from I REFER to Liew Kai Khiun's letter, "A peaceful lot, so why not?" (Sept 26) in which he argues that the official attitude towards outdoor public demonstrations should be changed. I
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  • Business
    • 429 26  -  CHEOWXINYI SembCorp to build largest shipyard there by next year cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SEMBCORP Marine, the world's second largest oil rigbuilder, plans to build and operate the biggest shipyard in the southern hemisphere by next year, it said yesterday. Final terms of the joint venture, including investment costs,
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    • 261 26 DOW JONES, HEDIRMAN SUPIAN THE Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) may allow cross-migration of shares, which could make way for deeper financial ties between the bourses, TSE's chief representative for Singapore said. "Migration of trading, or trading functions might be possible,"
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    • 225 26 -BLOOMBERG THE dollar will weaken as Asian central banks increasingly invest foreign-exchange reserves away from the United States currency, said Citigroup Global Markets' chief currency economist. China, the secondbiggest holder of US Treasuries after Japan, sold US bonds in April, May and June
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    • business news
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        65 28 Sony has launched the world's first organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television on Monday. The 11-inch television, the XEL-1, is 3-mm thick. It consists of a thin layer of organic material sandwiched between two plates. It uses less power and offers brighter images and wider viewing angles than liquid
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      • 464 28  -  CHEOWXINYI Spore shares boosted by Wall Street performance cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg WALL Street's record close bolstered an already upbeat Singapore market yesterday, with shares ending at a new high for the second consecutive day. The Straits Times Index (STI) closed 1.03 per cent higher at 3,793.83, after
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      • 207 28  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp. com. sg TWO hotels will open in December and at least 13 more are in the construction pipeline, which will ease the shortage of rooms facing the hotel industry here. Room rates, however, will remain high for a
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      • 263 30 Robust growth, new orders help PMI reach highest reading since November THE United States Federal Reserve's recent interest rate cut of 50 basis points not only benefited the stock market, but it has also given Singapore's manufacturing industry a boost. Robust growth and increasing new
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      • 203 30 -DOW JONES MORGAN Stanley has raised US$l.5 billion ($2.2 billion) for its third Asia-focused privateequity fund. The fund, Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia 111 LP, will invest in business across the region and has started to review investment opportunities. Morgan Stanley Private Equity
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    • 640 44 -AFP After the routine of the pool games, New Zealand fans are finally starting to get excited WELLINGTON The Rugby World Cup is just starting for New Zealand fans following what many hardcore followers considered a "phoney war" of the pool stages, with the
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    • 433 45 -AFP West Ham striker's impressive form after returning from injury earns recall LONDON Steve McClaren has confirmed that West Ham striker Dean Ashton will be recalled to the England squad for the crucial Euro 2008 qualifiers against Estonia and Russia later this month. Three goals in his
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    • 141 45 -AFP JAKARTA Real Madrid plan to open a football academy on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, a spokesman for the national sports council said yesterday. "Their CEO came to visit on Monday and told us about their intention to build their soccer academy in Bali
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    • 764 46 —AFP SCOTTISH giants Rangers led the way with a 3-0 victory over six-time French champions Lyon on a superb night for British clubs in the latest Champions League action on Tuesday (early today, Singapore time) as all three won. English powerhouses Arsenal and Manchester United both won
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    • 305 46 —AFP MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney's first goal of the season was enough to give Manchester United a 1-0 Champions League win over Roma here on Tuesday (early today, Singapore time). After last month's victory by the same scoreline at Sporting Lisbon, the England forward's 70th-minute
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    • 74 46 AFP GROUP E At Lyon, France Lyon 0 Rangers 3 At Stuttgart, Germany Vfß Stuttgart 0 Barcelona 2 GROUPF At Manchester, England Manchester United 1 Roma 0 At Kiev Dynamo Kiev 1 Sporting Lisbon 2 GROUP G At Moscow CSKA Moscow 2 Fenerbahce 2 At
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