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    28 1 TODAY /AediaCorp we set you thinking Tuesday October 23, 2007 todayonline.com MICA(P) 314/10/2006 TODAY /A=iyjj-\CoRP we set you thinking Tuesday October 23, 2007 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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    A rare petition and a spirited debate
    658 1  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS been over two decades since a Public Petition was read out in Parliament; yesterday, Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong (right) duly delivered his repeal appeal on Section 377A. But after he had sat down, and the petition bearing 2,341
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    Assoc Prof Ho assuages concerns over proposed changes to Penal Code
    861 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg IT HAS been three years in the making: The first overhaul in 23 years of the country's largest piece of criminal legislation. Still, when the amendments to the Penal Code which contained more than
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      Lock icon NOT ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN?
      669 2 -AGENCIES CHINA'S NEW STANDING COMMITTEE BEIJING China yesterday unveiled a new leadership team that gave President Hu Jintao a stronger hand in governing the country and putting forward potential successors to take over as President in 2012. The team took shape after eight days of
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      MPs fire questions on Myanmar issue
      816 3  -  JASMINE YIN FM George Yeo tells why cutting I inks with junta is not the answer jasmine@media corp.com.sg SOME wanted to cut ties with Myanmar's junta leadership altogether. Others urged Singapore to play a bigger part in helping to end the conflict in the
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  • parliament news
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      MPs urge tougher stand on sexual offences
      611 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Changes to give greater protection to women and children, but MPs want more weekeat@media corp.com.sg FURTHER protection extended to the vulnerable, under proposed changes in the Penal Code, received the thumbs up from Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday. But they
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      'Voice of the teachers' dies at 61
      427 6  -  -ZULOTHMAN Swithun Lowe championed the cause of educators for more than 34 years HE GAVE up his teaching career in the early 1970s to champion the cause of his fellow Singaporean educators as a trade unionist And for more than 34 years, he
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      Prof Ho explains T-shirt incidents
      283 6  -  -JASMINE YIN THE police may have over-reacted in their bid to keep law and order here when Singaporeans and Myanmar expatriates tried to show support for the beleaguered people of Myanmar, acknowledged Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Law Ho Peng Kee. Two
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      Lock icon MM sizes up Terminal 3
      343 8  -  UNYANQIN Changi's third terminal takes Singapore to 'a new level': MM yanqin@media corp.com.sg MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was impressed with Changi Airport's Terminal 3, when he went on a tour of its facilities and Singapore Airlines' new A3BO jumbo jet yesterday. "It takes us
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      SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      252 8 STORE TO BUY MORE F-15S Singapore will buy 12 more US-made Boeing F-15 fighter jets. Eight jets will be purchased under an option to a contract signed in December 2005 -when the Republic made an initial purchase of 12 Boeing F-15SGs. Singapore has also ordered four more F-15SGs. The
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      US risks being bypassed by Asia: Prof
      314 8  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg WHEN she took to the stage, Professor AnneMarie Slaughter made a keen observation about the speaker that preceded her, Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, whose speech was titled "Asia and the World". The American political scientist, in town
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      Lock icon Fires force Hollywood stars from their homes
      210 10 -AFP LOS ANGELES Wildfires sparked a state of emergency and mass evacuations in California on Sunday, with Hollywood stars forced to flee their million-dollar homes and at least one person killed, authorities said. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the emergency in seven of the
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      Lock icon Meet China's nine most powerful men
      426 10 -AFP China's new Politburo Standing Committee, the highest decision-making body in the Communist Party, was announced yesterday. The nine members, listed according to the party's hierarchy: HU JINTAO, 64, remains as China's paramount leader and head of the Communist Party for another five years.
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        Lock icon SHOE FACTORY INFERNO
        107 12 -AFP A fire erupted at a shoe factory in south-east China on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and injuring 19 in the latest industrial accident to hit the country. The blaze broke out at the Feida workshop, located near the city of Putian in coastal Fujian
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        Lock icon US SAILORS SHOT DEAD
        90 12 -AFP Two United States sailors were shot dead and a third was critically wounded in their barracks in the proWestern Gulf state of Bahrain yesterday, the US Navy said. But the Navy said the incident did not appear to be a terror attack on the barracks
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        Lock icon 2009 DEADLINE FOR NEXT M'SIAN TO TRAVEL TO SPACE
        111 12 -AFP Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said the government has until the end of 2009 to decide if it wants to accept an offer from the Russian Space Agency for another Malaysian to journey into space in late 2010 or
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      Lock icon 'Let Asean deal with Mvanmar'
      446 12  -  LEE U-WEN Next sec-gen says global community should not interfere in region's affairs u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THE crisis in Myanmar should eventually be resolved by countries in the region and not by the broader international community, according to Dr Surin Pitsuwan (picture), the incoming secretary-general of the
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      Myanmar 'needs honourable way out': US expert
      385 13  -  TIFFANY TAN tiffany@media corp.com.sg SANCTIONS will not push Myanmar towards the path of democracy and social reform, said an American specialist on Myanmar, calling the new round of United States financial sanctions against the military regime "theatre, not policy". Mr David Steinberg, a
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      Lock icon Tamil Tigers launch air, ground assault
      175 14 -AFP COLOMBO An elite Tamil Tiger suicide squad, backed by light aircraft, attacked a key Sri Lankan military base yesterday in an unprecedented ground and air assault, killing 30 rebels and soldiers. The rebels said 21 members of their "Black Tiger" unit and two
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      Lock icon Copperfield cancels SEA tour: Thai PR
      148 14 -AP BANGKOK —American magician David Copperfield has cancelled his upcoming shows in South-east Asia following legal troubles in the United States, said a public relations official with RSi Dream Entertainment, which organised his shows in Thailand. "His management sent an email to organisers on
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      Lock icon Pilots blamed for Garuda crash
      145 14 AFP JAKARTA The pilot of an Indonesian jet that crash-landed in March, killing 21 people, had ignored repeated warnings not to land, a final report into the disaster said yesterday. The report from Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee said the pilot of the Garuda Indonesia
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      Lock icon Anwar faces jail
      324 14 ■AP M'sian ex-DPM says he has been warned to name source behind thatvldeo KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (picture) said yesterday that he was warned to either reveal the whistle-blower behind a video alleging judicial corruption or risk prosecution. Mr Anwar accused the government of
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      Thais willing to trade votes for gifts, cash: Survey
      208 18 BANGKOK In a survey released yesterday, nearly two-thirds of Thai respondents said they are willing to accept gifts or money in exchange for their votes in the Dec 23 election, the Bangkok Post reported. And while two-thirds recognised that vote-buying in
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      Lock icon Bhutto's party slams proposed street rally ban
      317 18 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's opposition vowed yesterday to defy a ban on rallies in the run-up to general elections, proposed in the wake of last Thursday's suicide bomb attack on former Premier Benazir Bhutto's convoy, which killed 139 people. Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azeem
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      Lock icon MEGA-CITIES FACING DANGER
      90 19 -AP Coastal cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change. Of the 33 cities predicted to have at least 8 million people by 2015, at least 21 are coastal and highly vulnerable, said the WorldWatch Institute. These
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      Lock icon Bangkok going under water
      561 19 -AP KHUN SAMUT CHIN (Thailand) At a village south of Bangkok, Buddhist monks cling to the shrinking spit of land around their temple. During monsoons at high tide, waves hurdle the breakwater and the inner wall around the temple on a promontory in the Gulf of
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    • TIME TO COME CLEAN
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      Lock icon THE STAR OF EACH EVENT
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      228 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY IDENTITY AND THE TEEN SOCIETY It's not easy getting through adolescence today and effective parents must learn early on how to protect their kids. Perhaps the most painful aspect of growing up is related to the assault on self-esteem, which is almost
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      THIS IS WHY THEY TICK
      290 24  -  JASON CHIAM CHIAH SERN What is effective is not a top-down approach but a sincere bottom-up approach Letter from I READ with interest the article "What makes these two tick?" (Weekend Today, Oct 20), which profiled Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan and Minister for Education
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      Lock icon Errant taxi drivers shame the country
      178 25  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from A FEW months ago, I read in media reports that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be hiring a private company to catch errant taxi drivers who refuse to pick up commuters and cheat tourists. I would like to know the
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      IE looking into tax puzzle
      251 25  -  LIANE ONG External study scrapped, but it's working with Brazil to resolve issue Letter from Assistant Director (Corporate Communications) International Enterprise Singapore I REFER to the article entitled "The puzzle that's taxing Singapore" (Oct 18). Singapore's trade and investment ties with Brazil have been growing
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  • Business
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      Frasers Centrepoint first year's earnings beat forecasts; Ml has a better third quarter
      320 26  -  -ESTHER FUNG FRASERS Centrepoint Trust's (FCT) distributable income for the fourth quarter ended Sept 30 was $10.3 million, or 1.67 cents per unit. This was 13.6-per-cent higher than its 1.47-cent forecast, due to strong rental reversion, with
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      Lock icon Asian markets jittery
      407 26  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg RENEWED worries about the health of the global economy sent shudders through the region's markets yesterday, with stock markets from Hong Kong to Japan closing 1 per cent to 4 per cent lower. Although the markets were mostly off intraday lows, analysts expect volatility
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        Alliance to maintain aircraft ground support tools
        217 28  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg UNITED Kingdom-based RHE Asia-Pacif-ic and Singapore Test Services (STS) have signed a five-year alliance agreement to provide repair, maintenance, testing and certification services of aircraft jacks (picture) and other ground support equipment in the Asia-Pacific region. It is expected
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          RECORD VOLUME FOR EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS
          90 28  -  CHEOWXINYI The volume of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) hit a new weekly record last week when $99.6 billion changed hands, exceeding the $85 million high traded in the Sept 25-29 week last year. The Singapore Exchange, on which 17 ETFs are listed, attributed the
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          LIPPO-MAPLETREE INDONESIA TRUST PLANS IPO HERE
          104 28 Lippo-Mapletree Indonesia Retail Trust, controlled by Indonesia's Lippo Group, plans to raise up to US$39O million ($572 million) in an initial share offering in Singapore. Shares will be sold at between 78 and 91 cents each, according to BNP Paribas, joint arranger of the
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          Lock icon BECKKET APPEALS COURT JUDGMENT
          119 28 —AGENCIES Singapore-based investment holding firm Beckkett filed an appeal against a court judgment in a dispute over control of an Indonesian coal mine, but details were not disclosed. It is "appealing against all the portions of the judgment where the court did not find for Beckkett".
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        Lock icon China's growth may exceed 11%
        309 29 -BLOOMBERG Future interest rate increases appear likely CHINA'S economy probably expanded more than 11 per cent for a third straight quarter, raising the likelihood of more interest-rate increases to prevent a flood of export cash from fuelling asset bubbles. Gross domestic product expanded 11.5 per
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        108 30 ITS A WIN: Fulford Public Relations won the top honour in the Media and Marketing category at the British Business Awards 2007 at The Stamford Swissotel last week. Fulford PR managing director Linda Fulford (centre) received the award from guest of honour Lord Powell of Bayswater (right), as Singapore British
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        Shopping malls for everyone
        360 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO Elder-friendly details can help senior citizens at malls joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg SHOPPING malls often ignore elderly shoppers and their basic needs, said Manchester Business School marketing Professor Jikyeong Kang. She believes that there is a need for malls to develop elder-ly-friendly infrastructure, like easy-to-read shopping
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