Today, 24 October 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=DJj-\Copp we set you thinking MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Wednesday October 24, 2007 todayonline.com
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    • 181 1 -AFP LONDON Campaigners are to demonstrate outside Chinese embassies in 12 cities across the world today in solidarity with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Protests are planned in London, Paris, Berlin, Dublin, Vienna, Sydney, Washington, Toronto, New York, Brasilia, Bangkok and Cape Town,
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    • 1097 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG PM Lee on keeping Section 377 A, even as homosexuals must have a place in society cheekong@media corp.com.sg IT MAY be untidy and ambiguous. But for once, such lack of cut-and-dried neatness in its laws is what Singapore needs, according to
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      555 2  -  -LEEU-WEN WHEN an SIA flight bound for the Swiss city of Zurich took off from Changi Airport this morning, it would have in its business class cabin a box carrying some top-secret documents from the Singapore Government. And if the documents succeed in impressing the very important recipients
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    • 867 3  -  ANSLEY NG Another asks for laws to be more gender-neutral ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE supportive of a new law to make procurement of services from child prostitutes illegal, one MP wanted to go a step further by setting up a hotline. Such a hotline could
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  • Singapore news
    • 500 4  -  TAN HUI LENG Increase due to change in formula used to calculate annual value huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AS HOTEL room rates in Singapore continue to set new highs, the taxman's upcoming formula tweaks which will see hotels' property tax bills jump by at least 33 per cent
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    • 447 4  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN AND CHEOWXIN Yl hedirman@media corp.com.sg STAYING true to his humble beginnings, Mr Lim Goh Tong (picture) wore a Casio watch and ate simple meals. But when the Genting group founder died yesterday, he left behind a business empire worth US$22 billion ($32.2 billion).
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  • parliament news
    • 330 6  -  LINYANQIN But Minister says the Republic's ranking in such areas aren't low yanqin@media corp.com.sg RANKING seventh, ninth and 13th out of about 178 economies in various areas on the ease of doing business would be considered respectable by many, but
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    • PARLIAMENTBRIEFS
      • 155 6 938 LIVE An average of $2.8 billion a year in Net Investment Income Contribution (Nil C) was taken into the Budget over the past five years to fund the Government's primary deficits, which average $1.5 billion a year. Giving his written answer to a question
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      • 151 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Up to September this year, 68 beggars were picked up by the authorities here. Last year, the figure was 72. "Of the 68 cases, 59 per cent are foreigners; 41 per cent are Singaporeans of which 16 per cent
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      • 113 6  -  -SHERALYNTAY To help parents save for their children's education, the Government will in January implement the Post-Secondary Education Account for every child, aged 7 to 20, who has a Children's Development Account. To reflect the changes, the Education Endowment and Savings Scheme Act
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    • 221 6  -  SHERALYNTAY OBVIOUS targets of terrorists include infrastructure and public places. But what of non-traditional targets such as food and water supply, or vegetation and other products intended for consumption? Giving her view on the Terrorism (Suppression of Bombings) Act before it was passed by
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    • 211 6  -  UNYANQIN ONLY 6,000 members out of over 163,000 eligible donors have taken advantage of new rules which make it easier for them to top up the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Retirement Accounts of their family members. The figures were given by
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  • Singapore news
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    • 377 8  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT MORE than 17,000 Hyundai owners who bought their cars between 1996 and 2001 could see a rise in their vehicles' scrap value. The possibility stems from a Court of Appeal ruling yesterday which gave the Land Transport Authority (LTA) the goahead to
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    • 446 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WOULD a business need to pay property taxes if it ran underground pipes or wires through various plots of land to serve clients? This is the dilemma now presented by the Property Tax Act With its "historical origins in the 19th Century", a
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    • 205 10  -  —SHERALYN TAY OF THE 3,697 cases of voluntarily causing hurt (VCH) reported in the first six months of this year, the police acted on 319 cases, or 8.6 per cent of them. In a written response to a query tabled in
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    • 483 10 'Health check'will identify areas for improvement: Commissioner of Charities THE Commissioner of Charities (COC) is taking the first step in his long journey to beef up the management of charities under his direct purview. Mr Low Puk Yeong has selected seven large charities for a
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    • 1042 11  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg I HADN'T even been born then. But I reckon Singapore's ill-fated merger with Malaysia was hardly a blissful union, not least due to the fact that my parents' only lasting memories of it were curfews, food rationing and sleepless nights. My
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  • world news
    • 380 12 —AGENCIES Junta generals okay visit by Pinheiro next month UNITED NATIONS The ruling generals in Myanmar have agreed to the first visit by the UN's top human rights official in four years, the world body said on Monday. In a letter to UN
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    • 225 12 ■AP PUTRAJAYA Malaysia's anti-corruption agency has arrested eight government officials in a crackdown on massive wasteful expenditure and corrupt practices, an official said yesterday. Two employees of private companies said to have abetted the officials were also arrested, Mr Ahmad Said Hamdan, the di-rector-general
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    • 265 14 AGENCIES SAN DIEGO The wind-fuelled fires that have burned more than 700 homes may be only the start of the destruction in Southern California, where hotter temperatures and more explosive gusts are forecast Half a million Californians have been ordered to evacuate their
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    • 368 14 -AFP WASHINGTON Former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto said yesterday that she was considering "virtual" mass rallies and campaigning via phone to avoid mass violence after last week's deadly suicide attack on her convoy. Ms Bhutto wrote her suggestions in a Wall Street Journal opinion
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    • 353 15 ■AFP Iraqi fighters should not followtheir leaders 'blindly' DOHA Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on leaders of the insurgency in Iraq to bury their rivalries and unite in a common fight against the United States-led coalition, in an audiotape broadcast
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    • 361 15 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government yesterday denied that it had forged a secret deal with United States Vice-President Dick Cheney to secure the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks (picture). The "Australian Taliban" was freed from US military custody in May after
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    • 671 16  -  RICHARD SPENCER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IN BEIJING CHINA heralded a new era of dynastic politics when it unveiled the son of a former communist leader as heir presumptive to President Hu Jintao. Mr Xi Jinping, the current Communist Party chief of Shanghai, was little known outside
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    • 532 17  - China's next 'Iron Lady' JASON LEE The only female Politburo member, LiuYandong looks poised to shine jasonlee@media corp.com.sg SHE is all set to become China's most powerful woman but will Ms Liv Yandong (picture) also be the next "Iron Lady" in the mould of Vice-Premier Wu Vi? While their areas
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    • 236 17 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lankan defence officials said yesterday thata major Tamil Tiger suicide attack against a key military base may have been helped by security lapses during the screening of a talent show on television. On Monday, a "Black Tiger" suicide
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    • 303 18 -AFP Paedophile suspect held by Thai police faces more charges BANGKOK A second Thai boy has accused a Canadian schoolteacher of sexual abuse, the police said yesterday, adding that more charges will be filed against the paedophile suspect captured last week. Christopher Paul Neil, 32, already
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 79 18 -AP South Korea possesses at least one surface-to-surface cruise missile capable of reaching all of North Korea and even as far as the Chinese capital, a media report said yesterday. Quoting an unnamed military source, Yonhap news agency said the South Korean army's
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      • 97 18 -AFP A powerful blast at a Philippine mall on Friday that killed 11 people may have been caused by an accidental gas leak, although a bomb is not being totally ruled out, the police said yesterday. Officials said investigators have not found bomb
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      • 80 18 -AFP Indonesian authorities seized US$440 million ($644 million) worth of amphetamines or at least 568kg of the drug- in a raid on an illegal factory in Batam and arrested six people, including two Taiwanese, the national police said yesterday. The drugs were destined
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      • 62 18 -AP China's rural population continued to shrink as farmers stream to booming cities, though a majority of people still lived in the countryside, state media reported. About 737 million people, or 56 per cent of the population of 1.3 billion, lived in rural areas at the
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    • 483 20 -AFP -AP US can't tell what money was spent on in Iraq police programme WASHINGTON- The United States State Department so badly managed a US$l.2-billion ($1.76-billion) contract for Iraqi police training that it cannot tell what it got for the money spent, said a new
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    • 319 20 -AP KABUL (Afghanistan) Afghans feel that the security situation in their country has deteriorated compared with last year, but say life is better now than under Taliban rule, according to the largest comprehensive opinion poll ever conducted in Afghanistan. About 46 per cent
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    • 685 21 -AP Predicament is starting to affect mid-income families as well NEW YORK The calculus of living pay-cheque-to-paycheque in the United States is getting harder. Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they
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  • Voices
    • 595 22  -  TONY HOWARD Airline will face stiff competition on transatlantic routes Letter from I REFER to Liang Dingzi's article "It's clear blue skies ahead for SIA" (Oct 11). He describes how Singapore Airlines (SIA) stands to gain from operating more transatlantic routes through Heathrow
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    • 250 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY SAYING 'NO'TO SPENDING ON KIDS It's not easy saying "No" to our children in a society that seems to say "Yes" to everything. Perhaps one of the most difficult problems facing parents today is learning not to give children too much.
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    • 438 26  -  WAYNE SOON It could restrict the Institute of Policy Studies in its goal to increase political awareness Letter from I REFER to various news reports on the announcement of a merger between the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and the Lee Kuan Yew School
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    • 222 26  -  YTUM Letter from I READ with interest the letters by Raymond Lo, "Punish errant drivers, says cabby" (Oct 22) and "Errant drivers shame the country" (Oct 23) by Lim Boon Hee. I agree with both writers. The Land Transport Authority (LTA)
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    • 233 28  -  LOON SENG CHEE Letter by RECENTLY, there have been several media reports on the birth of new power companies in Singapore. One of the advantages that has been touted is the increased competition, which would help lower prices. The authorities have
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    • 242 28  -  AUDREY ANG GOHSHIHYONG But all should be leashed in public places Letter from Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force and Assistant Director, Corporate Communications for Chief Executive Officer Agri-Food Veterinary Authority WE REFER to the letter, "Walk that turned nasty" by Mr Richard
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  • Business
    • 329 30 SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia) will meet with Indonesia's competition watchdog KPPU next week to respond to the body's allegations that parent Temasek Holdings violated cross-ownership regulations in the country's telecommunications industry. "(The meeting) has been scheduled for Nov 1," ST Telemedia
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    • 629 30  -  ESTHER FUNG Analysts question apparent lack of internal controls at SembCorp Marine esther@mediacorp.com.sg AS EXPECTED, SembCorp Marine stocks took a severe beating yesterday, falling the most in five years, after firing its finance director for unauthorised foreign exchange transactions that may lead to "unrealised loss"
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    • business news
      • 339 32  -  ESTHER FUNG But prices are still expected to rise in the coming months esther@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S inflation rate slowed unexpectedly last month, easing concerns that the economy was showing signs of overheating. According to the Department of Statistics, the consumer price index (CPI) increased 2.7 per cent
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      • 280 32 DESPITE the role played by collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in the credit crisis now roiling in the United States and other markets, it is unlikely that financial regulators will view such sophisticated products with suspicion or distrust, said Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) deputy managing
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      • 318 33 DAIMLER, the world's largest commercial vehicle-maker, started building a plant in China costing more than 200 million euros ($417 million) as the country's growth boosts van sales. The plant, situated in the southern city of Fuzhou, will manufacture as many as 40,000
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      • 355 33 -AGENCIES Dealers hope strong quarterly results will restore confidence SINGAPORE stocks staged a mini-re-covery yesterday, ending the benchmark Straits Times Index's (STI) worst threeday slump in two months on selected bargain hunting, however gains were limited by blue chip SembCorp Marine, which is embroiled in
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      • 179 34 -BLOOMBERG CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust, one of Singapore's biggest office landlords, will pay investors $29.6 million in dividends for the third quarter, up from $19.4 million a year earlier. The trust will distribute 2.14 cents a share for the three months ended
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      • 250 34  -  JOSEPH YADAO Sale of stake not put on hold, says airline, which denies holding out for better price joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines' (SIA) vice-president of public affairs, Mr Stephen Forshaw, dismissed a report by a UK newspaper that the airline is putting the sale of its
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      • 224 34  -  -DOWJONES KEPPEL Land said its third-quarter net profit more than doubled on year, thanks to strong residential sales. Net profit for the three-month period ended Sept 30 rose to $81.8 million from $38.5 million a year earlier, the unit of Keppel Corporation said in a
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
        • 124 34 Ascendas India Trust said yesterday it will pay a first-half distribution of 2.95 cents a unit, more than 50 per cent of the full-year figure of 5.6 cents forecast in its prospectus. Total property income for the six months to Sept 30 rose to $48.5 million from $31.5
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        • 69 34 -AGENCIES Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation said third-quarter net income fell 4.2 per cent on year, as the company no longer had the $4 million in deferred tax assets available in 2006. Net profit was $12.6 million forthe three months ended Sept 30, compared with $13.1
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    • 955 36  -  wuiVinar.V Will Singaporeans watch Pleasure Factory just for the novelty of seeing sex in a local film? FILM-MAKER Ekachai Uekrong- tham observes I wryly that Singaporeans the media included are mainly focused on the sexual elements of his new film, Pleasure Factory. But then with the
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