Today, 5 November 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    28 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday November 5, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=OJA.CORP MICA (P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday November 5, 2007 todayonline.com I
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Olmert: Peace with Palestinians possible by end of next year
      388 1 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he may be able to make peace with the Palestinians by the end of next year as the United States vowed to defend Israel's security during the difficult process. "If we
      -AFP  -  388 words
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      Lock icon ASIA IN CRISIS
      1181 1 I Pakistan polls may be delayed by a year Gambari meets two top Myanmar officials THE dramatic chain of events unfolding in Pakistan bears striking similarities to the events in Myanmar since late September. Well-entrenched military rulers lead both Asian nations in crisis. Faced with protests calling
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      71 1 WINNERS BOTH IF KIDS EXCEL, MUM AND DAD GET A PRIZE TOO HOME NEWS PAGE 4 PAKLAH SAYS... MALAYS NOT 'STUPID OR WEAK' WORLD PAGE 10 NAME GAME NEARLY 3,500 CHINESE KIDS NAMED 'OLYMPICS' WORLD PAGE 13 CITIGROUP CHIEF EX-US TREASURY CHIEF TAKES OVER BUSINESS PAGE 24 THE BIG PICTURE
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Japan opposition leader quits
      417 2 -AFP Surprise move from party that won control of House TOKYO Japan's main opposition party was thrown into disarray yesterday as its leader announced his resignation amid a rift over a proposal to forge a grand coalition with the ruling camp. Veteran conservative Ichiro Ozawa's (picture)
      -AFP  -  417 words
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      1 IN 3 NEW PATIENTS ARE MALNOURISHED: NUH
      431 3  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg IT SEEMS unlikely in developed, affluent Singapore where food is a passion but one hospital in Singapore has found that nearly one in three of all its newly-admitted patients are malnourished. And illness should be
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      Lock icon Myanmar woes won't trip up Asean Charter: FM Yeo
      543 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg DESPITE the troubles in Myanmar, Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo does not foresee any obstacles to the signing of the landmark Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) Charter here this month. "It will have great implication for the
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  • Singapore news
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      Awards for parents if children excel
      631 4  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN pupils shine in school, they get awards. Now, one school has decided this simple convention is not enough. From this year, when pupils excel, their parents will get awards, too. And the parents who made it to Telok Kurau Secondary's
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      134 6 WEETECKHIAN STILL IN THE CHALLENGE: A total of 75 contestants-42 women and 33 men-were still in the MediaCorp Radio-Subam Impreza Challenge 2007 as at 6am today. All of them had to brave heavy rain last night although weather conditions had been relatively fair since the challenge kicked off with an
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      Lock icon Hi-5 for green outreach
      390 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI NEA hopes to get more keen on pursuing green causes nazry@media corp. com. sg SINGAPORE is taking the fight against global warming to the masses, with the launch of a new campaign called "Give me a His". Launched by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong (picture)
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    • S'PORESSNIPPETS
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        BALAJI TO VISIT MEXICO
        73 6 Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Information, Communication and the Arts Balaji Sadasivan is making a working visit to Mexico from today to Friday. He will call on Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa Cantellano in Mexico City and meet other Mexican leaders. Dr
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        $30,000 FOR CHILDREN'S HOME
        54 6 The Singapore Recreation Club has raised nearly $30,000 for the Jamiyah Children's Home through a line dance fundraiser yesterday. Some 700 participants took part in the event. The amount will be used to help defray operational costs for running the Home, which takes in orphans and
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      Lock icon Over 55 and a silver goldmine
      313 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA IF YOU are 55 years and above, would a tour package offering therapeutic getaways appeal to you? Such ideas are a sign that the travel industry is beginning to recognise the goldmine of opportunities the silver generation presents. Bigger players such as
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      Lock icon Walk to befriend elderly raises $200,000 for outreach services
      241 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT IT WAS a cool Sunday morning formed the backdrop as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (picture) led 1,200 participants including many senior citizens in a Befriending Walk around Bishan Park yesterday. The walk, organised by the Lions Befriender Service Association,
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      S'pore to benefit from two cancer research giants
      325 8 SINGAPORE'S efforts to battle cancer have been given a fillip with the arrival of two prestigious research entities. The 100-year-old American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will open its Asia office in Singapore in 2009 its first facility outside the United States.
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Malays not stupid: PM
      362 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's majority ethnic group, the Muslim Malays, are not "stupid or weak" and should stop being fearful and learn to live without government handouts, the Prime Minister reportedly said yesterday. "The feeling of being scared and apprehensive has dominated the thinking of the
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      106 10 IT FLOODS, THEY LOOT: A looter carrying across a flooded street electrical appliances taken from a departmental store over the weekend in the Mexican town of Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco. As food shortages sent hundreds of hungry people on a looting rampage, rescue workers and police officers were
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda No 2 urges attacks on Western targets
      382 10 -AFP DUBAI Al Qaeda No 2 Ayman Al Zawahiri called for a holy war against North African leaders and their French, Spanish and United States allies in an audiotaped message on Saturday, in which he announced a new Libyan arm of
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      Lock icon Seven Europeans freed as Sarkozy lands in Chad
      336 10 -AGENCIES PARIS A Chadian judge yesterday ordered the release of seven Europeans jailed over a charity's attempt to bring more than 100 children to France, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in N'Djamena. Mr Sarkozy was greeted by President Idriss Deby Itno
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      Lock icon Nearly 3,500 Chinese children named 'Olympics'
      245 13 -AP BEIJING The Beijing Olympics is more than just a point of pride for China it's such an important part of the national consciousness that nearly 3,500 children have been named for the event, a newspaper reported yesterday. Most of the 3,491 people with
      -AP; AFP  -  245 words
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      Lock icon No 'Olympic' pigs on menu
      434 13 -AFP Beijing denies any special breeding for Games next year BEIJING Organisers for the Beijing Olympics have denied that special pigs are being raised for the Games next year, adding there was no need for these steps as food safety was not a worry, Reuters
      -AFP  -  434 words
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      Lock icon A town near Alice where aliens visit Australia
      264 14 —AFP WYCLIFFE WELL (Australia) On a desert highway in Australia's flat, dry centre is a petrol station by a watering hole where extraterrestrials have been stopping off for millennia, or so "witnesses" say. While filling up the tank or their stomachs at
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      Lock icon Mortgage-belt voters may swing Australian votes
      446 14 —AFP SYDNEY Australia is braced for an interest rate hike in the midst of an election campaign this week an unprecedented event that economists say risks souring the central bank's relations with the government. Analysts say the expected rate hike could even undermine the
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      Lock icon Volcano warnings get more intense
      416 16 -AGENCIES 25,000 residents ignore Mt Kelud evacuation orders BLITAR (Indonesia) A day after a false alarm on Indonesia's Mount Kelud led to panic among residents on its slopes, the volcano yesterday spewed clouds of white smoke (picture) as the temperature of its crater lake soared.
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  416 words
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      Lock icon Sex workers target businessmen in Hong Kong
      397 16 -AP HONG KONG Forty-four mostly foreign businessmen have reported being drugged and robbed by sex workers in Hong Kong's Wanchai red-light district over the last three years, police said. Some victims could not remember much and only made reports days or weeks after
      -AP  -  397 words
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PHILIPPINE TROOPS KILL ABU SAYYAF MILITANT
        98 16 -AP Soldiers fatally shot a suspected Muslim militant who was wanted for alleged kidnappings, after he pulled out a pistol as they approached him in the southern Philippines on Saturday, an army general said. Jamal Taib allegedly was a follower of the late Abu
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        Lock icon BLACKOUT TRAPS DOZENS ON M'SIA FERRIS WHEEL
        105 16 ■AFP The launch of a giant ferris wheel in Malacca went sour when a power cut trapped dozens of people on the inaugural ride, reports said yesterday. Some 50 passengers, including tearful children and an eight-month-pregnant woman, were stuck 25m above the ground
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      Lock icon HURT BY A POLICY DESIGNED TO HELP THEM
      856 17  -  ROMEN BOSE -AFP KUALA TERENGGANU Nearly four decades of controversial positive-discrimi-nation policies were supposed to lift Muslim Malays like fisherman Maskan Mohamad out of poverty. But despite the programme, which has alienated the nation's ethnic Chinese and Indian citizens, Mr Maskan's family
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      Lock icon Tighter control as Tigers vow war in Lanka
      318 19 -AGENCIES Govt fears reprisal after killing LTTE political chief COLOMBO Sri Lankan security forces stepped up patrols and road blocks yesterday fearing a reprisal for the killing of Mr S P Thamilselvan, head of the Tamil Tigers' political wing. The clampdown in
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        Lock icon US REPUBLICAN FLEW ON JET 'LENT BY DRUG DEALER'
        114 19 -AFP Leading Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson (picture) has been campaigning around the United States using a private jet provided by a businessman and close adviser, who has a criminal record for drug dealing, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The
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        Lock icon KURDISH REBELS RELEASE EIGHT TURKISH SOLDIERS
        98 19 -AFP The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) yesterday freed eight Turkish soldiers it had taken hostage as Ankara's premier left for Washington to seek concrete steps to crack down on the guerrillas. The PKK handed over the soldiers to senior officials from Iraq's northern
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      Lock icon Iran feels pinch of US banking sanctions
      233 19 -AFP TEHRAN The Iranian economy is starting to feel the sting from a raft of banking sanctions applied by the United States to pressure Tehran over its controversial nuclear drive, analysts said. Washington has blacklisted Iran's three main banks and also successfully encouraged
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      194 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON T BY QUALITY VS QUANTITY TIME Do you find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day? I certainly do. It seems we never have the time we'd like to spend with our kids. Experts have debated for years on which is
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    • Personal perceptions on racial narmony
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      Revised speed limit way too low on Nicoll Highway and KPE
      161 23  -  ONG YONG KEAT Letter from I REFER to the report "KPE or racetrack?" (Weekend Today, Nov 3--4) and would like to suggest that the speed limits of 70 to 80kmh be revised along Nicoll Highway and the KallangPaya Lebar
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    • Strict enforcement will weed out cabbies who flout rules
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        Spell out the rules with a big sign
        160 23  -  ADRIAN KWONG Letter from I REFER to the reports, "Get tough on taxi firms" and "LTA crackdown nets 41 cabbies" (Nov 1). After waiting almost 40 minutes last Monday night to get a taxi through a phone booking, I was heartened to
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        Forced to pay $55 for a taxi ride
        211 23  -  SAILESH MALHOTRA Letter from I REFER to the report, "Get tough on taxi firms" (Nov 1). I was prompted to write in because of a recent incident A friend of mine who was visiting me had to catch a flight urgently, and
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        A few bad apples ruining lives of many
        169 23  -  TANGKUMCHEONG Letter from THE negative media reports about the poor taxi service and the practice of touting is disturbing because it bathes honest taxi drivers in the same bad light and more importantly affects the tourism industry in the long run, and
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      Lock icon Ex-Treasury chief takes over at Citigroup
      689 24 —AGENCIES Company also appoints interim chief executive in place of Prince CITIGROUP has named Mr Robert E Rubin former United States Treasury Secretary and an influential adviser to its embattled leader as its chairman, the company said in a statement late yesterday (early today,
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      Lock icon Chinese buying HK stocks, not so fast
      352 24 -AGENCIES FKh,MIJiK Wen Jiabao nas signalled a delay in the eagerly-awaited plan to allow Chinese mainlanders to buy Hong Kong stocks. The planned trial, announced by The State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Aug 20, sparked a bull run on the Hong Kong
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      Lock icon Alibaba opens up to investors
      504 25 -AFP AFTER weeks of hype and with demand exceeding the share allocation more than 150-fold, China's largest-ever Internet initial public offering (IPO), lists tomorrow, showcasing the insatiable hunger for Chinese equities. Alibaba.com, the online busi-ness-to-business marketplace, will be the biggest Internet IPO since Google in
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      Lock icon Mega Mid-East IPO values DP World at U5521.6B
      259 25 -AGENCIES DP WORLD, the Dubai-owned port company with terminals from Britain to China, yesterday started a share sale to raise as much as U554.32 billion ($6.3 billion) in what looks set to be the Middle East's biggest initial public offering (IPO). DP
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      Lock icon HEARING IS NOT LISTENING
      801 26 A leader who listens is not swayed, judgemental SEVERAL years ago, I met a chief executive officer who had been hired to turn around a company that was foundering on the rocks. He was an intelligent and seasoned executive and had arrived with a detailed set
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        LEARNING MEDIA SKILLS WITH DIANA SER
        86 26 If you're in a business that requires constant communication with the media, this intensive, hands-on workshop is for you. Former television host and presenter Diana Ser will teach participants howto maximise coverage, ace television interviews and essentially turn every media encounter into an opportunity
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        THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
        110 26 Have you been stumped when tasked to think up ideas in a short time? Need help generating options and evaluating the effectiveness of your ideas before rolling them out? This two-day workshop is catered to those who have to think, brainstorm, make decisions, evaluate options
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        SPEAK YOUR CLIENT'S LANGUAGE
        113 26 Most, if not all, of us have to deal with different people everyday in our personal or professional capacities. But how do we communicate effectively in a "language" that everyone understands effectively? A large part of selling ideas is about building rewarding relationships and having a
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      brainfood
      251 27  -  LEE U-WEN The Complete Turtle Trader by Michael W Covel What do a professional blackjack player, a pianist and a fantasy-game designer have in common? Not much, you may think. But in a true story, people with these exact occupations were among a group of trading noviceswith little or
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      892 28 IF YOU'RE the type to be underwhelmed by art, try The Big Picture Show for size. Comprising more than 20 mostly mural-sized paintings from Asian artists, the exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will, hopefully, leave you in awe. The works are taken from the museum's permanent
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