Today, 21 November 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY /A=DJj-\CoRP mica(p) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday November 21, 2007 todayonline.com I
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Signed, sealed, now to deliver
      784 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG Dissent but no discord as Arroyo raises doubts cheekong@media corp.com.sg THE glittering ceremony went ahead without a glitch as all 10 leaders of the Association of South-east Asian Nations, including Myanmar's, inked the Asean Charter. But even as the leaders raised glasses
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      Temasek stands by Jakarta, but questions watchdog's motives
      746 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings is not one to be easily scared off. Despite getting entangled in what it says is an unfair legal dispute in Indonesia, executives of the Singapore investment firm are not about to shake the dust off their
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  • hot news
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      NORTHERN EXPOSURE
      541 2  -  TAN HUI LENG 30-ha site in Mandai to be nature retreat huileng@media corp. com. sg IMAGINE spending a night or two in a nature retreat in Mandai, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. There, you can enjoy a spa under the rainforest canopy while relaxing
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      Major changes to exec condo rules
      319 2 IT HAS just become much more attractive to own an Executive Condominium (EC). For a start, second-time flat buyers who buy a new EC will no longer have to pay the resale levy. The policy change, announced yesterday by the Housing and Development Board
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      Lock icon ORCHARD ROAD SEES RED
      403 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg THEY had played by the rules, holding gatherings at indoor venues to express solidarity with their countrymen back home. And yesterday, they had planned to release doves in a symbolic gesture of peace. But the gameplan for the Myanmar community here changed after
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      Around the region, green will be the theme
      370 3  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg BY 2010, at least 10 million more hectares in South-east Asia will be planted with trees to absorb greenhouse gases. Solar power and other renewable energy sources will also be in vogue. And countries would collaborate with one another
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      Novena case: Lawyers debate witness' impartiality
      354 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg WHAT does the plaintiff wearing a translucent nightdress and behaving intimately with her "sworn brother" have to do with her lawsuit against a church for an allegedly traumatic exorcism? Lawyer R S Bajwa, representing Madam Amutha Valli Krishnan, applied
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      Lock icon MTV dose of reality
      417 4  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg MUSIC videos and modern-day slavery aren't often associated, but now those looking to get their daily dose of music and pop culture on MTV will also get a message about human trafficking. The network's MTV Exit initiative has produced a documentary featuring real-life
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      Actions, not words, key to Pedra Branca
      235 4 AS SINGAPORE sewed up its case yesterday for the Pedra Branca hearing, its team stitched together a consistent message in their final rebuttal: Actions speak louder than words. Starting with legal counsel Rodman Bundy to Ambassador-at-large Tommy Koh, who pointed out how Singapore
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      TEMASEK NOW FACES LEGAL BLACK HOLE
      725 6  -  THE JAKARTA POST THE Business Competition Supervisory Commission's (KPPU) questionable ruling against Temasek Holdings, its subsidiaries and Telkomsel on Monday is the latest example of the legal uncertainty that has kept most foreign investors away from Indonesia. The KPPU is supposed to play a
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      $300k more annually to reform young offenders
      372 8  -  TEOXUANWEI Govtups funding of $1.3m to expand successful scheme xuanwei@media corp.com.sg RATHER than put youth who commit petty crimes through the criminal prosecution wringer, this programme sends them for counselling and community service and so far, fewer than one in 10 who have
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon CENTRE FOR FAIR EMPLOYMENT
        75 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A new centre has been set up to promote fair employment practices. Over the next 12 months, the Tripartite Centre for Fair Employment will develop toolkits for employers and introduce awards to recognise the outstanding ones among them. The centre also welcomes feedback on
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        Lock icon CASETRUST: STANSFIELD COLLEGE LODGES COMPLAINTS
        185 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Stansfield College has filed two complaints with the Competition Commission of Singapore against the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) and NTUC Income. Chairman of Stansfield College Kannappan Chettiar alleged that "Case has engaged in anti-competi-tive activities that have greatly impaired the progress of
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        Lock icon CHINA INVESTMENT FIRMS' OFFICIALS VISIT MEDIACORP
        51 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Some 50 Chinese officials from China's state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and China's state-owned enterprises, visited MediaCorp yesterday. Temasek Holdings is hosting the delegation, which is in Singapore to understand the workings of the board and Temasek-linked
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      Lock icon Termites' worst enemy
      493 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Meet Pippa, first dog in S'pore trained to sniff out the pests sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg PIPPA sniffs at her work, but that doesn't bug her employers one bit. In fact, it's all in a day's work for the two-year-old Aus-tralian-born beagle as South-east Asia's first Termite Detection
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      Lock icon Here's to clean food
      369 12  -  JASON LEE China and Asean sign food, product safety pact jasonlee@media corp.com.sg BEIJING has taken yet another step to reassure the international community that it places a heavy emphasis on food and product safety. Yesterday, China and Asean signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen
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      Asean+3 nations a step closer to economic union
      229 12  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg JAPAN, South Korea and China have inked an agreementwith Asean to endorse the 10-member grouping as the "main vehicle" to build an East Asia community. The 13 nations known as "Asean+3" marked their 10th anniversary of cooperation yesterday
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      Lock icon 'Grades not everything'
      315 13 M'sia teachers chide media for emphasis on test results, which led a girl to kill herself KUALA LUMPUR The media should stop highlighting students who score top marks in exams as it has a negative effect on those who do not perform as well, local news reports
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      Ignore calls to protest, MIC tells Indians
      244 13 KUALA LUMPUR The Indian community in Malaysia has been advised to ignore calls to join a rally protesting the demolition of a Hindu temple. Late last month, police backed by city council officials tore down a Hindu temple in Selangor. A small mosque
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      Lock icon Thai teachers get 50 years' jail for rapes
      169 13 —AFP BANGKOK Two Thai teachers were sentenced to 50 years in prison each for raping six of their students, who were as young as six years old, court officials said. Lorn Sorakanit, 59, and Pimol Chumsri, 49 both teachers at a public
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Japan is world's culinary capital: Michelin
      210 14 —AP TOKYO The Japanese capital has unseated Paris as the world's culinary capital, according to Michelin Guides. The French bible of gastronomy also announced a Tokyo edition on Monday its first outside Europe and the United States. Michelin's Tokyo guide awarded 191 stars to
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      Lock icon First public hearing of Khmer genocide
      344 15 —AGENCIES PHNOM PENH The head of the Khmer Rouge's largest and most notorious torture centre took the stand yesterday in the first public session of the longdelayed United Nations-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in the *****. Mr Kaing Guek Eav, alias
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      Lock icon S Korea to join Asian space race: Science Ministry
      218 15 —AFP SEOUL South Korea has announced an ambitious plan to join Asia's space race by launching a lunar orbiter by 2020 and sending a probe to the moon five years after that. The Science Ministry unveiled the project one month after
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      Lock icon 'Tree Man' may be denied treatment
      173 16 -AFP Indonesia has barred a villager dubbed the "Tree Man" for huge bark-like warts growing on his body from travelling to the United States to receive treatment, a report said yesterday. Woody growths cover 32-year-old Dede's hands in root-like tendrils that leave him unable
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      Lock icon M-E peace talks on Nov 27: US
      247 16 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States will host an international Middle East conference on Nov 27 aiming to restart the moribund peace process, US officials said yesterday (early today, Singapore time). "On Tuesday November 27, I'm pleased to announce that the United States will
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      Lock icon Musharraf frees lawyers, visits Saudi Arabia
      355 17 —AGENCIES RIYADH Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday for talks with King Abdullah his first trip abroad since declaring a state of emergency on Nov 3. His visit comes as Pakistan announced the release of thousands of prisoners detained under emergency
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      Lock icon False tsunami alarm costs lives in Bangladesh cyclone
      237 17 —AFP GOLSHAKHALI (Bangladesh) A false tsunami alert two months ago led thousands of Bangladeshis to ignore warnings as Cyclone Sidr approached, costing many lives, said villagers and officials yesterday. "This time we did not take the No 10 danger signal seriously because
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      Enjoyable education
      306 18  -  AAHELITARAFDAR Pri 5 student thankful for hardworking and caring teachers Letter from I REFER to the Weekend Xtra feature "School experiment that failed" (Nov 17-18). I am a Primary 5 student in a local school and I want to share my experience. When I was about to be
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      63 18 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give yourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. WINTERY FAIRYLAND: A young visitor who was experiencing 'snow* at the Jewel Box's Christmas
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      To kill and keep wild animals are offences
      169 18  -  ELAINE PONG Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, for Chief Executive Officer, Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) WE REFER to the letter "Poachers sighted in forested area near Tampines" by Joyce Chng (Nov 9). Poaching of wild animals is prohibited in Singapore. Under
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      'Virtual guards' are only used in vacant buildings
      182 20  -  SUSAN KOH Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Singapore Land Authority (SLA) I REFER to the letter "Rethink 'virtual guards'" (Nov 17-18) by Alderline Wong and thank her for her suggestions on additional measures which could be taken against theft from State
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      Lock icon Minimal raise
      306 20  -  LOOITEIKSOON Direct bus journeys up 2 cents at the most Letter from Secretary, Public Transport Council I REFER to the letter "Still waiting for specifics on the bus fare revision" (Nov 16) by Ronald Koh Liang Hoo. For the benefit of Ronald Koh and other readers, we wish
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      174 22  -  DR BILL MAIER BY I SUPPORTING PREGNANT MUMS If you want to hear a good war story, just ask any mother what it is like to have a baby. I'm sure you'll get an earful. There is no doubt childbirth can be a gruelling experience. But
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    • Will the taxi surcharge work?
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        Operators should lower rentals instead
        165 22  -  JASON CHIAM CHIAH SERN .,JK. Letter from IN YOUR report "While LTA wields stick, MP proposes carrot a new taxi surcharge" (Nov 19), Member of Parliament Seng Han Tong suggested having a location surcharge to improve taxi services in certain areas. I do not think
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        Add more fees to make cabbies happy
        181 22  -  CHIAM TAT LIANG YES Letter from I AGREE with the location surcharge and feel it can also improve the welfare of cabbies. I have further suggestions: Impose a $2 surcharge for every additional stop for those going to more than one location. Taxi
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  • Business
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      Single market blueprint
      369 24  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Landmark deal could lead to an integrated Asean market by 2015 hedirman@media corp.com.sg THE Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) has taken another bold step towards being an integrated market as its leaders adopted the Asean Economic Community Blueprint yesterday. The blueprint is aimed at
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      $320m engine plant at Seletar
      211 24  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp. com. sg ROLLS-Royce has chosen Singapore over the United States to house a new $320-million facility to make aerospace engines. The plant the first in Asia to assemble and test engines for large commercial aircraftwill occupy an 8-ha site at the
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      Lock icon $50k fine for insider trading
      94 24 CHEOWXINYI THE former global human resource head of a company previously known as System Access has been fined $50,000 after she admitted to contravening insider trading laws, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a statement yesterday. Angela Yeo Yoke Foong had bought 50,000
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        Lock icon Oil closes above US$98 for first time
        166 26 —AFP NEW YORK World oil prices soared to new records yesterday, breaching US$9B a barrel in New York, amid supply concerns and as the US dollar continued to weaken against other major currencies. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for
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        467 26  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp. com. sg SINGAPORE'S blue-chip stocks rebounded from their lowest level in almost three months to end higher yesterday, taking their cue from markets in Japan and Hong Kong on hopes that United States economic prospects would remain upbeat The
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        300 28  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE firms looking to expand into the booming United Arab Emirates (UAE) economy can get help from at least two Government-linked companies there that will provide financial, human resource and legal advice. Targeting smaller enterprises and start-ups, the Dubai
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          367 28 Panasonic Singapore revealed the results of the 2007 Kid Witness News (KWN) video documentary competition at a ceremony that was attended by MrZaqy Mohamad, deputy chairman forthe Government Parliamentary Committee for Information, Communication and The Arts, and Member of Parliament for
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