Today, 17 December 2007

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    13 1 TODAY //\=DJACORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday December 17, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon On young shoulders rest our golden hopes
    993 1  -  DAVID NGIAU Does Spores stellar showing in SEA Games herald a return to its sporting heyday? DEPUTY SPORTS EDITOR david@mediacorp.com.sg IT ISN'T just the arenas of South-east Asia, but also those of Asia and the Commonwealth, that have become hunting grounds for the
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    Lock icon When maids are their families' 'sacrificial lambs'
    891 1  -  JASMINE YIN news@newstoday.com.sg FOR two decades and from two cities Hong Kong and Singapore Ms Aida Bautista sin-gle-handedly put her nephew and two nieces from primary school through to university. After all, the 43-year-old used to be the main breadwinner in her family
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      46 1 EARLY HONGBAO FOR TEACHERS? REVISED SALARY SCHEME BY FEBRUARY HOT NEWS PAGE 2 I SILENT HYPOCRISY WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM COMMENT PAGE 6 I 'WOULDYOU H PLEASE SLEEP WITH ME?' JOAN CHEN ON WEIRD FAN REQUESTS, BEING A MUM AND ZHANG ZIYL._ PAGE26^Bp^H
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      13 1 mm w I I til' A\i\ NOW FOR BEIJING 2008 SPORTS «PAGE 32
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      Lock icon AN EARLY HONGBAO FOR TEACHERS
      522 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg REVISIONS to the salary scheme for teachers will be rolled out before Chinese New Year in February. The changes, targeted at the 28,000 teachers in Singapore's public schools, are aimed at keeping their pay "competitive" and protecting their "interests", said
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      147 3 SURPRISES A-PLENTY: It was a night of surprises at the Star Awards 2007 when it came to dishing out the acting accolades. Caldecott's leading men QiYuWu and Tay Ping Hui were overlooked for Best Actor in favour of Zheng Ge Ping, 43, in Uke Father, Uke Daughter. Likewise, outsider Yvonne
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      Lock icon Woman's body at worksite
      237 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg A YET-to-be-identified body of a woman was found at a construction site along Queensway yesterday. It was found at around 10.45 am by a worker on the third storey of a block at the District 10 condominium development called Viz Holland
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      SUPPORTIVE PARENTS LIFT ISA
      153 3 When Isa Halim was a polytechnic student a few years ago, his studies suffered as a result of his devoting time to football. "So I sat down with my stepfather and my mum and told them that professional football was what I really wanted. "And they
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      Just S'pores shade of green
      468 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Bali roadmap on climate change'what Republic always wanted', says Minister Yaacob nazry@media corp.com.sg IT WAS an eleventh-hour resolution reached after more than two weeks of wrangling and the new Bali roadmap on climate change, adopted by nearly 190 nations on Saturday, is what Singapore
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        Lock icon PALESTINE DONORS MEET
        140 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan is in Paris today for the ministe-rial-level Conference of Donors for the State of Palestine. He is there at the invitation of France and conference co-chairs Norway, the European Commission and the Quartet's Special Representative, former
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        NEW HEAD FOR EXAMS BOARD
        93 4 From today, Ms Tan Lay Choo will serve as chief executive (designate) of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board. She will then take over as chief executive on April 1 from Mr Tan Yap Kwang -the board's first chief executive since its incorporation as a
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      WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
      850 6  -  IRFAN HUSAIN TRY this for a scenario. A young woman is gang-raped in, say, the United States. The rapists are given a few months, while the victim is sentenced to three months in jail as well as 90 lashes. But when her lawyer
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      A commitment to deliver
      891 7 From Singapore to China and the world in one business day FOR IT applications delivery networking provider F5 Networks (Asia Pacific), delivering customised solutions to customers on time is a business necessity that is critical to the company's success. Hence having a reliable and efficient delivery
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      Lock icon Punch saves swimmer from jaws of death
      192 8 —AGENCIES SYDNEY A swimmer was attacked by a shark on Bondi Beach but made a miraculous escape by punching his way out from the shark's jaws. According to Mr Scott Wright, the shark had grabbed him by the arm while he was swimming
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      Lock icon 5-year-old heaves her way into record books
      134 8 -AP KUALA LUMPUR A 5-year-old girl lifted 14.7 kg almost the equivalent of her own body weight to earn a place in Malaysia's record books. The girl, identified only as T Logassree, had completed a skm run before her record lift on Saturday,
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      Lock icon Badawi: I'm listening
      371 8 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister has asked Indian social groups to list the grievances that led to an anti-dis-crimination rally being staged by Indians last month, activists said yesterday. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi met on Friday with a coalition of Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and
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        Lock icon 300 FLEE IN INDIAN PRISON BREAK
        136 10 —AGENCIES Nearly 300 communist prisoners escaped in a daring jailbreak amid a hail of gunfire yesterday in restive eastern India, police said. Mr Rahul Sharma, the police superintendent, said 299 of 377 inmates fled the Dantewada prison, about 560 km south of Raipur, the
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        Lock icon 90 TRAPPED ON SKI LIFT FOR UP TO 12 HOURS
        112 10 -AGENCIES A ski lift broke down in central Japan and left 90 people dangling in its gondola cars some for nearly 12 hours police said yesterday. No injuries were reported. Forty-four firefighters climbed a snow-covered slope at the Ontake ski
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      Lock icon Old enemies now allies
      396 10 -AFP Former political foe now fronts Thaksin's proxy campaign BANGKOK Mr Samak Sundaravej (picture) makes no bones about the fact that his campaign in Thailand's general elections is a front for exiled Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup last year. After a military-appointed
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      Lock icon LAWYER TELLS SONTHI: 'I WONT VOTE FOR YOU'
      204 10 —AP Almost 1 million of Thailand's 45 million voters cast absentee ballots over the weekend ahead of the Dec 23 general elections. General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, who led the coup against former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra last year, was among those who voted. According
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      Lock icon First human cases of bird flu in Myanmar, Pakistan
      225 12 -AFP HONG KONG The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday praised Asian countries for swiftly reporting the latest bird-flu cases, after Pakistan announced its first human death and Myanmar revealed its first human case. Asia-Pacific spokesman Peter Cordingley said prompt notification helps
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      Lock icon Terror suspect gives Pakistan police the slip
      343 12 —AGENCIES ISLAMABAD The Pakistani authorities said yesterday they were hunting for a Briton suspect, allegedly involved in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, after he escaped police custody a deep embarrassment to the government of President Pervez Musharraf. Rashid Rauf (picture) fled
      —AGENCIES; AFP  -  343 words
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      SEEING RED:
      73 14 Hundreds of people in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City yesterday took to the streets in a long-simmer-ing dispute between Vietnam and China over the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos in the South China Sea. Protesters were kept away by police from Bejing's diplomatic missions after a similar protest
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      Lock icon Chinese shun Chinese brands
      493 14 -AP Parents there favour foreign-brand toys, even if they are made in China SHANGHAI When freelance writer Wang Jian shops for toys for her five-year-old son, she is happy to pay extra for Japan-ese-brand train sets. The reason: Foreign brands enjoy a reputation for higher quality
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      BLAME THE RUSSIANS: REPORT
      199 15 The Bali agreement came after extraordinary scenes in which United Nations chief Ban Xi Moon jetted in for a last-ditch appeal, the UN's exhausted climate chief Yvo de Boer nearly broke down in tears and the representative from Papua New Guinea told the United States to
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      Lock icon Red, white, blue – but not green
      433 15 Red, white, blue but not green -AFP Bali climate deal threatened by US objections NUSA DUA (Indonesia) A hard-fought deal fixing a 2009 deadline for a new treaty to tackle global warming ran straight into trouble yesterday with the United States voicing "serious concerns" over its provisions. As negotiators headed
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      Lock icon Turkey bombs Kurdish rebel targets in north Iraq
      213 15 -AGENCIES TURKISH warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq early yesterday, Turkey's military said, the first such confirmed attack since the United Statesled invasion of Iraq. An Iraqi official said the planes attacked several villages, killing one woman. The fighter jets
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      Can this man revive Korea's economy?
      858 16  -  JASON LEE Lee Myung Bak expected to continue building ties with N Korea, for peace and profit jasonlee@media corp.com.sg AS SOME 37 million South Koreans prepare to cast their ballots on Wednesday to elect a new President, analysts say economic concerns are likely to
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      Lock icon CALL FOR LAST-GASP INVESTIGATION FALLS FLAT
      190 16 -AP South Korea's President ordered justice officials yesterday to reopen an investigation into allegations of financial fraud against frontrunner Lee Myung Bak just days before the country goes to the polls. President Roh Moo Hyun asked that the Justice Minister consider reopening the case
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      Out in the cold
      270 18  -  GILBERT GOHKEOWWAH Expectations lowered, but some still jobless Letter from THOUGH the media has been painting a rosy picture of Singapore's employment market, many of my professional friends in their 40s and 50s feel they have been left out in the cold. One wonders if the
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      57 18 TIS THE SEASON TO BE BUYING: Today photographer Koh Mvi Fong captured the spirit of Christmas shopping at Plaza Singapura. 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 300 dpi, <3M jpg
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      Sorry, it was a technical glitch
      92 18  -  CHAN WAI LENG, Letter from Senior Manager, Tan Chong Motor Sales WE REFER to the letter in Today (Dec 13) by Ms Christine Tey. We regret that due to a technical glitch, SMSes were sent out hours later than when we intended them to
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      EXPECTING A SEAT? FAT HOPE
      199 19  -  PENELOPE BENNETT Few offer up a place to sit on MRT, says pregnant mum Letter from ACCORDING to the report, "Retiring early low on list" (Dec 13), charity and volunteer work is No 7 on Singaporeans' list of "dreams". I am seven months pregnant and
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      More ATMs for this hip mall
      227 19  -  SHIGEYOSHI SATO Letter from General manager. Central WE REFER to Henry Lim Li Shun's letter, "A hip mall but no ATMs" (Dec 6). We want to thank Mr Lim for his valuable feedback. We acknowledge that this is a shortfall and has caused inconvenience
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      No mystery, just an error
      116 19  -  CORINNACHOONG Letter from Seniorvice-president, Group Marketing and Communications, Certis Cisco Security I REFER to Seah Gek Hoon's letter, "Mysterious summons" (Dec 10). We regret the inconvenience caused due to the genuine error on our officer's part All officers undergo training conducted by Certis Cisco as
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      169 20  -  DR BILL MAIER ////BY SARCASM NOT FUNNY TO KIDS Is your family in the habit of making sarcastic jokes to each other? If so, you might want to consider toning it down a bit. A recent study showed that young children can suffer lasting emotional damage
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      THE GREEN BUSINESSMAN
      808 20 coffee with ALOYSIUS CHEONG 29, Entrepreneur Aloysius Cheong shunned the corporate world after graduating from university in 2000 with an arts degree. He set up his own businesses right away -first a tuition centre and later a marine organism export firm. But he was hit by what
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      176 19 Where swimming takes on new meaning, in the lap of luxury. It's our pleasure. Allow your worldly cares to dissipate, as you dive into an ocean of soothing pleasures at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore. The magic begins the moment you arrive, and will continue to delight long after you check
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      273 20 AcademyfT 1 f Diploma in Teaching rSiffir Supporting Children [msiam with Special Needs www.certifiedcounsellors.oig Hotline ***** 5411 All courses are conducted by ACC School of Counselling and Psychology (MOE Reg. N0.2233), the training division of Academy of Certified Counsellors. M^ I am so thankful for this program. Although I only
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      966 21 jdhd* Precision Engineering Industry V TODAY! \^m fc 1 Sign Up for the WSQ Courses In Precision Engineering with ITE NOW) The Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) is a national continuing education and training system developed by j**mm V the industry and the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). The WSQ
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      Lock icon US recession: Watch out, world
      599 22 —AFP Asian economies can't compensate for US spending, says bank expert SYDNEY The United States is heading for a recession and the rest of the world would be "dead wrong" to think this would not impact growing Asian economies, Morgan Stanley senior executive Stephen Roach
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        Lock icon TOYOTA MAY BECOME NOl CAR-MAKER
        111 22 —AP Japan's top car-maker Toyota will raise its projected global production to almost 10 million vehicles next year and could soon outpace United States rival General Motors (GM) to become the world's biggest automaker, reported the Nikkei newspaper. The increase in production reflects booming sales
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      89 22 PHOTOS COURTESY DBS I CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS: DBS employees (above) painting a run-down junior high school in Jakarta so that its students (right) will have a cleaner and more conducive learning environment. This event is one of three corporate social responsibility projects in Mumbai, Jakarta and Shanghai, at which more than
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      Lock icon Sub-prime concerns may continue to worry market this week
      173 23 —AFP SHARES in Singapore could trade sideways this week as worries over fallout from the United States sub-prime mortgage crisis continue to dog the market, dealers said. "Sentiment will continue to be weighed down by news of CDO (collateralised debt obligations)
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      Lock icon Business boost for big three
      294 23 —AFP India, Russia, China vow to strengthen economic links NEW DELHI India, Russia and China have vowed to boost trade and investments with each other, following a one-day meeting over the weekend among officials and businessmen from the three countries in India's capital. "Investment between
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      Lock icon Probe into Alitalia bid
      122 23 -AFP ROME Italian prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into United States investment funds Evergreen and Quantum for speculation in the bidding for Alitalia, the Ansa news agency reported. A drop in Alitalia's share price prompted the probe after Singapore Airlines denied, on Friday, a report
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        Lock icon GOING WHERE THE TALENT IS
        538 24  -  LEE U-WEN Insead expands operations to meet market needs succeed@newstoday.com.sg ONE of France's top graduate business schools is fast expanding its operations beyond just Asia and Europe. Two months ago, Insead opened its first centre for executive education and research in Abu Dhabi, and already,
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          LEARN HOW TO SET KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
          90 24 Not quite sure how to motivate your staff to align their individual goals to the company's objectives? Learn how to translate bigpicture, strategic goals into measurable key performance indicators, or KPIs, in this workshop, which also teaches you how to get your staff
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          FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS
          86 24 This workshop aims to arm front-line service staff with the vocabulary to ease their way out of any tight situation with customers. Through case studies and hands-on application, participants will learn to differentiate between negative, positive and neutral phrases, and to provide solutions with more customer-friendly
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        brainfood
        308 25  -  UNYANQIN Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler The first thing that strikes you about social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler's latest bestseller is the amount of effort they've put in to cite endless examples and factoids to support their propositions for what is happening now and what the
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      75 22 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Dec 14, 2007 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9am) U*****.60/oz SPOT GOLD CLOSE (spm) U*****.90/oz CHANGE +0.04% StreetTRACKS Gold trust hit a new record in holdings of 615.90 tons as at Dec 12, 2007. Already the world's biggest Gold ETF, StreetTRACKS Gold trust holdings now rank
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