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  • 13 1 TODAY //\pryJj-\C£JPP we set you thinking Friday December 28, 2007 todayonline.com MICA(P) 132/10/2007
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  • 1065 1  -  SALMAN MASOOD NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE I BENAZIR BHUTTO r ASSASSINATED IN SHOOTING, SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK DSFSDF RAWALPINDI An attack on a political rally killed the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, yesterday. Local police confirmed she had been shot in
    — NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE; AFP  -  1,065 words
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    • 126 1 Her life in her words C I DIDN'T CHOOSE THIS LIFE, IT CHOSE ME. Born in Pakistan, my life mirrors its turbulence, its tragedies and its triumphs. Pakistan is no ordinary country. And mine has been no ordinary life. April 2007, in the preface to the second edition of her
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      692 3 —THEDAILYTO.EGRAPH June 21,1953-Dec 27,2007 HER glamorous good looks and fluent English led to a sustained love affair with Western politicians and journalists, many of whom had met her at either Harvard or Oxford. The West saw Benazir Bhutto as a modern woman with a tolerant religious outlook. She
      —THEDAILYTO.EGRAPH; AFP  -  692 words
    • 251 4 COLOMBO A Sri Lankan minister, allegedly annoyed with a state-run television station for not broadcasting a speech he made at a public rally, stormed the studios with bodyguards and attacked journalists yesterday, officials said. But Labour Minister Mervin Silva
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    • 450 4  -  ANSLEYNG Second instalment of utility rebates to be given out next month ansley@mediacorp.com.sg NEXT month, eligible low- and mid-dle-income households will receive second instalments of rebates worth between $50 and $110 to help them cope with rising utility bills. The announcement by the Ministry of Finance
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  • Singapore news
    • 361 6 IN LINE with its plan announced last month to offer another 6,000 flats under the Build-To-Order (BTO) system, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday launched two new projects comprising 1,122 flats in Damai Grove in Punggol and Jade Spring@Yishun. Under
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    • 448 6  -  TEOXUANWEI Some 750 officers will be deployed to secure Marina Bay countdown xuanwei@media corp.com.sg IT IS set to be biggest countdown party in town this New Year's Eve and the organisers of the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown 07/08 and the police are working hard to ensure party
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    • 320 8  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg WITH one leg wedged tightly in the gap between an MRT train and the station platform, it wasn't the most comfortable 15 minutes for a 15-year-old girl. The girl found herself caught this way yesterday, when she was alighting at
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    • 249 8  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@media corp. com. sg QUICK scribbling of the car licence plate number and a call to the police was all it took to nab a member of a snatch-theft gang. The prompt reaction of 53-year-old taxi driver Choo Lye Seng led police
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    • 154 8 Eight young men, aged between 14 and 27, have been arrested for a spate of loanshark-related harassments across the island. Their arrest, by the Special Task Force of Ang Mo Kio Police Division, came after a 20-hour operation ending Dec 27, which saw mobile phones,
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    • 449 10  -  LOWUNFHOONG Scouts will pick out sports stars from primary schools linfhoong@media corp.com.sg PHASE 1 was the Singapore Sports School, to help mould the Republic's brightest sporting prospects into stars while they receive their secondary education. Now, the Ministry of Education is taking the search for excellence a
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    • 235 10 —ALICIA WONG HOSPICES are sustained by the generosity of the majority. This belief drives Dr Sect Ai Mcc, co-founder of the Dover Park Hospice (DPH), which raised eyebrows by pulling out of the Medifund scheme. She is convinced the hospice would not have
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      • 114 10 Professional adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow (picture) has broken the record for the world's longest journey on skates in the middle of his trip. The Singaporean, sponsored by Brocade, surpassed the Guinness World Record of 4,175 km in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Monday. Mr Khoo
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      • 43 10 Singaporeans who have not signed up to receive their 2007 GST credits must do so by Monday. They can sign up on www.gstoffset.gov.sg or at any CC, CDC, Sing Post office or CPF Service Centre.
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    • 449 12  -  TEOXUANWEI Stun guns used on 22 occasions but no deaths, serious injuries reported xuanwei@media corp.com.sg EVEN as Australia launched fresh investigations on Wednesday into the use of stun guns by law enforcers, police officers here will continue to use the Taser X 26 (picture) for
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    • 238 12 YOU were moved by a story that gnawed at your soul. Or inspired to make a decision that altered the course of your life. Or transported into a parallel universe where your wildest fantasies came alive. Now you can share your experience with other
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    • 240 14 —AP KUALA LUMPUR An ethnic Indian group launched a campaign yesterday to gather 1 million signatures demanding the government release five Indian leaders who were detained after leading an anti-government rally last month. "We call upon all Malaysians who believe in
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    • 653 14 —AGENCIES Hindu woman left puzzled on whether civil or Islamic court should handle divorce from now-Muslim husband PUTRAJAYA In a closely-watched case that could have a bearing on future interreligious disputes in the country, Malaysia's highest court has rejected, on a technicality, a Hindu woman's plea
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    • 345 15 —AGENCIES Warrants against him issued earlier over graft, fraud charges BANGKOK Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) would face arrest on corruption and fraud charges if he returned to Thailand, said a senior official at the At-torney-General's office yesterday. "The court and police had
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    • 142 15 BANGKOK A supporter of the winning People Power Party (PPP) in Thailand's general elections, and his wife, were shot dead on Wednesday night, media reports said yesterday. Mr Hui Rangkakulnuwat was shot 12 times and his wife Panatkorn Borisutchotipong was shot four times, while
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      293 17 —THE GUARDIAN Egypt wants to copyright these monuments JERUSALEM Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country's ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids. Mr Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said his
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    • 205 17 —AP MANILA Masked men shot dead a Korean couple in their northern Philippine home as their two terrified children hid and watched, police said yesterday. Mr Oh Young Kwan, 38, and his wife Lee Hyen Koung, 36, were killed in Go-Hyang
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    • 224 17 —AFP BEIJING New rules intended to make it easier for foreign journalists to report in China, ahead of next year's Beijing Olympics, may be extended, a senior government official said yesterday. The rules went into place on Jan 1 this year
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    • 268 18 —AGENCIES Rescuers fear more than 130 were killed MOGOL (Indonesia) Hardline Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir toured a landslide-struck region in Central Java yesterday, where he said the deadly disaster could be blamed on immoral behaviour. Mr Bashir, 69, travelled from nearby Solo to see 500
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    • 127 18 —AP CHAD A court in Chad has sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labour for trying to kidnap 103 children. The Zoe's Ark workers maintain they were driven by compassion to help orphans in Darfur, which borders Chad. Investigations revealed most of
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 129 20 —AP North Korea may miss a year-end deadline to declare its nuclear programmes. South Korea's Foreign Minister said yesterday, after the North warned it would also slow work to disable its atomic facilities due to delayed aid. "When the declaration is made is important,
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      • 89 20 —AP Myanmar's national airline plans to resume flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur in mid-January, more than two months after service was suspended amid the junta's crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Assistant general manager of Myanmar Airways International Myo Than said details on the
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    • 293 20 —AGENCIES In his maiden visit, PM hopes for warm relations with Beijing BEIJING Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda arrived in Beijing yesterday (picture) for a four-day visit, his first official trip to China since being elected three months ago. Mr Fukuda will meet Chinese President Hu
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    • 185 20 —AP BEIJING The politically-sen-sitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening, according to a Cabinet minister. The average city dweller's income was 3.28 times that of a rural resident's last year, up from 3.23 times in 2003, Agriculture
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    • 314 22 —AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan's High Court is set to rule today on whether the main opposition Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (picture) is guilty of corruption in a case that could have a big impact on next year's election. Mr
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    • 465 22 —AP India's outsourcing industry takes toll on lives of staff NEW DELHI The job came with a good salary and perks. But, 26-year-old Vaibhav Vats will tell you that it was doing him no good. His weight had ballooned to 120 kg and he was missing
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    • 237 24 —AGENCIES SEATTLE Police have arrested two people in connection with the murder of six people, likely three generations of a family, in a rural community in north-western Washington state. King County's Sergeant John Urquhart said on Wednesday that the suspects, a
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    • 495 24 —AFP Police investigates possibility of any human involvement SAN FRANCISCO Police are investigating how a tiger that fatally mauled a zoo visitor and injured two others on Christmas Day got out of its cage and whether a crime was committed. The Siberian tiger killed
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  • Voices
    • 486 26  -  ANANDA PERERA Letter from I REFER to the report, "Sri Lanka sacks airline chief" (Dec 22-23), which gives much food for thought to prosperous Singaporeans, who are currently enjoying their year-end performance bonuses and higher salaries. It is a report that is an eye-opener and
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    • 206 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... DISCOVER POWER THROUGH BALANCE There are those who believe so strongly in the value of positive thinking that they see nothing to be gained from that which is negative. I respectfully disagree. It's the balance between the positive and the negative that
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    • Here's how elderly can ease the pain
      • 184 30  -  MICHAEL CHUAKHENGHWEE Letter from I REFER to Lucy Huang's letter "Help, we are en bloc refugees" (Dec 27). My sympathies are with the writer who is already in her late 70s and yet has to constantly worry that the property in
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      • 149 30  - Make it mandatory a one-for-one exchange TAN MENG LEE Letter from REGARDLESS of age (but more so for the aged), en bloc sales are traumatic for most people (except the die-hard speculators). You are forced to sell as a minority dissenter. Or you succumb to overwhelm- ing pressure because: •Marketing
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    • 715 34  -  Tabitha Wang And take away the car keys of those who cannot hold their booze IN MY younger days, when both the spirit and the flesh were willing, I worked shifts. Of course, these days we know that working the graveyard shift sends you to an early
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    • 187 34  -  MAHMUDMOHDARIS Letter from I READ the article, "Preschool teachers not babysitters" (Dec 27), and strongly agree with the writer. Preschool educators have made, in my opinion, primary school teachers' jobs much easier by moulding the youngsters for formal education. I was sad to learn
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    • 594 35 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REVISION Electricity tariffs will increase by an average of 5.9% or 1.24 cents per kWh for the quarter 1 Jan to 31 Mar 08. The increase is due to higher fuel costs, leading to the higher cost of electricity. Here are the revised tariffs: Usage Charge per kWh)
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  • Business
    • 406 36  -  ESTHER FUNG Spike in palm oil snares over supply concerns esther@media corp. com. sg AMID lacklustre year-end trading at the Singapore Exchange yesterday, palm oil-related stocks gained sharply on tight supply concerns for vegetable oils and as strong crude oil prices boost demand for edible oils for
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    • 165 36 AGENCIES THE Taiwanese government plans to set up an international investment company to invest in the Middle East, the Economic Daily News reported, citing Mr Thomas Yeh, vicechairman of the Cabinet's Council for Economic Planning and Development. Similar to a sovereign wealth fund, the
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    • business news
      • 184 38  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg FEWER properties were put up for sale by auction this year, but the value of sales rose to an eight-year record as high-end condominiums and apartments with en bloc potential dominated in a vibrant market. Next year,
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      • 612 38 DOW JONES Robust banks sector here if US economy holds, say analysts THINK Singapore banks. They're likely to do well next year on robust domestic growth. One important caveat The ride could turn rocky if a recession in the United States, or continuing baddebt write-downs, slam the
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      • 206 39  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg A UNIT of Wing Tai Holdings trumped five other bidders by submitting a top bid of $288.4 million for a 92,128-sq-ft 99-year leasehold residential site at Alexandra Road. Wing Tai subsidiary Winglow Investment placed the bid together with
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      • 136 39 BLOOMBERG THE state-owned Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam raised 10.5 trillion dong ($954 million) in its initial public offering yesterday. The government sold 6.5 per cent of the Hanoi-based bank, commonly known as Vietcombank, at the average price of 107,860 dong a share, valuing
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      • 398 39  -  VASU MENON MOS 1 of the 15 fund managers recently polled by OCBC Bank's Wealth Management unit do not see the United States economy slipping into a recession but expect global growth to slow down nextyeardueto the sub-prime credit crunch. The US Federal
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      • 476 42 FROM GRANNIES TO TEENS WEB IS MOSTLY A SOCIAL CLUB —AFP SAN FRANCISCO Online social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mateseeking seniors joined online communities. Google's freshly-released "Zeitgeist 2007" reveals that seven out of
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    • 305 46  -  ASIFANSAR Clarke Quay morphs into different party "streets" for coming New Year's Eve bash asif@mediacorp.com.sg FUNNYMAN Najip Ali will work the streets come New Year's Eve. Or rather, he will be making his way through the five party "streets" of Clarke Quay, playing host at a
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        134 48 —AP FERGIE IS ENGAGED Just call him The Duke. Actor Josh Duhamel and his girlfriend Fergie are engaged, his publicist said on Wednesday in Los Angeles. She said Duhamel recently popped the question to the pop star, whose debut solo album is titled The Dutchess. Duhamel, 35, told Best
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      525 54 —AGENCIES WIGAN Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce launched a furious attack on his own players who were booed off the pitch for the second successive match after losing 1-0 to struggling Wigan on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The loss came in the wake of a 2-2 draw
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    • 797 55 —AFP Wenger fumes at Pompey's 'negativity' as Arsenal lose top spot after stalemate ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Portsmouth 0 Arsenal 0 PORTSMOUTH Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger blasted Portsmouth for their negative tactics in a 0-0 draw yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), which cost his side top spot in
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    • 432 55 AGENCIES —AFP LONDON The Christmas goodwill evidently dried up on Boxing Day as a record number of red cards were shown in English league football. Dangerous two-footed tackles and petulant behaviour were the order of the day as referees send off 19
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