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    37 1 MICA(P) 134/10/2007 weekendTODAY Fresft we set you thinking December 29 30, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY WISHES ALL READERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR! WE WILL BE BACK ON WEDNESDAY. weekendTODAY MICA (P) 134/10/2007 /A=DIACORP we set you thinking Bftßs^ffl^S^J3i^BcTijßyiTi»^^^^^Pr^^^^H^^P?P^^^^B
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    I WAS JUST METRES FROM BENAZIR
    579 1  -  NASIR JAFFRY IN RAWALPINDI IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA A FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF THE ASSASSINATION IT WAS exactly 5.16pm when it happened. I heard two shots and I thought: "What is that?" Before I could even realise what had transpired, the explosion went off. There
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    More apples for teachers
    1027 1  -  UNYANQIN Better pay, more study benefits and family-friendly leave yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THEIR numbers may have grown from 24,000 in 2000 to 29,000 today, but the Ministry of Education (MOE) isn't taking any chances in a tight labour market and so, it is pouring an extra $380 million
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      30 1 I {■■■■■I LI J CAT TLJIC I p-^™«^ -*^V I I I weekendmakan l^-"--^--. "'<K> I V PAGE 38 GRIEF AND RAGE AT FUNERAL WHO WILL REPLACE BENAZIR? PAGE 2
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      A CHARISMATIC LEADER WHO
      548 2  -  IRFAN HUSAIN IRONICALLY, just days before she returned to Karachi on Oct 18, Ms Benazir Bhutto had called Pakistan "one of the most dangerous countries in the world" in a BBC interview. She was to be proved right just hours after touchdown when two suicide bombs
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      Lock icon Grief and rage as Bhutto is buried in family mausoleum
      447 2 -AGENCIES GHARI KHUDA BAKSH (Pakistan) As her husband wept bitterly by the graveside and vast crowds of mourners beat their chests in grief, Ms Benazir Bhutto was finally laid to rest on Friday. The Pakistani Interior Minister has blamed the
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      IS HARD TO REPLACE
      508 3 posed Prime Minister was executed, daughter Benazir was made life chairperson. The result of this family hold on the party is that no alternative leadership has been allowed to emerge. Even during her years in exile, she nominated a senior party leader to act in her
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE EXPRESSES GRIEF
      298 3 NAZRY BAHRAWI THE late Ms Benazir Bhutto was a "courageous woman who remained resolute in her political conviction despite continued threats to her life", said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his condolence message to her husband, Mr Asif Ali Zardari. Mr Lee also described her death
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    • XTRA POINT OF VIEW
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        Lock icon WILL HER DEATH BE IN VAIN?
        199 4 CLEMENT MESENAS WHJiIN l interviewed Fnme Minister Indira Gandhi in the serenity of her office, neither of us had any inkling that shortly after, she would die in a hail of bullets. Likewise with President Zia-ul-Haq and President Ziaur Rahman. The first went down
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        Lock icon SOES AND THE BOTTOM LINE
        204 4 PAULINE DAWN LOH ALMOST three decades after China first opened its trade doors, foreign investors are still mired in the swamp of unpredictability that governs corporate decisions. Transition to the free market economy and Utopian society fervently preached by top leaders stumbles along a rocky
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        Lock icon MONEY TALKS
        159 4 CHRISTIE LOH IT WAS a sight for sore eyes. At 7pm on Wednesday, a line of cabs snaked round Singapore Land Tower, home to one of the busiest taxi stands in the Central Business District Instead of the usual scene of commuters twiddling thumbs and waiting for their
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      Coach in bribe case fined $20,000
      358 4  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg PLEADING for leniency after admitting to accepting a $3,000 bribe, former national badminton coach Zheng Qinjin (picture) on Friday said that media coverage of his case had made him depressed because he felt it ought not to overshadow his many accomplishments
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      Lock icon Fresh snag in SIA bid
      585 4 -AGENCIES Its planned link-up with China Eastern could face opposition from new aviation regulator FRESH questions about the outcome of a planned linkup between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and China Eastern Airlines are being raised following the appointment of Air China chairman Li Jiaxiang as chief
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      THE WORD I WANT BANNED IN 2008
      1029 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH XTRA SAY NO MORE christie@mediacorp.com.sg You "switched off" each time it appeared in the media or bristled at the way it was mangled and misused. What is the one word you would like to be rid of as you bid farewell
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      Down-to-earth effectiveness
      455 8  -  LINYANQIN Know what teachers, students find important: RJC's new principal on setting directions yanqin@media corp.com.sg GOING from studying literature at Cambridge University on a teaching scholarship, to her first teaching experience at neighbourhood East Payoh Secondary, brought Mrs Lim Lai Cheng (picture) back down to earth in a
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      Prima Deli primed to re-open?
      331 8  -  ALICIAWONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg IT SEEMS Prima Deli has begun prepping some franchisees for a re-opening soon. A franchisee from the central zone told Weekend Today that she got a call from the bakery's headquarters about possibly re-opening on Jan 2. But when contacted, a Prima spokesperson
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      Lock icon For a $50 bribe attempt on a policeman, an errant driver gets six weeks in prison
      272 8 ■ZULOTHMAN A CEMENT mixer driver tried to beat a traffic rap by offering a police officer a $50 bribe and ended up being jailed for six weeks. The court heard that on Nov 6,
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        EXPIRING URAAND HDB PARKING COUPONS CAN BE EXCHANGED
        61 8 Motorists with unused parking coupons expiring on Monday, can exchange them for new ones at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre and all Housing and Development Board (HDB) branch offices during office hours from Monday. For more information, call the URA Car
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        WORKFARE INCOME SUPPLEMENT PAYMENT ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
        122 8 Some 287,000 workers will receive the first payment of the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) on Jan 1. The Government will be paying out $146 million for work done in the first half of this year. Employees will receive the amount in both
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        MDA EXTENDS FEEDBACK DEADLINE
        66 8 The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has extended by two weeks its deadline for public feedback on the authority's proposed framework for mobile television services. In a statement, the MDA said that the public and industry players could continue to submit their comments at mda_mtvs_comment@mda.gov.sg
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      72 10 TREVOR TAN THE END OF AN ICON: Demolition work on Ocean Building at Raffles Place continues through the festive season. Owner Keppel Land announced in October that it would redevelop Ocean Building and Ocean Towers into a new state-of-the-art Ocean Financial Centre (OFC). When completed in 2011, the 43-storey OFC
      TREVOR TAN  -  72 words
    • Article
      'I was prepared to go blind ...
      303 10  - 'I was prepared to go blind TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg FOR more than two weeks, Mr Koh Yiak Mian lived in a topsy-turvy world as he lay face down 24 hours a day even while eating. That was four years ago after his right eye was operated
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      SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION...
      838 10  -  ADRIAN TAN XTRA GETTING RESULTS Only thinking long term could be to avoid difficult decisions THE recent, widely reported discovery that skin cells can be reprogrammed to mimic embryonic stem cells is likely to transform the political and ethical debate in the West over stem
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      Lock icon SHOULD YOUR KIDS BE ON THE NET?
      1088 12  -  JIMMY YAP XTRA CYBER-PARENTING Ensuring the safety of your children in cyberspace is not child's play WHEN I was a callow young man in my 20s, I had no idea that within a decade, I would end up the father of four children
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      Why did glass panel shatter?
      450 13  -  NEOCHAICHIN Central mall calls in specialist to help investigate breakage chaichin@media corp.com.sg A TEMPERED glass panel that cracked on Christmas Eve, scattering shards from a height of two storeys, has sparked investigations by the management of Central mall at Clarke Quay. No injuries were reported
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      Trains, buses to run longer on New Year's Eve
      230 13 THERE will be no reason to dash home early this New Year's Eve, for trains and selected bus services will continue to roll past their regular operating hours. For partygoers in the Vivo City and Harbour Front area, the last north-bound
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  • world news
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      Lock icon South Korea doles out more cash for babies
      243 14 -AFP SEOUL How does a nation encourage its people to have more children and reverse its ageing society? Well, South Korea's capital Seoul is giving out monetary incentives. The city government said on Friday that starting next month, families raising a third
      -AFP; MCT  -  243 words
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      Call to set Indian quota in civil service
      208 14 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Indian Business Association (Miba) has urged the government to establish a quota for Indians in the public service, Malaysiakini reported on Thursday. While Miba president P Sivakumar said the association favours a meritocratic system, such a quota would
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      Lock icon Police open fire on hardliners
      419 14 -AP Three India Hindus killed in bid to curb religious violence NEW DELHI The police in eastern India killed at least three people when they opened fire on a group of hardline Hindus who set fire to a police station during continuing clashes between Hindus
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      WE HAVE A FREE PRESS IN MALAYSIA: BERNAMA
      210 14 KUALA LUMPUR The credibility of the mainstream media in Malaysia has been defended by Bernama general manager Azman Ujang, who said press freedom still exists in the country. Mr Azman said the credibility of the media was evident from the sales of
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      Lock icon DID AL QAEDA DO FT?
      306 16 -AGENCIES Pakistan claims terror groups behind death of Benazir Bhutto ISLAMABAD Pakistan said on Thursday that Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorist groups were behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. "We have the evidence that Al Qaeda and Taliban were behind the suicide
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      Lock icon Terror a US election hot topic after Bhutto's death
      407 16 -AFP DES MOINES (Iowa) The twin themes of global terrorism and the experience demanded of a prospective United States President stalked a White House race rocked by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The murder of Pakistan's former Prime Minister, a fixture
      -AFP; AFP  -  407 words
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      Lock icon Thaksin TV interview blocked
      318 16 -AP BANGKOK A Thai TV news show was blocked from broadcasting an interview with deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which contained reactions to his allies' victory in last weekend's election, senior editors said on Friday. Channel TITV, which is controlled by the military-in-stalled government, planned to
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      Lock icon State department lists top 10 threats to US businesses
      302 16 -AP WASHINGTON The theft of intellectual property in Asia, cyber attacks in Europe, natural disasters in Latin America and terror on many continents were among the threats United States businesses faced this year, according to a US State Department report. In
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      Lock icon THE ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS?
      996 17  -  LESLIE LAU XTRA RACE RELATIONS PM Abdullah wants to help Indians but hurdles such as a class-based system could hinder plans IN TRYING to repair damage to race relations, caused by last month's anti-gov-ernment protests by Indian Malaysians, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi could find his
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      Lock icon Ma cleared of corruption
      796 18  -  JASON LEE Verdict allows him to contest Taiwan's March elections jasonlee@media corp.com.sg TAIWAN presidential hopeful Ma Ying-jeou has been cleared of corruption charges, paving the way for him to contest the March 22 election. The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling in August that
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      Lock icon A coffin for your vote?
      125 18 -DPA TAIPEI A Taiwanese candidate running for a seat in the legislature was arrested by the police on Thursday for bribing voters with coffins. According to the Central News Agency, he had tried to take advantage of Taiwan aborigines' poor living conditions by giving free
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      Lock icon Hello Kitty gets manly
      209 18 -AP TOKYO Hello Kitty is no sexist. The cute cuddly white cat from Japan's Sanrio, usually seen on toys and jewellery for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products (picture) targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said on Friday.
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      Lock icon BACK FROM THE BRINK
      207 19 But some species are still in danger SWITZERLAND The rare Siberian tiger (picture) seems to have come back from the brink of extinction, but the gorilla, lynx and jaguar are still on the endangered list According to environment organisation World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), poaching,
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      Lock icon THIS. quirky WORLD
      262 19 WOMAN CHARGED FOR WIPING NOSE ON POLICEMAN AN AMERICAN woman who wiped her nose on a policeman's shirt has been charged with assaulting the police officer, ananova.com reported. Police in Dunbar, near Charleston, West Virginia, had been called out to deal with a domestic dispute and corporal
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      Lock icon Thaw, but oil row lingers
      533 20 -AFP 'Spring of content' at China-Japan talks BEIJING China and Japan pledged yesterday on Friday to build on warming ties, as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the Chinese leadership but a dispute over maritime gas fields remained unresolved. Mr Fukuda, on his first visit
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      Lock icon In the name of peace, Nepal to abolish 200-year-old monarchy and turn republic
      428 20 —AGENCIES KATHMANDU Nepal lawmakers yesterday formally approved a decision to abolish the monarchy and declare the country a republic as part of a deal with former Maoist rebels. However, King Gyanendra (picture) will remain on the throne
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      Lock icon No Net for sex offenders
      170 20 -AP EWING New Jersey has passed a law banning convicted sex offenders who used the Internet to help them commit crimes from going online. No United States federal law restricts sex offenders' Internet use. Florida and Nevada are the only other states to impose such
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        Lock icon ESCAPED TIGER'S PEN WALLS WERE LOW
        97 20 -AP The director of the zoo where a teenager was killed by an escaped tiger said the wall around the animal's pen was below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation's zoos. San Francisco Zoo director Manuel Mollinedo on Thursday said
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        Lock icon TWO ESCAPED COUGARS BACK IN CAGES
        81 20 -AP Two cougars freed from a zoo by vandals were captured without injuring anyone. Mayor Kevin Crawford of Manitowoc city in Wisconsin said. Vandals cut a chain-link fence at the Lincoln Park Zoo to free the animals, both of whom were found on Thursday
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      Lock icon LEARNING TO GIVE THEIR RICHES AWAY
      1024 21  -  DAVID THOMAS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Wealthy people pay a fortune to look at the world's poorest people MS JULIE Toskan-Casale has just spent £10,000 ($30,200) on what is arguably the world's most exclusive travel experience one that is never advertised and is available only
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      Lock icon Jesus is best CEO-type leader, says new S Korean leader
      194 22 —AFP SEOUL South Korea's President-elect Lee Myung Bak (picture), a former business CEO, has described Jesus Christ as "the best model of a CEO-type leader". Mr Lee, 66, made the statement during a prayer meeting on Thursday at Seoul's Somang
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      Lock icon Tainted-blood victims win battle
      438 22 -AP Japan govtto compensate 1,000 up to $500,000 each TOKYO Hundreds of Japanese who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood products hammered out a deal with legislators on Friday that includes a government apology and monetary compensation. The agreement is a landmark victory in the five-year
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      Lock icon Inter-human bird flu in Pakistan
      140 22 —AGENCIES Experts at the World Health Organisation (WHO) have confirmed the first case of inter-human transmission of bird flu in Pakistan but ruled out any risk of a widespread outbreak. Laboratory tests established that the person had been infected with the potentially fatal HSNI strain
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      Lock icon 'Aussie Taliban' will apologise, says dad
      219 22 -AFP SYDNEY Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks will apologise to the Australian people when he is released from an Adelaide jail this weekend but he still disputes any links to terrorism, his father said. The so-called "Aussie Taliban" will walk free on Saturday
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        Lock icon HOSPITALS FULL, 89-YEAR-OLD DIES
        122 22 -AP An 89-year-old woman died after an ambulance crew spent two hours trying 30 hospitals before finding one that would accept her for treatment, Japanese officials said on Friday. Mr Hideto Matsumoto, a fire official in Osaka prefecture, said the other hospitals rejected the woman, saying
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        Lock icon KIDS ILL FROM UNDERCOOKED BEANS
        58 22 -AP Investigators suspect that undercooked beans caused the poisoning of 248 students in southwest China, state media reported on Friday. Xinhua reported the high school students became sick after eating a school lunch in Yunnan province on Thursday. Because of lax health standards and poor
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      Lock icon Russia may have to wave goodbye to space tourism
      292 23 -AFP MOSCOW Space tourists may have to seek alternative transport after 2009 due to a lack of room on the Russian capsule serving the International Space Station, Russia's space agency chief said on Thursday. "It has to do with international agreements
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      Lock icon US poor scratching an income-draining itch
      719 23 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Scratch-off games are an addiction, say critics HOUSTON With the popularity of traditional lotteries waning across America, many states are turning to higher-priced instant games to lure new players and raise revenue. Scratch-off tickets, for example, now account for
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      Lock icon REPORTER'S DREAM FORCED BRITAIN TO ADMIT TO NUCLEAR TEST
      368 23 -AFP LONDON The British government was forced to admit it had sanctioned a nuclear weapons test in 1974 after a journalist dreamed one had taken place and wrote an article, newly-released documents showed on Friday. Then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson strived to
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      Lock icon Blueprint for a brighter economy?
      741 26  -  PANDERADJASILALAHI SINDO Its special economic zones are crucial for Indonesia's prosperity in the long term SENIOR ECONOMIST, CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES sindo@media corp.com.sg INDONESIA'S economic growth for the past three years under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been relatively high although it is
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      Temasek doesn't manage S'pores foreign reserves or surpluses
      188 28  -  MYRNA THOMAS Letter from Managing Director, Corporate Affairs Temasek Holdings WE THANK Mr Lee Kwok Weng for his interest in Temasek in "Singapore: The Little Red Dot That Could" (Dec 27). We would like to clarify that Temasek does not manage either
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      SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      102 28 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 file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. SHUT-EYE OR SHARP-EYED? There are some ongoing construction projects in my estate at
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      Pooling finances, maximising profits
      330 28  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Common fund management may secure better rates of return Letter from I REFER to the reports "Donations trickling in" (Dec 21) and "NKF: $1.4 m more, despite drop in donations" (Weekend Today, Dec 15-16), as well as other media reports noting that charities
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      Picture-imperfect postcards of our bad tour operators
      453 28  -  AMY LEE ROBIN TAN Letter from WHERE is Singapore on the customerservice scale? Several months ago, my wife and I took up a six-day tour package to Japan with a popular local travel agency. We were told to get to the airport by
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      Incidents are a call for authorities to act
      205 29  -  LIMBOONHEE Letter from THE Christmas train service disruptions due to people falling onto the MRT tracks and the platform crush because of inadequate train services, that caused commuters to be pushed and trapped between the platform gaps, should be more than enough
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      Time to be more civic-minded
      199 29  -  MARIANNE MAES Letter from I READ with resignation the plight of the schoolgirl whose leg was caught in the MRT platform gap (Today, Dec 28). Although I did not witness the incident, I daresay the root of her predicament would probably lie with inconsiderate MRT
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      850 29  -  LOW SHI PING XTRA TECH LIFE Would a day without mobile phone, email and instant messaging spell career suicide for this freelance writer? IT WAS going to be professional suicide spending an entire weekday without a mobile phone, access to email and instant messaging.
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      457 30 -AGENCIES MOST Asian stock markets fell on Friday amid anxiety over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, coupled with lingering worries about the outlook for the United States economy. Ms Bhutto's death on Thursday sent shock waves through international markets on
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        106 30 ESTHER FUNG Another developer is seeking to raise funds from the Singapore capital market. Property and hospitality group Roxy-Pacific Holdings that owns Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel near Marine Parade has lodged a draft prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to list its shares
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        71 30 Temasek Holdings is "still considering" delisting Stats BLOOMBERG Chippac from the Singapore Exchange (SGX). "There remains no certainty" about plans to stop trading of Stats Chippac in Singapore, South-east Asia's biggest provider of chip testing and assembly services, according to a statement filed by the
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        74 30 -DOW JONES Mapletree Logistics Trust plans to raise between $400 million and $500 million in a rights offering to existing unitholders. It will price the offering at a discount of up to 20 per cent to the expected market price of the units after the
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      361 30  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SEMBCORP Marine (SembMarine) dropped 8 cents, or 2 per cent, to $4.01 on Friday as uncertainty over its controversial foreign exchange losses resurfaced. Affidavits lodged by SembMarine and BNP Paribas showed the two sides remained wide apart on who should pick
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      251 30 DOW JONES AUSTRALIAN budget carrier Jetstar will defer, until the second half of next year, a decision on which Asian city it will use as its hub for flights to Europe, after delays in the delivery of the Boeing
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        590 32  -  MICHAEL RSESIT IN THIS season of stock-taking, the picture past and future for financial markets is far from pretty. The reason? Sub-prime. If you didn't know what sub-prime meant at the start of the year, it was hard to avoid its meaning by year-end. The big question
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        140 32 -AGENCIES TEMASEK Holdings and other foreign investors have agreed to buy stakes worth a total of US$l billion ($1.4 billion) in Bharti Infratel, the mobile telecommunications tower unit of giant Bharti Airtel. The Singapore investment firm will be the largest investor, said Bharti, India's
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        396 32 -AP If so, Citi maybe forced to lower dividend by 40% WHEN Citigroup warned early last month that it was likely to write down its portMo by US$B billion to US$ll billion ($11.6 billion to $16 billion) in the fourth quarter because of
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        184 32 BLOOMBERG STX Pan Ocean, South Korea's largest carrier of commodities, surged the most in more than two years in Singapore trading after the Government revised rules to make it easier for investors to transfer their shareholdings between the domestic stock market and markets
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        919 33  -  JON VAN MCT XTRA INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE Spying on your business rivals is fast becoming the next necessary evil KURT Neubauer does not wear disguises or sift through a company's trash hunting for secret information. But he is involved in corporate espionage. Instead of calling himself a
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      1137 34  -  PEARLYN THAM 2008 BEAUTY RESOLUTIONS Here are eight resolutions you can actually fulfil in the New Year ...and look the better for it, too PHOTOGRAPHY JASON HO I'VE been good this Christmas. You see, all the past Christmases, ticking off my gift list was always a
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        254 36 Other zesty offerings you can check out TOP OF THE MORNING Get a fresh headstart to the day with the new Ginvera Spa shower range, which is made to give you a spa-like experience in the bath. There are three formulas ($6.90 each) infused with Bio Mineral Acid to
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        464 36  -  PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg Sothys' zesty Tangerine and Ginger Treatment will leave you calm and revitalised I HOPE my boss isn't reading this but I'll admit it anyway: I fell asleep on the job the other day. But don't blame me. Blame it
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        296 36 PEARLYN THAM THE swinging 60s may have seen its fair share of big and bold jewellery in garish colours and dramatic sizes. But thank goodness Dick Lee's 60s-inspired Pop Deluxe collection for Lee Hwa Jewellery won't have you caught in a
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          75 37 One supermodel alone is not good enough for designer powerhouse Louis Vuitton. In fact, it will be featuring six big names in its Spring-Summer 2008 advertising campaign. Besides newer faces such as Natalia Vodianova, the campaign includes catwalk legends Naomi Campbell (picture), Claudia Schiffer, Eva
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          79 37 -Yeventing stretch marks is less of a stretch with the range of Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula For Stretch Marks. Choose from a tummy butter, a massage cream and a massage lotion. The last, shown here and priced at $36.90, is made with US certified organic natural
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          94 37 Forget about massaging brandy into your scalp to keep hair loss in check. Pamper your tresses instead with the Simply Zen Stimulating Anti-Hair Loss Treatment at Komachi The Hair Cult. Priced from $70 per session, the treatment uses two key products: Simply Zen Stimulating Clay Mask (shown
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          61 37 PEARLYN THAM This is an anti-ageing skincare line with a difference. Lancaster's Differently Nutri-Dermo Skin is a topical skincare range based on the workings of oral supplements and the combination of nutrition and dermatology. Differently NutriDermo Skin products are made with a patent-pending Skin Complement Nutrifying Complex
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        558 37  -  PEARLYN THAM NEW PERFUMES Kick off the New Year on these fresh notes pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS If you loved the exuberance of Tommy Hilfiger's previous scent Tommy Girl, maybe it's time to become a seductive sophisticate with his new Dreaming fragrance. Even the advertising campaign
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        161 37 CHANG SU-FERN IF YOU haven't had enough of shopping during the Christmas season, head over to hip British clothing chain River Island to enjoy storewide discounts of up to 50 per cent Known for its wearable fashion, the label's own
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        1282 38  -  EVELINE GAN Empty stomachs good company lots of party spirit New Year's Eve dinner parties. Now, what's your budget? NOW that you've survived I the Christmas madness, I the last thing you'd I probably want to do to usher I in the New Year is slave
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        631 40  -  LIN WEIWEN AS QUAINT AS IT GETS LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOWS, ONE ALMOST EXPECTS TO SEE THE ROLLING GREEN HILLS OF THE YORKSHIRE DALES. RUSTIC GOODIES Feel like some traditional European fare and old-style English dishes? Check out Karma Kettle and Rhapsody food@newstoday.com .sg INSIDE Karma
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        563 41  -  ANNETTE TAN DOING IT FOR THE KIDS ULTIMATELY, AS A RESTAURANT, DISNEY NATURALLY SERVES GOOD, HEALTHY FOOD THAT KIDS WILL LIKE. CARTOON CRAVINGS Expect to dine rather than be entertained at the new Disney Naturally restaurant food@newstoday.com .sg DISNEY has been synonymous with a magical experience
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          124 41 EVELINE GAN F&N's Alive range of nutritious snack bars will allow you to snack without the guilt. Made in New Zealand, each Alive snack bar is packed with wholesome and delicious ingredients. The Alive Oleic Nut Boost is a tasty snack bar comprising chocolate and
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          92 41 CHANG SU-FERN A family reunion over steamboat on Chinese New Year is now made easy with CP Foods. Individually frozen with no de-frosting required, the CP shrimp wonton is a whole shrimp wrapped in thin wonton skin that is perfect for steamboat. For
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        1165 42 TOP TEN This past year brought with it a bumper crop of new cars some good, some bad and, yes, some downright ugly. Tis not the season to celebrate mediocrity, though. COLIN YONG (colin@mediacorp.com.sg) lists the top 10 newcomers of 200/ CITROEN Cl PEUGEOT 107 X
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        182 43 All signs point to fewer COEs to bid for next year. Still, car buyers will be spoilt for choice in showrooms with no shortage of hot new models scheduled to hit Singapore over the next 1 z months, says COLIN YONG (colin@mediacorp.com.sg) SUBARU FORESTER What is
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      556 44 AFP AP The year is almost at an end, but several celebrities have still managed to squeeze in one last brush with the law BAD GIRL #1: MISCHA BARTON The former teen queen actress was arrested on Thursday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence
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      110 45 AP Pregnancy has been an engaging experience for Jessica Alba (picture). The 26-year-old actress, who announced earlier this month that she's expecting, is now engaged to her boyfriend and the baby's father, producer Cash Warren. "I can confirm that they are en- gaged," Alba's publicist, Brad Cafarelli, said in
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      594 48  -  LAN DE COTTA FORMULA 1 PRELUDE Singapore Grand Prix fever all set to hit heartlands with first roadshow in Punggol ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE inaugural Sing Tel Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix is just nine months away, work has begun in earnest. The anticipation is palpable
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      240 48 -AFP SEATTLE Paul Pierce scored 37 points and Kevin Garnett added 23 to lead the Boston Celtics to a 104--96 National Basketball Association triumph over the Seattle Supersonics on Thursday {Friday morning, Singapore time). The victory boosted Boston's NBA-best record to 24-3. After
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      1029 49  -  LOW LIN FHOONG BEAUTY AND BRAINS Far from a diva, Sharapova's serious about her tennis and is looking forward to 2008 linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg UP CLOSE with Maria Sharapova, you can't help but feel a little overwhelmed. It's not her fame or fortune, it's her frame.
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      801 50 THE GUARDIAN MY, MYSELF AND I Former Chelsea boss takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the sporting year as 'told' to The Guardians Barney JANUARY England are thrashed 5-0 by Australia playing cricket, a sport that involves shouting at the referee, being rude
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      2928 51  -  !J22E33nES^3 CHEATS AND LEGENDS Footballer Paolo Maldini and sprinter Marion Jones epitomised the heroism and villainy of sport in 2007 IT HAS been almost four years to the day that I first saw Marion Jones compete but it seems like only yesterday. I can still remember
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      634 54 NOT TIME TO PANIC YET AFP IT'S JUST A BLIP Wenger dismisses talk of Arsenal stumbling and recent poor form ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton v Arsenal LIVERPOOL Arsene Wenger was breezy in his dismissal of being knocked off the English Premiership summit, but even he cannot ignore the stark fact that
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      384 54 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Out-of-favour Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage (picture) is set to bolster Sunderland manager Roy Keane's fight against relegation from the Premiership. The former Welsh international midfielder was on Wearside for discussions with Keane yesterday and he is set to become
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      792 55 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SEEING RED But officials body denies refs were instructed to clamp down on bad tackles LONDON The reaction to the rash of dismissals for two-footed challenges that have blighted the Premiership in recent weeks took a surprising twist when Steve Coppell claimed
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      292 55 -AFP MANCHESTER Sven-Goran Eriksson admitted he has been left bemused by the latest interpretation of the offside rule after a controversial late equaliser sealed a 2-2 draw for Blackburn at Manchester City on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore time). The result ended City's perfect home
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      873 56 THE GUARDIAN IT'S A BLUE SEASON With mounting injuries and suspensions, Ballack and Shevchenko need to step up ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea v Newcastle LONDON It is easy to get nostalgic over tedium. Anyone craving a win at all costs will relish an incident-free game once their team
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      406 56 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Joey Barton (picture) was charged with assault on Friday and denied bail. He has been remanded in custody and is expected to be kept locked up until next Thursday's hearing. The midfielder, 25, will miss Newcastle's visit to
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      356 57 LONDON The Premiership title race is promising to be the most competitive in recent memory, yet the bookmakers are already moving towards some fairly definite conclusions. The reaction of the major bookmakers to Manchester United's rise to the top of the table on Boxing Day
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      631 57 -AFP Fergie set to use back-from-injury Korean to give United power against Hammers ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP West Ham v Manchester United LONDON Park Ji Sung is in line to make his first start this season when Manchester United attempt to consolidate their position at the
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      1192 58  -  KENNETH GOH MID-TERM REPORT CARD The Scottish knight will claim his 10th Premiership trophy in May and United's 17th top flight league title THE New Year is nearly upon us, the bubbly is set to flow, and resolutions will be made by those hoping to
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