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  • 42 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday January 9, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA (P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking o o 6 "E s. (0 o 00 o O CM CO C CD (0 "O (A 0) c 0)
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  • 847 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI NAZRY BAHRAWI Keadilan has struck deal to split electoral seats, says Anwar, who is prepared to contest in by-elections nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AMID rising election fever in Malaysia, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (picture) yesterday offered friends and foes a sneak preview of his party's
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  • 677 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg BEGINNER'S luck was just not with Singapore Airlines (SIA) chief Chew Choon Seng. His first shot at an overseas buy since taking the helm four-and-a-half years ago fell flat. Not because his ambitious target-Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines (CEA), the third largest carrier in
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  • 127 1 About 78 per cent of China Eastern Airlines shareholders rejected the HK$3.BO (70 cents) per share offer by SIA and Temasek Holdings. A "no" vote of more than 33 per cent would have scuttled the deal. Investors said "no" after the parent of rival Air China pledged
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 46 1 ROBERT CHANDRAN'S RAGS-TO-RICHES TALE HOWCHEMOILCEO MADE HIS MILLIONS HOT NEWS PAGE 2 PCKS MARCUS NG TO SERVE DETENTION ACTOR GUILTY OF INSUBORDINATION LOCAL PAGE 6 SUHARTO'S HEALTH DETERIORATES INTERNAL BLEEDING, HEART PROBLEMS WORLD PAGE 18 A LEAN, MEAN STI INDEX OVERHAUL TIMELY: ANALYSTS BUSINESS PAGE 32
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  • hot news
    • 727 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG CHEOWXINYI REPORTING BY ESTHER FUNG Built from scratch, now Chemoil faces uncertainty with CEO's death: Analysts cheekong@media corp. com. sg A SELF-DESCRIBED accidental entrepreneur, he had no inkling, as he traversed two continents seeking his fortune, that he would end up
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    • 138 3  -  -NEOCHAICHIN WHITE powder found on the eastbound platform of City Hall MRT station forced a part of the busy train interchange to be cordoned off for about two hours yesterday. The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) personnel were called in to
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    • 683 4  -  JESSINTATAN jessinta@media corp.com.sg THE battle for Penang has begun, and it promises to have the hottest seats contested in the coming Malaysian general election. This is where two high-profile homegrown politicians opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will meet head-to-head. This
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  • Singapore news
    • 411 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg TELEVISION viewers know him as Phua Chu Kang's nephew, Aloy. But actor Marcus Ng Vi Loong was at the heart of a real-life courtroom drama yesterday. A full-time National Serviceman, Ng was appealing against a subordinate military court ruling, after he had
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    • 102 6 I Marcus Ng (picture, right, with his lawyer Wendell Wong) OCT refused to return to his bunk when ordered thrice to do so. 2006 He also refused to perform the 20 push-ups ordered by a superior. He was fined $500 for each of the two
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    • 453 6  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@media corp.com.sg A CENTRAL subsidy database shared by all hospitals. Getting means-tested even before one is hospitalised. Higher subsidies for those facing a longer hospital stay. As Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan opened the doors for dialogue on implementing means
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    • 278 8  -  —ANSLEYNG THE judge who kept a young kleptomaniac out of prison two months ago has ordered an appeal hearing of a housewife jailed for stealing to be put on hold, after learning that she had stolen again while out on bail. Zhang Jing, 41, was at
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    • 534 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Virtual Map'copied' its deliberate errors weekeat@media corp.com.sg ITS argument was that it had spent "millions of dollars" and put much effort into developing a new product But what street directory producer Virtual Map unwittingly did was leave behind "fingerprints of copying" when it reproduced deliberate
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    • 312 8  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IN HIS first Magistrate's Appeal hearing, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong has thrown out the appeal of a youth convicted of rioting. Muhammad Fazli Abdul Razak, 18, had asked for his sentence of reformative training to be reduced to probation, after
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    • 344 10  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@media corp. com. sg THAT running nose and constant sneezing have become such common ailments that many of us tend to dismiss them as nothing more than minor irritants caused by weather changes and the like. But these ailments could be
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    • 489 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Committee seeks input on hybrids used in research sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg MICE injected with human tissues and human sperm injected into animal eggs these types of human-animal combinations may sound like creepy science experiments. But far from being Frankenstein creations, these methods are widely
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    • 450 12  -  UNYANQIN Workers doing some last-minute sprucing up of Changi Airport Terminal 3 (T3) in preparation for its grand opening today. The terminal will also commence operations today. 100 schools to get $15,000 each to continue MOE's innovative teaching scheme yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg FROM using cartoons to teach the
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  • world news
    • 520 14 ■AFP Bruising defeat looms, but she's keeping her chin up PORTSMOUTH White House hopeful Hillary Clinton choked back tears as she struggled to avert a bruising defeat at the hands of rival Barack Obama in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Polls released hours before
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    • 744 14  -  VENESSALEE venessa@media corp.com.sg THE ginger-haired man standing just behind Republican candidate Mike Huckabee (picture), as he gave his televised victory speech at lowa, looked strangely familiar. He hasn't stopped grinning, I thought before I realised that the guy on screen was 1980s icon Chuck Norris.
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    • 312 15 CONCORD Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that he is pleased by African-American White House hopeful Barack Obama's success in the early presidential nominating contests. On the eve of the crucial New Hampshire polls to nominate a Democrat and Republican candidate,
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    • 346 16 AGENCIES Top Sri Lankan official's assassination blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels COLOMBO A Sri Lankan government minister was killed yesterday in a roadside bombing blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels the first assassination of a top Sri Lankan official in 19 months. The bomb tore through a
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    • 228 16 -AFP WASHINGTON China has contingency plans to dispatch troops into North Korea and secure nuclear weapons in the event of instability in the hardline communist state, according to United States experts who have talked to Chinese military researchers. Any intervention by Beijing would be
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    • 188 18 -AP JAKARTA Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's health deteriorated yesterday, with signs of internal bleeding, fluid building up in his lungs and heart complications, doctors said. Mr Suharto, 86, whose regime was widely regarded as one of most corrupt and brutal of the 20th century, was suffering from
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    • 392 18 UN-sponsored probe into my mother's death is needed, says Bilawal LONDON The son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto yesterday warned that Pakistan could face disintegration unless free and fair elections were held. "I fear for my country. I fear that if free
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    • 290 20 There will be oil to fry, but no money to make roti canai KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government started flooding the retail market with cooking oil yesterday to overcome panic buying sparked by fears of a shortage ahead of Chinese New Year. Meanwhile, restaurant owners are feeling the pinch of
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    • 423 20 -AP Decision was not conveyed to Indian FM, who was in XL on a 3-day visit KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has frozen the recruitment of Indian workers, including temple priests, sculptors and musicians, an official said yesterday, in a move apparently linked to recent unrest by
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 141 24 -AFP A sharp rise in Malaysia s crime rate will scare off investors and must be urgently addressed. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday, announcing that 60,000 more police would be hired. "We need to take drastic action to stop the rise in
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      • 120 24 —AFP A Mississippi businessman must pay more than U*****,000 ($1.07 million) in damages to the man whose wife he wooed away, after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case on Monday. In 1997, Ms Sandra
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    • 393 24 —AGENCIES Difficult time for next US President because of him, says ex-Sec of State WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush will prod Israelis and Palestinians towards peace talks when he arrives in the Middle East today. He will try to wring some sort of
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  • Voices
    • 198 26  -  NUR SUHARDI MOHAMED Letter from I REFER to the report "The atypical expat" (Jan 7), and agree with Ms Kerry Wilcock's remark that "social work is generally not seen as a glamorous job. Social workers need to be paid more. Definitely, salaries need
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    • The great S'pore squeeze
      • 204 26  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I READ with interest Mr John Lucas' letter, "Do we want to be No 1 for population density?" (Weekend Today, Jan 5-6). The quality of life need not be adversely affected in a densely-populated country
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      • 145 26  -  DENNIS BUTLER Letter from I REFER to Mr John Lucas' letter and find it hard to reconcile the need to maintain social cohesion with the Government's plans to expand the population to 6 million or more in land-sparse Singapore. And thanks to the tacit
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    • 203 26  -  PETER PEH Letter from WE KEEP reading news that teachers' salaries will be increased, that it's difficult to retain them and that they are leaving the service in droves. So we plod on, increasing their pay and benefits. But things don't seem to
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    • 551 27  -  CATHLEEN TUNG ACPAI Iralia) qualification allowei IYfinancial controller Goh Siaj Ding's career in account Ito ao full steam ahead AT 18, Goh Siew Ping experienced culture shock when she left her hometown in Malaysia to study in Australia. Prior to that, she had attended a
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    • 280 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY JEEP FENDERS You know, children can be so hateful and mean to each other, especially when we adults haven't taught them basics of being kind and sensitive. I learnt this when I was eight, j attended a Sunday School class atthe time,
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    • Article, Illustration
      84 28 AND THETRE NECK AND NECK It's not every day that one gets to see a giraffe enjoying a makeover. While on a family outing at the Singapore Zoo, reader Chan Vue Meng, 59, a management consultant, spotted two workers trimming the foliage on a giraffe statue. CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS:
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    • 669 28  -  LIANG DINGZI BASED on readers' letters, I am looking forward this year to companies paying more attention to delivering what has been promised service recovery and industry regulators being more active in fleshing out this basic principle: Think customer. Fresh in the mind is the taxi
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    • 326 30  -  CHAN TEE SENG Letter from General Manager, Group and Health Division NTUC Income I REFER to your news comment, "The cooperative spirit is still alive" (Jan 2) by Kog Yue Choong. He cited examples of how NTUC Fair Price and Income had helped keep the cooperative
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    • 185 30  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from I HOPE that the organisers of the River Hong Bao Carnival 2008 provide the public with adequate toilets. My family had attended the carnival in previous years. Unfortunately, what we remember most is not the good food, acrobatics or festive decorations at the
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  • Business
    • 203 32 -AGENCIES SHARES of Ascott Group surged 41.3 per cent yesterday after its parent Capita Land offered to buy out minority owners and take the luxury residences operator private. The shares rose 50 cents to $1.71, just 2 cents below the $1.73 that Capita
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    • 535 32  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg A MORE compact Straits Times Index (STI) the benchmark used by investors here and abroad to gauge the performance of the Singapore stock market could not have come at a more opportune time. With stock prices expected to be volatile in the
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    • THE FOUR NEWSIES
      • 105 32 SIA Engineering is a major provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services in the Asia-Pacific region. CIMB research analyst Tan Wei Ling has an "Outperform" call on this counter, given "its defensive line maintenance operations, healthy order book and the strong performance by its
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      • 134 32 The Singapore-based company is the world's biggest palm oil trader. It also processes about a quarter of the world's palm oil. According to CIMB forecasts, Wilmar will have a P/E of 24.4 times and a dividend yield of 0.8 per cent this year. Crude palm oil hit
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      • 94 32 China-based Yanlord Land Group listed on the SGX in June 2006. While its focus is on developing high-end residential property projects in key cities in China such as Shanghai and Nanjing, it is also diversifying into office buildings and retail space. Phillip Securities analyst Ng Chen
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      • 103 32  -  -ESTHER FUNG Listed in April 2007, this Chinese shipbuilder has become an investors favourite. With increasing demand for commodities supporting high shipping rates, Cimb expects Chinese yards to continue to dominate the shipbuilding sector on the back of massive capacity. Just last month, Yangzijiang secured contracts to
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    • business news
      • 128 34  -  ESTHER FUNG THERE may be some dark clouds over Fraser and Neave's (F&N) performance this year, as escalating oil prices and other raw materials could hurt its profits, especially in Malaysia. F&N's soft drinks business in Malaysia may be adversely affected if the government
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      • 331 34 AFP WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said that the housing market's woes are far from over and that the government was studying fresh measures to minimise economic harm. He said a housing correction had been "inevitable" after years of rocketing property prices, but
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      • 119 34  -  -ESTHER FUNG WITH rising inflation and escalating asset prices, prospective homebuyers should take advantage of relatively low interest rates to finance their purchases, according to UOB's head of loans Kevin Lam. Mr Lam said the economy had developed into a "negative interest-rate situation",
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      • 187 36 HEALTHWAY Medical Services is poised to list on the Singapore Exchange's Catalist via a reverse takeover (RTO) of lossmaking electronics distributor SNF Corp in a deal worth up to $525 million. The RTO will be done through an issue of new SNF shares to Healthway
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
        • 44 36 Singapore-listed STX Pan Ocean, South Korea's biggest carrier of commodities, said it would spend US$BlO million ($1.2 billion) to purchase ships this year. It plans to buy 13 vessels, including 11 bulk carriers and two container ships.
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        • 59 36 UOL Group and Kheng Leong Co have won the tender for a residential site in Simei St 4 after they submitted a top bid of $236 million, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said yesterday. The 99-year leasehold plot comprises an area of about 32,210
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      • Article, Illustration
        236 36 AGENCIES Concerns over US economy still a factor SINGAPORE shares fell for a second consecutive session yesterday, taking cues from a weak showing on Wall Street due to continuing concerns over an economic slowdown in the United States. The Straits Times Index slipped 14.79 points, or 0.4 per
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      • 186 36 BLOOMBERG PACNET, the undersea-cable operator formed by the merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, said it plans to raise between US$5OO million ($716 million) and US$BOO million from an initial share sale. Pacnet would seek a listing in the United States in the fourth
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