Today, 14 January 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=DJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday January 14, 2008 todayonline.com I
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 81 1 BLOOMBERG CHEMOIL Energy Ltd, the world's largest independent supplier of marine fuels, has appointed Mr Clyde Bandy as chairman and chief executive to replace Mr Robert Chandran, who died on Jan 7 from injuries in a helicopter crash in Indonesia. Mr Bandy, a former Chevron Corp
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    • 848 1  -  ALICIA WONG Centre making a name as a church hub alicia@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS always been a venue for conventions and exhibitions, one of the top in the region. But strange as it may seem at first glance, this same site looks to be South-east Asia's
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    • 292 1 -AGENCIES JAKARTA Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew says that many have forgotten what former Indonesian President Suharto has done for his country. He was in Jakarta yesterday to visit the critically-ill Mr Suharto. Speaking to the media after he left the hospital, Mr
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    • 349 2  -  JESSINTATAN He aims to focus more on Asia to distinguish the institution from others jessinta@media corp.com.sg THE National University of Singapore (NUS) will have a new president by the end of this year. He is Prof Tan Chorh Chuan, a man with a vision to distinguish
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      368 3 forward, it would benefit NUS to focus on the rapidly growing Asian region. "NUS is an international university. It's also in Asia. Thus, it's an advantage for NUS as a university of excellence to include relevant elements of Asia in its education and research," he said. "It's
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    • 625 3  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg EVEN as he fielded the questions from community leaders about their concerns regarding means testing, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan had a few questions of his own. At the dialogue session with about 500 community leaders yesterday, Mr Khaw's priority was to find
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    • 69 3 At least 65-per-cent subsidy for C Class. Means testing for those still working: Personal income Means testing for those not working: Value of property they live in. •Thorough assessment for individual cases like disabled and chronically ill. Income assessment will consider marital status and the number
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  • Singapore news
    • 684 4  -  THOMAS KOSHY It can differentiate itself through practical and flexible courses IN HIS New Year message, the Prime Minister identified education as one of three significant areas of policy in which decisions will be tackled this year. In particular, the number of available
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    • 1218 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Thanks to his vision, cheap travel will be available on Feb 1 on S'pore-KL route weekeat@media corp.com.sg FOR six years, he chased a dream and flew into a perfect storm of bureaucratic entanglements, entrenched charges and widespread scepticism. But through the dark clouds
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    • 601 8  -  ANSLEYNG Condo's residents want to stop repeated en bloc efforts, will seek Prof Jaya's help ansley@mediacorp.com.sg YET another attempt to put Bayshore Park (picture) on the en bloc market has been nipped by poor attendance, and residents who are not interested in selling are fed up
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    • 320 8  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg ALREADY, the commitment has been made all new and retrofitted public buildings will be Green Mark-certified. But can the green drive take on wheels? More incentive could come with three more compressed natural gas (CNG) stations expected on
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  • world news
    • 817 10  -  JASON LEE -AFP REMEMBRANCE: MrMa Ying-jeou, presidential candidate of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, holds a wreath in a ceremony in Toliano yesterday. KMT party leaders travelled there to honourthesonof Mr Chiang Kaishek, Mr Chiang Ching-kuo, who served as Taiwan's president from 1978 until his death
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    • 321 12 Police see possible link in recent cases of missing kids PETALING JAVA A man was arrested in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday night in connection with the murder last year of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, The Star reported yesterday. According to the report, the
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    • 286 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The police have yet to identify the gunman who shot dead a deputy state chairman for the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) last Friday, a report said yesterday. Mr S Krishnasamy, 61, was found slumped in a pool of blood on Friday inside
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    • 181 12 KLUANG Former Johor Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) chairman Chua Soi Lek is now its adviser, The Star reported yesterday. Earlier this month, Dr Chua quit his Health Minister, Labis Member of Parliament and all party posts after admitting he was featured in a DVD which
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    • 197 12 -AGENCIES BANGKOK The three People Power Party (PPP) candidates whose victories in the Dec 23 general election were nullified by the Election Commission (EC) emerged victorious again in yesterday's byelection in Nakhon Ratchasima province, The Nation reported. Yesterday's by-election was held after the EC
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    • 389 14 —THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BEIJING —The Chinese government is set to legalise horse racing, and even betting, as the ruling Communist Party loosens controls on practices it once banned as feudal, colonial and backward. The sprawling industrial city of Wuhan in central China, once
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    • 706 14  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Can Malaysia's PM become a modern-day Hang Tuah? nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT COULD be a universal truth that the Malaysian general election is likely to be held in the next two months, but Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi the resident "Mr Nice Guy" of politics up north
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    • 449 16 THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent, although patients' groups said such a plan would take away patients' rights over their own
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    • 73 16 FOR Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who carries a donor card, has made it clear he backs an even more radical revamp of the system, which would lead to donation by 'presumed consent 1. AGAINST Where is the big media campaign? Where are the leaflets? These
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    • 705 16 —AGENCIES —THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH UNWILLING TO WAIT?: Pro-democ-racy lawmakers and activists attend a rally to demand democracy in Hong Kong yesterday. Over 7,000 people joined the march, demanding for universal suffrage in the former British colony. China has ruled out full democracy for Hong
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    • 227 17 -AFP WASHINGTON A New York Times (NYT) study has found that 121 murder cases in the United States involve veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars following their return from the frontline. The newspaper said that in many cases, combat trauma and stress
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    • 288 18  -  JACKLYNCHOW Letter from I REFER to Mr Peter Peh's letter, "The tech way to a lighter workload" (Jan 9). As an ex-secondary school teacher, let me say that many professionals leave the service not because of pay alone. They quit due to an unbearably
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    • 436 18  -  TANCHEKWEE Plants, animals better than robots in helping the old in an interactive environment Letter from I REFER to the article, "Does Paro the seal have a place in Singapore" (Jan 11). I couldn't agree more with Dr Ting Choon Meng's comment in
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    • 345 19  -  TANCHEEWEE ANG BEE LIAN New measures in place to help retain social workers Letter from Director, Social Sector Planning Unit Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and Chief Executive Officer National Council of Social Service (NCSS) WE REFER to the letter "A helping hand for
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    • 103 19  -  DRKWACHONGTECK Letter from Executive Director National Dental Centre WE REFER to the letter "ID Blues: One Parent's Struggle" (Jan 11) by Mr Chow Yeow Whye about his son's registration status with the National Dental Centre. I am sorry that our staff processed the registration incorrectly.
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    • 268 19  -  MARIE THAM Letter from Head (Cosmetics Control Unit) Centre for Drug Administration Health Products Regulation Group Health Sciences Authority WE REFER to the letter "Toothpaste's mysterious origin" (Jan 10) by Murali Sharma and would like to thank him for giving us the opportunity to
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    • 140 19  -  DR BILL MAIER BY... DEPRESSION IN TEENS Would you know if your teenager was depressed? Most parents would answer "yes" to that question. In a recent survey of over 900 parents of teenagers, nine out of 10 were confident that they could tell if their kids
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  • Business
    • 217 20 -AGENCIES SHARE prices in Singapore are expected to fall further this week, with signs of a looming recession in the United States seen weighing on sentiment. The S&P 500 slipped 19.31, or 1.4 per cent, to 1,401.02 on Friday. The broad benchmark for
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    • 409 20 -AGENCIES CAI is S Arabia's favoured bidder for 780-sq-km hub CHANGI Airports International (CAI), the overseas investment unit of Singapore's main airport operator, has been selected as the preferred bidder by Saudi Arabia to manage and operate the King Fahd International Airport in Damman
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    • 212 21 TUI, Europe's largest travel company and the owner of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line, is holding talks on a possible merger with Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), reported France's business daily La Tribune. The newspaper, citing a person close to shareholders, said
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    • 462 21 Trouble for faltering bank continues to pile CITIGROUP, the largest bank in the United States, is in talks with the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) for a capital injection, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires. The amount being negotiated,
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        133 22 It's all about fit and chemistry When hiring a new employee, what do you jook for most during the interview process? RICHARD EU, EUYAN SANG GROUP CEO, REPLIES: I try to see if the candidate would be a good fit in the organisation, so, a lot is about
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      • 623 22  -  miwiimmi Mentoring works when it is separated from authority NOW that mentoring is widely recognised as the way to motivate, develop and keep employees, the role of "in-company" mentoring is being explored by those aware of the profit improvement it bestows. It is a
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      • 672 22  -  Sir Richard Sykes LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg CHAIRMAN of Singapore's Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council since 2000 and an Honorary Citizen for the past four years, Sir Richard Sykes must know a thing or two about what makes the Republic
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    • 1194 24 THERE is a moment in the first season of Heroes where mild-mannered watch repairman Gabriel Gray (played by Zachary Quinto) figures out how to be the man he wants to be and promptly cracks a man's head open to pocket the stranger's unusual telekinetic talents.
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    • 174 26 -AP I Nicole Richie a happy mum to baby Harlow THE simple life may not be so simple now that Nicole Richie (picture) is a first-time mum. Richie, 26, gave birth on Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre to a daughter named Harlow Winter Kate Madden, People
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    • 1175 27 IT][TE1 HEROES MOSAIC MONDAY HANTU JATUH CINTA ASIANS OF THE YEAR Six Months Ago The Travelling Palette II Episode 12 Channel NewsAsia, 9.32pm 12.32am Channel 5, 10pm Arts Central, 9.30pm Suria, 9.30pm I MIS ©PISOQ© SaBBk^^. -vBBbI BBBB:^. Jtmmam\w. -ri n j: a.i W*\ "^KEsHHE' "3 shows the ->r '^-fifc^
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  • sports
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      578 28 ■AFP Stars hail the remarkable journey of Davenport, the most dangerous floater Down Under TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE In an improbable comeback that is being hailed as a "fairytale", Lindsay Davenport is being touted as a possible winner of the Australian Open women's singles crown. Yesterday, on
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    • 316 28 -AFP TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE Roger Federer has given himself the all clear from a virus bug that had his rivals hoping for a change in the tennis order at the Australian Open starting here today. Federer is vying for his 13th Grand Slam crown,
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    • 257 28 -AFP NFL PLAYOFFS New England 31 Jacksonville 20 MASSACHUSETTS Quarterback Tom Brady (picture) was almost perfect with his passes and the New England Patriots remained so, as they beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20 in the National Football League playoffs on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time).
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    • 684 29  -  TANYO-HINN LOWUNFHOONG Spore bid committee co-adviser Ng talks up country's language and safety standards yohinn@media corp.com.sg BY THIS time next month, Singapore will either be celebrating its impending status as an Olympic host city, or congratulating one of the other four countries bidding
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    • 237 29  -  -lANDECOTTA HISTORY was made yesterday when the Singapore Circuit@Tuas opened its doors for a racing event for the first time. It is the first permanent facility of any kind for motorsports in Singapore and designed specifically for motocross and kart races. Right now, only the
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    • 119 29 POLICYHOLDERS and staff of AIA were treated to an exciting evening yesterday when the Singapore Slingers beat the Wollongqng Hawks 113-102 in a HUMMER National Basketball League Championship clash at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Among the crowd of nearly 5,000 were the AIA group, enjoying
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    • 518 30 -AFP Substitute helps club to come from behind-for the fifth time this term-and win a Premier League match ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Bolton 1 Blackburn 2 BOLTON (England) A last-minute goal by Jason Roberts secured a 2-1 win for Blackburn Rovers away to local rivals Bolton
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    • 557 30 -AFP LONDON Former Newcastle United manager Graeme Souness (picture) said yesterday he would return to St James's Park "in a heartbeat". Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp turned down the chance to manage the struggling north-east club following the departure earlier in the week of
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    • 627 31 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 6 Newcastle 0 MANCHESTER You just cannot get enough of Cristiano Ronaldo. He was at it again on Saturday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), sweeping across the damp Old Trafford surface with the sublime footballing skills of a master showman.
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    • 348 31 AFP LONDON Rarely does Arsene Wenger (picture) criticise his young brood in public, so eyebrows were raised when he accused his Arsenal stars of complacency, after a 1-1 draw with struggling Birmingham allowed Manchester United to knock them off the top
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