Today, 28 January 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY /A=£)IAJZORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday January 28, 2008 todayonline.com I
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      AAT DAVOS, A GIC SHIFT
      804 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH IN DAVOS Dr Tony Tan sets tone to move away from low-profile stand christie@mediacorp.com.sg AT A time when questions are being raised about a group of secretive corporate heavyweights labelled as sovereign wealth funds, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is choosing
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      Lock icon SUHARTO
      895 1 JUNE B,I92I—JAN 27,2008 JAKARTA After fighting for his life for three weeks in a hospital, Indonesia's second President, a leader who evoked emotions ranging from awe to anger and from praise to hatred, died in hospital of multiple organ failure at I.lopm (2.10 pm Singapore time) yesterday. He was
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      35 1 NEWS COMMENT SINGAPORE NEEDS A CULTURE BUZZ LOCAL PAGE 8 ON OBAMAS WIN HIS ALL-AMERICAN PRIMARY COLOURS WORLD PAGE 14 MATCH-FIXING IN AFRICAN CUP STORE SYNDICATE CAUGHT IN STORM SPORTS PAGE 35 WmflmMj.' iff Kl
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      20 1 INFLATION THE BIGGEST FEAR 2 WHAT CODE MAY HAVE 2 THE DERIVATIVES DEBATE 26 HE MADE VITAL DIFFERENCE PAGE 4
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Inflation is biggest fear of 2008: Tony Tan
      706 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH IN DAVOS ZULOTHMAN christie@media corp.com.sg FRET not about the possibility of an economic slump right now, but about inflation and whether a recession will rear its ugly head in the second half of the year. This is the economic prognosis
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      Lock icon Ted Kennedy 'to endorse Obama'
      361 3 —AGENCIES Paper says announcement will be made at joint rally WASHINGTON US Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy, an icon of the US left, will endorse fellow Senator Barack Obama today for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, the Boston Globe reported. Mr Kennedy's public announcement of the
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      Lock icon He made vital difference
      520 4  -  JESSINTATAN NAZRYBAHRAWI It took MM to remind the world to judge Suharto's legacy more fairly AND jessinta@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was the first to remind the world that the late Mr Suharto deserved more recognition for the good he did for Indonesia,
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      95 3 OBAMA'S ALL-AMERICAN PRIMARY COLOURS NEWS COMMENT* PAGE 14 WHAT'S CHANGING MORE INFORMATION Disclosure of returns regularly. A document providing info on GIC's governance slated to be out by second quarter. CODE OF CONDUCT Should be voluntary, flexible, not a one-size-fits-all, to get each SWF to state investment motives and governance
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon No siege mentality, assures Yaacob
      717 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Guidance is the key, leaders to discuss issues openly nazry@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Muslim religious leaders "are open in our discussions and it is not for us to pass judgment whether you go to heaven or hell". This is the message Dr Yaacob Ibrahim wants
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      Lock icon Be 'on guard' about chikungunya fever
      220 6  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI Compulsory health checks may be implemented if the spread of the chikungunya virus reaches epidemic levels. "We have not put everything aside. Everything is on the table, said Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister of Environment and Water Resources, yesterday. He was asked why
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      Airport disruption a 'tactical' decision
      204 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI "It was a tactical decision, and one that is sensible and safe." This was Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean's answer yesterday when asked to comment on why the Australian-registered civilian plane that breached Singapore's air security on Jan 22 was diverted to Changi Airport,
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      Lock icon 70-year-old S'porean dies, wife safe, in boat collision
      204 7 THE STAR A 70-YEAR-OLD Singaporean died, while his wife escaped with minor injuries, after their fishing boat collided with a passenger boat near Tanjung Piai near Johor Baru. Mr Mamat Lambak and wife Banon Raja Deraman, 60, were fishing when a passenger
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      Lock icon Around the world in 10 clipper yachts
      155 7 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TEN yachts have set sail from Singapore for their round the world race. After a nineday stopover here, the yachts were given a rousing and colourful start to Race 6 at the Marina at Keppel Bay yesterday. Teams were given a
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; SCREENGRAB COURTESY OF CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  155 words
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      Helping mums' juggling role
      426 7  -  SHERALYN TAY Mnvate-sector torum to dish out advice helping them balance work and family sheralyn@media corp. com. sg JUGGLING work and motherhood can be tough but a new Working Mum's Forum (WMF) intends to help better address the challenges that such women face. It is the
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    • Article
      THE CULTURE BUZZ?
      745 8  -  LIANG DINGZI WE ARE apt to become defensive at any hint of Singapore being a cultural desert. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, said recently that media coverage was showing "growing awareness that we are not the same dull cultural desert but
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      Lock icon Seafront living at Woodlands
      345 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA COME 2010, Woodlands residents can enjoy seafront recreational amenities right at their doorsteps. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has unveiled a $19-million design plan to build a coastal promenade and park in their neighbourhood. Woodlands will certainly live up to its name with URA's
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; ARTIST'S IMPRESSION  -  345 words
    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        STORE CANOE MARATHON 2008 DRAWS 600 PARTICIPANTS
        92 10  -  TANYO-HINN More than 600 participants from clubs and various schools took part in seven categories at the inaugural Singapore Canoe Marathon 2008 at Kallang Basin yesterday (picture). Canoeing will be one of the water-based sports featured when the $1.2-billion Sports Hub, which will
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        Lock icon TWO NABBED WHILE TRYING TO ENTER S'PORE ILLEGALLY
        130 10 Police arrested on Saturday two men who tried to enter Singapore illegally by the waters off Sungei Buloh under the cover of darkness. At about 8.30pm on Saturday, the Police Coast Guard detected two people swimming towards the Singapore coastline. The two
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        SM GOH IIN QATAR, DUBAI
        167 10 Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong is leading a delegation to Qatar and Dubai to strengthen Singapore's political and economic ties with the Middle East. From today to Friday, Mr Goh will be in Doha, where he will meet the Amir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al
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      Lock icon Man sent flying in crash unhurt
      207 10  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp. com. sg ONE of the passengers seated at the rear of this truck (picture) was flung into a ditch after it was involved in a multiple collision along the PIE before the dementi Avenue 6 exit yesterday. But the unidentified Indian
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  • world news
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      Lock icon POLICE EXTEND DETENTION AS BANK REVEALS US$73 BN GAMBLE
      306 12 —AFP French investigators yesterday extended the detention of accused rogue trader Jerome Kerviel (picture) over a US$7-billion ($lO-bil-lion) fraud as Societe Generale revealed he had been gambling with more than US$73 billion in deals when caught. The 31-year-old turned himself in
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      Lock icon Kerviel becoming a national hero
      687 12 —THE GUARDIAN Old neighbours can't believe trader nearly broke the bank PARIS He is the man who nearly broke the bank and who is fast becoming a hero to millions of his compatriots. Mr Jerome Kerviel, the 31-year-old trader whose fraudulent stock market transactions last
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      OBAMA'S ALL-AMERICAN PRIMARY COLOURS
      812 14  -  KENNETH S CHIANG SENATOR Barack Obama goes into nearly two dozen Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday on Feb 5 boosted by a big win in South Carolina on Saturday that revealed encouraging signs his campaign can continue to garner support across racial lines. It would be
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        NEW TRAINING MODULES FOR M'SIAN NS RECRUITS
        75 14 New training modules, including financial management, will be introduced at the 38 National Service camps nationwide in Malaysia, Bernama news agency reported yesterday. The modules will also emphasise character-building, HIV awareness and crime prevention, said the National Service (NS) Training Department's director-general Abdul
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        Lock icon US AID WORKER ABDUCTED, AFGHAN POLICE ON ALERT
        95 14 -AGENCIES Afghan police tightened security yesterday in the southern city of Kandahar as officials searched for those behind the kidnapping of an American aid worker and her Afghan driver. Police were searching every vehicle in the area where Cyd Mizell, 49, and
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        Lock icon KREMLIN CRITIC SHUT OUT FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE
        128 14 -AFP Russian election officials yesterday barred prominent Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov (picture) from running in a presidential poll to replace President Vladimir Putin. The Central Elections Commission said there were too many invalid signatures in the list of 2 million that Mr Kasyanov
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      Lock icon Ma, Hsieh's registration kicks off Taiwan presidentaial race
      256 16 —AP TAIPEI Taiwan's presidential candidates kicked off their campaigns yesterday for elections scheduled for March 22, with both the ruling and opposition parties calling for improved ties with rival China. Escorted by party heavyweights, Mr Ma Ying-jeou (picture) of opposition Kuomintang (KMT)
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      Lock icon They're lining up to see Thaksin
      448 16 -DPA Thai politicians visit the ex-Premier ahead of Cabinet postings BANGKOK Thai politicians have been flocking to Hong Kong in recent days, apparently on a shopping spree for Cabinet seats rather than electrical appliances and brand-name garments, news reports said yesterday. Hong Kong's main
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      Lock icon African kids being sold as slaves in the UK
      520 18 —THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH LONDON Hundreds of young children are being sold and "trafficked" to the United Kingdom from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves. The illicit trade in children sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs
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      Lock icon China's rich helpless during New Year
      660 18 —THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Pampered employers at a loss as domestic help return home for Spring Festival BEIJING For most Chinese, the annual Spring Festival holiday, which starts on Feb 7 this year and marks the Chinese New Year, is a time of celebration. But for the
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      Lock icon Kim may visit China: Report
      193 19 —AGENCIES SEOUL —North Korea's reclusive leader Kirn Jong II (picture) is likely to visit China in March to discuss economic issues, the Souths Yonhap news agency said yesterday. A diplomatic source in Beijing told Yonhap that China was "aggressively pushing to invite Kirn" to visit
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      Lock icon Games' opening day lucky for China's lovebirds, too
      233 19 —AFP BEIJING The Beijing government expects a rush of people who will want to marry on the day the 2008 Olympic Games opens, despite rumours of restrictions, a city official told state press yesterday. There has been speculation that civil affairs offices,
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      Credit card that arrived, uninvited
      115 20  -  LIM YONG KEONG Letter from RECENTLY, I received a Diners Club credit card that I did not apply for. My name was embossed on the card. When I called Diners' customer service hotline, I was told that one of the terms of the online lucky
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      Your hoax, your bill
      327 20  -  LIONEL DE SOUZA Let bomb-hoax criminal, rather than taxpayers, foot the prosecution fee as well Letter from I REFER to the Weekend Today reports "NEA officer guilty of sending bomb attack emails" (Jan 12-13) and "Bomb-hoax emails gets him 30 months in jail" (Jan 19-20). The
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      171 22  -  DR BILL MAIER T BY THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS So, what is the true secret to happiness? In a word: Attitude. If you think that being rich or popular or wealthy will make you happy, think again. Happiness is a matter of the heart and has
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      Lock icon She's got rhythm, she's got groove
      761 22  -  GRACE SAGAYA CHIA coffee with 31, Childcare entrepreneur NO HOMEWORK, just lots of singing, dancing and exercising, to the likes of Abba pop tunes no less. That's how young children and even babies are getting their preschool education. Well, at least those who attend
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      Medical list intended to protect existing policyholders
      328 22  -  MARKO'DELL Letter from President, Life Insurance Association (LIA), Singapore I REFER to the letters from Philip Williams ("On the scrap heap at 54", Jan 23) and Gabriel Low ("Put on insurance 'blacklist' after health check", Jan 25). The LIA Medical Register was set
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  • Business
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      Lock icon Why GIC declined ÜBS board seat
      277 24  -  CHRISTIE LOH FACED with possible external questions about its motives, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) decided not to sit on the board of Zurichbased bank ÜBS. Last month, GIC was offered a seat after it agreed to pump in 11 billion Swiss
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      Lock icon What code may have
      431 24  -  CHRISTIE LOH Rate of return likely to be one key item, says Tony Tan IN DAVOS christie@media corp.com.sg BY THE second quarter of this year, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) plans to release "some form of document" providing more information on the firm's process,
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      Downside first, upside will come
      206 24  -  CHRISTIE LOH THE conservative Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) considers two key factors when evaluating an investment opportunity, revealed deputy chairman Tony Tan. First, the foreign reserves manager always looks at whether the risks are in line with the risk management framework and not
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      Lock icon Derivatives debate intensifies at Davos
      514 26 -DOW JONES Politicians say financial instruments too complex but investment bankers disagree TWO events dictated the agenda of last week's World Economic Forum in Davos: The United States Federal Reserve's unexpected 75-basis-point interest-rate cut and French bank Societe Generale's 4.9-bil-lion-euro ($lO-billion) trading fraud. While the
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      Lock icon 'Sharp slowdown in US economy likely'
      231 26 Mr Vasu Menon, chief editor of Finatiq and editor of Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) E-Newsletter and Publications, commented on the market turmoil on the recent Sias Heart Talk programme. ON THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS "Markets will continue to be worried about a US recession,
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      Japan plans first sovereign wealth fund
      170 26 JAPAN is in advanced discussions to create its first sovereign wealth fund aimed at mobilising one of the world's biggest pools of foreign reserves, according to a report on the website of The Times newspaper. A high-level team of advisers is designing operations of
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