Today, 15 April 2008

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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday April 15, 2008 todayonline.com TODLAY /A=D)ACORP MICA (P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday April 15, 2008 todayonline.com
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    More mature choices for adult gamers
    924 1  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN But new ratings system will protect the young as well hedirman@media corp.com.sg THE introduction of a classification system for video games one that gives gamers in Singapore more choices while allowing parents to play a protective role puts Singapore one step closer
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    After the shock, time to regain perspective: Jaya
    508 1  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPOREANS were shocked, alarmed and justified in being critical of the Home Team and the Internal Security Department when Mas Selamat Kastari escaped, according to Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar. These were understandable reactions, i he told an international gathering
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      Lock icon Checkpoints: Need for more workers
      379 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Project is part of $8b worth of Government tenders nazry@media corp.com.sg THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) plans to engage a contractor to supply workers to manage its automated vehicle entry permit /toll system at the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints, and to provide top-up services
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      S'poreans in line for $3b payouts
      231 2 SOME 2.4 million Singaporeans will receive $3 billion in Government benefits this year, as part of the $1.8 billion of surplus sharing from the 2008 Budget and other measures such as Goods and Services Tax (GST) Credits announced last year. Singaporeans will receive letters
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      Lock icon 20,000 welcome Anwar
      321 3 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Tension mounted throughout the day as Malaysia's main opposition party Keadilan threatened to defy a police warning by calling for a massive rally marking the end of a ban preventing its leader Anwar Ibrahim from running for public office. And as night descended on
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      381 2 YOU CAN RAISE 18 YEARS' r&fUONGS IN 1 MONTH! felV J Joul Ooi returned from UK last year and was offered an engineering fc —Jf job at $1,800 per month as a fresh graduate. He reckoned that if he saved $500 per month consistently, putting aside pay increases and -^k
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      301 3 MDIS: A Great Chapter in My Life 1 L^ THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS. I ACHIEVE A GLOBAL EDGE I X WITH OUR WORLD-CLASS 1 >J^ rLJ'T^ZZZ^S ■«m I Date: 26 &27 JApr (Sat Sun) y HFIvRFFQ I D V Time: ioam-Bpm UCUIItC^I vinl ?"-'B Vvcbhc; MaCC 4 oi£eveC 4 IMi
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      62 4 ONE BIG CUPPA: Spinelli's John Ting, who will be Singapore's representative at the first Asia Barista championships, shows his skill crafting 'jatte art in the foam of a giant 20-cm cup of coffee Baristas from 11 countries will compete for the title of Asia Barista Champion at Food and Hotel
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      UNDOING THE DAMAGE
      525 4  -  ARIEL TAM ONLINE AND TECHNOLOGY EDITOR ariel@mediacorp.com.sg THE establishment of Singapore's video game classification system is happy news for all the industry, gamers and parents. The two-tier framework an MlB restricted category and an age-advisory category for consumers 16 years old and above lets games in, rather
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      Lock icon TECHNOLOGY
      817 5  -  JOSEPH YADAO THE DRIVING FORCE OF More IT-sawy entrepreneurs realise how IT can give their businesses a much-needed boost WHEN Ms JocelynChng (right) took over her father's saucemaking business in 1989, she knewthatshe had to ride on the technological wave if she wanted to grow it. Today, Sin Hwa
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        Lock icon AVA APPROVES PORK FROM CHILE AND THE PHILIPPINES
        94 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority has approved the import of pork from Chile and the Philippines. But it will take time for the meat to arrive, as only two slaughterhouses in Chile have been approved to export frozen pork here.
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        PLANTING TREES FOR EARTH DAY
        97 6 Students and staff of Shuqun Primary School will plant 83 trees to mark their 83rd anniversary-just one example of a bigger effort in the greening of Singapore. More than 10 organisations here will be planting 789 trees over the next two weeks to mark Earth
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      Lock icon He wanted to hurt lover, too
      502 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Murderer 'felt pressured' to kill his lover's husband weekeat@media corp.com.sg HIS love for her prompted Muhammad Nasir Abdul Aziz to kill his lover's husband. But four months later, the whirlwind romance turned sour and the angry 17-year-old felt betrayed and had
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      Lock icon Their secret to happiness
      376 8  -  JINNY KOH All finalists were very comfortable with themselves: Judge jinny@mediacorp.com.sg ASK Ms Zaibun Siraj, 61 named one of Singapore's happiest people what makes her most happy and she tells you readily: Making others happy. In fact, Ms Zaibun is spreading her recipe for joy with
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      Poly students get a taste of life on hospital frontline
      293 8  -  —ALICIA WONG Providing a generous dose of frontline patient care that is what final-year Pharmacy Science students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) will be doing from today. The pioneer batch of 38 students will spend up to seven hours a
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      5 6 [AIRLINE OF THE YEAR 2007]
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      Lock icon Emergency Asean summit on food mooted
      310 10 —AP MANILA Amid fears of unrest over rising food prices, a Philippine senator has urged his country to arrange an emergency summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to ensure regional food security. Senator Manuel Roxas filed a resolution yesterday calling
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      Lock icon When will you step down, Pak Lah?
      532 10 -AP Foreign Minister asks for time frame to succession KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister faced unprecedented demands from top government officials yesterday to tell the nation when he will step down after his ruling coalition suffered unprecedented election losses. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
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      Asean lowering barriers, first goods, now services
      226 12  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@media corp.com.sg IT HAS successfully lowered barriers in the trade of goods within the region, and now, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is aiming to do likewise for the services sector. Dental, medical and accountancy professionals will soon
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      Lock icon Tree Man's big dreams
      168 12 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BANDUNG (Java) The "Tree Man of Java" is hoping to get married after doctors performed four major operations to hack away the barklike tissue sprouting from his hands and feet For 20 years, from the age of around 16, Sudoku-ad-dict Dede Koswara (picture)
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      Lock icon Olympic torch heads to Asia
      286 12 —AFP Authorities to review security plans to avoid further chaos HONG KONG Worried authorities are reviewing their security plans as the Olympic flame heads to Asia this week, beefing up police numbers and amending the route to avoid the chaos seen on earlier legs. Some
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      Lock icon Two JI suspects in Indonesian custody
      301 13 —AP Alleged senior members arrested in Malaysia JAKARTA Two alleged senior members of the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) militant network have been arrested in Malaysia and are now being questioned in Indonesia, police officers said yesterday. Mr Abdur Rohim and Dr Agus Purwanto, both Indonesian
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      109 13 ON THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS: Officials looking at the Martree (Friendship) Express, just before it rolled from the Kolkata station yesterday, the first day of the Bengali New Year. Passenger services between Kolkata and Dhaka have resumed after a gap of more than 40 years. The service had previously been suspended
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      Lock icon China, Taiwan to renew talks after ice-breaker meet
      230 14 —AFP TAIPEI China and Taiwan have agreed to restart official dialogue after a gap of nearly a decade, Taiwan Vice-President-elect Vincent Siew said yesterday as relations appear to thaw under a new, more China-friendly administration. Mr Siew held a historic meeting with
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      Lock icon Spying@work
      344 14 —AFP Bosses in Australia may be allowed to read staff emails without consent SYDNEY Bosses will be able to spy on workers' emails without consent under new anti-ter-ror laws being considered in Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said yesterday. The government is mooting the proposal as a way
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        Lock icon EXIT POLLS SHOW SLIM ELECTION LEAD FOR BERLUSCONI
        112 14 BLOOMBERG Billionaire media magnate Silvio Berlusconi is narrowly ahead in Italy's elections, according to exit polls. Mr Berlusconi's People of Liberty party and its two allies had 42 per cent of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies over the past two
        — BLOOMBERG  -  112 words
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        Lock icon FEMALE STARS LAUNCH AID FOR POOR WOMEN, GIRLS
        113 14 —AFP A stellar alliance of women from government, advocacy groups, faith-based organisations and Hollywood have launched a major anti-poverty campaign to help women and girls living in crushing poverty worldwide. The alliance, which has the backing of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Queen
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      Lock icon Controversial coach gunned down
      182 15 —AP NEW DELHI The controversial coach of a young boy who ran a marathon in an attempt to set a world record was shot dead in eastern India, police said on Monday. Biranchi Das and Budhia Singh, then four years old, became instant celebrities in India
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      Lock icon Thailand still wet and wild
      313 15 —AFP BANGKOK- The authorities in Thailand have pushed for a more mellow approach to this year's Songkran, the country's Buddhist New Year, but people along Bangkok's famed backpacker street broke every rule they could. Despite the powers-that-be pushing for modesty in dressing, local teenage girls
      —AFP; AFP  -  313 words
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      Lock icon Goa murder: Missing organ twist
      163 15 —AFP PANAJI (India) A fresh row has erupted over the death of a British teenager in India's Goa state after her organs were found to be missing following a new autopsy in Britain, a lawyer said yesterday. The autopsy, the third since 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling
      —AFP  -  163 words
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      High cost of living no laughing matter
      135 16  -  ELLEN LEE Letter from MPforSembawangGßC I refer to "Four Questions for MP Lee: What this help means" (April 12). I could not have spent 10 minutes saying only what had been attributed to me in a few lines in the April 11 report,
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      185 16  -  GURMIT SINGH KULLAR Don't wait until after Formula 1 to do so Letter from IT IS good that the Marina Bay floating platform has been fitted with artificial turf to host football matches. But why wait until after the Sing Tel Formula 1 Grand Prix to
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      SMRT: About that banana skin...
      103 17  -  KUEKCHORUNG Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation I THANK Tan Keng Leng for the letter regarding a fallen banana peel on the ground outside Bishan MRT Station (April 8). The station's cleaner cleared the soiled area immediately after our station staff was
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      We move in different ways
      314 17  -  BINHEEHENG Why it's hard to compare Singapore's transport system with those around the world Letter from MAKING facile comparisons about Singapore's public transport system against those in places such as London, New York or Japan, as Richard Gomez and Wang Hui Ling have done in
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      194 17  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY............... SUNDAY, A DAY OF REST Remember when the world seemed to slow down on Sundays? Monday through Friday was for work and school. Saturday was for chores, while Sunday was a quieter day when things geared down for the world to catch
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      Boardroom controversy at Swissco
      752 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Eyebrows raised as two independent directors quit the marine services supplier christie@mediacorp.com.sg SECTIONS of corporate Singapore have been awash with whispers following a controversial boardroom move that some say may undermine the independence of independent directors. The saga started last month when two former
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      Dr Soh resigns as E3 president
      334 19  -  BARRY PORTER BUSINESS EDITOR barryporter@mediacorp.com.sg DR ANTHONY Soh the man at the centre of the Jade Technologies saga has resigned with immediate effect as group president of Singapore-listed E3 Holdings. In its stock exchange announcement, E3 gave no reason for Dr Soh standing down
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        SPH'S Q2 PROFITS FALL BY 6.3 PER CENT
        107 19 Singapore Press Holdings said its second-quarter net profit fell 6.3 per cent from a year earlier, when it recorded higher profit on the sale of investments. Net profit for the three months ended Feb 29 was down at $99.6 million, from $106.3
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        Lock icon SGX'S 3Q NET PROFIT UP BY 13.9 PER CENT
        60 19 DOW JONES Singapore Exchange (SGX) said its third-quarter net profit grew 13.9 per cent, thanks to increased earnings from its derivatives market. But revenue from securities trading fell, due to a sharp downturn in global markets. Net profit for the three
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        STORE'S DONE IT, SO SHOULD CHINA
        706 21  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE NOW that Singapore has done it, the big question for the global investment community is whether China will follow suit. Responding to rising commodities prices especially the intolerable surge in the cost of imported food the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) last week
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        Lock icon Vietnam's Pacific Airlines to adopt Jetstar brand
        243 21 AP VIETNAM'S Pacific Airlines is to be transformed into a low-cost carrier and will adopt the Jetstar brand. From May 23, it will be renamed Jetstar Pacific, and operate as part of Qantas' budget carrier brand. "Jetstar Pacific will be able to access
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        Free shares to retain talent
        371 22  -  CONRAD RAJ UOB scraps share options in favour of new scheme EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@mediacorp.com.sg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has come up with new incentive schemes to attract and retain key talent within the group. They will replace the existing share option scheme. Despite record profits, no
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        Lock icon RECORD INFLATION WREAKS HAVOC ON ASIAN CURRENCIES
        121 22 BLOOMBERG Record prices for rice, wheat, milk and cooking oil are wreaking havoc on some South-east Asian currencies like the Philippine peso and Indonesian rupiah. Investors from Deutsche Asset Management to Fortis Investments are dumping their bondholdings on concern inflation will erode returns,
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        515 24  -  JOSEPH YADAO Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy and Mather believes a great brand is built on a great idea joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IF SHELLY Lazarus the chairman and chief executive of Ogilvy and Mather had her way, clients would pay the agency for the results of
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      Lock icon DIE, BLOCK BUSTERS, DIE
      887 26  -  Mayo Martin The Singapore Arts Festival steadfastly refuses to go anywhere but off the beaten path EVEN before the Singapore Arts Festival announced its complete line-up for 2008, it received criticism. Early this year, festival director Goh Ching Lee received an email from someone bemoaning the
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      Lock icon CHOICE PICKS
      339 26 Whether you want to take it really easy or you're keen to rack your brains really hard, Singapore Arts Festival director Goh Ching Lee gives her choice picks. LIGHT Two separate works by choreographer Edward Clug. The first is a "water ballet' extravaganza with 80 singers, 45 dancers
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      Lock icon Rowling and 'potty' fan in showdown
      215 27 —AP BRITISH author J X Rowling is eager to teU a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes that a Harry Potter encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights. The showdown between Rowling
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