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  • 13 1 weekendTODAY MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /A~DJJ\CORP Frexr we set you thinking May 10-11, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • 562 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg INDON COURT REJECTS APPEAL IT'S shaping up to be a long and uphill battle for Temasek Holdings in Indonesia. After over a year of fighting accusations of monopolistic behaviour in Indonesia's mobile phone market, the Singapore investment firm has lost its appeal against
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  • 717 1 LIN YANQIN AND JINNY KOH yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg AS RICE prices head north, some traders and small businesses are apparently turning to Singapore's largest supermarket retailer to make a fast buck. They seem to be buying the cheaper rice sold at NTUC Fair Price to resell
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  • hot news
    • 420 2  -  RAVI VELOO XTRA MOTHER'S DAY Let's spare a thought this Mother's Day for the women who take care of our children IT TOOK a few thousand years, but here we are: There is a Mother's Day and a Happy Mother's Day to all moms, not counting
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    • 812 2  -  PAULINE D LOH TODAY'S mothers must be Internet-sawy so they can communicate with their children, possess enough fashion IQ so they can be the showcase of acceptable dressing and have sufficient EQ to run lightly along the tight-rope of traditional values and the new social mores
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    • 852 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG LOH CHEE KONG SOURCE SUBORDINATE COURTS cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg Chief Justice Chan spells out changes to ease family pain A PUDDLE of water. That was the picture a boy whose parents were fighting bitterly for custody drew to describe himself, recalled Ms
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    • 403 3  - and another for neighbours who quarrel -LOHCHEEKONG BESIDES attending to residents' needs and problems, Sembawang GRC MP Ellen Lee spends much of her time listening to squabbles among neighbours. But more often than not, there is nothing she can do. "Even when we are not taking sides, we cannot be
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    • news
      • 1125 6  -  ALICIA WONG —ALICIA WONG -ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg Two initiatives unveiled to urge patients with chronic illnesses to turn to GPs WITH polyclinics offering better facilities and subsidised medications, more and more Singaporeans suffering from chronic diseases are turning to them instead of going to the
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      • 1114 8  -  CHRISTIE LOH XTRA OLYMPIC TORCH christie@mediacorp.com.sg Why didn't the Olympic torch stop in Singapore? Organisers of the Beijing 2008 Games say "WHY not us, too?" Call it a case of sour grapes or plain curiosity, but television and print images of the Olympic torch coursing through neighbouring
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      • 526 10  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg WHEN elderly people complain about their perennial aches and pains, do not brush them off- the aches could be a sign of something more serious, like depression. According to the National University Hospital's (NUH's) senior consultant in
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      • 532 10  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@media corp. com. sg Worse still, they may face a ban SINGAPORE burst onto the cybergaming stage with victory in the pan-Asian Championship last year, but a spat last week at another competition in China threatens to derail their spectacular run. The team may
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      • 299 10 COME September, a single comprehensive programme to battle dengue could be endorsed as a guide for countries in the Asia-Pacific and Singapore's strategies may well form the core of the plan. Despite the surge in cases here over the years, experts have lauded
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      • 669 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI IN TRIPOLI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg How much more can we give? We need a formula, he says AS THE Government continues to offer different forms of financial help to enable Singaporeans to cope with the rising cost of living and problems associated
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      • 331 12  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg FOREIGN Minister George Yeo will make his first official visit to North Korea from Saturday to next Wednesday at the invitation of his counterpart, Mr Pak Ui Chun. Mr Yeo will be accompanied by his wife and a
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      • 313 14 —AFP Pringles, Fanta, Nestle among the 593 items not fit for consumption SHANGHAI China said on Friday it had banned the sales of a soft drink made by Coca-Cola and two flavours of Procter and Gamble's Pringles potato chips due to fears
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      • 950 14  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA MONEY The move to a cashless society is slow going, as S'porean businesses start restricting card payments "MINIMUM $20 for Nets" said the small sign announcing that the bookstore which used to allow small purchases with a Nets card no longer permitted
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    • 138 10 'Turn Back The Clock' Buffet* at Nostalgic Prices (Lunch Dinner) As River Garden undergoes a transformation to bring you a new dining experience, let the good times roll at the Lily Ballroom with a spread of popular dishes like Seafood on Ice, Assorted Sashimi, Smoked Salmon, Butter Prawns, Roast Beef,
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  • world news
    • 549 16 -AGENCIES YANGON Myanmar state television said on Friday the country would accept emergency aid from the United States, a week after a devastating cyclone, but did not specify how it would be delivered or distributed. State TV said the decision came in a meeting
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    • 280 16 KUALA LUMPUR A Member of Parliament in Malaysia was allegedly assaulted by plainclothes police officers during a melee in Bandar Mahkota Cheras (BMC) on Thursday night, Malaysiakini reported. The incident took place after police officers doused some 500 residents, who had gathered
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    • 475 16  -  JESSINTATAN jessinta@media corp.com.sg MALAYSIA'S opposition veteran Karpal Singh, who faces a police probe for alleged sedition after he was accused of insulting a sultan, is fending off critics from his wheelchair (picture). "I will not be intimidated by anyone or any quarter. I
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    • 1326 18  -  MARY RIDDELL THE DAILY TELEGRAPH XTRA POLITICS AND LOVE MIKHAIL Gorbachev is running late, which is not like him. Once, he was far ahead of his time. As Russian President, he accelerated revolutions in the Kremlin and the world. The Cold War ended on
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    • 401 20 -AGENCIES Abu Qatada to be freed within days, as peace campaigner posts bail LONDON A firebrand preacher once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" is due to be freed within days after being granted bail by a British immigration tribunal. Abu
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    • 317 20 -AFP BEIRUT Hezbollah fighters seized control of pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gunbattles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, edging the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. At least 11 people were killed in the fighting
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
      • 141 20 —AP POLICE in Pennsylvania had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect because the victims had earlier taken his picture at a bar. The suspect Andre Smith struck up a conversation with a group of women at a bachelorette party at the Bensalem Township taproom
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      • 121 20 CAR-MAKER Volvo has been ordered by a German court to pay compensation to a customer who complained the area around the accelerator of his new Volvo C7O coupe was too small to accommodate his size 12 feet, Ananova.com reported. The court in
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 118 20 Mr BarackObama's White House drive picked up new momentum on Friday with the defection of another superdelegate from rival Hillary Clinton and the virtual endorsement of former rival John Edwards. New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne, who had backed Ms Clinton, switched his support to Mr Obama, his
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      • 120 20 AP North Koreans are dying because of food shortages in rural areas and a massive famine is just a matter of time, a South Korean aid group said on Friday. The food situation was as bad as the famine that hit the
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      • 114 20 -AFP Bird flu outbreaks have spread through most of South Korea despite the massive culling of chickens and ducks across the country, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. The latest outbreak reported last weekend in the eastern city of Chuncheon is now confirmed to
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    • news comment
      • 904 22  -  TIFFANY TAN tiffany@mediacorp.com.sg THE people of Myanmar have much to wrestle with this weekend. Most residents of the Irrawady delta and the former capital Yangon, the two areas hit hardest by last Friday's cyclone that has killed an estimated 100,000 people, will continue to grapple
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      • 404 23 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Judge says act not forced on 11 -year-old, who was aware of sexual matters LONDON A "high-risk" paedophile who groomed and abused an 11-year-old girl during her school lunch break walked free after a judge said the girl had "welcomed sex".
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      • 838 23  -  KENNETH S CHIANG XTRA AT THE MOVIES How a Pakistani film hopes to make a diplomatic contribution THE film Ramchand Pakistani is both a suitable symbol and fitting fulfilment of the current detente between India and Pakistan after decades of war and near-war. A Pakistani production
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    • 1161 24  -  JAMES QUINN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH XTRA HEALTH OF STARBUCKS Slowing economy, soaring costs too heady a brew for chain's many outlets IT WAS supposed to be the caffeine-in-spired kickstart that Starbucks needed: Close almost 7,100 stores in the United States on one day at
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    • 839 25  -  RAHMATSAHID Indonesia's electorate prefers new faces over former military figures THE failure of former military officers in regional elections, or pilkada, is an indication that the political elite has failed to carry out regeneration. It has become a norm for political parties
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  • Voices
    • 329 26  -  MICHELLE LEE PUIYEE Letter from President, Cat Welfare Society Proposal does not take into account responsible cat-feeding habits WE REFER to the call by Class 95's Morning Express, made by DJs The Flying Dutchman and Glenn Ong on Wednesday, for cat feeders to be fined.
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 26 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Giveyourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Please include a 50-word caption. POSTCARD PERFECT A mirror-image of the Marina Bay skyline just after sunset caught
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    • 204 26  -  LIMJINGJING Letter from Deputy Head, Public and Internal Communications, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority I REFER to "Rebates for kids' passports" (April 30). We thank Chng Kirn Guan for the suggestions. We would like to take this opportunity to explain why we are unable
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    • 170 26  -  CHRISTOPHER Letter from TEO KIAN LAM LATELY, there seems to be an increase in the illegal hawking of food near MRT stations, bus-inter-changes and HDB town centres. Judging from their accents and mannerisms, some of these illegal hawkers appear to be from foreign neighbouring countries. At
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    • 106 27  -  ANNABELLEYAP Letter from Guest Relations and Circuit Event Manager, Golden Village Iron Man slip will not occur again at screenings I REFER to "Iron Man fans dismayed" (May 6), from Sharon Chan Yee Woon. We have investigated with our cinema manager at GV Tampines on the
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    • 133 27  -  CAITLIN FUA Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications Star Hub WE REFER to the letter, "Why use Chinese for notice on Malayalam channel?" (May 7) from Narayana Narayana regarding an on-air slide on Asianet, which had both English and Chinese text. Due
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    • 807 27  -  TAN JOO HYMN XTRA PARENTING Don't put a dampener on your kids' imagination; let them play and explore I WAS at a friend's house the other day and was amused and dismayed by a guest who was doggedly trying to get her son away
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  • Business
    • 419 28  -  I ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp. com. sg NEW chief executive Clement Woon (picture) had a tough message to deliver to his 7,900 staff at Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) yesterday expect lower bonuses. Payouts have been more than halved to an average 2.55 months despite
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    • 479 28  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp. com. sg WHEN can we expect a new Fraser and Neave chief executive to come onboard? It has been seven months since Dr Han Cheng Fong's departure, and the answer to that much-anticipated question was posed during the Singapore conglomerate's
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    • 432 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THINK green goods and services, and the European Union (EU) jumps to mind for it accounts for more than a third of this burgeoning global market. And this is one region that Singapore businesses can look to for continued growth
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    • business news
      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
        • 84 30 Info Track Solutions has announced a merger with CERT Telematics, an Abu Dhabi-based company owned by the CERT Group in the United Arab Emirates. Info Track is a homegrown Singapore firm that has provided technology solutions for Singapore organisations such as the Land
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        • 35 30 DOW JONES Singapore-listed China Aviation Oil has appointed Mr Meng Fanqiu as chief executive. Mr Meng, a non-executive director of the company since March 2006, assumed his new post yesterday.
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        • 38 30 DOW JONES Ascendas REIT is buying a property from Creative Technology for $246.8 million. The trust said it will fund the acquisition by debt or equity. The property is located at Singapore's International Business Park.
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      • 440 30  -  BARRY PORTER BUSINESS EDITOR barryporter@media corp.com.sg Will the US go into recession? Will it affect global economies? MANAGING foreign exchange reserves is getting tougher for sovereign wealth funds like the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). That was the assessment by its deputy chairman, Dr
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      • 173 30 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S inflation may slow down in the second half from that of the preceding period, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said. The government does not need to adjust its inflation forecast of 4.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent, Mr Tharman told reporters in Jakarta yesterday.
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      • 652 30 XTRA INVESTING For many investors, a balanced portfolio means having a nice portion of bonds and stocks in your investment chest which you keep pretty much unchanged for years. But these days, some investment analysts reckon that modern market volatility calls for a very different investment strategy.
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      • 212 31 DOW JONES BROKERAGES in Singapore were temporarily paralysed yesterday when a data connection at the Singapore Exchange (SGX) failed, preventing the market from viewing live derivatives data. The snag was the latest in a series of technical glitches at the SGX
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  • weekend plus
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      1328 32  -  PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg YUMMY MUMMIES Delicious is the mother who can balance life, family and career THESE days, a girls' night out for Henne Mercer may mean attending a fashion show with her daughter India Scarlett. "It helps that India knows how to hold a conversation with strangers
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  • weekendstyle
    • 960 34  -  PEARLYN THAM STAR SECRETS pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg To stay in top qiam form, these two celebrity mums turn to Nature's offerings THE QUEEN AND HER GARNIER Zoe Tay will soon be seen in a drama series in which she acts as a frumpy housewife. But in reality, the 40-year-old
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    • 269 34 -CHARISSATAN IF MUM likes flowers, here's a bouquet she will love. SK Jewellery's Novi Collection, which drew its inspiration from the carnation, will make an ideal gift for her. Featuring ideal cut diamonds from Belgium, the necklaces in this collection have a single diamond heart
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  • weekendmakan
    • 1549 36  -  AUDREY PHOON audrey@mediacorp.com.sg MOSES LIM, 58, food ambassador, comedian and owner of event management company ML Promotions Marketing PHOTOGRAPHY JASON HO A DELICIOUS BOND Four cooks share their experiences or picking up culinary skills from their mums CHANCES are you'll be celebrating this Mother's Day with
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    • 656 38  -  PEARLYN THAM VEGAN CUISINE pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg The raw vegan cuisine at this eatery will change any meat-lover's mind ON MY way to this food review, a friend I was on the phone with mistakenly heard that I would be trying "war food" instead of "raw food". While
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  • wdekendspeed
    • 827 39  -  COLIN YONG POWER JOLT colin@mediacorp.com.sg IN LISBON, PORTUGAL Electric vehicles are on their way and Nissan is leading the charge HULKING Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and luxury cars are not going to go away even if the earth continues to heat up and oil
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    • 597 40  -  LIONEL KONG COOL, COMPACT COUPE news@newstoday.com.sg BMW's entry-level coupe is small but perfectly formed IT HAS taken BMW a long time to launch the 1 Series in Singapore. The hatchback model is almost four years old and has already undergone a midlife facelift, although this unusual-looking
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    • NEWSTRACKS
      • 101 40 Subaru is gearing up to launch its new Forester SUV here next weekend. The third-generation model is noticeably taller than its predecessors, bringing its proportions closer to those of the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. Despite the 11 Omm increase in height, the car's engine and
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      • 98 40 Malaysia's top-selling automaker Perodua will add the Viva compact hatchback to its model range in Singapore next month, more than a year after the car made its debut across the Causeway. Like all Perodua models, the five-door Viva is based on a Daihatsu design. It uses a
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      • 100 40  -  COLIN YONG Drivers of small cars have the highest risk of suffering whiplash injuries in rearend collisions, a study in the UK has concluded. Thatcham Insurance's research found that the seats in many small cars failed to adequately protect their occupant's heads and necks even
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  • weekendplus
    • Article, Illustration
      153 41 PHOTO COURTESY I MUSICAL SMALL TALK Just what does music have to do with art? That's what staM (small talks about Music), a series of talks at the Singapore Art Museum, aims to find out. Organised by website musicians.com.sg, this monthly series will base its themes on upcoming exhibitions
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    • Article, Illustration
      358 41 AGENCIES THERE have been many comparisons between top-rated TV competition show American Idol and the lesser-acclaimed America's Got Talent some nice, others less so. There is no love lost or bad blood between the shows but Idol judge Simon Cowell has fired the first friendly barb at their
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    • 307 42  -  CHRISTIE LOH ABSENCE, it is said, makes the heart grow fonder. It can also lend you a fresh pair of eyes with which to view home. Five Latin Americans living in Singapore have come together to display and sell artwork reflecting the cultures of their
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      240 43  -  KARMAN TSE THE new face of Thai action flick Chocolate, "Jija" Yanin Vismistananda (picture), was in Singapore on Thursday to promote her debut movie, in which she plays an autistic girl with unbelievable kung-fu chops. The taekwondo-trained 24-year-old was discovered by director Prachya Prinkaew (Ong Bak, Tom Yum
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