Today, 14 May 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY //\=DIJ\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday May 14, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon 'Please, just hold on,' says Wen
      666 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Aid offers pour in, but will China bite? BEIJING Friends and foes rallied around China yesterday as the country grappled with its worst earthquake in three decades. But while Beijing has welcomed the offers of help made by several countries,
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      Lock icon SingTel net income for fourth quarter rises 11%
      284 1 -BLOOMBERG SINGTEL announced this morning that fourth-quar-ter profit climbed 11 per cent, boosted by earnings from India and a stronger Australian dollar. Net income rose to $1.09 billion, or 6.83 Singapore cents a share, in the three months ended March 31, from
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      Lock icon SHAKEN BUT UNHARMED...
      598 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI WITH AGENCY REPORTS S'poreans tell of fear, confusion; little or no damage to businesses nazry@media corp.com.sg INSIDE Chengdu Airport, Singaporean civil servant David King, 49, and his wife were about to check in their luggage when "suddenly, it got very noisy as if a helicopter was
      WITH AGENCY REPORTS; KOH MUI FONG  -  598 words
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      Lock icon $80m for creative learning
      312 3  -  NGJINGYNG 4 consortia to turn futuristic education ideas into reality jingyng@media corp. com. sg SINCE it was announced in 2006 that Singapore would develop "schools of the future" to take learning up a notch by taking pupils down the infocomm highway, there have been no shortage
      ARTIST'S IMPRESSION COURTESY CANBERRA PRIMARY  -  312 words
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      CANBERRA'S 4D CLASSROOM
      213 3 With a mobile device in hand, a pupil learns about climate change by looking at factories spewing harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. He jots down his experience in the device and shares it with his classmates later. But he will not need to step out of school
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      BEACON'S VIRTUAL WORLD
      195 3 What do pupils do when they are reading a storybook, and they come across a word they are unsure of? At Beacon Primary, virtual dictionary will explain the meaning of the word. If they would like to check their pronunciation, they read the word aloud and send
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      202 2 m* 'r ~n'"^W( gjxt up live^ with VL Psychology Vrf £fl^^^V ~^e cl uesl: Ol happiness has finally become a science. Now, living happiness 's an art everyone should experience. The international movement of positive psychology has finally come to Singapore. With our specialized courses, you can create your own
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      121 2 BRITISH COUNCIL r Open House Marsiling jm^ Date 31 May 2008, Saturday #>^» 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. &r i^ un Community Club J^dlands Street 31, *^01, Singapore *****1 v Attend workshops for parents VsS^y Call to register. Limited places! tii' Take a tour of our school and meet our
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      $25M ALSO FOR EYE RESEARCH
      174 4  -  SHERALYN TAY The irony about sight-saving surgery for glaucoma and corneal diseases is that the wound-healing from the surgery itself could cause vision loss. But eyedrops that reduce inflammation and those that repress the scar tissue-causing genes are being developed, to achieve the right amount
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      Lock icon Clinton wins W Virginia: Exit polls
      193 4 -AFP CHARLESTON (West Virginia) Senator Hillary Clinton cruised to an easy win over rival Barack Obama in West Virginia's primary yesterday but her morale-boosting night will not shake his mathematical stranglehold on the Democratic White House race. Television network projections handed victory to the
      -AFP  -  193 words
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      An underground reservoir?
      421 4  -  ANSLEYNG Govt tender to study feasibility of more facilities in rock caverns ansley@mediacorp.com.sg LAND-SCARCE Singapore is already storing some of its military munitions in this way. And work is underway on similar storage facilities for crude oil and oil products. Now, the Government wants to look at
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      62 6 BON VOYAGE: Crew members from the Republic of Singapore Navy's missile gunboats Sea Hawk and Sea Scorpion board their vessels at Changi Naval Base for the last time yesterday, in a sunset ceremony to mark the de-commis-sioning of the Navy's fleet of six missile gunboats, which were commissioned in the
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      RAPE VICTIM UNLIKELY TO TESTIFY
      444 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg IN WHAT is a rare occurrence, a man accused of statutory rape and other sexual offences against his 14-year-old stepdaughter will be tried on the allegations even though the victim is unlikely to take the stand. The 37-year-old Indian national, who is
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      Lock icon HFMD cases down, EV71 up
      369 8  -  ALICIA WONG Proportion of HFMD cases with the deadly virus increases alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THE hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) epidemic may be showing signs of subsiding, but the health authorities are concerned about the rising rate of infection from the potentiallyfatal EV7I virus. The Ministry
      KOH MUI FONG  -  369 words
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      Employers of older workers ranked
      404 8  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to re-hiring older workers, companies vary from simply employing on an ad hoc basis, to scouting out new initiatives to re-employ them in a sustainable way. Now, firms can see where they stand, thanks to the National Trades Union Congress
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  • world news
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon CHINA CUTS BACK POST-QUAKE TORCH RELAY AFTER INTERNET FURY
        158 10 -AFP China said yesterday that it would scale back the Olympic torch relay in response to the deadly Sichuan earthquake, following an Internet outcry branding organisers "inhuman" for insisting it should go ahead. Reversing an earlier announcement, Mr Sun Weide, spokesman
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        Lock icon GIANT PANDAS IN QUAKE ZONE SAFE
        94 10 -AFP The state-run Xinhua news agency said 63 giant pandas at two breeding centres near the quake zone were safe. The fate of another 150 or so inmates of China's most famous panda park, the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre, was unclear.
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      Lock icon 'Heaven is crying'
      376 10 —AFP Continuous downpour, lack of food and shelter add to quake victims'woes DUJIANGYAN (China) The bodies, some with stiff forearms in front of their faces reflecting the desperate final struggle at the moment of death, were unceremoniously lined up on the road and covered with plastic sheets.
      —AFP; AFP  -  376 words
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      Lock icon So, where's the aid going?
      851 12  -  -TIFFANY TAN —AGENCIES Myanmar junta accused of hoarding good food YANGON Myanmar's military rulers yesterday rejected growing international pressure to accept aid workers, insisting that they could handle the emergency cyclone relief effort alone. "The nation does not need skilled relief workers yet," Vice-Admiral Soe
      —AGENCIES; AP  -  851 words
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      Lock icon TEMASEK RULING: COMMON SENSE GONE AWRY?
      634 14 THE JAKARTA POST FACT I The Indonesian governmentcontrolled PT Telkom owns some 65 per cent of Telkomsel and holds almost 15 per cent of Indosat as well as a golden share that gives it special veto rights over corporate action, while Temasek indirectly holds
      — THE JAKARTA POST  -  634 words
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      Lock icon Bomb blasts kill 80 in tourist city of Jaipur
      223 16 AFP JAIPUR (India) Seven near-si-multaneous bomb blasts tore through crowded markets in this tourist city yesterday, killing at least 80 people and wounding 200 others in what police said was a terrorist attack. "We have information that 80 people have died,"
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      Lock icon LABOUR LAW MUST BE REFINED
      778 16  -  MARIA SIOW MARIA SIOW Amid major teething problems, analysts expect more changes to new legislation EAST ASIA BUREAU CHIEF mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg CHINA'S new labour contract law may be less than five months old, but it is already earning a reputation as a piece of legislation that
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FLOODS HIT PHILIPPINES, THAILAND
        120 17 —AP Floods that prompted the evacuation of thousands of people have hit part of the Philippines and southern Thailand. An official said yesterday that two teenage girls crossing a bridge on a central Philippine island were swept to their deaths by flash floods. The floods prompted
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        Lock icon FERRY SINKS IN STORM OFF BANGLADESH
        49 17 —AGENCIES A crowded ferry sank during a tropical storm in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 42 people, officials said yesterday. At least 150 people were aboard the MV Chanpurwben it was caught in the storm and sank in the Ghorautra River, police said.
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        Lock icon AUSSIE DRIVER STRAPS BELT AROUND BEER CARTON, INSTEAD OF CHILD
        118 17 —AFP An Australian driver has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a carton of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger. Constable Wayne Burnett pulled the sedan over on the Ross Highway south of the desert town of Alice Springs.
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        Lock icon FIRES RAGE ACROSS FLORIDA COAST
        69 17 -AP Relentless wildfires burned into the morning yesterday across Florida's Atlantic coast. Fire-fighters in the town of Palm Bay have been battling the state's biggest blaze, which has damaged about 70 homes. Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency on Monday. In Daytona Beach,
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      149 14 A VINCENT LINGGA |m I LEGAL matters, however complex 4 111 W W 9 0 b and technical, should also follow common sense. "T^ To the layman, the Central Jakarta District Court's ruling on Friday that Singapore's Temasek STANDSTILL: Temasek-s stake in Indosat was deemed to have violated anti-trust lawT
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      Lock icon Check before you renovate
      475 18  -  FAROK MAJEED Radac's here to help, but consumers should ensure contractor is accredited first Letter from Chairman, Renovation and Decoration Advisory Centre (Radac) WE REFER to the letter "Renovation Aggravation" by Raymond Ng (April 29). Radac was set up by the Consumer's Association of Singapore (Case)
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      204 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I STRENGTH THROUGH ADVERSITY Someone once said that if you were to remove the rocks from a brook, it would lose its song. Well, that holds true for you and me as well. Author Scott Walker tells of the time he was
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      Lee not 'all alone' on CAO board
      641 22  -  DOREEN NAH No basis for saying that Mrs Lee's resignation was due to 'differences on independence' of members Letter from Company Secretary, China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation WITH reference to Conrad Raj's commentary "Corporate guardians getserious" (May 9), the writer asserted that Mrs
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      Flying high in turbulent skies
      484 24  -  CONRAD RAJ SlA's strong financial year partly due to better operating efficiency EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines, one of the world's most admired carriers, beat the expectations of most market pundits by producing a set of fine annual results for the financial year ended March
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      Lock icon New A380 delay may impact SIA plane deliveries
      124 24 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Airlines says new production delays for Airbus A3BO superjumbos may impact the delivery schedule for some of the 15 remaining aircraft it still expects to receive. "The changes in production schedules will potentially have some impact, the details of
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        From Ministry HQ to office space
        321 26  -  ESTHER FUNG Site at Phoenix Park being put up for public tender to ease space crunch esther@mediacorp.com.sg FANCY having your office desk in the room where Internal Security Department or British Secret Service officers may have once carried out interrogations? To help ease the
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          OSIMFEST 2008 HITS TAKASHIMAYA
          267 26 This year, celebrate Mother's Day at Osimfest 2008. The roadshow, which will be held at Takashimaya Square B2 until May 19, is a chance to experience Osim's latest innovation, the Osim uYoyo, which is the world's first massage and exercise chair. With every uYoyo massage chair
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        Lock icon Wilmar's Ql profits rise
        369 27 BLOOMBERG Its earnings climbed seven times on commodity boom WILMAR International, the world's biggest palm oil trader, said first-quarter profit climbed almost seven times to a record high. This is due to higher commodity prices and sales to China after it bought a competitor. Net income
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
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          COMFORTDELGRO'S Q1 PROFIT FALLS 9.4%
          119 27 ComfortDelGro said its first-quarter net profit fell 9.4 per cent to $50.2 million on higher operating expenses. Singapore's dominant public transport operator posted revenue of $753.5 million for the three months ended March 31, up 5.8 per cent from a year ago. However, operating expenses
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          DRASTIC DROP IN GENTING'S Q1 PROFIT
          107 27 Genting International said its net profit dropped sharply in the first quarter on reduced revenue and a lower fair value gain on financial instruments. Net profit for the first quarter ended March 31 fell to $6 million from $67.9 million a year earlier. The
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        Lock icon 'We cannot go on as before'
        231 28 BLOOMBERG Record budget surplus to help Australian central bankfight inflation: Swan AUSTRALIAN treasurer Wayne Swan (picture) has forecast a record budget surplus and will cut benefits to high-income earners to help the central bank fight the fastest inflation since 1991. In his first budget
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        Lock icon Aussie banks agree to mega merger
        319 28 BLOOMBERG TWO major Australian banks have agreed to a proposed merger which would create the nation's biggest financial services group worth around As 66 billion ($85.4 billion). St George, the country's fifth-largest bank, said it had agreed to an A 518.6 billion offer from
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      278 34  -  Genevieve Loh FILMREVIEW by r Angel THERE is something about Francois Ozon's 2007 Berlin Film Festival closing film Angel that baffles: It comes across like an artificial Barbara Cartland-inspired melodrama fused with a revolutionary pastiche of a based-on-a-novel historical period piece. The titular character was inspired
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      511 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Academy's letter to ministry results in Singapore Sports Council stepping in as referee linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S just over a month since the dispute between the Sports Silat Academy, owned by former national athletes Muhammad Imran Abdul Rahman and Abdul Kadir Ibrahim,
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      163 38 —AFP MADRID Barcelona's Argentine striker Lionel Messi (picture), who has reportedly sparked interest from English Premiership side Chelsea, said yesterday that he wants to stay at the Spanish club. "I am a Barcelona player and this is what matters most," he told radio La Red,
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      700 38 BLOOMBERG It's time to focus on business and family, she says ANNIKA Sorenstam is retiring after 14 years as a professional golfer, ending a career in which she won more than US$22 million ($30.2 million), became the only woman to shoot 59 in
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