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    13 1 TODAY jVPpjpCopp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday June 10, 2008 todayonline.com
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    DAMNED IF YOU DID...
    789 1  -  CONRAD RAJ EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg JUST a fortnight ago, the government's whollyowned investment entity Temasek Holdings told the world it would fight all allegations that it was breaking Indonesia's anti-monopoly laws through its indirect stakes in the country's two largest mobile phone companies Telkomsel and Indosat
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    Lock icon S'pore firms will fight all the way
    352 1 -AGENCIES Has ST Telemedia placed profit over principle by selling off its stake in Indonesia's second-largest mobile phone company Indosat? "No", says ST Telemedia's spokesman Melinda Tan emphatically. ST Telemedia may appear to have yielded to an Indonesian antitrust commission's demands to sell
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    Telcos bait the lines
    869 1  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Bundled deals, flexibility and value plans offered ahead of full number portability hedirman@media corp.com.sg LAST week, mysterious padlocked boxes arrived at retail stores worldwide, lined with strict instructions for them to be kept in a safe and not be opened until a specified date
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      Three-quarter tank rule to stay: Finance Ministry
      167 2 THERE are no plans to review the threequarter tank rule, which is part of Singapore's policy to moderate vehicle usage and reduce traffic congestion, said the Ministry of Finance (MOF). It made clear its stance even as some motorists have been calling for
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      Lock icon What has Jobs got up his sleeve?
      439 2 AGENCIES Expectations high over improved iPhone unveiled today SPECULATION over the features of the new 3G iPhone reached fever pitch, as the world eagerly awaited the gadget's unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, scheduled early this morning Singapore time. Apple
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      Still hiring, but cautiously
      453 4  -  LIN YANQIN Healthy outlook for executive positions, especially in services and education sector yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to hiring, says Manpower Singapore country manager CX Goh Rosa, employers here "are still in the fast lane" but "easing off the accelerator". That analogy sums up the findings
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      Maid falls from fourth floor flat
      176 4  -  ZULOTHMAN AN INDONESIAN maid has been hospitalised with head injuries, after she fell from a fourth-floor flat at Yishun Central yesterday. Mr Jonathan Wong, 39, who works at the airport, was walking past Block 935 when he saw someone lying on the ground. He
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        Lock icon RAINBOW STAR BURN VICTIM DEAD
        90 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A shipyard worker, who suffered burns on 90 per cent of his body, died at 6am yesterday at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He was one of 15 men injured when a fire broke out on board the Rainbow Star at Kreuz Shipyard,
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        TRAVEL BARGAINS FROM SIA AND TIGER
        165 6 Even with the fuel surcharge rising and airlines cutting routes to reduce losses, one fullservice airline is offering bargains to travellers. Singapore Airlines (SIA) is offering fares to Bangkok, Jakarta or Ho Chi Minh for $328, inclusive of all surcharges and taxes. A return
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      Case clamp on timeshare firm
      527 6  -  ANSLEY NG Hard-sell tactics firm halts unfair practices, refunds $170,000 to clients a nsley@media corp. com.sg IT USED hard-sell tactics on naive customers on the pretext of helping them sell off their timeshare investment products, but after numerous complaints and a twist of its arm
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      Teachers' Estate chikungunya-free
      168 8  -  SHERALYN TAY THE coast is clear at least for some residents of Teachers' Estate, the latest area where chikungunya surfaced. Blood tests conducted by the National Environment Agency (NEA) showed that 311 people working and living in the private housing estate located off Upper Thomson Road were
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      Guardians keep a wider watch
      442 8  -  TEO XUANWEI Security guards will help Home Team man crime scenes, spot threats xuanwei@media corp. com.sg FOLLOWING the 2005 bombings, the London police started Project Griffin to enlist the private security sector's help in countering terrorist threats. The idea: To have security guards be the
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      Lock icon Singapore has best living in Asia: Survey
      350 8  -  ALICIA WONG a licia@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE has improved when it comes quality of living, but would this be enough to offset the rising cost of living for expatriates? This year, Singapore emerged tops in Asia, excluding New Zealand and Australia, for quality of
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      Lock icon The search for the best search engine begins
      205 10 AFP SOME of the world's top laboratories have entered a contest in Singapore for a next-generation multi-media online search engine. Fifty-six teams from 17 countries have signed up for the competition organised by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A *Star).
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      Lock icon A strapping good idea
      526 10  -  JINNY KOH To solve minibus safety woes, NTU students create two seat belt designs jinny@media corp. com.sg WITH concerns over the possible high costs of fitting seat belts on small buses, a group of students might have found a solution by inventing a seat belt that
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      Lock icon Ministers' allowances slashed
      371 12 -AP Malaysia's plans part of cost-cutting measures after fuel price hike KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia announced plans yesterday to trim financial allowances for government ministers and enforce other cost-cutting measures after raising petrol prices by 41 per cent last week. The unexpectedly sharp hike in fuel prices led
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      Lock icon M'sia moves to verify claims over 100 islands: Minister
      327 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to determine the sovereignty of 100 islands around the country after an international court handed Singapore a strategic islet, a minister said yesterday. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month affirmed Singapore's sovereignty over Pedra
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      Lock icon CRAZY, FINAL ACT
      388 13 AFP Manga-lov'mq killer posted dozens of warnings on Internet TOKYO A disturbed young auto worker who went on a stabbing spree and killed seven people in downtown Tokyo had posted dozens of warnings of what he was going to do on Internet bulletin boards, police said yesterday.
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      Lock icon AKIHABARA – HUB OF TOKYO'S MANGA AND VIDEO GAME SUBCULTURE
      274 13 AKIHABARA HUB OF TOKYO'S MANGA AND VIDEO GAME SUBCULTURE -AFP The bloodbath in central Tokyo is likely to leave lasting scars on the hub of Japan's self-pro-claimed nerds, who have created a subculture of manga and video games that shields them from the real world. The man who stabbed to
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      Lock icon Defeat in Okinawa vote new blow to Japan's Fukuda
      281 14 -AFP TOKYO Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda suffered a new blow as his party lost control of Okinawa's assembly, results showed yesterday, emboldening the opposition, which is set to censure him. The southern island held local elections on Sunday, with
      -AFP  -  281 words
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      Lock icon An end to nukes ?
      310 14 An end to nukes AGENCIES Aussie PM calls for new body to further goal of nuclear disarmament KYOTO Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday called for an end to nuclear weapons, proposing to set up a new commission to advance the cause of non-proliferation. This is Mr Rudd's first visit
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      Lock icon THE US TRANSFORMED, WITHOUT OBAMA
      839 15  -  PAUL KRUGMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES Racial divisions in America are already less important, partly due to Bill Clinton FERVENT supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America. With all due respect to
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      Lock icon Energy costs prompt move to 4-day workweek in US
      377 16 -AFP WASHINGTON Skyrocketing energy costs have fuelled fresh interest in the four-day workweek across the United States as a means to help workers as well as employers cope with the surge. In Birmingham, Alabama, city officials decided to implement a four-day
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      Lock icon Obama moves into Republican strongholds
      544 16 -AP Strategy could force McCain to spend precious funds defending home turf WASHINGTON Democrat Barack Obama yesterday begins a two-week tour of United States battleground states, aiming to draw sharp contrasts with Republican opponent John McCain especially on the struggling American economy that has been
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      Lock icon Two bombs kill 12 in Algeria as violence flares
      242 18 -AFP ALGIERS A double bomb attack on Sunday in the town of Lakhdaria, east of Algiers, killed 12 people, including several members of the security forces, a French engineer and his driver. The car carrying the engineer hit the device as
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      Lock icon 23 miners alive, but 13 missing
      285 18 AFP After blast trapped Ukrainian workers, rescuers fight flood waters to save them YENAKIYEVO (Ukraine) Twenty-three miners were found alive yesterday in a Ukrainian coal mine, more than 24 hours after they were trapped underground by an explosion. Rescuers were still looking for another
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      Lock icon A bet on slot machines
      429 20 -AFP Jackie Chan beckons gamblers away from baccarat tables MACAU Gambling innovators are betting on creating culturally-specific slot machines and computerised games to lure Asian players away from well-worn seats at the baccarat tables to more profitable pursuits. In the face of rocketing labour costs
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        Lock icon INDONESIA RESTRICTS MINORITY ISLAMIC SECT
        128 20 -AFP The Indonesian government yesterday announced tough restrictions against the minority Ahmadiyah Islamic sect but stopped short of the explicit ban demanded by hardline Muslims. "There has been no dissolution," Attorney-General Hendarman Supanji told reporters after his office issued a statement ordering Ahmadiyah to "stop
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        Lock icon BABY WITH FOUR ARMS, LEGS BORN IN INDONESIA
        100 20 -AFP Ayoung Indonesian mother gave birth to a baby girl with four arms and four legs but the child died within hours, a hospital director said yesterday. "She was to be a twin but because of an intrauterine problem, the separation process
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      Education is the key
      312 22  -  LIEWKAIKHIUN Letter from I REFER to the report, "World-class experts or super brats?" (June 9). The writer pondered on whether the reluctance of Singaporeans to be associated with the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) stems from the supposed mercenary attitudes of the younger generation. As
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      Lock icon A toll for the view?
      104 22  -  SAMUEL GAN NAM LIONG Letter from I REFER to "$385 for a view of the Fl race from the Singapore Flyer" (June 6). Property agents in Singapore tell buyers that there is a premium pegged to each unit with a good view. The Government should
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      248 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ////BY PROUD TO BE UNIQUE At 2.2 metres, Sandy Allen is the tallest living woman, but it's her big heart that's most impressive. Most people would consider it a thrill to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, but Sandy's claim
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      Lock icon OUT ON A LIMB ...
      432 24  - OUT ON A LIMB GABRIEL TAN One man's efforts to keep chainsaws away from 17-year-old mango tree IT IS heartening that the media has been providing greater issues about mother earth, issues which were once only the realm of "fringe fanatics" environmentalists. As a result, more people are practising a
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  • Business
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      So easy in Singapore
      391 26  -  ESTHER FUNG Republic easiest place in world to do business: Study esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE is the easiest place in the world to do business, according to a new global study commissioned by Master Card. It has also overtaken Hong Kong to become the second best "centre of
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      Jade Technologies scraps oil deal
      363 26  -  CONRAD RAJ EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg CATALIST-LISTED Jade Technologies is making good on its promise to refocus its business by cancelling an oil deal that would have tied up "massive" amounts of money. It has scrapped its subsidiary's proposed purchase of oil from Russia. In the
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        Lock icon NEW NON-STOP SINGAPORE-MUNICH FLIGHT LAUNCHED BY LUFTHANSA
        116 27 Lufthansa has launched a new non-stop service between Singapore and Munich. The first flight, LH79O, touched down at Changi yesterday morning. The new Munich service operates five times a week with a 221-seat Airbus A 34-0-300, offering travellers an additional 1,105 seats per
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        CHIP ENG SENG WINS HDB CONTRACT
        68 27 Chip Eng Seng has won a $123.5 million contract to build five public housing blocks forthe HDB in Sengkang by 2011. Each will be 25-storeys tall and contain 698 homes. Chip Eng Seng now has a construction order book of approximately $755 million. "We
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      Lock icon Singapore stocks slide
      320 27 BLOOMBERG Fall is primarily due to US jobs and oil concerns SINGAPORE shares fell the most in almost two months yesterday on concerns that economic growth may ease and profits will be hurt after United States unemployment rose the most in 22 years and oil prices surged.
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      Lock icon IPOs could struggle on debuts
      143 27 DOW JONES SHARES of two companies due to start trading on the Singapore Exchange this week could struggle on their debuts if the stock market fails to shrug off its sluggish tone. Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust, which lists tomorrow, priced its IPO of 262.5 million
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      795 38  -  EVELINE GAN A patient diagnosed with cancer should never postpone treatment eveline@media corp. com.sg BEFORE she was diagnosed with third stage breast cancer, Mrs Rietta Tan lived with a lump in her right breast for three years without giving it much thought After all, a mammogram
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      601 39  -  EVELINE GAN BY THE time you're diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it is often too late to turn the clock back. But there's good news for those at high risk of developing this chronic condition, which has recently come under the spotlight following the launch of
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      422 42  -  SHAMIR OSMAN BADMINTON sth Aviva Open Singapore 2008 THE top Chinese players are missing, most notably men's world No 1, Lin Dan. His great rival, Indonesia's Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat and team-mate Sony Dwi Kuncoro are also not in town, along
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      629 43  -  LOWLINFHOONG Doubles poser, as table tennis team head off to Osaka for final preparations for Beijing Olympics linfhoong@media corp. com.sg LESS than 24 hours after Singapore women's table tennis doubles pair Li Jiawei and Sun Bei Bei captured the top prize at the TMS Open at
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      187 43  -  PAUL GREEN SURPRISE packages Gombak United are one step away from their first final, after thumping the Young Lions 4-1 last night in the first leg of their Avaya-J&J League Cup 2008 semi-final at Jurong West Stadium. Kingsley Njoku and Gabriel Obatola were
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      382 43  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp. com.sg BOWLING may not command the same profile as football or Formula 1, superstars like Tiger Woods or Leßron James don't headline the sport, but that has not stopped leading digital imaging brand Canon from inking one of the biggest sponsorship deals
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      552 44 -AFP Germans won't be losing sleep overtheir next opponents, as Bilic's men lose their way EURO 2008, GROUP B Austria 0 Croatia 1 VIENNA Much was expected of the Croatia team at Euro 2008, after dumping out England in the qualifying round some billed them as tournament
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      542 44  -  PAUL GREEN pa ulgreen@media corp. com.sg AVAYA-J&J LEAGUE CUP 2008, SEMI-FINAL, IST LEG Balestier Khalsa v Super Reds Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.45pm BALESTIER Khalsa face their toughest test of their Avaya-J&J League Cup 2008 campaign so far in the form of the highflying Super
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      539 45 -THE OBSERVER Germany's captain strolls in midfield and could be readyforastarturntoend his drought EURO 2008, GROUP B Germany 2 Poland 0 KLAGENFURT, Austria Maybe this could be the summer when Michael Ballack's serial disappointment concerning major trophies is finally halted. Two losing Champions League finals and a
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      267 45 AFP KLAGENFURT Polish-born forward Lukas Podolski admitted he suffered from divided loyalties, after his goals sealed a 2-0 win which sank Poland and launched Germany's Euro 2008 campaign. Podolski, who turned 23 last Wednesday, combined with Germany's other Polish-born forward Miroslav Klose for his
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      221 45 THE GUARDIAN ZURICH Given that 552 of the 3,000 listed Fifa referees and assistants (18.4 per cent) are now female, the absence of women on the pitch and on the touchlines at Euro 2008 is conspicuous. There were four female referees on Fifa's
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      188 46 AFP Spain have the most expensive squad at the European Championships —worth 381 million euros ($817.7 million), as estimated by Internet portal Transfermarkt and also the shortest. The tallest outfield player in Luis Aragones' squad is forward Fernando Torres (1.86 m), but he
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      97 47 DPA RIYADH Football fans in some parts of Saudi Arabia are paying more than three times normal prices to watch Euro 2008 matches, according to a local media report. Football fans across the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf can only watch
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      660 47 AFP Champs written off, although they play the same style and boast some familiar names EURO 2008, GROUP D Greece v Sweden SALZBURG Anyone who picked Greece to win the 2004 tournament would have been branded silly. Anyone who picks the reigning European kings to
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