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  • 26 1 TODAY yV\=ryJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday June 25, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY yV\=ryJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday June 25, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 537 1 -AGENCIES Wenger tips Ballack and Co to lift Euro trophy BASEL Cesc Fabregas will hope that the words of his Arsenal manager do not ring true. Arsene Wenger knows a thing or two about winning trophies, and he has tipped Germany to triumph in the Euro
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    • 434 2 -AGENCIES Fans pledge to shave heads if team triumph in final MADRID Thousands of supporters of the Spanish national team have vowed to shave their heads if their side win the Euro 2008 football championship. Spanish sports daily Marca has been urging
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    • 493 3 AFP Turkey coach Terim believes his side will prevail against odds BASEL On the eve of his side's Euro 2008 semi-final against Germany, Turkey coach Fatih Terim says he refuses to believe in miracles, despite his side's incredible comeback record. Turkey have won their last
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    • 320 3 IN TODAY'S MORNING EDITION Spores fourth varsity takes shape Singapore's established universities are moving in this direction. But a new university would be better placed to fly the flag of inter-disciplinary education, so clearly needed in the new economy. Having come to that conclusion, the Committee on the Expansion of
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    • 281 4  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg THE fourth university is on the way, and the other tertiary institutions are not about to rest on their laurels. Singapore's two biggest universities, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have
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    • 300 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg NICHE degrees, such as those in gaming and hotel administration, not offered by the three local universities could become more affordable if the Government takes up a recommendation to subsidise a small number of students in foreign varsities
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    • 152 4 SOME five weeks after her stroke last month, the wife of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew suffered a massive haemorrhage yesterday, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Mrs Lee, 87, was described as being "critically ill, with guarded prognosis for recovery". On
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    • 361 6  - NDP tickets for sale but fewer this year ALICIA WONG Disgruntled reader urges action to curb profiteering alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THOUGH the incidences seem fewer this year, the annual and much-criticised sale of National Day Parade (NDP) tickets continues, despite warnings from last year's committee. Checks by Today found tickets being sold
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    • 111 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg JUST one month after prices were last increased, petrol pump prices were on the move again. Petrol prices at Caltex, ExxonMobil and Shell were upped by 5 cents a litre, while diesel prices rose
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    • 208 8  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE "underdog projects" came out tops at the recent-ly-concluded Singapore Arts Festival, said its director Goh Ching Lee at a post-event briefing yesterday. Productions from lesser-known places, such as Slovenia's The Architecture of Silence and Bosnia's Class Enemy, were
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    • 566 8  - That long wait for the bus NEOCHAICHIN Singaporeans still better off than foreign counterparts chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPOREANS gripe about long waiting times and buses that inch slowly towards their destinations, but we are still better off than commuters in Hong Kong, London and Tokyo, according to data from the Land Transport
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    • 227 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP scooped up 13 awards two gold, six silver and five bronze at the 2008 Promax and BDA World Gold Awards held in New York last Thursday. The winning entries came from MediaCorp TV Channels 5, 8 and U; radio station
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    • 579 10  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Exorcism suit woman exposed as a malingerer? weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE videos were shaky, and had neither stunning visual effects, nor sound. Yet, the 45--minute footage shown for the first time during the hearing of the suit over the alleged Novena Church forced exorcism enthralled
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    • 353 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Proportion wanting to study overseas dropped to 7% from 19% last year nazry@media corp.com.sg IT IS not always a case of the grass seeming greener on the other side: This year, more A-level graduates seem keen to pursue their higher education in Singapore.
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  • world news
    • 330 14 THE former head of Malaysia's national steel company, Mr Eric Chia Eng Hock (picture), has died, aged 74, at a hospital in Sungai Petani after he developed breathing difficulties. Singapore-born Chia had been the first prominent person charged with corruption after Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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    • 320 14  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AS AMERICANS enter into the next phase of the Presidential elections, the candidates will directly engage each other, and this is where they will face the danger of the "viral video phenomena", said the United States' Ambassador to Singapore yesterday.
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    • 227 14  -  JESSINTATAN jessinta@media corp.com.sg TWO opposition parties are sparring over female dress code bright lipstick and noisy high-heels in the conservative state of Kelantan led by Parti Islam SeMalaysia. Kota Bahru officials have reportedly distributed a circular to local firms outlining the dress code,
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
      • 130 16 Malaysia's Parliament yesterday rejected an emergency motion tabled by opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang on Monday, which aimed to discuss blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin's latest allegations concerning the involvement of the Deputy Prime Minister's family in a notorious murder case, local
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      • 177 16 AFP South Korea's embattled President Lee Myung Bak ordered his Cabinet yesterday to take stern action against violent protests over United States beef imports. Mr Lee made the statement as his Agriculture Minister Chung Woon Chun said the resumption of the
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      • 159 16 -AFP A 77-year-old Japanese farmer was arrested yesterday for allegedly killing his entire family, including his young granddaughter, with a hammer, local police said. Mr Yoshio Kiuchi, who said he was suffering health problems, telephoned the police early in the morning and said
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    • 587 17 -AFP -AFP Samak defends his Cabinet against mismanagement, incompetence accusations BANGKOK Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej hit back at claims of mismanagement and cronyism yesterday, during a no-confidence debate on his four-month-old government's record. Mr Samak took office after his People Power Party comfortably
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    • 241 17 AGENCIES SAN FERNANDO (Philippines) Fears of a massive oil spill have complicated efforts to recover bodies from inside a ferry that sank in the Philippines with more than 850 people on board, officials said yesterday. Although divers found no sign of life when
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    • 258 18 -BLOOMBERG HONG KONG hoisted strong wind signal No 8 today as Severe Tropical Storm Fengshen heads towards south-east China after ripping through the Philippines, sinking a ferry and drowning about 700 people on board. Banks, schools and government offices close when the signal is raised.
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    • 170 18 AFP UNITED NATIONS A majority of people in 14 countries favour a total ban on torture but in four others they find the practice acceptable when dealing with terrorists, according to a survey released yesterday. The poll, conducted in 19 countries, found
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    • 264 20 -AFP BEIJING China hopes to turn a dangerous "quake lake" that once threatened up to 1.3 million lives into a tourist spot as part of rebuilding efforts, reported state media. The Tangjiashan lake (picture) was the biggest of several lakes created when
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    • 284 20 AFP Destroyer carrying quake relief supplies to arrive at Guangdong seaport ZHANJIANG China prepared yesterday to welcome the first Japanese warship to visit since World War II in a dramatic sign of improving relations between East Asia's two major powers. The 4,650-ton destroyer Sazanami, sailing from
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    • 759 22  -  MARIA SIOW But it shows that the Chinese can have balanced arguments EAST ASIA BUREAU CHIEF mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg FOR some Chinese, KungFu Panda is not just an animated comedy about a bungling panda who aspires to be a gongfu warrior. Released internationally
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    • 465 24  -  CHIACHENGZI Some aspects of a city cannot be appreciated unless you have lived there for a longtime Letter from I REFER to "Stunning Copenhagen, or sunny Spore?" (June 23). I am a Singaporean living in Copenhagen and have seen the faces of Copenhagen described. However,
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    • 162 24  -  SUBANA JASON Letter from I REFER to "Stunning Copenhagen, or sunny Spore?" (June 23). Having just returned to Singapore after living in Europe for almost 10 years, this is a topic close to my heart as I often wonder if Singapore is a place
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    • 219 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON T BY TAKE LIFE AS IT IS Astro-physicist Stephen Hawking may be the most intelligent man on earth. But Dr Hawking has ALS syndrome, a grave illness which has left him paralysed, except for his fingertips. He manipulates a computer with those fingers
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    • 384 26  -  HELEN GAMP Town Councils should accord cat caregivers the same respect as they do other residents Letter from IN MY estate and the adjacent one, several residents like myself go beyond just ad hoc inter-racial harmony events, to forge a bond through a common goal
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  • Business
    • 248 28 -BLOOMBERG CAPITALAND said plans for Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, which was hit by the May 12 earthquake, are on track for the next five years, despite initial delays. Capita Land, which plans to put some 1,500
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    • 372 28  -  CONRAD RAJ Attractive profit from sale of Millenium Seoul Hilton EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Hong Leong Group is selling the Millennium Seoul Hilton to Korean property developer Kangho AMC for nearly $700 million, reaping an attractive profit of about $465 million in the process. The 685-room hotel
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    • business news
      • 351 31 -BLOOMBERG MR LI Ka Shing's Cheung Kong Holdings, Asia's second-largest developer by market value, said it is keen to invest in Hong Kong, China and Singapore as the region's property market is undergoes a "small consolidation". Prime offices and industrial parks offer investment opportunities
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      • 376 31 BLOOMBERG Emerging markets area part of its expansion plan FRASERS Hospitality, Asia's second-biggest serviced-apart-ment operator behind CapitaLand's Ascott Group, is in talks to set up private equity funds to invest in China, India and South-east Asia after delaying its planned share sale. The company,
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      • 400 32  -  ESTHER FUNG Businessmen prefer to watch and wait for a clearer outlook esther@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT a difference a year makes. Until recently, Vietnam was an investor's darling. But now, with record inflation and sliding property and share prices, it's becoming a harder sell as
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      • 120 32 -DOW JONES RISING construction costs have undermined Keppel Philippines Properties' optimistic outlook for the local real estate sector, the chairman of the Philippine property developer said yesterday. "We were bullish at the beginning of the year but recent events have made us more cautious," Mr Ang Weng
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      • 280 33 -BLOOMBERG Capita Land said land prices in Vietnam and India have fallen by as much as 15 per cent this year, making it easier to get sites now than a year earlier. There may be more opportunities in "greenfield sites", chief investment office
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