Today, 29 July 2008

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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday July 29, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday July 29, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    50 1 AGATHA BRAZIL The executive director of Boys' Town, Mrs Irene Loi, is in charge of a school of "boys in need" youngsters with behavioural or learning problems and who are starved of affection. But by reaching out to these youth, Boys' Town has had several "success" stories. Page 18
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    WORLD
    49 1 SODOMYCASE A leaked medical report shows that the sodomy allegations against Mr Anwar Ibrahim are "without merit and politically motivated", Keadilan said. The doctor who examined Mr Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan before he lodged a police report said there was no evidence he had been sodomised. Page 4
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    SINGAPORE
    49 1 CHEAPER PETROL In the fifth cut in pump prices this month, petrol got cheaper by 10 cents per litre the biggest dip in five years. A litre of 98-octane petrol now costs $2,110, while 95-octane costs $2,003 a litre. Diesel has fallen to $1,863 a litre. Page 6
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    BUSINESS
    49 1 LOWER GROWTH? As the global financial turbulence takes its toll on Singapore's growth engines of manufacturing and tourism, some analysts expect to soon see a cut in the official economic growth forecast of 4 to 6 per cent this year to 3 to 5 per cent. Page Bl
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    Lock icon JUST LIKE OLD TIMES
    841 1  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SINGAPORE O BRAZIL 3 SPORTS COMMENT Dunga #s men samba for one half, but the Grand Old Lady would not have fussed sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg JUST like old times, over 33,650 Singapore football fans flocked to the National Stadium for one last hurrah. There had
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    Lock icon Sustainable if costs don't tip the scales
    828 1  -  TAN HUI LENG andLINYANQIN LINYANQIN huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IN A picture-perfect Singapore, environmentally speaking, people would cycle not just to the nearest MRT station but between towns; all homes would use energy-saving appliances; buildings would be "green" and solar panels would power our lives. But
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      Lock icon 'Bury' sentencing criteria: AG Woon
      596 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT WHAMPOA ROAD MURDER Questions raised on how criminal cases are conducted in rare court appearance weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE rare court appearance created a stir. And his calls for established sentencing guidelines to be "buried", as well as for defence lawyers to back up mitigation pleas,
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      ABOUT THE CASE
      150 3 MsAniza Essa plotted with her 16-year-old lover, Muhammad Nasir Abdul Aziz, to kill her husband, Mr Manap Sarlip, as he was returning to his Whampoa Road home. In the early hours of July 1 last year, Ms Aniza called Mr Manap twice to find out where he
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      Lock icon Medical report leaked
      344 4 ANWAR SODOMY CASE A MEDICAL report leaked to the media shows that the sodomy allegations against Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leader Anwar Ibrahim are "without merit and politically motivated", the Malaysian opposition party said in a statement yesterday. There was no evidence that Mr Mohd Saiful Bukhari
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      Fair Price stretches discounts to October
      176 4 WITH the inflation forecast for Singapore recently raised to 6-7 per cent for this year, NTUC Fair Price has decided to extend its 5-per-cent discount on 500 housebrand items until October the third such extension this year. The decision will benefit shoppers at its
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      The big 10-cent dip
      397 6  -  ALICIA WONG FUEL PRICES alicia@mediacorp.com. sg IN THE fifth cut in pump prices this month, petrol got cheaper by 10 cents per litre yesterday the biggest dip in five years. With Shell leading the way at 9am to reduce petrol and diesel prices, others followed suit.
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      Lock icon Three get British government scholarships
      169 6 TODAY senior reporter Mohamed Nazry Bahrawi (picture) is one of three Singaporeans awarded the British Government's Chevening Scholarships to pursue bond-free postgraduate studies in Britain. Mr Nazry, who covers local and regional news and writes commentaries, is headed for the University of Edinburgh to obtain
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      Charities under greater scrutiny
      232 6 CHARITIES are beginning to see a lot more of their regulators these days. The Commissioner of Charities (COC) and six Government agencies made 44 field visits, compared to 11 in 2006, to promote good governance and best practices. According to the COC's annual report released yesterday,
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      Lock icon More woes for Samak
      416 8 AGENCIES THAILAND GOVERNMENT 3 more ministers could be forced out of office BANGKOK Thailand's Supreme Court yesterday dealt another blow to Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's struggling government, accepting a graft case that could force three more ministers out of office. This came as foreign ministers from
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      Ezam ready to take on Anwar in by-election
      115 8 PETALING JAVA Former Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) youth chief Ezam Mohd Nor is prepared to contest against his ex-mentor Anwar Ibrahim if a by-election is called for the Kulim-Bandar Baru parliamentary seat, reported Malaysiakini news portal. "If the Umno leadership decides to
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      Lock icon Sales taxes will stay, says Arroyo
      240 10 AFP PROTESTS IN PHILIPPINES "Abolishing tax will harm pro-poor schemes' MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday rejected appeals to scrap an unpopular sales tax because of surging inflation, warning that food and fuel prices would likely remain high. As a few hundred protesters scuffled
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      Lock icon New rule for US-bound S'poreans
      158 10 AFP BRUSSELS People who do not need a visa to fly to the United States will have to answer questions about their health and past crimes under a new electronic system unveiled in Brussels yesterday. From Jan 12 next year, USbound travellers from the 27
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      Lock icon Another Qantas jet forced to make emergency landing
      301 10 AGENCIES MELBOURNE A Qantas jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Adelaide airport yesterday night after a door opened during a flight to Melbourne. The Herald Sun newspaper quoted some passengers as saying a door opened, causing "chaos" in the
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      Lock icon Kyoto's gardens seeing effects of climate change
      331 12 AFP KYOTO The city of Kyoto, whose name is synonymous with the fight against global warming, is feeling the effects of climate change first-hand as the moss dries out in its celebrated gardens. The ancient capital in western Japan was the venue for
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      Lock icon He made $19m selling porn
      151 12 AFP JAPANESE SEX VIDEOS TOKYO Police yesterday arrested 11 people on suspicion of selling pornography and confiscated a record of more than 130,000 videos, some depicting sex with children, officials and reports said. Police arrested 53-year-old Takahiro Oyama and 10 others for the attempted distribution
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon ONE DEAD, SIX HURT IN TAIWAN TYPHOON
        179 14 AFP One man was killed and six people injured when Typhoon Fung Wong swept across Taiwan yesterday, pounding the island's east coast with strong winds and heavy rain, rescuers said. A 68-year-old man died in south-east-ern Taitung county when the gale-force winds blew
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        Lock icon EELS FOR AN ENERGY BOOST
        133 14 AP A canned drink called "Unagi Nobori," or "Surging Eel," made by Japan Tobacco hit the nation's stores this month just ahead of Japan's annual eel-eating season, company spokesman Kazunori Hayashi said yesterday. "It's mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer's heat," Mr
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        Lock icon MORE BODIES UNEARTHED AT INDONESIAN HOUSE
        149 14 AFP Another six bodies including that of a toddler were unearthed yesterday in the backyard of an Indonesian house belonging to the parents of an alleged serial killer, the police said. The grisly discovery brings to 10 the number of bodies found buried in
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      Lock icon Brown faces backbench plot
      592 15 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BRITISH POLITICS Disillusioned colleagues want to force a leadership change within party BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown may be facing his biggest challenge yet as dozens of senior Labour Members of Parliament, including several former ministers, are set to write to the Cabinet urging
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      265 17 Get your exclusive free preview tickets now! Ml customers can redeem a pair of preview tickets to the M 1 Box Office Preview of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH with 400 Sun Perks points. Simply log on to www.ml.com.sg from July 29,9 am onwards to redeem. •While stocks
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  • voices
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      Lock icon THE CARING 'CHILD CATCHER' WHO HEALS
      1037 18  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEE WITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg Unlike the character in Chitty Chittyßang Bang, this child catcher brings only love care and fun to her wards BOYS will always be boys, Mrs Irene Loi would tell you. The adolescents she interacts with every
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      161 19  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY STRENGTH THROUGH TROUBLE There's nothing better than a great marriage. But great marriages take a lot of work. We all go through times that are tough and challenging, and even the closest relationships can get strained. Sometimes people lose jobs or businesses,
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      Senior library officer-in-charge had no authority to be compassionate?
      285 19  -  Wong Liang Ming Letter from ON SATURDAY, I brought my wheelchairbound 18-year-old son to Queenstown Community Library for his weekly class. His class was on the second floor of the building. On that day, the lift was out of order but
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      I, not robot
      1138 20  -  MAYO MARTIN BYTE-SIZED EXHIBITIONS mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Electronic artists are neither geeks technophiles, nor DJs who dress up like Daft Punk. Well, not all the time FOR the next six days, a number of exhibition venues will be brimming with art works and performances. But don't expect to see
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      PLUS PICKS GET WIRED
      277 22 ISEA2OOB CLOSING NIGHT Check out these live performances. Indonesian artist Venzha turns "robotic" with reject technology _0.3, and Choy Ka Fai's Residue, which is a teaser of sorts to the coming Theatre Works production Reservoir. There's also Zulkifle Mahmod's Madman in the Temple, where he'll be
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      Lock icon 'Good guy' no more?
      264 23 CELEBRITY SMASH Transformers star in crash HOLLYWOOD actor Shia Laßeouf was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving on Sunday after an early morning wreck in which he injured his hand and knee, the authorities said. Laßeouf was trying to make a left turn at a West
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      Playing House
      600 24  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORETHEATRE FESTIVAL HoTzu Nyen's latest is a blast from the past, literally mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHETHER it's a video, a visual arts piece or a play, they're likely to be all "projects" for Ho Tzu Nyen. At the inaugural Singapore Biennale in 2006, he came up with The
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      205 23 Professor Richard Kerley, Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Queen Margaret University W ASIA CAMPUS The QMU Asia Campus (Branch of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) The QMU Asia Campus is Singapore's latest Tertiary Education Institution.Together with East Asia Institute of Management (EASB), we bring you a wider range of
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  • health
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      ASK THE DOC
      241 25 QUESTION BYWORRIED Last week, you ran an article on how fingernails could provide clues to underlying health problems. Recently, I noticed that my fingernails and toenails have slight ridges in them. What are some underlying health problems associated with this symptom? ANSWER BY DR CHRIS FOO CONSULTANT
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      HEALTH LISTINGS
      248 25 NIGHT RUNS Shape up with Running Lab's free weekly night runs. Running distances range from 3 km to 10km depending on your running ability. Take a fun and leisurely jog past some of the most scenic routes in the city, enjoy the cool evening breeze and tone up.
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      Lock icon More than child's play
      704 25  -  EVELINE GAN PLAYTHERAPY KKH introduces new treatment to help children who have gone through trauma eveline@mediacorp.com.sg THE six-year-old boy was fully immersed in his world of makebelieve. Using hand puppets, he had created a story of how he overcame "the demons". Role-playing with puppets is not
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      1115 26 TV LISTINGS BUSINESS NANNY VI THE YANG SISTERS II LIFESTYLE DRAMASUTRA Venturer Yang Sutra JanellYeo-Living the Dream Janji Diana II Channel News Asia, 9.32pm Channel 5, 8.30pm Arts Central, gpm Suria, 9.30pm director of leading Rose is depressed after learning about her former aswellasher Lb timber specialist school teacher's death,
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      Lock icon Brazil have yet to hit top gear
      604 27  -  KENNETH GOH SAMBA IN SINGAPORE Dunga's men still have much to do if they are to go all the way at the Olympics football correspondent kenneth@mediacorp.com.sg BRAZIL'S Olympic football team will have to improve their conditioning very quickly to be serious gold medal
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      Lock icon Agu returns to Gombak
      483 28  -  MILTON TAN sports@newstoday.com. sg SEVEN months after leaving Gombak United, prodigal player Agu Casmir has returned to the Jurong West-based club, with his signing sealed on the last day of the S-League's midseason transfer window last Friday. "We can confirm that the club managed to sign
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      Lock icon Kitajima on record pace
      424 29 AGENCIES ROADTO BEIJING Coach says Japanese breaststroke champ is clocking "incredible times' TOKYO Japan's double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima is on course to crack world records at the Beijing Games, his coach was quoted as saying yesterday. "He clocks incredible times when I measure them
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      Singapore Sports School athletes ready for action
      254 29  -  SHAMIROSMAN IN KHON KAEN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School is aiming for 52 gold medals at the 11th Thailand Sports School Games, which opened yesterday evening in a colourful ceremony at the Khon Kaen Stadium complete with a torch relay and fireworks. Taking
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      Lock icon Barry's Reds dream fades
      472 30 -THEGUARDIAN TRANSFERTRAIL Villa captain likely to stay as Robbie Keane could make Liverpool debut tomorrow LONDON Gareth Barry's transfer to Liverpool looked doomed to failure after Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill revealed on Sunday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that the club are ready to offer
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      Lock icon Scolari targets all four cups
      182 30 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is targeting an unprecedented four trophies in his first season and is close to finalising the starting XI he hopes will achieve the feat. The newly-installed Brazilian has seen his team score 11 goals in his first
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      71 28 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER International Football Stuttgart Arsenal I Thu, 31/07/08 2.15 am I UE Champions Anorthosis Rapid Vienna Thu, 31/07/08 2.30 am UE Champions Glasgow Rangers Kaunas Thu, 31/07/08 2.45 am UE Champions Panathinaikos D Tbilisi Thu, 31/07/08 2.45 am International Football Fiorentina Barcelona Thu, 31/07/08
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      11 28 O Singapore v Brazil Relive the match on Channels at 10.30pm
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      454 31  -  JOSEPHYADAO COOL CAMPAIGN joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg FROLICKING with FHM girls, trash-talking uncles wrestling in an inflatable baby pool and mannequins being dismembered. The creative team behind the muchtalked about Mocca "muscle man" look set to get people talking and laughing again, with three new commercials to promote MediaCorp's
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      433 31  -  JOSEPHYADAO THE Crowbar Festival came to a close on Friday night with the eighth annual Crowbar Awards dinner at the Orchard Hotel. The annual three-day festival, organised by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore (4As), is an avenue for
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      381 32 AGENCIES CHINA'S ECONOMY China's leaders spell out their new concerns THE Chinese government may be shifting its policies away from inflation control and towards growth creation, analysts said based on recent statements by top leaders. This new thinking at Beijing's elite decision-making levels comes amid an
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      334 33 QANTAS AIRWAYS Difficult conditions present opportunities for airline QANTAS Airways yesterdaynamed Mr Alan Joyce as the successor of chief executive Geoff Dixon, who is retiring after eight years. Dublin-born Mrjoyce, 42, who assumes the post of chief-executive-designate with immediate effect, has run Jetstar since
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      248 33 BLOOMBERG KKR Co, the leveraged-buy-out firm run by Henry Kravis (picture) and George Roberts, plans to covert to a public company by the end of the year, in a transaction that may give it a market value of as much as
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      216 34  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER leaving Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) in 2003 after a year-long appointment as a director, Mr Boon Swan Foo is returning to the shipping company's board. NOL yesterday said it had appointed Mr Boon, a big name in
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      285 34  -  KELVIN CHOW RAFFLES MEDICAL GROUP Company revenue hits a record $som kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE a slowing global economy, Raffles Medical Group does not expect demand for its healthcare services to be hurt. The mainboard-listed company's executive chairman, Dr Loo Choon Yong, voiced his bullishness yesterday at
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      125 36  -  LOHCHEE KONG CITI Singapore has applied to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to become a securities clearing member. It is the first bank here to do so since SGX said last month that banks could offer the third-party service. Citi said its service was targetted at
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