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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday July 30, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday July 30, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Charities to get rated?
    774 1  -  CHEOW XINYI and SHERALYN TAY TODAY EXCLUSIVE Like the corporate sector, they could be banded and recognised for governance efforts cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A SYSTEM to assess, rate and even award governance efforts could soon be established for Singapore's charity sector, which is once again feeling the pressure
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    Grandpa's back at work, now for Grandma...
    768 1  -  LINYANQIN andTEOXUANWEI yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg ON ONE hand, this is a good thing more older people were working last year, the proportion a 16-year high. And that's testament to not just strong job creation in recent years, but also to how the re-employment message is
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      247 1 COLUMN MARIA SIOW Internet bashing is on the rise in China leading to the death of a wronged wife and a relentless drive to unmask a mistress only known as Fragrant Chrysanthemum. Page 25 COMMENT NEW LIFELINE Temasek is injecting fresh capital into Merrill Lynch as the US investment bank
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      39 1 FROM NEWS TO MUSE It* T,nnMMMn± M WW 1 883 2 I nttiX Zn% ll jjfl > 1 (I V J*\n\\\\m I W^k^^^r '"31 maV£&** TB*Tm wUJ JtnWWnW Two anchors on their inspiration for their new big-screen documentaries. Page 34
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      Lock icon GALAXY GAZING
      79 2 AFP This NASA handout image obtained yesterday shows the Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, as it sports bright reddish edges in this new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this image, infrared light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns is coloured blue; 8-micron light
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      Helpline rang 18,000 times
      483 3  -  ESTHER NG COMCARE CALL estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Com Care Call was launched six months ago to help link Singaporeans with the relevant parties for financial assistance matters and other social services, there were doubts about making the helpline 24/7 for who would call in the wee hours
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      Lock icon Nepalese twin Ganga dies
      227 3 AP KATHMANDU A conjoined twin who was separated from her sister during a gruelling, 100-hour operation eight years ago died yesterday at a hospital in Nepal, doctors said. Ganga Shrestha, eight, died at the Model Hospital in Kathmandu, three days after being admitted for treatment of
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      Get doctors graded – on a simulator
      500 4  - Get doctors graded on a simulator SHERALYNTAY MEDICALTRAINING Facility can be used to train and test surgeons in a risk-free environment sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg PILOTS are tested in simulators, so why not doctors? This is the "paradigm shift" that medicine must move towards to ensure that surgeons are not just adequately trained,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        $8M TOTO DRAW SET ON LUCKY DATE
        130 4 Mark next Friday 08-08-08 on your calendar, for the date not only signals the start of the Beijing Olympics but could also turn at least one lucky Singaporean into a multi-million-aire. To commemorate this once-in-a-century date, Singapore Pools will hold a Toto Triple
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        ORAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN TARGETS TODDLERS
        119 4 As part of this year's oral health month, doctors have been asked to refer toddlers and pre-schoolers with dental problems to dentists. Parents will also be reminded to bring their toddlers for regular dental checks and pay using the baby bonus. The campaign, into its
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        Lock icon FIRST ASEAN+3 YOUTH FESTIVAL OPENS
        80 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Some 150 youth leaders from the 10 Asean countries, China, Japan and South Korea are in Singapore for the inaugural Asean+3 Youth Festival, where participants get to interact with their peers through various activities. At the festival's opening yesterday, the youth leaders were
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      Lock icon These creepy crawlies can help ...
      516 6  - These creepy crawlies can help ONG DAI LIN RECYCLING FOOD WASTE Have no fear for the worms are odourless and will not escape from the containers dailin@mediacorp.com. sg NOW apartment-dwellers can go green in more ways than one by recycling their food waste and generating compost for their high-rise gardens.
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      Robbery at Trans-Cab headquarters
      381 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AT ABOUT 4.20pm yesterday, a man walked into Trans-Cab's headquarters with nothing in his hands, but left less than two minutes later with almost $4,500 in cash. He was last seen driving away in a sil-ver-coloured Toyota taxi, parked outside the Defu Lane compound.
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      Lock icon Shaping students into future CEOs
      398 8  -  ONG DAI LIN LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME Street lingo used to groom tomorrow's leaders dailin@mediacorp.com. sg TECHNIQUES used for teaching executives and professionals are now being brought into the classroom to groom students into tomorrow's leaders. But forget jargon. "Street cred" or language more commonly used by
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      Lock icon NSP wants to rejoin Opposition alliance?
      387 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg EIGHTEEN months after it broke away from the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA), the National Solidarity Party (NSP) has made overtures to rejoin the grouping. According to sources, the NSP made the unofficial approach last month to SDA chairman and veteran Potong Pasir
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      Lock icon Home-buyers today cautious, but genuine
      354 10  -  WONGSIEWYING CHANNEL NEWSASIA HDB FLATS Applications for Park Central® AMK roll in, but how many will translate into actual sales? SINCE its launch last week, more than 1,000 applications have been received for 578 units at Park Central®AMK, Singapore's third condominium-style public housing development. With
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      Lock icon Tharman on S'pore's need for constraints
      309 10 IN AN interview with The Times published on Monday, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam spoke on why the global economic tide has made social cohesion even more vital for Singapore, and wrestling with inflation, among other things. ON HOW LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO ANDOTHERCITIESWITHIN LARGER ECONOMIES
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      Parkway offers 11 niche courses
      259 10  -  TAN HUI LENG FOR the first time, those interested in niche areas of healthcare, such as clinical governance, need not go overseas for their qualifications. This is thanks to Parkway Education launching a slew of such courses yesterday. Among the 11 courses launched are several
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      17 6 f SHAPING STUDENTS INTO FUTURE CEOS Street lingo will be used to groom tomorrow's leaders 8 A
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      Lock icon Anwar to be charged
      406 12 AFP MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian police have completed their investigations into sodomy allegations against Mr Anwar Ibrahim and will charge him soon for sodomising his accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, reported The Malaysian Insider. Sources told the news portal that investigators are "crossing the
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      Two Indon Cabinet ministers implicated in graft probe
      312 12 THE Bank Indonesia (BI) corruption saga has expanded to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Cabinet, with new testimony implicating two ministers once tasked with amending the BI law, reported The Jakarta Post yesterday. Golkar Party lawmaker Hamka Yandhu testified that National Development Planning
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        Lock icon COALITION PARTNER PULLS OUTOF STRUGGLING THAI GOVT
        142 14 AFP THAILAND A key member of Thai Prime Minister SamakSundaravej's ruling coalition government withdrew from the alliance yesterday, striking yet another blow to the struggling administration. The Puea Pandin party, the fourth-big-gest in parliament with 24 seats, said it was backing out because
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        Lock icon THOUSANDS EVACUATED AS TROPICAL STORM HITS
        64 14 AFP CHINA More than 600,000 people were evacuated as tropical storm Fung Wong made landfall on China's southeastern coast, state media reported yesterday. Fung-wong, Cantonese for Phoenix, is expected to be the strongest tropical storm so far this year with heavy rains and strong
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        Lock icon IDS NOW REQUIRED IN CRACKDOWN ON SEX-IN-SAUNAS
        89 14 AP CHINA Clients who stay overnight in saunas and massage parlours in southern China can no longer do so anonymously, the China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. The authorities in the city of Guangzhou are now requiring sauna clients to show their identification and
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        Lock icon THE 'SUN-EATING' DRAGON RETURNS
        142 14 AFP CHINA The Earth, sun and moon will align in a celestial ballet on Friday, rewarding China, where the first record of an eclipse was made more than 4,000 years ago, with a dazzling show. Long awaited, the first total solar eclipse since March 2006 kicks
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      Lock icon US beef imports in cold storage
      354 14 AGENCIES US-S KOREA DEAL SEOUL The first shipment of United States beef under a controversial import deal arrived in South Korea yesterday, officials said, amid lingering public concerns over safety. The 1.5 tonne shipment, which includes ribs and other cuts with and without bones,
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      Lock icon Blank British passports stolen in van raid
      188 14 AGENCIES LONDON Britain's Foreign Office said thousands of blank British passports have been stolen in a raid on a delivery van, an incident it described as "a serious breach of security". The Ministry yesterday said that the documents were snatched on Monday as
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      Lock icon Woman sues after 'nightmare' of ticks
      173 14 AFP ROME An Italian woman is suing a ferry company after waking up in a first-class cabin "covered in ticks from head to toe", newspapers reported yesterday. Ms Cristina Sassudelli, 41, was making a night crossing at the weekend from the northern city of
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      Lock icon 2009 – year of terror attacks?
      341 17 2009 year of terror attacks? AP US SECURITY ALERT Homeland Security staff to be told to review security and emergency plans WASHINGTON The Homeland Security Department soon will tell its employees to review security and emergency plans as the country enters a period of heightened alert to last for several
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        Lock icon 'NO DANGER AFTER PLANE ABORTS FLIGHT'
        129 17 AFP Passengers aboard a Qantas jet that was forced to abort a domestic flight after a landing gear door failed to retract were never in any danger, the airline said yesterday. A Boeing 737-800 of the Australian airline was forced back to Adelaide airport
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        Lock icon DEATH SENTENCE APPROVED FOR PRISONER
        98 17 AFP United States President George W Bush on Monday approved the execution of an army soldier on death row for murder and rape, in the first such move by a US President in more than 50 years. Army Private Ronald A Gray was convicted and
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      Lock icon South Korean PM visits disputed islets
      438 18 AGENCIES TERRITORIAL DISPUTE Japan criticises visit SEOUL South Korea's Prime Minister yesterday visited a set of islets at the centre of a territorial dispute with Japan, as his administration sought to cement its hold over them. Mr Han Seung-Soo, accompanied by two other Cabinet
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      Lock icon Japanese woman goes on stabbing spree, 7 hurt
      175 18 AP TOKYO A Japanese woman went on a stabbing rampage at a crowded train station wounding seven men after failing to slash her own wrist, the police said yesterday. The woman attempted to cut her wrist with an army knife at a
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      Lock icon 'Cholera' kills 75 in remote Papua village
      205 18 AFP JAKARTA At least 75 villagers have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, church authorities said yesterday. Preliminary reports from the remote Kamuu valley confirmed that 75 people died from severe diarrhoea, with overall deaths likely in
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      Sculpture on show smashed
      175 18 AE6.000 ($16,300) sculpture on display at an exhibition in London, has been smashed, reported BBC News. A visitor fell into the cordoned-off piece, sending it crashing to the floor and breaking into hundreds of pieces. The 9-feet totem called Christina was one of five totems by
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      Lock icon American man linked to Ahmedabad blast email
      240 20 AP AHMEDABAD The police have raided the home of an American citizen in Mumbai, India's financial capital, and seized a computer from which an email claiming responsibility for bombings that killed some 45 people in western India was believed to have been sent.
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda arms expert killed?
      317 20 AP WAR ON TERROR Pakistan probes reports that Al Masri killed by US missile strike ISLAMABAD Pakistan probed reports yesterday that a senior Al Qaeda figure was among six people killed in a suspected missile strike conducted by the United States, while in Washington Prime
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      Lock icon Plants get sunburn, too
      344 22 AP FRESNO (California) -Just like how people damage their skin in the sun, produce can also get nasty burns. That's why farmers are increasingly applying sunscreen to their crops to prevent skin blistering, heat stress and blemishes. Sunspots on a Granny Smith apple can mean the
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      Lock icon They get by with mudcakes
      537 22 GUARDIAN STARVING IN HAITI Rocketing food, fuel prices have forced the destitute to take desperate measures PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti) In this city's worst slums, making mud cakes is a major income earner. Mud cakes are the only inflationproof food available to Haiti's poor as sky-rocketing prices
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      INTERNET BASHING OF A MISTRESS
      778 25  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg But move to expose her can be deemed intrusive and irresponsible prying A BRIGADE of Internet police have recently made their presence felt in China. But members of the contingent are not appointed by any
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      Lock icon 'Exorcism woman takes case to highest court
      314 26 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH POSSESSED BY DEMONS? Actions of church protected by US First Amendment, says Texas Supreme Court LOS ANGELES A woman claiming she was injured during an exorcism performed by a Texas church group is planning to take her case to the United States
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      Lock icon AHEAD OFTHE OLYMPICS...
      27 26 AFP Children had their hair shaved with the emblem of the Beijing Olympic Games to show their support, at a school in Beijing yesterday.
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      Lock icon Facebook vs Facebook clones
      281 26 AP MOSCOW In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself, or rather, its clones. Mirror versions of the socialnetworking web site some of which resemble Facebook right down to colour, font and layout have popped up in local languages around the world.
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      Lock icon Crisis brewing in paradise
      666 28  -  VENESSALEE VENESSALEE TODAY EXCLUSIVE assistant foreign editor venessa@mediacorp.com.sg THE man trying to unseat Asia's longest-serv-ing leader has declared that hyper-inflation is one of the biggest economic threats facing his country, Maldives. In fact, according to Mr Mohamed Nasheed (picture), the main opposition candidate for the first
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      281 29 I ALTERNATIVE THINKING ABOUT THE PRICE OF SERVERS: It looks like a server, acts like a server, but costs only as much as a PC. Say 'hello' to HP ProLiant. The ideal solution for an SMB, it gives your staff shared access to data, applications and email on the fly,
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      Green initiatives merely lip service?
      227 30  -  Lee Kuok Ming FEEDBACK SERVICES Reader disappointed by government website Letter from I REFER to "Sustainable if costs don't tip the scales" (July 29). Finally, the public can participate in the formulation of, and possibly even influence, policies surrounding the adoption of green living in
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      Treat foreigners the way you want to be treated
      289 30  -  Gilbert Goh KeowWah, Letter from Sydney, New South Wales WHENEVER I read about the challenges facing permanent residents and work permit holders in Singapore, I have mixed feelings, for I am a Singaporean who has just left the country to live
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      I SAY LOVE ME, LOVE MY SON
      492 31 Single mum says it's tough looking for love with a child and vhistory in tow Nat Sim* I REFER to "Helping singles meet singles" (July 25) and "Who will grow old with you?" (July 28). If Ansley Ng thinks he is in a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      169 31  -  DR BILL MAIER BY COUNSELLING HELPS MARRIAGES Too many married couples see counselling as a last-ditch effort, instead of a tool to strengthen their relationship. People have a lot of strange ideas when it comes to therapy. They imagine themselves lying on a couch in a
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      More schools should open facilities to the public
      233 32  -  Goh Kian Huat Letter from RESIDENTS living in HDB and private estates alike generally lack proper facilities for exercise. They have no choice but to run or cycle on roads or pavements, and some make use of neighbourhood parks to play badminton
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      413 32  -  Lee Kirn Hua CHILDCARE STANDARDS Inter-ministerial efforts are in place to maintain quality Letter from Director, Family Services Division Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports I REFER to "Quality vs Quantity" (July 24). The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) licenses child care
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      122 31 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg With our Cargo Insurance, we'll take the load off your mind. Moving cargo could see your business run into rough weather. Ensuring that everything's smooth sailing requires a sense of equilibrium. As one of Asia's largest insurance networks with a heritage of over a hundred
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      Wooing the supernatural: Genevieve Woo
      649 34 WHAT knowledge of the Hungry Ghost Festival could a Channel News Asia newscaster and an ang moh editor/short film-maker impart to you, a true-blue superstitious Singaporean, born and bred in the thick of our island's melting pot of cultures and rituals, that you don't already
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      Of hungry ghosts and Olympic hosts
      224 34 SINGAPORE DOCUMENTARIES PLUS PICKS MAKING NEWS With our two newscasters busy being documentations, let's see what the rest of the world's celebrity newscasters get up to in their spare time. THEY FLIRT Check out this clip of CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper being friendly
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      'Chinglish' is the new English: Lian Pek
      565 35 WRITERS, when stumped, are often told simply to write what they know. Likewise, actors are instructed to find the emotion needed by drawing from their own personal experiences. Documentary film-makers, like former CNN anchor Lian Pek, are no different. "Being a journalist, I
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      HOMEGROWN ATTRACTION
      93 36 LOCAL singer Stefanie Sun visited the Singapore Garden Festival during its opening weekend on Saturday. Her first stop was the Fantasy Garden display, A Garden of Dreams, where she signed a silver double-bass that was part of the exhibit. The workwhich won designer Alan Tan a Silver medal
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      378 36 AFP CELEBRITY TRAINWRECK Singer released from hospital after Veaction to medication 7 TROUBLED British soul singer Amy Winehouse was discharged from hospital yesterday after spending a night under doctors' care because of a reaction to medication, its spokeswoman said. Winehouse, 24, spent a "comfortable" night at
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      122 37 AP IT'S twins for Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell, Romijn's publicist Lewis Kay said Monday. The couple are expecting the babies this winter, Kay told the Associated Press. The twins will be the first children for the couple, who tied the knot
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      637 38  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH HOMEGROWN MUSIC Local indie heroes The Oddfellows are reuniting for this year's Baybeats christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE Spice Girls did it, The Police did it, Led Zeppelin did it, and now erstwhile local indie heroes The Oddfellows are doing it, too: Getting back together,
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      STILL IN THE MONEY
      119 40 Ten years on, it's still Money No Enough. At the press conference for Money No Enough 2 at the National Library on Monday, the cast and crew said they believed the continuing story of three brothers'trials and tribulations with money and family life in Singapore will
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      In the pursuit of happiness ... and cash
      246 40  - In the pursuit of happiness and cash GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW MONEY NO ENOUGH 2 SOME might call him a manipulative genius. Others see him as the man whose deft hand at tackling social and political issues while encouraging us uptight Singaporeans to laugh at ourselves is just what we need
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      Gong Fu Mummy
      328 41  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEWTHE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR This latest instalment is enjoyable but forgettable genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IT REALLY looks like Hollywood just can't get enough of the oh-so-mystical Far East (and, from the looks of this week's movie offerings, of Brendan Fraser as well). The
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      Close encounters of the disbelieving kind
      248 41  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW JOURNEYTO THE CENTRE OFTHE EARTH PLEASE fasten your seat belts, suspend your disbelief and we'll be on our way. Because, of course, every journey to the centre of the earth will include running from a T-Rex, fighting off gigantic venus
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      670 42  -  DAVID COX THE GUARDIAN BATMAN'S VWAR ON TERROR' For all its allusions to fighting terrorists, The Dark Knight has nothing to say about our post-911 world. plus@newstoday.com A VAPID hero, surrounded by ciphers. A onenote villain. A ludicrously elaborate plot, taking what seems like a
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      1077 43 TV LISTINGS SAYANGSAYANG EXPLORE MIDDLE EAST II PREHISTORIC PARK DRAMASUTRA Channel s,Bpm Shopping! T-Rex Returns Jeritan Sepi 111 The whole is in Channel News Asia, 7.32pm and 12.32 am Arts Central, gpm Suria, 9.30pm courtesyof %J V and colours await you in dinosaurs: The affected by L a^HUffi Nancy, raises
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      Singapore Slingers grounded
      670 44  -  LOW LIN FHOONG TIMEOUT SSC-backed team pull out of Australian basketball league due to travel costs linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg TWO years ago, the Singapore Slingers made an impressive mark on the local sports scene. Singapore's only professional basketball team made it to the playoffs in the 2006/2007 Australian National
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      Lock icon Big splash for Sports School
      372 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN in Khon Kaen, Thailand shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SWIMMERS from the Singapore Sports School got off to a great start at the 11th Thailand Sports School Games in Khon Kaen yesterday, bagging 10 gold medals, five silvers and two bronzes from 14 events. Dzulhaili Mohamed Kamal,
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      Good start in football
      225 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Sports School's under-14 football team have been set a target of at least making the final in the 2008 Thailand Sports School Games. Yesterday, the boys got their mission off to a great start when they beat Lampang Sports School of Thailand 3-1
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      Squash queen David ready to defend her crown
      273 45  -  LOW LIN FHOONG FRESH off her championship win at the Malaysian Open last Saturday, women's world No 1 squash player Nicol David is looking forward to defending her title at the CIMB Singapore Women's Squash Masters 2008 at the Kallang Squash Centre
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      Lock icon Kwek set to pass the hat around
      703 45  -  LOW LIN FHOONG 2010 YOUTH OLYMPICS CDL director Kwek heads team to raise at least $40 million for Youth Games linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg THERE are 744 days to go to the opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. With the clock
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      THE FIVE COMMITTEES
      305 45 SPORTS COMMITTEE Headed by DrTan Eng Liang, vice-presi-dent of the Singapore National Olympic Council. A former national water polo player, Tan was chairman of the Singapore Sports Council from 1975 to 1991 The committee will work with sports associations and agencies, and provide advice on the sports
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      Lock icon Monkeys on Phelps' mind
      572 46  -  TANYO-HINN ROADTO BEIJING The US swim team are in relaxed mood here as the Olympic clock ticks down yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THE United States Olympic swim team have been training at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) since Sunday. And the world's No 1 swimming team are missing
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      Lock icon Wind clears the air in Beijing
      298 46 AFP BEIJING China claimed success yesterday in their pre-Olympic battle against Beijing's infamous pollution, as strong winds helped clear the thick smog that has hung over the Chinese capital this month. Pollution levels have fallen by at least 20 per cent since the first
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      Singapore at 188
      211 46  -  TANYO-HINN LADY Luck could be in Singapore's corner when the 2008 Olympic Games open on Aug 8. The Singapore contingent that marches out at the opening ceremony are set to be the 188 th nation that enters Beijing's National Stadium. This after it was revealed that the
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      Lock icon Country trumps club, says Kobe
      608 47 AFP MACAU Maybe he was just playing to the moment, maybe he was just trying to psyche his team-mates up, but whatever the reason, one thing is clear Kobe Bryant is serious about winning Olympic gold. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar claimed yesterday winning Olympic
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      Lock icon Radcliffe is on the road to Beijing
      211 47 AFP LONDON Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe will join Britain's Olympic training camp in Macau next week in a further sign that despite injury problems, she will compete in Beijing next month. The British runner is battling against time to fully recover
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      Lock icon Jamaican track team stays cool, as dope cheat is caught
      296 47 AFP KINGSTON A positive drug test returned by a Jamaican athlete at the national Olympic trials shouldn't affect the team's performance in Beijing, Mike Fennell, head of the Jamaica Olympic association, said here on Monday. The unnamed athlete, who was
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      Lock icon Game 39's not dead in the water
      529 48 -THE DAILYTELEGRAPH FOOTBALL WATCH Clubs will discuss soon as Chelsea chief Kenyon refuses to dismiss the idea KUALA LUMPUR The controversial proposal to play some Premiership matches abroad will be among the main topics for discussion at the league's next shareholders' meeting in
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      Lock icon Muntari in, as Inter Milan give up on Lampard
      331 49 MILAN Sulley Muntari completed his move to Inter Milan from Portsmouth, signing a four-year deal with the Italian champions, Sky Sports reported yesterday. The Ghana international established himself as a key member of Harry Redknapp's side following his £7-million ($l9--million) move
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      Lock icon Benitez' Keane gamble
      489 49 SUMMER BUY Liverpool say sorry, before splashing the cash for Tottenham striker LONDON Liverpool had to make an apology to Tottenham before signing £20 million ($54 million) hitman Robbie Keane on a four-year deal late on Monday, The Sun reported yesterday. Angry Spurs chairman Daniel Levy insisted
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      99 49 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER International Football Stuttgart Arsenal Thu, 31/07/08 2.15 am 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 2.45 am
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      75 49 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 5.58pm Cricket Test Series: England v S Africa, 3rd Test, Ch 110 6pm Football Gamba Osaka vs Arsenal de Sarandi, Ch 27 11pm Tennis ATP Master Series: Western Southern Financial Group Masters 2nd Round Ch 24 11pm Tennis WTATour: Montreal-3rd Day, Ch 113 TOMORROW 8.15 am
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      Cloudy skies ahead
      446 50  -  KELVIN CHOW HSBC ASIA-PACIFIC SURVEY More small firms expecting economic growth to slow kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg PLAGUED by rising costs and shrinking margins, an increasing number of small businesses in Singapore are turning bearish in their economic outlook for the next six months. In a bi-annual survey of 300
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      463 50  -  .KELVIN CHOW WITH economic prospects looking more and more uncertain, raising customer service standards has become even more crucial for companies wanting to keep that competitive edge. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report for 2007, Singapore's customer orientation ranking slipped to
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      Lock icon One for all, all for one
      971 51  -  LOHCHEEKONG LOHCHEEKONG iPARTNERS PROGRAMME Companies in the alliance will contribute resources and management support under a joint-business plan cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S a jungle out there in the business world and hunting in packs helps especially for small firms trying to enter overseas markets in such
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      170 50 "I was working in the engineering field for more than 15 years before I chanced upon the C2O System way of trading. I've been compounding my initial small capital into a good amount to generate a regular income stream to support my family's expenses and so I call it quit
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      Lock icon M&C opens $175m Phuket hotel
      813 52  -  ESTHER FUNG ESTHER FUNG TOURISM INDUSTRY Hotel is the first to be opened by international group since 2004 tsunami esther@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE getting hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004, Phuket has retained much of its lustre as a tourist destination and Singapore property companies are
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      RHB wins good service awards
      171 52 FOR two consecutive years, the Singapore branch of Malaysia's RHB Banking Group has clinched awards for customer excellence. The bank yesterday said it was the first bank in Singapore and Malaysia to win the "best customer experience management award" in the Asia Pacific Customer Service
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      Lock icon BRANSON READY FOR SPACE TRAVEL
      65 54 EPA Sir Richard Branson (left) and SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan waving from one of the aircraft's two fuselages during the world premiere roll-out of Virgin Galactic's spaceship launch vehicle-the White Knight 2 (WK2) 'mothership'-at an aerospace development company in California on Monday. The WK2 and
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      267 54 BLOOMBERG CHINA'S regulator has received applications from the nation's biggest banks to invest in insurance companies, the industry watchdog said. Applications were received from ICBC, China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications and Bank of Beijing, said Mr Yuan Li, spokesman for the China
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      Lock icon Bank of China buys Swiss hedge fund stake
      208 54 AFP BEIJING Bank of China, one of the country's big four state-owned commercial banks, has bought a 30-per-cent stake in Switzerland's Heritage Fund Management, state media reported yesterday. According to the agreement, the bank will eventually increase its stake to 70 per
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      370 54 BLOOMBERG WTO TALKS Geneva summit fails to make a breakthrough GENEVA Trade talks aimed at producing a deal that would add billions of dollars to the world economy collapsed in their ninth day as rich and poor nations refused to make market-opening concessions and accused each other of
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        TAXES, COSTS KEEP SPC'S PROFITS STEADY
        64 56 Singapore Petroleum Company's second-quarter net profit was little changed from the corresponding period last year, as greater processing costs and higher taxes offset improved refining margins. Net profit for the three months ended June 30 was $180.2 million, slightly higher than $179.2 million a
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        SINGPOST'S NET PROFIT UP
        58 56 Singapore Post's first-quarter net profit rose 2.9 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier, driven by higher revenue from its mail, logistics and retail operations. Net profit for the three months ended June 30 was $39.4 million, up from $38.4 million a year earlier.
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        ORIGINATING SUMMONS FILED
        113 56 BRC Asia yesterday filed an originating summons with the High Court of Singapore in relation to the supply of steel products to Sembawang Engineers Constructors, one of the contractors engaged for the sub-structure work for the integrated resort on Sentosa for Resorts World. BRC Asia is seeking
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        STATS CHIPPAC Q2 NET PROFIT TRIPLES
        70 56 STATS ChipPAC's net profit tripled to US$22.l million ($30.25 million) for the second quarter to June from US$7.4 million in the corresponding period last year. STATS ChipPAC, one of the world's largest provider of semiconductor assembly, chalked up US$434 million of revenue in the
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      JTC foresees weaker demand
      294 57  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg AFTER a record performance last year, JTC Singapore's biggest industrial landlord expects demand for industrial space to weaken in line with slowing economic growth this year. Operating income in fiscal year 2007 rose 5 per cent to $1.1 billion for the stateowned developer,
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      402 57 AGENCIES SIA'S PROFIT OUTLOOK Analysts expect SlA's profitability to decline further as travel demand slows SINGAPORE Airlines, the most profitable airline in Asia, expects operating profit margins to narrow due to a slowing global economy and higher fuel costs. "Given what we are seeing unfolding
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      STOCK CALLS
      326 58 LIAN BENG 23.5 cents I Hold Westcomb downgrades its "buy" rating and cuts the price target to 25.5 cents from 83 cents based on a sum-of-parts valuation. It says the construction group's FY2OOB earnings of $11.9 million is 50 per cent below its forecast. It lowers FY2009-10 earnings
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      Another lifeline from Temasek to Merrill
      258 58 Temasek Holdings is pumping US$3.4 billion ($4.6 billion) into Merrill Lynch as the American investment bank continues scrambling to cover ballooning sub-prime mortgage losses. But the Singapore investment firm will receive compensation of US$2.5 billion from Merrill under a price-protection agreement for its earlier
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