Today, 24 September 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday September 24, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      NEWS LATEST
      91 1 US' bailout plan Tensions mounted yesterday over a sweeping United States rescue package for troubled banks, as lawmakers stiffened their opposition while president George W Bush told world leaders he expected swift action. The uncertainty prompted fresh turmoil on financial markets, as the main global stock markets were
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      4 DAYS TO F1
      48 1 Lewis' cool front Bad news greeted Fl star Lewis Hamilton when he arrived here yesterday he learned that his appeal against the penalty slapped against him at the Belgian GP had failed. But he says he's staying focused on this weekend's race Page 44
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      RAMADAN
      10 1 Break fast tonight 7.01PM Start fast tomorrow 5.26 AM
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      Lock icon Crying over spoilt milk
      701 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN ANDTAN HUI LENG ALICIAWONG FOOD SAFETY But Singaporeans shouldn't be lunduly concerned': Authorities chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE phones have been ringing, and anxious parents knocking on doctors' doors. Though local shelves have been emptied of China dairy imports, this has done little to assuage some
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      SPORTS LATEST
      74 1 Arsenal 6 Sheff U o Arsenal's young guns ran riot over Championship side Sheffield United in the League Cup this morning, with Carlos Vela (above) scoring a hattrick in the Gunners' 6-0 victory. Page 49 Man U 3 Boro 1 Cristiano Ronaldo inspires Manchester United to a 3-1
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      109 1 Singapore's Premier Music Lifestyle Festival returns! JSRjwlL*- SINGAPORE Over 250 international n i l j artists celebrities. FESTIVAL 7U world-class events. A 1 U —Uciy extraordinary 17-26 October 2008 celebration not to be missed! A PUBLICATION OF J^A^DIACORP MICA (P) 132/10/2007 HOTLINE 6822 2268 ADVERTISE 6359 7359 I L J
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      Eyeing distressed US assets
      429 2  -  ESTHER FUNG GIC REPORT CARD esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE timing of Singapore's investment of billions of dollars into banking giants ÜBS and Citigroup could have been better. In fact, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), which has been investing the nation's foreign reserves since 1981, admitted yesterday
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      The food safety loophole
      462 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN TAINTED MILK SCARE AYA company in talks to ensure transparency and quality control down the supply chain in China chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE is a weak link in Singapore's food import system, it is the lack of information on overseas manufacturers' source ingredients. It is currently
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      FAQ ON THE MILK BAN
      463 3 How long will the ban on milk and milk products from China last? No timeframe has been set. The AVA will allow the sale of recalled products after the authority has run its battery of tests on all products. A product will be allowed for
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      Slow start to race week
      669 4  -  ONGDAILIN JESSICA YEO FiTRAFFICWOES AND dailin@mediacorp.com.sg It usually takes art director X M Teo about 15 minutes to travel from City Plaza in Geylang to his workplace at Purvis Street in Bras Basah. But yesterday morning, his taxi ride turned out to be much longer
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      Lock icon They promise security... with a smile
      508 6  -  ZULOTHMAN ZULOTHMAN Aetos tasked with ensuring order during the Grand Prix promises to be unobtrusive zul@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS set up four years ago as one of five auxiliary police forces in Singapore, providing security for key installations such as the ports and Changi Airport.
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      Comfortable ride – at least for now
      207 6  - Comfortable ride at least for now LEONG WEE KEAT SPEED, rather than frequency, will be the bugbear for commuters using the free bridging bus service to get around the Suntec and Marina Centre area. During morning peak hours yesterday, it took around 25 minutes for Today to get from City
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      Lock icon SLA's 2007 land sales revenue doubles to $ 12.4b
      277 8 SLA's 2007 land sales revenue doubles to 12.4b CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE THE Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) land sales revenue doubled to $12.4 billion for its financial year ended March 31,2008. The property market boom and strong demand in State properties for office, education and commercial uses pushed sale revenue
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      Driver's ban lifted
      582 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT DEATH BY NEGLIGENCE Successful appeal comes 12 years after girlfriend died in accident weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg FINED and banned from driving for 20 years, a Singaporean strove for more than a year to get his disqualification lifted so he could earn a living and drive his crippled wife
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      Lock icon INDUSTRIAL UNITS GO UP IN FLAMES
      138 10 PHOTO COURTESY SCDF Two industrial units at Defu Lane were gutted by a fire yesterday morning. The contents of a vehicle workshop and a warehouse used to store construction materials were 'totally destroyed' by the blaze, which took 30 minutes to extinguish, said the
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      Sharing the caring
      485 10  -  LINYANQIN CAREGIVERS WEEK Help is needed to ensure that caregivers get the support that they need yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg LEFT alone to tend to the chronically ill or elderly, caregivers often find themselves physically and mentally exhausted, financially strapped and at a loss about whom to go to for
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      Feer found guilty
      369 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT DEFAMATION OF MM LEE AND PM LEE No general media privilege unless there are special facts: Judge weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have won a defamation suit against the Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) and the publication's editor Hugo
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TOURIST ARRIVALS FALL FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE MONTH
        127 12 938 LIVE Tourist arrivals continued to fall for a third consecutive month in August, impacted by the global economic slowdown. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said that there were 842,000 visitors last month, a decline of 7.7 per cent compared to the same
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        Lock icon FORMER AIDETO EX-REN Cl BOSS FINED $37,500
        105 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The former personal assistant to ex-Ren Ci Hospital chief executive Shi Ming Vi has been fined $37,500 for possessing pornography. Student Pang Leong Chuan, 27, pleaded guilty to having over 100 obscene films in the form of DVDs and other movie
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        Lock icon WDA, ITE RECOGNISED EACH OTHER'S QUALIFICATIONS SYSTEMS
        81 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will now mutually recognise each other's qualifications system, to allow adult learners to move flexibly between the two systems. This will also enhance accessibility and openness and help them with
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon OINK, PIGS CAN FLY?
      85 14 AFP Miss Porky Pig sails through the air as she prepares to land in the water as part of the racing and diving pig show at the Royal Melbourne Show yesterday. The show pigs, named Ham Bone, Bacon Bone, Porky Chop and Miss Porky Pig, are
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      Lock icon Handover talks going on?
      265 14 AFP MALAYSIAN POLITICS Abdullah denies any contact being made through third parties KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition yesterday said it has begun talks on a transition of power from the ruling coalition, after it claimed to have signed up enough defectors to topple the government. Prime Minister
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      Robbers grab gold bars at Penang Airport
      280 14 GEORGE TOWN In yet another robbery at a Malaysian airport, two men armed with pistols robbed a goldsmith of six gold bars worth over RMBOO.OOO ($331,000), local media reported. Police said the goldsmith had just picked up his supplier, who arrived at the
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      Lock icon Detention for Raja Petra
      381 15 AFP MALAYSIAN POLITICS Bloggertobeheld for two years without trial for insulting Islam KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's most prominent blogger has been ordered to spend two years in detention under internal security laws after being accused of insulting Islam. Raja Petra Kamaruddin, a government critic and founder of
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      Lock icon PM Abdullah agrees to consider release of Hindraf 5: Samy Vellu
      262 15 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has agreed to consider the release of five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S Samy Vellu was
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      Lock icon Protests, instability could bring new Thai coup
      243 16 AFP BANGKOK The on-going anti-government protests and political instability threaten peace and democracy in Thailand and could usher in another military coup, a leading think-tank has said. The warning came as Thailand's new Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat put the finishing touches yesterday to
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      Myanmar frees Win Tin
      299 16 ELECTION AMNESTY Country's longestserving political prisoner among 9 ooo released YANGON Myanmar's junta yesterday freed 79-year-old journalist and activist Win Tin, the longest-serving political prisoner in the military-ruled nation. This came after state media announced that the military government would release more than 9,000 prisoners yesterday
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      And the least corrupt country is...
      452 17 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX S #pore ranks among the world's least corrupt nations BERLIN Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand share the honour of being the world's least corrupt countries, ahead of Singapore in fourth position and Finland and Switzerland in joint fifth, an international watchdog
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      Lock icon Almost 2bn at risk from dengue in Asia
      226 17 AFP MANILA Nearly two billion people in the Asia-Pacific region will be at risk from dengue fever unless governments do more to fight the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. According to the United Nations agency, of the 2.5 billion
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      Lock icon CELEBRITIES FEELING THE HEAT
      723 18  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg Stars taken to task for endorsing tainted milk CHINESE manufacturers and regulatory officials are not the only ones being publicly criticised for their roles in the country's ongoing tainted milk powder scandal. Renowned athletes Guo Jingjing
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      Lock icon Australia, Peru, Vietnam want to join trans-Pacific free trade deal
      368 19 AGENCIES NEW YORK Australia, Peru and Vietnam have expressed interest in joining a budding Asia-Pacific tariff-busting plan which received a boost Monday with the participation of the United States, officials said. The "Comprehensive Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership" agreement has a
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      Lock icon Tainted cake found in HK
      452 19 AGENCIES CHINA MILK SCANDAL Two more childrer reported to be ill HONG KONG Two more Hong Kong children fell sick with kidney stones after drinking melamine-laced milk and tests found the industrial chemical in locally sold cake, the government said yesterday, as China's food safety
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      Lock icon Another stabbed on Greyhound bus
      160 21 AFP OTTAWA A young man was stabbed on a Greyhound bus travelling across Canada on the weekend, in the second bus attack in two months and an eerie reminder of the August assault when a passenger was beheaded, police said on Monday. The attack occurred
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      Lock icon TYPHOON LEAVES 13 TRAPPED IN GOLDMINE
      133 21 Six people have been killed and rescuers are searching for 13 gold miners trapped in a flooded mine after Typhoon Hagupit hit the northern Philippines. The miners were last reported 213 m below ground, and it was unclear whether they were alive. Mud washed
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      Lock icon Hundreds rally against it
      349 21 AFP PORNOGRAPHY BILL Governor says Bill reflects a single group's perspectives DENPASAR Hundreds of people protested yesterday in the Indonesian resort island of Bali against a proposed anti-por-nography law. Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika told the crowd the bill overlapped with existing legislation and trampled local
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      Lock icon Sacked workers beat boss to death
      341 22 AFP WORKPLACE VIOLENCE NEW DELHI Sacked workers in India beat to death the boss of an Italian company that had laid them off, police said yesterday. Scores of former employees at car parts maker Graziano Transmissioni attacked local chief executive Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, 47,
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      Lock icon MONSOON MISERY
      135 22 Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 44 people reported killed over the past 24 hours as the authorities rushed yesterday to rescue hundreds of thousands trapped in their homes. The latest reported deaths brought the toll of those killed by monsoon flooding to 163
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MCCAIN WAS A GOOD KISSER, SAYS HIS OLD FLAME
        98 24 7. AP A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago. Maria GracindaTeixeira (picture), 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential candidate fondly described in his 1999 book
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        Lock icon BONO, WORLD LEADERS AWAITPALINATUN
        88 24 AFP Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palm was scheduled from yesterday to take her first steps onto the world stage at the United Nations General Assembly. She was expected to meet US anti-ter-ror ally and Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe yesterday. Today, she
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      Lock icon McCain urges Australia to help China
      286 24 AFP SYDNEY United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain yesterday called on Australia to help encourage greater openness in China, a nation he said had not met all the responsibilities of a global power. In an opinion piece in The Australian newspaper, McCain said
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      Lock icon Washington is also bankrupt: Obama
      366 24 'AFP US PRESIDENTIAL RACE Campaign rivals Obama and McCain offer views on their country's economic woes GREEN BAY (Wisconsin) Democrat Barack Obama on Monday warned the Wall Street meltdown was no mere "accident of history" but proved the need for sweeping change to purge the
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      Lock icon Gunman kills 10, shoots himself
      430 26 AGENCIES FINLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING He was questioned by police on Monday, but his arms licence was not terminated HELSINKI A student opened fire yesterday at colleagues at a vocational school for adults in western Finland, killing at least 10 people. Mr Matti Juhani Saari turned
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      Lock icon Australia to grant cloning patent to disgraced scientist
      369 26 AP SEOUL Australian officials are expected to grant a patent this week to a disgraced South Korean scientist for his disputed technology on cloning human embryos, a move that his supporters say would vindicate his work. Mr Hwang Woo-suk's purported breakthroughs in
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      Lock icon US nuclear carrier to be welcomed to Japan ... with iodine
      409 27 US nuclear carrier to be welcomed to Japan with iodine AFP YOKOSUKA (Japan) Residents of this port city were bracing for the arrival of a controversial US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, with some ready with iodine syrup to deal with radiation exposure. The 97,000-tonne USS George Washington is set to arrive
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      Lock icon Space, anyone? Take this lift
      322 27 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGINEERING FEAT LONDON Japanese scientists are attempting to build a lift that will take passengers 62,000 miles (99,780 kilometres) into space. The lift's carriages would move up and down 22,000--mile-long cables that must be stronger and lighter than any material ever woven. They would
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      194 29  -  Tan HaoYang COMMON COURTESIES If older folk won't clear their trays why expect youth to? Letter from I READ "Target the young" (Sept 19) with much anxiety. Mr Rick Lim Say Kiong seems to suggest that teenagers should take on the burden of
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      135 29  -  Susan FooYuet Leng Letter from I REFER to an "An eligible beauty" (Sept 16). It appears that Ms Teo Ser Lee is stereotyping the marrying kind of women in defence of her own unmarried status. I believe that Ms Teo's armour
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      172 32  -  DR BILL MAIER BY.... LISTEN TO YOUR BODY How much exercise is enough? Well, that depends on who you talk to. And everyone seems to have a different theory. Years ago we were told that 30 minutes of light exercise several times a week was enough
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      977 34  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIES TODAY EXCLUSIVE Woody Allen on his new film, threesomes and old typewriters in Cannes mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE is one thing that Woody Allen does better than making romantic comedies about neurotic New Yorkers with hang-ups about sex it's fretting. The 72-year-old American director of
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      205 34 Before there were Vicky and Cristina, there was Diane. Here are some of Allen's real-life muses: DIANE KEATON The actress first met Allen during the Broadway production of Play It Again, Sam and they eventually made around eight movies together. She became known for her films
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      184 36 "AP ROBERT Wagner's marriage to Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with Barbara Stanwyck was a secret until now. In his new memoir Pieces of My Heart, Wagner (picture) writes of his four-year romance with the star of such classics
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      719 36  -  GENEVIEVELOH FiFUN The eight best racing sequences of all time genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg AS THEY say, if you can't beat them, join them. Or, in this case, race them. Seeing as the entire island is deliriously giddy with Formula 1 fever, we thought we'd get
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      623 38  -  DARREN HO ASIAN STARS DonnieYen and QiYu Wu discuss their expanded repertoire and convergent paths in Painted Skin darrenh@mediacorp.com. sg HE HAS been named "the fastest on-screen fighter alive" by fellow action star Michelle Yeoh. Even Painted Skin co-star Qi Yu Wu joked about how he
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      372 40  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA Woody Allen is back- and he #s brought us a threesome genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE 72-year-old Woody Allen can persuade three of the sexiest people on the planet to make out in a luscious menage a trois moment for our
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      235 40  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW ELITE SQUAD IT IS a whirlwind of a film that immediately thrusts you headfirst into its hyper violence, never apologising for its onesided, uncomfortably rightist message of vigilante justice. And for almost two hours, it makes you feel as jerked-about and hand-held as
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      306 42  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIE REVIEW MY MAGIC Eric Khoo #s new film is effortlessly charming mayo@mediacorp.com.sg FOR all of My Magic's many squirminducing graphic scenes involving various feats of human endurance (eating light bulbs, stomping on shards of glass), what's actually the most impressive trick in the entire movie
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      295 42  -  DARREN HO MOVIE REVIEW PAINTED SKIN darrenh@mediacorp.com. sg PAINTED Skin, adapted from the Liao Zhai collection of supernatural tales, is a medieval romantic tragedy about a 1,000-year-old fox spirit Xiaowei (Zhou Xun) who falls in love with a married general Wang Sheng (the chivalrous
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      660 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE RACE IS ON McLaren ace loses appeal against penalty in Belgium but he stays steady and focused shamir@mediacorp.com.sg HE TOUCHED down at Changi Airport yesterday afternoon from Paris and just a few hours later, Lewis Hamilton was sharply dressed and sporting a relaxed
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      598 45  -  LAN DE COTTA THE RACE IS ON Most feel tight street circuit is going to be a real thriller formula 1 correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg FERRARI boss Luca di Montezemolo speaks his mind on any subject. While so many connected with Formula 1 are buzzing with
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      72 45 Do you have an interesting or unusual photo taken at Singapore's first Formula 1 race? Share your photos with us at our Singapore Grand Prix Gallery and we may even publish them in print. Email your photos with your name, contact number and a short caption to
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      60 45 Fl FACTFILE the outfit Formula 1 drivers' overalls are made of special fire-resistant material called Nomex*.The sport's governing body, the FIA, demand that the material used must protect a driver from a fire of up to 700 degrees Celsius for at least 12 seconds, and the sponsors' logos
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      623 46  -  LOWLINFHOONG THE RACE IS ON He's been acclimatising for Singapore, as Williams' young ace guns for more linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg AT&T Williams driver Nico Rosberg has been racing in the dark, literally. Over the past few days, the 23-year-old German has sped through the 23 turns on the
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      137 46 TWO thousand Bridgestone Potenza tyres, weighing a total of 20,000 kg, arrived here yesterday by sea from Japan, ahead of this weekend's 2008 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix. The tyres arrived at the circuit at 10am, and it took Bridgestone
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      751 47  -  LAN DE COTTA TODAY EXCLUSIVE One of the sport's greatest drivers says Sunday race will open new dimension for Fi fl correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg HE IS a unique breed of driver, someone who has never worn Formula l's world crown, but is nevertheless regarded as
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      438 47  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg LOCAL design, event marketing and exhibition company Pico Art International are no strangers to large-scale events, having helped stage the National Day Parade here and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. But setting up spectator stands around the track for
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      521 48 AGENCIES HOTTOPIC Uefa president gets even tougher on corruption, while lashing out at Wenger PARIS Uefa football chief Michel Platini revealed the European Union will bolster the efforts to crack down on betting. "We are going to reinforce our activities regarding betting and bolster our inspectors,"
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      520 49 AFP AFTERNOON UPDATE Youngest ever Arsenal side hit Sheffield United for six League Cup Arsenal 6 Sheffield United o LONDON Arsene Wenger enjoyed a night to savour as another generation of young stars stepped off the Arsenal production line to inflict a 6-0 drubbing
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      466 49 AFP MANCHESTER Cristiano Ronaldo's first goal of the season and a 3-1 victory was marred for Manchester United by a sickening foul from Middlesbrough captain Emanuel Pogatetz that left Brazilian youngster Rodrigo Possebon with a suspected broken leg. Ronaldo's start
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      148 49 DPA RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian police arrested in the southern city of Porto Alegre two drug traffickers who are allegedly friends with football stars Ronaldinho and Anderson. According to the public prosecutor Ricardo Herbstrith, the alleged criminal Richard Alex da Silva Martins, known as
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      235 50 BLOOMBERG LONDON Kevin Keegan (picture) could be in line for a shock return as Newcastle United manager, if a Nigerian business group succeed in buying the club, The Sun reported yesterday. About £75 million ($196.5 million) will be earmarked to buy new players, the
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      379 50 MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney is backing Manchester United to bounce back from their disappointing start to the season, reported Sky Sports yesterday. The Red Devils have taken just five points from their opening four Premier League fixtures, while they were also held to a
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      588 51 'AFP TEAM GOLF Olazabal and Woosnam the early favourites for the job to win back the Ryder Cup LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Europe's vanquished Ryder Cup team retreated from American shores with the debate already heating up over who should replace Nick Faldo as captain for Celtic
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      367 52  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE some family businesses place their children in top jobs once they come of age, others argue it is better to groom successors by making them work their way up from the factory floor. That's what 27-year-old Koh Wei Rang is
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      460 52  -  ESTHER FUNG VENTURE CAPITALIST FUNDS Start-ups advised to check if funds come with a catch esther@mediacorp.com.sg AS MORE venture capital finds its way to Singapore start-ups, novice entrepreneurs are getting more picky over whom they choose to work with. "There's no such thing as a free lunch,"
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      959 53 Make smart moves with mobile technology and gain the competitive advantage Forsmall and medium enterprises(SMEs),the popular adage "time is money" could not be more true today. As their operations expand, businesses have to constantly stay in touch with internal and external customers, in and
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      235 54  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg LISTED Australian company Natural Fuel, which is building the world's largest biodiesel plant onjurong Island, said its 50-50 joint venture with Babcock Brown Environmental Investments is in administration. The company said the directors of the joint venture, Natural Fuels Australia Limited
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      753 55  -  LYNETTE KOH Setting up office in India, SE Asia was a breeze for Ultra Industrial Automation lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg IN BUSINESS, knowing the right people can make all the difference especially when you are entering unfamiliar lands. This is something that Ultra Industrial Automation (UlA)'s engineering director
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      742 56  -  PETER GOODMAN THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESS ANALYSIS $1 trillion is a tasty carrot, but some ask shouldn't those responsible for the crisis be punished? AS ECONOMISTS puzzle over the proposed details of what may be the biggest financial bailout in history, the initial scepticism that
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      425 57  -  CONRAD RAJ 810-TREAT COURT CASE But High Court here ruled S #pore is not proper forum to hear his suits editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg FORMER Bio-Treat Technology chairman Wing Hak Man is stepping up his campaign to get his stake in the company back with what he says
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      168 57  -  KELVIN CHOW WHEN paying utility bills or fines at an AXS terminal, you might notice a new logo on the machine. AXS InfoComm is launching the pilot phase for its new "DPay" scheme, which will enable customers of participating banks to use their ordinary ATM
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      532 58  -  CHEOWXINYI STRUCTURED PRODUCTS Stung by investments in Lehman mini-bonds financial portal users plan to petition MAS for help cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg INVESTORS frustrated with replies from financial institutions over their investments in Lehman Brothers-linked structured products have turned to the Internet for information and support. Despite the
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      322 59 BLOOMBERG COSTOF LIVING Inflation slows for a second month as food and oil prices ease INFLATION slowed for a second month in August in Singapore as petrol stations lowered pump prices and food costs eased, reducing pressure on the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to
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      283 59 BLOOMBERG STARHUB, Singapore's second-largest phone company, is concerned that customers will scale back spending on telecoms and television services because of the fallout from the financial turmoil in the Untied States. "My biggest worry is that there's suddenly credit tightening, not on Star Hub, but
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        119 60 US MARKETS Wall Street tumbles Wall Street lost ground yesterday in a late-day selloff as traders turned skittish about the outlook for a massive banking sector rescue aimed at averting a wider economic crisis. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded down 167.90 points (1.52 per
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        OIL PRICES
        97 60 Oil slips Oil prices tumbled yesterday, as a stronger US dollar and demand worries prompted profit taking a day after New York crude registered its biggest one-day price jump ever. New York's new main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, dropped U552.76 a barrel to close at
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        80 60 SHORTSELLERS Figures publishedyesterday for the first time show that there really is quite a lot of shortselling going on in Singapore. But the list published by the Singapore Exchange shows that banks are not the big target that might have been expected. The new daily list
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        774 60  -  MARISSACHEW GIC REPORT CARD GIC deputy chairman Tony Tan warns against being 'unrealistic' marissa@mediacorp.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) may have made returns well above global inflation rate over the past 20 years, but its deputy chairman has warned that maintaining this is getting tough.
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        276 60 AFP NEW YORK—tensions mounted yesterday over a sweeping United States rescue package for troubled banks, as lawmakers stiffened their opposition while president George W Bush told world leaders he expected swift action. The uncertainty prompted fresh turmoil on financial markets, as the main
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