Today, 9 October 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday October g, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday October g, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 438 1  -  CHEOWXINYI ESTHER FUNG KELVIN CHOW xinyi@mediacorp.com.sg AMID tanking global stock markets and a credit crisis that shows no signs of abating, sentiment among businesses have also been hit. Most companies Today spoke to say they have put expansion and hiring plans on hold, with
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    • 622 1 AP I MARKET MAYHEM NEW YORK Wall Street bounced higher and lower yesterday trying to make up its mind about an unprecedented coordinated interest rate cut by central banks around the world. In the end it settled on a familiar feeling fear and plunged again. The
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    • 565 1  -  ALICIA WONG fAN HUI LENG ESTHER NG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg ORCHARD Road and Bangkok's shopping belts are off his radar for now. These days, chef Danny Chu prefers the quiet of his three-room flat as the global financial crisis rages. The rising cost of food, transport
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      • 114 2  -  TEOXUANWEI. "I've had to rethink my wealth management and accumulation. I need to be more careful when it comes to spending, especially with the rate of inflation." "It's not a good time to graduate, considering all this uncertainty. Companies are tightening
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      • 181 3  -  PAULKRUGMAN EDMUND CONWAY THENEWYORKTIMES THE DAILYTELEGRAPH POINTS OF VIEW professor of economics and international affairs, princeton university THE coordinated rate cut was the right thing to do. But I don't expect much from it because the relationship between Fed funds rates and the rates most
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      • 324 3 CLOSETO 1,000 people, among them former NTUC chief executive Tan Kin Lian, will petition the Government today to hold an inquiry into credit-linked securities sold by financial institutions here. They allege that there was "misrepresentation" by institutions distributing structured
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      • 52 3 AFP Hundreds of furious investors in Hong Kong yesterday clashed with police outside major bank headquarters and the city's legislature. Many waved placards demanding the repayment of investments linked to US bank Lehman Brothers, which collapsed last month, and saying banks had not fully explained the
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    • 621 4 Quiet for now but crisis is far from over .AGENCIES TUMULT INTHAILAND BANGKOK A day after he had to climb a fence to flee a blockaded Parliament building, Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wangsawat was forced to cut short his meeting with foreign ambassadors amid rumours that anti-government protesters were making
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    • 441 6  -  ONG DAI LIN THE LEGENDSTOWN CLUB Plan for hotel draws ire of some members dailin@mediacorp.com. sg A TOWN club set amid the lush landscape of Fort Canning Park will be turned into a luxury boutique hotel as part of a multimillion dollar revamp but some club
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 90 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA COE prices rose in all but one category in the latest bidding exercise. The Certificate of Entitlement for small cars fell by $299 to $13,801, while the premium for big cars went up by $1,099 to $14,400. Meanwhile, the
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      • 141 6 938 LIVE Less than 20 per cent of Singaporeans are aware that diabetes can cause blindness, according to a recent global study by Transitions Optical, a manufacturer of spectacle lenses. While they know about the dangers posed by the disease, the study
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    • 298 8  -  ESTHERNG THE three local universities do it. Now, SIM University has done it, too its first comprehensive graduate survey, which in its case, is to assess the impact of its education on working adults and not school-leavers. The survey, done by
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    • 504 8  -  LINYANQIN LIFELONG LEARNING Council sends message that skills are crucial for careers yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg GET a degree, and you get a good job; go for skills upgrading only when you get retrenched: That is the mentality one industry panel is trying to change. And the Lifelong
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    • 323 10 AFTER dropping out of the top 20 in the global rankings of universities, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is slowly climbing back up the ladder. It is ranked 30th, up from 33rd last year, and retains its fourth place among Asian
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    • 482 10 AGENCIES QANTAS EMERGENCY LANDING SYDNEY The terror in the sky lasted just 10 to 12 seconds but Qantas passenger Jim Ford thought he was about to die as he watched unbelted passengers being flung around. "It was horrendous, absolutely gruesome, terrible, the worst
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    • 450 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN CHANGI AIRPORT chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg A DAY after the announcement that he will chair Changi Airport's new operating company, Mr Liew Mun Leong had to fend off rumours that he was leaving his post as chief of property giant Capita Land. "Please don't spread the
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    • 209 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN CAAS chairman Liew Mun Leong was "instrumental" in nominating the new airport company's chief executive-desig-nate, Mr Lee Scow Hiang (right). Mr Lee, 38, became deputy director-general (operations) at CAAS in May. He was previously the principal private secretary to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, and held
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    • 57 14 Expats' response when asked if their children would remain in the country.The higherthe rank, the more likely they were to remain. 1 Canada 2 United States 3 Germany 4 France 5 Spain Australia (tied) 7 United Kingdom 8 India China io Netherlands 11 Belgium 12 Hong Kong
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    • 458 14  -  LINYANQIN EXPAT CHILDREN Not many want to settle down here yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS one of those questions that is never far from the lips of Singaporeans when it comes to immigration: Will a large number of the children of expatriates here remain in the country and,
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    • 496 16 AGENCIES MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (picture) announced yesterday he will step down in March and hand over power to his deputy, averting an open rebellion from party members that could have led to a humiliating ouster. Mr Abdullah, whose term expires
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    • 211 16 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER TWO-THIRDS of Malaysians polled in a recent survey agree that the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition's method of managing ethnic diversity is a key factor in political stability. The survey by the Merdeka Centre also revealed that 55 per cent
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    • 728 19  -  PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN Given state of near-anarchy in Thailand, army may choose not to remain neutral AT DAWN on Tuesday, an army of police officers launched an unexpected tear gas attack on protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who camped outside the
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    • 218 22 AFP WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush was set to sign legislation enacting a landmark US-India nuclear agreement in a high-profile ceremony at the White House today. Bush spokesman Carlton Carroll said in a statement: "This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation
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    • 356 22 AGENCIES MUSLIM UIGHURS Judge orders release of 17 no longer considered venemy combatants' WASHINGTON A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to free 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from Guantanamo Bay into the United States immediately, a dramatic ruling that could set the course for releasing
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      110 23 AFP The world's only recipient of two full arms in a transplant appeared in public yesterday to talk about the success of the procedure, calling the feeling of being whole again 'indescribable. Mr Karl Merk, a 54-year-old dairy farmer, spoke to the press along with his doctors at
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    • 241 23 AFP BEIJING China has announced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products, as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare. The government has been struggling with health and public relations issues stemming from the
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    • 289 23 AFP KILLER FOOD TOKYO A Japanese sweet company yesterday announced that it had stopped manufacturing yam jellies blamed for the deaths of at least 17 people in recent years. MannanLife Co said it has suspended production of Konnyaku Batake, a cupped jelly made of a
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    • 835 24  -  LIZSIDOTI AP NEWS ANALYSIS Obama fails to seal the deal, while McCain looks for game-changing moment WASHINGTON Democrat Barack Obama made strides toward easing voters' concerns about his candidacy in Tuesday night's presidential debate. Mr John McCain, despite raising pointed questions about his
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    • 220 24 THEONETHINGTHEYAGREEON IS AFP Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain have agreed that one of the world's richest men, Mr Warren Buffett, would make a good Treasury Secretary. The two were asked at the beginning of their second presidential debate on Tuesday who would be
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    • 201 24 AFP SEOUL North Korea is working to develop a nuclear warhead for a long-range missile, South Korea's top military officer said yesterday, a day after the communist state tested its short-range weaponry. "I understand that North Korea is working to develop a small nuclear
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    • 368 26 AFP ASEAN CHARTER JAKARTA Indonesia is to sign up to a regional charter committing Southeast Asian nations to the principles of democracy and human rights despite doubts over its implementation. After lengthy debate, the Asean charter should be ratified next week, foreign ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 105 26 AFP Indonesian prosecutors yesterday sought an eight-year jail term for an ex-central bank governor charged with embezzling US$ll million ($16.2 million) in bank funds. The recommendation was much less than the maximum life sentence possible under Indonesian law. Prosecutors have also sought a fine of
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      • 118 26 AP A small airplane crashed and caught fire yesterday as it tried to land in foggy weather at a tiny mountain airport near Mount Everest, killing 18 people, including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal. Only one person, the pilot, survived. The
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    • 254 28 AP CHILD SOLDIERS MANILA Rebel groups and governmentarmed militias using child soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other countries face prosecution in the United States under a new US law, a human rights group said yesterday. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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    • 199 28 AFP STOCKHOLM —Japan's Osamu Shimomura and United States duo Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital tool in research. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has revolutionised lab work
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    • 379 30  -  Andrew Lim NO DISCRIMINATION POLICY Letter from Senior Vice-President, Apron and Passenger Services Singapore Airport Terminal Services Limited WE REFER to the report, "Special needs: Fit to travel cert a must?" (Oct 2). As the ground handling agent for many airlines, including Silk
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    • 133 30  -  Edmund Leong MengTsi Letter from NOW that the dormitory has been given the go ahead to be built in Serangoon Gardens with appropriate safeguards promised by the Government, people must stop having ideas that these foreign workers are dangerous and
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    • 164 30  -  David Kwok Letter from I READ with envy about the many things the Government is doing for Serangoon Gardens residents due to the construction of a dormitory for foreign workers. Even an access road to the building will be built to segregate residents from
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    • 177 32  -  DR BILL MAIER ,,,,BY TIME TO SLOW DOWN How can you tell if you're spending too much time at the office? Try asking your kids! One young mother was explaining to her 5 year old why her father had to work so much. She told her:
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    • 417 32  -  GILBERTGOH KEOWWAH WHAT can we do to handle the current economic crisis? This financial storm will pass us by, but the important thing is to hang in there. This is what I try to live by: 1 Try not to
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    • 120 32  -  Kelvin Kwan Chee Hong Letter from IS IT just me, or is there more litter in our public housing estates, shopping malls and on the streets? Even our parks don't seem to be spared. If nothing is done to arrest this deteriorating state of
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    • 475 48 AP CITYGUIDE Locals offer their insights into the French capital with free tours THE city of light has an unfortunate blight: The locals' reputation for rudeness. That's why a group of friendly Parisians have banded together to show complete strangers around their Paris, the one not
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    • 236 53 AFP I PARIS Blood samples taken at the 2008 Beijing Olympics are to be reanalysed for the banned blood booster EPO using a new detection system developed for the Tour de France, the lOC announced yesterday. The retroactive controls are designed to seek
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    • 354 56 LONDON Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has once again had to fend off rumours linking him with a move away from Anfield. Heavily linked to Spanish giants Real Madrid in the past, this time it is Serie A luminaries Juventus who are apparently eyeing Benitez,
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    • 363 60 AP WEF RANKING THE United States still has the world's most competitive economy, despite the recent turmoil that has seen some Wall Street giants tumble and others turn to the Federal Reserve for financial bailouts, according to a survey released yesterday. In a poll
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    • 193 60 DOWJONES GERMANY-based TUI AG looks set to proceed with the sale of Hapag-Lloyd and it considers the bids it has received for its containershipping unit to be satisfactory, two people familiar with the matter said yesterday. "The sale of Hapag-Lloyd is likely to go ahead,"
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