Today, 22 October 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday October 22, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday October 22, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Fed rescue enters Stage 3
      558 1 AFTERNOON LATEST Money markets the target of US'third programme to unlock frozen flow of credit ADDING to its efforts to unclog the credit markets, the United States Federal Reserve said yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that it would provide financing to shore up money market
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      182 1 Looking for a cheaper way to power up NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HAS tha time come for an aP^A-^W NhWb LAI bbl jAmm. fl Ito 1 m\ <H'\ Donation scandal UK Conservative Party shadow Chancellor George Osborne is fighting for his political future after admitting to discussing a substantial donation from a
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        Offshore housing for foreign workers?
        425 2  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg COULD foreign workers be housed in floating dormitories on nearby offshore islands, or even across the border in Johor? These alternatives were suggested in Parliament yesterday, as the issue of foreign workers in Singapore continued to draw questions from Members of Parliament. Madam
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        When things go wrong for them...
        520 2  -  LINYANQIN FOREIGNWORKERS Special passes may be issued to those with work troubles yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE task of housing them may have made headlines as of late, but another set of problems surrounding foreign workers came to the fore yesterday in Parliament. Some workers come to
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        Lock icon Free meal scheme to continue for now
        303 2 ESTHERNG THEY will continue to feed homeless foreign workers as long as their resources allow, say organisers of the Cuff Road Project. Between March and August, project organisers provided free meals to between 70 and 80 men a week, but the number rose
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        Financial prudence is still key: PM
        625 3  -  CHEOWXINYI NATIONAL RESERVES cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE has not turned spendthrift. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterdaystressedtheneedfortheGovernmenttobe financially careful even as the amendment Bill allowing the authorities greater discretion in using the national reserves was passed unanimously. Voicing his support for the Bill in Parliament, Mr
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        Rates of return: The methods and the mechanics
        457 3  -  ESTHER FUNG estherf@mediacorp.com.sg HOW are the long-term expected rates of return on Singapore's investments to be worked out, and how will the process be organised? The questions are important in determining how much money the nation has available to spend, and they
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      Donation scandal rocks UK opposition
      405 4 AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON The shadow Chancellor, Mr George Osborne, was fighting for his political future after he admitted discussing a substantial donation to the Conservative Party from a controversial Russian oligarch. Mr Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire who is banned from the United States, is alleged
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      India's spacecraft launches successfully
      92 4 SRIHARIKOTA (India) India's first lunar mission blasted off from the national space centre on the south-eastern coast just after 9am, Singapore time, this morning. The unmanned lunar orbiting spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 was launched with an Indian-built rocket at 6.22 am local time from the Satish Dhawan Space
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      The verdicts out
      469 4 THAKSINTRIAL Ex-PM sentenced to two years' Jail, says conviction is politically motivated THAILAND'S fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison after being found guilty of corruption, adding a new twist to the country's political crisis. The sentence was greeted with
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      Lock icon Acute infection, heat stroke killed NSmen
      506 6  -  TEOXUANWEI SUDDEN DEATHS No foul play or safety breaches discovered, says Defence Minister xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg AN ACUTE lung infection and a heat stroke respectively caused the deaths of two SAF personnel who died on consecutive days in June, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean told Parliament
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      No wrongdoing by local milk importers
      225 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN THE Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is taking action against some food retailers for flouting the sale and import ban of Chinamade milk products, but it has not uncovered any unscrupulous practices by local importers so far, said Dr Mohamed Maliki Osman, Parliamentary
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      Lock icon Holistic approach is way to g0...
      515 8  -  ALICIA WONG MARRIAGE AND PARENTHOOD PACKAGE alicia@mediacorp.com.sg TWO months after incentives were announced to boost Singapore's birth rates, the Marriage and Parenthood (M&P) Package was passed into law yesterday with the usual support from Members of Parliament, but also, a rare dose of pessimism.
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      Contractors, be more 'neighbour-friendly'
      288 8  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg CLIMATE change is not the only reason why Singapore is taking a serious interest in sustainable development. The current economic crisis presents a number of challenges or provides the impetus, some would say for Singapore's building industry to not only cut cost but
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      Lock icon Microsoft settles with 3 shops which sold pirated wares
      236 10 938 LIVE MICROSOFT has reached settlements with three computer dealers in Sim Lim Square after raids in April netted more than 300 copies of high-end counterfeit software at the outlets. Retailers Powersys and Best Bytes, where most of the counterfeits were
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      Lock icon TEA AND SYMPATHY, JAPANESE STYLE
      51 10 Contestants in the Miss International Beauty Pageant 2008 including Ms EeTokWee of Singapore (right)- pose in traditional garb as they take part in a tea ceremony at the Nijojo castle in Kyoto in western Japan yesterday. The pageant will be held in Macau in November.
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      Participation is the Key...
      399 10  -  ONGDAILIN GREEN LEGACY to sustainable cities dailin@mediacorp.com.sg EVERYONE knows that to create a sustainable city with a living environment that future generations can also enjoy, there is a need to curb climate change and reduce our ecological footprint. But there is another vital cog in the
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      Betting the wrong way?
      320 12  -  TEOXUANWEI FUTURESTRADING Trader accused of falsifying data 109 times to conceal $120 million losses xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg THE Mitsui Oil Asia (MOA) trader who allegedly made bad bets on a petroleum product and then tried to hide the multi-million losses for months was charged with whitecollar offences in
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      Lock icon AND THE AWARD GOES T0... MEDIACORP
      130 12 Ms Lim Suat Jien, managing director of MediaCorpTVi2, receiving the Distinguished Patron of the Arts Award from Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lee Boon Yang (right). As the economy hit its peak last year, a record number of 291 sponsors contributed $374 million
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      Lock icon Singapore, China to sign free trade pact
      257 12 AFP SINGAPORE and China will sign a free trade agreement (FTA) in Beijing during a visit there this week by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the city-state's foreign ministry said yesterday. Mr Lee will make an official visit to China from Oct 22
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Indonesia inks charter at last
      505 14 'AFP ASEANTIES It is last of the io South-east Asian countries to ratify the Asean agreement JAKARTA Indonesia's parliament yesterday ratified the South-east Asian charter committing Asean member nations to promote democracy and human rights, clearing the way for its formal adoption before year's end.
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      Lock icon Two JI terror suspects arrested in Indonesia
      185 14 AFP JAKARTA Two Islamist extremists from the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network have been arrested in Indonesia with weapons and explosives, police said yesterday. "We have arrested two people and seized firearms, explosives and a guide book on how to make a bomb.
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      Lock icon POLITICIAN IN SOUTHERN CHINA 'ASSASSINATED': STATE PRESS
      98 16 AFP A politician in southern China was stabbed to death in an apparent assassination, state press reported yesterday. The Guangzhou Daily reported three men attacked Mr Huang Zhaoluan, 43, outside his home with knives. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital later
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      Lock icon China on international hunt for 8 'terrorists'
      172 16 BEIJING China yesterday published a list of eight alleged Muslim terrorists it said had threatened the Beijing Olympics, and appealed to other countries to help capture them. Chinese police released photos of the men, all ethnic Uighurs, said to belong to the outlawed
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      Lock icon 1,500 dogs die
      267 16 AP TAINTED FEED BEIJING About 1,500 dogs, bred for their raccoon-like fur, have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, raising questions about how widespread the industrial chemical is in China's food chain. The revelation comes amid a scandal over milk tainted with melamine that has seen
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      Lock icon BYE, FRAUDULENT ADVERTISING
      608 17  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg In the aftermath of the tainted-milk saga China is tightening its consumer protection laws FRAUDULENT advertising can be found everywhere, but in China it comes with a twist. Businesses that are guilty of doing so often claim
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      Lock icon Ma: No war with China – for the next 4 years
      257 18 Ma: No war with China for the next 4 years AP TAIPEI Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that there will be no war with China during his first four-year term as president. His comments before a group of high-ranking military officers came amid his five-month-long effort to dampen deep-seated
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      Lock icon Protest takes a violent turn
      253 18 AFP TAIWAN-CHINA RELATIONS Pro-independence activists in Tainan shove Chinese official to the ground TAIPEI A top Chinese official was shoved to the ground by Taiwanese pro-independence activists yesterday during a visit to Tainan. Hours after the attack, China demanded that Taiwan severely punish the activists.
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      Lock icon Hillary goes all out
      381 19 AFP AMERICA VOTES DEMOCRATS UNITE New York senator fervently campaigns for former rival ORLANDO Hillary Clinton campaigned fervently for her former rival on Monday as she ordered a 50,000-strong crowd to send Mr Obama to the White House. "I am asking you to work as hard
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      Lock icon Obama rushes to see sick grandma
      270 19 THE GUARDIAN WEST PALM BEACH (Florida) A family emergency interrupted Barack Obama's bid for the presidency on Monday when the Democratic candidate announced he was leaving the campaign trail to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii. Mr Obama's 86-year old grandmother, Mrs Madelyn Dunham,
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      Lock icon At tipping point
      236 20 AP MARITIME SECURITY M #sia may limit ships using crowded Malacca Strait amid safety fears KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday proposed limiting the number of vessels that can enter one of the world's busiest shipping lanes amid worries that rising congestion could spark accidents. More than 70,000 vessels
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      Lock icon Police report lodged against Najib
      226 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR A group of five people lodged a police report yesterday against Malaysian Deputy Premier Najib Razak for alleged corruption. The group, which calls itself the Sekretariat Anak Muda Malaysia (Samm), claimed they provided the police with evidence in connection with
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon SAUDI PUTS ALMOST 1,000 ALQAEDA SUSPECTS IN DOCK
        131 20 AFP Saudi Arabia said it plans to put in the dock almost i,ooo defendants in the first trials of Al Qaeda suspects after more than five years of deadly Islamist violence. "We have started to bring before the judiciary 991 people implicated
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        Lock icon IMFCHIEF APOLOGISES TO STAFF FOR AFFAIR
        98 20 I ILdU AP The head of the International Monetary Fund apologised on Monday for an extra-marital relationship with a former employee of the lending institution. "While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which I take full responsibility, I firmly
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        Lock icon ARCHIVES REVEALALLEGED ATTEMPT TO FIRE ON UFO
        135 20 AP A United States fighter pilot flying from an English air base in 1957 was ordered to fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain's National Archives on Monday. The unnamed fighter pilot said
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      Lock icon After 60 years, a trade route reopens
      310 24 .AP INDIA-PAKISTAN TIES ISLAMABAD Trucks laden with fruit, honey and spices from the verdant Kashmir Valley rumbled towards the heavily-armed frontier yesterday as India and Pakistan opened a trade route between the two sides of the divided Himalayan region for the first time
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      Lock icon FIREBRAND POLITICIAN ARRESTED FOR ATTACKS
      70 24 AP Police arrested Mr Raj Thackeray, founder of the Maharashtra Reconstruction Party, for inciting violence against migrant workers and sparking a violent rampage through Mumbai by his followers. He has repeatedly advocated violence against migrant workers and accused them of taking jobs from locals. After
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      Lock icon INDIA SHOOTS FORTHE MOON IN ASIAN SPACE RACE
      104 24 AFP India's space programme takes a giant leap today with the launch of its first lunar mission that marks its promotion to the same league as regional powerhouses Japan and China. The unmanned lunar orbiting spacecraft Chandrayaan-i is scheduled to blastoff aboard
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      Engage only accredited agents
      236 28  -  Wilson Lim PROPERTY SCAMS Letter from Executive Director Singapore Accredited Estate Agencies Limited (SAEA) WE REFER to the report, "Rental scams on the rise here" (Oct 13). It is important for the public who may be potential tenants, buyers, landlords and/or sellers to be aware of
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      Think twice before firing 'easy targets'
      198 28  -  Cheryl Liew Letter from Working Mothers Forum, Vice-Chair, Panel of Experts Director, LifeWorkz Pte Ltd I REFER to the article, "Mums-to-be fear getting laid off (Oct 20). At our recent Working Mothers Forum: Mothers Balance-It-All on Oct 11, a similar concern was raised by
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      SAY SAFETY COMES AT A PRICE
      703 30  -  LeeChiu San Singaporeans must be prepared to pay for added protection PEOPLE demand safety and then grumble when told they have to pay for it. The recent announcement that small school buses will be fitted with three-point seat belts over the next few years
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      'Strict nutrition criteria is applied'
      354 31  -  Lam PinWoon HCS LABELLING Key nutrients selected based on health impact Letter from Chief Executive Officer Health Promotion Board WE REFER to the I Say commentary, "Green Light to Health" (Oct 8) by Mr Zhuang Vi Zhong and thank the writer for his feedback. We
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      341 37  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW BLINDNESS A WELL-MADE allegory is necessary every now and then to open the world's eyes and illustrate the dystopic notions of power corrupting basic moral principles. However, no one ever wants to be clobbered
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      1101 40 AFP Champions League Fenerbahce 2 Arsenal 5 ISTANBUL Arsenal produced a counter-attacking masterclass to shatter Fenerbahce's long unbeaten home record with a 5-2 victory in the Champions League yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Emmanuel Adebayor and Theo Walcott put Arsene Wenger's side in control with
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      525 41 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST Juventus win eases pressure on under-fire coach Ranieri Champions League Juventus 2 Real Madrid 1 TURIN Juventus produced a stunning rearguard action to hold on for a famous 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League to take
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      111 41 BLOOMBERG Tottenham Hotspur player Michael Dawson was yesterday cited by the Football Association for his reaction to a red card in the club's 2-1 Premier League defeat at Stoke City on Sunday. The centre-back, who received a three-match ban following his injury-time dismissal for
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      516 42  -  TANYO-HINN SUZUKI CUP 2008 For now Singapore will play in Bishan if they make Suzuki Cup semis, but... yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg BOTH the semi-finals and final of the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup in December are played over two legs, home and away. If defending champions Singapore
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      397 42  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER three days of intense competition at the Singapore Sports School's table tennis hall, 20 young paddlers out of 33 hopefuls were identified yesterday for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games to be held here from Aug 14-26. The
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      421 44 ESTHER FUNG SMALL businesses could be accused of not doing enough to rev up their designs and branding, often leaving such matters to their suppliers or their engineering units. Many companies here market products that are sourced from around Asia but tend to
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      399 46 THEGUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Bank of England Governor Mervyn King last night admitted that Britain was entering its first recession since the early *****. He is the most senior figure to use the word "recession" since the slowdown began. Against a backdrop of more bad news on
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      425 48 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST SEOUL—South Korea is ready to take more measures to restore confidence in its financial system if needed, including a package to shore up the economy, the nation's top financial regulator said. "The follow-up measures any country can take now are fiscal stimulus
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