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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday December io, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday December io, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    36 1 Maria Siow Some local officials in China have been locking up petitioners in mental institutions to quell dissent. Such thuggish acts should not be condoned. The authorities must take steps to resolve disputes. Page 18
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    SPORTS
    20 1 Spore 2 Indonesia o Lions in title-winning mood as they silence Senayan Stadium with a professional display. Page 50
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    BUSINESS
    29 1 The W word What United States Presidentelect Barack Obama described on Sunday as a long-term auto bailout conditioned on federal oversight sounds a lot like nationalisation. Page Bl
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    Lock icon MNC conundrum for unions
    663 1  -  TEOXUANWEI JOB LOSSES Singapore workers wait to hear of fate after Sony and Nomura HQs announce cuts xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg A GLOBAL company breaks the bad news: Thousands of staff from its operations all over the world will be retrenched. And all of a sudden, its employees are
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    Lock icon Democrats closer to forming Thai govt
    451 1 BANGKOK Thailand's Parliament is likely to elect a new prime minister next week, parliamentary officials said yesterday, as the two main parties lobbied for support ahead of the crucial vote. The vote was triggered a week ago when, after months of anti-government protests, the
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      111 1 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work pp* Premieres Friday, 12 th Dec at 7:50 pm |t y fKt Super Saver Pack Promo E^L^Qj^J >Sign up now and stand to win a trip to Italy worth $10,000 to catch one of the final matches of the Serie A 08/09 season. Your
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  • NEWS
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      STRANDED TOURISTS TO BE COMPENSATED 2,000 BAHT A DAY
      80 2 As the interim government yesterday formally lifted a State of Emergency imposed at both airports, the caretaker Cabinet approved a compensation budget of 1.9 billion baht ($BO million) to be given to Thai and foreign tourists stranded because of the airport
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      Lock icon Lawyer questions different treatment
      561 3  -  CONRAD RAJ TODAY FILE PHOTO CRIMINAL LAW conrad@mediacorp.com.sg CRIMINAL lawyer Subhas Anandan wonders if there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. Writing in the latest issue of Probono, the official publication of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore (ACLS), Mr
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      Lock icon And the firms most likely to offer bribes are ...
      296 3 And the firms most likely to offer bribes are AFP BERLIN Russian, Chinese, and Mexican firms are most likely to offer bribes when doing business abroad, the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International said in a report released yesterday. In a survey of 22 leading international and regional exporting countries, Russian firms
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      Lock icon More mid-career professionals consider a switch to teaching
      430 4 938 LIVE THE Education Ministry (MOE) is bringing forward manpower hiring plans amid the downturn. It hopes to employ more than 2,200 teachers next year. To raise the proportion of mid-career professionals in the teaching force, it held a large-scale recruitment drive
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      Lock icon Pakistan arrests 20 more people
      594 4 AGENCIES MUMBAI ATTACKS But rules out handing over citizens to India ISLAMABAD Pakistan has intensified its crackdown on a militant group suspected of involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks by arresting 20 more people, but will not hand over any of its citizens to India,
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      Lock icon In a crisis, its to calm nerves, boost confidence
      589 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN THE MEDIA'S ROLE Mica's Lee Boon Yang says media has critical part to play in imparting info chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE media's ability to influence and inform is amplified in times of crisis. And, in the difficult times now being played out,
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      FROM MALAWI TO SINGAPORE ...
      112 6 FROM MALAWI TO SINGAPORE Twenty African orphans, who were in Singapore last weekend as part of a cultural exchange and charity tour, showcased their skills in Shaolin gongfu at a charity dinner to raise funds for the expansion of their orphanage back home. They are from the Amitofo Care Centre
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      Lock icon A BOX FULL OF LOVE
      74 8 001 BOON KEONG A 'Christmas Wonderland' party, organised by nonprofit organisation City Care for under-privileged kids, featured a giant gift box measuring 4m x ifm x 3.1 m, setting a Singapore record yesterday forthe Largest Gift Box ever displayed. The box was specially-constructed to hold
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      Chicken soup for the family
      523 8  -  MELODY TAN Soup Restaurant makes it easy for the family to get together for a meal The only thing better than a hot, delicious meal is sharing it with your loved ones. As Singaporeans work longer hours, the idea of preparing a traditional family dinner
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      The danger in the delay
      617 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Mr Ong KengYong ASEAN CHARTER Former Sec-Gen says early summit vital for group's image weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) confirmed it had set a date Monday to formalise its milestone Charter, the grouping's former Secretary-General has warned that the
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      Lock icon This Christmas, share the joy with the deaf
      553 9  -  Joseph Koh Advertising feature 10 cents from the sale of each Christmas Buddy Meal will be donated to The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf). Text by KFC is an Ambassador for the deaf since 2004 and has been working with the
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      $17.2m in four months
      384 10  -  ONG DAI LIN FUND RAISING Leading financial economics think-tank off to a good start dailin@mediacorp.com.sg IN LESS than six months since the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI) was set up at the Singapore Management University (SMU), it has achieved its target of raising
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      Lock icon 1,370 foreign workers to be relocated
      196 10 THE Manpower Ministry's (MOM) inspections of foreign worker dormitories have led to 1,370 of these workers relocated to approved accommodation by their employers. MOM had inspected 661 premises between January and last month, to ensure foreign workers are housed in acceptable conditions. In all,
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      Entrepreneurship turns into washout
      327 12  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg FIRST, he applied for a car washing licence from the Housing Development Board (HDB). That was in 2003. Then, Mr M Subramaniam, a Certis Cisco auxiliary police officer attached to The Istana, set up a company in his wife's name and started to wash
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      $18,000 required in Medisave from Jan 1
      159 12 FROM Jan 1, Central Provident Fund (CPF) members will be required to set aside a larger sum in their Medisave Accounts when they make a CPF withdrawal upon turning 55. The Required Amount will be raised from $14,000 to $18,000, after adjusting for
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      Lock icon A slice of 7th Storey remains
      353 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN A NEW LOOK Hotel's gone, but its charcoal steamboat restaurant opens at Marina Barrage chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg AFTER they had served their last customer at the New 7th Storey Hotel along Rochor Road last Sunday night, the 15 staff of the hotel's famed 7th
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      120 4 Market Crashes Create Be ONE of them! The financial crisis presents extraordinary opportunities for you to make your fortune. However, most Singaporeans are not educated to tap these opportunities. If you want to position yourself to ride the wave and come out way ahead of this crisis, you must not
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Pakistan Presidents personal pain
      469 14 AFP MUMBAI ATTACKS Zardari vows to crack down on attackers WASHINGTON Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (picture) vowed to crack down on anyone involved in the Mumbai attacks who was living in Pakistan, citing the arrests of the suspected Mumbai mastermind after Sunday's raid on a
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        Lock icon FIRE BREAKS OUT AT MUMBAI'S TAJ HOTEL
        74 14 AFP Afire broke out early yesterday morning on the 20th floor of Mumbai's historicTaj Mahal hotel, one of the sites stormed by Islamist militants two weeks ago, officials said. The officials did not say what had caused the fire at the hotel, which
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        Lock icon SLAIN RABBI WAS READING TERROR BOOK BEFORE ATTACK
        88 14 AFP A rabbi, murdered in Mumbai by Islamist militants who stormed his home, was reading a Hebrew book entitled How to Protect Yourself if Terrorists Come to Your House before he was killed. The book was found on Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg's bedside
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        Lock icon MODERATE EARTHQUAKE HITS PAKISTAN
        71 14 AFP A moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck mountainous south-western Pakistan yesterday morning, seismologists said. The shallow quake, at a depth of just 10 km, was centred 54km from Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, the US Geological Survey said. Local officials said there were no reports of casualties
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      Lock icon Thai distributor bans The Economist
      254 16 AFP BANGKOK The Thai distributor of The Economist said yesterday that it had banned this week's edition (picture) of the magazine because it contained a story that was critical of the country's widely-revered king. Asia Books said it had taken the decision because the article,
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      Lock icon 'Rescuers were cold-hearted'
      402 16 KUALA LUMPUR LANDSLIDE KUALA LUMPUR The family of a woman who recently gave birth has accused Malaysian rescue personnel of acting in a coldhearted manner, resulting in the woman's death in the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide tragedy. This came as residents of the housing estate in Kuala Lumpur,
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      LOCKING UP THE SANE
      658 18  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg Local officials must take steps to address petitioners' concerns SHANDONG resident Sun Fawu was recently diagnosed as "mentally unstable" and forcibly sent by the local government to a mental hospital. There, he spent over 20 days
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      Lock icon CHINATO PROBE MENTAL HOSPITAL ABUSES: STATE MEDIA
      170 18 AFP The Chinese authorities are probing charges that Xintai city in Shandong province locked up citizens in mental hospitals to prevent them complaining about local injustices, state press said yesterday. At least 18 people are believed to have been sent to such hospitals
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        Lock icon N KOREA NUCLEARTALKS LOOK AT NEW CHINESE PROPOSAL
        110 20 AFP Delegates from six nations resumed talks yesterday on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, looking at a Chinese proposal on how to verify the secretive regime's claims about its atomic programme. In October, the regime had appeared to accept the verification process, but
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        Lock icon CHINA DISMISSES JAPAN'S SHIP-INTRUSION COMPLAINT
        107 20 AGENCIES China has dismissed Japan's formal protest on Monday over two Chinese ships that entered waters near disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China-located in the East China Sea. According to Xinhua news agency, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liv Jianchao said: "Since
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      Lock icon China to launch safety campaign
      289 20 AFP TAINTED FOOD Four-month effort aims to clean up industry practices BEIJING China will launch a four-month food safety campaign from today to prevent the toxic chemical melamine and other harmful substances from ending up on the dinner table, the government said. The crackdown, which
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      STANDARD CHARTERED
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      Lock icon Run, stop, shoot run
      338 22  -  Low Lin Fhoong HE COMPLETED his sixth Singapore marathon on Sunday, once again armed with his camera and two lenses. For most folks, running 42km is already a hard enough task, but Tey EngTiong, 39, does it with a twist: he stops regularly en route to
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      Lock icon Champion Kibet
      516 22  -  TAN YO-HINN Back in shape mentally and physically, Kenyan world title holder shows his prowess yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THE family was rocked when ethnic violence hit their home town of Eldoret, in Kenya. Luke Kibet, a police inspector, was knocked unconscious by a mob, his mentor, former Olympian Lukas Sang,
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      Fuelled by the heart
      303 23  -  Tan Yo-Hinn ONCE a year, FayeTan sacrifices her Sunday sleep in to push herself to the limit, both physically and mentally. And she does it all for money. Tan ran in herthird Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on Sunday, and this time collected around $700forthe Community Chest.
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono faces backlash for inking law
      298 25 AFP INDONESIA'S ANTI-PORN LAW JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was strongly criticised yesterday after he signed a tough anti-pornography law which opponents have said threatens national unity. The law, backed by Islamic parties in the capital Jakarta, criminalises all works and "bodily movements"
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      Lock icon Three dead in fighter jet crash
      348 25 AGENCIES LOS ANGELES Three people were killed and one person was missing after a United States F/A-18 fighter jet slammed into a densely-populated neighbourhood in California, officials said. The accident occurred shortly before mid-day on Monday when the two-seater plane spiralled out of control
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      Lock icon Online-only publications can bag Pulitzer Prize too
      153 26 AFP WASHINGTON The Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious United States journalism awards, announced on Monday that they were expanding to include on-line-only publications. The Pulitzer Prize Board that oversees the awards said the 2009 prizes, which will be announced in April, had been
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      Lock icon US wants 30 years' jail for Blackwater guards
      198 26 AP WASHINGTON Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 17 Iraqis and injured 20 others in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said on Monday, announcing charges with mandatory 30-year prison terms against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards. The Justice Department called the shooting
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      Lock icon EYES IN THE SKY
      46 26 .AFP Four Australian Army Blackhawk helicopters patrol the coastline over Sydney's Bondi Beach yesterday. Following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai which claimed the lives of 172 people, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned Australians to be vigilant against the risks from terrorism.
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      Lock icon Patrolling cyberspace
      309 26 AFP ONLINE SECURITY Experts urge Obama to set up White House office for cyber security WASHINGTON Cyber security is a major national security threat and United States President-elect Barack Obama should create an office in the White House to deal with the problem, a high-level panel of experts
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      Lock icon No cigarettes on display shelves
      342 27 THE GUARDIAN ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN UK ban a bid to snuff out smoking LONDON The open display of tobacco in shops and supermarkets in the United Kingdom will be banned in an attempt to reduce smoking among children and adults, the Health Secretary, Mr Alan Johnson,
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      Lock icon Bird flu hits Hong Kong farm
      237 27 AFP HONG KONG More than 80,000 chickens will be slaughtered in Hong Kong after bird flu was found in a poultry farm, the first outbreak at a farm here in nearly six years, health authorities said yesterday. "We have discovered up to 60 dead
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      Lock icon Sept 11 suspects postpone guilty pleas
      242 27 AFP GUANTANAMO BAY (Cuba) The self-proclaimed architect of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four codefendants said on Monday that they would plead guilty to terror charges that could bring the death penalty. However, some of them later indicated they wanted
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      Lock icon Energy-guzzling bulbs to be turned off
      314 28 AFP EUROPE'S GREEN MOVEMENT BRUSSELS The European Union (EU) has decided to phase out traditional household light bulbs (picture) by September 2012 in favour of new energy-saving models that use a fraction of the electricity. EU governments and the European Parliament also agreed yesterday
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      Lock icon Electric car recharging network for Israel
      378 28 THE GUARDIAN RAMAT HASHARON (Israel) An electric transport company is to install thousands of recharging points for electric cars across Israel ready for commercial use by 2011 in the first such nationwide network. The firm, Better Place, demonstrated its first charging spot on Monday
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      Lock icon Driven to despair, she killed her 5 children
      387 29 AFP BELGIAN HORROR She lured them upstairs one by one and slit their throats before attempting suicide NIVELLES (Belgium) The trial of a Belgian woman accused of killing her five children opened on Monday with a chilling description of how motherly love
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      Lock icon Save the earth, eat a camel: Aussies told
      203 29 AFP SYDNEY Australians were urged yesterday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos. A three-year study has found that Australia's population of more than a
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      Lock icon Japan's emperor has bleeding in stomach
      123 29 AFP TOKYO —Japanese Emperor Akihito is suffering from bleeding in the stomach due to physical and mental stress but no longer has an irregular heartbeat, Kyodo News reported yesterday, quoting the palace. No details were available. The Imperial Household Agency said it was unable
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      Lock icon More say for Asian powers
      512 31  -  RACHEL LIM THE WORLD DEBATE Experts urge more representation on the global stage rachell@mediacorp.com.sg WITH their ascent as global players, Asian powers should have greater representation in international institutions, foreign relations experts said at a forum on Saturday. In organisations such as the International Monetary
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      Lock icon Thanks to nagging wife, NZ man wins $6.2m lottery
      227 31 AP WELLINGTON A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the first prize of NZ$7.7 million ($6.2 million), with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just
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      212 17 s3f MAKE IT A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER WITH LEE HWA JEWELLERY Ite^^ A spectacular light-up of joy and love j] S In collaboration with Bugis Junction (Capita Land Retail), Lee Hwa unveiled to much fanfare its magnificent Tree of Joy&Luv. B^r/^yj|^Q9 Attended by representatives from Capita Land Retail and scones
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      152 33 YUN NAIVT Nfew >Vk 8 H A I R C A R E iNiih-ri J I 111 111 She's Got The Hair! She's Got The Face! "I started losing hair in my 20s and it was an "Being a working mother made my skin suffer and I unbelievably stressful period
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      42 34 Is this society so orderly and clean and neat and safe because it wants to be or is it because the people are just in constant fear of being punished if they don't keep everything status quo? blogged theavocados.wordpress.com
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      465 34 How can we just stand by when someone is in need? blogged mathialee.wordpress.com ON SUNDAY, I was at the Speaker's Corner, with around 50 other people, of whom at least 20 were activists. When Mr Tan Kin Lian spoke, it started to drizzle.
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      226 36  -  DRJAMES DOBSON I BY OF MACHINES AND MEN A few years ago I saw a computerised chess set in a store featuring a sign inviting customers to play the game. I took the bait. The device had a mechanical arm that reached out and moved the
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      287 36  -  Gilbert GohKeowWah HELPINGTHE JOBLESS Let us consider other ways to keep the unemployed meaningfully engaged Letter from in Sydney I REFER to the Government's calls for skills upgrading for the jobless so that they can be re-employed. But I wonder if that really is the best
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      209 36  -  Leong Sze Hian Letter from I REFER to the reduction of the electricity tariff by 25 per cent in January. According to the Energy Market Authority's (EMA's) chart on fuel oil price versus the low tension tariff, the tariff
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      168 37  -  Tan Kok Liang LANDED PROPERTY Make it easier for expatriates to buy houses they can live in Letter from WITH Singapore's safe track record and attractions, such as the two integrated resorts to be completed in a couple of years, this is the best time to
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      96 37  -  Phillip Lye Letter from Chairman of Advocacy Sub-Committee, Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped WE REFER to "Keep close tabs on your journey with SMRT's STARIS" (Dec 8). We are happy to note that SMRT/ LRT will introduce integrated lighted stations route maps on board all
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      194 37  -  Mariann Macs Letter from I REFER to "Managing traffic" (Dec 9) and thank the Land Transport Authority for clarifying the bus lane scheme with more information and facts. I would, however, like to highlight a rising trend that would warrant the attention of the relevant
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      282 37  -  Tay Hwee Ping Letter from Programme manager, The Singapore Mint WE REFER to the blog post "Inflation at the Singapore Mint" published on Nov 27. Two points were raised the first was on the face value of the loz gold coin. The
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      94 34 MediaCorp Press Ltd I JT~\ A"^/" Caldecott Broadcast Centre, II II fA\ If Annex Building, Level 1, "™->~-'-B-^-i- m~B- Andrew Road, we set you thinking Singapore *****9 todayonline.com Tel *****8881 Fax 6534 w Publisher Philip Koh Editor Walter Fernandez Associate Editor ChanTeckGuan Night Editor Richard JValladares Editor-At-Larqe Conrad Raj Supervising
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      377 36 a /7*i Specialist Diploma >=^ertllied in Work Place jounsellors Counselling ■ffTTT?!^TfffiTfffr J ..:,.»/n-.n.rM ppge Talk. 10 rje C os, wed 7pm www.certifledcouiuellors.org Hotline :6339 5411 All courses are conducted by ACC School of Counselling and Psychology (MOE Reg. No 2233), the training division of Academy of Certffled Counsellors. In the
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      198 39 Get your exclusive free preview tickets now! T^^ M 1 customers can redeem a pair of preview tickets to the Ml Box Office Preview of PRIDE AND GLORY with 400 Sun Perks points. Simply log on to www.ml.com.sg from December 10,9 am onwards to redeem. r *While stocks last. Seat
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      MEDIACORP BAGS 26 ATV NOMINATIONS
      83 40 MediaCorp has received 26 nominations spanning 12 categories for the Asian Television Awards 2008-an increase from last year's 17 nominations over 11 categories. Nominations include acting nods for Huang Wen Yong (Best inSingapore, Channel 8), Michelle Chong (Sayang, Sayang, Channel 5); March of the Saffron
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      115 40  -  GENEVIEVE LOH THE PLUS AWARDS IT HAS been quite a tumultuous year and hardly anyone was spared. A year of a surprise hits and obvious misses; a year of comebacks and embarrassing flops; a year where terror attacks and tough economic times caused moviegoers everywhere to
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      THE ONETHAT LIVED UPTO ITS HYPE
      91 40 winner The Dark Knight From the hunk in a Batsuit to a grotesquely intriguing Joker, The Dark Knight was an intoxicating and enthralling piece of storytelling art masquerading as a comic book action flick. Director Christopher Nolan and his brilliant cast rebooted a dying
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      THE ONE(S)WHERETEENSRULETHE UNIVERSE
      87 40 wi NNER Twilight, High School Musical 3: Senior Year If your name is Rob Pattinson or Zac Efron, then ***** *****, you are, like, totally the star of one of the year's most screamed-about movies, and, like, totally the ruler of pop culture and stuff. The year
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      THE SMALL LOCAL MOVIETHAT COULD
      90 40 (WHICH WASN'T MADE BY ERIC KHOO, ROYSTON TAN OR JACK NEO) winner Mad about English When a local film's entire budget is less than a Hollywood flick's catering kitty, and it turns out to be one of the year's most charming movies, kudos must be
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      THE ONE WITH THE MIRACULOUS COMEBACK
      361 40 winner Robert Downey Jr Entertainment Weekly anointed him No 1 in their list of Entertainers of the Year, and deservedly so. The Talented Mr Downey managed to beat all odds :o re-emerge as a bona fide action superstar, making a spectacular comeback from unemployed-actor
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      It's alive!!! (Kinda)
      308 42  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIE REVIEW IGOR SHREK won't be losing sleep over this one. Because as far as computer-animated buttugly monsters go, we're not quite sure if we like Igor or not. Stylistically ripping off Tim Burton wholesale, this spoof of the horror monster genre takes place in
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      THEONEWITHTHE EXCELLENT SOUNDTRACK
      74 42 winner Shine a Light You can't dismiss the music of the Rolling Stones, legendar ily showcased in this rock doc so lovingly directed by the Martin Scorsese. Okay, it's a bit of a cop-out seeing as this is a "concert flick", but when the camera is so
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        YOGA LIN IN CONCERT
        51 42 Yoga Lin will hold his first concert here on Feb 20 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Called Yoga Trick Concert Live in Singapore, the singer will be joined by special guests S.H.E. and Olivia Ong. Tickets from $50 to $120 will be available from Sistic from
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        MIGRANTS ONSTAGE
        68 42 Migrant Voices and Drama Box presents Let Me Off!, a play featuring a cast of Singaporeans and migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal and India. There will be two performances at spm and 7.30pm on Sunday, International Migrant's Day, at The Arts House, The Old Parliament
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        RUSSELL WONG FOR SALE
        39 42 Asian Art Options is holding a sale of photographs by celebrity photographer Russell Wong priced at $999 and below. Friday to Sunday, 11am to spm, 131 Devonshire Road, Level 2. Call 6372 0357 for details.
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      Save the Earthor else...
      357 43  -  FE MOVIE REVIEW THE DAYTHE EARTH STOOD STILL may@mediacorp.com. sg YES, this is another standardissue sci-fi flick. And no, the effects aren't special enough to keep you interested. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a remake of the 1951 science fiction classic directed by Robert
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      A meandering visit
      204 43  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE REVIEWTHE VISITOR A LECTURER, Walter, (Richard Jenkins) pays a visit to his second home in the city only to find an illegal immigrant couple, Tarek and Zainab, living in his apartment. Despite initially chasing them off, he relents and invites them back in. Tarek is
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      Sting, you ol' charmer
      337 44  -  MAY SEAH CONCERT REVIEW SONGS FROM THE LABYRINTH A captivating night of lute music from one of the world's greatest rockers may@mediacorp.com.sg STING'S Songs from the Labyrinth concert, held on Monday night at the Esplanade Concert Hall, could be described in one word: Charming. Mere months
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      99 46 AGENCIES THE Writers Guild of America yesterday announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation. Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Lost, Mad Men and The Wire picked up nods in the Dramatic Series category; while 30 Rock, Entourage, The Office, The Simpsons
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      312 46 AP CELEBRITY LAW Court rules tabloid pics of Madonna's wedding a breach of privacy, copyright MADONNA (picture) won a court battle on Monday against a British tabloid that published pictures recently of her wedding. The one-time Material Girl won a judgment against a British tabloid that
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      63 47 AP MILK HONOURED GusVan Sant's biopic Milkw\\\ on Jan 24 receive the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award, which honours pictures taking on provocative social issues. Milk stars Sean Penn as San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man elected
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      Lock icon Fantasy has lost the plot
      434 47 THE GUARDIAN FILM TREND Why Harry Potter has ruined the fantasy genre THIS Christmas excited young film fans can enter a magical world that is... strangely familiar, tepidly directed and thinly layered with poor CGI. Two adaptations of fantasy series will be out soon: Twilight,
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      992 48 ON MEDJACORP CHANNEL if ON MEDJACORP LIFE IN COLD BLOOD FIND ME A NEW BOSS (DEBUT) DrSQOnS Of the Dry 6.00AM Entertainment Tonight Elliott MN TheTyra Banks Show III Channel 8 8diti 6.30 Prime Time Morning 6.00 Entertainment Tonight How Freaky are We? okto, 10pm g30 The E en rj
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      OUT WITH UGLY FOOTBALL, ASEAN
      450 50  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS COMMENT sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com. sg I CANNOT help but recall what Singapore coach Radojko Avramovic told Today just before the AFF Suzuki Cup 2008 kicked off that the champions were out to do a professional job, both in how they played and behaved.
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      122 50  -  LAN DECOTTA AFTER helping to ensure the 2008 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix Formula 1 race ran smoothly, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) are set to play a bigger role for next year's race. The SSC are looking to recruit about 800 volunteers for the
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      543 50  -  SHAMIR OSMAN ASEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Avramovie gets it right as champions silence the Senayan faithful AFF Suzuki Cup 2008, Group A Indonesia o Singapore 2 in Jakarta shamir@mediacorp.com.sg COACH Radojko Avramovic's game plan was to choke the midfield and give Indonesia's marauders as little space as possible to work
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      Lock icon Times running out for Tevez
      446 51 AFP EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Argentinian striker's not happy warming the bench and could be off to Madrid Champions League, Group E Manchester United vAaB Aalborg MANCHESTER Carlos Tevez may make a rare start in Manchester United's Champions League meeting with Aalborg tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time).
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      558 52 AFP Redknapp pays Spurs captain tribute after his first goal in three years English Premiership West Ham o Tottenham Hotspur 2 LONDON Harry Redknapp paid tribute to the bravery and determination of Ledley King, after the injury-plagued Tottenham captain helped his side pull clear of the
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      266 52 DPA MADRID Real Madrid have fired manager Bernd Schuster and replaced him with former Tottenham Hotspur and Sevilla coach Juande Ramos, the Spanish club announced yesterday. Schuster's head was placed firmly on the block on Sunday when Real slipped to a humiliating 4-3 home defeat
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      554 53 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Just days after quitting Sunderland, Irishman says he will return to management LONDON Roy Keane's future was clouded in doubt when he left the Stadium of Light last Thursday after 100 games in charge. But he has now said he will eventually revive
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      60 51 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 5.55pm Football Suzuki Cup: Thailand v Malaysia, Ch 24 8.25pm Football Suzuki Cup: Vietnam v Laos, Ch 24 TOMORROW 2am Football Champions League: Man Utd v Aalborg, Ch 23 3.30 am Football Champions League: Porto v Arsenal, Ch 24 8.30 am Golf Australian Open, Ch 26
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        659 54  -  ESTHER FUNG EXPANDINGYOUR BUSINESS Before fratrcjifsing, build your Jwandname and manuals esther@mediacorp.com. sg RUNNING a language school in China was such a good learning experience for a hus-band-and-wife team from Singapore that they now plan to bring their education model to other parts of Asia. For
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      1116 55 EDCs offer SMEs advice ranging from raising business efficiencies to seeking new overseas markets India-born Mr Jothinathan Manichavachagam left the Seychelles Islands in 1980 to start his own trading company in Singapore. Explaining his decision, he says, "The Seychelles market is rather small and besides, I
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      528 56  -  KELVIN CHOW RELATIONSHIP MANAGERS Things not looking too bright for at least the next six months kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg NEXT year will be the Chinese year of the Ox, but relationship managers are not so bullish about their earnings. They say things will look gloomy for them
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      248 56 AGENCIES A UNITED States plan for major infrastructure spending continued to drive optimism and buoy stocks in Asia yesterday, although analysts warned that the rally may not last. In Singapore, the benchmark Straits Times Index closed up 5.75 per cent, catching up to gains
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        92 56 The brand with a heritage of more than 125 years in Holland is now sponsoring a trip to Holland where its milk farms are. Simply buy any participating Dutch Lady product- Condensed Milk, UHT Milk, Latte, Pasteurised Milk
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        SHOP AND WIN PRIZES AT BUGIS JUNCTION
        121 56 Shop till you drop at the over 200 specialty shops in Bugis Junction and stand to win prizes in lucky draws. A lanyard and card holder set is yours to take home when you spend $120 (or charge $90 to your Capita Card)
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        93 56 As you tighten your purse strings to tide over the downturn, what better way is thereto get more value foryour buck than to hit warehouse sales? Clarks is having one this weekend, from 10am to 7pm, at SAFRA Tampines. There are leather shoes and sandals for men,
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      394 57 AP JAPAN fell into a deeper recession in the third quarter than first thought, the government said yesterday, as exports weakened, domestic demand fell and companies bracing for a prolonged downturn pared inventories. The Cabinet Office said that
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      445 57 BLOOMBERG CHINA ECONOMY Central Bank adviser unveils weak export figures CHINA'S exports shrank last month and industrial-produc-tion growth cooled, said Mr Fan Gang, an adviser to the People's Bank of China. "Things are not so good," Mr Fan said at a forum in Beijing.
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      358 58 BLOOMBERG MEMORY-CHIP GLUT Mobile phone business may be chip-maker's last bastion of hope SEOUL Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of memory chips, liquid-crystal displays and televisions, said the global recession is wiping out profits at those businesses this quarter. The glut in the memory-chip
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      357 58 BLOOMBERG NINTENDO president Satoru Iwata expects demand for Wii and DS game players to hold up this year after sales during the Black Friday shopping week increased more than the company had anticipated. "I see no negative signs so far," Mr Iwata, 49,
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        60 60 $3-44 I Neutral Credit Suisse downgrades SPH from "Outperform", cuts target to $3.57 from $4.85. Says "traditionally, there has been a good relationship between SPH's print ad revenue growth and Singapore's private consumption expenditure growth". Attractive 8-per-cent dividend yield, but shares trading at 58-per-cent premium to market on price-to-earnings
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        61 60 $1.40 Buy OCBC cuts target price to $1.94 from $2.57 to reflect prospect of higher borrowing costs amid tight credit conditions, slowdown in rental growth. Says debt refinancing will remain overhanging concern next year for Capital Mall Trust, which has $80 million in borrowings due May. But keeps call
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        93 60 $2.04 I Hold DBS Vickers cuts target price for Singapore Petroleum to $2.16 from $3.11 to reflect reduced valuation for refining business, lower oil prices. Says while current valuations cheap, share price has no catalyst with oil prices at four-year low, refining margins thin, Q. 4 '08 results expected
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        18 60 H Friday 1,659.17 A 0.94% Thursday 1,643.68 A 0.19% Wednesday 1,640.57 A 0.08% Monday Closed
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        19 60 Jikkei lhanghai ieoul /lumbai ;LComp 8/395-87 A 0.80% 2,037-74 2-54°/» 1,105.84 A 0.07% Closed 835.17 T 0.37%
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        21 60 aix.^u^ tiiw a>±.o.i/ :i euro k$i !Mi $2,223 HKS1OO $19.41 $1,938 RMB100 $21.89 $0,984 RS100 $3,035 $0,416 RPio,ooo $1,378
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      903 60  -  DAVID ESANGER THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESS ANALYSIS The US plan for its auto industry looks a lot like nationalisation WHEN United States President-elect Barack Obama spoke on Sunday about realigning the American automobile industry, he was quick to offer a caution, lest he sound more like the incoming
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      319 60 BLOOMBERG AIRLINE industry losses next year may shrink to half this year's level as a decline in fuel costs more than makes up for a reduction in the number of people flying. Carriers may lose a total of US$2.5 billion ($3.8 billion) next year,
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