Today, 29 January 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Thursday January 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    BIZ LATEST
    38 1 House passes plan The House of Representatives has passed US President Barack Obama's US$Bl9 billion ($1.23 trillion) economic stimulus package. The measure now goes to the Senate, where Republicans are set to demand changes. Page BI
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    SPORTS LATEST
    27 1 Liverpool frustrated Liverpool's title challenge suffered another setback as Wigan striker Mido (picture) hit a debut penalty to earn a 1-1 draw yesterday. Page 30
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    Lock icon Held as human shields
    636 1 AGENCIES SRI LANKA'S CIVIL WAR Injured civilians the victims in Tamil Tigers-Sri Lanka conflict, aid workers barred from entry COLOMBO As the Sri Lankan army prepares for its final assault against the once-formidable Tamil Tigers, the retreating rebels are not the only ones faced with dwindling
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  • Article
    Watch what you eat... price-wise
    657 1  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg PERHAPS, if you were lucky, a serving at your regular chicken rice stall cost you 50 cents less; while, unfortunately, the price of your morning roti prata went up by 20 cents. As Singaporeans start to watch their spending more closely, here's interesting
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Funeral draws thousands
      318 2 AFP DEATH IN CUSTODY KUALA LUMPUR Thousands gathered in Selangor yesterday for the funeral of an ethnic Indian man who died in police custody, triggering a murder investigation. Malaysian police arrested six people as they threw a tight cordon around the medical centre where the body of
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      Breast cancer victim donates body for research
      438 2  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN she discovered three years ago that she had advanced-stage cancer, Ms Shin Na set about inspiring others by telling her story. She set up a blog to keep readers updated about her condition, and posted commentaries on dying and related
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      RESEARCH DONATIONS
      127 2 Each year, only six to nine people in Singapore pledge their whole body for research, transplant or education, under the Medical Therapy Education and Research Act (MTERA). According to the National Organ Transplant Unit, such a donation is useful in several ways for instance, tissue can betaken to
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      Lock icon Sands spurred to hire the retrenched
      434 4  -  ESTHERNG CHANNEL NEWSASIA RESILIENCE PACKAGE THE Marina Bay Sands is ramping up its hiring of retrenched professionals who have undergone retraining, after the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (Spur) was expanded to give professionals a 90-per-cent subsidy, under the Government's new Budget. The
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      Trio heed judge's advice on legal help
      333 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY had gotten to know the girl through Internet chat lines. Mr Zulkifli Maslan was then 21, and Mr Muhammad Azmil, 19; the former went on to introduce his friend Muhammad Iswadee, 21, to her. She was just 15.
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      Lock icon SDU and SDS become one
      198 4 938 LIVE THE Social Development Unit (SDU) and the Social Development Service (SDS) tied the knot yesterday to become a single entity to enhance the singles' socialising and dating opportunities. The "engagement" took place during the National Day Rally last August when Prime Minister Lee
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MORE FINED FOR FLOUTING FIRE SAFETY RULES
        204 4 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA The number of building owners and companies issued with warnings for fire safety violations more than doubled last year. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that 1,005 violators were issued with notices, compared with 399 in 2007. They
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        Lock icon MAN JAILED FOR CAUSING MOTORCYCLIST'S DEATH
        201 4 LEONGWEEKEAT A 23-year-old man was jailed for eight months and disqualified from driving for eight years, for causing the death of a motorcyclist through a rash act. Mr Pang Qi Ming (picture) was driving a lorry when he collided with MrOw Kah Hoe at
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      Lock icon Mothers suffer from perinatal blues, too
      718 6  -  ALICIAWONG PREGNANCY PROBLEMS They are a "growing concern', but many women decline treatment alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SHE was cranky and constantly craved her husband's attention but she thought it was because she was pregnant, and those traits would go away in time. After all, this was
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        SEARCH ON FORTOP SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS
        82 6 Nominations are now open for the annual National Science and Technology Awards, the highest honours Singapore confers on outstanding scientists, engineers and other exceptional individuals. There are four awards: The National Science and Technology Medal, The National Science Award, The National Technology Award andTheYoung Scientist
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        WATERWAY UNDERWAY
        94 6 Work is set to begin next month on the first stage of the $145 million Punggol Waterway. It involves the construction of the 2.4-km waterway, part of an eventual 4.2-km waterway connected to Sungei Punggol. Work is expected to be completed by the end of next year. HDB's
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        WOODLANDS DIVERSION NOW PERMANENT
        109 6 The traffic diversion trial at Woodlands Centre Road to improve traffic flow will be permanent from Sunday. There will be no changes to the current traffic arrangement. Motorists who wish to enter the Woodlands Checkpoint via Woodlands Centre Road will not be allowed to turn into
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  • WORLD
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      Najib picks up the pieces
      431 8 MALAYSIAN POLITICS He may become Perak #s Umno and BN chief IPOH The chairman of Perak Barisan Nasional (BN), Mr Mohd Tajol Rosli Ghazali, is expected to resign to take responsibility for the high-profile defection of Bota assemblyman Nasarudin Hashim to opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat
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      Lock icon Thai court convicts 66 boat people of illegal entry
      385 8 AP RANONG (Thailand) A Thai court yesterday convicted 66 barefoot, dishevelled migrants detained at sea of illegally entering the country, raising the prospect they could be deported despite fears they could face persecution or death if sent back to Myanmar. A
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon 81 DETAINED IN TIBET CRACKDOWN
        144 8 AFP China China has launched a clampdown in Tibet's capital Lhasa, investigating thousands of people and detaining dozens, ahead of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising, a rights group said yesterday. The campaign took place ahead of the sensitive 50th anniversary of the March
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        Lock icon NAVY'S IST SUBMARINE DELIVERED
        130 8 AFP Malaysia Malaysia has taken delivery of its first submarine as part of a plan to establish a fleet of the vessels, according to the French company that built it. The Royal Malaysian Navy received the Scorpene submarine in the French port of Toulon and a
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        Lock icon CABINET PASSES BILL TO PREVENT AIRPORT BLOCKADES
        158 8 AFP Thailand Thailand's Cabinet yesterday approved a Bill aimed at preventing another blockade of its main airport, as they tried to restore confidence after the week-long siege of Bangkok's hubs last year. Protesters trying to topple the previous government seized Suvarnabhumi International Airport
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        Lock icon LAWMAKER JAILED FOR GRAFT
        118 8 AFP Indonesia Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption court sentenced a lawmakerto four-and-a-half years in jail yesterday, for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in return for allowing forest clearing on Sumatra island. MrSarjanTaher, a lawmaker from President Susilo BambangYudhoyono's Democratic Party, was paid 5 billion rupiah
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      Lock icon MIDDLE EAST: A SSTATE SOLUTION
      214 10  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN THENEWYORKTIMES NEWS COMMENT IN FEBRUARY 2002,1 travelled to Saudi Arabia and interviewed the then crown prince, now King Abdullah, at his Riyadh horse farm. I asked him why the next Arab summit wouldn't justpropose to Israel full peace and normalisation of relations,
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      Dear Prtsidtnt Obama,
      647 10 Congratulations on your inauguration and for quickly dispatching your new envoy, George Mitchell, a good man, to the Middle East. I wish Mitchell could resume where he left off eight years ago, but the death of Arafat, the decline of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank,
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      Lock icon Israeli warplanes pound Gaza tunnels
      309 10 AGENCIES JERUSALEM A day after a Palestinian bomb killed an Israeli soldier, Israeli warplanes pounded tunnels used for smuggling under the Gaza-Egypt border. The Israeli military has vowed to respond harshly to any further attacks. The border flare-up 10 days into an informal cease-fire came
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon IRAN WANTS 'PROFOUND CHANGES'IN US POLICY
        128 10 AGENCIES Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for "profound changes" in America's foreign policy during a speech broadcast by state television. He said Washington should withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan as proof of United States President BarackObama's policy of change. "If the
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        Lock icon AL QAEDA-LINKED GROUP THREATENS GERMANY
        109 10 AFP An extremist organisation linked to Al Qaeda has threatened to carry out violent attacks against Germany in retaliation for its "occupation" of Afghanistan, the German television channel ARD reported on Tuesday. The German authorities are analysing an Internet video message which shows six masked
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        Lock icon JAPANESE NAVYTO PREPARE FOR SOMALIA MISSION
        98 10 AFP Japan ordered its navy yesterday to start preparations for deployment in waters off Somalia, becoming the latest nation to step up the fight against piracy. Prime MinisterTaroAso's final orders for the deployment is expected to be issued in about a month. MrAso wants
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      Lock icon Parents fired, now whole family is dead
      387 12 AP,THE NEWYORKTIMES LA MURDER/SUICIDE LOS ANGELES A man fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself, claiming in a note he faxed to a television station on Tuesday that the couple had just been fired from their hospital jobs and together planned
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon AUSSIES ON HEATWAVE ALERT
        114 12 AFP Emergency services went on high alert in south-east Australia yesterday as the region's worst heatwave in a century sent temperatures soaring and residents scurrying for cover. The authorities warned elderly, sick and infant residents of the states of Victoria and South Australia to stay at
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        Lock icon PEANUT KNEW ABOUT SALMONELLA
        100 12 BLOOMBERG Peanut Corp of America shipped peanut butter products from a plant in Blakely, Georgia, even after tests on 12 occasions in 2007 and 2008 showed salmonella was present, United States health officials said on Tuesday. After getting the results, the company based in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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        Lock icon RUSSIA DROPS KALININGRAD MISSILE PLANS
        106 12 AFP Russia has shelved plans to install missiles on central Europe's doorstep after detecting a cooling by the Obama administration towards a controversial United States shield project. Russia had warned it would deploy Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave wedged Poland and Lithuania, if
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      It's time to wake up
      258 14  -  Arthur Lim GOVERNMENT AID Recession could be a reality check for those who are too used to the good life Letter from I REFER to "Why not help protect that roof over their heads?" (Jan 28) The Government has done its part and will probably
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      Bite the bullet...
      152 14  -  Yeo Shuan Chee Letter from I REFER to "Why not help protect that roof over their heads?" (Jan 28) I am reminded of a newspaper report published during the last economic downturn. A father went to see his Member of Parliament for help. He wanted assistance because
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      178 16  -  DR BILL MAIER BY CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY What would you say is the most important asset in a marriage? According to Drs Les and Leslie Parrot, the most important asset is your attitude. It's the one thing that you have total control over even when
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      Lock icon ISAY HAPPY TRAILS, EVERYONE
      712 16  -  Chiang PakChien Some give-and-take between hikers and bikers would make Bukit Timah a much nicer place I REFER to "The hazards of cycling: Hikers, please stay off trails meant for mountain bikers" (Jan 28). As an avid mountain biker who has cycled the Bukit Timah Mountain
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      74 14 VOICES ON RADIO Housing is perhaps AAA the greatest JU concern J JII forSmga- mmmmr*** poreans. With the sion, what options are there for those who fall behind in their HDB loans? Would it ease the stress if the Government giving an assurance that there will be no compulsory acquisition
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      9 16 Look out for unbeatable dining deals from Citibank tomorrow!
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  • plus MUSIC
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      The real RocknRolla
      902 20 MUSIC LEGEND Malaysian rocker Awie of Wings does it for the fans IT WAS supposed to have been the mother of all Malay rock concerts. Legendary Malaysian rock band Wings was set to celebrate their 21 st anniversary with a concert at Suntec City on Nov 7
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      Lock icon Interiors. Designs.
      620 22  -  MAYO MARTIN VISUALART Origami, abandoned shophouses feature in design-meets-art exhibit mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHERE does design end and art begin? That's the underlying question posed by Come-in, an ongoing international exhibition of German contemporary art at the National Museum. Two local artists contributing to the show have gone to great
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    • Article
      Lock icon S'pore's lost films
      153 22 938 LIVE In 2007, the archive made an open call to recover one of these tost films, a 1962 classic entitled Black Gold made by tocal film-maker Vi Sui. Although it wasn't recovered, the archive unearthed another long-lost film, Lion City, made by the same director in
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      Lock icon Author John Updike dies at 76
      134 23 JOHN Updike (picture), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at the age of 76. Best known for his four Rabbit novels, Updike died of lung cancer at a
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      Lock icon Just be Sweden
      553 23 AP AGENCIES JESSICA Alba (picture) has taken to her Celebrity MySpace blog to defend herself over accusations made by United States news anchor Bill O'Reilly and TMZ.com that she is dumb. At an inauguration event last week, she tried to turn the tables on a reporter by
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    • Gimme hope Joanna
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        JOANNA & WANG RUO LIN
        227 24 JOANNA WANG RUO LIN JOANNA WANG This double-disc set features Joanna Wang in full-blown performance mode. Using both her English and Chinese names as a hint of what to expect, Wang really throws her all into this compilation. The first disc has English and Mandarin tracks, which includes originals as
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        THE WAY I SEE IT RAPHAEL SAADIQ
        87 24 Drawing musical inspiration from Motown acts such as The Four Tops, The Temptations and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Raphael Saadiq's latest album is full of the vocal and musical styling that made those groups famous: Unison singing, call-and-return, and the solid backbeat
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        LET IT GO WILL YOUNG
        93 24 It isn't as cloying or annoying as we thought this album was going to be. Well, okay, it is at times, like during Tell Me the Worst, which isn't the best thing on the album. But songs like Changes and Grace are actually pretty good
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        FALL IN LOVE & SONGS FISH LEONG
        109 25 FALL IN LOVE SONGS FISH LEONG Living up to her tag as the Queen of Ballads, album No 10 for Malaysian pop diva Fish Leong features love themes from various TV dramas, including the Taiwan TV series My Queen (No Ifs, Love Because of Love), and the TVB series, I
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        SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE VARIOUS
        75 25 Apparently, director Danny Boyle didn't want any sentimental music in this movie, and instructed composer AR Rahman to come up with a" pulsey" score. Rahman didn't disappoint. The rhythm-driven music borrows heavily from traditional Indian styles, cleverly spiced with electronic beats. It shot to the top of
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        WALKING ON A DREAM EMPIRE OFTHE SUN
        86 25 This is actually an Australian duo, Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore who produce retro-sounding tunes that are pleasant enough but lack the memorable stuff that long-standing hits are made of. That's probably because, judging by the album artwork, the duo seem more concerned
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        AUDIOBIOGRAPHY PAUL T
        98 25 This two-disc set came about because local boy or rather, man Paul T wanted to showcase both his clubby side (Disc 1) and his chill-out side (Disc 2). Despite being a veteran of the club music scene in Singapore, and with years of experience under his belt,
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        SLIPWAY FIRES RAZORLIGHT
        88 25 Anglo-Swedish foursome Razorlight has eschewed their favoured Brit rock sound for something a little more eclectic and sonically challenging, starting with the pianoled gospel-esque Wire to Wire before lending into more familiar offerings like guitar-driven Hostage of Love and the stompy Burberry Blue Eyes. Ultimately, it's the
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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        INTERNATIONAL THEATRE SYMPOSIUM
        94 24 What goes into a "life story" in the realm of theatre and stage performance? Performers and scholars from Singapore, Malaysia and the UK are set to tackle this in a symposium titled Life Styles: Theatre Biography Across Cultures. Convened by spell#7's Paul Rae, speakers include Adrian Howells,
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        CONFLUENCE
        70 24 Utterly Art Exhibition Space presents an exhibition by Filipino artists Jim Orencio and Joven Mansit. The former references notable Singaporean historical figures and renders them using Filipino aesthetics through layered collage. The latter re-imagines old colonial-era portraits of elite Filipinos taken inside the elaborate settings of photo studios. Jan
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        52 24 Ethos Books launches Simply This Simply His: Portraits of Sng Boh Khim on Feb 5, 6pm, The POD, Level 16, National Library, Victoria Street. Put together years after the poet's death, the book is the first inspirational title from the publishing company's stable. For enquiries, call Adeleena at
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      190 26  -  ANNETTE TAN What's better than sliced bread? Sliced bread that offers excellent nutrition and good taste and that can be used to make a luxurious pudding, too food@newstoday.com.sg Sliced bread is something most of us consume at least once a day. It is also a food
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      277 26 CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING Serves 8 1 cup cream 1 cup milk 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 loaf Fair Price Bread 170g roughly-chopped bittersweet chocolate 4 egg yolks 1/3 cup sugar METHOD 1. Preheat your oven to 150 C. 2. Cut the bread into quarters. 3. Place the
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      819 27  -  AARONCHONG BARGAIN 2009 traveller@newstoday.com. sg DOOM, gloom and hard-to-resist travel offers. They go hand in hand, for just as many families here are cutting costs, along come tantalising deals that make low-cost travel possible. Major carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Qantas and British Airways have all
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      508 29  -  SHAMIR OSMAN 2011 Asian Cup qualifier, Group E Singapore 2 Jordan i shamir@mediacorp.com. sg DISPLAYING tremendous work ethic, Singapore ensured they stayed in the race for a place in the 2011 Asian Cup finals with a hard fought 2-1 victory over Jordan in a Group E
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      481 29  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg ITao Li's coaches have a welcome headache ON THE eastern face of the Sherwin-Wil-liams building in Cleveland in the United States, there is a banner of Lebron James measuring 34 metres tall by 65 metres wide, put up by his
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      653 30 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST Benitez's men fail to protect lead once again ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Wigan 1 Liverpool 1 WIGAN Liverpool's title challenge suffered another setback as Wigan striker Mido hit a debut penalty to earn a 1 -1 draw at the JJB Stadium yesterday (this morning, Singapore
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      475 30 AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton 1 Arsenal 1 LIVERPOOL Robin van Persic hit a dramatic late equaliser for Arsenal to rescue a 1-1 draw against Everton at Goodison Park. Until the unexpected finale, it has appeared that the remarkable season being enjoyed
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      152 30 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Blackburn 2 Bolton 2 BLACKBURN Benni McCarthy made amends for failing to convert a penalty by scoring the late equaliser that capped a Blackburn fightback to earn a point against local rivals Bolton in a 2-2 draw. Despite going two goals down,
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      52 29 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 10.30 am Tennis Australian Open Women's Semi-final, Ch24 4.30pm Tennis Australian Open Men's Semi-final, Ch24 TOMORROW 5.30 am Football Palmeiras (Bra)vs Real Potosi (Bol), Ch27 gam Basketball Cleveland Cavaliers vs Orlando Magic, Ch23 ON RADIO 6.35 a m-11.35pm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on
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      33 30 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER German League Hamburg Munich Sat, 31/01/09 3.30 am E League Champ matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. l_R3?Ei I
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      470 31  -  CHRISTIE LOH VACANT SPACE Analysts expect more "shadow space' ahead deputy business editor christie@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as office rentals are tumbling fast, more space is lying idle at vacancy levels approaching those seen just before the recent boom years. As at the end of last month, the island-wide vacancy
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      490 32 AFP WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM DAVOS (Switzerland) Chinese and Russian leaders Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin have blamed the United States for causing the global economic crisis on a gloomy first day of the Davos forum. Both called for a new attitude by President Barack
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      200 32  -  EDMUND CONWAY THE DAILYTELEGRAPH POINTOFVIEW Economics Editor WHETHER or not this is the gloomiest Davos in history is pretty much moot. It would be weird if it wasn't, really, given the state of the global economy. But what strikes me at the moment is less the
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      133 32 CHICAGO Boeing said yesterday it would cut its workforce by 10,000 this year due to the uncertain economic outlook as the aerospace giant reported a loss of US$56 million ($B4 million) in the fourth quarter. The loss was largely the result of a machinists' strike and
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      268 32 AGENCIES SINGAPORE'S Changi Airport handled 2.7 per cent more passengers last year, compared with 2007. Propelled by good numbers in the first few months of last year, Changi serviced a record 37.7 million passengers last year. However, the growth was the weakest since the
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      729 33 DPA IMF FORECAST FORTHE WORLD US economy will contract by 1.6 per cent, China's will slow to 6.7 per cent WASHINGTON The world economy will grow by only 0.5 per cent this year, the worst rate since World War 11, as industrial
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          94 34 Higher close US stocks rose, extending a global rally, as President Barack Obama prepared to set up a so-called bad bank to absorb toxic investments. The bad-bank initiative may allow the government to rewrite some of the mortgages that underpin banks' toxic debt, in the hope of stemming
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          73 34 Oil prices held firm as dealers digested soaring US crude oil inventories and a gloomy global economic outlook from the International Monetary Fund. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for March delivery, added only four US cents to U5541.62 a barrel. The Energy Information Administration said
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          58 34 European stock markets surged, with gains of more than 4 per cent on some markets as troubled banks rallied dramatically. The national benchmark indexes rose in all 18 western European markets. Britain's FTSE 100 index rose 100.79 points to 4,295.20, France's CAC 40 advanced 121.48 points to 3,076.01
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        247 34 AGENCIES/AP Less than 24 hours after defending its order for a US$5O-million ($75-million) corporate jet, American banking giant Citigroup has bowed to pressure from the White House and reversed course, saying it will not take delivery of the eight-seater Dassault Falcon 7X. On Monday, the bank
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        501 34 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Measure now goes to the Senate, where Republicans are set to demand changes WASHINGTON The United States House of Representatives has passed President Barack Obama's US$Bl9 billion ($1.23 trillion) stimulus package, aimed at lifting the economy out of recession through tax cuts and
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        301 34 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve, acknowledging that the United States economy has continued to deteriorate, signalled yesterday that it will keep using unconventional tools to cushion the fallout, including keeping a key interest rate at a record low for quite "some time". The Fed
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      29 34 MORNING EDITION More woes for Jurong Tech THREE more tanks iK threat- I ening to wind up Jurong Tech- I nologieslndustrial Corporation. I Read the full story at www.todayonline.com
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      208 36 17 4jLZCUtr& trw uWCy M uts (6 iniuudiv wztMsf Even if the sun is setting, I will shower you with my love till the world stops turning. I'll keep this desire going. Even when there is no light above, fl when you and me are together; I'll keep it intense.
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