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  • 10 1 TODAY Monday February 23, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    38 1 Conrad Raj Marc Faber, or Dr Doom, is convinced there is no end in sight to the current economic crisis and that the US government bond bubble is the next to burst, says our Editor-at-Large. Page B2
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  • 31 1 Boy, ii, charged An 11 -year-old boy who shot his father's pregnant girlfriend while she was lying in bed has been charged as an adult with criminal homicide. Page 21
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  • 29 1 She's no scaredy cat Siti Khalijah says she's quite shy and "damn blur". But this rising theatre star has already chalked up an impressive acting resume. Page 24
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  • 763 1  -  ALICIA WONG SINGAPORETRIPARTISM FORUM Resilience Package will prevent damage but cure must be global alicia@mediacorp.com.sg DESCRIBING it as a global sickness Singapore cannot cure, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singaporeans must fasten their seatbelts and prepare for a "very tough year ahead". In fact,
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  • 1043 1  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN a former spouse, usually the ex-husband, refuses to keep up with his maintenance payments, chasing after him for the money can be a physically and emotionally draining affair for the other half. That is why countries such as Australia and the
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  • NEWS
    • 387 2  -  ALICIA WONG SKILLS UPGRADING alicia@mediacorp.com.sg IT USED to be a sticky situation for those who were retrenched, but wanted to upgrade their skills and still stay in the same industry. This was because the programmes available to professionals, managerials, executives and technicians (PMETS) were all targeted
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    • 391 2 AGENCIES MELBOURNE Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday pledged that wildfire-scarred Australia would rise from the "ashes of despair", as the blazes that killed more than 200 people earlier this month threatened to flare again. Mr Rudd led a national day of mourning
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    • 387 3  -  ESTHER NG RETRENCHMENTS Union leaders find it hard to deliver bad new; estherng@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN PSA had to retrench workers in the last downturn, union leaders who had to handle the retrenchments wept. Acknowledging the emotional toll on unionists on the front line, Prime Minister
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    • 100 6  -  ERNESTCHUA The Eurasian Association (EA) has completed the production of a music and dance video to create greater awareness of the community in Singapore. The Kristang folk song titled Jingkli Nona was re-written by Mr John Klass and given an upbeat tempo. Mr Humphrey
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    • 352 6  -  ESTHER NG ECONOMIC DOWNTURN estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SENDING back foreign workers now will backfire on Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has warned. In some countries, he said, there are emotional protests by workers and unions against foreign workers and immigrants. In the United Kingdom, for instance,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 171 6 Investigations are still ongoing in the case of a man who was arrested on Saturday in connection with an SMS hoax which had suggested a possible terrorist attack in the Bugisarea. The 19-year-old is believed to be a National Serviceman, who is
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      • 83 6 President S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have both offered their congratulations to Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on the occasion of Brunei Darussalam's 25th National Day. President Nathan said both countries share common perspectives on many regional and international issues, while Mr
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 111 8 Two plots of land in Bodh Gaya in India have been offered to the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, and on one of this will be built a proposed Pilgrim Centre. This was disclosed by Foreign Minister George Yeo on Friday
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      • 95 8 CHANNEL NEWS ASIA A large forest fire broke out nearTampines Avenue 9 at around noon yesterday. The blaze, about the size of three football fields, took about 45 minutes to put out. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that the blaze was one of the many
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    • 617 8  -  ZULOTHMAN FOREIGNWORKERS MOM to fund setup of Migrant Worker's Centre zul@mediacorp.com. sg THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will provide the initial funding for a new initiative that will give foreign workers another source of humanitarian aid. The Migrant Workers' Centre set up by the Migrant Workers'
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    • 357 10 ALL it took was a sharp-eyed academician, and his belief that a rich slice of Singapore's heritage should not go unrecorded, and soon an inter-faith project got underway. Last year, Dr Hui Yew Foong, a Research Fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies,
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    • 309 10  -  ZULOTHMAN COMMUNITY LEADERS Grassroots leaders get a glimpse of the inner workings of the Navy zul@mediacorp.com.sg THEY usually spend their weekends doing constituency work, but on Saturday, 240 grassroots leaders did something out of the norm. They had a peek into the workings of the Republic of
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  • WORLD
    • 267 12 AP JERUSALEM Israel's outgoing Prime Minister called on hardline Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government quickly as coalition bargaining began to shift into high gear yesterday. Opening the weekly meeting of his soon-to-be-dissolved Cabinet, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel needs
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    • 275 12 AFP INFLUENZA Antibodies may help to block bird flu Spanish flu PARIS Scientists yesterday unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including the highly-lethal HSNI bird flu and the "Spanish Flu" strain which killed up to 40 million people in
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    • 326 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PERAK POLITICS IPOH Ousted Perak Menteri Besar Nizar Jamaluddin (picture) said the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) intends to table a vote of confidence on his government when the Perak state assembly convenes. He also told reporters yesterday that he plans to table
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    • 152 14 KUALA LUMPUR An international manhunt is on for a Singaporean detainee who escaped from custody in handcuffs while being escorted to court in Malaysia. Mr Jay Chia Shao Kiat, who faces the death sentence for drug trafficking, is said to have shoved an officer
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    • 227 14 M'sia plans 12.4b stimulus package THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is expected to announce a stimulus package worth more than RM3O billion ($12.4 billion) next month, a deputy minister was quoted yesterday as saying. Deputy Finance Minister Kong Cho Ha told Sin Chew Daily that "the mini-budget
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    • 426 15 AFP CHINA GAS BLAST BEIJING Seventy-three workers were confirmed dead and dozens trapped underground after a gas blast early yesterday at a Chinese colliery, the worst accident to hit the nation's mines in more than a year. More than 400 miners were on the
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    • 163 15 AFP TAIPEI Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has again launched a hunger strike in prison, where he is being held on charges of corruption during his time in office. Mr Chen has refused everything but water since Friday in protest of what he says
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    • 392 16 AGENCIES US-CHINATIES BEIJING United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attended a church service and met a group of outstanding Chinese women in Beijing yesterday, before she left China and ended a weeklong diplomatic tour of four Asian nations. Mrs Clinton visited the modern Haidian Church
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    • 160 16 AFP YALA (Thailand) Three people have been killed by separatist rebels in Thailand's far south, including a man who was beheaded by militants, the police said yesterday. A married Thai couple, both in their late 30s, were on their way to tap rubber in Yala
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    • 107 16 AFP TOKYO A snowstorm in Japan has damaged houses, caused power failures, disrupted train service and led to the cancellation of more than 150 domestic flights, local authorities said yesterday. About 40cm of snow blanketed the runways at New Chitose Airport, the biggest air hub on the
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    • 231 17 AFP MINGORA (Pakistan) Pakistani pro-Tal-iban militants yesterday said they would decide within days whether to call a permanent ceasefire in a wild region near the Afghan border after the government agreed to allow Islamic Syariah law. Mr Muslim Khan, a spokesman for militant leader Maulana
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    • 440 17 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH UKTORTURE ROW LONDON A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects. In the study, which will be published next month by the civil liberties group Human Rights Watch
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    • 414 18 THEGUARDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH Growing obesity cited as leading cause LONDON Cancer cases are now rising at such an alarming rate in Britain and the rest of the world that the disease poses a threat to humanity comparable to climate change, a leading
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 129 19 AFP The number of people killed in a Tamil Tiger attack against a village in eastern Sri Lanka has risen to 21. Gunmen from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) stormed the predominantly Sinhalese village of Kirimetiya on Saturday and opened fire on
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      • 123 19 AFP Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has made a brief surprise visit to Cuba to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel, and celebrate with them his victory in last week's constitutional referendum. It was the Venezuelan leader's first trip abroad
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    • 461 19 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH US-UKTIES Campaign fundraiser Louis Susman could be named UK ambassador WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Mr Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London.
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    • 605 20 THE GUARDIAN INVESTMENT FRAUD LONDON Sir Allen Stanford, the billionaire at the centre of one of the world's largest fraud investigations, repeatedly used the British royal family to convince investors that he was a bona fide businessman with impeccable credentials. Stanford Financial Group (SFG) used at
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    • 454 21 AP I CRIMINAL HOMICIDE WAMPUM (Pennsylvania) An 11-year-old boy shot his father's pregnant girlfriend in the back of the head while she was lying in bed in their western Pennsylvania farmhouse, then got on the school bus and went to school, the authorities said on
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    • 165 21 THENEWYORKTIMES ATHENS A Greek terrorist group has claimed responsibility for opening fire on a private television network in Athens last week, vowing additional attacks against journalists, the police said on Saturday. The attack was the second this month by the far-left group Sect
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    • 549 18 Ist of its kind in Singapore TODAY Digital Edition Read it online or offline. It's FREE! T ARCHIVE SEARCH ~1« HOME > BUSINESS wed-.esday. Fep-ua-y 18. 2X9 set yd-, in rkng Russia'setfor2.2ut.GDl> British bailk RJBS slashes bonuses by over 90% Russia launches major gas J contraction' i»jj^------^_^------------------------------^^^--------------^^^--^----^^_^_^_^_^^^^^^™ project near Japan
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    • 605 22  -  Liang Tze Hun PATIENT CARE Doctor was not helpful in providing information or advice to a layman Letter from ON FEB 6,1 took my father, who recently suffered a stroke, for his first consultation with Dr Lee Sze Haur, a senior consultant of the National
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    • 378 22  -  Ong Peck Leong Letter from Assoc Prof Chairman, Quality Assurance Committee National Neuroscience Institute WE REFER to Mr Liang Tze Hun's letter. We have reviewed Mr Liang's queries and would like to assure him that the medical attention and management of
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    • 85 23 It may seem heartless for children to not want to take care of their parents in their old age. But have these parents done the same to their children? Many parents conveniently 'outsource' childrearing to maids, institutions, grandparents and so on. Work schedules are always to blame.
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    • 135 23 It would be a sham and a shame if children are forced to take care of their parents. As a parent of a young child, if I were to delegate most of my child's waking hours to domestic help and the childcare centre, why should I
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    • 218 23  -  Lily Wong Jee Choo HDB'S LEASE BUYBACK SCHEME Letter from Deputy Director (Policy and Property) Housing and Development Board WE REFER to Mr Quek Soo Beng's letter "A second chance at home" (Feb 10), on the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS). The LBS is a
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    • 162 23  -  DR BILL MAIER BY CHART YOUR MARRIAGE COURSE Do you have a plan for your marriage? Too many couples idle through life without ever thinking about what they want out of their relationship and how to get there. But setting goals is important in every area
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    • 944 24  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCALTHEATRE Meet theatre's reigning ingenue, Siti Khalijah mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the play Why Did the Cat Get So Fat? that had people standing up and taking notice of this young actress in 2006. But it's probably just coincidence that Siti Khalijah Zainal describes herself
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    • 373 26 AP THE RAZZIES Mike Myers, Paris Hilton vwin' big MIKE Myers' The Love Guru has found some disciples among Razzies voters who pick Hollywood's lowest achievements. And Paris Hilton got her own Razzies moment with three awards all on her own at a ceremony
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    • 196 27 AP THE Screen Actors Guild (SAG) board of directors on Saturday rejected the "last, best and final offer" by Hollywood producers for a new contract. The contract was rejected by 73 per cent of SAG's board members. SAG called the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television
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    • 462 27  -  MAY SEAH NEW ON TV The Scavo twins from Desperate Housewives are all grown up may@mediacorp.com.sg TIME really flies, doesn't it? One day your kids are babies; the next day they're rebellious teenagers with smart mouths and no regard for curfews. In this case, though, the
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    • 464 28  -  MAYSEAH PLUS POINT Does The One exist? The Bachelor says no may@mediacorp.com.sg RECENTLY, Today did an interview with Jason Mesnick, the star of the 13th season of The Bachelor. The 32-year-old divorce, who had participated in the fourth season of The Bachelorette and had his
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    • 659 30 ENGLISH CLUB FOOTBALL United sweat on o#She0 #Shea Ferdinand only centre-back available for Inter Milan English Premiership Man United 2 Blackburn 1 MANCHESTER They posted their 16th win in 17 matches in all competitions with a 2-1 win over Blackburn Rovers on Saturday (yesterday
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    • 274 30 DPA English Premiership Liverpool 1 Man City 1 LONDON Liverpool's slim title hopes suffered a potentially fatal blow as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Manchester City yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). An own goal by Alvaro Arbeloa six minutes into
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    • 552 31 AFP EUROPEAN CLUB FOOTBALL ROME Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho believes his personal record against Manchester United should give his men confidence that they can knock the holders out of the Champions League. The battle at the San Siro tomorrow (Wednesday morning, Singapore time) between
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    • 195 31 AFP LONDON Sunderland boss Ricky Sbragia offered no apologies for his side's approach against Arsenal in their Premiership clash at The Emirates on Saturday, and also defended his own managerial ethos after comments from his predecessor, Roy Keane. Keane, revealing for the first
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    • 318 32  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL So easy for SAFFC, who now train their sights on Indonesia's PSMS Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Balestier Khalsa o SAFFC3 ian@mediacorp.com.sg DEFENDING champions SAFFC were never out of cruise control in their Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League clash with Balestier Khalsa last night. They
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    • 154 32 AFP PERTH New Zealand amateur Danny Lee, 18, birdied the last two holes to stun a glitteringjohnnie Walker Classic field and become the European Tour's youngest ever winner yesterday. The Korean-born teenager snatched a dramatic one-stroke victory in the US$2.5 million ($3.8 million) co-sanctioned event to
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    • 129 32 AP JOHANNESBURG Doubleamputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius was badly injured in a boating accident, South African radio reported yesterday. Radio 702 said Pistorius was undergoing surgery and was in serious but stable condition at a Johannesburg hospital. The South African runner's manager, Peet van Zyl, refused to comment
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    • 493 32  -  LAN DE COTTA Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Albirex Niigata v Sengkang Punggol 7.45pm, Jurong East Stadium ian@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was great excitement when the announcement was first made in 2004 that Albirex Niigata would play in the S-League. While the team that would feature
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    • 477 33  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THEY were up against a Syntech team that boasted two former national bowlers in Steven Ang and Benjamin Hong, but HDB Team 1 were hardly cowed. Indeed, the four-man HDB outfit didn't even know how strong their opponents were,
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    • 352 83 BLOOMBERG ASEAN +3 $iBob pool set up to defend currencies PHUKET The 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations, together with Japan, China and South Korea (Asean+3), yesterday agreed in principle to form a US$l2O billion ($lBO billion) pool of foreign exchange reserves that can be used to
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      • 64 83 Thursday 1,629.35 T 1.31% Wednesday 1,651.06 A 0.80% Tuesday 1,637.92 T 2.55% Monday 1,683.31 T 1.31% Hang Seng 12,699.17 T 2.49% Nikkei 7,416.38 T 1.87% Shanghai 2,261.48 A 1.54% Seoul 1,065.95 3-7 2% Mumbai 8,843.21 T 2.21% KLComp 889.71 T 1.10% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi Si-SB?
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    • 95 83 American hospitality chain Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide will be adding five hotels to its growing portfolio in China. The new signings to be completed between 2011 and 2014 include the first St Regis resort in the beach resort of Sanya; the first St Regis hotel
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    • 147 83 AGENCIES BEIJING United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday urged China to continue buying US government bonds, saying it would help get the American economy moving again as well as stimulate imports of Chinese goods. Mrs Clinton said continued Chinese purchases of US
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