Today, 13 April 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Monday April 13, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    245 1 2 It's time to improve hygiene standards, says Derrick A Paulo. Perhaps C-grade hawkers should be suspended if they don't mprove within a certain period. 3 The ladies at Aware do not seem to get it, says P N Balji, as seen by their response to the
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    Lock icon TOO LATE TO ACT TOUGH?
    427 1  -  TULSATHITTAPTIM NEWS COMMENT THAILAND is facing one of the most monumentous political showdowns in modern history. Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the red-shirt movement have gambled everything they have, and in the process, alienated themselves from non-partisan Thais with the kind of aggression that
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    Lock icon Thaksin takes on Abhisit
    860 1 CHANNEL NEWSASIA AGENCIES TURMOIL INTHAILAND The former Thai PM calls for a revolution if the government launches a violent crackdown BANGKOK Thailand's fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has called for a revolution and vowed to return to the kingdom if the authorities launch a violent
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      23 1 j j mm I NOKIA MMIB^L __t" tomeclingPeople ___p'______r__p_____l_pM^ A PUBLICATION OF fIAZDIA&DRP MICA (P) 233/10/2008 NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 ADVERTISE 6333 9888
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      When 'adoption' leads to integration: MM Lee
      397 2  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg HIS two sons were "adopted" by host families when they went to the United States for military training, and shared their Thanksgiving dinners. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was "invited to endless events" when he was at Harvard University for
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      Lock icon 'C' IS NOT FOR CLEANLINESS
      455 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO POINTOFVIEW Perhaps the C grade for hawkers should be probationary deputy news editor derrick@mediacorp.com.sg THE recent mass food poisoning in Geylang will prompt some hawkers to be more hygienic and some Singaporeans to be a little choosier about where they eat. But
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      LADIES, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR NARRATIVE?
      663 3  -  P N BALJI NEWS COMMENT Let there be a clash of ideas and let Aware members decide —that's the kind of maturity Singapore needs THE ladies at the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) do not seem to get it. Instead of
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      Lock icon THE SPIRIT OF EASTER
      88 4 EPA Thousands thronged St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Easter Sunday to listen to Pope Benedict XVI delivering the traditional 'Urbi et Orbi' (To the City and the World) Easter message at the central loggia of St Peter's Basilica. 'Happy Easter to you, men and
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      Lock icon 'He left a deep impression'
      670 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT RICHARD STANLEY weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY met for the first time just days after DBS' retrenchment of 900 workers was publicly criticised by the union chief last November. Mr Richard Stanley (picture), the bank's chief executive, initiated the meeting with National Trades Union Congress secretarygeneral Lim
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      Lock icon Helping themselves and others
      820 7  -  MELODY TAN Despite the downturn, these individuals are making the effort to better their lives and enrich others' Mr Surandran Pillai, 34, didn't wait for the recession to affect his job. The senior warehouse assistant wanted to remain in the warehouse industry, but he knew that
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      Lock icon 'Quick update was timely'
      780 8  -  ONGDAI LIN AND ONG DAI LIN GEYLANG FOOD POISONING TEOXUANWEI dailin@mediacorp.com. sg HOW do the authorities decide when to issue health advisories in food poisoning outbreaks? On Saturday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) was notified of 12 new cases of food poisoning with the affected individuals
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      Lock icon NO CLOSURE ON WIDJAJA YET
      127 10 938 LIVE David Widjaja's family has failed to seek clarification on his unnatural death at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in February. The family is in Singapore to meet those they believe to have information about his death. These include Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, the
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      Lock icon HARVEST FESTIVAL
      57 10 DONWONG Minister for Health and adviser to Sembawang grassroots organisations Khaw Boon Wan (centre) sharing a vegetarian meal with Sri Kumar X Janardhanan (right) of the Sembawang Indian Activity Executive Committee (lAEC), during a celebration of theVishu Festival at Sembawang Community Centre yesterday. The event's aim was to
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      No charity disparity
      403 10  -  ONG DAI LIN COMMUNITY HOSPITALS Liberalised use of Medisave will not affect donations: Minister Khaw dailin@mediacorp.com.sg COMMUNITY hospitals should not be overly concerned that they will suffer a drop in charitable contributions with the liberalisation of the use of Medisave funds, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said
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      141 10 Which one of the following comic series Wr I^l is adapted from the Chinese classic g ai y r "Journey to the West"? |jjjj -c A Dragon Ball bian xia B Vagabond g [OR C Castle in the Sky a na f IS SB X XT bd mm y6u mdn
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      Sri Lanka suspends military offensive
      207 12 COLOMBO Sri Lanka's President ordered a two-day suspension of offensives against Tamil Tiger rebels to enable tens of thousands of trapped civilians to leave the war zone, his office said on Sunday. President Mahinda Rajapaksa directed the armed forces to restrict operations during the Sri
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      Lock icon A Bollywood-style gamble
      508 12 AGENCIES MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Embattled Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S Samy Vellu (picture), desperate to reclaim a seat in Prime Minister Najib Razak's new cabinet, has reportedly threatened to withdraw the MlC's one minister and two deputy ministers from government to put pressure on the
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      Lock icon NAJIB PUTS ECONOMY FIRST
      533 13  -  LESLIE LAU THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER NEWS COMMENT LOST amid criticism over some less-than-inspiring choices for his Cabinet may be the fact that Prime Minister Najib Razak has put the economy and systematic reforms at the heart of his new administration. By appointing a combination of reformists,
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon POLICE HIT BY FRESH CLAIM OF SUSPECT ABUSE
        117 13 AP Malaysia's police faced fresh accusations of abusing detainees yesterday after a suspect was hospitalised in intensive care for allegedly drinking paint thinner in custody. Authorities claim Mr Anwar Mansor, 23, who was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession, grabbed a bottle
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        LOSE WEIGHT, HEALTH MINISTRY STAFF TOLD
        110 13 MINISTRY STAFFTOLD Malaysia's Health Ministry has told its staff to lose weight and asked them to "shape up", Health Minister LiowTiong Lai said yesterday. "This is serious. Obesity among ministry staff is high," Mr Liow was quoted by The Star as saying. "I have
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      Lock icon Elders seek to free US captain
      409 14 AFP SOMALI PIRATES MOGADISHU (Somalia) Somali elders yesterday launched a new bid to free an American held hostage for days on a lifeboat after his pirate captors fired on a United States navy vessel and defied attempts to have them arrested. Even as negotiations
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      Lock icon POPULISM GETS THE VOTE IN INDIA
      498 15 AFP NEWS ANALYSIS FOUR years of soaring growth is a record most governments would trumpet from the rooftops at election time. Yet India's ruling party is giving the subject a wide berth ahead of this week's polls. Instead, populist promises of education, agricultural loan
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      Lock icon UN statement to condemn N Korea rocket launch
      169 15 AFP UNITED NATIONS The world's major powers have agreed to a draft statement condemning North Korea's rocket launch and calling for new sanctions against Pyongyang. The statement, which falls short of a UN resolution which carries more weight, is expected to be
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      Lock icon Media defiant amid censorship
      472 17 AGENCIES NEW FIJI GOVERNMENT SUVA (Fiji) Fiji's biggest newspaper, The Fiji Times appeared with a blank page yesterday and the national television network refused to broadcast its usual evening news bulletin to protest censorship by the military government. This, as the South Pacific nation's armed forces
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        Lock icon TAIWAN INCHES CLOSERTO DECRIMINALISING PROSTITUTION
        70 17 AFP Lawmakers from Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang vowed to press ahead with attempts to decriminalise prostitution after winning enough backing yesterday to introduce a Bill to Parliament. The proposal aims to amend the law under which prostitutes are punished but not their clients. It has been
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        Lock icon WIFE, SON OF S KOREAN EX-PRESIDENT IN GRAFT PROBE
        63 17 AFP South Korean state prosecutors have questioned the wife and son of former president Roh Moo Hyun in an escalating corruption probe, officials said yesterday. Mr Roh Geon Ho, 35, and Ms Kwon Yang Sook, were quizzed about a scandal in
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        Lock icon ISRAEL-PALESTINE PEACE TALKS
        90 17 AFP Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed yesterday to hold talks with the Palestinians, in his first remarks on the Middle East peace process since taking office. According to a statement, Mr Netanyahu called Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and "spoke of the co-operation they have had in
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      Lock icon Woman mauled at Berlin Zoo
      164 18 AGENCIES POLAR BEAR ATTACK BERLIN A woman who climbed a fence, a row of prickly hedges and a wall to jump into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo at feeding time has miraculously survived after being pulled out of the moat. The 32-year-old
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        Lock icon MEET THE FIRST PUPPY
        89 18 AP In what was one of the White House's most tightly kept secrets, President BarackObama's daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, have chosen a black and white six-month-old Portuguese water dog to be the first pet. A gift from Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who owns
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        Lock icon NEW ORANGUTAN POPULATION FOUND
        90 18 AP Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans perhaps as many as 2,000 in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia giving a rare boost to one of the world's most endangered apes. Ateam surveying forests in eastern Borneo counted 219 orangutan nests, indicating a "substantial"
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      Lock icon 100,000 rally in London to call for Tamil truce
      234 19 .AFP LONDON Some 100,000 people marched through central London on Saturday (picture) to demand a truce in Sri Lanka, as similar protests were held in Norway and Paris against Colombo's offensive on Tamil rebels. Waving flags and chanting, they streamed through
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      Lock icon Aide resigns over smears
      445 19 AGENCIES BRITISH POLITICS LONDON A senior aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned Saturday after sending "juvenile and inappropriate" emails about the opposition Conservative Party from a Downing Street account. Special adviser Damien Mcßride stepped down after a newspaper published a summary of emails he
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      112 12 What is the cover used by the spy, played by J|> i|f| jh tta I Stephen Chow, in the movie "From Beijing with Love"? sh e n qing zhong dan A Fortune teller Ift }R ra£ B Pork seller ten bao yfng C Fishball vendor jdt IS k nib ti
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      Heavier penalties the way to go
      87 20  -  Raymond LoWan Letter from FROM my experience of over 40 years as a former environmental health officer, no amount of enforcement action or complaints against unhygienic food practices will prevent the recurrence of such outbreaks if stallholders do not take ownership of their responsibilities.
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      Bring back the top-down scrutiny
      343 20  -  LimTeck Kong HAWKER CENTRE CLEANLINESS Letter from I WRITE in with personal experience as a hawker's son and as a stall assistant. Over the past five years, there has been a tremendous drop in the focus by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) on hawker centre
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      Lock icon Raise hygiene standards, conduct surprise checks
      225 20  -  Joseph Wong Arthur Lim Letter from SOME hawkers do not understand why certain things need to be done. For instance, some wear plastic gloves during food handling, but they also collect money with the gloves still on, before returning to handling food, which defeats
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      Board's own decision
      309 21  -  lohn Lim CHOICE OF DIRECTORS Letter from J President, Singapore Institute of Directors WE REFER to "An independent and competent choice" (April 7) and would like to thank Mr Ec Teck Siew for his suggestions. We fully endorse his statement that "good governance invariably requires competent and
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      En blocs also about greed and money
      210 21  -  George Yeo Qiao Zhi Letter from I REFER to "Law's purpose to maximise scarce land" (April 10). In his letter defending the 80-per-cent en bloc rule, Mr Ben Mathias Tan asserts that the law would have been struck down by the courts if
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      209 21  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY SCREAMING AT TREES AND CHILDREN Many parents, perhaps most, admit to losing theirtempers and screaming at their kids from time to time. Usually we shrug it off, assuming not much harm was done. Deep in the woods of the Solomon Islands lives
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      68 20 |H Available on HTC Dream. China deploys extra troops along Tibet border Chins Sdid Monday it n3o deployed extra soldiers along Tibet's international border as part of ahead of the 50th anniversary of a failed anti-Chinese uprisinEI HTC Dream is available only I at Sing Tel retail shops. For the
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      Boys will be boys
      1169 22  -  GENEVIEVE LOH TODAY EXCLUSIVE Real life mimics reel life for the guys of Entourage in los angeles genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg THE SMILE was small but sincere. The eyes a clear "trust me" blue. But it was what that familiar gravelly voice said that confused me: "What are you
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      Lock icon Spain's queen of erotic novels dies
      330 23 .AFP CORIN Tellado, Spain's most prolific romantic novelist whose books sold over 400 million copies, died Saturday at the age of 81, three days after she finished her last novel, a hospital official said. Tellado published around 4,000 books in a career that spanned
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      Pollock? Who's Pollock?
      406 24  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM Landmark Wu Guanzhong collection knows no artistic boundaries mayo@mediacorp.com.sg FROM afar, some of the works, with their drips and seemingly haphazard streaks, are reminiscent of the late abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's action paintings. But even though artist Wu Guanzhong is regarded as
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      NEW ON THE PLUS BLOG
      114 24 http://blogs. today online, com/stargazing The stars are getting bigger on our Star Gazing blog. Here's a picture of Showbiz Sista, Today's MaySeah, with Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman! Read all about how she snuggled up to the Sexiest Man Alive in sunny Sydney at the World
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      610 26  -  TIM DAHLBERG AP MASTERS 2009 Tiger's unlikely to storm final round but that shouldn't bother real fans and purists AUGUSTA (Georgia) Tiger Woods may have won 15 Major titles, but history tells us that the 33-year-old has never won a Major championship when
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      310 26 1 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AUGUSTA Kenny Perry is trying not to think about the possibility of becoming the oldest winner in Major golf history before he tackles the final round in The Masters at Augusta, which teed off last night (this morning, Singapore time). The 48-year-old is
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      355 27 AFP MANCHESTER Fulham kept up their challenge for a European place as Clint Dempsey's double sealed a 3-1 victory at Manchester City yesterday. After 14 league matches without an away success this season, Roy Hodgson's side have now won their last two games away from Craven
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      586 28  -  LOW LIN FHOONG GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Young Lions v Balestier Khalsa Jalan Besar Stadium, j.^spm linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg EIGHT games into the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009, the Young Lions are third from bottom of the 12-team league table, a point in front of bottom club Sengkang
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        158 33 AFP South Korea's government offered a tax break yesterday to motorists who replace ageing cars with newer models, in a bid to boost sagging demand in the auto industry. The Strategy and Finance Ministry said the measure, worth up to 2.5 million
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      207 33 RECENTLY-LISTED Japan Foods Holdings has announced that it will be closing three of its restaurants when their leases expire. The first two are Ajisen Ramen outlets located at Changi Airport Terminal 1 and Takashimaya Shopping Centre whose leases end this June and July respectively.
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        56 34 $1.271 Buy Goldman Sachs maintains its rating for the China-based property developer and raises the target price to $1.51 from $1.16, saying that Chinese real estate prices are showing signs of stabilising. The brokerage says financial risks are also easing amid an improving credit environment, with banks now
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        18 34 Thursday 1,828.51 A 2.50% Wednesday 1,783.96 T 1.02% Tuesday 1,802.39 2-47% Monday 1,847.98 A 1.49%
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        23 34 Hang Seng Closed Nikkei 8,964.11 A 0.54% Shanghai 2,444.23 A 2.70% Seoul 1,336.04 A 1.50% Mumbai Closed KLComp 941.38 A 2.56%
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