Today, 8 May 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Friday May 8, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Lock icon S'poreans cheer news of capture
      846 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT AFTERNOON LATEST weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IT CAME as a pleasant surprise for many Singaporeans as they awoke this morning to the news that the country's most wanted fugitive, Mas Selamat Kastari, has been captured. With Influenza A (H1N1) dominating recent headlines, almost all 20 Singaporeans Today
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  • NEWS
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      How Selamat escaped
      713 2 FLASHBACK: FEB 27, 2008 IT WAS time for his family's weekly visit. At about 3.35pm on Feb 27 last year, two Gurkha guards escorted Mas Selamat Kastari from his cell to a locker room in another block, so he could change out of his detainee uniform into
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      Lock icon Will getting H1N1 now protect you later?
      392 4 AFP HINI FLU OUTBREAK PARIS The global outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) hovering just below the pandemic threshold could provide immunity for those already infected if the virus mutates into a more deadly form, scientists told AFP. That is what happened in 1918,
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      Its business as usual for air crew
      509 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN LINYANQIN and chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THEY fly to HINI flu-infected areas such as New York and California for work, but except for precautionary measures like temperature checks instituted by airlines, life between flights has been perfectly normal for cabin crew. On recent stops in
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      Lock icon Asia mulls boosting flu drug stockpile
      284 4 AGENCIES BANGKOK Asean could consider establishing the regional development and production of vaccines and anti-viral drugs, expanding the regional emergency stockpile of 1 million courses of Tamiflu and Relenza, amid other measures to address pandemic situations in future. The proposal was made at the
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      Lock icon A new approach to learning
      692 6  -  LINYANQIN TODAY EXCLUSIVE New institution has a fresh take on teaching style and examinations yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg TOSS out conventional textbooks and design a curriculum from scratch. Assess students on an ongoing basis, rather than the usual exam or test framework. To keep apace with students
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      Scrap 'unfair' limits on Singaporeans
      442 8  -  CONRAD RAJ TANGLIN CLUB AGM Fireworks expected as members propose lifting 51-per-cent cap on locals editor-at-large\ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S perhaps not going to be as contentious and acrimonious as the recent meetings of the Association of Women for Action and Research, but some fireworks are still
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        RENEW YOUR ROAD TAXES AND GET REBATES
        119 8 Owners of buses, goods vehicles, goods-cum-passenger vehicles and taxis will get a 30-per-cent road tax rebate when they renew their road taxes for the period July 1 this year to June 30 next year. They will be able to renew their road tax
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        Lock icon AIR FORCE RECEIVES F-15SG FIGHTERS
        125 8 938 LIVE The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) detachment in Idaho, United States, received its first batch of four F-15SG multi-role fighter aircraft yesterday, marking the beginning of RSAF F-15 training at the Mountain Home Air Force Base there. A Ministry of Defence statement
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      Lock icon Look who's in the driver s seat, now
      664 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT TRANSPORT JOBS More women joining up as frontline staff in public transport weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN she interviewed for the job in 1998, Ms Karen Tan Lye Teng (picture) was asked if she could manage a group of men, or if she was
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      How much is that Persian kitty from Cameroon? $1,788
      293 12 WHERE they once used to lure you with instant riches, Internet scammers have now resorted to tugging your heartstrings by offering pets for adoption and not delivering on their promises. A woman has reported to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
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      Lock icon IN CREMENTS, BY THE NUMBERS
      76 12 1.5%: The median salary increase projected for the next 12 months, the lowest since 1997. 43%: The proportion of firms that plan to freeze wages (including promotion) increments for next 12 months. Another 21 per cent will defer increases. 1.3 MONTHS: Median variable bonuses; j
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      Increments for lower rungs?
      318 12  -  LINYANQIN SALARY FORECAST yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg MANY would count it good news if their employers merely froze pay instead of cutting but to go ahead with wage increases to help staff out at this time? Some companies have indicated that any increments would be "preferentially given to lowerlevel
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      Lock icon More than kid s stuff
      366 14  -  PEARL FORSS SINGAPORE WOMAN AWARD 2009 Research consultant impresses with her efforts in addressing children issues pearlmaria@mediacorp.com.sg SHE started one of the first after-school care centres for latch-key children in Singapore, and was also one of the first voices championing anti-bullying here. Now, 47-year-old Esther
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      Lock icon Malaysian duo get 10 years' jail, 24 strokes
      213 16 938 LIVE TWO Malaysian men have each been sentenced to 10 years'jail and 24 strokes of the cane for causing the death of a Bangladeshi. Hirris Anak Martin, 22, and James Anak Anggang, 23, admitted to taking part in an armed robbery
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      Lock icon Number of sex workers could balloon
      513 16  -  ALICIA WONG HUMAN TRAFFICKING alicia@mediacorp.com.sg IT may just be a 0.5-per-cent drop in Cambodia's economy this year, going by International Monetary Fund estimates in March, but as garment exports and the number of tourists fall, there could be a rise in the number of
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      286 12 EMERGING THREATS to tropical forests and species: IMPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS LEADERS j^^~~ Dr- William F. Laurance Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama The talk highlights several new and emerging threats to tropical ecosystems and considers the challenges these pose for both environmentalists and business P 4 leaders. These evolving threats
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      451 16 B Terms and conditions: Fares are inclusive of fuel surcharge, passenger facility charges and any other taxes. However, they are subject to change based on currency fluctuations. This offer is only applicable for residents of Singapore. Only E-Tickets are applicable. Fares shown are based on roundtrip purchase in Economy Class
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      Lock icon Thousands of civilians in search of safety
      479 18 AGENCIES PAKISTAN UNREST PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Thousands of people fled the deadliest fighting to erupt in the Pakistani north-west district of Swat in months, as attack helicopters and war planes pounded suspected Taliban hideouts yesterday. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that
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      Lock icon Afghans protest deadly US-led strikes, four wounded
      352 18 AGENCIES HERAT (Afghanistan) Afghans chanted "death to America" and demanded United States troops leave Afghanistan as mobs threw stones at government offices yesterday in a violent protest against civilian deaths. Four people were wounded when hundreds of furious demonstrators protested in the western
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      Lock icon Stay out of our affairs, China tells Paris
      245 20 AP BEIJING China's Foreign Ministry yesterday warned the Paris city council not to formally bestow honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama, saying that would likely spark a renewal of furious anti-French sentiment among Chinese. The council has not yet staged a ceremony
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      Lock icon 5,335 students died in earthquake: China
      379 20 AFP SICHUAN QUAKE CHENGDU China said yesterday that last year's massive Sichuan earthquake left 5,335 students dead or missing, releasing its first official tally days before the sensitive anniversary of the disaster. The announcement came as the authorities in Sichuan province accused foreign reporters
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      Lock icon US man arrested for sneaking into Suu Kyi home
      237 22 AP YANGON (Myanmar) Police tightened security around Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday after an American man was reportedly arrested for swimming across a lake and sneaking into her lakeside home. More than 20 police entered Ms Suu
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      Lock icon China ready for post-Kyoto deal
      288 22 THE GUARDIAN GLOBAL WARMING LONDON China is ready to abandon its resistance to limits on its carbon emissions and wants to reach an international deal to fight global warming, The Guardian has learned. According to Britain's climate change secretary Ed Miliband, who met senior officials
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      Lock icon THE HEAVY PRICE OF BIGGER BREASTS
      765 24  -  BRYONYGORDON THE DAILYTELEGRAPH NEWS COMMENT No one takes you seriously when you tell them that your chest is a massive pain in the rear, or rather, back WOMEN with large breasts shouldn't have to pay more for their underwear. Women with larger-than-average busts always
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      Lock icon 300 dogs dumped on Malaysian isles turn cannibal
      206 27 AP KUALA LUMPUR More than 300 stray dogs dumped on Malaysia's isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said yesterday. The plight of the dogs cast away by villagers on two small, uninhabited islands off Selangor ignited
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      Lock icon Women, too, got beaten
      307 27 AP PROTESTS IN NEPAL More troops deployed to protect key areas of capital KATHMANDU Riot police beat back hundreds of women from Nepal's communist party who protested yesterday in front of the President's house in the capital to demand that he fire the country's Army Chief.
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      EYE ON THAILAND
      87 27 ASIAN SUMMITCALLS FOR USEOF ISA Thailand will use the Internal Security Act which will allow the military to use draconian security measures during the Summit of Asian leaders in Phuket next month, said Prime Minister AbhisitVejjajiva yesterday. According to a report by The Nation, Mr Abhisit said
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      Lock icon Protesters and police clash
      341 28 AFP TURMOIL IN GEORGIA Outbreak of violence rocks start of Nato exercises TBILISI Political tensions intensified in Georgia yesterday after clashes between police and protesters rocked Tbilisi at the start of controversial Nato military exercises in the ex-Soviet state. The clashes on Wednesday marked the first
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BUSH LAWYERS FACE BACKLASH
        103 28 AP Pressure is mounting against two former Bush administration lawyers who wrote the legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say constituted torture. MrJohnYoo, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is fighting calls for disbarment and dismissal, while Judge
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        Lock icon US TERROR WATCHLIST HAS 35% ERROR RATE
        106 28 AFP A report from the United States Justice Department has found the country's 1.1 million-strong watchlist of suspected terrorists has a 35-per-cent error rate and no established way to remove or update records. The FBI watchlist audit, released on Wednesday by the Justice
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        Lock icon US MISSILE DEFENCE DATA FOUND ON EBAY
        103 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Sensitive data detailing launch procedures for a United States military missile air defence system have been found on a sec-ond-hand computer hard drive bought on eßay. It was discovered among 300 hard disks bought for a research project on computer security. Other
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      Lock icon Civilians forced to help Tigers
      318 31 AGENCIES TAMIL TIGERS COLOMBO Video footage recovered from Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels showed their fighters forcing civilians to assist their war effort and depicted one insurgent in street clothes firing a heavy machine gun, the military said yesterday. The government said the footage, posted
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      Lock icon Crowning Ms Beautiful Morals
      209 31 AP RIYADH (Saudi Arabia) Ms Sukaina Al Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she is a little on the plump
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      Lock icon Iranian court to review prison term for US journalist
      183 31 THE NEWYORKTIMES TEHRAN An Iranian appeals court has agreed to review the eight-year prison term handed out last month to Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, following her family's decision to change lawyers. Her father, Mr Reza Saberi, said the family had been
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      Lock icon An Absolutely Fabulous meeting with Brown?
      203 32 AP LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reviewing the plight of Nepalese veterans of Britain's armed forces following a meeting on Wednesday with actress and pro-Gurkha activist Joanna Lumley. Ms Lumley, best known for playing Patsy in the comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, has
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      Lock icon Innocent? We want your DNA
      452 32 AFP GENETIC PROFILES Despite opposition, UK Home Secretary proposes new DNA database policy LONDON The genetic profiles of hundreds of thousands of innocent people are to be kept on the national DNA database forup to 12 years. But critics claim the scheme is designed to
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      Lock icon The media 1, UK govt 0
      446 34 AP GITMO TORTURE British judges to mull ruling on disclosure of redacted information LONDON Media groups won a legal battle against the British government on Wednesday when judges agreed to reconsider their previous ruling to keep information about a former Guantanamo detainee's alleged torture
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      Lock icon Newspapers becoming an endangered species': Senate
      264 34 AFP WASHINGTON Old Media squared off against New Media as a United States Senate panel on Wednesday examined the future of journalism in the digital age. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, called the hearing saying
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      Did MOE do its homework?
      320 36  -  Henry Koh Chiew Phor SEX EDUCATION 'Contradictory' statements lead reader to conclude Ministry was unaware Letter from I REFER to "Aware's, other sex ed courses put on hold" (May 7). It was reported that the Ministry of Education's (MOE) assessment was that in some other
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      'Homosexuality is not neutral'
      313 36  -  James Ray Letter from I REFER to "Don't skirt the issue by shielding children," (May 6). It seems Mr Joseph Wong has missed the main point of "conservative" parents' concerns. As a conservative parent who has worked with and counselled teenagers for more than 20 years,
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      101 48 AP PIERRECARDIN HOSPITALISED Fashion designer Pierre Cardin was hospitalised after fainting and falling earlierthis week. A spokesman for the Cardin fashion house says the designer was taken on Tuesday by helicopter to a hospital in Marseille, on the southern coast of France. Spokesman Jean-Pascal Hesse says Cardin
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      462 48  -  GENEVIEVELOH SHORT FILM SUCCESS Sell Out! director on why his movie was made for his mother and aunt genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE is one thing you cannot accuse Yeo Joon Han of, it's selling out. The Malaysian lawyer-turned-advertising executive actually gave up his well-payingjob back in 1999 to
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      506 50  - Word up side down MAYSEAH ANGELS AND AMBIGRAMS Local ambigram artists Nagfa urge you to take a second look at this art form may@mediacorp.com.sg HAVE you ever wished for a better way to pass secret messages so your boss would have no incriminating evidence to use against you? Ask the
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        42 52 VARIOUS This soundtrack is replete with the usual fast-paced pop numbers, occasional ballad and appearances by special guests such as Taylor Swift, the Rascal Flatts and Billy Ray Cyrus. If you like frothy teen pop, knock yourself out. 2.5/5
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        332 52  -  FAITH YANG SELF-SELECTED I TO SAY that Golden Melody Award winner Faith Yang's latest release is a departure from what she usually offers doesn't even begin to describe how polarising this album can be. It's a collection of her favourite English songs that she likes singing along
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        80 52 JOSHUA REDMAN Saxophonist Joshua Redman's latest album sounds like a brilliant exercise in musical space. The music isn't cluttered, with enough breathing room for each instrument. The best example is his take of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (simply called Moonlight here), which has two drummers and two bass players all
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        105 52 THE APPLE PIES Re-imagining the Fab Four is always fun, but a lounge music version of some of the greatest pop hits ever? To be fair, as a tribute band, this Italian outfit have got some street cred they've performed on TV shows throughout Europe and they
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        111 52 VARIOUS Those who relish a little bit of Euro with their retro should definitely get this triple-disc album. Not only do you get your favourite '80s tracks, you can check out if they can survive the Eurobeat or house treatment. Some are obvious: What a
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      443 54  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE ARTS FEST Familiar theatre faces debut their new groups mayo@mediacorp.com.sg ACTORS Nelson Chia and Chermaine Ang are familiar faces in the local theatre scene, but at this year's Arts Fest they're all set to debut their new companies. Chia's ensemble group, aptly called
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        86 54 Check out the new emerging batch of dance choreographers in this show featuring pieces from five members ofT.H.E. Dance Company and its affiliated youth wing, T.H.E.Youth. The three-year-long project initiated by artistic director Kuik Swee Boon kicks off with this first show on May 16 and 17,
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        95 54 Playwright Verena Tay and director Noor Effendy Ibrahim present Bumiputra: Cina, A Chinese Child of the Soil. The characters and audience are constantly questioned if they are really "princes of the soil" and confronted with the idea of what it means to be Singaporean. It explores the "rebirth"
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      109 56 CHRISTOPHERTOH FOR LOCAL star couple, Michelle Chia and Shaun Chen, their "guest list" for the traditional wedding banquet this coming Monday could run into the hundreds of thousands. MediaCorp TV Channel 8 will be broadcast their wedding "live" from the ballroom at The Ritz-Carlton, as
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      324 56  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH WORLD'S SEXIEST VEGETARIAN Chinese pop star is ahead of the pack for Peta's annual poll christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE nominees have just been posted on the website, but so far Chinese pop star Faye Wong (picture) has already taken a lead over other celebrity contenders
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      630 60 DPA AFP AFTERNOON LATEST UEFA CUP SEMI-FINAL, 2ND LEG Hamburg 2 Werder Bremen 3 Werder Bremen, it is an important moment for me and the club," said the Brazilian. "I am 200 per cent for Bremen at the moment and any decision on my future
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      313 60 AFP Didier Drogba yesterday apologised for his furious confrontation with referee Tom Henning Ovrebo in the wake of Chelsea's stormy Champions League semi-final exit at the hands of Barcelona. The striker faces potentially severe sanctions from Uefa over his
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      1033 61  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE SPORT New football chief Zainudin wants superstar local players and roaring Lions shamir@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS Singapore Day in London on April 25, and three football personalities all with strong links to the Lions were in the famous old city. New football
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      425 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO9 Gombak3 Geylang 1 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg AGU Casmir fired Gombak United back to the top of the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 standings, scoring twice and setting up his side's third goal in their 3-1 win over Geylang United
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      272 62 AGENCIES REFRAGE LATEST LONDON Chelsea said they would take strong action against any fans found to have made threats against Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo, who officiated the club's Champions League semi-final against Barcelona. Yesterday, Ovrebo was smuggled out of Britain by police
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      569 62  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORT S #pore women's team split up as final leg of mission Everest begins yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg NEARLY 11 years after the Singapore flag was first planted on top of the world, six women are on course to repeat the feat, and write themselves into the
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      438 63  -  ASDWIGHT MHJte:: Young Lions head coach expects his boys to respond to his withering outburst sports@newstoday.com.sg ON MONDAY night, the Young Lions were knocked out of the RHB Singapore Cup 2009 by Phnom Penh Crown FC. They were outplayed and outclassed, going down 2-0 in
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      310 63  -  'AS DWIGHT AFTER a good run at Gombak United, Precious Emuejeraye moved to Woodlands Wellington at the beginning of the year. It's been somewhat of a step down for the Singapore international centreback. The Bulls, who finished last season in fourth place, moved
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      82 63 S7LE&GUE ASIA'S TOP 10 LEAGUE fTp IDA YJ GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Young Lions v Woodlands Wellington Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm live on Ch 5 Co-Title Sponsors Partners in Sports Official Convergence Communications Providers I Club Main Sponsors 4lM9^} r n AVAyA sa^yo FTMS /^>» Clt liWLujLLI II Giving Hope.improving
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      537 64  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN SMARTPHONE REVIEW HTCTOUCH DIAMOND 2 Only the high price and current lack of apps let it down a little hedirman@mediacorp.com. sg DESPITE being crammed full of features, smartphones are often lacking when it comes to having intuitive software. Taiwanese handphone maker HTC knows
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      242 64  -  ARIELTAM LG ARENA The muchcoveted 2009 flagship phone from LG —the Arena has finally arrived in Singapore. We first reported about this smartphone in February, where it impressed the socks off gadget lovers at the Mobile World Congress in Spain. One of its biggest wow factors
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      500 66  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN TECHNOLOGY COMMENT When does citizen journalism cross the line into a vicious circle of public naming-and-shaming? hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg THE proliferation of digital cameras and picture-sharing websites has democratised photography and made it accessible to the masses which is awesome on so many levels.
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        156 66  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN If you've been hankering for a new version of Windows to replace XP, you'll be glad to know that the next version of Microsoft's major operating system (OS) is a step closer to its commercial release. The software giant has made
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      263 70 BLOOMBERG TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT GUCCI Group's United States unit sued Guess? Inc for trademark infringement, accusing the apparel company of using a network of wholesale buyers to sell imitations of Gucci's best-selling designs. Los Angeles-based Guess allegedly sells knockoffs of Gucci's "famous" green-red-green stripe designs and interlocking "GG"
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      238 70 AP PORSCHE said on Wednesday it was moving toward creating an "integrated" carmaker with Germany's Volkswagen, but emphasised that the high-end sports car company would retain its independence. The announcement came following private meetings in Salzburg of the Piech and Porsche families the controlling shareholders of
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      249 70 THE GUARDIAN BILLIONAIRE media mogul Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corp's newspaper websites within a year, as he strives to fix a "malfunctioning" business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Streetjournal, he said last
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      521 72  -  JOANNA WHITEFORD MONEY MIND Asia's ability to handle crises give its markets good potential: Analysts joanna@mediacorp.com.sg ASIAN stock markets may be showing signs of being oversold and valuations are beginning to look attractive, say analysts. HSBC Global Asset Management believes that while a fullfledged bull
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      406 74 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) showcased his bumper U553.44-trillion ($5.06--trillion) budget, but facing record deficits, vowed to cut "stunning" waste by slicing 121 programmes worth US$l7 billion ($25 billion). The White House trumpeted spending cuts in the
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        115 74 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Chinese oil-rig and ship builder Cosco Corp yesterday said first quarter net profit slumped 60 per cent, on lower dry-bulk charter rates and lower profit contributions from its ship repair and ship building business. Net profit for the three months ended March 31 dropped
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        144 74 DOWJONES Star Hub's first-quarter net profit rose 3 per cent from the same period a year earlier on lower taxation and operating costs. The telco yesterday said net income for the three months ended March 31 was $82.5 million, compared with $80.1 million in the first quarter
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        61 74 WingTai Holdings' net profit in the third quarter ended March fell 23 per cent from a year ago to about $21.4 million, the Mainboard-listed developer said yesterday. The decrease came on the back of a 19-per-cent drop in revenue to around $89.6 million. Wing Tai said
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      382 75  -  TAN HUILENG CHINASUN 810-CHEM TECHNOLOGY huileng@mediacorp.com.sg CHINA Sun Bio-Chem Technology Group has suspended its chief executive and chairman, Mr Sun Guij i, at a board meeting on Wednesday. Only the group's three independent directors were present at the meeting. The China-based corn starch producer's two executive
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          75 76 Wall Street hammered Wall Street shares slumped as weak demand at a US Treasury auction stoked fears that authorities might not be able to keep interest rates low to fuel an economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average skidded 102.42 points (1.20 per cent) to close at 8,409.85.
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          92 76 Stocks retreat European stocks fell for the first time in six days as Barclays Pic and Lloyds Banking Group Pic said bad loans may soar this year, overshadowing a rally by food and beverage companies. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index declined 0.8 per cent to 206.29. The
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        95 76 City of Dreams, an integrated entertainment resort in Macau, announced yesterdw it will open on June 1. Developed by Nasdaq-listed Melco Crown Entertairlnient, the initial opening phase will feature a 420,000-square-foot casino, plus range of accommodations, including the stylish Crown I Towers and vibrant Hard Rock
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        467 76 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve has determined that 10 United States banks need to raise a total of U5574.6 billion ($109.3 billion) in capital, concluding its unprecedented probe of the health of the nation's 19 largest lenders. The results showed that losses at the
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        328 76  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A GROUP of angry TTL Holdings shareholders have failed to stop the company from issuing convertible bonds. Objectors staking claim to around 10 per cent of the plastics components maker's stock, claimed the bond issue was against shareholders' interest as it would dilute
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        236 76  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg FROM next Thursday, investors as young as 18 will be able to start trading shares here. A Singapore Exchange (SGX) spokesperson told Today that with an amendment to its rules, brokerages can now follow suit and allow younger people to
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