Today, 16 May 2009

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  • 20 1 weekendTODAY May 16 -17, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking weekendTODAY May 16 -17, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 145 1 4 Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says he chose Boediono as his running mate because he's honest, and free from any conflict of interest. C 2 How civil society had jumped \J into action, when it seemed that religion was involved in the takeover of Aware, has
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  • 316 1 AGENCIES HINIFLU First M'sian case: No S #poreans on the flight FIRST Thailand, now Malaysia the footprints of the HINI virus getting geographically closer are a reminder that it is only a "matter of time", in the health authorities' words, before it sets foot in Singapore. Responding
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  • NEWS
    • THE WHO, WHAT. WHERE OF POLITICAL CYBERSPACE
      • 714 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG WEEKEND(X)TRA POLITICS ANDTHE INTERNET cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg THE Internet has for some time now been touted as the new battleground for political parties around the world. It's no different in Singapore, as politicians on both sides invest significant time and energy to beef
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      • 473 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG WEEKEND(x)TRA cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to discussing hot-button issues, there seems to be two different worlds in cyberspace. When a Town Council lost money on Le-hman-linked products or a senior civil servant penned a less than sensitive travelogue politically-minded blogs and alternative websites here went
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      • 1194 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG WEEKEND(x)TRA cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg FOR some time now, it has been touted as the place to go for alternative news and views about Singapore's political landscape, yet if the results of a recent survey by Weekend Xtra are anything to go by it appears that political cyberspace
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    • 400 4  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com. sg INSTEAD of calling it quits after pouring so much money into certain questionable timeshare deals, some customers keep buying similar investments over and over again. Retiree Wong Liang Yong, 69, is one such investor. He has spent close to $80,000
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    • 445 4 AGENCIES INDONESIAN ELECTION BANDUNG They have worked together for 10 years and central bank governor Boediono (picture) is known to be an honest man, free from any conflict of interest. That is why Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has chosen Mr Boediono as his running
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    • 582 6  -  ALICIA WONG AWARE SAGA Observers welcome DPM Wong's comments, Govt #s restraint in the matter alicia@mediacorp.com. sg BEYOND being a case that reaffirmed the OB markers between politics and faith, what impressed some watchers was how civil society had jumped into action, when it seemed
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    • 220 6  -  ALICIA WONG Their stand is clear: "Aware has never promoted homosexuality". In a statement yesterday evening, the 24-year-old Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) stressed that its stand has always "been identical to that of the Government". "We agree that the heterosexual family is the norm
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    • 299 12  -  ZULOTHMAN SCDF EXHIBITION zul@mediacorp.com. sg VISITORS at the Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF) exhibition today will get a sneak peek at its latest hardware designed to deal with a range of hazards in our highly-urbanised environment. Manufactured in Germany, the Remote Aerial Monitor System is a
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 84 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Manpower Ministry (MOM) will be conducting the Labour Force Survey from May 25 to July 31 on a sample of 33,000 households to collect data on the economic characteristics of the population to help in the formulation of manpower-related policies. MOM will
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      • 179 12 CPF members will continue to earn 2.5 per cent on their Ordinary Accounts from July itoSept3O, even as the computed rate derived from the major local banks' interest rates for the three-month period works out to 0.56 per cent. The higher rate will be
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      • 116 12 The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) is alerting the public to a scam in which conmen use its emblem to hawk counterfeit digital watches, claiming the proceeds would go to the humanitarian society. The SRC states that it is currently not having any street collection
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  • WORLD
    • 60 16 MINISTRYOF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Singapore is dismayed by this latest development. This is a setback for the national reconciliation process. We reiterate the call for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from detention. We are also concerned about recent reports on her
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    • 482 16 AGENCIES DRAMA IN MYANMAR World leaders denounce the junta's actions YANGON Myanmar faced intense international pressure on Friday to free pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after she was imprisoned ahead of a new trial next week for breaching the terms of her house
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    • 333 17 AGENCIES BATTLE FOR SWAT VALLEY SHAGUNA NAKA (Pakistan) Pakistan's army lifted its curfew in battle-scarred Swat Valley on Friday, allowing thousands to flee as troops prepared for street-to-street battles with Taliban militants entrenched in the valley's biggest town. In what is emerging as a grave humanitarian
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 62 17 THAILAND Thai police are planning to charge former Prime MinisterThaksin Shinawatra with insulting the Thai monarchy. MrThaksin had demanded the King's intervention during April's anti-government protests during interviews with the foreign media, The Bangkok Post reported on Friday. MrThaksin has denied the allegations,
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      • 78 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIA Malaysian police are pushing for passports to be issued to vehicles being driven across the country's borders in an effort to counter false reports of stolen cars. The vehicle passports system will enable the authorities to keep track of vehicles
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      • 105 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIA Ousted Perak SpeakerV Sivakumar has filed an injunction to prevent Barisan Nasional (BN)-appointed Speaker R Ganesan from stopping the former from carrying out his duties as the legitimate Speaker. If the injunction is granted, Mr Ganesan cannot convene an assembly to
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    • 271 18 AGENCIES SRI LANKA CONFLICT COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government vowed on Friday to capture all Tamil Tigerheld territory within 48 hours, despite international calls for a truce and accounts of a "humanitarian catastrophe". The signal that the final push against the beleaguered separatist guerrillas was
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    • 324 18 THEGUARDIAN TEHRAN For 30 years it has been the signature slogan of Iran's revolutionary lexicon, swearing an oath of death upon the West, Israel and other presumed enemies. Now the once-chilling "death to" chant, an expression of zealous radicalism still heard at President
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    • 105 18 AFP North Korea said on Friday it has scrapped all contracts with some 100 South Korean firms at a Seoul-funded joint industrial estate and told the companies to leave if they cannot accept it. The announcement cast doubt on the future of
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    • 92 18 AFP Leaders from six nations agreed on Friday to work jointly to save South-east Asia's massive Coral Triangle, considered the world's richest underwater wilderness. The leaders of East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands signed proposals to expand
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    • 365 19 AFP BRITAIN'S CLAIMS SCANDAL LONDON Britain's parliamentary expenses row has claimed its first casualties. Prime Minister Gordon Brown suspended a former minister, an opposition MP was forced to quit, while a justice minister is stepping down pending the outcome of an investigation into his expenses.
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    • 160 19 AFP VIENNA US-born reporter Roxana Saberi flew into Vienna from Tehran on Friday, only days after her release from an Iranian prison where she had been jailed on allegations of spying for the United States. Ms Saberi, who was accompanied by her family, said she planned to
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    • 188 19 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The number of potential nuclear weapons states could more than double in a few years unless the major powers take radical steps towards disarmament, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) has warned. MrMohamed Elßaradei
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    • 970 20  -  VIKASBAJAJ THENEWYORKTIMES xtra@mediacorp.com. sg MUMBAI In one of the many slick campaign commercials that was aired during India's month-long election, an actor reels off the signature achievements of the governing Congress Party over the last 60 years: Independence, land reform, a green revolution and bank nationalisation. The
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    • 262 21 AFP WASHINGTON Caught up in a firestorm over the United States' "war on terrorism" tactics, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi charged on Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had misled her in 2002 about the alleged torture
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    • 392 21 AFP MILITARYTRIBUNALS WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama's administration was to announce on Friday that it will retain Bushera military commissions to try some terror suspects, but with improved legal safeguards. The move, word of which has already faced tough opposition from rights groups,
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    • 499 22  -  Patrick Ang AWARE SAGA RESPONSE Let's live in mutual respect, tolerance and harmony as fellow Singaporeans Letter from I FELT that Mr Wong Kan Seng gave a very excellent interview in "After the storm (May 15). His representation of the government's position that Singapore is first
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    • 120 22  -  S Satish Appoo Letter from Director, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letters "Ban cabbies smoking in taxis" (May 12) and "Driver's own business whether they smoke in their cars" (May 14). We thank both writers for their feedback. Under
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    • 181 22  -  Tammy Tan Letter from Vice-President Corporate Communications, SBS Transit WE REFER to the letter, "Jerks on the buses should be dealt with" (May 14). We share Mr Lim's observation that some Bus Captains do not apply the correct techniques in braking while
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    • 375 23 Do Our Part w !>£&x& Hjß KJB 1 i f- V W 1 Authority of Singapore mm y F /*h^ T Keep Food Safe V»A I v -JW __^A 9 t- m With our health becoming increasingly threatened by food poisoning outbreaks and food-borne illnesses today, it is ever more
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  • business
    • 183 24  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is not looking to increase its economy-to-business seat ratio despite the slump in corporate travel. The marketing position may shift due to short-term changes, but the strategy of targeting premium travellers stays, said SIA chief Chew Choon Seng.
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    • 148 24  -  CHEOWXINYI What did Sats chief Clement Woon mean when he said the ground handler's day-to-day business was never actively managed by parent SIA? The remark voiced by Mr Woon on Thursday when explaining why SlA's planned divestment of Sats will not have a
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    • 345 24 AGENCIES SHIFT IN FOCUS TEMASEK Holdings has sold its 3.8-per-cent stake in Bank of America (BofA) at a loss possibly running into US$4.6 billion ($6.7 billion), as the Singapore sovereign wealth fund shifts its bets from the West to Asia. But had the firm
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    • 663 25  -  WILLIAM PESEK xtra@mediacorp.com.sg CHINA'S stock-market boom is as clear a bubble as you will find, conventional wisdom says. When will it burst? Nobody knows. China may have deep pockets in this global crisis, but that does not mean its economic health supports this rally. In
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    • 330 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH HIGH-END HOMES AMID growing talk of economic green shoots, local developers of high-end private homes rolled out 339 units last month nearly five times the number in March, according to statistics released on Friday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. And they were
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  • RveekefuJ~__?l
    • 606 27  -  SHERMAINE WONG TRADITION MEETS LUXURY The humble rice dumpling takes a superior turn this year with the incorporation of extravagant ingredients MWshermainewong@rnediacorp.com.sg ABALONE, check. Shark's fin, check. Foie gras, check. Lest you mistake these ingredients to be part of a lavish East-meets-West banquet, they're not. They are, however,
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  • MAKAN
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      202 28 If you prefer more traditional offerings, here are some places you can find them: KIM CHOO KUEH CHANG (Tel: 6741 2125] Established in 1 945, Kirn Choo is well known for its wide variety of traditional rice dumplings. These include its best-sell-ing Nonya chang ($3.50) made with minced
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    • FOODNOTES
      • 137 28  -  SHERMAINE WONG This spring, Royal Plaza on Scotts is adding a slice of Hokkaido to its buffet restaurant, Carousel. A huge slice, in fact. From May 21 to 30, dinner (6.30pm--1 0.30pm) at Carousel will feature Japanese delicacies created by Hokkaidobased guest chef Kazuhiro Fukuhara. During
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      • 160 28  -  DON MENDOZA Carrefour's annual wine fair has, over 1 1 years, grown to become a major event on many a wine lover's calendar. Its current international wine fair, which runs until the end of May, also boasts an interactive exhibition. Entitled A Taste of Burgundy, it offers
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      679 29  -  DON MENDOZA ITALIAN REFINEMENT Forlino's new chef at the helm hopes to redefine Italian fine dining without losing its traditional appeal donm@mediacorp.com.sg STUFF me with Prosciutto Di San Daniele (which, by the way, will be available at major supermarkets and restaurants here this June) and call me an
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  • STYLE
    • 1234 30  -  LYNETTE KOH AUDI FASHION FESTIVAL WRAP-UP From kooky accessories and sharp suits to 'fashion theatre' and $14m worth of jewellery, the AFF thrilled lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg FOR a second, it looked like the fashion festival would not be taking place this year. After the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced that
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      587 31 POSH PRODUCTION Made from scratch, suits by Ermenegildo Zegna require over 33,000 hand-sewn stitches and more TO UNDERSTAND why an Ermenegildo Zegna Sartoria ready-to-wear men's suit costs at least $3,100, the answers can be found in Italy's Trivero region. This is where you'll find the Lanificio Zegna, the
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    • 181 31  -  LYNETTE KOH WHAT do Brand's, Colgate, and L'Oreal have in common? They all won top honours the Best of the Best Brands at the recent Guardian Health Beauty Awards held at the Shangri-La Hotel. Held annually since 2001, the awards give recognition to the
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    • ATAGLANCE
      • 76 31 There are plenty of good reasons to check out the G2OOO Spring/ Summer midseason sale, which runs till June 14. Besides discounts on the store's ever-dependable work and casual basics such as reductions of up to 30 per cent on blouses and shirts, and blazers going
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      • 90 31 Barely a month into its opening, Tampines 1 rolls out its Spring to Life promotion campaign, with a line-up of special events and a total of $35,000 worth of prizes. Till June 28, shoppers who spend a minimum of $50 (with a maximum of
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  • SPEED
    • 583 32  -  COLIN YONG AUDI A3 CABRIOLET Al fresco driving doesn't get any more glamorous tnan in this Audi colin@mediacorp.com.sg FORGET Adriana Lima and Bar Refaeli. If you want to see a perfectly proportioned body, just visit an Audi showroom and lay your eyes on the A3 Cabriolet. It's probably
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    • NEWSTTRACKS
      • 85 32 German automaker Opel's future may still be uncertain (it's owned by beleaguered General Motors) but that hasn't stopped it from showcasing a promising all-new Astra model. The five-door hatchback is much sleeker than its predecessor, while its longer wheelbase improves space and comfort. As with
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      • 86 32 Honda's new Insight has become the best-selling car in Japan, the first hybrid model to achieve this feat. Industry observers say keen pricing is a key reason behind the Insight's popularity it costs 1.89 million Yen ($28,200), 17 per cent less than Honda's own Civic Hybrid. It's
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      • 90 32  -  COLIN YONG Citroen's upcoming new showroom along Alexandra Road will be the first in South-east Asia to sport the brand's new visual identity, which includes a refreshed version of the famous double chevron logo. The 415 square metre facility, located directly next to the Kia showroom
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    • 318 32 IF DROP-TOP cars are not quite your thing, Audi's other newcomer might be. Coming in at $10,000 more than the A3 Cabriolet, the Q. 5 2.0 is a serious contender for leadership in the compact SUV class. "Compact" here is relative, of course.
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