Today, 25 May 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Monday May 25, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    244 1 Tens of thousands of South £u Koreans paid their respects to former President Roh Moo Hyun a day after he committed suicide, just 15 months after leaving office. 4 The body of a Chinese national who went missing at Changi Beach was found after a six-hour search,
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    Lock icon RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
    45 1 Visitors outside the National Museum of Singapore were surprised by a living, walking dinosaur, as part of the Family Fun Carnival, which marked the beginning .of a nine-day celebration in conjunction with International Museum Day. iPhiOTO COURTESY I NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD
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    A $67.5m leg up
    720 1  -  LINYANQIN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE So that all have access to quality education, even during downturn yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the financial help doled out by Tanglin Secondary, student Nur Saleha Mohamed Saini, 13, was able to get free textbooks and use coupons to take care of some of her
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    Change must be fair: SM
    449 1  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg CHANGE is in the air for Singapore's political system, but change must be tethered to fundamental principles three, according to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. First, they must be fairto all contesting parties and "not be biased in favour of one party or
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    No need for review panel
    471 1 SINGAPORE may be facing its worst recession yet but, in Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's view, there is no need for an economic review committee like the one he convened when he was Prime Minister in 2001. Rather what is needed now, he said, is
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      Lock icon South Korea in mourning
      311 2 AGENCIES ROH MOO HYUN BONGHA (South Korea) Tens of thousands of South Koreans streamed to a rural village yesterday to pay their respects (picture) to former President Roh Moo Hyun a day after he killed himself by jumping off a rocky cliff overlooking his home in
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      Lock icon SM'S ADVICE FOR OLDER ADULTS
      153 2  -  ZULOTHMAN WEETECKHIAN Discharged from the Singapore General Hospital on May 13 after a severe attack of chicken pox, Senior Minister Goh ChokTong says it will take two or three weeks before the "battle scars" fade. The good news is, a blood test on Saturday has
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      Lock icon POINT OF VIEW: IN S KOREAN NEWSPAPERS TODAY
      371 3 mmmm. Mr Roh Moo Hyun's (picture) life was a constant uphill struggle up until his untimely death. From his impoverished youth to the last days of his life as a former President battling corruption charges, Mr Roh led a life that even
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      NEXT, SECONDARY SCHOOLS
      124 3  -  LINYANQIN With changes to primary school education all set, the spotlight this year will swing to secondary schools, with plans to review how to enhance opportunities for a holistic education. "We want our young children to be more innovative, ask more questions, be more project-based sooner or
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      Lock icon KINDERGARTEN BOOST
      86 3 938LIVE The Family Kindergarten Assistance Project will be extended, with a third tranche to be distributed in December, announced Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hwa yesterday. The project aims to help children in lowincome families with $50 in financial assistance. About 3,000 families benefited from
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      Will soft approach work?
      432 4  -  ZULOTHMAN COMMUTER BEHAVIOUR As graciousness campaign starts, some want penalties imposed zul@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW graciousness campaign has been launched to get train commuters to give up their seats for the elderly and make way for alighting passengers. But given how some still refuse to do so,
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      Lock icon Chinese national drowns in Changi Beach
      222 4  -  TECKHIAN IN AT LEAST the third drowning in a week, the body of a Chinese national who went missing in the water at Changi Beach yesterday was found after a six-hour search. The man, a factory worker in his early 20s, apparently went missing
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      Their winning ways with patients
      337 6 HEALTHCARE HUMANITY AWARDS Fifty healthcare workers will be given awards today in recognition for their outstanding efforts in helping the sick. The Healthcare Humanity Awards (HHA) continues the legacy of the Courage Awards founded during the Sars episode in 2003. NEO CHAI CHIN (chaichin@mediacorp. com.sg)
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      Lock icon The 40-year-old 'big bro'
      382 6 CHILD psychiatrist Ong Say How (picture) tries not to come across as a parental figure. "I'm like a friendly older brother to them I refuse to be seen as an uncle," quipped the 40-year-old, who watches cartoons, the latest movies, and listens to current music to
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      Coalition of help
      252 8  -  LINYANQIN MIGRANTWORKERS yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg ALL three groups have been working towards advocating the rights and improving the lives of migrant workers in Singapore and now they've banded together to further their cause. Yesterday, Migrant Voices, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) and Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (Home) launched
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      Lock icon MAKING A DASH FOR IT
      48 8 ESG ENDURANCEGROUP The Cold Storage Kids Run 'og, held at the Padang yesterday, saw an impressive turnout of 4,000 kids. The event, aimed at inculcating the right eating habits and instilling a healthy lifestyle among children, is in its sophomore year. PHOTO COURTESY
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon 16 DRINK DRIVERS ARRESTED
        86 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Sixteen motorists, including two women, failed a breathalyser test during a five-hour ring-fencing operation yesterday. Police said 14 of those arrested are in their 20s and 30s. At midnight, road blocks went up along Buangkok East Drive, Bukit Batok Road and Bishan Road. At
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        DPM WONG IN SUZHOU
        89 8 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng is in China from Sunday until tomorrow for the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) 15th anniversary celebrations tomorrow. Set up in 1994, SIP is Singapore's first government-to-government project with China and has drawn US$35 billion ($5O
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        NUTRO CATFOOD RECALLED
        112 8 The Agri-food and Veterinary Authority has ordered the recall of select varieties of Nutro cat food, after the brand's parent company, Mars Petcare, initiated a voluntary recall. This was due to a production error by one of its United States-based pre-mix suppliers, which resulted in excessive levels
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      422 7 Dell recommends Windows Vista® Business Security by REFRESHED OUTSIDE. (torton REVAMPED INSIDE. Introducing the all-new Dell™ Vostro™ laptops. Now with Dell™ Video Chat 1 Re-engineered in a slimmer and lighter package, our new Dell™ Vostro™ laptops are also updated with state-of-the-art security and effortless videoconferencing solutions. So you can collaborate
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      Lock icon Opposition HQ raided
      375 10 AP,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Other leaders protest first raid in 43 years; criticise Najib's administration KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police raided an opposition party's headquarters to search for seditious material, sparking accusations yesterday of a crackdown on political dissent. The hour-long search on Saturday marked the first
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      Lock icon DAP says it's polls for Perak or nothing
      255 10 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Hoping for an end to the Perak crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that holding an emergency assembly is one option to end the impasse, but the opposition Democratic Alliance Party (DAP) slammed the idea and
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      Third bridge 'likely to boost tourism'
      174 10 JOHOR BARU The proposed third link between Singapore and Malaysia has received positive feedback from the tourism industry in the coastal town of Desaru in Johor, reported The Star. "It is a good plan to have a third bridge as the number of visitors
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      Lock icon SRI LANKA: THE WAY FORWARD
      723 12  -  LALWICKREMATUNGE THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH NEWS COMMENT WHAT does Tamil Tiger chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran's death mean for Sri Lanka? Where does Sri Lanka go from here? The answers to both questions lie with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In a stirring speech in Parliament last week, President Rajapakse said
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      Lock icon 'No aid access until rebel screening'
      252 13 AFP SRI LANKA COLOMBO Sri Lanka yesterday said it would not allow United Nations aid workers complete access to civilians who remain in camps after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers until rebels hiding among the refugees had been weeded out. UN Secretary-General Ban
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        Lock icon SIKH TEMPLE SERMON SPARKS FIGHT IN VIENNA
        115 13 AP Rival worshippers at a Sikh temple in Vienna used knives and at least one handgun during a fight yesterday, police and ambulance staff said. At least 11 people were wounded. Witnesses said the fight erupted after a dispute over the sermon, given
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIAN FLOOD CREATES 'INLAND SEA'
        112 13 AFP Thousands of homeowners remained isolated in Australia's flood-hit northeast yesterday, where the authorities said days of torrential rain had created a vast "inland sea". Swollen rivers peaked overnight, allowing clean-up operations to begin and evacuated residents to return to the northern New South Wales
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        Lock icon FOREIGNERS PROTEST PROPOSED IMMIGRATION REFORM IN JAPAN
        92 13 AFP Foreign residents in Japan staged a rally in Tokyo yesterday to protest against proposed changes in immigration laws which they say could lead to tighter monitoring of immigrants. Some 200 people, including many Japanese supporters and activists, walked through streets near the
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      Lock icon Thousands flock to Megawati's rally
      171 14 AFP INDONESIAN ELECTIONS BANTAR GEBANG Former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her running mate, former military General Prabowo Subianto, made their Presidential bid declaration at a rubbish tip yesterday. They addressed an estimated 50,000 supporters, most wearing the party's red, crowded into a one-hectare lot
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      Lock icon Joining hands to stop trafficking
      244 14 AFP TEHRAN Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosted a summit with his Pakistani and Afghan counterparts yesterday aimed at finding ways to combat Islamic extremism and drug smuggling in the region. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari both headed high-level delegations.
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      Lock icon Pushing co-operation to new limits
      409 16 THENEWYORKTIMES US SECURITY US relies more on aid of allies in terror cases WASHINGTON The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according
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        Lock icon MONGOLIANS GO TO POLLS
        95 16 AFP Voters in Mongolia went to the polls yesterday to choose a new President less than a year after allegations of vote-rigging in parliamentary elections triggered deadly riots. The violence last July shocked a nation that prides itself for having emerged from communism in 1990 after
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        Lock icon KENNEDY MISTRESS BREAKS HER SILENCE
        93 16 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH A former White House press office intern who had a 17-month affair with President John F Kennedy is to tell her story for the first time. Ms Mimi BeardsleyAlford, 66, a retired New York church administrator, will receive an advance believed to be
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      Change with the times
      282 18  -  Wendy Lee CHILDCARE CENTRES Opening 200 new centres will not help if hours are not extended beyond 7pm Letter from I REFER to "Private companies should play their part" (May 21). I would like to offer my view as a full-time working mother. The opening hours
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      Town Council is working on it
      163 18  -  Grace Wong Letter from Public Relations Manager Marine Parade Town Council WE REFER to "Whatever happened to those in-lift urine detectors?" (May 21). We wish to inform that Block 93 Paya Lebar Way will be undergoing the Lift Upgrading Programme and Neighbourhood Renewal Programme
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      Talk about the birds and the bees
      265 19  -  GeraldineWee AWARE'SCSE Letter from I REFER to "Not until Aware regains trust: Education Minister" (May 22). I regret to hear Aware president Dana Lam's remarks that the association feels the Ministry of Education's (MOE) move to stop them from teaching sex education classes
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      Deforestation in my neighbourhood?
      209 19  -  Spencer Hee Letter from THERE appears to be indiscriminate deforestation at Edgefield Plains in Punggol. On the way back from the Cove LRT station, I counted at least 13 spots where healthy trees, which were probably growing for about seven to eight years, had been chopped
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      192 19  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY DON'T QUIT NOW Have you ever thought about how long it takes to raise a human being and get him or her ready for independent living? It takes us 20 years or more to try to produce a son or daughter who
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      255 19 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices Nothing says welcome, a* r^fc wfee a familiar smile. J^^ w m JKI| return all-inclusive J_ w A *1 Asia is a region abundant with secrets to uncover. And SilkAir has its pulse right on it. We are pleased to announce new
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        Lock icon ITS A WRAP!
        1092 20  -  MAYO MARTIN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Non-encounters with a Basterd, a sicko director and mistaken identities at the year's Cannes Film Festival IN CANNES mayo@mediacorp.com.sg LAST week, bad boy director Quentin Tarantino triumphantly presented his eighth film at the Cannes Film Festival which wrapped up Sunday night in the
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        Lock icon GIRL ON TOP
        148 22 anEsg-- It was all hands on decks for Samantha Ronson (picture), the American celebrity DJ at Fuel, the 'high-octane DJ dance-music event'at the Fi pit building on Saturday night. 'It was well-attended and there was a real buzz walking into a crowd that all seemed very excited
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        Lock icon Sorry about the head-butt!
        157 22 AGENCIES CELEB LAW KIEFER Sutherland (picture) and the designer he is accused of head-butting say they have resolved their differences, clearing the way for the charges to be dropped. Sutherland's representatives told AP on Friday that the actor is sorry about what happened and regrets McCollough
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        Lock icon Home at last?
        19 24 IAP *fj SLUMDOG REAL ESTATE Film-makers, Mumbai authorities pledge houses for homeless Slumdog stars HHHHHHHHHH V
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        Lock icon Real life revenge on CSI
        218 24 AP A COUPLE sued a writer for the popular TV drama CSI, claiming two shady characters on the show were named after them in revenge for a real estate deal gone bad. Real estate agents Melinda and Scott Tamkin on Friday sued writer and producer
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      1013 25 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™__™....g.... LOCAL VARIETY 6.00AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 The Kids Are In Charge 11.00 America's Next Top Model XI VAARTHAI Go Live! 5.30 Prime Time Morning 4.00 Life Is Wild MN The Riches Vasantham, 9pm iq 0 9-3° The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres
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      Lock icon 'We got Monaco, baby!'
      602 26 AGENCIES ■tik«; yffl gjjlilß MONTE CARLO Brawn GP's Jenson Button took the chequered flag at yesterday's Monaco Grand Prix for his fifth victory in six races, extending his Formula 1 drivers' championship lead this season to 16 points. The 29-year-old Briton finished 7.6 seconds ahead of
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      Lock icon Ivanovic, Hewitt heat up at French Open
      326 26 AFP PARIS Former world No 1 s Ana Ivanovic (picture) and Lleyton Hewitt were made to sweat on a blistering opening day of the French Open yesterday before they booked their spots in the second round. Defending champion Ivanovic endured a gruelling first
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      Lock icon Newcastle and Boro go down
      812 27 AFP ENGLISH FOOTBALL Sunderland, Hull lose but manage to stay in the Premiership LONDON Newcastle became the biggest Premier League casualties since Leeds dropped out of the top flight five years ago after a final-day defeat at Aston Villa yesterday condemned Alan Shearer's side to
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      Lock icon There's a new sheriff in town
      483 28  -  lAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Top scorer Obatola is determined to usher in a new S-League order GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Young Lions v Gombak United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.45pm ian@mediacorp.com. sg THREE years ago, Gabriel Obatola arrived from Nigeria not knowing what to
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      Lock icon Mixed signals from Milan's Ancelotti
      356 28 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Carlo Ancelotti (picture) has again failed to clarify his future at AC Milan, telling a news conference in Italy on Saturday he is "100 per cent staying" but then adding: "I would love to coach Chelsea." Speculation has been rife that Ancelotti will
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      Lock icon BADMINTON ENTHUSIASTS SET RALLY RECORD
      153 28 AVIVA SINGAPORE A new world record for the world's longest badminton rally was set at Raffles City on Saturday. Sixty-nine enthusiasts including national youth players Goh Noriko and Tan Kiah Hui, and doubles women's pair and sisters Vanessa and Samantha Neo wrote themselves into the
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      642 29 AGENCIES NBA PLAYOFFS Another 40-point showing by Bryant puts Lakers back in driving seat WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME 3 Denver Nuggets gy Los Angeles Lakers 103 DENVER Kobe Bryant scored 41 points and made 15 of 17 free throws as the Los Angeles staged another fourth-quarter
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      795 30  -  HAROLD SCHARLATT PITCHING IDEAS sncceed@mediacorp. com.sg IN THE best of times, it can be a fight to get ideas implemented at work. In today's organisations, where resources are under siege and uncertainty abounds, advocating for your approach, idea or product is even tougher. The time is right
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      124 30 HOW DO YOU APPROACH THE ISSUE OF EMPLOYEES' EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS AND ACTIVITIES? MR DENNIS CHOO, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ASIA PACIFIC, PREMIERE GLOBAL SERVICES Employees are one of the biggest assets a company can have therefore, it is vital that they feel a sense of appreciation from the organisation. I
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      662 32  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg MINORITY shareholders are becoming more active, with their voices getting louder and bolder these days, thanks perhaps in no small measure to the example set by the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias). These shareholders have kept
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        23 36 US$1 £1 i euro A$i RMi $1,441 ¥100 $1-533 $2,290 HK$ioo $18.59 $2,015 RMB100 $21.12 $1,130 RS100 $3,060 $0,415 RPio,ooo $1,408
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