Today, 8 September 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Tuesday September 8, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Lock icon NEW CZAR IN DRUG WAR
      255 1 AP Mexico President Felipe Calderon (right) removed his Attorney-General yesterday to try to revamp the government's fight against drug trafficking. Mr Calderon said that AttorneyGeneral Eduardo Medina Mora (left) would be replaced by a little-known former legal official, Arturo Chavez. A crackdown by thousands of
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      afternoon latest
      157 1 'I'd rather go to jail': l^i Afemale Sudanese journalist is sent to prison for a month after she refuses to pay a fine for the crime of wearing trousers. A ""1 Man U are under probe T 1 after Le Havre claimed their teenage player was poached by
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      A few to make the breakthrough
      893 1  -  SERVICE STANDARDS Gems Up will focus on grooming sector icons ALICIAWONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg CUSTOMERS who need help can turn to one of its 63 roving officers, visit one of four dedicated concierge desks or just call the new mall's 24-hour service hotline, a first of
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Premier resigns in shock move
      424 1 TAIPEI In a surprise move, Taiwan's Premier Liv Chao-shiuan resigned yesterday and the rest of the Cabinet will step down on Thursday to take responsibility for the government's slow response to the most devastating storm to hit the island in 50 years. Mr Liv
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  • NEWS
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      Bidding race moves into final straight
      219 2 The three bidders have made their pitch, now they will have to sweat it out as a 16-member panel made up of Singapore Sports Council officials and other government agencies decide which proposal is bestsuited for the Changi Motor Sports Hub. Estimated to cost
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      Dramatic boost, but a retail puzzle
      654 3  -  ESTHER NG HIRING OUTLOOK Qit prospects surge for jobseekers in some sectors estherng@mediacorp.com.sg THE turnaround, within the space of a quarter, seems startling. Posting a negative hiring outlook just three months ago, two sectors finance, insurance and real estate, and public administration and education
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      Now, there's freedom to change beneficiaries ...
      369 4  - Now, there's freedom to change beneficiaries LEONGWEEKEAT INSURANCE POLICIES New law lets policyholders distribute proceeds according to their wishes IF YOU wanted to change the beneficiary in your life, accident or health insurance policy say, after a divorce the law previously did not allow you to do so. But changes
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      Lock icon 'Cow-head' protesters to face charges
      248 5 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's AttorneyGeneral pledged yesterday to file sedition charges against protesters who marched with, and stomped on a bloody cow head to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple in Shah Alam. Hours before the announcement, the Selangor state government said they
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      TAIWAN EXPECTS CHINA TIES TO RECOVER
      189 5 Taiwan's top China envoy said yesterday he expected ties with the mainland to slowly recover despite anger in Beijing over the Dalai Lama's visit to the island last week. Mr Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan's quasi-official Strait Exchange Foundation, said he thought China had
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      Lock icon FLAG FLIES HIGH AGAIN, ALL THANKS TO TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
      139 6 PHOTO COURTESY SGH They are transplant patients and they have done Singapore proud again. This year, 11 organ transplant athletes from the Society of Transplantation (Singapore) (SOT) won four gold medals, seven silver and a bronze at the recentlyconcluded 17th World
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      Non-pushy sales staff cost businesses $360k
      321 6  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com. sg SALES staff selling electronic goods might be costing businesses U*****,000 ($360,000) per store a year, just because they do not want to be seen as "too pushy". A "large capability gap" in frontline sales persons who serve customers exists, according to
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      Tick here to pay less
      407 6  -  ONGDAI LIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY Four-tick models let you save 50 per cent more in bills than single-tick ones dailin@mediacorp.com.sg IT DOES not cost more to be green. Consumers who buy an electrical appliance with four ticks for energy efficiency can save almost 50 per cent
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      He said sorry, then vanished
      395 8  -  TEOXUANWEI ROGUE LAWYER xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg HE HAD asked for a face-to-face meeting with his client, purportedly to repay $88,000 due to the latter from a property sale. Instead, former lawyer David Khong Siak Meng dropped a bombshell: He could only repay $20,000 and confessed that he
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      On trial for murder, over EZ-link card and phone
      263 8  -  TEOXUANWEI FOR an EZ-Link card and a mobile phone, the suspects in a robbery bid turned horribly wrong are now on trial for murder. Cleaner Ellary Puling, 26, and general worker Fabian Adiu Edwin, 19, both Malaysians, are accused of causing
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PUMP PRICES DOWN; SHARPEST DROP THIS YEAR
        85 10 938 LIVE Pump prices have come down, in the sharpest drop thus far this year. Shell initiated the move at 10.30 am yesterday, reducing pump prices by 6 cents a litre for both petrol and diesel. Caltex, Singapore Petroleum Company and ExxonMobil followed
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        CAR TRADER NABBED FOR EVADING DUTY AND GST
        120 10 A car trader was arrested yesterday by Singapore Customs for evading duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) by falsely declaring the values of motor cars imported from Japan. Mr Sia Chee Han, 54, faces 90 charges involving the import of 146
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        Lock icon 18TH H1N1 DEATH
        39 10 :hannelnewsasia A 61-year-old Chinese man has become the latest HINI fatality, bringing the death toll in Singapore to 18. The man, who died on Sunday, had a medical history of hypertension, diabetes and end-stage renal failure.
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        Lock icon WANTED: 200 STEERSMEN
        106 10 938LIVE The Employment and Employability Institute and the Maritime and Port Authority are encouraging more Singaporeans to join the harbour craft industry, where 200 openings for trainee steersmen are available over the next two years. So far, some 40 jobseekers have been offered employment at two job
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      Third partner jailed
      372 10  -  ZULOTHMAN TAX EVASION Food court operator also made to pay 3249k penalty zul@mediacorp.com.sg FOR six years, businessman Wong Kee Yock cheated the taxman by under-declaring the profits from his food court operations by $83,135.04. Yesterday, the 55-year-old was jailed for six months after he admitted to six
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      110 8 LASIK Forum The Lasik Surgery Clinic speakers: Dr Marc Jay Dr Jon Goh (Senior Eye Consultants) Subject to rotation Dates: 11 Sep 2009 (FriJ 7pm 12 Sep 2009 (Sat) 4pm Venue: The Lasik Surgery Clinic Paragon Medical 13-01/06 Refreshments will be served Agenda: 1. Are you a suitable candidate for
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      Lock icon Sudanese woman goes to jail for wearing trousers
      219 12 AFP KHARTOUM A Sudanese woman was convicted yesterday of public indecency for wearing pants at an outdoor cafe and jailed for one month when she refused to pay a fine. The Sudan court had initially fined Lubna Ahmed Al Hussein 500 Sudanese
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      Lock icon Hatoyama's green promise
      455 12 AFP CLIMATE CHANGE Japan's next PM vows to cut 25 per cent greenhouse gas by 2020 TOKYO Japan's next Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama vowed yesterday that his incoming centre-left government would pursue a greenhouse gas reduction target of 25 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. The
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      Lock icon India hunts for uranium
      575 13 .AFP ATOMIC POWER New Delhi aims to boost capacity NEW DELHI Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after a three-decade ban, is courting new partners in its global hunt for uranium. The strategy, spelt out in a government paper
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        SOLDIERS'GIVEN INFERIOR WEAPONS'
        90 13 INDIA One in three hand grenades used by Indian soldiers is a dud, while their rifles are no match for those of extremists, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Times of India said 30 per cent of grenades fail to blow up after being thrown by troops in
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        EX-PREMIER TO BETRIED FOR GRAFT
        79 13 BANGLADESH Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her eldest son will go on trial charged with embezzling more than US$3OO,OOO ($430,000) meant for an orphanage, a Dhaka court ruled yesterday. Ms Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, appeared at a pre-trial hearing following
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      Lock icon Xinjiang chief survives political firestorm
      257 14 AP BEIJING As leader of the volatile Xinjiang territory for 15 years, Wang Lequan is the closest China has to a regional strongman. So it's little wonder a recent purge of lower-ranking officials overa spate of bloody unrest in the capital Urumqi has done nothing
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      Singapore, Vietnam in defence milestone
      133 14 SINGAPORE and Vietnam have signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA), in a significant milestone to their "warm and growing" defence relationship, according to the Ministry of Defence. It serves as a framework for both countries to formalise their current interactions, such as cross-attendance of training
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      Lock icon Rescuers got to her before the sharks did
      383 14 AGENCIES AFP suPERFERRYgsiNKiNG ZAMBOANGA A woman who survived more than 24 hours in shark-infested waters off the southern Philippines after a ferry sank was hauled to safety yesterday, in what officials hailed a "miracle" rescue. A specialist air force rescue team found
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      Lock icon Seoul wants explanation
      256 15 AP DEADLY FLOOD SEOUL North Korea told South Korea yesterday that its surprise release of dammed river water that left three people dead and three missing in the South on Sunday was an emergency measure. It, however, stopped short of issuing a direct apology. South Korea said
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      Lock icon Lost world in PNG crater
      178 15 THE GUARDIAN LONDON A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater in Papua New Guinea. A team of scientists has found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the
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      Lock icon Former leaders, police chiefs 'should be prosecuted'
      165 15 AP BANGKOK A former Thai Prime Minister and two police chiefs should be prosecuted for their roles in last October's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters, a state commission said yesterday. The riot outside Parliament, in which two protesters were killed and more than
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      Lock icon 'Prince of Jihad' challenges his arrest
      178 16 JAKARTA A former Al Qaeda member alleged to have funded the July suicide bombings in Jakarta challenged his arrest in court yesterday. Lawyers for radical publisher Mohammed Jib ril Abdurahman (picture), 24, who goes by the online moniker "Prince of Jihad", argued in the
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      AFTER THE SHAPING THE
      525 16  -  BERNHARD PLATZDASCH NEWS THE new Indonesian Cabinet under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to be announced next month and the current, frenzied, backroom deals suggest that no party is willing to take up the role of opposition. The administration is likely to be dominated by
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    • EYE ON INDONESIA
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        Lock icon NAVY PLANE CRASHES, 4 DEAD
        78 17 AP EAST KALIMANTAN A small Indonesian military plane crashed in Borneo yesterday with nine passengers and crew aboard, killing four people The Nomad P837 light aircraft was on a routine patrol over the province of East Kalimantan when it lost contact with air traffic control
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        Lock icon QUAKE TOLL TO REACH 100: OFFICIAL
        89 17 AFP JAVA At least 100 people were likely killed by a major 7.0-magnitude quake that rocked Indonesia's main island of Java last week, an official said yesterday. The authorities had confirmed 74 were killed in the quake, which struck off the south coast of
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      ELECTIONS: NEW CABINET
      485 17 COMMENT on his long-rumoured political ambitions, expressing keenness in becoming chairman of the MPR. Mr Kiemas recently praised the President's annual state address, a step Indonesian commentators saw as a calculated attempt to bring PDI-P closer to MrYudhoyono's Democrat Party. After current Vice-President and Golkar chairman Jusuf
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      Lock icon Europe cbig three' call for Afghanistan conference
      284 18 'AFP BERLIN Britain, France and Germany unveiled proposals on Sunday for an international conference on Afghanistan later this year, in order to press Afghans to take more responsibility for their own country. "What is important and this is our joint view is to
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      Lock icon 'We can talk, but won't halt plans'
      284 18 AP NUCLEAR PLANS TEHRAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights but is ready to sit and talk with world powers over "global challenges". Mr Ahmadinejad also said Iran will present its
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      Lock icon Israel defies warnings
      182 18 AFP JERUSALEM Israel gave the goahead yesterday to build hundreds of new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, defying warnings that the move jeopardises any resumption of Middle East peace talks. Defence Minister Ehud Barak authorised the construction of 455 units, most of them
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      Lock icon 'You will get UK support'
      306 20 AGENCIES IRA VICTIMS UK is taking vall action' to back calls by victims for compensation from the Libyan govt: British PM LONDON Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the United Kingdom will support efforts by British victims of Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorism to seek compensation
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      Lock icon Liquid bomb plot: Three British men found guilty
      202 20 BLOOMBERG LONDON Three British men were found guilty of plotting to blow up passenger jets in mid-flight by a London jury in a case that changed airport security worldwide. The men Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain were part of a group
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      Lock icon Arms supply by the US on the rise
      197 20 AFP WASHINGTON The United States expanded its role as the world's leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to 68.4 per cent of all foreign armaments deals, reported The New York Times on Sunday. Citing a new congressional study, the paper said the
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      Lock icon Please don't let us crash, Samoans pray
      165 21 AFP APIA Samoans went to church on Sunday to pray that an impending switch to driving on the left will not spark a surge in road deaths and injuries. The Pacific Island nation of around 180,000 yesterday became the first country in the
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      Lock icon No more driving in style for Italian policemen
      171 21 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ROME Crime-fighting in Italy is set to become less glamorous for the police after the government announced it was scrapping the use of luxury cars seized from mafia godfathers because running costs and spare parts are too expensive. Detectives will now
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      Lock icon They need to score As, too
      271 21 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH JAPANESE GANGSTERS TOKYO Japan's most infamous underworld group, the Yamaguchigumi, is forcing its gangsters to study for an exam covering the key aspects of their trade. Gang bosses have introduced the written tests for their subordinates since the Anti-Organised Crime Law was revised
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      The problem's back
      298 22  -  AN Faisal JUNK MAIL Letter from IN RECENT years, SingPost and the town councils have worked together to prevent junk mail from becoming a problem in the Housing and Development Board estates. Now, anything at all can only be put in our letterboxes by SingPost deliverymen. I
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      Why is SingPost delivering the material now?
      127 22  -  TongJeeCheng Letter from SOME years ago, the Housing and Development Board upgraded the letterboxes in the HDB estates so that they could be "locked" to prevent junk mail from being slotted into them. This meant that only postal staff with a master key
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      Lock icon From 'silver brigade' to cold is gold'
      134 22  -  Andrew Seow Letter from I REFER to the column "What's so tragic about ageing" (Sept 5-6) and agree with Brian Richmond's views. As Singapore is fast becoming an ageing country, the emphasis to continue employing older workers beyond 62 becomes all the more
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      Service adjusted when there is demand
      176 22  -  Bernadette Low Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation WE THANK Mr Shahid Khan for his feedback regarding the train frequency between Tanah Merah and Singapore Expo ("A long wait for the trains", Aug 27). The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system is
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      182 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY HELPING TEACHERS TEACH "I send my kids to a good school. Isn't that enough?" You'd be surprised how many parents think that way. But when it comes to the education of our children, the buck stops at home. Too many parents sit
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      Car park gantry woes: Staff now trained
      84 24  -  Lee KamSeng Letter from Senior Centre Manager Northpoint WE REFER to "Stuck in car park" (Sept 4). We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to the motorists who were unaDie to exit me man s car parK on Aug 29. The
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      120 22 V "l^,^ MediaCorp Press Ltd I #""*V 1"% >^^L^ Caldecott Broadcast Centre, WW BmJ/^LW Annex Building, Level i y Andrew Road y we set you thinking Singapore *****9 todayonline.com Tel 6333 ***** Fax 6534 4217 Publisher Philip Koh Editor Walter Fernandez Deputy Editor Lee Foong Ming Associate Editor ChanTeckGuan Night
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        117 41 fHE DAILYTELEGRAPH Crewe director of football Dario Gradi has been angered by what he has labelled an "illegal approach" for one of the club's young players. He made the revelation in the wake of Fifa's decision to ban Chelsea from signing any players until January
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      258 45 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's exports, the mainstay of its economy, slumped 22.8 per cent in July from the same month a year earlier, according to official data released yesterday. The trade ministry said exports plunged to RM48.87 billion ($19.93 billion) year-on-year while imports fell
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        75 47 938LIVE Local supply chain management firm YCH said yesterday that it has opened an office in South Korea. The company said that the new office will help Korean multinational companies export their goods. YCH Korea will focus on international freight forwarding and contract logistics
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