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  • 11 1 weekend TODAY November 28 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 566 1  -  ONG DAI LIN But diagnosis still at later stages, says MOH dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At a time when more people are coming forward for HIV tests, anonymously or otherwise, only one in 10 new HIV-positive cases among residents are being detected as a result of voluntary
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  • 906 1 AGENCIES Dubai revelations raise fears of sovereign debt default, spook investors DUBAI Worries of a double-dip global recession are being fanned, as world markets and oil prices on Friday fell with investors spooked by Dubai's shock request for a six-month delay in repaying the debts of
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  • THE BIG STORY
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      1131 2  -  VENESSALEE Who is mostly likely to take an anonymous Aids test? correspondent venessa@mediacorp.com.sg THREE months ago, 19-year-old Jasper (not his real name) found out that he was HIV positive. "At first I wasn't really worried. I thought that the result would be negative," said Jasper, who is
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    • 362 3  -  VENESSALEE Venessa goes to the clinic and learns something new I was waiting to take an anonymous HIV test and the process was proving suitably discreet. Unlike others who were seeing the doctor, I was given a number, even though there were no numbers displayed on the
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  • NEWS
    • 50 4 4,159 Singaporeans infected with HIV/Aids 1,935 are asymptomatic carriers 974 have Aids-related illnesses 1,250 have died 61% of males were single at the time of diagnosis 60% of the females were married 59% were diagnosed between ages 30 and 49 17% were diagnosed between ages 20 and 29
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    • 221 4 AGENCIES MANILA Vowing only his death could stop him, the politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in southern Philippines filed his candidacy for the post of governor on Friday, as the main suspect behind the killings was charged
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    • 202 4  -  ONG DAI LIN More than go per cent of HIV-infected persons in Singapore are between the prime working ages of 21 to 59 years making it important that they have a supportive work environment, says the Ministry of Health. Yet, only about seven per cent of employers
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    • 168 4 With the We Are One project drawing to a close on Monday, staff of WBL Corporation took the time on Friday's public holiday to assemble their LEGO patch at lon Orchard. It is one of 56 corporate buildings and icons which will be featured on the
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    • 214 8  - Our greatest asset pulling people together: Tharman HOEYEEN NIE SINGAPORE Its ability to integrate people of diverse cultures has been a key driving force behind Singapore's growth. And this will continue to be an asset as the economy moves into new growth strategies, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Speaking at
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    • 403 8  -  ESTHERNG Mumbai attack victim remembered at Friday service SINGAPORE One year on, Mr Michael Puhaindran still avoids "little terrors" such as walking into hotel atriums and stairwells they remind him of the death of his wife Lo Hwei Yen in The Oberoi hotel, during the Mumbai
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    • 203 10 SINGAPORE How do you draw the word kiasu? And even harder still, how do you know what is being drawn is meant to represent the word? At the end of an hour on Friday, the three-member team from Nanyang Technological University proved they were better at
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    • 490 10 SINGAPORE Overseas korban rituals during Hari Raya Haji are becoming popular with Muslim Singaporeans, with many doing it to help the less fortunate. Business is brisk for Al QJblah International, a company that performs korban rituals overseas. It saw a 10 per cent increase in
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    • 254 12  -  SRAMESH SINGAPORE One of Singapore's oldest Hindu temples and one that observes the annual Thaipusam festival the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple at Tank Road was re-consecrated on Friday after renovation and redecoration. Some 10,000 devotees including several Cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament witnessed high priests from South
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    • 244 12  -  JOAN TEE, SEOWWENXI SINGAPORE The Jurong Regional Library has introduced video games on the Xbox and Wii. The Gaming Learning Community project hopes to foster social bonds through multiplayer games, and aims to appeal to all ages. National Library representative Aaron Tan hopes this will
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 125 12 Man falls while escaping blaze A man fell from the second storey of Block 205 in Serangoon Central, while escaping a fire in his unit on Friday afternoon. TheSingaporeCivil Defence Force was alerted to the fire at 12.51pm, and arrived within 5 minutes to extinguish the
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      • 148 12 Made-in-Singapore game, Chinese style A group of 30 Singapore digital media companies have clinched a slate of business deals with their Chinese counterparts, during their five-day business mission to China. Among the projects is the launch of a Chinese version of a popular Made-in-Singapore social networking game,
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    • 68 12 001 BOON KEONG Mr Terry O'Connor, chief executive officer of Courts Singapore, presented a $190,000 cheque to Mr Eugene Yong, honorary chairman of Riding for the Disabled Association of Singapore (RDA), on Thursday at an appreciation reception for the sponsors and organising committee members of the Sunset
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  • WORLD
    • 157 14 AP BEIJING A top gangster in western China has been executed as part of a major crackdown on organised crime, state media reported on Friday. Chen Ming, 36, was convicted of heading a criminal organisation that ran various scams, sold drugs, operated illegal casinos, and
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    • 340 14 AFP PHNOM PENH The former Khmer Rouge prison chief stunned Cambodia's war crimes court on Friday by asking judges to acquit and release him on the final day of arguments in his trial. Prosecutors and victims said the request by Kaing
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    • 178 14 AP SEOUL A South Korean court has convicted a man of insulting an Indian professor, in what is seen as the country's first punishment of racist remarks against a foreigner. The 31-year-old South Korean used an expletive and said "Arab! Arab!" to
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 98 16 AFP [7 HONG KONG Hong Kong police said on Friday they are looking for the creator of a second Facebook group encouraging teenagers to commit suicide. A police spokesperson said experts from its Commercial Crime Bureau were investigating a social networking group named "I
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      • 106 16 AFP n_ TAIWAN Taiwanese police said they had arrested 23 people in a large telephone scam ring which conned hundreds of thousands of dollars from people on the Chinese mainland. The suspects allegedly obtained bank account details by posing on the phone
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      • 110 16 AGENCIES n THAILAND A Thai court agreed on Friday to extradite a British man wanted in Australia for a drugsmuggling conspiracy that allegedly included a top Australian police investigator. Thai police arrested James Henry Kinch, 50, in May last year. He is one of
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    • 119 16 .AFP MINA (Saudi Arabia) Pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil (picture) on the third day of the annual Haj as Muslims worldwide marked Eid al-Adha. The stoning was orderly during the night and early morning on Friday, fulfilling Saudi
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    • 232 16 AGENCIES New mission will orbit 100 km closer to moon BEIJING China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported on Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad. "It will orbit 100
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    • 156 18 .AFP India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said that China's decision to unveil a carbon emissions target had put pressure on India to follow suit. "China has given a wake-up call to India," the minister told the Hindustan Times daily. "We've to think
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    • 192 18 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Prominent campaigners, politicians and scientists have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies. The coalition's demand came before this weekend's Commonwealth heads of government summit in Trinidad and Tobago, at which global warming will
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    • 365 18 AP ADELAIDE Australia's opposition party has splintered over a contentious Bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, with top officials resigning over the party leader's support for the legislation. The lack of consensus in the opposition Liberal Party stymied the government's goal for a
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    • 372 20 AFP PARIS Blessed by the privilege of wealth, birth or both, 24 teenage girls will descend on Paris' debutantes ball this Saturday. But in a sign of changing times, the likes of the late Princess Diana's niece Lady Kitty Spencer,
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    • 77 20 EPA Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revellers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in the American Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie. Crowds six to
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    • 353 20 FHE GUARDIAN DUBLIN Ireland's police colluded with the Catholic Church in covering up clerical child abuse in Dublin on a huge scale, according to an investigation into decades of sex crimes committed by priests. The devastating report on the sexual
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    • 153 22 .AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's electoral office said on Friday that presidential elections would be held on Jan 26, with President Mahinda Rajapakse expected to face his former military chief Sarath Fonseka. Mr Rajapakse, 64, called the election two years ahead of schedule
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    • 321 22 THE NEWYORKTIMES KUNDUZ (Afghanistan) Far from the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in the south, this once peaceful northern province was one place American and Afghan officials thought they did not have to worry about. Afghan officials cut the police force here by
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    • 171 22 AGENCIES VIENNA The majority of the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) has voted to censure Iran for its nuclear defiance. Diplomats inside the meeting said on Friday that 25 of the 34 lAEA board nations present voted for a resolution
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  • BUSINESS
    • 1029 24  -  RICHARDSPENCER Dubai dazzled the world but now it could turn out to be the new Lehman brothers POINTOFVIEW Early one morning at the end of last month, a throaty roar rippled over the sands of the Arabian desert. As it grew in pitch in the warm dawn
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    • 95 26 DOWJONES SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) is not in talks at present on specific investments in other airlines, but remains interested in opportunities in the China market, said company spokesperson Nicholas lonides on Friday. The comments came after China's 21st Century Business Herald cited an unnamed
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    • 105 26  -  TAN HUI LENG, Keppel Group on Friday broke ground at its 35.4-ha site in the Tianjin Eco-City in China. It is the first foreign property developer to push ahead with the construction of eco-homes in an integrated precinct in Tianjin. Present at the groundbreaking ceremony were chairman of
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    • 471 26  -  TANHUILENG SINGAPORE The executive directors (ED) of mainboard-listed Sino-Environment Technology Group on Friday continued their war of words against the company's independent directors (ID). In a filing to the Singapore Exchange, the EDs Mr Sun Jiangrong, Mr You Shengquan and Mr Li Shouxin
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  • PROPERTY
    • 590 27  -  DONALD HAN POINTOFVIEW EVEN though Singapore saw its worst economic recession since independence this year, the property market remained relatively buoyant, with the resurgence led by sell-out mass market condominium projects such as The Caspian and The Alexis. In the first 10 months of this
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  • SPORTS
    • 804 28  -  DAVID NGIAU offside Hey you. Yes, you, the one reading these words right this instance. You suck. You're useless, you don't know what you're doing. Now that I have your attention, ask yourself what would you do about it, if that was really me slagging
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    • 499 29 AGENCIES Gunners'old-boy Anelka still terrorising defenders with a more mature game ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal v Chelsea LONDON Nicolas Anelka has one Premier League title to his name, won 11 years ago when he was a rising star at Arsenal. Now, the French hitman goes
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    • 354 29 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL The Merseyside derby on Sunday takes place against a backdrop of discontent among supporters of both storied English clubs. Everton had plans to move to a new stadium blocked earlier in the week while Liverpool were eliminated from the Champions
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    • 817 30  -  LOWLINFHOONG Despite the absence of men's trio, swimmers target all six relay golds at SEA Games in Laos SINGAPORE Swimmer Parker Lam has been churning up a storm in the pool this week, claiming one gold and a fourth-place finish en route to two new national
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    • 670 31  -  LEONARD THOMAS soorts matters The sport has a special relationship with Singaporeans because it is magic It's going to be a little louder than usual in Catalunya on Sunday night. It tends to happen when Real Madrid come calling at the Camp Nov. Hordes of
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    • 533 32  -  lANDECOTTA Former S #pore football star has loved ones by his side on a holy day SINGAPORE On Friday, Muslims all over the world celebrated Hari Raya Haji, the festival of sacrifice. It was the first time Mohammed Ezaad Abdullah fulfilled his religious obligations without his
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    • 475 33 Lam, Mardan look for weekend flourish to beat 1984 performance MISSION HILLS (China) Singapore remained in contention for their best finish at the US$5.5 million ($7.6 million) Omega World Cup after the partnership of Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat posted a 70 on Friday to
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  • weekend VOICES
    • 701 34  -  SIMON TAY global citizen United States President Barack Obama returned from his eight-dayjourney to Asia not only to pressing issues like health care reform and Afghanistan. Even worse than jetlag, there has been a growing chorus of criticism in the American media about what he did and
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    • 686 35  -  MARIASIOW Channel News Asia. GLOBAL CITIZEN New tariffs slapped on China just days after United States President Barack Obama ended his visit there have provided the Chinese with yet another opportunity to portray itself as a victim of rising trade protectionism. While China
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    • Article, Illustration
      694 36  -  MAYO MARTIN When a camera shootout enlightens one on the ways of the tourist postscript It was twilight. A thick slab of silence had fallen over the land. In the middle of the bay towered a magnificent vermillion shrine that seemed to glow and come alive as the
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    • 628 37  -  PHINWONG It's all fun and games until someone gets a gender reassignment readjusted I'm not quite sure of the exact alignment of the stars' a few days ago but, as fate dictated, my name was Winnie and it was my life's goal to own an events management
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    • 655 38  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH point of view $160,000 for a stay-at-home mum? It's well worth it for this family Over the past few weeks, people who have read my columns have been emailing me with queries about how I raise my sons. I humbly apologise if you
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    • 809 39  -  EUGENE X BTAN Economic Strategies Committee should take a broader view POINTOFVIEW It's anyone's guess whether the current economic rebound is a prelude to a sustained recovery, or a lull before a catastrophic economic storm that would severely test the resilience of governments
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  • LIVING
    • 404 42  -  Don Mendoza Korean cuisine is more than just all-you-can-eat barbecue buffets donm@mediacorp.com.sg FACT:The little Korean most of us here can mumble is most likely related to two things: Food and Rain.That's the Ninja Assassin K-pop dude, not precipitation. We love the boldly flavoursome dishes that accompany übiquities
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    • 315 42 4 Fingers BonChon Crispy Chicken #84-06 A lon Orchard Accompanying its crispy chicken available in soy garlic or "hot", starting at $7.95 for six wings/drummettes is a menu of inspired items.There's the chicken katsu man-tou sandwich, hugely addictive kimchi coleslaw, as well as bento deals including seafood
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