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  Today (newspaper) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Today is a free English-language newspaper in Singapore published by government-owned Mediacorp Press.
Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 1995.
Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddie Shah, it was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News International in 1987 and closed in 1995.
open-encyclopedia.com /Today_(newspaper)   (145 words)

  
 Today - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The date today is Sunday December 4, 2005.
Today is a defunct newspaper in the United Kingdom
Today (group) was a New Jack Swing group
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Today   (226 words)

  
 yax-357 Here's hoping Today doesn't become yesterday
Today has been told it has crossed the line and the media license will be withdrawn if it writes in such a way as to provoke bad feelings which may lead to public unhappiness.
Singapore Libertarians is concerned about news that a Singapore newspaper was taken to task for reporting on the incidents that recently occurred in London over the treatment of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew when she suffered a stroke there.
Singapore Libertarians was informed that last week SM Lee had summoned the top brass of a Singapore daily, Today, after the paper published a story that indicated his wife had received preferential treatment in a London hospital.
www.yawningbread.org /arch_2004/yax-357.htm   (2997 words)

  
 Singapore media firms roll back competition
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH), the city-state's biggest publisher, said yesterday it would buy nearly half of a rival newspaper run by state television firm MediaCorp, while the latter would acquire most of SPH's TV assets.
Singapore tried to open up its tightly controlled media sector in 2000 by allowing limited competition, with MediaCorp venturing into newspapers and Singapore Press going into broadcasting.
Today chalked up losses of S$28mil in its first two years of operations and unspecified losses in the last fiscal year, though the group has said the newspaper should break even this year.
www.singapore-window.org /sw04/040918re.htm   (445 words)

  
 Mixed signals on prospect of early elections
SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's call for the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) to map out an election strategy has raised mixed signals about the prospect of early polls in the prosperous island state.
Singapore's leading newspaper, the pro-government Straits Times, said today that Goh's appeal to the party faithful was sure to fuel speculation that elections could be held before the August 2002 schedule.
PAP has been unchallenged as Singapore's ruling power since statehood was established in 1965, and in the last election it won 81 of the 83 seats, most of them uncontested.
www.singapore-window.org /sw00/001206af.htm   (597 words)

  
 Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Today (newspaper) is a newspaper in Singapore and a defunct newspaper in the UK
USA Today Maintains USA Today Ratings in each weight class as a counterpoint to the world sanctioning bodies, plus daily news, results and interviews.
Today Bakeries Sdn Bhd Today bakeries manufacture bread, breadcrumb and many other type of bakery products.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Today.html   (309 words)

  
 Todays Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Today Today is a drivetime radio show on Australia-wide radio station Triple J. The title is a parody of the Australian current affairs program Today Tonight on Channel Seven.
Today Today combines political satire, comedic discussion of the days events, and talkback from listeners with funny anecdotes on a given topic.
The newspaper was also among the first newspapers to use satellite transmissions to send the final edition of the newspaper to multiple locations across the country for printing and final distribution in those regional markets.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/181/todays-market.html   (1321 words)

  
 The Australian: More Aussies 'to die over drugs' [November 25, 2005]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The newspaper is Singapore's main English-language daily, and like all the domestic press has intimate links to the governing People's Action Party.
Today's broadside comes exactly one week before Nguyen, 25, is scheduled to hanged at dawn on next Friday.
Today's editorial added: "The message has been forthright: Singapore shall not be laid low by narcotics and the drugs trade.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,17360398^29277,00.html   (487 words)

  
 Today - Art History Online Reference and Guide
The date today is Friday October 14, 2005.
Today is a newspaper in Singapore and a defunct newspaper in the UK
The Today sponge is also trademarked name of a female contraceptive
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Today   (143 words)

  
 Singapore Newspaper -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country: a national newspaper, as contrasted with a local newspaper serving a city or region.
Newspapers have been developed around very narrow topic areas, such as news for merchants in a specific industry, fans of particular sports, fans of the arts or of specific artists, and participants in the same sorts of activities or lifestyles.
Newspapers are periodical publications that cover news events on a daily or weekly basis.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/133/singapore-newspaper.html   (691 words)

  
 Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE - Singapore has been loosening controls over a range of activities - from legalizing bungee jumping to bar-top dancing and the employment of homosexuals - but recent statements by officials' are a reminder that more media freedom is slow in coming.
But if a "remade" Singapore shall "embrace a diversity of peoples and ideas", skeptics wonder why foreign journalists, who can contribute to "the development of our governance and political maturity", are excluded, as Joseph Wong Kok Sen wrote in a November 19 letter to the Straits Times newspaper.
At a Radio Singapore International talk show in October, Mark Cenite, assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University's School of Communication and Information, said the challenges to media in Singapore are different from those of other countries.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EL10Ae01.html   (1193 words)

  
 The World Today Archive - Canberra lobbied over Singapore Airlines and Air NZ tie-up
Now the Singapore government owned Singapore Airlines is making a play for a larger stake in Air New Zealand and as a result effective control of Ansett.
Singtel is 78 per cent owned by the Singapore government, and Mr Stokes claims it would be wrong to allow a foreign power to have control of Australia's second largest telco.
Today Singapore Straits newspaper carries a major article scoffing at talk of a government conspiracy to buy up Australian assets.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s316726.htm   (563 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Singapore suffers dwindling birthrate
SINGAPORE — One of the world's most competitive economies doesn't have an answer for what is fast becoming one of its biggest problems.
Singapore's falling fertility rates could spell disaster for this island city-state, which counts human capital as its top resource.
In 2003, Singapore's fertility rate fell to 1.26, the lowest in the nation's 39-year history and much lower than Utah's rate of 2.68.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595049580,00.html   (535 words)

  
 Singabloodypore
Singapore also rejected the plea to allow Nguyen's mother to hug her son for the last time before his execution, but allowing the mother to hold hands with the son.
Singapore has made an exception to its rigid rules to allow convicted heroin smuggler Van Nguyen to hold hands with his mother in their final hours together before his hanging.
Today's execution of Nguyen Tuong Van has forced the mandatory death penalty onto the agenda in Singapore, with the local media unable to ignore the political lobbying, threatened trade boycotts and heated public debate in Australia.
singabloodypore.blogspot.com   (5307 words)

  
 Singapore bans execution references in play: paper - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Singapore has ordered a theater director to remove all references to the death penalty in a play to be staged on Saturday, a day after the city-state executed an Australian drug smuggler, a Singapore newspaper said.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has ordered a theater director to remove all references to the death penalty in a play to be staged on Saturday, a day after the city-state executed an Australian drug smuggler, a Singapore newspaper said.
Benny Lim, artistic director of The Fun Stage, told Today that all reference to the death penalty had been omitted in a new script that won MDA approval.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/12/03/singapore_bans_execution_references_in_play_paper?mode=PF   (261 words)

  
 Government has no plans to relax censorship rules: International Herald Tribune
He singled out as unacceptable a commentary suggesting that Singapore should rescind its restrictive press laws.
But the minister said that the government did not expect its stand to impede Singapore's ambition to become a base for international news organizations, adding that the number of foreign correspondents here had risen to 190 from 82 in 1986.
Singapore has no plans to abolish its censorship rules - which have led to risqué films and television shows being cut - despite recent moves toward liberalization, Lee also said.
www.singapore-window.org /sw03/031113ih.htm   (363 words)

  
 Today Newspaper - exact replica of printed copy online, updated daily!
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Today is a popular newspaper from Singapore in English.
www.pressdisplay.co.uk /Today.php   (129 words)

  
 MEDIACORP | Our Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With this new venture, TODAY and Weekend TODAY hit the newsstand, reaching out to busy professionals constantly on the move with little time to plough through the papers.
Positioned as the alternative newspaper, TODAY offers the busy professional local and international news, all packed into a succinct and informative format.
TODAY is available from Monday to Friday, and readers can pick up their copy of TODAY at MRT stations, bus interchanges, selected food and beverage outlets, country clubs, on board airlines, hospitals, government buildings and shopping malls.
www.corporate.mediacorp.sg /press   (274 words)

  
 The Irrawaddy On-line Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In his commentary "Is Singapore Paranoid?" in October, Backman said Singapore still maintains "the old fashioned, outmoded trappings of a Third World dictatorship"—yet it does not have anything to hide.
But if a "remade" Singapore shall "embrace a diversity of peoples and ideas", skeptics wonder why foreign journalists, who can contribute to "the development of our governance and political maturity," are excluded, as Joseph Wong Kok Sen wrote in a Nov 19 letter to the The Straits Times newspaper here.
Dharmendra Yadav feels Lee Boon Yang’s remarks in November are a "mockery" of Singapore’s education system, as he wrote in a letter to the culture ministry, a university and several newspapers.
www.irrawaddy.org /art/2003/dec04.html   (1126 words)

  
 Today - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Contraceptive, Main Page, Newspaper, ...
Today, Australia, Contraceptive, Main Page, Newspaper, Singapore, Smashing...
Today (song) is a song by the Smashing Pumpkins.
Today (Australian TV program) is a morning news program in Australia
www.thebestlinks.com /Today.html   (215 words)

  
 Badminton Central Discussion Forums - 6 Stars Tournament - Singapore Open 2005
Today Singapore Newspaper (Strait Times) revealed that 2005 Singapore Open will be rated as 6 stars will be end of June to early July 2005.
It seems contraray to the news from the newspaper and from its official webpage.
What i found interesting was that the papers said it costs around 700,000 just to run the tournament.
www.badmintoncentral.com /vb/showthread.php?t=23544   (519 words)

  
 SINGAPORE: Media Freedom Lags Far Behind Other 'Liberties'
SINGAPORE, Dec 8 (IPS) - Singapore has been loosening controls over a range of activities -- from legalising bungee jumping to bar-top dancing and the employment of homosexuals -- but its officials' recent statements are a reminder that more media freedom remains quite far behind.
In his commentary 'Is Singapore Paranoid?' in October, Backman said Singapore still maintains ''the old fashioned, outmoded trappings of a Third World dictatorship'' -- yet it does not have anything to hide.
But if a 'remade' Singapore shall ''embrace a diversity of peoples and ideas'', sceptics wonder why foreign journalists, who can contribute to ''the development of our governance and political maturity'', are excluded, as Joseph Wong Kok Sen wrote in a Nov. 19 letter to the 'The Straits Times' newspaper here.
www.ipsnews.net /new_nota.asp?idnews=21442   (1257 words)

  
 Singapore reporter detained in China - Boston.com - Asia - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A veteran correspondent for a Singapore newspaper has been detained in China for the past month for allegedly obtaining "national secrets," his wife said Monday.
HONG KONG -- A veteran correspondent for a Singapore newspaper has been detained in China for the past month for allegedly obtaining "national secrets," his wife said Monday.
He and his colleagues then started a new magazine about China called Contemporary, which China allegedly tried to shut down by having Beijing-controlled companies warn potential advertisers not to do business with the magazine.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/30/singapore_reporter_detained_in_china   (377 words)

  
 ${log.root}/lowem.log
Today I learned from the Hardwarezone forums that my ISP (which I will always refer to as SCV but is now owned by StarHub) has upgraded our upstream bandwidth from 128 kbps to 256 kbps (kilobits per second).
The newspaper, incidentally, is called "Today" and has a circulation of 300,000 copies daily.
The reverse is true today, and the consequences are non-trivial.
www.post1.net /page/lowem/20050423   (3132 words)

  
 ____My Happy Ending____
They toolan the NKF boss so they call their newspapers and reporters and lawyer all hoot him together, like those gang fight grab parang and run after one fella, except the newspaper company gang is not use parang, but is use words.
Singapore people now know how to buay song liao, can be quite scary, angry enough can even go and use paint spray the NKF building, rotan also not scared.
It is like score own goal, man. Want to sue the Singapore newspaper not so easy, ok? Singapore newspaper is the most kuai lan and richest and powerfulest company in the world, and their reporters is bullet-proof one, you also dare to fuck.
www.tingb4mi.blogspot.com   (1443 words)

  
 Online news & media (sg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The New Straits Times today, is typically a five-section daily made up of the National/General/World news section, the Business & Sport pages, Life & Times, the feature filled lifestyle section which includes the ever popular Society pages and two tabloid titles, Life Is..., an entertainment magazine, and City, a regional community newspaper.
The Business Times, a member of the Singapore Press Holdings group, was launched in October 1976 when Singapore was beginning its rapid development as a regional financial centre and business hub.
The emphasis is on Singapore and Asian news and trends, but developments elsewhere in the world are also covered in considerable depth as Singapore's business interests are global.
www.shambles.net /pages/Countries/sg_news   (253 words)

  
 Today: Growing faster and stronger - 5starsnews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
SPH, as you know, was a monopoly and many competing newspapers had hitherto failed against them.
Today was first to introduce creative solutions to help advertisers such as wrap-arounds, pop-ups and even Chinese advertisements in an English newspaper.
Four years ago, Today started as the first serious newspaper in Singapore in tabloid size.
www.5starsnews.com /pop-ups/34267.htm   (382 words)

  
 Archbold Medical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Disease from soil bacteria kills 15 in Singapore: newspaper
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bacteria lurking in soil and muddy water have killed 15 out of 31 victims in Singapore this year, twice the normal toll, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Friday.
Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
www.archbold.org /healthnews/reuters/20040409elin010.htm   (268 words)

  
 'Acupuncture-in-a-pill'
A Singapore-based firm aims to put power of acupuncture in a pill, according to TODAY, a Singapore newspaper.
Headquartered in Singapore with a grant from the Economic Development Board, the biotech company -- which has a panel of French directors and international representation on its board[, including Nobel laureate Dr George Charpak] -- was set up with initial capital of US$1.5 million ($2.5 million).
Tests on the pills are ongoing, and the pill is initially designed to cure migraines by "mimicking the effects of acupuncture," Molecular Acupuncture chief executive David Picard said.
radio.weblogs.com /0105910/2004/08/01.html   (550 words)

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