The Straits Times, 9 May 2005

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 74 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 MONDAY, MAY 9 2005 •8* A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 »80 CENTS
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    Lock icon S'pore still shines as a shopping paradise
    673 1  -  Glenys Sim Republic is tops for getting a good deal, survey shows By SINGAPORE has not lost its allure as a shopping destination and still beats cities like Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong on price, according to a recent study. A survey
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    Lock icon Want to live longer? 'STRESS HELPS'
    446 1 LONDON PEOPLE feeling pressured by their jobs, family matters and other worries can now relax. New research says a little stress is not only healthy, but can even help you stay young and beautiful, reports London's Sunday Times. Stress joins the growing list of
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    1140 1  -  Lee Tee Jong By Troubled waters divide South Korea and Japan THE South Koreans call them Dokdo. To the Japanese, the group of islets no bigger than a football field are Takeshima. They have been at the centre of a brewing storm in recent weeks, with rumbles from both
    LEE TEE JONG  -  1,140 words
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      765 2 IN A FLASH SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-11 World 12-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H5 Youthlnk H6-H7 Forum H8 Sports H9-Hl2 Obituaries Hl3 Money Hl4-HlB LIFE! People L2-L7,L10 Events L 8 Horoscopes TV L 9 »ASIA Channel to Beijing Soong pledges to speak up in Beijing
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      188 2 Nicoll hot seat filled Parsons Brinckerhoff 's director Kenny Lim will watch over works at the Circle Line site. PAGEH2 Flexible death penalty A senior counsel wants judges to be given discretion to impose a life term instead of the death penalty. PAGEH3 FORUM The Flower City A reader proposes
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Handsome Pakistanis need not apply
      249 3 Kuala Lumpur PAKISTANI men who look like Bollywood hunks need not apply for jobs at one Malaysian firm. The employer was concerned that some of his male Malaysian workers would feel "threatened" by tall, dark and handsome competitors from the north. That was among the
      THE STAR; ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  249 words
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      Lock icon More of Asia learning the Singaporean way
      514 3  -  Ho Ai Li 20 schools and counting offer Spore syllabus across the region By FROM India to Vietnam, Singaporean education is making deeper inroads into Asia. At least 20 schools offering the Singaporean syllabus, including the Singapore International Schools, have sprung up across
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      Lock icon WWII VICTORY REVISITED
      100 3 WWII VICTORY REVISITED RUSSIAN World War II veterans look from a military truck at teenagers dressed in WWII uniform at Gorky Street in Moscow yesterday. Soldiers marched and medal-bedecked veterans waved from military trucks rolling down the main Moscow street lined with police and overflown by helicopters as Russia began
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      Lock icon US spent $7.6b on security devices after 9/11, but most of it is
      510 4 Ineffective Unreliable »Too costly Washington AFTER spending more than US$4.5 billion (557.6 billion) on screening devices to monitor the nation's ports, borders, airports, letters and air, the federal government is moving to replace or alter much of
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      Lock icon Junta, opposition blame each other for Yangon blasts
      440 4 Yangon A CONVENTION centre and two supermarkets in the Myanmar capital were sealed off yesterday, after explosions blamed on rebels and dissidents killed at least 11 people and wounded 162 others. City residents were fearful of more explosions after the quick succession
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      24 4 11 > j> F^j Ml^ ..If pf Today in THE BUSINESS TIMES 1800 charities A case of too MANY associations fop too FEW in need?
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Fuel subsidy proves costly for Asian countries
      603 6 Fuel subsidy proves costly for Asian countries More harm than good, says ADB THE Asian Development Bank said last month that state subsidies on oil products were doing great harm and barely any good in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It urged its four member-coun-tries to scale back subsidies and
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      Lock icon India's second budget carrier takes pampering to new heights
      354 6 New Delhi INDIA'S second budget airline takes off today as the battle begins for the potentially enormous no-frills sector. Kingfisher Airlines, named after a beer, is the first to challenge low-cost pioneer Air Deccan. But five more budget carriers will be
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AFP  -  354 words
    • CHINA
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        Lock icon Soong will raise Taiwanese businessmen's woes with China
        578 7  - Soong will raise Taiwanese businessmen's woes with China Jason Leow He hopes to achieve more 'substantive' results on his China visit than KMT chief Lien By China Bureau Chief in Shanghai TAIWAN opposition leader James Soong yesterday pledged to convey to Beijing the problems faced by Taiwanese businessmen in doing
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        Lock icon INGRAINED CULTURE
        42 7 A sand sculpture of a serene Buddha face dwarfing tourists in a desert in Turpan in north-western China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The work is one of 10 sand sculptures depicting the history, culture and customs of Xinjiang. PHOTO REUTERS
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        Lock icon Taipei trying to save PM's Europe trip
        321 7 Taipei trying to save PM' s Europe trip Taipei TAIWAN was making "last-ditch efforts" yesterday to ensure Prime Minister Frank Hsieh's trip to Europe goes ahead despite pressure from China, which opposes foreign trips by officials from the island, a report said. The Austrian unit of German electronics giant Siemens
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        Lock icon Poll candidates hit the streets
        196 7 Taipei CANDIDATES took to Taiwan's streets yesterday to seek votes for an assembly that will in turn vote on two major constitutional changes. The two issues of halving the number of seats in Taiwan's legislature and replacing its unwieldy proportional representation system will be voted
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      Lock icon Koizumi likely to go ahead with shrine visit
      390 8 Controversial visit won't make a big difference to ties with China, says aide TOKYO "Even if the Yasukuni issue were to go away, Sino-Japanese relations would not improve drastically." JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi looks set to visit a controversial Tokyo war
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      Lock icon No sign that Pyongyang is planning N-test: Seoul
      357 8 No sign that Pyongyang is planning N-test: Seoul Kyoto OFFICIALS in South Korea acknowledge that unusual construction work is being carried out in North Korea but say there is no sign that it is for a nuclear arms test. They were responding to a report in The New York Times
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      Lock icon 10,000 people down with flu in Shenzhen City
      212 8 Hong Kong MORE than 10,000 people, mostly children, suffered from flu symptoms as an outbreak hit southern China during the week-long Labour Day holiday, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. The symptoms included runny nose, cough and fever, Ming Pao Daily News reported.
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Suharto stable after blood transfusion
        178 9 JAKARTA Former Indonesian president Suharto was in stable condition yesterday after receiving a blood transfusion and his life is not in danger, his lawyer Mohammad Assegaf said. The 83-year-old Suharto has been undergoing treatment at the state-owned Pertamina Hospital since Thursday. Mr Assegaf said Mr
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        Lock icon Former A-G turns lobbyist
        112 9 Former A-G turns lobbyist MR JOHN Ashcroft, the former conservative hardline attorney-general, Republican senator from Missouri and scourge of the liberal and privacy-minded, is headed for the lobby business. He has announced his new consulting company, the Ashcroft Group, which he formed with long-time Chief of Staff David Ayres. They
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        Lock icon Branson touts health-care insurance
        141 9 Branson touts health-care insurance AFTER planes, trains and mobile phones, British tycoon Richard Branson is taking his Virgin Group in a surprising new direction. His company is heading for the US health-care market with an insurance product aimed at the millions of Americans who are out of shape or too
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        Lock icon Plea to Jamie Oliver: Save hospital food
        142 9 BRITISH doctors are urging celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who pressured the government into improving school dinners, to help their campaign to boost the state of hospital food. Doctors at the British Medical Association's Junior Doctors Conference will discuss the need to improve hospital
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      Lock icon Martial law in Thai south set to end under new Bill
      458 10  - Martial law in Thai south set to end under new Bill Nirmal Ghosh But some have misgivings about handing back security to police By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok A NEW Bill in Thailand promises to resolve the country's dilemma about keeping its troubled south under martial law. It would allow
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      Lock icon US signs $400m contract for Aceh highway
      227 10 Lhoknga (Indonesia) US DEPUTY Secretary of State Robert Zoellick signed an agreement yesterday to build a US$245 million (Ss4oo million) road along Aceh's western coast. One of the first of many huge projects to rebuild the Indonesian province after the Dec 26 tsunami,
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        Lock icon MENINGITIS OUTBREAK WORSENS
        93 10 NEW DELHI: The number of rare bacterial meningitis cases in the Indian capital has risen by at least 30 to 170, with 15 confirmed deaths, the New Delhi Health Ministry said. Federal Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in Parliament on Friday assured lawmakers that efforts were under way
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN PREACHER ARRESTED
        74 10 JAKARTA: Indonesian police plan have arrested a Muslim preacher for leading daily prayers in both Arabic and Indonesian, a practice mainstream clerics here have condemned as against Islamic teachings. Police are planning to charge Yusman Roy with "despoiling an organised religion", a crime that carries a maximum
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        Lock icon GAMBLING OFFICIAL JAILED 17 YEARS
        69 10 BEIJING: A Chinese official who gambled away public money at a foreign casino was sentenced to 17 years in jail yesterday. Cai Haowen, a former transportation official in Jilin province near North Korea, embezzled more than 3 million yuan (S$600,000) to use at "a casino
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        Lock icon HK'S LEGAL AID OFFICE FACES RAID
        87 10 HONG KONG: Hong Kong police were embroiled in an unprecedented legal row over attempts to raid the Legal Aid Department for sensitive materials linked to a rape case and alleged false evidence. The department filed a writ against Police Commissioner Dick Lee, asking the
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  • MALAYSIA
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      113 11 KAMPUNGBaruwas gazetted as a Malay Agricultural Settlement by the British in 1900. Today, it is considered Malay reserve land as it has been categorised as commercial or building land rather than agricultural. Earlier development proposals failed because the ownership tangles proved too hard to resolve. A 1992 development
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      Lock icon Condo in KL for Malays only
      447 11  -  Carolyn Hong But Kampong Baru developer hits obstacle in Muslim inheritance laws By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuaia Lumpur THIS condominium project has lots of draws: a view of the Twin Towers and proximity to the city's hippest night joints. And it is going for
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      Lock icon KL-Jakarta issues 'all in the family'
      263 11  -  Ahmad Osman By, In Pontian (Johor) YOUNG Jusuf Kalla never forgot the trip he made to Johor with his mother 25 years ago. They spent a week with Bugis families who had come from Makassar and other areas in Indonesia and settled down in
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Tony Blair's TIGHTROPE THIRD ACT
      696 12 Tony Blair's TIGHTROPE THIRD ACT A DELICATE MANOEUVRE "There will be a more consensual approach with the parliamentary Labour Party. If (Mr Blair) adopts a New Labour vanguardist approach, that could be problematic. It's a matter of whether he can strike a balance." MR PETER KILFOYLE, a Labour rebel Can
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      Lock icon Captured terrorist no Al-Qaeda bigshot: European experts
      261 12 Islamabad A TERRORIST captured by Pakistani agents last week was not the high-ranking Al-Qae-da kingpin he was made out to be by the United States. European intelligence ex- perts have described Abu Faraj Al-Libbi as of middle rank. The Sunday Times in Britain
      FINANCIAL TIMES  -  261 words
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      Lock icon Newly appointed Iraqi minister quits
      530 13 Sunni politician resigns hours after he is named Human Rights Minister Baghdad IRAQ'S new Cabinet was barely in place yesterday when one of the newly appointed ministers quit, in the latest misfortune to hit the "national unity" government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari. Barely hours
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      Lock icon White paint poser in fortune-teller's murder
      448 13 California A BIZARRE double slaying of a Vietnamese fortune teller and her daughter has left police mystified. Ms Ha Jade Smith and her daughter, Anita Nhi Vo, were found stabbed to death over two weeks ago in their home in Westminster, a quiet neighbourhood
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      Lock icon 10-year-old girls put on the pill, study finds
      348 13 UNDERAGE SEX IN BRITAIN London GIRLS as young as 10 have been prescribed contraceptive pills, according to research that will reignite the debate over underage sex in Britain. According to the Sunday Times, a study of 35,000 girls found that 23 who
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      Lock icon Bush pays tribute to fallen soldiers of World War II
      748 14 He vows to cement US-Europe alliance, and to bring freedom to the Middle East Margraten (Netherlands) "I think it is quite important to us to remember what these gentlemen here did for us." 79-year-old US VETERAN BILL SHURTLEFF, at a
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon RESCUERS FIND 15 BODIES AT CRASH SITE
        95 14 SYDNEY: Police using chainsaws and machetes hacked through dense bush yesterday to reach the bodies of 15 people killed in a plane crash Australia's worst civil aviation disaster in four decades. The Aero-Tropics Fairchild Metroliner twin-engine plane was flying between two Aboriginal townships
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        Lock icon WOMAN JAILED IN IDENTITY FRAUD CASE
        124 14 GEORGETOWN: Mrs Molly Daniels spent weeks surfing the Internet, gathering information for a bizarre and grisly plot of deception. She learnt how to burn a human body beyond recognition and sought ways to deceive arson investigators in creating a new identity for her husband.
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        Lock icon IRAN TO RESUME PROCESSING URANIUM
        89 14 TEHERAN: Iran said yesterday it was getting ready to resume some uranium enrichment-re-lated work, despite warnings from Washington and the European Union. Teheran has threatened to re-start uranium processing but has promised to maintain its freeze on actual uranium enrichment, a process which can be
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        Lock icon SHARON WANTS MILITANT CRACKDOWN
        126 14 JERUSALEM: Premier Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet yesterday that Israel should not free more Palestinian prisoners until the Palestinian government clamps down on militants. The news set off Palestinian charges that Israel is acting in bad faith. Mr Sharon's tough stance threatened to further weaken Palestinian
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      Lock icon China to mark end of war, but Japan not invited
      261 14 Beijing CHINA has announced plans for events to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War 11, amid lingering tensions with Japan over the war. The strains erupted into violent protests last month in several Chinese cities, with
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      Lock icon Teachers turning to computers to grade papers
      482 15 New software relieves teachers of the tedium of marking essays Columbia (Missouri) STUDENT essays always seem to be riddled with the same sorts of flaws. So sociology professor Ed Brent decided to hand the work off to a computer. Students in Prof Brent's
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      Lock icon Abortion, crime — all part of freakonomics
      376 15 Abortion, crime all part of freakonomics PHOTO: Chicago MR STEVE Levitt's world is economics, but he has no patience for inflation charts or stock market tables. He'd much prefer to plunge into a study 0f... cheating sumo wrestlers. Or slippery housing agents. Mr Levitt is a maverick economist at the
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      Lock icon Australian winemakers becoming victims of their own supermarket success
      299 15 Sydney THE Australian wine industry is in danger of drowning in its own success: Its reputation for value-for-money bottles in overseas supermarkets is hurting its move into higher-end and boutique markets. In the past 20 years, Australian producers have revolutionised foreign
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  • GLOBAL AGENDA
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      Lock icon Soong to meet President Hu
      235 16  -  LAWRENCE CHUNG CHINA WHAT IT IS Taiwanese opposition leader James Soong, on a nine-day visit to China, set the stage for a cordial meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao this week by saying yesterday he is opposed to Taiwan's moves towards formal independence from China.
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      Lock icon Zoellick visits S'pore
      126 16  -  ARNOLD GAY REME AHMAD SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND WHAT IT IS After stops in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick stops in Malaysia today before heading to Singapore. He is due to hold talks with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior
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      Lock icon WWII commemoration
      125 16  -  JONATHAN EYAL WORLD WHAT IT IS US President George W. Bush and about 50 other world leaders join Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in World War 11. The war in the Pacific ended three months
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      959 17  - No war likely at least till after 2008 Tom Plate By WE HERE in the West despite our ritualistic (and sometimes loud-mouthed) advocacy of democracy do appreciate the decision of the people in charge in Beijing to clamp down on those antiJapanese protests, clear out the streets, order people to
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      1110 17  -  Tin Maung Maung Than NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY By For The Straits Times AT THE ongoing seventh NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) review conference, there is, evidently, a yawning gap between the stances of some among the nuclearweapon states (NWS, which are members of the UN Security Council
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      1030 18  -  Goh Sui Noi FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT: CHINA By China Correspondent In Beijing IT WAS a rare cold morning during this rather warm spring. My ayi domestic helper was putting on her outer clothes as she prepared to leave my flat. Xiao Qin had worn
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      1062 19  -  Michael Vatikiotis BOOK REVIEW: THE INDONESIAN MILITARY AFTER THE NEW ORDER By For The Straits Times A GENERAL assumption of many casual observers of Indonesia is that the military has embraced the country's new democracy and abandoned its political role. More recently, armed forces commander Endriartono
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      738 19  -  Vassillis Bontosoglou By TODAY, the European Union celebrates Europe Day the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. It marked the beginning of European integration and paved the way for the creation of the EU. On this historic occasion 55 years ago, Europeans collectively drew a
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      8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES MONDAY MAY 9, 2005
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      689 1  -  David Boey SAF trainees use Ml 6 assault rifle lookalikes in training, as a result of suggestion by NSman, and all who use them say guns inject greater realism By Defence Correspondent TRAINEES at the SAF's Officer Cadet School (OCS) these days should
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      509 2  -  Goh Chin Lian Parsons Brinckerhoff s director Kenny Lim will watch over works at the Circle Line site By COMPANY director Kenny Lim has just been hired to watch over the work of Nishimatsu and other contractors at the MRT Circle Line site
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      1050 2  -  GOH CHIN LIAN TAKING CHARGE "My management stance is top down. I'm taking all responsibility. In everything, I am involved." MR MASAJI CHIBA, Nishimatsu Construction's new project director, on his hands-on approach to management KNOW THE PEOPLE "If there's only paperwork and e-mail, there'll
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      794 3  - Death sentence? Let judges decide K.C. VIJAYAN Allow discretion to impose life terms in capital offences, says senior counsel By Crime Correspondent Capital offences Since Singapore became independent in 1965, three more crimes have been made capital offences, apart from murder. They are kidnapping, drug t raf f ickjng and
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      144 3 NGUYEN Tuong Van, an Australian of Vietnamese i origin, is on death row awaiting the outcome of a clemency petition submitted to President S R Nathan in March. If he succeeds, his death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment. On Dec 12, 2002, as
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      318 3  -  K.C. VIJAYAN ODD-JOB worker Ismil Kadar was charged yesterday with the murder of a housewife who lived a floor above him in Boon Lay Avenue. He allegedly committed the crime at Block 185 some time after Bam last Friday. The 37-year-old, clad in
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        61 3 A 35-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist died instantly after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the railing along the centre of an expressway. Despatch rider Yusoff Che Ros was riding along the extreme right lane of the Pan-Island Expressway near Kallang at about 2am yesterday, when
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        188 3 THREE care centres were burgled over two nights last week and a total of about $3,700 was reported stolen. Two of the break-ins occurred on the same night at centres within walking distance of each other in Bedok North Street 3 and were discovered by staff
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        108 3 A LORRY driver was killed and two passengers injured when their vehicle went out of control and hit a tree at about 2.45 am yesterday. Mr Abdul Razak Din, 45, suffered serious head injuries in the accident in Lower Delta Road and was taken to the Singapore
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      616 4  -  Alfred Siew Aim is to give professionals here an edge over those from other nations By What to expect The 16-man Infocomm Competency Council aims to create infocomm workers who are technically competent and well-versed in their industry from banking to animation. The council comprises
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      221 4  -  GRACE CHNG THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will consult the private sector when it draws up Singapore's next infocomm masterplan, called Intelligent Nation 2015. Six of the 11 members on the steering committee set up to drive the plan's development are
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      216 4 PEOPLE who want to read what bloggers are saying about Singapore can go to tomorrow. sg The site, set up about two weeks ago, features snippets of entries from online diaries, articles, comic strips and other material related to Singapore. It
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      581 5  - To S' pore researchers: Be trailblazers, not just fix-it men Natalie Soh Mindsets must change for Spore to do well, says new science RftD chief By THE new man charged with shaping the future of Singapore's science and engineering research and development policy wants researchers here to not just act
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      335 5 MADAM Vicsland Poh, 38, who is separated from her husband, usually celebrates Mother's Day with dinner at a restaurant with her two children, Mauvic, 10, and Vermelle, eight. But this year, they spent it rockclimbing, playing games and enjoying a band performance
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      281 5  -  Liaw Wy-Cin By A HUMBLE window curtain may soon be defending Singapore's buildings against bomb blasts. Developed by Skyline Mills in the United States, the new blast curtain is believed to be superior to the shatterproof glass currently installed in many buildings here.
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          432 6  -  Alicia Zhuang YOUNG AND RESTLESS By BEEN to the recruitment talks, done the research, spruced up the resume, sent out the application forms, arranged interviews... May the worrying begin. It's Job Fever 2005! Final-year undergraduates have a lot on their plate, and it's not just
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          482 6  -  ALICIA ZHUANG YOUNG AND RESTLESS "Entering the workforce, finding it is not all they had envisioned, and becoming disillusioned and unsure about their life purposes can be traumatising..." MS MARTHA LEE of Youth Employment Singapore, who advises students to consider taking time out to travel
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        541 7  - Job hunt 2005: Fun for LOTR fans LIYANA OTHMAN YOUNG AND RESTLESS By WORKING behind "the counter of a fast-food restaurant is staler than a packet of week-old French fries. These days, young people stretch their imagination and skills with more stimulating part-time jobs. "Why get a job that feels
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        203 7  -  Estelle Chan GOING THE DISTANCE By IF YOU like the idea of hobnobbing with the glitterati of the art world and dream of being a caretaker of human culture, being a curator may be right up your alley. LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts
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        114 7 HIP AND HAPPENING Place: Eski Bar Crowd: Thirsty boozers who want to beat the heat outside Where it's at: 124 Tanjong Pagar Road Word on the street: Singapore's first sub-zero degree bar, Eski, is heating up the local pub scene. With an industrial-strength freezer for a front entrance, the room
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        426 8 SOURCE OF PRIDE Singapore will indeed have a unique attraction that is not only clean and wholesome, but also one of which its citizens can be proud. RECENTLY, there has been much discussion about how to remake Singapore into a more attractive place
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        239 8 IT IS good to hear that development plans recently unveiled promise to provide visitors with a richer experience of the natural and rustic charm of Pulau Übin. However, every effort should be made to prevent the island from being tainted with the
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        237 8 I REFER to the report "Allergic rhinitis makes children's asthma worse" (ST, May 3). Allergic rhinitis and asthma are not diseases, but signs of a more serious medical condition, namely an impaired immune system. This is responsible for many other diseases, such as irritable
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        567 8 EASY TO TALK It is easy to talk from the sidelines about caring for a terminally ill patient until natural death overtakes him. HAVING said my piece about euthanasia to be included in the Advance Medical Directive for application in extenuating circumstances, I was
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        147 8 I REFER to Dr lan Snodgrass' letter ("Doctors can 'allow' death but not cause it; ST, April 29). He writes that doctors may allow death, but not cause it, regardless of the wishes of family members. He would be right in an "ideal"
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          89 8 I WAS diagnosed recently with ankylosing spondylitis. My GP, Dr Scow of Healthway Woodlands Family Centre, suspected it five years ago and took many steps over the years to verify it. When it was diagnosed this year, he made an appointment for
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          99 8 I WAS driving to the International Business Park in Jurong East but lost my way and ended up in Tuas. I stopped a motorcyclist to ask for directions, but he asked me to follow him and led me all the way there. I couldn't
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          54 8 I WAS at McDonald's in Ang Mo Kio Central when I felt giddy. Noticing how pale I was, Ms Anne Chua, the assistant manager, took my order and helped me to a seat. During my dinner, she checked on me twice and even offered to buy
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          57 8 I PARTICIPATED in the prostate awareness week at the National University Hospital. I would like to Compliment the medical team on their warmth and gracious manners. In addition, thanks to the video show and talk by Dr Kesavan, I have learnt a lesson in return
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          44 8 ON BEHALF of my mum, I would like to thank the young volunteers from City Harvest who visited senior residents of Cassia Crescent and gave them packs of fruit on April 30, during the hot hours around noon time. AngHakHeng
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        1015 9  -  SOCCER But champions Tampines Rovers still showing the way at one-third stage of S-League By Alvin Foo AFTER a third of the S-League season, the most glaring statistic must be the big, fat zero on Pay a Lebar Punggol's points total. The newcomers
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        503 10 SOCCER They pull 3 points clear with three games left, thanks to Trezeguet winner Milan JUVENTUS took a major step towards lifting the Italian Serie A title yesterday after beating AC Milan 1-0 at the champions' San Siro stadium. With just three games to
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        476 10 Manchester BRYAN Robson returned to Old Trafford with West Bromwich Albion and saw his side pull off a 1-1 draw with Manchester United. The result left the former England captain with the chance to realise what he believes will be his greatest
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        459 10 London CHELSEA owner Roman Abramovich wants to make his club the biggest in the world. The usually media-shy Russian billionaire broke his silence in the wake of his side winning the English title for the first time in 50 years. Cynics have questioned
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        44 10 AC Milan 0 Juventus 1 Atalanta 2 Messina 1 Brescia 0 Inter Milan 3 Cagliari 0 Palermo 0 Chievo 1 Fiorentina 2 Lazio 0 Udinese 1 Livorno 3 Siena 6 Parma 2 Roma 1 Reggina 1 Bologna 1 Sampdoria 3 Lecce 0
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        172 10 P W D L F A Pts Juventus 35 24 7 4 59 23 79 AC Milan 35 23 7 5 57 22 76 Inter Milan 35 16 17 2 63 37 65 Udinese 35 17 8 10 53 37 59 Sampdoria 35 17 8 10 41 27 59
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        170 10 P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 36 28 7 1 68 13 91 Arsenal 35 23 8 4 76 33 77 Man United 36 21 11 4 55 22 74 Everton 36 18 7 11 43 36 61 Liverpool 36 16 7 13 49 37 55 Bolton
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        175 10 P W D I F A Pts Barcelona 34 24 6 4 67 25 78 Real Madrid ....35 24 3 8 66 29 75 Sevilla 35 17 7 11 42 37 58 Villarreal 34 15 10 9 59 33 55 Valencia 34 13 14 7 51 35 53
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        283 10 Wigan are promoted, West Ham in play-offs London JUST 27 years after entering the league, Wigan Athletic were promoted to the English Premier League for the first time after a comfortable 3-1 win over Reading yesterday. First-half goals by Lee McCulloch and Jason Roberts and a late strike from Nathan
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        314 11  -  Nicholas Fang OLYMPICS By SINGAPOREANS are being offered a rare chance to be part of the fever surrounding the selection process for the 2012 Olympic host city, which will be concluded fyere in July. British Airways is offering them the chance to have their
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        192 11  -  ALVIN FOO THE final score at the Singapore Indoor Stadium might have read Philippines Selection 79 Singapore 60. But what it failed to reflect was that the hosts matched their opponents in points in the second quarter with 14. Said Singapore centre Pathman Matialakan: "They
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        450 11 Dallas THE Houston Rockets acquired Tracy McGrady, believing that teaming him with Yao Ming would help them win their first National Basketball Association play-off series since 1997. Instead, their drought continues after losing the league's most lopsided Game Seven 76-116 to the
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        472 11  -  Alvin Foo BASKETBALL BAS trying to bring one in effort to take basketball fever to the next level By A NATIONAL Basketball Association team here for an exhibition game or next year's Singapore Cup? Far-fetched? Not quite. Fresh from the successful staging of the first
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          71 11 SINGAPORE won the Stan Nagaiah Trophy when they defeated Malaysia 2-0 in the three-match cricket series in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. After Friday's two-wicket win and Saturday's rain-affect-ed draw, they grabbed a 35 -run win when skipper Buddhika Mendis hit an unbeaten 55 in their 172-9. The hosts'
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          26 11 MALAYSIA'S Northside Arowanas stretched their winning start in the Netball Super League to six games yesterday. They beat the Western Vipers 55-27.
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          49 11 WOODLANDS Wellington's Daniel Bennett will captain an S-League selection in the Sultan of Selangor Cup at the Shah Alam Stadium on May 22. Coached by Raddy Avramovic, the 20-man squad will play a Selangor selection for the RM50,000 (5521,500) winThe runners-up will receive RM25,000.
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        337 11 Phoenix THE official announcement would not be made until yesterday (today, Singapore time), but the word was out when the Phoenix Suns practised on Saturday: Steve Nash has won the NBA's Most Valuable Player award. The Suns' ever-energised point-guard said the impending honour would
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        602 12 MOTOR RACING Raikkonen dashes Spaniard's hope with flawless drive to take the flag Barcelona THE best Fernando Alonso could manage was second place. Wishing he could win in front of his home crowd was not enough, not when Finnish rival Kimi
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        205 12 Spanish Grand Prix 1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) McLaren lhr 27min 16.8305 ec 2 Fernando Alonso (Esp) Renault at 27.652s 3 Jamo Trulli (Ita) Toyota 45.947 4 Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Toyota 46.719 5 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Renault 57.936 6 Mark Webber (Aus) Williams 1:08.542 7 Juan Pablo Montoya
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        325 12 »GOLF Charlotte (North Carolina) SPAIN'S Sergio Garcia had five birdies in his first six holes after the turn for a five-under-par 67 to surge six shots clear going into the final round at the Wachovia Championship. The late charge
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          73 12 LOUISVILLE: Giacomo, a 50-1 longshot, won the 131 st Kentucky Derby here on Saturday, stunning favourite Bellamy Road and the rest of the 20-horse field in the first jewel in US flat racing's triple crown. Trained by John Shirreffs saddling his first Derby starter and ridden
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          66 12 QUITO (Ecuador): Ecuador international soccer striker Otilino Tenorio died when his car crashed into a petrol truck on Saturday, authorities said. He was 25. The accident occurred shortly after noon on a central highway, 280 km south-west of the capital Quito. Tenorio was on
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          73 12 KINGSTON: Captain Graeme Smith struck his fourth century in successive matches to lead South Africa to a convincing eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in the first of five one-day cricket internationals on Saturday. Chasing a victory target of 254 at Sabina Park,
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          73 12 TOKYO: Japan yesterday put an end to their yearlong losing streak by thrashing Hong Kong 91-3 in the Asian qualifier for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Japan took the lead after only 20 seconds, when stand-off Keiji Hirose converted a penalty. They extended their lead
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        733 12 BASEBALL MLB: Baltimore 5 Kansas City Royals 3, New York Yankees 5 Oakland 0, Chicago White Sox 10 Toronto 7, Cincinnati 11 Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Diego 5 St Louis 4, Philadelphia 4 Chicago 1, Washington 11 San Francisco 8, Florida 4 Colorado 1, Minnesota 8 Tampa Bay
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      754 13 Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Psalm 103:1 ANG LAY WHEE (MRS ALICE TAN SUAN EX) Age: 68 Was called home to be with the Lord on 7 May 2005. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Beloved husband: Dr
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        54 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS Keppei Corp 50c 1180 110 0 10.3 Venture Corp2sc 1470 80 0 5 8 TAC 6110 200 304 54 1 12 2 DBSGrp 1470 40 0 2 8 CityDevWo6oslo 464 30 0 6 9 SIA2OO 1150 30 0 2? SIASOc 1150 0 2 7 H*****0008eCW*****9 154
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        57 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS Venture MBLeCWOSO7 IB 7 180 0 4 5 TAC SGA eCW*****0 14 115 4 7 5 Venture MBIeCWO.SIOI2 21 1100 110 El-Nets 1c 1 100 0 0.5 Venture SGAeCWOSO6?7 VentureDßSeCWoso7l4 4 100 0 2 0 VentureDßSeCWoslol2 11 100.0 5 5 TAC SGA eCWOSI U4 20 818
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        61 14 Week's Top Falls CENTS MCI land 141 67 0 32 2 Venture DB ePW0506 13 1? 210 63 6 STI22OOSG»ePV»OSIO2I 64 5 17 0 20 9 CapitiUnd 239 16 0 6 3 Venture S6AePWOSK2 7 24 S 15 5 38 8 CapitalanSGAeCWoso6o 66 ISO 18 5 STI?IOODBePWOSO9?9 97 15 0
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        354 15 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S central bank feels the ringgit is only slightly undervalued, but it will review the currency's peg to the US dollar once China changes its policy on the yuan, The Edge newspaper said yesterday, quoting the bank's chief. "I
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        316 16  - Fraser' s first Bangkok residence opens in July Joyce Teo It will manage the 131-unit Fraser Place for 10 years -and is eyeing more projects By AFTER years of exploring opportunities in Bangkok, Fraser Serviced Residences, the hospitality arm of Singapore-based Fraser Neave Group, is set to open its first
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          63 16 MICHAEL DEAN: Appointed director of main-board-listed Petra Foods, a major supplier of cocoa and confectionery products, on Friday. Mr Dean, a former investment banker, is group finance director of Eastern Product Carriers. His 25 years in business includes positions as managing director of Credit Lyonnais (Singapore)
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        1278 17  -  Bryan Lee COMMENT It's time for the Govt to bite the bullet and make a tough ruling to resolve issue By BACK in the early *****, the Government called for all of Singapore to be cabled up as part of a national aspiration
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        575 17  - Team up to get piece of 1.5b pie, says IDA Tham Yuen-C By' COMPANIES that want a part of the mega $1.5 billion Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) public tender should look for partners before they bid, the agency said. This is because the project is "massive" in scale, and demands
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      711 18  -  Lee Su Shyan THE WIDENING GAP Their average PE ratio has halved to 8 here, compared with 15 times in HK By Companies Correspondent COULD Singapore lose its shine as a listing destination for China companies because share prices here as a
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      293 18  - Former First Link chief exec owes $290,000 LEE SU SHYAN STRAITS TIMES INDEX BOUNCED CHEQUE IN SINGAPORE THE former chief executive of First Link Investments, Ngu Tieng Ung, who was charged with criminal breach of trust in a Malaysia court last Thursday, is now facing further woes. He has been
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      446 6 All work, plenty of play Part-time jobs need not be boring. How about working as a nazgul from the Lord Of The Rings movie? PAGE H7 How Can I Give Hy My Child A Brighter^^JK Future 7 £H^9 ■■■■■■■NHiiUUiIiMH -iV >. VX; }J Msm* B^^t«» ;*«<■» We would like to
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      196 9 Raikkonen wins in Spain McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen leaves Fl leader Fernando Alonso in a distant second while Michael Schumacher does not finish. PAGE H l2 I niPI HIUIA IM 1 AlAf Other courses available II I University of London MASTER OF LAWS II (SDF subsidy available) MAQTBQC IM I I
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      207 10 PROMOTI YOUR MfWCAI From 30 March till 22 June 2005, grab the chance to showcase your services through the Medical Health Services Directory, Publication: fflSEfflffl The Straits Times, Mind Your Body rTmYHnfjal^^S Every Wednesday VZ^TZZZ^ZZtI'z tf H^Ss-^T: Categories you can Eb;" S3SSS advertise under: *RL_ 24-hour Medical Services Aesthetic Medicine
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      8 1 Life! THE STRAITS TIMES Monday May 9 2005
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        330 2  -  Jill Alphonso Life!'s pick of the week's goings-on: Winner Kobe Bryant Keeps romance alive Two years after giving his wife Vanessa (right) a US$4 million (556.5 million) "forgive me" diamond ring, Bryant is still showering her with surprises. On their four-year wedding anniversary last month, the LA Lakers
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        207 2 LOS ANGELES Alias star Jennifer Garner (below) is expecting her first baby, entertainment website E! Online reported yesterday. Multiple sources close to the actress and her actor boyfriend Ben Affleck said she is three months' pregnant, E! Online added. The news was also confirmed by E! News,
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        1458 3  -  Tay Yek Keak Oh sweet, loopy Paula Abdul... Will the scandal over her alleged affair with a contestant get her booted off American Idol? 'Don't screw me over or you'll be sorry' Contestant Corey Clark exposing Paula Abdul's (left) pillow talk in his tell-all book, They
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        249 3 NEW YORK Paula Abdul staged her own TV appearance on Saturday by appearing in a comedy sketch lampooning ABC's Fallen Idol interview with Corey Clark (right). On Saturday Night Live, she introduced it by saying "all the facts have been changed to get laughs at
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        433 3 WILL American Idol continue to rock like rocker-contestant Bo Bice or be rocked to its core by its accumulated scandals? Here are the controversies and their impact levels: Paula Abdul-Corey Clark affair Shock-a-meter rating: The sex is not the killer but if allegations of favouritism and illegal
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        661 4  -  Yvonne Kwok Amazing Race leaders Rob and Amber will not cross the finish line first if you go by the number of bets being placed on married couple Uchenna and Joyce MEDIA REPORTER IF YOU are one of thousands who believe that Survivor All Stars couple
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        226 4  -  Yvonne Kwok 1. Corey Clark appeared on American network ABC's expose of American Idol, Fallen Idol, detailing his alleged affair with Paula Abdul. Do we really care how a middleaged woman allegedly has the hots for a nobody like Clark? 2. KFC chairman and CEO John
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        152 5 HAVANA Thousands of young Cubans rocked until early Saturday to the heavy sounds of American rock band Audioslave in a raucous concert, the first open-air American rock concert on the island. The show was held at the Anti-Imperialist Stand, a plaza facing the United States Interests
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        114 5 LOS ANGELES It's all about genes where the Osbourne family is concerned. Rocker Ozzy Osbourne (right), 56, said doctors have diagnosed that he has Parkin Syndrome, which has symptoms similar to Parkinson's Disease. He has to take medicine for the rest of his life to conThe former
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        137 5 TAIPEI Chinese actress Xia Vi said she will return to Taiwan and speak her mind, following the controversy surrounding the death of actor-comedian Ni Min-jan. His apparent suicide was linked to his extramarital affair with her. In a letter to the media, Xia, 36,
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        780 6  -  Teo Pau Lin When the goggle box takes priority over family time, perhaps it is time to turn it off girltalk LIKE most home-owners, one of the first things I bought for my new apartment was a TV set. It was higher on my list
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        120 6 SINGAPORE artiste management company Fly Entertainment's sixth birthday bash last Friday was a rollicking trip to the movies for 700 party-goers. The Fly Film Festival R(A) party, held at Zouk, featured spoofs of popular Hollywood and Asian movies starring Fly's artistes. Joining the guests were other Fly artistes
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      6 1 THE STRAITS TIMES IN MONDAY 09/05/05
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        170 2 WINNERS Here are the winners of the Management Development Institute of Singapore's guidebook, Your Future As A Lawyer: Costal Yap, 16, CHlJ(ToaPayoh) Secondary Gregory Lou Wei Ming, I 5, St Joseph's Institution Neiison Ong Dejian, !4,ChoaChu Kang Secondary School Jane Lim r 15, Tanjong Katong Girls* School Julia MgXueLin, I
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        69 4 CRACK YOUR BRAINS KIDS OR KINGS? China's "little emperors and empresses", the generation born during the one-child policy, have grown up. And they say they should treat their children as equals and fulfil their every desire, according to a survey. Nonetheless, three in five of them said that the man
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        42 5 THE NEXT BIG THING IS YOU DAWN ON YOU Break To Dawn is a self-help book published by Ms Wendy Chua's own company, Wand Inspiration. It consists of five short stories based on interviews with five youths who experienced setbacks in life.
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        100 8 THE BIG STORY THIS WEEK LOVE OF ALL THINGS JAPANESE Straits Times journalist Ignatius Low talks about his grandmother's deep contempt for the Japanese as a result of the hardships she suffered during the Japanese Occupation. Yet, for him, the appeal of Japanese culture is overwhelming, despite his love for
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        621 9 I GOING JAPAN-MAD I I A LOOK AT 5 COLLECTIBLE SUPERCRAZES C I I THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR LIVES 7 ll^f I I HELLO KITTY (1974) t£i Since her birth in 1 974, this mouthless feline has endorsed just about every youth consumerTjr JW^ I good imaginable. Even the Xbox
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        78 9 THE STORY WEEK 9 m LEST WE FORGET "The ChinaJapan dispute may be happening thousands of miles away, but it is still important for us to pay heed. In just two generations, the memories of war and of those who suffered through it are almost gone. We need to move
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        72 13 HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE BETTER Zj Jj; TjpT",^] A STRAIT ROW SingaporeMalaysia reclamation settlement: What Malaysia will do: Drop its lawsuit against Singapore What Singapore witl do: Continue reclaiming, but try to minimise environmental damage "The two countries will share the cost of works to make two jetties in
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        519 15 get anywhere." To mean "rush", he used the Mandarin word "chuang". The same word can also mean, In a positive context "break new paths". "Chuang\ to me, captures the twoheaded hydra that is the mainland Chinese fear of falling behind. It is a more visceral version of die Western
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        83 14 HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE BETTER DID YOU KNOW... Six hundred years ago, China and the area that is now India accounted for about 75 per cent of global GDP. Europe was insignificant and America was still undiscovered. Then, Portugals Prince Henry the Navigator led an effort to develop superior
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        58 15 HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE BETTER PHILIP GEER is the author of numerous texts on English, including Picture These SAT Words! and Simon's Saga for the SAT I Verbal, published by Barron's Educational Series, New York. You can visit his website at www.men taurs.com for free verbal skills building materials.
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