The Straits Times, 28 February 2006

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 1 18 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 2006 mSpA SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Chen defies China, drops unification panel
    633 1  -  Ong H wee Hwee By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei TAIWAN President Chen Shui-bian yesterday upped the ante in cross-strait ties when he mothballed an advisory council on eventual unification with China, defying repeated warnings from China and the United States. While he did not
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    Lock icon Opposition parties to boycott Thai polls
    768 1  - Opposition parties to boycott Thai polls Nirmal Ghosh Move comes after Thaksin glosses over demand for written agreement on reforms By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAILAND'S three main opposition parties yesterday said they would boycott the snap election called for April 2, deepening the country's political crisis. The move was
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    Lock icon Oil-crazed world sees energy in new light
    1170 1  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent A better alternative? THE Jatropha plant (above) is native to central America and grows easily in harsh conditions. Its oily seeds could be a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to non-renewable fossil fuels. Plant geneticist Chamnan Chutkaew
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      363 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-12 World 13-18 Review 19-21 FYI 22 SECTION TWO Home H1-H8 Forum H9 Sports H10-H13 Obituaries.... H14-H16 Money H17-H24 LIFE! Buzz L2,L12 Travel L7-L8 Events TV L10— Lll »ASIA A smart move President Arroyo's decision to declare a state of emergency appears to be a
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      186 2 Ready jobs for grads Poll shows 94 per cent of last year's batch of NUS graduates found jobs an all-time high. PAGE H4 Paperless? Not really A $36 million online vehicle transactions system touted as paperless may not be tree-friendly after all. PAGEH5 FORUM Raja's impact Reader urges Singaporeans not
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon MPs praise Budget's targeted help approach
      563 3  -  Laurel Teo But some are worried that Singaporeans will grow to expect more of such handouts By THE buzz created by this year's Budget continues as Members of Parliament yesterday lavished praise on what they considered to be its groundbreaking achievements. They approved especially
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      Lock icon Arroyo slaps rebellion charge on 16 suspected coup plotters
      494 3 Manila PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo stepped up a purge of suspected coup plotters yesterday as police filed rebellion charges against 16 people, including a hero of the "people power" uprising in 1986. A state of emergency declared last Friday was extended
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      Lock icon Ex-High Court judge Lai Kew Chai dies
      644 4  -  Elena Chong K.C. Vijayan His high-profile cases included Huang Na murder and Sentosa cable car tragedy By RETIRED High Court judge Lai Kew Chai, who served on the Bench for 25 years and presided over several high-profile cases, including the murder of eight-year-old
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      Lock icon First big study of divorces here spotlights risk factors
      563 4  -  Theresa Tan By THE Government is promoting programmes to strengthen marriages, after the first large-scale study of divorces here put its finger on what made unions work or fall apart. The study of more than 1,700 divorcees and about 1,900 married
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      578 4 Y Modern Montessori International Bags Two More Prestigious Accreditations One Local, One International mmi opens its First Boutique *.«^IN^ Since 1 989, thousands of pre-schooi Pre-School Centre In Sengkang R^k teachers have graduated from Modern The MMI Sengkang pre-school centre occupies m jtKtk. Montesson International, Singapore. 20,000 square feet of
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      55 4 If m i*\ gm IWOS company In today's SME Spotlight we highlight two turnaround stories among Singapore's small- and medium-sized companies: Heuristix Lab, an education software provider; ■Achieva, an electronics distributor f^^ jA STORE MEN TO THEIR PARTNERS Lousy loving? TopJiadf Survey: Men here ranked among lowest in Asia when
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon LEADERS IN THE
      691 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh Under pressure, but Thaksin still has many fans By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok EVEN as 50,000 people gathered in Bangkok on Sunday in protest against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, another rally of some 20,000 people turned out in support of the Thai leader in Chiang
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      Lock icon I've done my best to resolve crisis, says Thaksin
      435 6 THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he has done his best to resolve the country's political crisis by calling for an election. Shrugging off the boycott threat from the opposition, the Prime Minister said: "It is each party's decision. We have
      REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  435 words
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      Lock icon LINE OF FIRE
      719 7  -  Leslie Lopez RURAL POWER BASE "Thaksin has succeeded in connecting with the grassroots in the north-east, which has the highest number of seats in the House." PROFESSOR THITINAN PONGSUOHIRAK, who teaches political science at Chulalongkorn University "If in 2005, Mrs Arroyo was against the ropes, taking blow
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      Lock icon Conspiracy to oust Arroyo wide-ranging, says military
      414 7 THE Philippine military said yesterday that it had evidence of a vast conspiracy involving various groups in a plot to oust President Gloria Arroyo and establish a military government. They include disgruntled military officers, communist rebels and sympathisers, leftists, rightists, opposition members and
      PHILIPPINES DAILY INQUIRER; ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  414 words
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      308 6 Call to spread tolerance Yudhoyono says emphasising religious tolerance is needed to win Muslims over in the war against terror. PAGE 12 switch to a Career in Nursing! The Strategic Manpower Conversion Programme for the healthcare sector aims to help non-healthcare trained professionals acquire skills to be Registered Nurses. I'
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon Political woes dampen Taiwan's economy
      399 8 Taipei POLITICAL concerns are likely to dampen Taiwan's business investment this year, increasing chances that growth will fall short of expectations in an economy already struggling with high oil prices and bird flu worries. Economists have scaled back forecasts for private investment, which makes up
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      Lock icon China 'unlikely to respond radically to Chen's moves'
      840 8  -  Chua Chin Hon NEWS ANALYSIS It will probably isolate Taiwan leader but will continue to woo public, say analysts By China Bureau Chief In Beijing S'pore reaction SINGAPORE yesterday "expressed regret" at Taiwan's move on the National Unification Council and National Unification
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      Lock icon Top policy-making body on unification
      207 8 The National Unification Council was set up in 1990 by then President Lee Teng-hui as the island's top poli-cy-making body on unification with the mainland. Taipei and Beijing split at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. It is a subordinate office under
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      Lock icon Analysts on President Chen's move
      180 8 BEIJING'S CAUTION "Deep in their hearts, they (China's leaders) are worried and even mad about this provocative behaviour. China has to calculate how to respond to not annoy the populace and not fall into Chen's trap. Chen wants a strong reaction from China." ANALYST GEORGE
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon VIRTUAL REUNION
      51 9 Getting in touch with relatives across the border was an emotional experience for the 500 South Koreans at a video conferencing session. The separated families have not seen each other since Korea's division in 1945, and had just two hours to share tales and pictures. PHOTO: PHOTO: AFP
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      Lock icon Japan, China 'not ready for mature relationship'
      531 9 Japan, China 'not ready for mature relationship Superpowers need time to build ties on equal footing, says Koizumi ally Tokyo JAPAN and China are not ready for a "mature relationship" that will enable them to look beyond their deepseated differences, a senior aide to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Tokyo probes Chinese organ transplants
      272 9 Tokyo JAPAN is investigating human organ transplants in China following a report that at least seven Japanese died after treatment in the neighbouring country, a government official said yesterday. The patients died soon after the transplant operations. Cases ranged from those who underwent transplants in
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      Lock icon Five-year presidential term too long, says Roh
      147 9 Seoul SOUTH Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said the five-year presidential term is too long. "I feel that way personally, and isn't that a little too long in terms of the system too?" asked Mr Roh, whose popularity is at a record low.
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  • INDIA/ SOUTH ASIA
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      Lock icon India not giving in to US nuclear demands
      569 10  - India not giving in to US nuclear demands Ravi Velloor PM Singh says Delhi will not put fast breeder project on civilian nuclear list By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi TWO days before President George W. Bush arrives in New Delhi, India made it clear it will not agree
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      Lock icon Delhi hits the road to woo foreign firms to hunt for oil
      426 10 Guwahati (India) INDIA will host a series of road shows in major cities worldwide including Singapore next month to woo foreign exploration companies to hunt for oil in the country, officials said yesterday. An Indian Petroleum Ministry official
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
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        Lock icon ASIA'S GRAF SITUATION IMPROVES
        101 10 HONG KONG: Corruption in most parts of Asia is not as bad as a year ago, with Hong Kong securing its best score in a decade and China seeing lower incidences of corruption, a survey showed yesterday. The annual survey, conducted by the Political and Economic
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        Lock icon KL RAISES PETROL PRICES
        103 10 KUALA LUMPUR: Petrol and diesel prices in Malaysia will go up from today by 30 sen (13 Singapore cents) per litre as part of a long-term plan to trim fuel subsidies and reduce its fiscal deficit. Thee retail price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will go
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        Lock icon BOY, 4, KILLS TODDLER BROTHER
        98 10 GEORGETOWN (Penang): A four-year-old boy punched, slapped and stamped on his two-year-old brother as they were fighting over a bicycle. The toddler died later in hospital. The boys' mother had left them at home in the care of a family friend while she went to
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        Lock icon PHONE BILL DRIVES TEEN TO SUICIDE
        97 10 SEOUL: South Korean mobile phone companies said yesterday that they were offering new calling plans after a teen committed suicide for racking up a large phone bill. A 16-year-old student living in Iksan, in the country's south-west, killed himself on Feb 15 after receiving
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      344 11 The Financial Times MBA 2006 Ranking is based on data collected from business schools and their alumni who graduated in 2002. on being ranked Top 100 in Financial Times MBA 2006 Ranking, including 12th in "International experience" Top 30 in "Value for money" Characterized by a strong curriculum with an
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono wants more religious tolerance
      530 12  -  Salim Osman Emphasising freedom of speech will let terrorists exploit sensitive issues, he savs By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for more emphasis on religious tolerance rather than freedom of expression to win hearts and minds in the war against
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      Lock icon Maluku militant gets life sentence
      223 12 Ambon (Indonesia) AN INDONESIAN court yesterday sentenced a Muslim militant to life in prison for his role in two terrorist attacks in vio-lence-ravaged Maluku province. Ismail Fahmi Yamsehu was found guilty of violating the country's anti-ter-ror law during a trial at the District Court in
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      Lock icon US to help boost security in Malacca Strait
      175 12 Kuala Lumpur THE United States yesterday pledged to help the region combat the threat of piracy and terrorism in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Details of the cooperation will be planned after Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore
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      Lock icon Malaysia Airlines unveils plan to become profitable
      436 12  -  Carolyn Hong By Malaysia Correspondent In Petaling laya MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) yesterday unveiled a radical plan to return to profitability by 2008 after announcing a massive RMI.3 billion (***** million) loss for last year. It predicts a loss of RM6OO million for this
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      Lock icon Siblings swim into record books
      240 12 Lumut (Perak) MALAYSIAN Salman AH Shariati Abdul Halim, eight, and his sister Zahra Ma'soumah, 14, have created a new national record by swimming across the B.9km Dindings Strait in Perak in three hours and 40 minutes. They pledged a RMIO,OOO (554,300) state government award to
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US, Britain losing English-language advantage
      602 13 Monolingual workers overtaken by multilingual ones who give firms an extra edge in global marketplace POLYGLOTS LEAD THE WAY "Once everyone speaks English, advantage can only be maintained by having something else other skills, such as speaking several languages... We know from trade associations that
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      Lock icon Half of world languages dying out
      244 13 Paris MORE than half of the 6,000 languages spoken in the world today may disappear by the end of the century, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) said on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The day was marked at
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    • BIRD FLU CRISIS
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        Lock icon 'Poultry industry to blame' for bird flu
        740 14 Infection sources >> Trading of birds The international poultry trade is huge, and there is little control. Hatching eggs are well-known to spread bird flu. Some experts say there is little regulation of Eastern Europe's poultry and egg trade. Other likely infection sources
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        Lock icon SURRENDER BIRDS OR FACE JAIL
        78 14 KUALA LUMPUR: Poultry owners hiding birds or fowl from the authorities in a bird flu-hit area will face a maximum two-year jail term and a RMSOO (Ss22o) fine, a minister said yesterday. Residents in four hamlets in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Gombak where 40
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        Lock icon FOUR ARRESTED FOR HIDING INFECTION
        90 14 TOKYO: Japanese police yesterday arrested three veterinarians and an employee of an egg farm company for allegedly hiding bird flu infections. Two vets were accused of failing to report to the local authorities about bird flu at farms owned by IKN Egg Farms in August
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        Lock icon VIRUS SPREADS TO NIGER
        89 14 PARIS: Niger has become the third African country with confirmed cases of the deadly HSNI bird flu strain, a lab official said yesterday. Ms Ilaria Capua of the laboratory in Padua, Italy, which identified the HSNI strain in birds from the poor West African country, said
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        Lock icon KENYA TESTING DUMPED CHICKENS
        77 14 NAIROBI: Kenya said yesterday it was testing for the HSNI strain of bird flu in dead chickens found dumped beside the road on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi at the weekend. Health and veterinary officials collected samples from hundreds of dead chickens in the Kasarani
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      • Article
        Lock icon FRANCE TO VACCINATE DUCKS AND GEESE
        66 14 PARIS: Nearly a million free-range ducks and geese in France are set to be inoculated against bird flu. The programme began yesterday along a migratory route on the Atlantic coast of south-west France. It came as France confirmed that 15 swans in the south-east
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        Lock icon Thousands of Indian workers lose jobs
        365 14 Lucknow (India) THOUSANDS of workers in India's poultry industry have lost their jobs amid plunging demand for chicken and eggs after the country reported its first case of bird flu last week, an official said. The deadly HSNI bird flu strain was detected in
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      Lock icon Saudis kill five Al-Qaeda suspects
      591 15 Men die in raid targeting militants who tried to attack major oil facility RIYADH SAUDI forces yesterday killed five suspected militants believed to be linked to an Al-Qaeda attack on the world's largest oil processing plant, the Interior Ministry said. A shoot-out erupted at dawn
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      Lock icon EU to offer emergency aid to Palestinians
      191 15 Brussels THE European Union threw the Palestinians a short-term aid lifeline yesterday to avoid imminent financial collapse, despite the appointment of the Hamas leader as prime minister-desig-nate. But the 25 -country bloc made sure most of the 120 million euros (Ss23l million) would
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon DA VINCI CODE PUBLISHER SUED
        115 15 LONDON: Two authors of a book about the Holy Grail opened their breach of copyright suit yesterday against the publisher of the blockbuster conspiracy thriller The Da Vinci Code. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the 1982 book Holy Blood And Holy Grail, claim
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        Lock icon IAEA GETS IRAN NUCLEAR REPORT
        133 15 VIENNA: A report with details of Iran's uranium enrichment efforts and a secret project that US intelligence has linked to a possible nuclear weapons programme was to be issued late last night to the 35 countries on the board of the United Nations nuclear watchdog,
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        Lock icon SUNNIS READY TO END BOYCOTT
        127 15 BAGHDAD: Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new government if rival Shi'ites return mosques seized in last week's sectarian attacks and meet other unspecified demands, a top Sunni figure said yesterday. The Sunnis walked out of the talks
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        Lock icon OSAMA 'DOES NOT MIND HUGS'
        117 15 SYDNEY: Osama bin Laden is a polite, humble and shy man who does not mind being hugged, an Australian man convicted of receiving funds from Al-Qaeda said in a television interview that aired yesterday. Joseph Terrence Thomas, 32, was convicted in Victoria state Supreme Court
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        Lock icon BOSNIAN GENOCIDE CASE OPENS
        94 15 THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice yesterday opened a landmark genocide case brought by Bosnia against Serbia-Montenegro, the first state-level genocide case to be heard past the preliminary stages by the highest court of the United Nations. Bosnia, through its mainly Muslim wartime presidency, filed
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      Lock icon Dubai Ports 'seeks new US review to head off showdown'
      450 16 But opponents to P&O deal say it will not affect demands for congressional hearings New York DUBAI Ports World (DPW) will seek a new 45-day US review of its purchase of a British company that manages key ports in the
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      Lock icon SOUNDS OF AFRICA
      50 16 AP PHOTO: African music takes centre stage at the Zanzibar music festival this month as a musi- cian from the African Ngoma band performs in Stone Town, Zanzibar, a Muslim island off the east of Tanzania. The festival is a celebration of traditional African music and instruments.
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      Lock icon Spotlight on foreign ownership of US assets
      469 16  -  Eugene Low By US Correspondent In Washington WITH foreign-based companies already controlling about a third of American port terminals, an Arab company's takeover bid has again cast the spotlight on overseas ownership of US assets. Companies from China, Japan, Taiwan and Europe are
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Granny gets award for saving friend from croc
        267 18 AN AUSTRALIAN grandmother received a bravery award yesterday for wrestling a saltwater crocodile as it was dragging her friend away. Madam Alicia Sorohan, 61, was awoken on Oct 11, 2004, by the screams of family friend Andrew Kerr, who was in a
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        Lock icon Mechanic rules airwaves
        146 18 A 20-SOMETHING mechanic with a penchant for experimenting with electronics has set up a radio station that has proved a big hit in surrounding villages. Beaming from Mansoorpur village in the Muzaffarpur district in the northern Indian state of Bihar, it has been broadcasting music, local news
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        Lock icon Dhanapala sets up website
        115 18 SRI LANKAN diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala stepped up his campaign for the top United Nations job yesterday by launching a website and said he was the best man to help reform the world body. "The reforms of the UN will serve not only the interest of the
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        Lock icon Diana's driver 'a spy for France'
        393 18 British inquiry into crash facing delays in obtaining files from French secret service: Report London THE chauffeur of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died was working for the French secret service, the British team re-investigating her death has been told. The
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      379 19 THE wily Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra reckoned he had muted opposition demands for his resignation by calling a surprise election. This is a legal if unusual step as there is no crisis between the executive branch and the legislature, where his party has nearly eight
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      697 19  -  Lee Huay Leng By I WAS taken aback a little by the commments of People's Association (PA) chief executive director Tan Boon Huat in The Straits Times on Feb 21. If the report quoted him correctly, the PA's targets include shedding the "cheap", "low-class"
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      920 19  -  Seth Mydans By "Elections are increasingly becoming a source of contestation rather than a source of legitimacy". MR DAVID TIMBERMAN, an American specialist in democracy-building COUP plotters arrested, troops in the streets, excited crowds calling for the President's ouster, soldiers and senators testing the
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      755 20  -  S. Jothiratnam BY For The Straits Times MY UNCLE, the late Mr S. Rajaratnam, was always a fighter, albeit never in the rough-and-tumble sense of that word. You have already heard about, read about and watched TV footage of his political efforts: for national stability and well-being
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      861 20  -  Imran Hashim By For The Straits Times I AM both angry and ashamed about a cartoon that appeared in the newspapers. No, I'm not talking about the infamous Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Of course I was angered by the latter's self-righteoas insensitivity
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      1139 21  - Concert venue blues Ong Soh Chin Poor acoustics and crowd control leave music lovers short-changed By Senior Writer LAST week, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) inked a deal with MTV Networks Asia to host 17 shows here from next month, including next year's MTV Asia Awards and the first MTV
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      216 19 Raising the Mp quotient Singapore needs more world-class concert facilities to draw entertainment tourists and impress top performers. PAGE 21 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http./ /straitstirnes.asial .com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice-President Alan Chan Heng
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      560 22 USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN Emergency lines DO TODAY Police 999 Police Hotline 1800-255-0000 Civil Defence (Fife, Rescue and Emergency 1 Are you a woman who likes to bowl? Ambulance) 995 Grab a partner and sign up for a Non-emergency ambulance 17) women's competition organised by the Water Supply
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      818 H1  -  Ben Nadarajan STEPHANIE YAP »Having fun "Heckling passers-by »Smoking »Making a din By IT IS late at night and the streets of Singapore are teeming with teens most of whom are out without their parents' knowledge. A Straits Times team visited six
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      241 H2  -  Chong Chine Kine Sec s student penalised $4,000 and barred H> N i Itilh with a Mis l.iw "Uth when I )ar S r banned from Mr Milrd tor op tt» lw I admitted he 10 -■old Liew c hr wi kit f)tng Ko.%d
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      Lock icon M-biker tails S'pore couple, tries to snatch bag in JB
      238 H2 MOTORCYCLIST trailed a Singaporean couple as they left a Johor Baru bank, brazenly rode up alongside their motorbike and tried to snatch their backpack. Fortunately for Mr Huang Dezeng and his wife, the snatch thief missed the bag on Mrs
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      Lock icon Saved by 'angel', man still in critical state
      342 H2  -  Khushwant Singh By THE store assistant who collapsed in Holland Village on Saturday morning has made a slight recovery but remains in critical condition. Mr Logadasan, who is said to be 72, appeared to have had a heart attack at about 8.15am
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      Lock icon Jailed 5 years for forging cheques
      395 H2  -  Elena Chong B\ A MAN who forged coup cheques and stole (436,600 to pav tor his stink market losses was jailed for five vears vesterdav Former human resource and payroll specialist Chan Ngoll Leong. 51, made out cheques to Singapore Airlines (SIA) and then
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      Lock icon Pickpocketing duo jailed four months
      199 H2 POLICE trailed two pickpockets all the way from Orchard to Woodlands before catching them red-handed at Causeway Point shopping centre. Yesterday, the two Indonesians Ali Usman and Rafies, both 25 were each jailed for four months after they admitted stealing cellphones. A magistrate's court heard
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      235 H2  -  Selina Lum By JUSTICE Andrew Phang Boon Leong will be sworn in as Judge ol Appeal by President S R Nathan today, less than three months ifter he was made a High Court judge With Justice Phang's appointment, there will be two Judges of
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        628 H3  -  Theresa Tan Couples should prepare for challenges of marriage: Experts By Some causes of break-ups COUPLES are more likely to divorce because they: Marry as a result of family pressure or to get anHDßflat. Are unhappy with a spouse's long working
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        504 H3  -  THERESA TAN COMMITMENT NEEDED "There must be commitment in a marriage, or you will just run away when the problems come or when you get bored." MRS LEE, on how marriage can go wrong IT CHANGED OUR LIVES "No one told us how stressful having a
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      256 H4  -  Karamile Kaur I',-, INDONESIAN i M lenl hs. ussiof;. I cludini I a f. natuial wistitu; He K> lined to bul md some .in- Singapore >mpa rues Suberman arid he plans to h\t h wnthtn ti» launch an initial pubh.
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      Lock icon Record 94% of fresh NUS grads found jobs last year
      569 H4  -  Marian Almenoar Of those working Full-time, H4"n wm offered a job within 3 months of graduation 1^ I RESH National University of Singapore \i s gradual doing better than ever before Fhe NUS employment survey iJa\ showed that per cent
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      Lock icon 2 popular hawker centres to close
      185 H4 TWO hawker centres with decades of history behind them are closing tomorrow one to be demolished and the other to be upgraded. The 42-year-old Geylang Serai Market will serve residents for the last time today. It will be shut down tomorrow for demolition and
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      482 H5  -  Christopher Tan They are required to keep about a dozen documents per vehicle for 7 years By Senior Correspondent A $36 MILLION highly sophisticated online vehicle transactions system touted as paperless may not be really tree-friendly after all. According to
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      374 H4 i\s< rS *ai Mar ket ed. residents ot the nearby Seletar. Fernvale and Amhorvale housing tea will finally get the re placement wet market they asked tor H\ inber. I twostorey. 40.000 sq ft building housing the wet market, a supermarket, a 24-hour food court and
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      102 H5 Online exam cheats SOME tertiary students are exploiting loopholes in online examinations to boost their scores. Digital Life talks to students who get friends who are better at the subject to take tests on their behalf, as well as sneaks who send a sacrificial lamb to take the test first
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      120 H5 S'pore to sign trade pact with Panama SINGAPORE will sign its free trade agreement (FTA) with Panama at a ceremony tomorrow, to be attended by Panamanian Second Vice-Presi-dent Ruben Arosemena Valdes and Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister S. Jayakumar. The FTA will be signed by Mr Chan Soo Sen, Minister of
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      494 H5  -  Judith Tan By UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP "The nurses didn't have to keep waking me up at intervals to take my temperature." MADAM MARGARET WONG, an SGH patient, on the ThermoSensor disc used to wirelessly monitor her temperature after surgery SINGAPORE General Hospital (SGH)
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          572 H6  -  Zakir Hussain MPs heap praise for sharing fruits of success while stimulating longer-term growth By COMPASSIONATE, generous, too good to believe. MPs who spoke yesterday used such terms as they applauded the Budget as one that would benefit the country and Singaporeans, especially the elderly and
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          625 H6  -  Goh Chin Lian More can be done in areas like jobs, retirement and health care By WHILE they heaped praise on the Budget, MPs also did not pull their punches in commenting on its shortcomings: >> Handouts pegged to work, but people cannot find work: The
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          195 H6 PARLIAMENT began yesterday's sitting with a tribute to Mr S. Rajaratnam, a founding father of the nation who died last Wednesday, aged 90. MPs rose to their feet and observed a minute's silence as a mark of respect to the former deputy prime minister, who
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          594 H6  - Do more for job seekers Leslie Koh By EVEN as they hailed the Government's efforts to reward Singaporeans for staying in their jobs, several MPs yesterday raised a common concern: that there would not be enough jobs for workers here. They called for more to be done to create more
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          368 H6  - Do more for School dropouts Lynn Lee By SCHOOL dropouts of today will be the low-wage workers of tomorrow if nothing was done to help them now, warned MPs yesterday. While many gushed over the Government's efforts to give needy students an equal shot at educational and enrichment opportunities, a
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          686 H7  - Do more for Older workers Li Xueying "This year's Budget is a good one. But in itself, a good Budget is not enough to bring us to greater heights to become a vibrant global city." MR ONG KIAN MIN (Tampines GRC) "I support the CPF top-up for low-income workers to
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          299 H7 Associate Professor KooTsai Kee (above) yesterday recounted in Parliament a colourful anecdote on how his barber had tried to convince him to dye his hair when he started going grey. Other MPs responded when asked whether they would. LEAVE IT TO NATURE "I don't dye my hair.
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          524 H7  - Do more for Retirement savings Daryl Loo MANY Singaporeans are not saving enough for retirement and three MPs want a panel set up to study how best to tackle this problem. They also noted that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) was no longer able to help workers build up a
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          189 H7  - Do more for Research and development Lee Hui Chieh MPs yesterday called for more to be done for Singapore's research and development, and wanted more funds to be poured into the country's research infrastructure and education. They floated a variety of ideas that ranged from developing alternative fuels and genetic
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          Lock icon Will generosity breed dependency?
          781 H8  -  Sue-Ann Chia "A criteria-based method of distributing the growth dividend does have some shortcomings... we should provide a flat rate dividend to all adult Singaporeans without criteria. This approach is similar to the distribution of corporate dividend which applies equally to both major and minor shareholders."
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          624 H8  -  Peh Shing Huei By WORKERS' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang attacked the Government yesterday for its vote-getting Budget, and it swiftly drew return fire from two MPs of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). The opposition MP, speaking
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          973 H8  -  Chua Mui Hoong FROM THE GALLERY By Deputy Political Editor BUDGET 2006 can be read at different levels. At one level, people just go gimme, gimme, and gimme more, a point made by Ms Indranee Rajah (Tanjong Pagar GRC). At another, they are
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            220 H8 SIX people drowned off Sentosa's beaches in 13 months and, in every case, the swimmer had strayed beyond the roped-in, safe swimming areas, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. Two of those who died were also suspected to have consumed alcohol, Mr
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            192 H8 THE Government is looking into new rules to bar moneylenders from giving loans to people who earn below a certain minimum income. Currently, only financial institutions are subject to these rules as they have traditionally been the big lenders. Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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            206 H8 LEGISLATION was introduced yesterday to seek Parliament's approval for additional funds for the Government to see it through to the end of the current financial year on March 31. The additional amount of $1.01 billion was not previously provided for in the Budget. This money
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        238 H9 IT IS a good thing to share the pie. The $2.86 billion projected deficit can be funded from the $120 billion investment income of our reserves held by the Government Investment Corporation and by Temasek's $54 billion. Unfortunately Temasek achieved only 1%
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        267 H9 REMEMBERING S. RAJARATNAM 1 READ with shame the article "Know where we came from, know where we are going" (ST, Feb 26) by Ignatius Low because I too didn't know it was the late Mr S.Rajaratnam who wrote the Singapore Pledge. In
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        56 H9 Show Raja in video clip at NDP 2006 I WOULD like to suggest to the National Day Parade organising committee to pay tribute to Mr S.Rajaratnam at the National Day Parade 2006. My suggestion is to show a short video-clip featuring him on a giant screen during the Singapore Pledge
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        288 H9 I FELT a loss when the contributions of great individuals like Mr S.Rajaratnam were made public only after he passed away. I believe most Singaporeans learned just last week that the National Pledge was penned by him. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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        151 H9 WE'RE proud to have the late Mr S.Rajaratnam as one of our early leaders helping to build and shape Singapore. Yes we would like to remember him well but I think we should not replace any existing well-known landmarks with his name as suggested
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        360 H9 REACTIONS TO CLINIC TURNING AWAY PATIENTS I AM disgusted with the letters "Wrong to refuse patient at closing hour" and "Doctor's duty is to save lives, not watch the clock" (ST, Feb 25). Both preached the principles about a doctor's obligations. I wonder
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        251 H9 I READ with interest "Wrong to refuse any patient at closing hour" by Mr Natarajan Nageswaran. I'm a doctor in private practice and would like to clarify certain points he made. I believe most of my colleagues and I are reasonable and
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        443 H9 I APPRECIATE Ms Ruth Tan Yueh Herng's vexation over her child's skin condition in "Doctor prescribed unsuitable rash cream" (ST, Feb 23). But her letter contains a few misperceptions. First, this was not the first time Ms Tan had visited our clinic
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        321 H9 I READ with sadness the letters about the ethics and practices of doctors: "High prices for common drugs in HDB heartland" (ST, Feb 21); "Wrong to refuse any patient at closing hour" and "Doctor's duty to save lives, not watch the
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        436 H10 MOURINHO BLOCKS BECKHAM BID PHOTO: Chelsea manager wins battle of wills with chief executive Kenyon London DAVID Beckham will never wear a Chelsea shirt not while Jose Mourinho is still manager at the club, anyway. Mourinho has reportedly blocked Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon's plan to
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        88 H10 CHELSEA are finally having their dreadful pitch returfed. The move comes just days after Barcelona visited Stamford Bridge for their Champions League match last Wednesday. Barcelona won 2-1. The visitors were convinced Chelsea had deliberately allowed the field to deteriorate to stifle their creativity. The fact that
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        377 H10 London THE skipper is fit to go and the squad are in high spirits. With that, David Beckham proclaimed that all is well with the England squad in their first gathering since learning they will lose their coach Sven-Goran Eriksson after the World Cup Finals
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        272 H10 Paris WITH just over three months to the World Cup, opportunities are precious for players still trying to earn their trip to Germany. Thirty of the 32 teams in the June 9-July 9 World Cup Finals have friendflies scheduled for today and tomorrow. Only Togo and Australia
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        984 H11  -  Wilfred Yeo WILD WEEKEND The Manchester United manager's self-indulgence is destroying the club By Deputy Sports Editor YOU must have seen him jumping up and down on Sunday, each time Manchester United scored in their 4-0 League Cup final victory over Wigan.
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        384 H11 SOCCER London MIDDLESBROUGH manager Steve McClaren heaved a sigh of relief after watching his side beat West Bromwich Albion 2-0 in the Premiership on Sunday. The result eased Middlesbrough's relegation worries, leaving them eight points clear of the relegation zone. West Bromwich Albion, however,
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        393 H11 TOP SCORERS 19 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 1 5 Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 14 Frank Lampard (Chelsea) 13 Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Middlesbrough), Darren Bent (Charlton Athletic) 12 Marlon Harewood (West Ham United) 10 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Hossam Ahmed Mido (Tottenham Hotspur) 9 Andy Cole (Manchester City), Brian Mcßride (Fulham),
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        484 H11 Rome LUCIANO Spalletti never doubted his resurgent Roma side would break the record for consecutive Italian Serie A wins, despite the loss of talismanic captain Francesco Totti. Totti broke a bone in his left leg last week and was forced to
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        652 H11 Madrid JUST when it all seemed to be going well, cracks are beginning to appear in Real Madrid. After being stunned by Arsenal at home in their Champions League match last Wednesday, Real lost another match they were expected to win. On Sunday, the Galacticos
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        607 H12  -  Marc Lim SAILING If China Team take them, they'll be first Singaporeans in prestigious race By Sports Correspondent SINGAPORE sailors Tan Wearn Haw and Charles Lim could take part in next year's America's Cup. The former South-east Asia Games champions will
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        Lock icon Matchplay winner Ogilvy almost conceded defeat
        602 H12 »GOLF Carlsbad (California) GEOFF Ogilvy never imagined himself winning the WGC Accenture Matchplay Championship. He had already doffed his cap when fellow-Australian Nick O'Hern stood over a five-foot putt to win on the 20th hole on Thursday. Then came Mike Weir, 4-up with four
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        456 H12 BASKETBALL Los Angeles NOW that the Boston Celtics are through playing in February, Paul Pierce can reflect on perhaps the finest month of his eight-year National Basketball Association career. He scored 39 points, including the deciding free throw with 3.2 seconds
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        293 H12 RUGBY IRELAND coach Eddie O'Sullivan said his side were the "authors of our own destiny" after they overpowered defending champions Wales 31-5 to put themselves back in contention for the Six Nations title on Sunday. Victory not only left Ireland in third place in
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        345 H13  -  Marc Lim SPORTS HUB By Sports Correspondent AT LEAST two consortiums will be competing for the contract to build and manage the Singapore Sports Hub when the deadline for submission of pre-qualification documents expires at 4pm today. Two of the world's biggest players
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        880 H13  - Agu shows up finally Nicholas Fang SOCCER FAS fines errant player $20,000 It bans him from national team Player signs for Woodlands By MISSING football player Agu Casmir has reappeared in Singapore and has been re-signed for one year by his old club Woodlands Wellington. Woodlands deputy chairman Francis Gomez
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        Lock icon Magnificent Games marred by dope bust
        648 H13 WINTER OLYMPICS Turin WITH the roar of fireworks, the 2006 Winter Games closed on Sunday night. It was an Olympics to be remembered for feuds and falls, for ice-dancing stare-downs and, perhaps most, for a late-night raid by police seeking evidence of doping. Against
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          80 H13 DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday denied media reports that Pakistan fast bowler Shabbir Ahmed would be able to tour England this year. ICC general manager David Richardson explained that Shabbir's case could only be re-assessed at the end of his one-year
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          Lock icon PARIS ST. GERMAIN CHAIRMAN DISTANCES CLUB FROM THUGS
          77 H13 PARIS: Paris St Germain chairman Pierre Blayau said yesterday that the French club had been "taken hostage" by rival groups of soccer hooligans who ransacked a motorway service station on their way back from a match at the weekend. Fighting between the
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          Lock icon RAW DEAL FOR CLUB WHO GOT FOOTBALL PLAYER FOR MEAT
          99 H13 BUCHAREST: Romanian second division soccer club UT Arad sold a player in exchange for 15kg of meat, local sport daily Pro Sport reported yesterday. However, fourth division Regal Horia made a bad trade because defender Marius Cioara left football and
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          Lock icon ROSSI EXPECTS TO STAY IN FRONT ON NEW, IMPROVED BIKE
          73 H13 MILAN: World MotpGP champion Valentino Rossi is confident his new Yamaha Ml bike will prolong his success this season. "The motorbike has been improved a lot from last year," said the 25-year-old Italian at the bike's official presentation here yesterday.
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        361 H13 BASKETBALL NBA: Detroit 90 Cleveland 78, Houston 89 Orlando 84, Minnesota 105 Memphis 99, Indiana 101 New Jersey 9 1 Boston 1 1 2 LA Lakers 111, New Orleans 88 Portland 75. GOLF Chrysler Classic in Tucson, Arizona, final rd (USA unless noted): 266 Kirk Tnplett 68 71 64
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        1121 H14 CHEN CHIW LING TAN AH MOY Age* 71 Passed away peacefully on 26 February 2006. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Sons: Daughters-in-law: Thio Tse Chong Low Chin Loo Thio Tse Gan Kwone Yeok Lin Grandsons Granddaughter: Thio Wei Kai Thio Levine Thio Wei Jie and all relatives.
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        618 H15 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late Mr Lai Kew Chai Departed on 27 February 2006 From: The President and Senate, and all Members of The Singapore Academy of Law LAIKEWCHAI Good fudge, Good Friend, Good Man. Dearly Missed, Always Remembered. Joe Gr i m berg
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        74 H16 B Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Oorothv arid rarnilv on the demise of her beloved husband JUSTICE LAI KEW CHAI From: CHAIRMAN DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT STAFF RSP ARCHITECTS PLANNERS ENGINEERS (PTE) LTD RSP AKITEK KUALA LUMPUR RSP ENGINEERS SDN BHD KUALA LUMPUR RSP ARCHITECTS PLANNERS ENGINEERS (INDIA) PVT LTD RSP
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          7412 H17 IRUUICIIOM D»l£ FEHUMT 11. IM6 .?WU« TU CURHMCY UST lU. MT Rl Kl IW MSN lOW COOI COMPWt TMKt SM.E +M- "000 Ht«M lOW MV Ml MK 5.5 2 b/16 Ist Software 5c 3 .0 5 2500 3 25 12 1 18 5 6 3MB BTelecomUS2c 7
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          75 H17 H-WtEX TEI CURRENCY UST Wl MY H'S K£T M CAP mCM LOW CODE COMPMY TRUED SALE DM HIGH IN Hit P/E WU ***** ***** 6065 Diamonds USlolsOcd -•6095 IS DJ US Tech U***** 6097 IS MSCI Spore U5555 6101 ISS&PSOO U***** ***** ***** 6170 SPDRS USI 1200 2600
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        516 H18 Two top accounting boards agree to bridge gaps in their rules Brussels THE world's two top accounting boards agreed to eliminate some of the biggest differences in their rules by 2008 to make it easier and cheaper for companies and
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        Lock icon Vodafone may take $80b charge on foreign assets
        409 H18 London VODAFONE Group, the world's largest mobile-phone company, cut its sales forecast and will write off as much as £28 billion (SsBo billion) of overseas assets. The stock dropped to the lowest in about three years. Mobile revenue growth will slow to
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        38 H18 Yesterday's close: 16,192.95 (+91 .04 points) Japanese stocks closed 0.57 percent higher, supported by fresh foreign investor interest after concerns they could be pulling out of the market had hit sentiment earlier this month. AFP
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        32 H18 Yesterday's close: 15,949.89 (+93.84 points) Hong Kong stocks finished higher as HSBC Holdings rallied to a year high and investors chased the market's underpertormers amid bountiful liquidity. REUTERS
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        28 H18 Yesterday's close: 1297.19 (+0.32 point) Chinese stocks closed higher. Shanghai Electric Power gained after the power supplier said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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        32 H18 Yesterday's close: 4,924.1 (+30.7 points) Australian stocks closed 0 63 percent higher with investors buoyed by strong company results and a pick up in metal and oil prices. AFP
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        36 H18 Yesterday's close: 928.66 (+3.75 points) Malaysian stocks rose 0.4 per cent, led by Tenaga Nasional, after the Star newspaper reported the government will allow it to raise electricity rates this year. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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        31 H18 Yesterday's close: 10,282.09 (+81.33 points) TheSensex displayed its solid strength again inching towards the 10.300-level.Top gainer was Infosys Technologies, which rallied 3.4 per cent to close at 2,850 rupees
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        31 H18 Yesterday's close: 1,235.42 (+19.28 points) Indonesian stocks closed 1.59 percent higher, rebounding from recent losses after Moody's said it may upgrade the country's and several companies' ratings. AFP
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        32 H18 Yesterday's close: 753.10 (+11.30 points) Thai stocks closed 1.52 per cent higher on rising hopes for a political compromise between embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and opposition lawmakers. AFP
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        282 H18 February 27 Stock Name Wt Close Change Allgreensoc 0.30 1.350 +0.040 Ascendasreit 1.02 2 180 BIL Intl US?Oc 0.57 1.520 CapitaLand 385 4.180 +0060 CapitaMall 0.79 2.350 -0.020 Chart SemiCond 26c 083 1.360+0.020 CityDev 50c 2.50 9.250 -0.050 ComfortDelGro 25c .1.67 1.660 +0.020 CoscoCorp 10c 0.64
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        70 H18 February 27 Star Pharm 48,467.000 Biosensors USO.OIc 30,633.000 Sky Petrol 5c 29.393.000 Ferrochina 12c 28.959.000 Luzhou 28,199,000 ChinaEssen HK5Oc 25,694,000 BiosensorßNPeCW6o6ls 23.845.000 Reyoung US7.5c 22,620,000 Pac Andes 20c 20,373.000 C 8.0 Pharm HR25c 16,389.000 GlobalTest 10c 15,757,000 China Sun HK25c 14,650,000 Cosco Corp 10c 12,928,000 UniFiber 10c 11,692.000
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        145 H18 February 27 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.1920 ***** Can dollar 1.4050 1.4220 Euro 1.9120 ***** Malaysian ringgit* 0.4373 0.4377 NZ dollar 1 0600 1 0840 Sterling pound 2 8110 2 8420 US dollar ***** ***** SINGAPORE
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        371 H18 San Francisco MICROSOFT plans to offer six versions of the Windows Vista operating system, including a consumer edition with entertainment features now sold separately, to spark sales of the new software. Windows Vista Home Premium will let users record and play television programmes,
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        421 H19 It says mistakes were 'classification errors 1 and did not change earnings for last year "What we will do is carry out a full investigation into how it happened. But I think this is probably a simple human error." MR STEWART,
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        411 H19 S. Korean tobacco firm rejects takeover bid KT&G Corp rejected a bid from American investors Carl Icahn and Warren Lichtenstein that valued the tobacco maker at US$lO billion (5516.3 billion), raising the prospect of South Korea's biggest hostile takeover battle. The bid is being closely watched since it could serve
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          94 H19 JAKARTA: Indonesia has set a deadline for today for state oil and gas company Pertamina to resolve its dispute with Exxon Mobil on the operatorship of the oil-rich Cepu block. State Enterprises Minister Sugiharto told reporters yesterday that the country's Energy Minister would
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          155 H19 WASHINGTON: Economic growth in the United States will rebound in the first quarter, prompting two more rate increases from the Federal Reserve, before slowing in the second half of the year, according to a survey of economists released yesterday. A panel of
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          65 H19 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's largest carmaker, state-controlled Proton Holdings, said yesterday it bounced back into the black in the third quarter, but warned of intense competition ahead. Proton, which has revived ties with Japan's Mitsubishi Motors in a bid to turn itself around, made a
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          90 H19 TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday contradicted his Economy Minister's assertion that the country has overcome deflation a key issue as the central bank suggests that it will soon end its super-easy monetary policy. Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano said on Sunday that
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          59 H20 Another big consumer trend emerging in recent years is beauty products, particularly those claiming to have anti-age-ing properties (left) as well as those targeted at men. »Hair colouring products for men grew by 20 per cent in terms of market value from 2004 to 2005, compared to 0.2
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          45 H20 As consumers become more aware of the importance of diet in maintaining overall health, products such as fresh milk are starting to trump cheaper alternatives such as UHT milk, which has a longer shelf life but is often seen as being less nutritious.
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          49 H20 Goods that make the lives of consumers more convenient have surged in popularity in recent years, according to research firm ACNielsen. They cited data showing that products with enhancements, such as electric toothbrushes, have grown more in terms of market value than their more basic counterparts.
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        508 H20  -  Fiona Chan They'll pay more to improve their health and beauty, and for greater convenience By RUN-OF-THE-MILL products such as regular coffee and manual toothbrushes are no longer good enough for consumers in Singapore who are increasingly willing to fork out more for products that
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        Lock icon OMD unseats MindShare for top spot
        327 H20  -  Gabriel Chen By BUSINESS SCOREBOARD OMD has got off to a roaring start this year by picking up a decent-sized project from rival MindShare the Standard Chartered Bank (Stanchart) glob-, al branding account. In doing so, the media agency has also unseated MindShare from
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          115 H20 CHINA Milk Products Group has launched an initial public offer (IPO) of 186 million shares at 62 cents apiece. The shares, split evenly between new and vendor shares, are priced at nine times its earnings for the year ended March 31 last year.
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          87 H20 STX Pan Ocean has reported a 71 per cent jump in earnings to U*****.8 million (*****.5 million). Sales for the year ended Dec 31 were up 20 per cent to U552.72 billion, driven by robust growth in its core dry bulk shipping business.
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          78 H20 JURONG Technologies has posted a 40 per cent rise in profit to $66.5 million for the year ended Dec 31. Revenue surged 51 per cent to $1.93 billion as growth continued in the wireless communications and hard disk drive sectors. Earnings per share were
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          62 H20 BEAUTY China has reported a 24 per cent increase in earnings to HK5109.6 million (5523.1 million) for the year ended Dec 31. Turnover rose 32 per cent to HK5346.6 million as the company expanded its retail network, introduced new products and reinforced its brand marketing.
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        Lock icon Manufacturing stows 1.3% on plunge in biomedical output
        402 H22  - Manufacturing stows 1 .3% on plunge in biomedical output Audrey Tan Overall growth would have been 1 1 .2%, excluding Pharmaceuticals By Assistant Money Editor THE pharmaceuticals industry was once again to blame for an unexpected slowdown in Singapore's manufacturing sector, which grew just 1.3 per cent last month from
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        Lock icon Services income up 14.4% in fourth quarter
        166 H22 BETTER business for financial and insurance services firms boosted receipts for the services sector in the fourth quarter of last year, latest figures from the Department of Statistics (DOS) showed. The quarterly business receipts index which measures the services sector's operating income rose
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        357 H22  -  Gabriel Chen By Four pillars of good risk management The role of a financial institution's board of directors in its oversight of risk management policies and their implementation; The role of senior management in ensuring that sound policies, effective procedures and robust systems are
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        Lock icon Amkor to spend $ 196m on S'pore set-up
        307 H22  - Amkor to spend 196m on S'pore set-up Bryan Lee By AMKOR Technology, the world's sec-ond-largest microchip testing and packaging firm, is investing US$l2O million (Ssl96 million) over the next three years to expand its operations here. The company said yesterday that it is setting up a high-tech wafer-bumping plant in
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        590 H23  -  Chua Kong Ho Exporters face earnings decline, but sector set to rebound next year By FIRST the bad news: technology stocks could go over a cliff later this year and companies will hold their fire on software spending until Microsoft's Vista lands
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        392 H23  -  Bryan Lee By HONG Leong Finance (HLF) shareholders can look forward to a dividend windfall even though the company's latest results show net profits slipped by 9 per cent for the 12 months ended Dec 31. HLF, Singapore's biggest finance company, yesterday reported a
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        86 H23 MAS probes Trek 2000 THUMB-DRIVE maker Trek 2000 International is being investigated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) over nondisclosure of material information. Late last night, Trek said that in letters dated yesterday, the MAS told the firm, chief executive Henn Tan and chief financial officer Gurcharan Singh that
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        220 H23 TECHNOLOGY company Advance SCT has made a takeover bid for scrap metals recycler Green World Holdings in an attempt to strengthen its core business. The pre-conditional voluntary offer from Advance, which tests printed circuit boards, values each Green World share at 39 cents
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        707 H23  -  Azrin Asmani TAKING STOCK CHINA stocks were the star of the show yesterday as traders indulged their love affair with second-tier shares with a first-rate buying spree that sent the market to a fresh six-year high. That love affair was also reflected in
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        208 H23  -  CHUA KONG HO WARRANT WATCH WARRANTS of Keppel Corp rose yesterday after the conglomerate said on Friday that its Keppel Shipyard unit had won a contract to provide dry-docking services for a fleet of liquefied natural gas carriers chartered by Qatar Liquefied Gas. One
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        669 H24  -  Grace Ng Mediaßing offers US$B.25 per share, which rival suitor says is too low By PACIFIC Internet (PacNet) is being fought over by two cash-rich companies both keen to get their hands on the high-flying technology firm. One is Mediaßing, the only
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        185 H24 MEDIARING will offer investors the right to buy one share for every Four held to help pay for its Pacific Internet (PacNet) bid. It told the Singapore Exchange yesterday that it plans to sell about 245.5 million new shares at 16 cents apiece a
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        232 H24  -  GRACE NG HOME-GROWN IPO SHARES of Metax Engineering Corp, a home-grown environmental engineering company, yesterday rose 15 per cent to close at 23 cents on its Sesdaq debut. Its initial public offering (IPO), which closed last Thursday, was about 6.9 times subscribed based on
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      8 1 life! THE STRAITS TIMES Tuesday February 28 2006
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        516 2  -  Sandra Leong Singaporean Lin Cui Fang beat judges' favourite Lee Teng to win SuperHost THE morning after Singaporean Lin Cui Fang was crowned Channel U's first SuperHost, she was "still in shock". "I feel like I'm in another dimension as the feeling hasn't settled
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        341 2 TEN Singaporeans may get very "lost" in Hong Kong on Saturday, June 3. That is when five teams of two people each will be let loose on the streets, and even islands, of the territory in our inaugural travel reality contest called Life! Takes You Places. To
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        376 2 HONG KONG Friends of Lin Ching-hsia (right), have denied a fresh round of rumours that the former actress' 12-year marriage to Esprit boss Michael Ying is breaking up. The tabloids said last week that Lin, who is 51 and has two daughters with Ying, was moving
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        501 12  -  Sujin Thomas Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda goes back to his hip-hop roots with his solo project Fort Minor MUSIC REPORTER YOU may recognise him better as the rapper, guitarist and keyboardist of the mega-successful American nu-metal band Linkin Park, but one thing is clear: Mike Shinoda wants
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        142 12 TAIPEI Taiwanese singer Jay Chou said he will go to court, if needed, to prove he did not fake medical records to evade military service. The 27-year-old is under investigation on suspicion of faking a spinal ailment to avoid serving the obligatory two years
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        127 12 LONDON British singer George Michael (below) was arrested early on Sunday on suspicion of possessing drugs after he was found slumped in a car, a police source said. The 42-year-old was arrested in the Hyde Park area of London. A police statement said a 42-year-old man
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        702 3  -  Hong Xinyi But arts festival organisers see the unprecedented number of events this year as a good thing ARTS REPORTER DONT expect to see too much of your arts-lover friend this year, for there are at least 10 major festivals vying for his attention. Earlier this
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        306 3 Ml SINGAPORE FRINGE FESTIVAL Feb 22 to March 5 This ongoing event organised by The Necessary Stage is in its second year, and going strong. This year's highlights include performances from Thailand's B-Floor Theatre and Mexico's Delfos Contemporary Dance troupe, as well as forum talks on
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        414 3  -  Clara Chow Taiwan's Riverbed Theatre's enigmatic snapshots hold up a mirror to the audience THEATRE EXPLODING RICE Riverbed Theatre Esplanade Theatre Studio Last Wednesday ARTS CORRESPONDENT IN ONE of American artist Ad Remhardt's satirical cartoons, a New Yorker points at an abstract painting and says: "Ha! Ha!
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        248 4 Best Actor nominee for: Playing Oscar Wilde in Happy by Drama Box. He is: The owner of advertising firm Jing Feng Art Enterprise who's mad about acting. Married to Ling Kin Leng, who helps him out at work, they have three children aged 19, 17 and 16
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        113 4 Best Actor nominee for: His one-man mime performance titled This Side Up. He is: The former artistic director of Singapore's only deaf drama troupe Hi! Theatre, which was also his initial foray into the arts. A former National Arts Council scholarship student, he clinched a first class
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        228 4 Best Actor nominee for: Playing a, urn, woman named Siu Ngor in his own production of the play Still Flight. In 2003, he scored a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in Ghost Opera. He is: An actor who has been at it for eight years,
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        129 4 Best Actor Nominee for: Stripping down to his birthday suit to portray the Marquis de Sade in Quills by luna-id Theatre. He is: A native of Mumbai, India, who trained at London's famed Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has since been involved in countless productions for
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        245 4 Best Actor nominee for: Playing Lim Chong Boon, a physics professor on the brink of death in Everything But The Brain by Action Theatre. He is: A full-time actor, and a former book editor and journalist. A former National Arts Council scholarship student, he is a graduate
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        442 4  -  CorrieTan These people are not acting when they tell you they really love their roles HE white-hot contests at I the 6th The Straits Times' I Life! Theatre Awards 2006 next Monday will be those for Best Actor and Best Supporting To up the machismo
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        119 4 IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT BY NOW The Life! Theatre Awards were first given out in 2001 to laud the best and brightest in Singapore theatre, as well as encourage promising talents. Now into its sixth year, this year's winners have been judged by a panel of five, namely National
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        194 4 Best Supporting Actor nominee for: His roles within a role in The Necessary Stage's What Big Bombs You Have!!! He is: An LTA veteran, having clinched its Best Ensemble Acting award in 2001, a Best Supporting Actor nomination in 2003 and a Best Actor nomination last year.
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        173 4 Best Supporting Actor nomietable Mineral, rical Productions. He was part of the cast for Furthest North, Deepest South by The Finger Players and Mime Unlimited, which clinched Production of the Year and Best Ensemble Acting at the LTA last year. He is: A freelance graphic designer
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        177 4 Best Supporting Actor nominee for: Playing the character named XYZ in What Big Bombs You Have!!! by The Necessary Stage. He is: Currently a singer-lyricist with the homegrown band sixTnine, Gene has been acting since 1991. Besides working in numerous Teater Ekamatra productions, he also had
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        292 5 Best Supporting Actor nominee for: Playing the servant boy and chicken killer Ah See in A Twist Of Fate, by the Singapore Repertory Theatre. He is: Back after doing Singapore proud in the British tour of the hit musical Miss Saigon, where he played Thuy. and understudied
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        316 5 Best Supporting Actor nominee for: Playing the priest Abbe de Coulmier in Quills, by luna-id Theatre. He is: A British actor who, like Best Actor nominee Andrew Mowatt, signed on with Julia Gabriel to teach children drama eight years ago. He then joined the Centre Stage School
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        309 5 Best Supporting Actor nominee for: Playing the Puppetmaster in Lao Jiu: The Musical, by Theatre Practice He is: A pioneer of Singapore theatre who has been at it full-time for 20 years. He is married to another pioneer, actress Neo Swee Lin, and they have no
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        114 5 FANS of the Life! Theatre Awards (LTA) stand to win hampers worth at least $300 as well as two tickets to the awards ceremony itself at 7pm in the News Centre Auditorium at 1000, Toa Payoh North. Today's prize-filled hamper comes courtesy of longtime
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        165 4 Best Actor nominee for: Playing the legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in Freud and Dora, an independent production by Subramaniam Velayutham. This is his first LTA nomination. He is: A Briton who has lived here for eight years and is married to a Singaporean dental therapist. At present,
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        94 6 'You spend 15 hours a day, seven days a week, for four years, and all that people can think to say about your work is, "Don't you think it's too confusing?" No, I don'f Stephen Gaghan, director of political thriller Syrians The result of disgraceful exposes and scoops is,
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        1004 6  -  Hong Xinyi Why are actresses marketing themselves as airbrushed meat on glossy magazine covers? culturevulture UP-AND-COMING actresses Keira Knightley and Scarlet Johansson preen with studied languor on the cover of the March edition of Vanity Fair magazine (right). They make love to the camera
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        355 7  -  Benjamin Robertson Brave Harbin's deep freeze and you will find that the city's ice festival is just icing on the cake THERE is no question about it. We are hopelessly unprepared. Irrelevant were the years of Outward Bound School courses in the Welsh mountains where instructors drilled into
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        626 7 International heritage China's Auschwitz, anyone? FOUNDED by Russian traders in the 19th century. Harbin is rediscovering its international heritage. Around the green onion-domed roof of the St Sophia Russian Orthodox cathedral, the sounds of Japanese, Korean and Russian blend with the guttural Mandarin of thronging shoppers. Inside one of the
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        239 8 Play Yabuli Ski Resorts Along with Erlongshan, Yabuli is rated as one of the best resorts in the region. It has several runs and caters to all levels of proficiency. Equipment can be rented on-site. For best bargains, book an all-inclusive tour through your hotel. Eat Shangri-La Hotel's
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      719 9  - Another day in paradise BRENTON WONG Looking for some excitement? Head to Australia's favourite playground, where lots of fun-filled activities await you By IT USED to be a choice destination for families with kids in tow and it still is but the Gold Coast of Australia, which is about 80km
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      915 C9 ■ft DO9- 10 ORCHARD/ 21 TANGUN/ HOLLAND J0 PTEAPTS-RENT HOLLAND PEAK. CONDO facilities. 3+l rm. Beautiful gdn view. Ouiet. $2.8K. P/furn. Agt 9701-5398 72 GRANGE RD 3900 sqft. 4+l, balcony. Huge living/ dining, pool. $11K. Jo *****808 DW LEGEND/ REGENCY PK/ Lucky Twr Oiange Gr. 2/3/4+l. 1450-3200 sqft. Renovated. *****680
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      884 C9 Properties *^k THE BAYSHORE. NEW list! 3+l, 1270 sqft. Sea view. No west sun. P/furn. 100% move-in. F/facilities. Immed. Peter *****281 DW THE ATRIA 1650 sqft. 3+l+l/ The j Makena 1776 sqft. 4+l bdrms. High floor. Sea/ city view. Full fa- j cilities. Call: *****388 THE TANAMERA 3*l. Balcony. Designer
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      968 C10 p!j\ hudc/ hdb Up? apts for rent APPROVED 5-RM BLK 188A River vale Dr. High fir. Renovated. F/ furn. $1200. Alco 6280-3456 MARSILING MRT BLK-158 2+l j High fir. Unfurn/ p/ furn. Amenities. Immed. *****890 Rainbow 3-RM 8LK.44 BENDEMEER, 4-Rm 298A Sengkang. unfurn f/aircon MRT/mkt $700 up. 9795-3331 BLK 315.
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      571 C10 Q Clff ftSOUTH-WEST PTEAPTS-SALE HARVEST MANSION «02 958 sqft. 2rms. Tip top condition. $489K. CBRE *****272/ *****721 Neo NEW F'HOLD APT. Low maintenance fee. Beside Farrer Park MRT. Good price *****705 PEARL MT Faber. Urgent Sale! 2335 sqft. 3+l+ terr. Brand new. Nice city view. Windy. 9631-2825 EMERALD PK 2+l.
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      300 C12 IRV FACTORY SPACE |f£? FOR SALE Auction 8/3, Wad NortMlnk BMg 5199sqft. 53 yrs Tagora Ind 1507 sqft f'hold Kung Chong Rd fty approx. 23,995/ 16.000 sqft bal. 38 yrs Kallang Way, 2A 6 storey bldg app *****/*****sqft bal. 48yrs Handarson Ind Pk approx. 3121 sqft. Pmttch Ind Blk 196.
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        645 3 eBay may be facing a legal suit from jewellery retailer Tiffany for allowing fake goods on its auction site. But some 90 people here, lured by the prospect of more money, trooped to eBay's latest novices' class last Tuesday. YANG HUIWEN reports Student Lawrence Loh, 23, made
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        350 4  -  Yang Huiwen Ninety-six people, mostly working professionals, trooped down to the Informatics Campus in Jurong for a three-hour eßay introduction workshop last Tuesday. Assigned into three groups of about 30 each, my group's instructor was Mr James Yee. Mr Yee, 26, an eßay PowerSeller
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        230 4  -  Yang Huiwen Undergraduate Lin Peimin made $400 palming off two free gifts for which she had no need. They were a new U-zap massage belt and a Hewlett-Packard printer, which she received with purchases, and sold them for about 30 per cent off their retail
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        305 6  -  Tham Yuen-C WHO: Gongpo, 43, consultant WHAT HE SELLS: Tibetan dzi beads Consultant Gongpo trades in Tibetan dzi beads on eßay, with them going for anything from US$lO (551 .62) to US$2O,OOO each. But he has never pocketed a single
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        247 6  -  Tham Yuen-C WHO: Philip Wong, 33, online entrepreneur WHAT HE SELLS: Leaves Leaves are not something you would associate with online retail, but for online entrepreneur Philip Wong, the combination has worked out well. Since 2004, the unusual product that Mr Wong simply picks up from the
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        242 6  -  Tham Yuen-C WHO: Lawrence Loh, 23, student WHAT HE SELLS: Collector item toys Power Rangers and Transformers are not just toys for the kids. At student Lawrence Loh's online store on eßay, the collectors' items brought in a US$lO,OOO (551 6,245) profit during the Christmas
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        221 6  -  Tham Yuen-C James Chai, 34, full-time eßay seller WHAT HE SELLS: Heavy Metal music CDs He had been collecting rare Heavy Metal music CDs for 20 years. So when Mr James Chai quit his demanding job in a financial institution, he knew what he could
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        536 8 TECHNOCHEATING Has the age of digital deception arrived as tertiary students admit to cheating in computer-administered tests? YANG HUIWEN reports If you see a group of students huddling over a computer terminal or laptop, whispering excitedly, chances are they are not discussing their latest assignments.
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        260 10  -  Yang Huiwen The tertiary schools that Digital Life spoke to said that one way to prevent cheating is by putting out different sets of questions. These are arranged in different sequences, so that each student gets a slightly varied version. But the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has
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        278 10  -  Yang Computer-administered tests keep time more accurately and prevent students from writing beyond the stipulated time. Gone is the practice of collecting papers and manual marking, and the computer can also check for correct answers to multiple choice and true or false questions.
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        817 12 IT LEADER AWARDS 2006 It's a marquee event for IT practitioners. THAM YUEN-C speaks to the youth champ and delivers the winners' roll-call IT Youth Award Mr Melvin Tan (below), a graduate in business informatics from the Nanyang Polytechnic, is passionate about using IT to help
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        808 14 A smart-phone or hand-held computer is a handy tool to have on the road, enabling you to access your e-mail, contact lists and calendars. But if you lose it, all your private data is at risk It is the corporate version of keeping up with the Joneses:
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        53 16 A round-up of products and services for consumers You always want to be first in the marketplace. We don't want to be a fast follower. If we're not first, we'll be a fast follower, but we really want to be first." —Mr steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of software
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        76 16 The Philips 768 comes equipped with an MP3 player and a built-in expansion slot to store more pictures, video and music files on a Mini SD Card. It is also enhanced with multimedia features such as a video recorder, which films at 30 frames
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        91 16 Speakers Small package, big sound The Altec Lansing inMotion iMll is an amplified extension of the iPod. It replaces headphone listening with a compact lightweight speaker system, which lets people listen to music on the iPod with robust sound while on the go. Its nifty design allows the gizmo to
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        97 16 The La Crosse Technology group is known for its unique evolution in the world of electronic devices in the home and office. And one of its latest creations is a range of watches. The Total XTreme Watch XG-55, for example, has a calendar, two daily alarms,
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        111 16 Massage chair Play the musical chair A massage chair that also plays music? Yes, the first of Osim's massage chairs, the iSymphonic can synchronise massage and music from any MP3 player. Using patented technology, the iSymphonic synchs the pulses of the massage with the tempo of the music played. So
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        316 16 Stick-fast aids Life would not be the same for Mr Vincent Koh without his favourite, and latest, non-slip device egrips. Think of it as a thin, super grippy, silicone-based applique that can be stuck onto a host of electronic gizmos including cellphones, digital organisers, remote
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        183 16 Digital camera Zoom in The Kodak Easy share V570 zoom digital camera uses Kodak's Retina Dual Lens technology, which has both an ultra-wide angle lens (23mm) and an optical zoom lens (39 to 117 mm). This combination of lenses produces a total 5X optical zoom range, so you can capture
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      105 17 $399 LGDP9B2IP Portable DVD Player 7-inch wide LCD screen with 2LD (laser diode) pick-up system. Includes a car kit, dual earphone jacks and music photo album function. Plays DVD-R/RW/VCD/CD formats as well as MP3/ JPEG and DivX files. 3 hours playback time with rechargeable batteries. $809 (usual price, $899)
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      134 17 Meme WHAT IT MEANS: According to Richard Dawson in The Selfish Gene, the meme is "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation". In today's online world of the blogosphere, examples of memes are online quizzes, catchphrases or pictures that are put on personal blogs. The writer
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        560 18 A certain "Tammy" has become known as the "Paris Hilton" of Singapore because of her sexual exploits with her boyfriend recorded on her cellphone which she misplaced. The video is now on the Internet. MELISSA LWEE checks out the Internet chatter The story so far http://capitalregionpeople.blogspot. com "We are
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        381 19 The sameness in mainstream media and a news-oriented blog is distinguished by one hallmark alone: content F I Ihe rise of blogging is often cast in black-and-white terms: blogs verJL sus the "MSM", the derisive term some bloggers use to mean the mainstream media. But things
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        143 19 Sony BMG, fresh from being exposed by a blogger for planting stealth, and potentially dangerous antipiracy code in some of its CDs, is seeking interns to plug its artistes online. The interns will promote artists in Web communities where many people
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        646 20  - Blind faith no more CARL SKADIAN BY DIGITAL EDGE What it boils down to for charming Internet upstarts like Google, is that they are all money-making businesses Techies are a funny lot. We tend to form mostly irrational emotional attachments to technology brands. While doing so is not unheard of
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          430 21 rales Of Legendia A mong fans of role-playing games (RPGs), L\ there are those of us who wish for more EnJL JL glish-version copies of the Tales series. Namco must have heard our plea and brought the latest instalment, Tales of Legendia, to the PS2. With
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        366 22 "There is always a possibility of a launch delay, but at this stage we are still aiming to launch in the spring." Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's games division, about the launch of the PlayStation 3 (left). Source: Bloomberg News Tales Of Legendia Hit
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        614 23 Resident Evil: Deadly Silence Big things sometimes come in small packages. In the case of Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (RE:DS), a big, scary thing has come in a small package. After making its debut on the Sony PlayStation (PS) 10 years ago, the first game
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        418 23 Sudoku Pro 1 Good games are fun. Before complaining about having that logic anvil dropped on you, consider that almost every overhyped game in recent memory has tended to boast "realistic graphics" and "immersive experiences". And they are almost usually followed by yawns of "repetitive gameplay". Which
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          400 24 Jabra JXIO Bluetooth headset $288 Get it from all authorised dealers Bluetooth headsets are getting smaller and sleeker. Manufacturers also seem to be bending over backwards trying to design headsets that are lighter and can be worn comfortably on either ear. The handiwork of world-renowned Danish designer
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          562 24 Samsung SGH-X7GO $598 without plan $498 with plan Get it from authorised Samsung dealers Just one look at its smart jet black and chrome exterior will tell you that the Samsung SGH-X7OO is targeted at business users. Sleek (just 108 by 43.7 by 1
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        596 25 Big screen, limited uses Dell's 30-inch monitor gives gorgeous screen real estate. But is big all good? Dell 3007WFP UltraSharp LCD $3,499 (price includes GST and delivery) Buy online at www.dell.com.sg When Dell's 30-inch 3007WFP UltraSharp LCD monitor waltzed into the office, the technorati were in awe. But like a
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        533 26 Wi-Fi connectivity is a new feature in digital cameras that promises to make USB cables a thing of the past when it comes to photo transfers, says BILLY TEO Some day, everyone will be zipping digital photos wirelessly say, from the digital camera directly to a computer or
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        307 27 without wires Getting connected Okay, maybe don't throw away the USB cable just yet. You will need it one more time during the initial set-up. That is, when you matchmake the digital camera to the computer or wireless LAN by following these steps. 1. Install the bundled software, including any
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        256 27 I tried the 5-megapixel Nikon Coolpix P2 with my Apple ißook, which also has Wi-Fi connection. Installation was a by-the-manual affair, and it was problem-free even though I was a Wi-Fi newbie. What was a little confusing, though, was dealing with network settings and security features. So,
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        245 27 You know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop. Instead, you would travel with a little box. Plug it into a power outlet or even your car's
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          335 28 I have a PC running on a Pentium 3 processor. My problems began when I reformatted it from Windows 98 to Windows XP. After booting up, it hangs, especially when I try to open an application. The problem persists even after I switched back to Win9B. Is
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          185 28 Q Whenever I switch on my computer, I see a message: "Access violation at address *****5ES in module WUSBs4Gv4.exe. Read of address *****368." It goes off when I click OK. Although it does not affect the computer in any way, how do I eleminate this? I am using
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          233 28 Recently, when I switched on my PC in the I morning, the text appeared in small font. I had to launch Internet Explorer and change the text to alarger font. I do this every time I start the PC. Why does this happen? Karen Lai Some webpages
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          208 28 Q Whenever I boot up my notebook, I get this message: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for ne inconvenience. The error message re-appears whether I send the report back to Microsoft or not. It seems that there are some
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        258 29 The latest products and services for enterprise users Wireless networks Magic box Road warriors will be pleased with SMC Networks' launch of its all-in-one travel device that combines wireless and VoIP gateways. With the SMC Wireless Travel Voice Gateway, you can turn any hotel room into a Wi-Fi hot
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        100 29 Salesforce. corn's ondemand marketplace, AppExchange, just got a shot in the arm. With big-name Business Objects announcing that its Crystal Reports XI enterprise reporting software is on AppExchange, the marketplace is now one step closer to achieving its goal of becoming the "eßay" of application
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        184 29 Hardware and software package High five Another product line targeted at small- and mid-size businesses is the Big Blue's System i5. Positioned by IBM as an all-in-one IT system, the revamp of its iSeries line consists of hardware and software that includes enterprise staples like database, application servers, networking security
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        60 2 The dengue situation here is a lot better since last year's outbreaks, and is now under control. At its peak in the second week of last September, 7 1 3 dengue cases were reported. This went down to a weekly average of 99 cases in December an
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        92 2 Singaporean boys and permanent residents aged 1 3 and older will need an exit permit from the Ministry of Defence if they travel abroad for more than three months. The rule used to apply to those under \6 I A, and is designed to "remind them
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        86 3 One typical family could gain $3,780 from the Budget, if they are a family of four in a four-room flat, with two parents in their 50s, the father a former NSman earning 1 ,500 a month, the mother a housewife, the son serving national service and the daughter
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        108 2 SUPERVISING EDITOR Bertha Henson Serene Goh Robin Ganguly LiawWy-Cin, Yen Feng, Kristie Chiew, Dawn Lim, lan Poh CONTRIBUTORS Alison De Souza, Andrew Duffy, Ellen Whyte RED CIRCLE TEACHERS Soo Kim Bee, Adeline Wong, Violet Yip, Michelle Kwek, Nick Chan, jumat B. Baba, Leow Pei Ling, Ying PikTho, Hing Mui Hong,
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        53 3 GETSTARTED Look through The Straits Times today and see if you can pick out ideals or values hidden in the stones. Which sections of the newspaper are you likely to find references to values? Try looking at columns, editorials or letters to the Forum page. What kinds of values can
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        126 4 Instability in Thailand What is going on Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told his ministers that if pressure for him to resign increases, he may dissolve Parliament which means that all the MPs will lose their seats and a new election will have to be called. He
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        208 6 All about avalanches Check the statements below and say if they are true or false. In order to test your memory, see how many you can answer without looking at the text 1 Heavy snowfalls and tremors can cause avalanches. 2. Irregular warm and cold spells freeze snow and so
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      157 8 WEIRD NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CREEPY COUPLE Thailand's Scorpion Queen and Centipede King got married on Valentine's Day. Ms Kanchana Ketkaew wore a gown with 1 5 live scorpions on it while the groom, Mr Bunthawee Siengwong, showed up with a centipede in his mouth. (ST, Feb 1 5)
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        335 10 Look at the Sports section of The Straits Times. Read all the articles in it Comment on how far you agree with the journalist's or editor's report on certain matches. You could even write your own article elaborating on your point of view. Watch out for how accurate
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