The Straits Times, 9 February 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 140 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 765 1  -  Bertha Henson Yan Chin Bens By Associate Editor ONE phone call and one more battle in the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga was over. Senior Counsel K. Shanmugam rang lawyer Peter Low on Monday suggesting that his clients in the old NKF regime put up
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  • 484 1  -  Yap Su-Yin By EIGHTEEN months after Com Care was launched to fund social assistance programmes, the scheme has delivered on its promise to deliver faster and better help to Singaporeans in need, an official report declared yesterday. So far, 90,000 individuals
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  • 121 1 National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan with Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson (left) and his wife Miriam Adelson got to admire a model of Marina Bay Sands yesterday at a ceremony to mark a development milestone in the construction of the integrated resort (IR).
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1141 1  -  Vince Chong By Hong Kong Correspondent WHEN mental health expert Michael Wong talks about the state of mental well-being in fast-paced, competitive Hong Kong, it becomes clear quickly that many are at risk. Not only those struggling with money problems, but also
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    • 370 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Tenant-landlord row Asia 6-22 Another row appears to World 23-33 be brewing between d„„;„,., Q/i 0-7 tenants and landlords evie u w 34-37 th i stim eatAngMoKio Insight 38-39 Central mall, Streetzone. FYI 40 PAGEHI SECTION TWO Home HI"H23 FORUM Forum H25-H26 r q™h-c uo7
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  • PRIME
    • 519 3  -  Khushwant Singh Yan Chin Bens By ANOTHER Singaporean has been handed a jail term in Malaysia for failing to have his passport stamped before entering the country. Mohamed Komsami Rahmat was handed a three-month jail term on Wednesday, making him the third
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    • 274 3 Ensure passports are stamped at the Immigration Customs counter at the various entry points. Ensure processing is done at an Immigration Customs counter manned by Malaysian Immigration officers. M If passports are returned unstamped, inform the officer immediately. Drivers should use correct processing lanes
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    • 388 3  -  David Boey By PAST midnight yesterday, Lido's mov-ie-goers including three teenage boys streamed out of Shaw House. The trio went with the flow, up to a point. Their target: Isetan Scotts department store, one floor below Lido. Then, commando-style, they broke in after
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    • 1012 4  -  Lee Hui Chieh LEE HUI CHIEH Most unwise to allow organ trading: Khaw HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan is not in favour of organ trading. Asked whether he thought people should be allowed to buy or sell body parts,
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  • ASIA
    • 661 6  -  Clarissa Oon FRESH HOPE AS SIX-PARTY TALKS RESUME Help By China Correspondent In Beijing A FRESH round of six-party talks kicked off on a positive note yesterday with North Korea indicating its willingness to take initial steps to end its nuclear arms programme.
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    • CHINA
      • 293 8 Hong Kong A WOMAN in Hong Kong is seeking HK$5O,OOO (559,800) from Osim, a Singapore health products company, alleging that one of its foot massagers had injured her legs, local reports said yesterday. Ms Wong Hoi-yin, who has taken her case to
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      • 467 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Help Beijing CHINA had only limited success during a four-month crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement, an official said yesterday. The campaign, launched in September, shut down 205 illegal websites, said Mr Van Xiaohong, a deputy chief of China's National
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      • 236 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing WARNING: The cuddly Beijing 2008 Olympics mascots known as "Fuwa" could be hazardous to your health. Police in the Chinese capital have seized nearly 30,000 counterfeit versions of the fluffy stuffed mascots, some made with toxic materials, the state-run Beijing News reported
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      • 550 10 REUTERS Move to counter calls for him to cede presidency to Zeng Qinghong Beijing CHINESE Vice-President Zeng Qinghong has been offered the top job in a government advisory body, dimming his allies' hopes that he might one day become president, sources with ties to
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      • 381 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing WUHAN, Chongqing, Chengdu these are the Chinese cities where the stage may now be set for the next big Asian property frenzy. As China tries to cool red-hot property markets in Beijing, Shanghai and other super-large cities, the attention
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      • 204 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Hong Kong FIRST, movie stars launched their own ranges of perfume, then pop stars joined the act. Now Hong Kong has given the trend a twist with an upmarket housing estate producing its own scent. Residence Bel-Air, part of a high-rise, high-price
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      • 454 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Help Taipei PRESIDENT Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that the name "Taiwan" would soon replace "China" on the island's stamps, proposing yet another move which Beijing would see as a symbolic step towards independence. At present, Taiwanese stamps bear the island's
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      • 269 11 REUTERS Taipei PROSECUTORS could be close to indicting opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jequ as they wrap up a probe into his alleged mishandling of government funds. An indictment could complicate Mr Ma's plans to run for president as the KMT candidate in
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 337 12 REUTERS Tokyo KIMONO-makers laid their old needles to rest during the hari-kuyo needle festival at Buddhist temples all over Japan yesterday. They stuck the needles into soft chunks of tofu to "thank" them. Japan's throwaway culture may rival that of any Western
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      • 455 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Help Tokyo JAPAN'S two biggest organised crime groups have smoothed over a dispute after a fatal shooting that sparked fears of an all-out turf war in Tokyo, Kyodo news agency reported yesterday, quoting national police. Kyodo gave no further details
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      • 302 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tokyo JAPAN'S government-backed Aids agency yesterday called for better awareness about the disease after new HIV infections hit a record high, even though the number remains low by global standards. A total of 914 people tested positive for HIV last year,
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      • 497 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Help Seoul SOUTH Korea announced a new grants policy yesterday that rewards refugees from North Korea who find jobs but reduces settlement aid to new arrivals. The one-time settlement aid given to defectors from North Korea
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      • 382 14 REUTERS Seoul NORTH Korean leader Kirn Jong II has made his first public appearances in about three weeks, official media reported. The development has further doused speculation that he is in conflict with the military. On Jan 26, South Korean
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      • 268 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS Taipei THICK fog at Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport delayed more than 30 departing flights yesterday morning, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded, an airport official said. The foggy conditions were created by a humid maritime airstream, reducing visibility to less
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    • INDIA / SOUTH ASIA
      • 519 15  -  P. JAYARAM Help By India Correspondent In New Delhi HOPING against hope, Mr Ghulam Rasool Paddar watched police investigators unearth a body from under a grove of poplar trees in Indian Kashmir last week. Sobs shook his body as recognition struck. "It's him,
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      • 306 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS Calcutta PROTESTS by angry farmers will not deter India's communists from razing farms to build factories in the country's east, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has said. His comments came hours after a policeman was killed by demonstrators near the
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 367 17  -  Nirmal Ghosh Help By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok SINGAPORE yesterday urged Asean transport ministers at their meeting here to free up air links between their capitals by the end of 2007 a year earlier than planned. The move will give their carriers greater access
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      • 387 17 THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Bangkok THE Thai government has asked its diplomats to counter the comments made by deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in interviews with international news organisations. In a number of interviews with newspapers, magazines and TV channels the latest being an interview
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      • 407 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Dusongyo (Thailand) A THAI mother who was lost for 25 years after catching the wrong bus home has spoken of her ordeal after being reunited with her family, thanks to a simple song. The last time Ms Jaeyaena Beuraheng
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      • JAKARTA FLOODS
        • 477 18  -  AZHAR GHANI Help By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta HEAVY rains early yesterday morning compounded the misery of thousands of Jakarta residents in makeshift shelters. But the waters continue to recede, officials said, and city continues on the path of slow recovery from
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        • 630 18  -  Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta AS OTHER women take care of their babies and toddlers, Madam Maya nonchalantly wipes water off the feathers of her two chickens. "I don't want them to get the flu," she says. Her birds as well
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        • 459 19  -  By Azhar Ghani Help Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta INDONESIA has received offers of foreign aid totalling more than 553.5 million to help it cope with floods that hit Jakarta and its surrounding areas in the past week. But, despite widespread complaints
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        • 177 19  -  SALIM OSMAN SOME Singaporean residents in Jakarta are working with their Indonesian friends and other expatriates to organise relief aid for the thousands of victims in the Indonesian capital's worst flood in years. Led by Mrs Gouri Mirpuri, the wife of
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        • 167 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Jakarta THE floods which hit Jakarta have prompted demands on the government to ensure that they never happen again. The National Awakening Party wants the nation's capital relocated to prevent government activities from being disrupted in future. "Jakarta is now too
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        • 231 19 NEW STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA is expected to spend at least RM3.6 billion (Ssl.6 billion) to prevent floods in Johor. A report on the projects was submitted to the government last week and it is expected to give the nod soon. Deputy Natural Resources
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 492 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE i^E Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government's plans to reduce the number of Eurasian faces in advertisements have triggered outrage among models and presenters in the multicultural country. Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said last week that he would work with the Culture, Arts
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      • 390 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuala Lumpur THAILAND'S insurgency-wracked southern provinces are in danger of becoming a breeding ground for regional Islamic terrorism, Malaysia's Foreign Minister said yesterday. Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said terrorist groups could seek to build bases in Thailand's restive south,
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      • 281 21 Kulai (Johor) JOHOR Menteri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman should resign over his remarks that Singapore's reclamation works had caused the Kota Tinggi floods, a Malaysian opposition leader has said. Failing that, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi should apologise to the Singapore Government
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  • WORLD
    • 518 22 NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Help London BRITAIN may be in the grip of a serial letter-bomber. A wave of attacks, described by police as coordinated, is inspiring comparisons with the so-called Unabomber in the US, who waged an 18-year campaign against airlines
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    • 447 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Help Jerusalem EXCAVATION work by Israel near Jerusalem's sacred Islamic shrine has sparked anger among Muslims, and the Palestinians say it could derail peace in Gaza with the Jewish state. Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz is also said to have
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS; REUTERS  -  447 words
    • 302 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS Mecca RIVAL Palestinian factions reached an agreement on how to divide up Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government, crucial to averting a civil war, a Fatah official said yesterday. On the second day of their marathon summit in Mecca, the mainstream
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    • 266 25 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS London BRITAIN was hit by travel chaos yesterday with much of the country covered by a thick blanket of snow during the morning rush-hour. There were delays on railways and roads, and airports were forced to close as snow
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    • 397 25 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Help Geneva GLOBAL warming would require more robust monitoring of hurricanes, typhoons and other disasters, mirroring systems in place to watch for tsunamis, a top UN official said. Mr Salvano Briceno, director of the United Nation's International Strategy for Disaster
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    • 323 25 London EUROPEAN car makers have described plans to force them to cut back on harmful exhaust emissions as "unbalanced" and "damaging". The industry body said European Union targets were "arbitrary" and would lead to job cuts and relocation of production abroad, BBC News reported
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    • 408 26 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Help Tbilisi (Georgia) GEORGIA, Turkey and Azerbaijan have signed a US$422 million (Ss6so million) deal to build a railway corridor between Europe and Asia. The 258km-long Kars- Tbilisi-Baku railway, due for completion in 2009, follows the construction of
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    • 235 26 REUTERS Boston HARVARD University has announced its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, focusing on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming American "parochialism". The curriculum at the oldest US university has been criticised as focusing too narrowly on academic topics instead of real-life
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    • 443 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Help Teheran SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday vowed that Iran would hit back at US interests worldwide if attacked, amid mounting tension with the West over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme. "They should not intimidate Iranian
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    • 244 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS, REUTERS Jerusalem UN PEACEKEEPERS beefed up their presence on the volatile Leba-nese-Israeli border yesterday after a clash between the armies of both sides, the first since last year's war between Hizbollah and Israel. The clash took place after Lebanese troops fired into the air
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    • 443 28 ASSOCIATED PRESS Help Baghdad BAGHDAD'S streets were slectric with tension yesteriay as a security sweep to end sectarian violence got under way. As scenes of an increased military presence unfolded across the city, US and Iraqi forces yesterday raided the Health Ministry building in :entral
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    • 630 30 NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES Help Washington NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is reviewing its psychological screening and check-up process in the wake of the arrest of Navy Captain Lisa Nowak, the astronaut accused of attempted murder. Ms Shana
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 107 30 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Indonesia will meet in May to discuss the practice of open burning in Indonesia that is linked to the annual haze problem. Malaysian Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin said yesterday that the meeting, which
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      • 113 30 CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK BEIJING: Half the people of China do not like being forced to drink alcohol at banquets, a practice considered part of the country's "liquor culture", a survey has found. China Central Television inferred from its survey that 50 per cent
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      • 112 30 ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: A judge in the Paris suburb of Bobigny is charging two police officers in connection with the 2005 electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked three weeks of rioting throughout France, judicial officials said yesterday. The two officers will be charged with
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 315 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS THE winner of Britain's reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, was awarded YIP treatment on a visit to Parliament. During the visit, she thanked British Prime Minister Tony Blair for supporting her in the show's "racist bullying" row. Shetty,
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      • 212 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire from Republicans for her desire to have access to an Air Force transport plane, a prerequisite her Republican predecessor enjoyed. Mrs Pelosi and the Defence Department are in talks to let her
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      • 160 31 LESLIE LAU A FORMER senior editor of The Star newspaper has set up a public relations firm and roped in another former top journalist from a rival publication to be its consultant. The Kuala Lumpur company, Fox Media, was recently set up with
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    • 257 32 REUTERS Help Washington FOR women, there is apparently nothing like the smell of a man's sweat. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher
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    • 281 32 REUTERS New York GIVEN a choice between sex and a new wardrobe, most women will go for the clothes. In a survey spanning 10 cities in the US, women on average said that they would be willing to give up sex for
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    • 428 33 AN ENERGETIC exchange between two plainspoken individuals, each with a corner to defend, is thrusting the arcane subject of biomedical research out into the open. The lay public might still have little interest in the proceedings, except perhaps in the clash of personalities between DrLee Wei Ling
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    • 1926 33  -  Andy Ho SINGAPORE'S BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE By Senior Writer "IN 1995, a black woman accosted me at a bus stop in Cleveland, demanding $3 to feed her drug habit. When I refused, she said she had a gun. But I stuck to my guns
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    • 1258 34  -  lain S. Bruce ►>THE INNOVATION RACE Help By THEY came from the four corners of Europe, with the future on their minds. From government ministers to senior civil servants, company directors to economists, social scientists to educators, the coterie of notables that converged on
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    • 1167 35  -  Janadas Devan GLOBAL WARMING By Senior Writer BEFORE he devoted himself to economics, John Maynard Keynes worked on the theory of probability. His made a bold claim: Probability, he argued, "should be rightly considered as the general theory of logic, of which deductive
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    • 786 36  -  Tom Plate By In Los Angeles THE dramatic story was a familiar one but it was recounted rather well, for the most part at least. About 10 years ago, a cluster of erratic Asian countries exposed their currencies to hostile elements, ran huge foreign
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    • 1123 38  -  Chua Mvi Hoong FRIDAY MATTERS By I FEEL a bit sorry for Eng Wah Organisation after its failed Crazy Horse venture. I hope the dancers in the cabaret show get new jobs. But the feminist in me is glad Crazy Horse never quite
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    • 778 42  -  Arlina Arshad Help By ANOTHER group of retail tenants is locking horns with its management over what it sees as half-baked efforts to drum up business. This time, it is in Ang Mo Kio Central, in a mall scarcely five months
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    • 745 43  -  Ben Nadarajan BEN NADARAJAN $29m simulation centre, new boats THE $95 million Police Coast Guard (PCG) Brani Base on Pulau Brani will be the PCG's new headquarters and also where the next generation of PCG officers will be trained. Officers will encounter more than
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    • 397 43  -  David Boey Teh Joo Lin By A SINGAPORE Armed Forces (SAF) training facility that can simulate threats presented by deadly chemical, biological, radioactive and explosive agents was unveiled yesterday. Housed in a drab, four-storey building at Seletar Camp, the facility is part of the
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    • 443 45  -  Yap Su-Yin Help By EIGHT hundred dollars may be a pittance to some, but to widow Madam Lijah Ahamed, 47, this modest salary she gets each month from baking pastries means food on the table for her five children, aged 14 to 21, and
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    • 389 45  -  Li XUEYING By A WEEK before it is due to detail the impending hike in the goods and services tax (GST), the Government has reiterated the rationale for the move. Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam also tackled the question of why the
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    • 322 45  -  Zakir Hussain By FORMER political detainee Ho Toon Chin died in London on Tuesday from a stroke. He was 70. Mr Ho was a manager in a small media company, said his undergraduate son Hehao, 21, yesterday, declining to disclose its name. He
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    • 450 46  -  Tan Hui Yee Caverns can store 1.5 m cubic metres of oil; work on $7OOm first phase starts By IN FOUR years' time, the seabed off Jurong Island will be transformed. Rock caverns nine storeys deep, which can store up to 1.47 million cubic
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      • 707 47  -  Selina Lum Help By WITH all four defendants now having admitted that they are liable to the new National Kidney Foundation (NKF), the way has been paved for the charity to recover the money it is claiming from them. But the twist
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      • 538 47  -  Chong Chee Kin By FORMER National Kidney Foundation (NKF) vice-chair-man Alwyn Lim is expected to take centre stage as the next chapter of the NKF saga unfolds. Mr Lim, an accountant, is one of the third parties former NKF chairman Richard
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      • 728 47  -  Arti Mulchand WHAT HE IS SAID TO HAVE DONE: •> He was a crony a close friend or someone who works with a stated or dishonest person in authority of Mr T.T. Durai •> He breached his fiduciary duty by failing
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    • 269 48  -  Elena Chong Help By A DELIVERYMAN whose sister had given him a place to live repaid her kindness by sexually assaulting her nine-year-old daughter. The man, a divorcee, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated outrage of modesty commit- ted in
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      • 103 48 A 47-YEAR-OLD Malaysian woman was charged yesterday with six counts of abusing her Filipino maid. Over a five-month period between October 2005 and February last year, Aw Ai Haw allegedly used objects such as a metal spatula, a clothes hanger and a pair of scissors to
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      • 96 48 AN INDIAN national who caused the death of a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) lieutenant in a traffic accident at a road junction last May was fined $6,000 and banned from driving for three years yesterday. Sait Mohamed Ibramsha, a 34-year-old scaffolding and safety supervisor, had
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    • 354 48 A MAN who mediated in a dispute between two parties ended up raping one of the girls in the tiff, a district court heard yesterday. Former cargo worker Ler Kok Keong, 27, was sentenced to seven years' jail and 10
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    • 504 51  -  Alfred Siew High entry price, lack of content and awareness slowing take-up, it says By Technology Correspondent HIGH-DEFINITION TV (HDTV) services may take at least five years to take off with couch potatoes here, despite promising lifelike images four
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    • 566 52 Help IT MAY be 100 years old, but the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) is open to ideas as to how it can continue to remain relevant. And top government leaders have provided some suggestions in a book,
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    • 822 53  -  Krist 800 KRIST 800 IT'S ALL IN THE BUDGET "We have built into our budget a contingency of somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent, so the contingency for unforeseen costs is already built into the budget." SANDS CHAIRMAN SHELDON
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    • 512 54  -  Marcel Lee Pereira Help By SINGAPORE will be trying to woo visitors from the Middle East and Russia, and add 2,000 hotel rooms over the next two years. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB), gunning for another record year, has set an aggressive
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    • 156 54 A SPECIAL stamp exhibition launched yesterday promises to give visitors an insight into the origins and traditions of the Chinese New Year. The Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon exhibition, at the Singapore Philatelic Museum in Coleman Street, will continue during the Year of the Pig
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      • 94 54 THOUSANDS of letters exchange hands every day. So what better way to spread the message of kindness than on a postage stamp? The Singapore Kindness Movement and SingPost has picked 10 artwork by children between three and 12 years, and made them into commemorative stamps. Dr
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      • 121 54 MUSLIMS who wish to help Jakarta flood victims may do so when they go for Friday prayers today. The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) will set up special donation boxes at the 69 mosques all over Singapore for the fund-raising effort. The boxes will
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      • 63 54 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be testing the ventilation system of the Kallang/Paya Lebar Expressway at the north-bound tunnel. Smoke will be released from the ventilation buildings and the tunnel opening at the slip road at the junction of Airport Road and Paya Lebar Road
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    • 547 57  -  Salma Khalik, Help By Health Correspondent THE main purpose of the Health Products Bill is to protect the public, said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. The Bill gives the Health Minister extensive powers to control almost anything to do with a
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    • 379 57  -  Amelia Tan By THE flu bug is back and it is biting hard this time. The number of people visiting polyclinics to get treatment for acute respiratory infections (ARI) which include flu jumped from 7,684 in the first week of last
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    • 413 58  -  Arti Mulchand Core group including Singapore working on framework to beef up collaboration By DENGUE experts and government officials from the Asia-Pa-cific are in Singapore and they have wasted no time in acting on this "most important emerging tropical disease". The World Health
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    • 432 60  -  Teh Joo Lin Help By THEY are already in the north, south, east and central districts. Coming next: a Safra club in the west. When completed by early 2009, the $30 million Jurong West Safra themed a "family playground" will boast the largest
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    • 1184 61  -  Jane Ng JANE NG They are among first batch of 39 grads but some no longer intend to turn their sport into a career By THEY may not feature among the top scorers when the O-level results are released today,
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    • 411 62  -  T. Rajan Help By ASIDE from buses and trains, electric trams could be an additional mode of public transport here. French company Alstom Transport, one of the world's biggest makers of trams and high-speed trains, and also the supplier of the driver-less
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    • 315 62  -  Zakir Hussain By CONCERNED that extreme views abroad may influence Muslims here, Islamic religious leaders are setting out to explain that being moderate is an essential part of being a good Muslim. The term "moderate Muslim" has been debated within the
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    • 401 63  -  Jessica Cheam Help By MOVED by a Straits Times report, a group of Pioneer Junior College (PJC) students have got more than 300 of their peers to sign up to donate blood. Students cheerfully trooped to the donation drive on
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  • FORUM
    • 265 65  -  Valeric Ong Guek Kirn (Mdm) I REFER to the article, "Couple lose fight on collective sale" (ST, Feb 6). I sympathise with the couple who lost the fight when the Strata Titles Board ruled that their CPF principal amount and accrued interest
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    • 110 65  -  William Foo Kuo Meng I AM shocked by the landmark ruling of the Strata Titles Board that losses incurred in one's CPF account are not considered a financial loss in the case of an en bloc sale ("Couple lose fight on collective sale"; ST,
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    • 340 65  -  S. SatishAppoo I THANK Mr Sajeev Roy Dharan for his suggestion to have drainage holes in the design of trash bins so as to prevent water retention ("Drainage holes in trash bins to deter mozzies"; ST, Feb 5). Mr Dharan is correct in his
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    • 155 65  -  Yan Chin Bens I REFER to the letter, "Did news on walk-in selection of new flats leak out?" (ST, Feb 7), by Mr Ang Kin Leong. We are aware of the time-sensi-tivity of WIS launches, and have reminded
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    • 266 65  -  Ho See Sai SINGAPORE has enjoyed a very high mobilephone penetration rate, but I am not sure if this is matched by an adequate network to cope with the increased traffic. I have been experiencing increased difficulty in getting a line. Besides that, I
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    • 349 66  -  Edmund Lim Wee Kiat I REFER to Professor Tommy Koh's column, "10 wishes for the environment" (ST, Feb 7). I share and support Prof Koh's wishes. It is disturbing to know that more than a billion of our fellow human beings do
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    • 338 66  -  Bryan Goh Yong Leng SINGAPORE has been a world leader in the field of road pricing. London has only recently implemented the equivalent of a system operated by Singapore from 1975-1998. In both countries, the experience has been that road pricing displaces traffic
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    • 104 66  -  Tan Kai Kiat I REFER to the letter, "Be more flexible on CPF Minimum Sum" (ST, Feb 5). My wife and I retired from government service in 1996. We withdrew our CPF to help pay for our property. Because we depleted our Minimum Sum account,
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    • 65 65 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.asial. com.sg/forum Access to letters online is free. 65 and feeling useless? That's depressingly ageist Even those 'over the hill' need chores to maintain their faculties Inappropriate time slots for prime-time trailers Use of English in Dhool programme limited to spontaneous expressions
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  • SPORTS
    • 730 67 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOCCER FRIENDLY: ENGLAND 0 SPAIN 1 Yan Chin Bens London ENGLAND were booed off the pitch, after another insipid performance ended in a 0-1 friendly defeat by Spain. Coach Steve McClaren did not blame the fans. Spain never approached their fluent best, but
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    • 668 67  -  Richard Jolly By THERE will be a temptation to rename Steve McClaren as Steve McClown. Despite his uninspirational leadership, however, a first home defeat under him cannot be attributed solely to the England manager. Though his brief tenure has been notable for poor decisions,
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    • 249 67 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Amsterdam THE Netherlands crushed a weakened Russia 4-1 on Wednesday, heaping more misery on Guvs Hiddink. Just a day after the Dutchman was accused of tax evasion and threatened with prison, Russia's coach had to endure a masterclass by the Dutch side. "Despite
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    • 357 67 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Paris A MOMENT of brilliance from Javier Saviola helped Argentina to a 1-0 win over World Cup finalists France in Wednesday's international friendly at the Stade de France here. He shone throughout a lacklustre encounter fought out largely in midfield. It was his
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    • 892 68 SOCCER Yan Chin Bens London FERNANDO Torres could be Liverpool's first major signing under the reign of new owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks. Just three days after their £470 million (551.41 billion) takeover of the club, speculation has begun on the
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    • 317 68 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London MANCHESTER United have slipped to fourth in the table of the world's biggest-earning clubs. Having topped the list for eight successive years until last February, when they were overtaken by Real Madrid, the Premiership leaders now find themselves trailing Real,
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    • 540 69 SOCCER Yan Chin Bens London CRISTIANO Ronaldo may be attracted to Spanish football, but he wants to remain at Manchester United. The winger's future has been under intense speculation, following reports that Barcelona and Real Madrid are preparing bids of up to £45
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    • 423 69 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London THE China Olympic football team's London training stint turned violent on Wednesday. Police were called in, after a brawl broke out during their match at Queens Park Rangers' Harlington training ground near Heathrow Airport. China's Zheng Tao was knocked
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    • 429 69 London MICHAEL Ballack became Chelsea's latest injury victim, when he limped out of Germany's friendly against Switzerland on Wednesday. The midfielder lasted just 44 minutes of the 3-1 win in Dusseldorf, before going off with a thigh injury. One can almost hear Blues
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    • 376 69 REUTERS Rome AN EERIE silence will hang over many Italian grounds when Serie A resumes tomorrow. The season has already been described as damaged foods, after the punishments anded out to Juventus and AC Milan in last year's match-fixing scandal. It
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    • 544 70  -  Jeanette Wang SOCCER Yan Chin Bens By NOH Alam Shah has placed loyalty to S-League club Tampines Rovers, ahead of a lucrative deal offered by Indonesian Premier League team Pelita Jaya. The 26-year-old striker has declined an offer from Fandi Ahmad, Pelita's new coach,
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    • 370 70  -  Nicholas Fang By SINGAPORE football fans will get their first glimpse of S-League newcomers Super Reds next week. The South Korean team will be in action in the new Sing Tel League Cup, starting 3n Thursday. The eight-team event has a
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    • 484 70 London ARSENAL may want to give Arsene Wenger a job for life, but the manager is already contemplating retirement. Not immediately, but he believes he would not be able to continue on for another 10 years, when he reaches 67. "I
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    • 308 70 London ASTON Villa defender Olof Mellberg believes that the club have banished their relegation fears. He believes they should focus on a top-half finish instead starting with tomorrow's clash against Reading at the Madejski Stadium. Villa moved 12 points clear of the bottom
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    • 248 70 London WEST Ham defender John Pantsil believes that the match against Watford tomorrow is one the Hammers must win at all costs. The Hammers are five points adrift of safety following their 0-1 defeat at Aston Villa last weekend, and Pantsil knows
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    • SOCCER SHORTS
      • 76 70 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta admits he wants a return to Spain. A £5 million (Ssls million) target for Atletico Madrid, Arteta told Spanish radio on Wednesday: "I would like to return to Spain. I have that desire. But if somebody wants me,
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      • 73 70 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: London's Olympic organisers have ruled out letting West Ham or any other Premiership club move into the Olympic Stadium once the 2012 Games are over. The Hammers had been looking at the possibility of using a slimmed down version of
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      • 63 70 LONDON: Bolton chairman Phil Gartside has warned the club's fans that star striker Nicolas Anelka could leave if attendances do not improve. Crowds at the Reebok Stadium are down 2,000 on last season. He told the Daily Mirror: "If we want to keep players
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    • 515 71  -  Alvin Foo BADMINTON Yan Chin Bens By TOUGHER than the Olympics. That is what the organisers are saying of the Aviva Open Singapore badminton tournament from May 1-6. The event is part of the inaugural 12-tournament Super Series tour launched by the Badminton
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    • 403 71 ALVIN FOO THERE was a time when Singapore Badminton Association deputy president Lee Vi Shyan played the game with a wooden racket at a Toa Payoh outdoor court, next to a smelly drain. But times have changed. Now, Mr Lee, who
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    • 291 71  -  Leonard Lim BOWLING By DEVELOPING young talent has become so important to the Singapore Bowling Federation that it is changing its team structure to focus more on them. For the first time, the SBF has divided its team into three tiers.
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    • 519 72  -  Alvin Foo »GOLF Yan Chin Bens By BETTER play is expected at the Barclays Singapore Open golf championship this November, after the Sentosa Golf Club's Serapong course gets a $12 million face-lift. The extensive renovations to the course and ancillary facilities mean the
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    • 365 72 NEW YORK TIMES New York TIGER Woods says he has kept every hand-written note Byron Nelson gave him. Several generations separated them, but Nelson, who died in September last year aged 94, and Woods, 31, found plenty in common. It includes their
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    • 264 72 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuala Lumpur ENGLAND'S Robert Rock fired a six-under-par 66, including seven birdies, to lead the Malaysian Open after yesterday's first round. He holds a one-stroke lead over Indian rookie S.S.P. Chowrasia, who also shot seven birdies for a
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    • 542 72 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS »SPORTSPEOPLE Tokyo JUST when sumo's biggest star is set to take his place among the sport's all-time greats, a scandal surfaces to knock him off the pedestal. Mongolian Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, won his 20th Emperor's Cup
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 75 72 ILLINOIS: A die-hard Chicago Bears fan is changing his name to Peyton Manning. Scott Wiese had told friends that if his beloved team did not win the Super Bowl, he would take the name of the Indianapolis Colts quarter-back. The Colts defeated the
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      • 89 72 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX: Mike Tyson has checked into an in-pa-tient treatment programme for "various addictions" while awaiting trial on drug charges. The 40-year-old former heavyweight champion pleaded not guilty on Jan 22 to charges of possessing drugs and paraphernalia, and two counts of driving under the
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    • 709 73 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Yan Chin Bens Boston SIXTEEN losses in a row. That is one for each of those shiny gold trophies the Boston Celtics have in their cabinet for lording over the rest of the NBA all these
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    • 433 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ►>TENNIS Paris JUSTINE Henin admitted it was not just her life, but also her game, that needed piecing back together following the split from her husband of four years. French Open champion Henin took to the court at the Paris Indoor
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    • 350 73 BASKETBALL NBA: Toronto 113 Orlando 103, Philadelphia 92 Charlotte 83, San Antonio 110 Washington 83, New Jersey 87 Atlanta 85, Cleveland 94 LA Clippers 77, Seattle 103 Indiana 102, Miam 91 Boston 79, Minnesota 121 Golden State 93, Dallas 113 Memphis 97, New Orleans 114 Denver 112 (OT). CRICKET
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  • Page 72 Miscellaneous
    • 51 72 TV times BASKETBALL: NBA: LA Lakers v Detroit (Live, Ch24, 9am). CRICKET: C'wealth Bank Series, 1st final: (Live, Ch95, 11.15am). MTN Series, 3rd ODI: South Africa v Pakistan (Live, Ch95, 8.30pm). GOLF: Maybank Malaysian Open: Day 2 (Live, Ch24, 2.30pm). AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Day 2 (Live, Ch22, tomorrow,
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  • OBITUARIES
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      146 73 LOW ENG KIAT Age: 9O passed away peacefully on 7 Feb 2007, leaving behind loved ones. (Wife: Tan Ah Ngia,deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Low Ser Jin, James Goh Kim Huay, Florence Low Yong Siang, Richard Cai Shu Fang Low Khee Huat, Albert Sumijati Herry Low Choon Heng, Jimmy Fenni Low Chin
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      107 73 KHO TEIK ONG Age: 76 was called home to be with the Lord on 8 Feb 07, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Tang EuMoi Sons: Daughters: Kho Ming Huat, Simon Teo Lay Hong, Josephine Kho Meng Hock, Samuel Wong Swee Ling, Aileen Grandson: Granddaughter: Kho Zi Qing, Ryan Kho Yi
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      58 73 10th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of KUNJAPPA S/O KUNHIKUTTY Departed: 9 February 1997 Wife:Yasotha Sons: Daughters-in-law: Mohan Sarala Suresh Iris Ng Daughters: Sons-in-law: Latha Sekaran Asha Chandra^ Grandsons, granddaughters all loved ones. Prayers will be held on Sunday, 11 Feb at 10am at Sri Sivan Temple (Geylang East) Contact Suresh:
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      19 73 9th Anniversary ikying Memory Of LOCHOOSENG Departed on 9th Feb 1998 K ueeply missed by wife Phyllis loved ones
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      82 73 YAPENGWAH Age: 87 passed away peacefully on 8 February 2007 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Leong Yoke Heng Sons: Yap Weng Keen Yap Weng Yin Daughter-in-law: Sim Boh Hoon Daughter: Yap Lo Meng Son-in-law: Philip Lim Kok Tong Grandsons: Lin Enyang, Charleston Lin Enlong, Christopher Granddaughters:
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      147 74 YEE POH SONG Age: 87 passed away peacefully on 7 Feb 2007, leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Ho Loon Chay, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ho Teng King Neo Lian Tee Ho Pwee Kim Lie Wie Ni (Ho Swee Kim, deceased) Daughters: Son-in-law: Ho Kim Choo Tay Moh Chwee Ho Kin Mui
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      147 74 "SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY *P UFE, AND I WILL D WELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FORE VER." £f PSAIM 23:6 MAURICE HO TIONG KIM Age: 73 xvas vailed home to be zvith the Lord Jesus on 7 February 2007. Alivays
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      133 74 "Surely Goodness And Mercy Shall Follow Me All The Days Of My Life; And I Will Dwell In The House Of The LORD Forever". m Psalm 23:6 Tan Tjin Hock Jio Tjin Hock Age 53 was called home to be with the Lord on 8 February 2007, leaving behind loved
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      144 74 WONG SOU CHUN Age: 92 passed away peacefully on 7* n February 2007, leai'ing behind loved ones. Husband: (Ghong Lum Gheong, deceased) Son: Victor Chong Yoi Fong Daughters: Chong Mci Lee, Vera Chung Mci Yoke, Chung Mci Yuet, Diana Chung Mci Heng. Linda Chung Mci Ymg Sons-in-law: Andrew Lim Kheng
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      43 74 F Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Managing Director, Mr Nea Pin Gek on the demise of his beloved father-in-law TANYANAW Departed on 7 February 2007 From: a The Management Staff of Acer Computer (Singapore) Pte Ltd IN/ Logistron Services Pte Ltd jW
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      44 74 1 "1 7th Anniversary In living Memory Of TAN HOCK CHYE Urparti.il 3/W21MJQ He hud ii sin Mr: A helping lo all he knew Hi* ha^ kind. On i jtili In1 nobly did his bvst: Grant him, kwis heavenly mi. Dearly missed by yourWIfebOilLdren
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      40 74 Path Da Bhog a SARDAR UTTAM SINGH S/O MEIT SINGH Village: Fatehgarh Departed: 30.1,2007 Path Da Bhog will be held on Saturday, 10 Feb 2007, from 3pm to 5pm at Gurdwara Sabib Yishun. Please treat this at- a ffersmta} invitation.
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      67 74 ih- I l i 11 hi ti u 11^-° CATHERINE LEOW SWEE KEOW wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends and neighbours for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, prayers, wreaths and donations during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Doctors and Staff of Tan TockScnR
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    • 395 76 NEW YORK TIMES Its founders and financial backer Sequoia Capital take home the most Google shares in payment New York EVERYONE suspected that the investors, founders and early employees of You Tube made tidy sums when the videosharing site was acquired by
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    • 523 76 NEW YORK TIMES New York "ROSES are red, violets are blue; I hear a rumour, is it true?" Strange as it sounds, that strained line of poetry set off the fiercest buyout battle since the epic bidding for RJR Nabisco in the
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    • 310 76 REUTERS London HSBC'S shares slumped to a nine-month low yesterday after the bank said its bad debt charge last year would be about US$l.B billion (Ss2.B billion) higher than expected. The bank said that its charge for bad debts last year would
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    • 32 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 17,292.48 (+0.16 points) »Japanese shares posted a lacklustre performance, with the main index ending flat amid caution ahead of a weekend meeting of world finance ministers.
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    • 39 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 20,735.05 (+55.36 points) Hong Kong stocks gained 0.27 per cent as strong buying momentum in late trade and fresh fund inflows helped the market recover from losses suffered in the morning session.
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    • 32 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,737.73 (+21.56 points) Chinese share prices gained 0.79 per cent, supported by follow-through interest and a strong yuan, with power generators and machinery firms gaining ground.
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    • 27 76 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,899.5 (-0.3 point) Australian stocks closed flat, with profit-taking in mining and banking shares after recent gains to record levels.
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    • 36 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,248.83 (+5.26 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.42 per cent higher in lacklustre trade which saw last-minute interest in blue chips as the market extended gains for an eighth consecutive day.
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    • 39 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,751.31 (-13.59 points) »Indonesian stocks closed 0.77 per cent lower, led down by heavy selling in the banks on concerns the recent floods in Jakarta may result in a spike in bad loans.
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    • 38 76 AFP Yesterday's close: 691.28 (+15.95 points) Thai stocks closed sharply higher, adding 2.36 per cent as buying spread across the board on speculation that the central bank will cut interest rates again later this month.
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    • 134 76 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FebB SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT jF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.1890 1.2020 Ian dollar 1.2850 1.3000 Euro 1.9840 2.0060 (lalaysian ringgit* 0.4385 0.4392 vZ dollar 1.0460 1.0690 Sterling pound 3.0040 3.0370 JS dollar 1.5240 1.5410 SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO 100 JNITS
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    • 427 77 ASSOCIATED PRESS Yan Chin Bens United Nations YOUNG people are increasingly unable to get a foothold in the global labour market, according to a United Nations (UN) report. It added that the rapidly ageing workforce is enjoying less and less job security. According to
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    • 225 77 REUTERS Shanghai CHINA is expected to allow another 20 foreign banks to incorporate locally this year, opening its massive banking market wider to foreign players and intensifying competition there. In December, Beijing granted approval for the first batch of nine foreign banks to
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    • 418 77 BLOOMBERG NEWS Sydney QANTAS Airways, target of an agreed Asll billion (5513.1 billion) buyout, increased its profit forecast a second time in three months on rising ticket sales and lower fuel prices. It expects earnings to rise as much as 40 per cent in
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    • 538 78  -  K. C. VIJAYAN Indonesian housewife claims she was given negligent investment advice By STUNG by about U*****,000 (*****,000) in losses, an Indonesian housewife is taking Citibank to court, blaming negligent investment advice from the United States banking giant. But Citibank counters that
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    • 517 78  -  Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent GERMANY'S BMW sealed its position as the world's top luxury carmaker by beating archrival Mercedes-Benz for the third time running last year. Now it looks set to achieve next year's target of
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    • 247 78  -  Joyce Teo By PROFITS at drug firm C&O Pharmaceutical Technology (Holdings) have plunged by 89 per cent to HK$3.6l million (*****,280) for the second quarter. The firm blamed the drop on a one-off inventory adjustment and the costs of consolidating distribution firm Shenzhen Liancheng
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      • 96 78 RETAILER Courts (Singapore) incurred a $2.4 million loss in the third quarter ended Dec 31, bringing its loss for the year to date to $5.6 million. Courts issued a profit warning last month, saying it expected losses to continue in the fourth quarter because of
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      • 80 78 INTER-ROLLER Engineering reported a 19 per cent drop in net profits to $4.5 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec 31. For the full year, however, profits were up 52 per cent at $25.7 million, thanks to a 46 per cent jump in turnover. Earnings per
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      • 111 78 SNP Corp's full-year profits soared to a record up 39 per cent at $21.1 million for the period ended Dec 31. This is mainly because of gains from the divestment of its education publishing business last year. The company expects good growth for commercial printing
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      • 84 78 CHINESE confectionary group Hsu Fu Chi saw profits dip 11.8 per cent to 127.1 million yuan (5525.1 million) in the six months ended Dec 31, due to higher expenses and taxes. Revenues, however, jumped 14.9 per cent to 1.23 billion yuan. Earnings per share
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      • 63 78 COSCO Corp said yesterday its 51 per cent-owned unit has secured a U*****.2 million (*****.8 million) contract to build four heavy-lift vessels. Cosco Shipyard Group has also secured an option to build another two vessels from the same client, Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Company. The first
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    • 318 78  -  Gabriel Chen By STRONG demand for new vessels and higher-valued ship repair jobs pushed Pan-United Marine's fourth-quarter net profit up 289 per cent to $14.3 million. Full-year net profit soared from $16.6 million to a record $56.2 million for the 12
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    • 701 79  -  Bryan Lee Indian unit's good show makes up for larger expenses in Spore and elsewhere By Telecoms Correspondent SINGTEL has posted lower-than-expected third-quarter profits of just under $1 billion. Higher costs in Singapore, Australia and Indonesia took some shine off a strong showing by Indian
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    • 357 79  -  Fiona Chan By Property Reporter SHAREHOLDERS of The Ascott Group are set to receive a bumper dividend after the service apartment operator turned in a sterling set of results yesterday. Ascott's full-year net profit more than doubled to a record $151.3 million last
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    • 218 79 REUTERS MUMBAI THE Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) has emerged the front runner for a 5 per cent stake in India's Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Business Standard newspaper said yesterday. The BSE had received offers that valued it at US$6OO million
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    • 473 79  -  Lee Su Shyan TAKING STOCK By IT WAS time for the market to take a well-earned breather yesterday after a record-breaking run that has left many investors rubbing their eyes in disbelief. The Straits Times Index (STI) shed 18.84 points
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    • 252 79  -  ARTHUR POON DIRECTORS' TRADES STAR Pharmaceutical's executive chairman and majority shareholder has pared her stake via an off-market arranged share sale. Ms Monica Wong Kai, sold nearly 20 million shares in the China-based manufacturer and seller of Western and traditional Chinese medicine-formulated prescription drugs, at
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    • 871 80  -  Grace Ng Yan Chin Bens By SINGAPORE'S central bank has eased the rules on the capital the three local banks must set aside as a cushion against defaults by their borrowers. Analysts say the move may give the banks more flexibility in
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    • 225 80 FIONA CHAN COST CONCERNS A RECENT proposal by the Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets) to bump up transaction fees for businesses has raised concerns about higher costs for local retailers. The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) yesterday expressed worries that these
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    • 28 80 Falling short SingTel's gain is lower than expected as higher costs in Singapore, Australia and Indonesia take some shine off a strong showing by India's Bharti. PAGE H39
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    • 1310 81 Let' 6 be Mend&. GEVELLE CHENG, 24 Sales marketing executive EQUALITIES: Friendly, jovial IT LOOKING FOR: A woman who loves outdoor activities Asdf ADELINE TAN, 30 Personal assistant EQUALITIES: Cheerful, outgoing V LOOKING FOR: A man with a good attitude Many singles no longer think it's
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    • 601 83 NOT everything is coming up roses for Singapore's soulmate seekers this V-Day. Take the poster "girl" for singletons of a certain age, real estate queen Ivy Lee, 42 (left). The divorced mother of two teenage sons was the subject of a LifeStyle story in
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    • 724 84  -  Clara Chow This year's Life! Theatre Awards nominees share their reactions to the news ARTS CORRESPONDENT WHEN actressSitiKhalijah Zainal read in yesterday's Life! that she had been nominated for a Best Actress award in the 2007 Life! Theatre Awards, she cried with joy. Then she bought herself
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    • 352 84 AFP/Bloomberg BERLIN The 57th Berlin Film Festival opened on a French note yesterday with the world premiere of La Vie en Rose, which tells of the tragic life of iconic singer Edith Piaf. Clint Eastwood, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lopez, Gerard Depardieu, Robert De Niro and
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    • 699 85  -  Teo Pau Lin The organic food industry here is set for a trendy makeover with Como Group's takeover of organic food store Supernature FOOD CORRESPONDENT ONE of Singapore's oldest and largest organic stores, Supernature, has been bought over by fashion-life-style giant the Como Group. And industry players say
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    • 291 85 THEY trotted from the stage in Paris to the one in Singapore, and now they're trotting back to old pastures. The 13 European dancers of Crazy Horse Singapore have left the country following the closure of the nude revue last Sunday. Eng Wah Organization, which ran Crazy Horse
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      • 919 86  -  Tay Yek Keak When it comes to catching ghosts, Americans like playing with high-tech equipment while Brits prefer to walk and talk couchgrouch ON CNN's The Daily Show, comedi-an-host Jon Stewart always features a bizarre clip at the end called the "International Moment Of Zen". I
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      • 375 87 AP BISSAU (Guinea-Bissau) -When the government of one of the world's poorest nations learnt that Whoopi Goldberg had taken a DNA test showing her ancestors hail from here, the news reverberated through the halls of parliament, necessitating a high-level meeting. It was, the country's leaders decided, a
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    • 507 88 Reuters Pole-dancing used to be associated with seedy bars, but it is starting to take off in China as a form of exercise BEIJING Treadmills are run-of-the-mill Luo Lan wants the Chinese masses to pole-dance instead. As manager of Beijing's first pole-dancing school, she says she is trying
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      • 359 89  -  Chang Tou Liang bingapore composer Tan Chan Boon's works mix past forms with experimentation > concert RETROUVAILLES II String Quartets by Tan Chan Boon Victoria Concert Hall Tuesday IF THERE was an "old soul" among Singaporean composers, 42-year-old Tan Chan Boon would fit the bill
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      • 695 90  -  Loh Keng Fatt After half a century in the music business, singer Cliff Richard still scores hits in music charts and tours all over the world EVERGREEN British pop star Cliff Richard may have reportedly walked out of a press interview in Dubai recently but he
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        1036 92  -  Cheong Suk-Wai > mosaic music festival 2007 Jazz titan Duke Ellington's heir, Paul Mercer Ellington, is finding his late grandfather's name doesn't quite swing these days SENIOR CORRESPONDENT WHEN an American jazzman's last name is Ellington, you would think he would be the last word in music royalty.
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      • 385 93 1899: Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C., he is the eldest child of White House butler James Edward Ellington and housewife Daisy Kennedy. They dote on him and their other child, Ruth. 1906: At seven, begins piano lessons with a neighbour he labels "Mrs Clinkscales",
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      • 229 93 PAUL Mercer Ellington, who has been leading the Duke Ellington Orchestra since 1996, gives you a sneak peek of what he and his bandmates are planning for their Mosaic Music Festival gig here on March 9. But, as Duke Ellington was all about spontaneity,
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      • 914 94  -  Yeow Kai Chai A grizzly former carpenter is slowly building up a following with his vibrant songwriting soundbites Album of the week > soul folk TILL THE SUN TURNS BLACK Ray LaMontagne RCA BY NOW the legend is well known: He is taciturn onstage, doesn't
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        783 96  -  Chad VanGaalen > asian pop NALURI LELAKI/SamSonS Massive/Bravo/Universal APART from floods in Jakarta, this five-piece band from the Indonesian capital has also been making headlines of late with its debut album, Naluri Lelaki, which roughly translates as "A Man's Inner Feelings". Although the lads describe their brand of
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      • 696 97  -  Melissa Lee Sally Yeh may be here for a Valentine's Day concert but she is not with her main squeeze, George Lam HONG Kong star Sally Yell may be in Singapore to perform a Valentine's Day-themed concert, but she revealed yesterday that the big day itself will
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        75 98 'Keep the promise; admire the old man; care about the child' Actor Ken Watanabe (above) on living his life the samurai way 'He's a good man, when he lets himself be. But he sure can cover it up well' Phoebe Lewis on her rocker father, Jerry Lee Lewis 'Older
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      • 1491 98  -  Paul Zach The Grammy lives up to its reputation as a symbol more infamous than Oscar for mediocrity and ignoring talent and real art zach'strax THE biggest buzz about this weekend's 49th Annual Grammy ceremony is that the Police will reunite to open the show. That
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      • 189 106 HONG KONG In the latest love match, Chinese actress Vicki Zhao is reportedly dating table tennis Olympic medallist Wang Liqin. Apple Daily says Zhao, 30, has been linked to Wang, 28, since last year. But the tabloids had no photographic evidence of the romance
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      • 204 106 Reuters LOS ANGELES Attorneys for actor Ryan O'Neal and his son Griffin held duelling press conferences on Wednesday during which each blamed the other's client for a fight that ended in the Love Story star's arrest last week. Griffin O'Neal's pregnant girlfriend, Ms Joanna
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      • 249 106 AFP LONDON Beatles legend Paul McCartney (right) is reportedly offering a £25 million (Ss7s million) settlement to his estranged wife Heather Mills-McCartney to end a bitter divorce battle. Citing unnamed sources, the Daily Mirror tabloid said yesterday that the 64-year-old had instructed his legal
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      • 248 106 AP NEW DELHI Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan says he learns which actor he is supposed to be fighting with from the newspapers. "A few years ago, when I used to get up in the mornings, I would quickly check the papers so that my kids
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      • 130 106 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN: Director Royston Tan announced a new movie on the getai scene, titled 881, in memory of the late entertainer Chen Jinlang. The shoot, with a cast including actor Qi Yuwu and show host Liv Lingling, will start on March 1... ASIAN PRESENCE: Malaysian singer Siti
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