The Straits Times, 10 January 2008

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 32 PAGES IN SIX PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 2008 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 658 1  -  Arlina Arshad DEATH OF CHEMOIL CHIEF By In Pekanbaru (Sumatra) SINGAPORE businessman Robert Chandran was alive and talking to rescuers after the helicopter he was in crashed in Sumatra on Monday, eyewitnesses have told The Straits Times. But he died during the
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  • 765 1  -  Ho Ai Li A convenient point of first contact it can be reached on 1800-222-0000 By CALL it the 999 of social services. A new helpline has been set up for those who need any kind of aid. The number is
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  • » UPFRONT
    • 943 1  -  Leung Wai-Leng By SOME secondary school students will be wielding guns and swords in class this year, and it will all be part of learning. Local games developer Playware Studios and the Education Ministry are making two games available for use during
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 35 1 ATTENTION, llto>» GOING PLACES ARTS VIRGINS iF9i^ Lions'keeper Lewis lands gJ This year's Spore Fringe Festival Mf^mlw^ tnal Wlth .ChamP |ons' has more accessible offerings £JjjPm ~m\ League side |H IN LIFE! SPORTS HlB /fi^l
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 353 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Reunited via radio f?f a. Vo ni A frantic mother makes an appeal World 18"23 on Radio 100.3 and listeners help Review 24-26 her find her missing autistic son FYI 27 within hours. SECTION TWO PAGE HI Home H1-H1O Forum Hll Shops sue mall developer
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  • PRIME
    • 760 3  -  Bhagyashree »RACE TO WHITE HOUSE: NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY Campaign now a free-for-all after voters also give McCain new life By Garekar US Correspondent In Washington suits trickled in precinct by precinct, showing their candidate consistently building upon her early lead. Mr Obama's
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    • 559 3  -  Tania Tan By A WAYWARD e-mail that reached an unintended recipient blew open a mul-ti-million-dollar cartel formed by six pest-buster firms here. These firms will be fined a total of $262,759.66 by the competition watchdog following a year-long probe. What started it all: An
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    • Article, Illustration
      825 4  -  Karamjit Kaur, SPACIOUS AND AIRY "The system is really efficient. Terminal 3 is very impressive, very spacious and airy. It is definitely unlike Heathrow, which is so busy all the time." MISS LOUISE MCCARTHY, 26, a beauty therapist living in London, on the check-in process at Terminal
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  • ASIA
    • 335 6  -  CHOWKUM HOR FORMER deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim is proving himself as a rallying figure among Malaysia's opposition parties as they forge a loose alliance to stand against the government, analysts say. Datuk Seri Anwar's role is crucial because Malaysia's two largest opposition parties the Democratic
      THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  335 words
    • 475 6  -  Chow Kum Hor They agree not to have overlapping contests in the state By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S three main opposition parties have reached a breakthrough pact in a key state for the next general election, signalling a more cohesive front
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    • CHINA
      • 429 9  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Taiwan President's Tainan trip seen as bid to stave off poll defeat for DPP By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei THE scene was eerily familiar. Riding in an open-top vehicle, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian waved at the crowd yesterday
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      • 355 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing CHINA will extend a price freeze on petrol and dosely watch food supplies in an effort to cool fallowing inflation ahead of the Chinese New ear holidays next month, the government said yesterday. The freeze also applies to natural
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      • 201 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing THE fatal beating by officials of a passer-by who filmed a streetside fracas between villagers and the authorities touched off protests in central China, the victim's family said yesterday. Thousands of angry residents marched in front of the city hall
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 295 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tokyo THE promotion of a millenni-um-old festival in Japan that features naked men has hit a snag. A top railway operator has objected to advertisements created for the event, saying they are too racy. The northern city of Oshu draws thousands of
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      • 374 10 REUTERS Beijing THE mayor of Shanghai is to stay put despite earlier suggestions that he would be replaced after the fall of the city's Communist Party boss because of a financial scandal, said sources in the central government. They said Beijing had
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      • 497 10 XINHUA More of its graduates make it to rich lists than other Chinese tertiary institutes, report says Beijing BEIJING University is the "Cradle of Chinese Tycoons", according to China's University Alumni Association (CUAA). More graduates from there have made it to the country's rich lists
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    • INDIA /SOUTH ASIA
      • 252 12  -  RAVI VELLOOR New Delhi SENIOR Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Balaji Sadasivan said yesterday that countries that harness knowledge successfully will stay ahead. He told an annual gathering of overseas Indians here that as old ways of doing things improved, knowledge has become
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      • 197 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS BRITISH forensic experts investigating the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto are unlikely to discover who killed her, her supporters said after her son and political heir Bilawal Zardari appealed for a UN probe into the murder. "We will cooperate
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      • 475 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Family feud heats up as Benazir's sister-in-law wants to coax nephew into defecting Larkana (Pakistan) PHOTO AFTER years of discord in Pakistan's top political dynasty, Ms Benazir Bhutto's sister-in-law has stoked up the family feud by saying she wants the opposition leader's
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
      • 528 15  -  Nirmal Ghosh NEWS ANALYSIS She is paving way for Thaksin's return and for the PPP to form govt: Analysts By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok playing two cards loyalty to the monarchy and her role as a mother and testing the waters for her
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      • 175 15 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Petaling Jaya THE first sign of relief for cooking oil buyers came yesterday as hypermarkets replenished their stock, bringing the shortage of palm oil-based cooking oil to an end. Hypermarkets like Carrefour, which had imposed a 10kg limit on customers
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      • 77 15 Vietnamese police found this tiger chewing up the backseat of a car during a raid on a wildlife trafficking gang in central Hanoi, reported state-run media yesterday. The big cat was one of two tigers which woke up after being sedated for delivery to a
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      • 259 15 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Jakarta FORMER president Suharto remains in critical condition but has improved slightly overnight, a member of his medical team said on yesterday. Mr Suharto, 86, remains dependent on a slew of machines after being rushed to hospital last week suffering from anaemia
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 544 16 Fearful of being filmed in a compromising situation, many are snapping up such devices Kuala Lumpur THE latest must-have device among politicians, corporate big-wigs and people anxious about their privacy is cheap and fits snugly into one's palm. Just days after a minister
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      • 245 16 Seremban A SECONDARY school in Negeri Sembilan has caused unhappiness among parents for segregating male and female students in all activities, including buying food at the canteen or conducting experiments in laboratories. The matter had been brought to the attention of Negeri
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      • 252 16 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN police would soon have their eyes on buildings in crime-prone areas, even as the country's crime rate jumped by 13.4 per cent last year compared to 2006. The government wants to make it compulsory for owners
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 26 6 Tussle over Bhutto's son Ms Benazir Bhutto's sister-in-law reignites a family feud by saying she wants her nephew to join her rival political party. PAGE 12
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  • WORLD
    • 995 17  -  Derwin Pereira "Let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me." SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON in Manchester, New Hampshire "Tonight we sure showed 'em what a comeback looks like." SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN in Nashua, New Hampshire NEWS ANALYSIS Wins by Hillary
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    • 334 17 WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK TIMES JAN 8 will probably go down in modern political history as one of those nights when results defied all the polling and all the punditry. While pre-election polls in New Hampshire got Senator John McCain's margin of
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    • 387 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kogelo (Kenya) SEATED on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and barefoot children, Mr Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives listened to the radio for news of how their favourite son was doing in the New Hampshire primary. The early results were encouraging
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    • 437 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS He will visit Arab states later to gain support for US amid tensions with Iran Ben Gurion Airport (Israel) US PRESIDENT George W. Bush arrived in Israel yesterday at the start of an eight-day regional trip, seeking a
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    • 89 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS IRAN has dismissed as "fabricated" the audiovisual tape released by the Pentagon that appears to confirm the US charge of hostile behaviour by Iranian speedboats against US warships last weekend. The tape shows the boats swarming around the US ships in the
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 114 19 REUTERS HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court has ruled that the territory's radio laws curb freedom of expression and are unconstitutional in a legal battle by a pirate radio station to win a broadcast licence. But the court suspended its final judgment, pending a
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      • 107 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI: Taiwan prosecutors said yesterday they will appeal the decision of the island's High Court to uphold the acquittal of opposition presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou on graft charges. Despite the move, Mr Ma will not be prevented from leading the opposition Kuomintang in
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      • 133 19 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government yesterday denied it is freezing the intake of Indian foreign workers, after reports quoted officials saying a ban was in place. Home Affairs Minister Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said: "I categorically state that the ministry
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      • 105 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKELAND: About 50 cars crashed on a highway blanketed by fog and smoke from a brush fire in central Florida yesterday, and local officials said at least three people were killed. A stretch of about 24km of Interstate 4 between Tampa
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    • 549 20  -  Roger Maynard Plane lost main power supply but managed to land safely in Bangkok By For The Straits Times In Sydney A QANTAS jumbo jet en route from London to Sydney on Monday lost its main power supply on its approach to Bangkok in
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    • 349 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Berlin A ZOO in southern Germany has come under fire for not intervening to save the lives of two polar bear cubs, which are suspected to have been eaten up by their mother. "We wanted to avoid a repeat
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    • 575 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS French unions hit out at President's plan to get rid of policy this year Paris FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wants to see the end of the 35-hour work week this year. His comments sparked a storm of protests
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    • 147 21 UNIQUE in Europe, the 35-hour work week came into force in the year 2000. It had been introduced a few years earlier by a Socialist government in a bid to stem unemployment, which was then hovering at double-digit levels, and to improve the quality of life. By reducing
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    • 381 21  -  Oo Gin Lee By In Las Vegas AMONG the gadgets being launched at the world's largest technology show this week is a Singaporean invention touted as a way to turn your MP3 player into a personal radio station. Pressing a button on
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    • 330 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Rome ITALIAN Premier Romano Prodi has announced emergency measures to deal with Naples' garbage crisis, including appointing a former police chief to tackle the problem and opening three new incinerators. He has also vowed to send a
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    • 260 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Paris "SMOKING Kills" and "Smoking Causes Cancer" are the kind of health warnings that are familiar to millions of smokers. How about this one: "Smoking Boosts the Risk of Suicide"? German researchers, who conducted a study among young people in Munich,
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 461 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE IN 1971, when 15-year-old Lev Leviey landed in Israel from Uzbekistan, his family was penniless and he had to work in a diamond polishing plant. On Monday, Mr Leviey, now the owner of the world's largest diamond company, spent a fortune buying the
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      • 288 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy used to take on foul-mouthed rappers in his country, but now his eldest son appears to be embracing them. French rapper Poison, known for his expletive-laden lyrics and his fierce criticism of the conservative leader, said that
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    • 27 17 Going gaga over gadget Singaporean Tan Ming Liang turns heads at Las Vegas electronics show with invention that transforms an iPod into a radio station. PAGE 22
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  • REVIEW
    • 430 23 EXCITEMENT is stirring up a bit in the week of Taiwan's parliamentary election on Saturday. In trademark demagogue fashion, President Chen Shui-bian warned voters that letting the Kuomintang party (KMT) retain control of the legislature would mean swift reunification with China, whereby Taiwan would be diluted to
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    • 1071 23  -  Heng Cheng Suang, Ivan Png Teo Hock Hai »BUDGET 2008/2009 By For The Straits Times THIS is the time of the year when the Minister of Finance prepares the Budget for the next financial year. We ask the minister to consider five suggestions for Budget
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    • 741 23  -  Yen Sreenivasan BUSINESS TIMES SIA'S FAILED BID FOR CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES By er groups to compete against one another in order to boost productivity and efficiency in the state-controlled aviation sector. Just three weeks ago, CEA president-chairman Li Fenghua had declared that
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    • 850 24  -  Michael Richardson By For The Straits Times OFTEN steaming in international waters far from land, the world's fleet of ocean-going ships has largely evaded scrutiny as a source of harmful air pollution and global warming emissions. But this lack of regulation is about
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    • 1123 25  -  Bruce Gale »MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS By Senior Writer "INDONESIA needs new leadership," thundered former coordinating minister for the economy Rizal Ramli last month. "I was shocked to hear the President say that Indonesia was now on the right track.
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    • 39 23 Next target for CO2 cuts Calls are growing louder to include the shipping industry in any new international deal to cut greenhouse emissions. PAGE 25 Com Care Call a great idea! Com Care CallT^N, [Tfl^^ I've got some Jill
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    • 975 26 Singapore today Showers with thunder in the M Ep^ HpP^^ late morning and afternoon, M M M /77> ec gmanyareas. THE STRAITS TIMES THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 2008 l/r ASIA WORLD WEATHER USEFUL NUMBERS THINGS YOU CAN i 1 jf\ Emergency lines U\J KJLJAY BEIJINfiQ^ PoHce 999 cPS^sFQijI I Clear PoHce
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    • 637 28  -  Judith Tan LOST FOUND Listener spots boy after mum's tearful appeal on SPH's Radio 100.3 By A DESPERATE mother's call to Radio 100.3 set off a chain reaction, with listeners rallying to help look for her autistic son who was lost. Within an
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    • 605 29  -  Selina Lum Retailers sue over empty pledges; Novena Point counter-sues for unpaid rent By SLUGGISH business in the shopping mall sitting above the Novena MRT station has led to a legal tussle between a group of disgruntled tenants and the developer.
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    • 225 29  -  TEH JOO LIN A TEENAGE girl was found dead at the foot of a block of flats in Pipit Road on Tuesday afternoon. A plastic bag of glue was found on the 13th storey, from where 17-year-old Noor Hidayah was believed
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    • 337 29  -  Lorn a Tan MEANS TESTING By Finance Correspondent INSURERS warned yesterday that means testing for subsidised hospital care could bring higher claims payouts and force health insurance premiums to rise. Under means testing, a patient can pick the ward class in a restructured hospital
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    • 223 30  -  Diana Othman ►>FOOD POISONING CASE 15 of 186 medical claims have been reimbursed; all 23 franchisees get initial payment By PRIMADELI has begun making payouts to customers and franchisees hit by the salmonella outbreak late last year. The Straits Times understands that the company has made
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    • 308 30 PHOTO November: Health Ministry first notified of a food poisoning case. In the end, some 200 people were affected in the mass food poisoning outbreak, and 15 were hospitalised. December: All 39 PrimaDeli outlets were closed from Dec 5. Clean-up operations and checks by the AVA were
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    • 94 30 FREEBIES FREE READ ST PHOTO: An open-top tour bus drove around the Central Business District yesterday between noon and 2pm, providing a fusion musical performance by local band Soul Ethnicity. The bus also bundled treats of coffee and biscuits with a copy of my paper and handed them out to
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    • 570 33  -  Goh Chin Lian DPM Jaya cites Spore as example: It has world's busiest port yet waters here home to 32% of world's corals By A BUSY port and a diverse coral reef can co-exist in harmony. Similarly, it is possible to reduce pollution
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    • 292 33  -  PEOPLE are not exactly rushing out to buy a new car for the Chinese New Year, going by the latest premiums for certificates of entitlement (COE). Premiums ended largely flat yesterday, despite a long-er-than-usual bidding period that should have garnered more orders for
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    • 391 33 THREE newcomers were sworn in as members of the Council of Presidential Advisers yesterday. They are former supreme court judge Goh Joon Seng, executive chairman of Keppel Corp Lim Chee Onn, and Singapore Airlines chairman Stephen Lee. Mr Goh, who chairs the Singapore International
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    • 461 35  -  Goh Chin Lian ►> NICOLL HIGHWAY COLLAPSE Engineering panel rules that he failed to exercise due diligence By A PROFESSIONAL engineer, whose design errors led to the Nicoll Highway collapse nearly four years ago, has been suspended from practice for the maximum
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    • 294 35  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN ST PHOTOS: HOW do you transport eighi YIPs to a dinner party without having to split the group up? With an 8m su-per-stretched limousine, oi course. Restaurant and hospitality group IndoChine's chief executive Michael Ma has acquired a stretched limo to reni
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    • CASE FILE
      • 171 35 A PROSTITUTE was yesterday jailed five days and fined $4,000 for stealing her clients' mobile phones while they were in the shower. Siti Rauda Naina Mohamed, 23, admitted to two counts of theft. On July 13 last year, she suggested to a 46-year-old client that he
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      • 84 35 A 38-YEAR-OLD jobless man already facing one count of forcing his daughter to perform oral sex on him racked up another five similar charges yesterday. He was also accused of inhalant abuse. He was first charged in court late last year for an unnatural sex
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    • 404 35  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent LEGAL clerk Vani Sri Krishna Kumar handled a lot of cheques and payment vouchers. Over a nine-month period, 230 were issued but they were all fictitious. She created bogus transactions and siphoned off $89,186 from her employer, Straits Law
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    • 509 37  -  Alfred Siew Blu-ray format may have gained edge over HD DVD; but most still like regular DVD By Technology Correspondent WOULD-BE customers of both the next-generation DVDs and players still have their fingers on the "pause button". Retailers say it will take some time before
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    • 568 37  -  Karamjit Kaur CHANGI TERMINAL 3 OPENS By Aviation Correspondent IT USED to be taken for granted that anyone coming in on a Singapore Airlines flight would land at Changi Airport's Terminal 2. Now, those picking up family members and friends have
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  • FORUM
    • 370 38  -  Felix Ang Kok Hou I REFER to the Ministry of Health (MOH) proposal to use means testing to determine medical subsidies. While I agree the rich should be subsidised less than the poor, I am unable to reconcile some issues. One, how
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    • 226 38  -  Dr Tan Hong Pew ALTHOUGH it seems like a new term, means testing is already used by the Government in a few sectors. Our differentiated scale for income tax is a form of means testing used for many years. It is only right that citizens with
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    • 239 38  -  Kenneth Mak Keng Kok ONE proposed criterion to be used in means testing at public hospitals is the type of dwelling of the patient. It is not right to assume that the more expensive the patient's home is, the more he should pay. One's
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    • 214 38 I REFER to the letter, "Why no career switch under skills scheme?" by Madam Ng Wei San (ST, Jan 5). The Skills Development Fund and Skills Redevelopment Programme are meant to encourage companies to upgrade the skills of their employees. These training schemes therefore
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    • 259 38 I REFER to Mr Shaun Mathew's inquiry on future expansion plans for Singapore's road network after the completion of current major road projects such as the KallangPaya Lebar Expressway (KPE) and Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) (ST, Dec 24). Our approach has always been
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    • 145 38  -  Joel Trig Wei Hao I AM in the first intake in the last batch of the Provisional Pre-U 1 Admission Exercise (PAE), which from next year will be no more. I have been in JC only a week, and I have found several benefits.
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    • 409 38  -  Linda Cheng (Mdrri) I AM writing in response to the letter, "Make public aware of train seats for elderly" (ST, Jan 3). I totally agree with Ms Delphine Chin Mci Foong's suggestion to create priority seats on the MRT and give pre-re-corded
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    • 308 38  -  Muhammad Azhar Abdullah IN LIGHT of the ongoing debate about bicycles on the MRT, I decided to take my bike (in a bike bag) from Pasir Ris MRT station to Somerset MRT station where the skate park is located. I was pleasantly surprised that
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    • 150 38 POLICE would like to assure Mr Lionel De Souza ("Could molestation rap have been avoided?"; ST, Jan 1) and the public that victim care is important to us. We have in place procedures to manage the needs of vulnerable victims, especially those who
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    • 74 38 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. Not wrong to up salaries to retain, recruit civil service staff Neighbourhood schools also capable of nurturing talent Increase frequency of bus service plying between Vivo City and Woodlands Cashless society? Not if conditions are
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  • OBITUARIES
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      37 39 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Director, Mr Ong Lian Choon on the demise of his beloved mother YIP AH YING on 8 January 2008 From Board of Directors, Management Staff of LABROY GROUP OF COMPANIES
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      49 39 With deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the family of the late TOMMY CHAN who passed away peacefully on 29 Dec 2007. Dearly missed by: Friends Colleagues at HEWLETT-PACKARD Memorial service will be held at The Bible Church, 152 West Coast Rd at 7.30pm on 11 January 2008 (Friday).
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      77 39 CHRISTOPHER LUCAS D'CRUZ Age: 55 passed away peacefully on 8 Jan 2008 Forever loved and always remembered by Wife: Naoko Ito Brother: Peter D'Cruz Also Dearly missed and fondly remembered by: Father: Leon D'Cruz Mother: Mary D'Cruz Brothers and Sisters, In-Laws, Nephews, Nieces and Cousins Body is resting at 114
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      181 39 £> "Surefy goodness and mercy shafffofCow me aff the days <d( SA of my fife: andl wifCdweffin the house of the Ap* LO'R'Dfor ever." Tsafm 23:6 Our dearest mother, grandmother and great-grandmother CHONG NYET CHIN (Wife of late Fong Kirn Swee) 11* July 1918 8* January 2008 Age: 90 went
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      113 39 r"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1 Catherine Yeo Say Liew Mrs Hou Meng Hsien Age: 62 Was called home to be with the Lord on 8 January 2008, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones.
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      71 39 ONG ENG CHAN Age: 60 passed away peacefully on 9 January 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Chew Ai Tin Sons: Daughter-in-law: Ong Ec Woei, Ronnie Foong Yen Peng, Jacqueline Ong Ec Shen, Ronald Granddaughter: Ong Yee Sage Wake is held at Blk 674 Hougang Aye
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      75 39 LAKHBIR KAUR D/O LATE JOGINDAR SINGH Village: Daulonagal Age: 55 passed away peacefully on 09/01/2008. Sadly missed by family, relatives friends. Cortege will leave Sin Ming Drive Parlour Blk 38, #01-533 at 4.45pm to Mandai Crematorium Hall 3 at 5.45pm. Bus will leave from Sri Guru Singh Sabha 92, Wilkie
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      71 39 X JEYASIRONMANI Age: 70 Has returned to Shivalogam on 9 Jan 2008. Sadly missed by loved ones. (Husband: M X Pani, deceased) Children: Spouses: M KArasu(Yishun) Kandimathi S X George(Rochor) Puspha X Lily(Hougang) M Elango Brother-in-law: M Ganapathy family Grandchildren: Vimalan, Arvindt, Guhainthiran all Relatives and Friends. Cortege leaves today,
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      66 39 "The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever" 7th Anniversary imn2:l In Loving Memory Of CHIATONGIEN DENNIS Departed on 10 January 2001 Thou art gone, dear father, Gone beyond the world of tears, But the memory of you will ever
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      34 40 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Ong Lian Choon on the demise of his beloved mother YIP AH YING on 8 January 2008 From The Management Staff of BENG KUANG GROUP OF COMPANIES
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      60 40 Our Heartfelt Condolences to Vivian, Sharon Ashley ROBERT V. CHANDRAN Departed on 7 January 2008 From Caroline, Cheng, Ping, Han Zen Memory wanders as shadows fall Back to trie daus of nappiness. Daus beuond recall. ir ii A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her
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      50 40 9th ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory Of JULIAN RAD JAM Departed 10 Jan 1999 Deeply missed by Wife, Children, Grandchildren and all loved ones. A mass for the repose of his soul will be held on 10 Jan 2008 at 6:30 pm at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Serangoon Gardens.
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      50 40 The family of the late NG CHOO MUAY MARIA Departed on 6 Jan 2008 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, business associates, priests, church members and St Joseph Dying Aid Association for their kind assistance, attendance, prayers, condolences, wreaths and donations during their recent bereavement.
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      183 40 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim 47 Lawrence Wong Heng Kwok Age: 72 passed away peacefully on 8 January 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Peggy Lim Pheek Gek Children: Spouses: Brendan Wong Chi-Meng Patrick Wong Chi-On Michelle
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      29 40 Deepest Condolences to the Family of the Late ROBERT V. CHANDRAN CEO and Executive Chairman of Chemoil Energy Ltd From The Management and Staff of IINIBC NIBC Bank Ltd
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      118 40 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 JIMMY YEO HOCK CHOON Age: 81 Called home to be with the Lord on 8 January 2008 leaving behind family who loved him and who will miss him dearly: Jennifer Yeo Swee
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      164 40 The family Of The Late Dolly Tan nee Dolly Koh Departed: 29 December 2007 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their prayers, kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Father Andrew Wong, Mr
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      64 40 2nd Anniversary In Loving Memory Of MRS SARADHA SHANKAR 19 October 1953 to 10 January 2006 None knew her but to love her, None named her but in praise. Two years have passed since she left us so suddenly. We are certain that she is watching over us in all
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      40 40 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family Of The Late The Employees Of Chemoil Energy Ltd On The Demise Of Their Beloved MR ROBERT V. CHANDRAN Departed on 7 Jan 2008 From The Management Staff of ■V NATURAL FUEL
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      36 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late MR ROBERT VISWANATHAN CHANDRAN Departed on 7 Jan 2008 On Behalf Of The Management, Relationship Managers all staff of Fortis Bank SA/NV Commodities Merchant Banking
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      60 41 Hope lies In dreams, In imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Vivian Pearl Chandran Sharon Ashley Chandran on the demise of your beloved Robert V. Chandran Wong Chiu Man Maria Warner Wong WOW Architects
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      50 41 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to The Family and The Employees Of CHEMOIL ENERGY LIMITED On the demise of their beloved MR ROBERT VISWANATHAN CHANDRAN Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman From: The Management and Staff of Tomen Toyota Tsusho Petroleum (S) Pte Ltd and Consort Bunkers Pte Ltd
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      41 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family And The Employees Of Chemoil Corporation On The Demise Of Their Beloved MR. ROBERT V. CHANDRAN I Departed on 7 January 2008 From The Management Staff of KELLER FOUNDATIONS (S.E.ASIA) PTE LTD I
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      54 41 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late CATHERINE YEO SAY LIEW Senior Nurse Manager Our dear friend and colleague, who passed away peacefully on 8 January 2008. We will always remember her for her dedication, thoughtfulness and caring nature. From The Management and Staff of
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      18 41 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of CHEW KOH bbm(l) Departed 21 January 2007 Forever loved missed by family
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      33 41 R RAMA CHANDRA Departed: 10 Jan 1989 Of one we will never forget, His absence ot us is a sorrow, His loss we will always regret. Always remembered by Wife, Children Loved Ones
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      15 41 MAYKOH 11th Anniversary Departed 10 January 1997 In life loved In death remembered n. Lyn
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      39 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MR. ROBERT V. CHANDRAN (CEO and Executive Chairman of Chemoil Energy Ltd) From The Management Staff of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ MUFD Singapore Branch Asian Investment Banking Division
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      39 41 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MR. ROBERT V. CHANDRAN (CEO and Executive Chairman of Chemoil Energy Ltd) Departed on 7 January 2008 From The Management Staff of Bankers International Corp; Group of Companies
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      96 41 AL-FATIHAH Allahyarham HJ ROHANI BIN HARON passed away peacefully on 6 Jan 2008. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to our relatives, who have given us tremendous support and assistance during our recent bereavement. Special thanks to Mayor Zainal Abidin, MP Cynthia Phua, Advisor Eric Low and
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      61 41 ERIC LIM TECK SENG Age: 47 was called home to be with the Lord on 8 Jan 2008, leaving behind Beloved mother: Chia Choo Neo (Geng) and all loved ones. Wake at Church of St. Stephen, 30 Sallimßd. Funeral service on Fri 11 Jan 2008 at 2.30pm. Thereafter cortege leaves
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  • SPORTS
    • 628 42  -  Jeanette Wang »GOLF Swing changes sees him shooting 70 for a 205 total to clinch first leg of OAAG Tour By SWING changes paid off for Singapore's Lam Chih Bing when the $50,000 OAAG-SPGA Championship swung his way at Raffles Country Club yesterday.
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    • 219 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS Honolulu GOLF Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has made a round of apologies after a racially insensitive comment, in which she said that young golfers should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley" as a way to compete with the most dominant
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    • 512 42 REUTERS OLYMPICS Beijing LI MIAOMIAO has sore feet from wearing high heels for hours at a time and an achy jaw from smiling constantly. But the 16-year-old feels it is worth it, for the chance of hanging a medal around an athlete's neck come the Beijing
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    • 244 42 BLOOMBERG NEWS London THE Super Bowl was the most-watched live sports event on television last year, beating the last race of the Formula One season. The Indianapolis Colts' win over the Chicago Bears in the National Football League's championship game drew an average audience
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    • 553 42 BASKETBALL NBA: Milwaukee 87 Philadelphia 83, Houston 92 Washington 84, Charlotte 115 New Jersey 99, Cleveland 95 Seattle 79, LA Lakers 117 Memphis 101, Minnesota 101 Miami 91, NY Knicks 105 Chicago 100, Utah 111 Indiana 89, Sacramento 104 Orlando 100. GOLF OAAG-SPGA Championship at Raffles Country Club, final
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 79 42 LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is being asked to overturn an unusual doping violation the intravenous use of garlic. Japanese footballer Kazuki Ganaha was suspended for six games last year and his J-League club, Kawasaki Frqntale, fined for administering the IV
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      • 124 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA: Austrian authorities are investigating a Vi-enna-based laboratory that the World Anti-Doping Agency suspects of supplying so-called "dry blood" to athletes for doping purposes, the country's health ministry said yesterday. According to a report in the daily Kurier, Wada, in a Nov 23
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      • 60 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADONNA DI CAM PIGLIO (Italy): World champion Kimi Raikkonen will not be given preferential treatment over Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa this season, Ferrari's new Formula One team boss Stefano Domenicali said yesterday. Former sporting director Domenicali has replaced Jean Todt, who has reverted
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    • 959 43 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG NEWS CRICKET Indian board threatens to stop cricket tour if Harbhajan is not exonerated Sydney INDIA'S cricket tour of Australia, blighted by rows about umpiring, racism and sportsmanship, resumed yesterday when the team finally arrived in Canberra for a three-day
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    • 749 43 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE New Delhi INDIA'S acrimonious tour of Australia is the latest episode in a continuing face-off between cricket's strongest team on the field and the most powerful off it. The rivalry has provided fascinating and gripping cricket, but is also littered with controversy and
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    • 307 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Minneapolis LESS than two years ago, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal were hoisting the National Basketball Association championship trophy and the Miami Heat were the toast of South Beach. That seems so long ago now. Despite a valiant effort from Wade on
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    • 199 43 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »TENNIS Sydney AUSTRALIA'S Lleyton Hewitt blasted the standard of tennis umpiring, after being bounced out of the Sydney International by big-serving compatriot Chris Guccione yesterday. Hewitt did not concede a break point but was on the wrong end of a 6-7 (4-7), 6-7 (2-7) loss
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    • 447 44 SOCCER He pledges loyalty to Anfield and says he wants to continue job of rebuilding the Reds London "DEAD man walking" Rafael Benitez has made a last-ditch plea to the exasperated American owners of Liverpool that he be allowed to stay on as
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    • 574 44 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London CHELSEA, given how they scraped to a last-minute 2-1 win over Everton with a controversial last-minute own-goal in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final on Wednesday, will step up their interest in Bolton's striker Nicolas Anelka. Coach
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    • 152 44 BLOOMBERG NEWS FULHAM have lost interest in Liverpool's Harry Kewell after finding out how much his wages which come to £40,000 (S$120,000) a week will cost them. Midfielder Mohamed Sissoko wants to quit Anfield for Italian giants Juventus, saying: "I want a new challenge. The last few months
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    • 285 44 London ENGLAND striker Jermain Defoe is not the only player facing the boot from Tottenham manager Juande Ramos. The Spaniard wants to kick out eight others. They are: England goalkeeper Paul Robinson, Pascal Chimbonda, Lee Young Pyo, Anthony Gardner, Paul Stalteri, Wayne Routledge, Hossam Ghaly
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    • 792 44  -  Neil Humphreys NOTES FROM THE LIGHTER SIDE By YOU don't know what you've got till it's gone. Just ask Everton supporters. David Moyes insisted that the Toffees needed to rest players against Oldham last weekend, in strict accordance with Big Club rotation policies. He
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    • 278 44 BLOOMBERG NEWS »RUGBY Cape Town PETER de Villiers (left) was yesterday appointed the first black coach of South Africa's national rugby team. He replaces Jake White, who steered the Springboks to their second World Cup last year. De Villiers, formerly the
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    • 630 45  -  Wang Meng Meng SOCCER Goalie will spend one week at Swiss side, who are one of Man City's partner clubs By IT STARTED as just a training stint, but Lionel Lewis' foray into European football is bearing fruit. The Football Association of Singapore announced yesterday
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    • 141 45  -  TERRENCEVOON LIONS defender Faizal Hamid has signed for S-League side Gombak United FC, thus sealing his place in Singapore's World Cup qualifying squad. The right-back needed to play for a club before he could be formally included in coach Raddy Avramovic's 23-man squad for the third-round qualifying
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    • 463 45  -  Terrence Voon NOH ALAM SHAH "If my country needs me, I will not turn my back on my country." DANIEL BENNETT "No comment." By HE HAS restarted his career across the Causeway. He avoids calls from the media and has shied
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    • 485 45  -  Steven Yeo LETTER I REFER to the letters, "Alam Shah verdict shows FAS is weak on violence" by Mr Eugene Tan and "Forgive and forget? Good for Raddy" by Mr Harry Tan (ST, Jan 8). I would like to thank the writers for their views
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    • 508 45  -  Marc Lim COMMENTARY By Sports Correspondent IT IS an adage that is constantly drummed into the heads of kids, right up to those at the highest level of the professional game: Football is a team game. No individual should be bigger than the
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      • 420 49  -  Adeline Chia In Laughing Matter, an exhibition on satire, laughter and humour, art in small capsules is sold via a vending machine for $2 ARTS REPORTER BUY art for $2 at a vending machine. That is the basis of a cheeky artwork by Chen Yi-Cheng,
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      • 508 49  -  June Cheong ARTS REPORTER ARTIST Susie Wong finds it nearly impossible to paint her 18-year-old daughter Anmari. The 51-year-old, who has 20 years' painting experience, says: "She's too close to me. Whenever I paint her portrait, it's always left unfinished as I get discouraged halfway."
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      • 449 50  -  Adeline Chia THE Alpine peaks have long been a source of inspiration for many artists and Nathalie Daoust is no different. The Montreal-born photographer is showing 22 moody prints of the landscape in Frozen In Time, an exhibition in the Esplanade tunnel. Running till Jan
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      • 298 51 TO FLESH out the tumultuous 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan, local playwright Haresh Sharma turned to one personal account that of his father. The 42-year-old co-artistic director of the Ml Singapore Fringe Festival first began research on his play Eclipse by interviewing
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      • 487 51 WHINING is a way of life, according to the co-founder of The Complaints Choir Project, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. "Complaining is one way in which we experience the world. It combines small irritations like smelly cheese with really big political problems of the world. The reason
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      • 374 51 LOOK around you the next time you're at a bus stop. If you see a poster of a samsui woman, does she make you think of foreign workers? Photographer and Straits Times China correspondent Sim Chi Yin certainly hopes that you do. The poster
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    • 623 61  -  Boon Chan Eason Chan enjoyed a productive 200/ with the release of two albums and two movies, plus a concert series in Hong Kong MEDIA CORRESPONDENT HONG Kong singer-actor Eason Chan's dream is to release an English album. "English is actually more natural for me
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      • 79 63 BABY DREAMS: Actress Carina Lav, 42, whose boyfriend is actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, 44, told reporters on Tuesday that she has started thinking about having a baby. "I won't have a pre-marital pregnancy. I'll marry first," she said... MUMBAI TOUR: Singer Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie on Tuesday
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      • 177 63 Reuters LOS ANGELES She crossed the Atlantic to hit the big time in fashion, but on Tuesday, Spice Girl Victoria "Posh" Beckham suffered her first Hollywood flop when style maven Mr Blackwell named her the worst-dressed celebrity of 2007. "In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another,
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      • 258 63 TAIPEI David Tao has apologised in public for a Dec 29 incident in which a woman claimed she was hurt in a fracas in a lift with the drunken singer-songwriter. Tao on Tuesday held a press conference to apologise after Joyce Huang complained to the police
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    • 27 92 Getting a new look The revamped, slimmed-down Straits Times Index will be launched today, together with a set of 18 FTSE ST sectoral and sub-indexes. PAGES S7-Sl6
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    • 628 92  -  Alvin Foo Interbank lending rate drops to lowest in three years and is expected to fall further by mid-year By HOMEBUYERS could be in for some cheer in the coming months after a recent plunge in a crucial interest
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    • 250 93  -  GOH ENG YEOW ASPIAL BOSS KEEPS UP BUYING SPREE THE chief executive (CEO) of jewellery firm Aspial Corp has been making regular purchases of his company's shares over the past three months. Filings with the Singapore Exchange show that CEO Koh Wee Seng bought 509,000 shares at prices
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    • 554 93  -  Tan Hui Yee Malaysian firm eyes more HDB design-and-build developments By Housing Correspondent THE recently launched con-dominium-like public housing project in Boon Keng was a first in many respects, wowing home seekers with city views from extended balconies at new benchmark prices. What
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    • 100 93 SUNWAY Group's managing director, Datuk Tan Kia Loke (above), says the group aims to make inroads into Singapore through Sunway Concrete Products, which has been supplying pre-cast concrete and other building materials to Singapore's market for a decade. Sunway Holdings, he says, is eyeing several government land sale
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    • 322 93  -  OYCE TEO Property Correspondent THE last condominium plot in Sentosa Cove has been awarded to Ho Bee Investment and Malaysia-list-ed 101 Properties for a whopping $1,097 billion. They put in a land price of $1,822 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf
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    • 475 93  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK By Markets Correspondent ASIAN bourses failed to topple like dominoes, as had been widely anticipated, following Wall Street's dismal Tuesday performance. Instead, after a gloomy start as share prices slumped 1 per cent in some markets
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    • 66 93 (0) Jan 9 CENTS o/ /o GLD10US$ Lyxor China H 10USS STI ETF 100 ISH lardine CSC Wilmar DBeCW*****1 Wilmar DBS Grp ISMSCI India 100 nnRn Rk a inn 8800 257 5 2067 100.1 3600 80 0 1600 71.5 2030 52 0 Ill 46.5 560 40.0 2030 26.0
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    • 251 93 THREE bids were lodged yesterday for a transitional office site in Mountbatten Road released to ease the current tight supply situation in the office market. The modest result was still a better showing than the single bid placed for a transitional
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    • 844 94  -  Nicholas Fang blobal operations to carry on as before; Helios Terminal to open this month By CHEMOIL Energy has reassured customers and investors that its operations around the world will continue as per normal after the shock death of founder and chief executive (CEO)
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    • 285 94  -  Fiona Chan By MILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Robert Chandran may have died on Monday, but his legacy lives on in an award he set up at his alma mater. Mr Chandran, the founder and chief executive of Chemoil Energy, had put
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    • 298 94  -  Lee Hui Chieh By TWO more survivors of Monday's helicopter crash in Pekanbaru were flown to Singapore for treatment yesterday. Mr Harino Kusumo and Mr Hendri arrived on a Garuda flight and were taken by ambulance to Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where three other survivors
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    • 357 95 REUTERS Beijing THE Chinese government should be more active in managing state banks and its representatives should have more say on their boards, a senior finance ministry official said yesterday. The likes of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank
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    • 709 95  -  Bryan Lee They will be the biggest drivers of global growth as pace slows to 3.3% this year: World Bank By DEVELOPING nations will be key in helping the global economy mitigate the drag from a slowing United States. With their
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    • 393 95  -  BRYAN LEE FOREIGN capital inflows to Singapore are disrupting a self-adjusting relationship between the rising prices of assets such as homes, and borrowing costs, economists say. Typically, rising asset prices are curtailed by an accompanying rise in interest rates. As investors
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      82 96 THE rapidly rising yields in China's bond market are telling Mr Li Ka Shing (left), Asia's richest man, that he is sitting on a property bubble which is bigger than the one deflating in the United States. Bonds of China's Agile Property Holdings yield 7.03 percentage points more
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    • 514 96 BLOOMBERG NEWS Hong Kong THE bond market is telling Asia's richest man Li Ka Shing that he is sitting on a Chinese property bubble that is bigger than the one deflating in the United States. Bonds of China's Agile Property Holdings
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    • 336 96 REUTERS GOLD stormed to a fresh record high and copper hit a two-month peak yesterday as investors sought to hedge against inflation or to find alternatives to weak equity markets. Spot gold hit a record US$B9l an ounce, surpassing the previous high
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    • 443 96  -  VINCE CHONG Counter goes on a roller-coaster ride as investors try to predict next move By Hong Kong Correspondent LIKE the uncertainty surrounding its future, China Eastern's share price in Hong Kong veered dramatically yesterday. Investors were trying to anticipate the next move
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    • 35 96 Yesterday's close: 14,599.16 (+70.49 points) »Japanese share prices rallied from a near 19-month low as investors scooped up beaten down stocks despite worries about the health of the United States economy. AFP
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    • 41 96 Yesterday's close: 27,615.85 (+502.95 points) Hong Kong share prices closed up 1.86 per cent as property stocks rose on hopes of United States interest rate cuts, while commodities surged on higher gold and crude oil prices. AFP
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    • 36 96 Yesterday's close: 5,435.81 (+49.28 points) Chinese share prices closed 0.91 per cent higher as metal stocks gained on rising gold prices, helping to reverse opening losses driven by a Wall Street sell-off. AFP
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    • 38 96 Yesterday's close: 6,087.7 (-40.4 points) Australian share prices closed down 0.66 per cent after falls in the United States overnight which were triggered by fears of a possible recession in the world's biggest economy. AFP
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    • 35 96 Yesterday's close: 1,491.66 (+1.92 points) Malaysian share prices closed 0.13 per cent higher amid strong gains in big-cap blue chips, with the benchmark extending its record-breaking rise for a fourth session. AFP
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      28 96 REUTERS Yesterday's close: 20,869.78 (-3.55 points) »India's Sensex closed 0.02 per cent lower, led by losses in index heavyweights ICICI Bank and petrochemical major Reliance Industries.
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    • 37 96 Yesterday's close: 2,830.26 (+44.64 points) »Indonesian share prices closed 1.6 per cent up at a fresh record high on the back of gains made by carmaker Astra International and mining and plantation stocks. AFP
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    • 33 96 AFP Yesterday's close: 820.47 (+8.78 points) Tha i share prices closed 1.08 per cent higher as foreign investors chased gains in energy-linked stocks in line with rising world oil prices.
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    • 219 96 YESTERDAYS CLOSE, 3,344.53 Jan 9 Stock Name WT Close Change Allgreen 0.42 Ascendasreit 0.87 CapitaComm 0.46 CapitaLand 3.99 CapitaMall 0.92 Chart SemiCond ...0.51 CityDev 2.49 ComfortDelGro 1.21 Cosco Corp 1.94 Creative Tech 0.15 DBSGrp 9.36 Datacraft 0.15 FXN 2.28 Gentlntl 0.71 HK Land 3.81 Hyflux 0.30
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    • 54 96 Jan 9 FirstRes 74,630,000 FirstRes MEReCW*****8 72,656,000 CapitalanDBeCW*****6A 62,282,000 GMG Global 48,960,000 AscottGrp 48,391,000 JiutianC 39,086,000 Yangzijiang 35,729,000 JES 33,050,000 SingTelSGAeCW*****7 28,083,000 DBS DB eCW*****0 27,767,000 STXP0KW100 27,174,000 Golden Agri 24,626,000 Global Voice 24,486,000 CapitalandDBeCW*****1 23,960,000 CapitaLand 23,447,000 Sapphire 23,054,000 KTL Global 23,003,000 China Hongxing 22,167,000 SingTelMBLeCWD8DB03 21,563,000
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    • 140 96 Jan 9 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2580 1.2730 Can dollar 1.4180 1.4350 Euro 2.0960 2.1200 Malaysian ringgit* ..0.4378 0.4385 NZ dollar 1.0920 1.1160 Sterling pound 2.8110 2.8420 US dollar 1.4240
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    • 2171 96 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: JAN 9,2008 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE '000 9 5 2 5 3747 Allgreen RBeCW*****1 15 1 5 2835 Allgreen RBeCW*****B 50 5 4 5 8798 AscendasSGAeCW*****3 30 5 12 5 1851 AusGroupMEReCW*****8 315 75 2878 AztechW*****6 45 27 3657 BiosensorDBeCW080G23 24 5 13
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      • 7446 97 TRANSACTION DATE: JAN 9, 2008 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E SMIL 33 105 3C 141 195 15 24 18 61 17 5 IE 43 5 126 34 5 16 144 228 19 4 89 1C 52 5 2C 267 65 48 5 184
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      • 1517 97 HIGH SMIL LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E 30 41.; 31 16.; 70.; 46.; 13.; 44.; IOC i;.; i; 16.; 9C 48 19.; 19.; 23.; 88 24.; 2.3 47.; 19.3 24 li.; 74.; 21.; 4;.; 20 17 43.; 88 i;.; 28.3 33.; 39.; 4; 34.;
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    • THE NEW STI & THE FTSE ST INDEXES
      • 1332 98 Industrial, tin and rubber stocks were once the key indicators of how the Singapore stock market was faring. Today, the Straits Times Index will undergo its first major revamp since 1998, with 47 component stocks trimmed to 30. The STI and its predecessors have throughout
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      • 1362 99 1,073.47 (Jan 12, 1998)--lost nearly half its value in six months GLOOM and doom engulfed East Asia during the region's dark days, which began with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July 1997. The financial maelstrom saw the STII shedding almost half its
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      • 582 100  -  Chua Hian Hou Star Hub makes strong inroads into mobile, cable TV and Internet fields By THE phenomenon of free incoming calls something many people take for granted today was unheard of in Singapore until Star Hub set the ball rolling seven years
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      • 645 102  -  Nicholas Fang Rickmers Maritime has beaten profit forecasts, grown fleet to 23 ships By RICKMERS Maritime became the third shipping trust featured on the Singapore bourse when it listed on the Singapore Exchange mainboard in May last year. And while such trusts are still
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      • 574 103  -  Yang Huiwen Wilmar's surge in market value to $34b makes it Singapore's second-largest firm By WITH robust demand for palm oil and a good set of financials to boot, there does not seem to be much standing in the way of Wilmar International.
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      • 760 104  -  Fiona Chan More than just a mall owner, CMT leads what is now a $29b market By Property Reporter IF SINGAPORE is known for its trendy, modernised malls, then some of the credit must certainly go to CapitaMall Trust (CMT). As the owner of 13
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        1112 106 The revamped Straits Times Index (STI) is set to go live today. It will contain 30 blue-chip mainboard-listed stocks, ranked by market capitalisation. In addition to the STI, there are 18 new sub-indexes of the FTSE ST Index Series being launched. The All Share Index will cover all
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      • 747 107 Selected as one of the Constituent Stocks of Singapore's Straits Times Index OVERVIEW LISTED on June 22, 2006 on the Singapore Exchange Limited, Yanlord Land Group Limited (Z25.51) is a leading real estate development company incorporated in Singapore, with operations based in the People's Republic of
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    • 138 101 We are proud to present the revamped Straits Times Index and the new FTSE ST series of indices. For the past 40 years, the Straits Times Index and its predecessor, the Straits Times Industrials Index have been synonymous with the performance of the Singapore stockmarket. As the index owner, Singapore
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    • 366 102 Rickmers Maritime is a Singapore business charter contracts to A. P. Moeller Maersk, the trust formed with the objective of owning and world's largest container liner company in terms operating containerships under long-term, fixed-rate j I of current capacities and orderbook in place, charter contracts to container liner shipping The
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    • 31 108 From nail art to brow grooming, more are flocking to suburban i shops for their beauty fixes I WIN! 8 SETS OF NOKIA 900 PRISM MOBILE PHONES WORTH $1,536
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      334 109 Four years ago, as part of an assignment, I checked out at least 10 neighbourhood beauty salons that had begun to tag on massages, aromatherapy and steam baths to their menu of services. Industry players then had estimated that at least 180 HDB beauty joints were offering
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      247 109 Two sets of Nokia 7900 Prism mobile phones worth $768 each. Simply answer this question: The Nokia 7900 Prism is coin-stamped and laser-etched in Nokia's Prism's signature diamond-cut design. True or false? E-mail your entries with your full name, NRIC, address and contact details to sturban@sph.com.sg. Indicate URBAN/NOKIA in
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      570 110 Hangers can make or break your wardrobe. CALEB LOW finds out what makes a good hanger angers are probably the most overlooked item in your wardrobe. Yet without them, your closets will be in a mess and your clothes all creased and wrinkled. But to get the
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      310 111 FASH HAG At the start of last year, I made a resolution to be less catty and more tolerant of lesser beings in the world of fashion. As you would probably have noticed by now, I am lousy at keeping any resolutions. But can I be blamed for being honest
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      • 361 111 Planning the annual Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF) takes some doing. It includes setting up the lighting, stage and music for over 50 fashion designers and labels, choreographing more than 20 shows and entertaining guests This year, local events company Mercury Marketing takes over from Australian-based fashion
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      • 234 111 So you have been griping about how the coolest buys are usually bagged overseas? Here's good news from French luxury fashion house Yves Saint Laurent (YSL). It recently announced that before the end of the month, its latest V-Mail collection of bags (above) and leather goods will
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      • 279 111 Start saving. Some of the hippest casual clothing stores here are bringing in hot international brands for the first time. Skinny jeans haven Wooonderland at Wheelock Place has brought in Swiss T-shirt brand Imaginary Foundation and indie American tee label Free Gold Watch. On its website (www.imaginaryfoundation.com),
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        595 111 Have a problem with the way you look? Don't sweat it. E-mail your queries to Angeline Neo at sturban@sph.com.sg Ql've dug up some of my mother's old clothes and found some of puffy skirts which remind me of some of the catwalk looks for spring. How do I
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      231 111  -  Melissa Lee These two head-turners were spotted at Countdown 2008 at Vivo City on Dec 31 Favian Kang, 21, undergraduate What are you wearing? I'm wearing a tailor-made shirt from Dreamland at Peninsula Shopping Complex that cost $80. The River Island pants cost $130 and the belt was from
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      1152 112 NYT There s no stopping the i i r clock on ageing skin. Make these simple and inexpensive resolutions for the new year, says NATASHA SINGER There is no way around the fact that every body skin included ages biologically over time. Still, many skin experts recommend
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        168 113 One of the best compilations from French mix master Claude Challe of Buddha Bar fame, this is lounge music at its best. This two-disc set also comes in a handsome faux lizard leatherette folio. Je Nous Aime by Claude Challe Friends, $69.90, from That CD Shop, 01-01
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        186 113 For blokes who don't know how to put it together, the vest is stitched on to the cotton shirt for a smart, layered look. $59, from Pescados, 02-17 Pacific Plaza No PC required, this Hewlett-Packard Photo Smart CBlBO desktop photo printer prints, scans and copies directly from
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    • 430 114 The right image, it seems, is something that men don't always get. NOELLE LOH acts tips from three book on dressing for men wo men walk past the Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf at Wheelock Place one in a baggy orange T-shirt and crumpled chinos, the other
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    • 379 114 PERSONAL BRANDING FOR MEN Sharlyn Stafford Reading Stafford's latest publication feels a little like being part of Fashion Victims Anonymous or any similar self-help group. The introductory section of her 165-page book is littered with corporate anecdotes and motivational verses like "Your visual impact builds trust in you
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      340 114 ASKMEN.COM PRESENTS THE STYLE BIBLE: THE 11 RULES FOR BUILDING A COMPLETE AND TIMELESS WARDROBE James Bassil (editor) Written in a sharp and witty manner much in the style of its articles online, men's portal Ask Men.corn's latest guide on how a guy can dress to impress makes
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    • 379 114 Dressing The Man: Mastering The Art Of Permanent Fashion Alan Flusser One might mistake menswear designer Alan Flusser's book for a coffee-table publication instead of a men's guide on how to dress right. That's because the huge hardcover tome spanning 308 pages is filled with beautiful photographs of
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    • 1001 115  -  HONG XINYI Stars who have had work done to their faces are now more willing to admit it Deviated septum two words you should learn to say with conviction if you're trying to explain away your new nose job. At least that seems to be the most
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    • 2224 116 Loyal customers will wait up to six months for a beauty fix at these heartland salons, say LEONG SU-LIN and TIFFANY FUMIKO TAY he next time you pass by a neighbourhood salon, don't be surprised if you spot a famous face or two getting their
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      602 117 t's hard to admit it but let's face it: Kiddo isn't much of a kid anymore. Those frilly pink skirts and white lacy dresses you've been buying for her no longer sit well on her, don't you think? But don't be guilty of rushing your pre-pubescent daughter into
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    • 933 118  -  CLARA CHOW Cheap baubles can hold more sentiment and make louder statements than the real thing Watching the steamy spy thriller Lust, Caution recently, a friend of mine almost wept at the sight of a honking big pink diamond ring in the film. Granted, the ring plays
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      935 119 NYT The Nike Air Force 1 fits, and millions are wearing it. The basketball shoe introduced 25 years ago has become ii ii i the best-selling sneaker ever In 1982, Nike released the Air Force 1, a basketball shoe that featured a revolutionary technological innovation: a pocket
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      172 121 Launched in 2005, Raoul's range of women's shoes was designed to complement its line of female apparel which was created in 2004. While Raoul's accessories department has its own team of designers, the creative team is overseen by Douglas Benjamin, chief executive of FJ Benjamin. Together with his wife,
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      150 121 Professional dancers and models swear by Heatwave's 472-inch heels, buying several of the same design in different colours each time. The shoes' 70 per cent rubber sole is the secret to their comfort. The seven-year-old brand offers styles fresh off the international catwalk and nothing in the store
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    • 133 121 CHARLES KEITH SIGNATURE LABEL This line, which was launched in June last year, costs 30 per cent more than the original Charles Keith range. This is because genuine leather is used and more attention is paid to details. But don't expect a wide range of fashionable styles and vibrant colours
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      129 121 The brand is the brainchild of James Suen, 35, a business studies graduate who saw a void in funky, affordable flat women's shoes in 1998. After almost a decade on the scene, Substance has also won itself a large fan base in Thailand, where its bold colours and unconventional
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      833 122 "AP These days, getting your hands on your own tiara is much easier than finding Prince Charming ello Kitty wore one during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Judith Nathan wore a diamond-and-pearl version when she became Mrs Giuliani and Karolina Kurkova models pyjamas and a tiara in a
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    • 166 124 Might fancy dough fritters be the new doughnuts? Youtiao has undergone a makeover at a new stall called Bread Bar and now comes in coatings such as almond and sesame, and flavours such as onion and green tea. Then there are the dips, from kaya and caramel
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      241 124 Fans of fried food may soon have a new KFC in their lives Korean fried chicken. Korean-style fried chicken has taken off in recent years in the United States, home to the world-famous Kentucky Fried Chicken chain. Now, Korean chain BBQ Chicken has landed in Singapore. And its
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